"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours.
The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther King Jr.
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1] Books, buttons and stickers
2] Web site for info on federal legislation
3] Join Nonviolent Resistance lists
4] Buy coffee through HoCoFoLA
5] Used stamps for humanitarian causes
6] "Inventing the Nation" – ongoing
7] Art Along the Trials – through Sept. 3
8] Poor hit hardest by climate chaos – Aug. 2
9] Protest at Trader Joe's – Aug. 2
10] War Is Not the Answer demo – Aug. 2
11] Organize People's Grand Prix – Aug. 2
12] Learn about THE
13] Hear undocumented students – Aug. 3
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15] Protest at Trader Joe's – Aug. 3
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17] Fund Our Communities meeting – Aug. 3
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19] Film BLACK AUGUST – Aug. 3
20] Listen to UNAC podcast – Aug. 3
21] Local Food Forum – Aug. 3
22] Nukes & Security? – Aug. 4
23] Jobs with Justice National Conference – Aug. 4
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1] – Buttons, bumperstickers and books are available. "God Bless the Whole World, No Exceptions" stickers are in stock. Donate your books to Max. Call him at 410-366-1637.
2] – To obtain information how your federal legislators voted on particular bills, go to http://thomas.loc.gov/. Congressional toll-free numbers are 888-818-6641, 888-355-3588 or 800-426-8073. The White House Comment Email is accessible at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.
3] – THE ORGANIZING LIST will be the primary decision-making mechanism of the National Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance [NCNR]. It will be augmented by conference calls and possibly in-person meetings as needed. It will consist of 1 or 2 representatives from each local, regional, or national organization (not coalitions) that wishes to actively work to carry out the NCNR campaign of facilitating and organizing nonviolent resistance to the war in
To join the ORGANIZING List, please send your name, group affiliation, city and email address to donmuller@msn.com. Different local chapters of a national organization are encouraged to subscribe.
THE NOTICES LIST will include only notices of NCNR actions and related information and is open to any interested person to subscribe. It will be moderated to maintain focus & will include periodic notices about getting involved in NCNR national organizing. To join the NOTICES List, send an email message to ncnrnotices-subscribe@lists.riseup.net. You will get a confirmation message once subscribed. If you have problems, please write to the list manager at ncnrnotices-admin@lists.riseup.net.
4] – You can help safeguard human rights and fragile ecosystems through your purchase of HOCOFOLA Café Quetzal. Bags of ground coffee or whole beans can be ordered by mailing in an order form. Also note organic cocoa and sugar are for sale. For more details and to download the order form, go to http://friendsoflatinamerica.typepad.com/hocofola/2010/02/hocofola-cafe-quetzal-order-form-2010.html. The coffee comes in one-pound bags.
Fill out the form and mail it with a check made out to HOCOFOLA on or before the second week of the month. Be sure you indicate ground or beans for each type of coffee ordered. Send it to Adela Hirsch,
5] – Brad Hathaway spearheads an effort to sell donated used stamps to raise money for different humanitarian causes around the world. Go to www.mattapoisettquakers.org, and click the link for the stamp ministry. Carefully clip canceled postage stamps and send to Quaker Missions,
6] – "Inventing a Nation" at the
7] – Art Along the Trails continues at Carrie Murray Nature Center Leakin/Gwynne Falls Park,
8] – There is a Panel Discussion on the Hill on Tues., Aug. 2 from 2
9] – Join the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) in calling on Trader Joe's to ensure fair wages and human rights for the farmworkers who pick its tomatoes! Be there on Tues., Aug. 2 at 4 PM at Trader Joe's, 1 East Joppa Road, Towson, MD.
From November through May, 90% of the fresh tomatoes produced in the U.S. come from Florida, where farmworkers have long faced sweatshop conditions, including stagnant, sub-poverty wages and abuses such as sexual harassment. Farmworkers earn just 50 cents per 32-lb bucket of tomatoes they pick and haul. At that rate, one would have to pick 2.25 TONS of tomatoes to earn minimum wage for a typical 10-hr day. In the most extreme conditions, farmworkers are held against their will and forced to work in modern-day slavery rings. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a Florida farmworker organization working for fair wages and conditions in the fields, has aided in the prosecution by the Department of Justice of six slavery operations and the liberation of well over 1,000 workers.
Nine major food companies leaders -- including Whole Foods, Subway, and Taco Bell -- have signed on to participate in the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program, an innovative, worker-led solution to the human rights crisis in the fields. (The program includes a penny-per-pound premium for fairer wages and a strict code of conduct for better working conditions.) However, Trader Joe's -- despite its reputation as an ethical company -- has refused to participate in the Fair Food Program to improve the lives of farmworkers in its supply chain. Visit www.ciw-online.org or see "The True Cost of Tomatoes" by Mark Bittman (
10] – There is a vigil to say "War Is Not the Answer" each Tuesday since September 11, 2001 at
11] – The Next Project of Full Employment Baltimore is The People's Grand Prix, an action designed to raise questions about the city's spending priorities during the event over the Labor Day weekend. If you are interested in this action, come to the next meeting on Tues., Aug. 2 at 6 PM at the office of the
12] – The second part of a three-part discussion of THE BALTIMORE BOOK, a history of the working people of Baltimore will be hosted by the International Socialist Organization (ISO) at the Baltimore Free School, N. Calvert St. at Mt. Royal Ave. Come to any or all of the sessions. You can register for the course at http://freeschool.redemmas.org/content/peoples-history-baltimore. On Tues., Aug. 2 at 7 PM, the discussion will focus on Chapter 7 through the end of the book, which is available at RED EMMAS at a 20% discount if you're registered for the course. Go to http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/516_reg.html.
13] – UNDOCUMENTED STUDENTS AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM is the topic for discussion on Wed., Aug. 3 from 9
14] – Each Wednesday from 4
15] – The Coalition of Immokalee Workers will protest at Trader Joe's, 1101 25th St. Northwest, WDC 20037, on Wed., Aug. 3 at 5
16] – Each Wednesday, the Northwest Greens hold a peace vigil from 7 to 8 PM outside the Borders Book Store, Germantown Ave. at Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill, PA. The next vigil is Aug. 3. Call 215-843-4256 or email nwgreens@yahoo.com.
17] – There is a Fund Our Communities meeting on Wed., Aug. 3 at 7
18] – Enjoy
19] – See the film BLACK AUGUST at Dream City Thrift, 5525 Illinois Ave. NW, WDC on Wed., Aug. 3 from 8 to 11 PM. In conjunction with the Black August Planning Organization (http
20] – Hear United National Antiwar Committee with Tim Nolan on Wed., Aug. 3 at 10 PM CDT by tuning into the podcast at www.blogtalkradio.com. Listen to live and archived Tim Nolan talk radio podcasts on Blog Talk Radio - the leading talk radio.
21] – Attend a Local Food Forum, a monthly meeting of producers and consumers interested in how to find and make more available locally-grown digestibles. The next forum is on Tues., Aug. 2 from 6
22] – On Thurs., Aug. 4 from 8 to 9 AM, James Miller, Principal Deputy Undersecretary of War for Policy will speak about "Nukes, Missile Defense, and U.S. Security," as part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. He will talk at the Capitol Hill Club,
23] – Attend the JOBS WITH JUSTICE NATIONAL CONFERENCE starting on Thurs., Aug. 4 at 11 AM through Sun., Aug. 7 at 2 PM. Corporations want to use the failing economy as an excuse to reverse every worker protection put in place over the last century, but we are standing together and fighting back! Come to the conference to learn from and strategize with labor leaders, rank & file workers, students, religious leaders, community activists, workers excluded from labor law protection and many, many more about how to build a powerful movement of working people to defeat the corporate agenda! Visit www.jwj.org/conference.
To be continued.
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"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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