Baltimore Activist Alert - Part 3

30] Philadelphia Antiwar Vigil -- Jan. 4

31] Jobs March planning meeting – Jan. 4

32] Green Currency Meeting -- Jan. 4

33] Chestnut Hill Peace Vigil -- Jan. 4

34] First Thursday vigil against war – Jan. 5

35] Film CICLOVIDIA -- Jan. 5

36] Reflect on pope's peace message/hear WAT speaker – Jan. 5

37] Buy DREAMING NICARAGUA

38] CCAN is hiring

39] Support Baltimore Brew thru Kickstarter campaign

40] Support finishing film THE ACTIVISTS thru Kickstarter campaign

41] Sign up with Washington Peace Center

42] Fund Our Communities campaign

43] Submit articles to Indypendent Reader 

44] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

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

46] Join Global Zero campaign

47] War Is Not the Answer signs for sale

48] Click on The Hunger Site 

49] Fire & Faith  

50] Join Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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30] – Each Wednesday from 4:30 - 5:30 PM, the House of Grace Catholic Worker holds a weekly vigil for peace in Iraq outside the Phila. Federal Building, 6th & Market Sts. The next vigil is Jan. 4. Call 215-426-0364.

 

31] –  There is a planning meeting and a press conference on Wed., Jan. 4 at 6 P.M. at the Workers United Union Hall, 7 - 9 W. Mulberry St., Baltimore, MD 21202, for the Dr. King Jr. March 4 Jobs from Baltimore to Occupy Washington D.C.  Dr. Helena Hicks, participated in one of the very first civil rights sit-ins of this country in 1955, at Read's Drug store in downtown Baltimore. At the time she was a 20 year old Morgan State University student. She will speak along with others.

 

Then there will be a special General Assembly that will make important decisions. Call 443-909-8964.  Go to www.Occupy4Jobs.org.

 

32] –  The Baltimore Green Currency Association meets every Wednesday at 7 PM at Breathe Books, 810 W 36th St. # A, Baltimore, MD 21211-2554.  Call 410-235-7323.

 

33] – 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 Jan. 4. Call 215-843-4256 or email nwgreens@yahoo.com. 

 

34] – The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore will host an End the Wars vigil on Thurs., Jan. 5 from 5 to 6:30 PM in Mount Vernon at Centre & Charles Sts.  The Pledge gathers in Mount Vernon on the first Thursday of the month to protest U.S. wars.  Call Max at 410-366-1637.

35] – On Thurs., Jan, 5 at  7 PM @ Red Emma's, 800 St. Paul St., see CICLOVIDA: Lifecycle, a documentary film that tells the story of a group of small farmers from northeastern Brazil who embark on a bicycle trip across the South American continent. They seek to exchange natural seeds and ideas about new ways of relating to the land. Each day they gather moving stories from landless peasants, indigenous communities, and small farmers who are struggling to survive despite the conquest of global agribusinesses and genetically modified crops. Go to http://Ciclovida.org.

 

36] – On Thurs., Jan 5 at 7:30 PM in the basement of the St. Francis of Assisi rectory, 6701 Muncaster Mill Road, Rockville, MD, join the St. Francis of Assisi Pax Christi group and others in a reflection of Pope Benedict's New Year's Day Peace Message. Go to http://www.radiovaticana.org/en1/articolo.asp?c=488495 or http://www.news.va/en/news/papal-message-for-world-day-of-peace-2012. Frida Berrigan of Witness Against Torture will speak about this year's efforts to close Guantanamo and other sites of indefinite detention.  

 

37] – David Gullette is both a Sister City organizer (www.newtonsanjuan.org) and an author.  His new novel is DREAMING NICARAGUA, and all proceeds benefit the work of the Newton/San Juan del Sur Sister City Project.  The book is available by Fenway Press.                 

  

DREAMING NICARAGUA: Jesse Pelletier is a Vietnam vet who runs a cheap hotel named Ospedjae Gringo Pinolero in San Juan del Sur, a beach town in southern Nicaragua. The year is 2000. Jesse's previously-estranged daughter, Suzy, is visiting him for the first time; she falls for a local ecological activist, Camilo Sanchez, who promptly disappears. Or maybe he has been disappeared. Counterpointed with this realistic millennial material is an earlier, imagined San Juan del Sur, in the 1850s, where another Jesse Pelletier, veteran of the Mexican War, has married a local girl and runs a hotel catering to the Gold Rush-bound passengers of Cornelius Vanderbilt's New York-San Francisco steamship line. The parallel timeframes and intrigues and characters (including Mark Twain and the "Filibuster" chief, William Walker) echo off against each other as the tension rises.

 

To order a copy of the book, send a check for $18.50 (which includes shipping and handling) to Fenway Press, 68 Pembroke St. Newton, MA 02458. To use PayPal, go to http://fenwaypress.wordpress.com/dreaming-nicaragua/.

 

38] – CCAN is Hiring. Do you want to fight global warming while gaining valuable grassroots organizing knowledge and experience? If so, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network has the perfect internship for you. It is hiring interns for the spring semester to work out of the Takoma Park and Richmond offices. For ten years, CCAN has been working in Maryland, Virginia, and DC to fight climate change by standing up to polluters and working to pass clean energy policies. Call 1-240-396-1981.

 

39] – Baltimore Brew - News for Your City is seeking your financial help.  The news outfit has launched a Kickstarter Campaign. Help It Keep Percolating.  They are asking readers, as well as supporters of quality community journalism around the country, to help out by dropping a generous donation into the Kickstarter tip jar.  Visit the Baltimore Kickstarter page today or donate directly at Baltimore Brew, 623 W. University Pkwy., Baltimore, MD 21210.

 

40] – Melody Weinstein of www.melofilms.com notified me that the documentary film she has been working on with Michael Heaney is nearing completion. Titled "The Activists," it chronicles the anti-war movement over the last 10 years, and the major players in the movement. They have filmed us in Baltimore and D.C. and New York City and other places.  After years of filming and researching, they look forward to showing the final cut in a few short months.

 

They have launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for finishing the film and have until January 11 to reach the goal of 15K.  To support the film, go to http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/melofilms/the-activists-war-peace-and-politics-in-the-street.

 

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

42] – 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.      

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

46] – 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.  

 

47] – 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.

 

48] – 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.  

 

49] – 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/.

 

50] – 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