Baltimore Activist Alert - Part 3

56] Join Unite Here protest – Oct. 20

57] U.S./Latin America in 1980s – Oct. 20

58] Vote for Animals – Oct. 20

59] Film CONCRETE, STEEL, AND PAINT – Oct. 20

60] Race in the 21^st Century – Oct. 20

61] Film GENERAL BUTT NAKED -- Oct. 20

62] Nuclear Deterrence [?] – Oct. 21

63] Sign up with Washington Peace Center

64] Fund Our Communities campaign

65] Submit articles to Indypendent Reader 

66] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

67] Do you need a television and/or a computer?

68] Join Global Zero campaign

69] War Is Not the Answer signs for sale

70] Publish your peace article

71] Click on The Hunger Site 

72] Fire & Faith  

73] Join Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

56] – On Thurs., Oct. 20 at 4 PM, UNITE HERE Local 7 is having a demonstration at the Baltimore Convention Center (Charles and Pratt Sts., a block west of Occupy Baltimore, on behalf of the Center Plate workers to demand a restoration of their slashed wages and health insurance.

 

57] – On Thurs., Oct. 20, from 4 to 5:45 PM, at the Hilton Hotel's Latrobe Room, 401 W Pratt St., hear Solidarity, Shock, and Sentiment: The United States and Latin America in the 1980s.  It will be chaired by Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, New York University.  Those presenting papers are Molly Geidel, Boston University: Imagining Neoliberal Brotherhoods: Jeffrey Sachs, Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, and Indigenous Resistance in Bolivia; Eric Larson, Harvard Univ.: Another Vietnam: Labor, Latina/os, and Central America Solidarity in New England in the 1980s; and Patricia Stuelke, Boston Univ.: She Called Every Woman Ma Something: The Reparative Politics of Central America Solidarity Literature.  Email Eric Larson at larson at fas.harvard.edu.

 

58] – On Thurs., Oct. 20 at 6 PM, Maryland Votes for Animals (MVFA) is sponsoring a gathering and opportunity for people who are concerned about animal protection issues to meet fellow animal lovers and members of Maryland Votes for Animals, and learn how to get involved in efforts to pass animal protection legislation. Food and drink will be available for purchase at One World Café, 100 W. Univ. Parkway.  Call 410-268-1880.

 

59] – On Thurs., Oct. 20 at 7 PM, see the film "Concrete, Steel and Paint," hosted by the Latin American Youth Center Peace Advocates in collaboration with the Art + Media House and local DC filmmaker Konyka Dunson at the 5th & V Sts. Busboys and Poets. This is an inspiring film of a mural project between prisoners and victims that explores the intersection of "crime, restoration, the arts and healing." 

 

60] – On Thurs., Oct. 20 at 7 PM @ 2640, 27th & St. Paul Sts., catch Race in 21st Century America: A Discussion hosted by Red Emma's and cosponsored by Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle and STEW.  The are several participants in the discussion: Andrea Smith, Lisa Nakamura, Ruth Gilmore, Fred Moten, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, David Roediger, Dylan Rodriguez, and Scott Kurashige. There is a $5 suggested donation, and the funds raised will go to support current organizing efforts against the proposed youth jail in Baltimore. Go to http://2640.redemmas.org or call 410-230-0450 or email info@redemmas.org.  

 

61] – On Thurs., Oct. 20 at 7 PM, the Georgetown Film and Media Studies Program presents an exceptional documentary called, "The Redemption of General Butt Naked" (2011), Silverdocs@Georgetown, in the Film Screening Classroom, New South. The directors, Strauss and Anastasion, will be present for a discussion after the film with Sky Sitney who is the Festival Director of Silverdocs.  The film tells the story of Joshua Milton Blahyi, formerly one of the most feared warlords in the 14-year Liberian Civil War. Known during the war as "General Butt Naked" because he believed himself to be invincible when fighting naked, the story follows Blahyi's return to Liberia after becoming an evangelical Christian preacher, as he seeks forgiveness from his victims, soldiers, and the communities he brutalized and shattered. This haunting portrait deals with traumatic memory as it's experienced on a national level and the human capacity for reconciliation with the past. Shot beautifully and intimately, the film calls attention to this extraordinary and controversial story. Blahyi's culpability and agency in the conflict is at odds with his journey for redemption and this stimulates a provocative dialogue around the film. RSVP is requested at generalbuttnaked.georgetown.rsvp@gmail.com.

 

62] – On Fri., Oct. 21, from 8 to 9 AM, Steve Henry, deputy assistant Defense [sic] Secretary for Nuclear Matters, will address "Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Defense," as part of the NDUF-NDIA Seminar Series. It takes place at the Capitol Hill Club, 300 First St., SE, WDC. RSVP by noon, Oct. 20, to Elma Rhue, RhueE@ndu.edu.

 

63] – The Washington Peace Center has a progressive calendar & activist alert! Consider signing up to receive its weekly email: info@washingtonpeacecenter.org.

64] – Fund Our Communities campaign – is a new grass roots movement to get support from local organizations and communities to work together with their local and state elected officials to pressure Congresspersons and senators to join with Congresspersons Barney Frank and Ron Paul, who have endorsed a 25% cut to the federal military budget.  Bring home the savings to state and county governments to meet the local needs which are under tremendous budget pressures.  Go to www.OurFunds.org.      

 

65] – The new Indypendent Reader is seeking articles for its web site at http://www.indyreader.org.  Submit an article.  

 

66] – If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs or records, contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net. 

 

67] – Can you use a television set and/or a computer, monitor etc.? Contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net. 

 

68] – Join an extraordinary global campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons: http://www.globalzero.org/sign-declaration. A growing group of leaders around the world is calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons and a majority of the global public agrees.  This is an historic window of opportunity.  With momentum already building in favor of Zero, a major show of support from people around the world could tip the balance. When it comes to nuclear weapons, one is one too many.  

 

69] – WAR IS NOT THE ANSWER signs from Friends Committee on National Legislation are again for sale at $5.  To purchase a sign, call Max at 410-366-1637.

 

70] – Publish Your Peace Article. Daniel Frasier is soliciting peace articles for the biweekly series of commentaries Paths to Peace in the Frederick News Post Religion and Ethics section. For details, email path2peace07@yahoo.com.

 

71] – The Hunger Site was initiated by Mercy Corps and Second Harvest, and is funded entirely by advertisers.  You can go there every day and click the big yellow "Give Food for Free" button near the top of the page; you do not have to look at the ads. Each click generates funding for about 1.1 cups of food.  So consider clicking.  

 

72] – Go online for FIRE AND FAITH: The Catonsville Nine File. On May 17, 1968, nine people entered the Selective Service Offices in Catonsville, Maryland, and burned draft records in protest against the war in Vietnam. View http://www.prattlibrary.org/digital/.

 

73] – Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil takes place every day in Lafayette Park, 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 24 hours a day, since June 3, 1981.  Go to http://prop1.org; call 202-682-4282.

 

Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.

 

"One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan