Baltimore Activist Alert July 6 – July 12, 2012

Baltimore Activist Alert July 6 – July 12, 2012


"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.

Friends, this list and other email documents which I send out are done under the auspices of the Baltimore Nonviolence Center. Go to www.baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com. If you appreciate this information and would like to make a donation, send contributions to BNC, 325 East 25th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Max Obuszewski can be reached at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski [at] verizon.net.

Tune into the Maryland Progressive Blog at http://mdprogblog.org.

1] Books, buttons and stickers



2] Web site for info on federal legislation



3] Join Nonviolent Resistance lists



4] Buy coffee through HoCoFoLA



5] Help out the Green Party



6] White House vigil – July 6



7] WIB Inner Harbor vigil – July 6



8] WIB Roland Park vigil – July 6



9] Justice for Palestine/Israel vigil – July 6



10] WIB Frederick vigil – July 6



11] Silent peace vigil – July 6



12] Cleaning the Heart – July 6



13] Film BORN ON THE 4TH OF JULY – July 6



14] Sounds of Hope – July 6



15] Ballroom dancing – July 6



16] Rent Party – July 6



17] SLAP Fundraiser – July 6



18] Dog-A-Thon – July 7 & 8



19] Olney peace vigil – July 7



20] West Chester, PA demo – July 7



21] Silent vigil at Capitol – July 7



22] BES goes to D.C. – July 8



23] Get on Bridge for Peace – July 8



24] BDS demo against SodaStream – July 8



25] Beyond Differences – July 8



26] Philadelphia Peace Vigil – July 8



27] Earth Quaker Action Team – July 8



28] Pastors for Peace Caravan – July 8



29] Lobbying meeting – July 8



30] Red Emma’s meeting – July 8



31] Pentagon Vigil – July 9



32] Support Homeless Activists – July 9



33] Day One of General – July 9



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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 Iraq.







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, 5358 Eliots Oak Rd., Columbia, MD 21044. Be sure you indicate ground (G) or bean (B) for each type of coffee ordered. The coffee will arrive some time the following week and you will be notified where to pick it up. Contact Adela at 410-997-5662 or via e-mail at adela4peace@verizon.net.







5] – Bill Barry [wbarrymd@hotmail.com] is asking for your help in keeping the Maryland Green Party on the ballot line. The Maryland Green Party still needs another 1,500 signatures on petitions. Can you help out? He has the petitions, and would like to know if you can get ten signatures from registered voters. He will get you the petitions.





The national Green Party convention will be in Baltimore from July 12-15 at the U of Baltimore and at the Hilton--Inner Harbor downtown. You're invited to sit in or to watch on CSPAN: http://www.gpconvention2012.com/p/scheduling.html.







6] – A peace vigil takes place every Friday from noon to 1 PM at Lafayette Park facing the White House. Join the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker and friends. Contact Art Laffin: artlaffin@hotmail.com.







7] – Every Friday from noon to 1 PM, Women in Black, Baltimore, host a vigil at Pratt and Light Sts. in the Inner Harbor. Peace signs will be available. See http://www.peacepath911.com/ or write wibbaltimore@hotmail.com or call 410-467-9114.







8] – There is also a noon vigil on June 29 at Roland Park Place at 830 W. 40th St. Call 410-467-9114.







9] – A vigil for Justice in Palestine/Israel (now in its 8th year) takes place every Friday from noon to 1 PM at 19th & JFK Blvd., Philadelphia (across from Israeli Consulate. It is sponsored by Bubbies & Zaydes (Grandparents) for Peace in the Middle East. Email cswartz@pil.net. Go to http://phillyjewishpeace.org/.







10] – WIB holds a silent vigil mourning all violence, the first Friday of the month. The next vigil is July 6 from noon to 12:30 PM, War Memorial Park, intersection of W. 2nd & N. Bentz Sts. in Frederick. Please dress in black; no additional signs. Call 301-834-7581 or email wibfrederick@mizmail.com.











11] – There is a silent vigil on Fri., July 6 from 5 to 6 PM outside of Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 N. Charles St., in opposition to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Placards say: "War Is Not the Answer." The silent vigil is sponsored by AFSC, Homewood Friends and Stony Run Meetings.



12] – Camille Brown presents Cleaning the Heart: an Exhibition to Benefit Thai Freedom House, a non-profit community language and arts center in Northern Thailand,

at Gallery 1448, Artists' Housing, 1448 E. Baltimore St. The opening reception is Fri., July 6 from 6 to 10 PM, but visitors can also see the show on Sundays & Saturdays from 1-5 PM through July 22 or by appointment at 433-392-5461. Call 410-327-1554. Proceeds from all work sold during the exhibition's run time will go to Thai Freedom House. Go to http://www.1448.org.







13] – On Fri., July 6 at 7 PM, see Oliver Stone's classic film BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY starring Tom Cruise. It tells the true story of Ron Kovic, Vietnam combat veteran turned peace activist and shows the impact of that war on the home front. It will be shown as part of the Peace Center of Delaware County First-Friday Large Screen Free Film Series, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, PA. The doors open at 6:30 PM for light refreshments. Call 610-544-1818 or go to www.delcopeacecenter.org.







The discussion will be led by John Grant, Vietnam veteran and a member of Veterans For Peace. As a writer/photographer, Grant has traveled in Vietnam, Iraq and Central America. He currently writes for the online publication This Can't Be Happening. Be sure to read his article, "The Vietnam War and the Struggle for Truth" at www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1205.







14] – On Fridays, from 7 to 10:30 PM at the Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC 20009, enjoy the Sounds of Hope is Good Music, Good Food, for a Good Cause! Go to www.reverbnation.com/venue/soundsofhope. Contact Mary Shapiro, Sounds of Hope producer, at



soundsofhopebooking@gmail.com or 202-294-2906.







15] – There is an opportunity to participate in ballroom dancing, usually every Friday of the month, in the JHU ROTC Bldg. at 8 PM. Turn south on San Martin Dr. from the intersection of Univ. Parkway and 39th St. Drive on campus by taking the third left turn. The next dance will be July 5. Call Dave Greene at 410-599-3725.



16] – The 1st Friday's RENT PARTY & KARAOKE in an air conditioned space, Solidarity Center, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218, is at 8 PM on July 6. Also celebrate the Peoples Assembly. Call 410-500-2168 or email info@justice-4-trayvon.org.







The Solidarity Center cannot pay this month's rent! The organizers have been so busy with police brutality that no time was spent on formal fund raising. Come out and enjoy a dinner and drinks for a $10 donation. If you have less still come out and if you have more -- they need it. Enjoy singing, poetry and having fun until midnight. APC is begging for you to stop by and leave a donation even if you can't stay.



17] – There’s a SLAP Fundraiser on Fri., July 6 from 8 to 10 PM at Adams Morgan Mellow Mushroom, 2436 18th St. NW. National SLAP is putting on a fundraiser to help send SLAP students to the USSA Congress in Madison, Wisconsin. Live music performance by Lucky Dub, featuring D.C. JwJ and SLAP's very own Isaiah Toney. The cover charge is $5 for the band, and donations to SLAP can be made inside. It has been a really exciting year for SLAP and the movement as a whole. SLAP students across the country were active in the Occupy Movement, and at this past year's USSA LegCon, SLAP and USSA took aim at Sallie Mae, one of the largest corporate profiteers of student loans. Over 300 students rallied in front of the Sallie Mae office demanding a meeting with CEO Albert Lord to discuss student debt. When Sallie Mae refused to talk 36 students were arrested in nonviolent civil disobedience. Then on May 24th, over 200 students and community activists protested Sallie Mae at their annual shareholder's meeting in Newark, Delaware with SLAP shareholders inside. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/161569180634290/.

18] – The Pets On Wheels 7th Annual Dog-A-Thon is taking place on Sat., July 7 from 10 AM to 8 PM and on Sun., July 8 from 11 AM to 7 PM. It is designed to support the mission of visiting people in institutional settings. The Dog-A-Thon is happening at Maryland State Fairgrounds, 2200 York Road. Call 410-913-5569. The price is $10 for adults, and $5 for children 5 to 12. Go to http://www.PetsonWheels.org.







19] – Friends House, 17715 Meeting House Rd., Sandy Spring, MD 20860, hosts a peace vigil every Saturday, 10:30 to 11:30 AM, on the corner of Rt. 108 and Georgia Ave. in Olney, MD. The next vigil is July 7. Call Chuck Harker at 301-570-7167.







20] – Each Saturday, 11 AM – 1 PM, Chester County Peace Movement holds a peace vigil in West Chester in front of the Chester County Courthouse, High & Market Sts. Go to www.ccpeace.org. Email ccpeacemovement@aol.com.







21] – There will be a peace vigil on the West Lawn of the Capitol at noon on Sat., July 7. Look for the blue banner with the message, "Seek Peace and Pursue It.--Psalms 34:14." The vigil lasts one hour and is silent except when one responds to the occasional questions. Go to http://www.quaker.org/langleyhill/seekpeace.htm or email seekpeacevigil@yahoo.com.







22] – Usually, the Baltimore Ethical Society, 306 W. Franklin St., Suite 102, Baltimore, MD 21201-4661, meets on Sundays, and generally there is a speaker and discussion from 10:30 to 11:30 AM. On Sun., July 8, the topic is “Putting on Our Sunday Best.” However, the Baltimore Ethical Society will gather with members of the Washington and Northern Virginia Ethical Societies to celebrate Ethical Culture. This joint meeting – which will start at 11 AM – will be hosted at the Washington Ethical Society (WES, 7750 16th St. NW, WDC 20012). Along with the leaders of the three societies – Amanda Poppei, Mary Herman, Jone Johnson Lewis, and Hugh Taft-Morales – the program will explore what it is that makes the Sunday morning meetings special! An informal lunch is planned for after platform. Call 410-581-2322 or visit www.baltimoreethicalsociety.org.







23] – Maryland Bridges for Peace welcomes you to stand for peace Sundays from noon (or thereabouts) to 1 PM on the Spa Creek Bridge in Annapolis. Contact Lucy at 410-263-7271 or mdbridgesforpeace@toadmail.com. Signs are not allowed to be on a stick or pole. If there is interest, people will be standing on the Stoney Creek Bridge on Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena [410-437-5379 or magicalgodmom@aol.com]. Go to http://BridgePeace.blogspot.com/.







24] – Join the Kick-off of the New D.C. BDS Campaign Against SodaStream on Sun., July 8 from 2 to 4 PM in front of Columbia Heights Mall at the Columbia Heights Metro Station on 14th St., just north of intersection with Irving St. Jewish Voice for Peace DC Metro Chapter is launching a new boycott campaign against SodaStream, a Swiss company that manufactures its beverage carbonating machine in Mishor Edumim, a settlement in the West Bank.







In large part, due to the success of the European boycott campaign, SodaStream has moved to the U.S. It's making a splash in a huge number of DC stores like Bed, Bath & Beyond, Staples, and Target, all of which are located in the Columbia Heights Mall. Email jvpdcmetro@gmail.com or call 301-518-0199.







25] – Reaching Beyond Our Differences: Views from the Next Generation of Leaders in the Middle East IS AN EVENT TAKING PLACE on Sun,, July 8 from 3:30 to 5 PM at 601 Bradley Blvd., Bethesda MD 20817. Hear the stories of young adult Palestinian & Israeli leaders with New Story Leadership (www.newstoryleadership.org). Learn how they are building a new story for the future. Hear the story of New Story Leadership – an organization committed to building a relationship of understanding and cooperation in the Middle East. This event is hosted by Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church, Bethesda Jewish Congregation and Idara e-Jaferia Mosque. RSVP to bishnasar@yahoo.com and reference "Bradley Hills" in the subject line. Email Ronnie Haber at rnhaber@erols.com.







26] – Every Sunday, 4 to 5 PM, there is a Quaker Peace Vigil at Independence Mall, N. side of Market between 5th and 6th Sts., Philadelphia. Call 215-421-5811.







27] – On Sun., July 8 at 4:30 PM, enjoy the Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck Supper & Program @ University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St., Phila., PA. (Bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share). At 5:30 PM, there will be a presentation about the Earth Quaker Action Team by Zachary Hershman, speaking and showing a film short about EQAT's campaign to get PNC Bank out of the lethal business of mountaintop removal coal mining. Call 610-544-1818 or go to www.brandywinepeace.com.







28] – Enjoy a potluck dinner with members of the 23rd Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan on Sun., July 8 at 5 PM at the home of Leslie Salgado and Steve Sharar at 6336 Sandchain Rd., Columbia, MD 21045. Bring a dish to share and join in for an evening of sharing, music and to welcome the “caravanistas,” who are traveling through Howard County on their way to Cuba. Call 410-381-4899.







The Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba will challenge the U.S. economic and travel blockade on Cuba, imposed on the Cuban people over 50 years ago. The Caravan will travel through up to 130 cities in the U.S. and Canada, to raise awareness about the U.S. blockade and to gather humanitarian aid to take to Cuba. After travelling through the U.S. there is a blockade-busting border crossing into Mexico. The “caravanistas” will then travel through Mexico and spend nine days in Cuba, participating in a variety of educational and cultural events. Go to http://www.pastorsforpeace.org/.







RSVP to Leslie at 410-381-4899 or cuba_is_hope@comcast.net. Visit http://www.friendsoflatinamerica.org. You can send a contribution to HoCoFoLA, PO Box 94, Columbia, MD 21045. The event is co-sponsored by Ho. Co. Friends of Latin America and the Baltimore-Matanzas Cuba Sister City Project.



29] – The Occupy DC Lobbying Group is meeting on Sun., July 8 at 6 PM at the Occupy DC Office, Institute for Policy Studies, 1112 16th St. NW, Suite 600. There are a lot of different laws that need to be changed that Occupy could lobby about—Glass-Stegal, Future Commodities Act, Taft-Hartley Act, co-determination laws, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and others. The idea is to start a lobbying campaign by fall. Visit http://www.facebook.com/events/.

30] – Red Emma’s needs volunteers. Stop in to the weekly Sunday meeting at 7 PM at 800 St. Paul St. or email info@redemmas.org. The next meeting is July 8. There is no meeting on the first Sunday of the month. Call 410-230-0450. If you would be interested in volunteering or becoming a collective member of 2640, send an email to 2640@redemmas.org.







31] – There is a weekly Pentagon Peace Vigil from 7 to 8 AM on Mondays, since 1987, outside the Pentagon Metro stop. The next vigil is Mon., July 9, and it is sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Call 202-882-9649.



32] – The Free Franklin Shelter Trial takes place on Mon., July 9 at 9:30 AM in D.C. Superior Court, 500 Indiana Ave. NW, Courtroom #112. It is requested that supporters show up at 8:30 AM outside the courthouse. Last November a group of community members going by the name “Free Franklin” entered and occupied the former Franklin Shelter building at 13th and K Sts. NW. It was a protest about the lack of homeless shelters in D.C. Six of the people arrested at the occupation will be fighting a charge of unlawful entry in a jury trial. For updates on the trial, check out http://freefranklindc.blogspot.com or follow @FreeFranklinDC on Twitter or email freefranklindc@gmail.com.

33] – Day One of General Strike for DC Statehood is on for Mon., July 9 at 8:30 AM everywhere. Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC) will join consumer advocate and citizen rights organizer, Ralph Nader, local and national groups and other DC statehood supporters to launch a general limited Strike for DC Statehood. They're calling on all DC residents, their family, friends, relatives and supporters to postpone your arrival to work for 15 minutes! It's a painless but important way to start a campaign here for our liberty just 5 days after the 4th of July celebrations! They are encouraging everyone to expand the strike by postponing your arrival to work 30 minutes on August 1, 2012, 45 minutes on September 10, 2012 and one hour on October 1, 2012. Contact Anise Jenkins at 202-361-9739 or at anisej@hotmail.com.

To be continued.







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/.







"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