Baltimore Activist Alert - Part 3

50] Talk with Phyllis Bennis – Feb. 8

51] Philadelphia peace vigil – Feb. 8

52] Celebrate Darwin Day – Feb. 8

53] Green Currency Meeting -- Feb. 8

54] Chestnut Hill Peace Vigil -- Feb. 8

55] Diplomacy vs. Iran -- Feb. 9

56] Engage with Iran -- Feb. 9

57] Environment legislative briefing - Feb. 9

58] Briefing on Chevron's lack of justice – Feb. 9

59] The Arab Spring? -- Feb. 9

60] Bake at Moveable Feast – Feb. 9

61] Bill Barry's teaching a course on the 30s – Feb. 9

62] Kangaroo Courts -- Feb. 9

63] Voices of Experience – Feb. 9

64] Volunteers needed for MUPJ Conference – Apr. 20-21

65] Sign up with Washington Peace Center

66] Fund Our Communities campaign

67] Submit articles to Indypendent Reader 

68] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

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

70] Join Global Zero campaign

71] War Is Not the Answer signs for sale

72] Click on The Hunger Site 

73] Fire & Faith  

74] Seeking students for a peacemaking summit

75] Join Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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50] –  A Conversation with Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Fellow Phyllis Bennis and Ethelbert Miller is happening on Wed., Feb. 8 from 1 to 2 PM at the IPS Conference Room, 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600, WDC.  Poet, writer and IPS Board Chair E. Ethelbert Miller will interview IPS Fellow Phyllis Bennis about her life and work. Phyllis is a leading scholar-activist and voice of reason on the Middle East and on the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She works in the media and with broad social movements challenging U.S. wars and Israeli occupation, providing education and inspiration for a host of people and organizations. Call 202-234-9382.

51] – 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 Feb. 8. Call 215-426-0364.

 

 

52] – Come celebrate Darwin Day with friends of the Baltimore Coalition of Reason.  You have two chances: The first event is Wed., Feb. 8 from 7 to 9 PM hosted by the UMBC Secular Student Alliance.  The second is part of the Baltimore Ethical Society's Sunday, Feb. 12 program.

 

The UMBC Secular Student Alliance event takes place at UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Physics 101, previously LH6.  Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/336730879693885/. Dr. Kevin Omland of the UMBC biology department will be joining the Secular Student Alliance in celebrating the legacy of Charles Darwin and his contributions to science for this holiday celebrating Darwin's birthday month. 

 

The best place to park on campus for non-students is in the Commons garage, on Commons Drive, at coin meters. The Physics building is a short walk across the street from the parking garage. Visitor parking is available in metered lots. Meters are enforced year round Monday-Friday from 7:30 AM – 9 PM, and the fees is $.25 for each 15 minutes, quarters only.  If visitors park after 7 PM, they can park in whichever section they choose, regardless of parking permit zone. Email volcheck@acm.org.

 

53] – 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.

 

54] – 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 Feb. 8. Call 215-843-4256 or email nwgreens@yahoo.com. 

55] – On Thurs., Feb. 9 from 9:30 to 11 AM, James Dobbins, former Assistant Secretary of State, Peter Crail, Arms Control Association, Jim Walsh, MIT, and Daryl Kimball, Arms Control Association, will address "Diplomatic Strategies for Preventing a Nuclear-Armed Iran." The event sponsored by the Arms Control Association takes place at the Stimson Center, 1111 19th St. NW, 12th Floor, WDV.  RSVP to Tim Farnsworth at tim@armcontrol.org.

56] – On Thurs., Feb. 9 from 12:15 to 1:30 PM, Seyed Hossein Mousavian, Princeton University, will answer "How to Engage with Iran: Lessons from an Iranian Nuclear Negotiator" at the Univ. of Maryland, 1203 Van Munching Hall, College Park, MD 20742. Call 301-405-7601 or go to http://cissm.umd.edu/forum/display.php?id=555.

 

57] – As the session begins, there are opportunities to protect children and families from environmental threats.  Maryland PIRG, the Maryland Pesticide Network, and the Maryland Children's Environmental Health Coalition invite you to an Environment & Health Advocates legislative briefing and organizing session.  The focus will be on brainstorming tactics in support of three opportunities: chemical reform - Healthy Kids Healthy Maryland, pesticide use, Release, Purchase & Sales Recording bill, and School Funding Model and Basic Protections during Renovation and Construction Bill.  This briefing is on Thurs., Feb. 9 from 2:30 to 4:30 PM at The Associated, 101 W. Mount Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD 21201. RSVP to rebeccaruggles@verizon.net .

 

58] –  On Thurs., Feb. 9 from 3:30 to 5 PM, there will be a Congressional briefing at 2456 Rayburn House Office Building on "The Perils of Investor-State Enforcement: Chevron's Attempt to Evade Justice in Egregious Ecuadorian Amazon Contamination Case." It is hosted by the office of Representative Linda T. Sánchez. Please join Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network, and Public Citizen at this event.  

 

59] – On Thurs., Feb. 9 from 4 to 6 PM, enjoy a Public Panel: Has Arab Spring Arrived at Expectations? The panel discussion will take place at Georgetown Univ. Hotel and Conference Center, 37th and O Sts. NW, WDC.  The speakers are John L. Esposito, founding director, Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Heba Raouf, lecturer of Political Theory, Cairo Univ., and Radwan Ziadeh, fellow, Institute for Social Policy and Understanding.  RSVP at http://arabspringispu.eventbrite.com

 

60] – The Baltimore Ethical Society is holding a BAKING NIGHT AT MOVEABLE FEAST on Thurs., Feb. 9 from 5:45 to 8 PM.  Join BES members and others at 901 N. Milton Ave. Baltimore, MD.  Go to www.mfeast.org. Park on the street in front of building. Enter through the door closest to Ashland Street.

 

61] – Bill Barry is teaching a 3-credit course on the 1930s, covering Black Thursday to Pearl Harbor at CCBC-Essex. It continues on Thurs., Feb. 9 5:45 to 8:40 PM.  He sees a lot of comparisons between That Depression and This Depression, and how people and the government responded. See great videos and listen to guest speakers on this period of our history. This is a 3-credit college course but you can audit or just--in the spirit of the 30s--sit in. Anyone over 60 gets free tuition. Email wbarrymd@hotmail.com.

 

62] –  On Thurs., Feb. 9 from 7 to 9 PM, there will be a Public Teach-In at American Univ. School of International Service (SIS) Atrium on the main campus entitled "Kangaroo Courts: How Corporations Use International Arbitration to Threaten Water, Health, Human Rights and Democracy."  This panel will highlight both the Chevron vs. Ecuador case and the Pacific Rim Mining Corp. vs. El Salvador case.

 

63] –  VOICES of EXPERIENCE takes place at 7 PM on Thurs., Feb. 9 at the Trinity United Methodist Church, 90 Church St., Prince Frederick, MD.  The CALVERT INTERFAITH COUNCIL invites you to hear two men share their harrowing experiences and their path to redemption, forgiveness & healing. Kirk Bloodsworth was wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Maryland for a crime he had nothing to do with. An honorably discharged Marine and lifelong water person on the Chesapeake Bay, in 1993 he became the first person exonerated and freed from death row in the U.S. using DNA technology. "If this can happen to me it can happen to anyone."

 

Ricardo Wiggs and his wife Sharon were shot in their home in Clinton in 1992. Sharon died. Ricardo lived to raise their daughters and has become a leading voice for victims and victim survivors in Maryland. He serves on the board of directors of the Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center. "I want to be known as a survivor, not a victim." Email MD Case at info@mdcase.org.

 

64] – Volunteers are needed to help with the 27th Annual Maryland Peace and Justice Conference to be held on Friday and Saturday, April 20 & 21 at the Episcopal Cathedral Church of the Incarnation, 4 E. University Parkway, Baltimore, 21218. The theme is: "Peacemaking in the 21st century; 25 years of working for peace and justice in Maryland."  Contact Paulette Hammond, secretary, MUPJ, at 410-747-3811 or phamm001@earthlink.net or paulette.d.hammond@questdiagnostics.com.

 

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

66] – 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.      

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

70] – 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.  

 

71] – 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.

 

72] – 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.  

 

73] – 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/.

 

74] – Greetings from the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking. G. Simon Harak S.J., director, is seeking your assistance. The Center for Peacemaking, the Marquette faculty and administrators are committed to supporting students' knowledge and research, especially in the area of peacemaking.  At the Center, "peacemaking" in the broadest sense, means studying the structure and dynamics of conflicts and their consequences (physical, psychological, religious/spiritual, gender, familial, sociological, political, cultural, environmental, etc.), learning and testing the strategies of conflict resolution and their effectiveness in certain types of conflict and finally, working to form sustainable and stable communities where justice is fostered and truth can be pursued, so that peace can flourish.

In light of this goal, Simon requests your help. On March 30, 2012 the Center for Peacemaking will be hosting the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies' [WIPCS] day-long undergraduate conference on the theme, "Negotiating in a Polarized Society" here at Marquette University's Alumni Memorial Union (AMU). Can you help increase student participation in this conference by a) encouraging students to submit a paper they may have written, b) recommending students submit a project proposal, and c) inviting students to attend? Email peacemaking@marquette.edu.

 

75] – 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