46] Welcome Honduran Immigrants – June 17
47]
Support janitors – June 17
48] Lobby Rep. Sarbanes – June 17
49] Book talk on Rachel Carson – June 17
50] Film WITNESS BAHRAIN – June 17
51]
Wind Energy Webinar – June 17
52] “Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman
Diplomacy and the Vietnam War,” –
June 18
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45] – On Wed., June 17 from 12:30 to
3 PM, hear a discussion Privacy and Security: A Comparative Constitutional Law
Conversation at the Goethe-Institut Washington, 812 7th St. NW, WDC. The Snowden revelations raised pointed
questions in the United States and Germany about the future of privacy and
security, particularly in light of our thoroughly networked and digitized age.
A number of circumstances justify a focus on the U.S. and German perspectives.
The U.S. intelligence activities in Europe—and Germany in particular—have
strained vital transatlantic partnerships in recent years. The different
reactions to the so-called “NSA-Affäre” on opposite sides of the Atlantic have
posed challenges to our assumptions about shared transatlantic values. As two
of the most established—and respected—constitutional democracies, the
newly-exposed differences regarding privacy in the United States and Germany
present a unique opportunity for comparative constitutional reflection. This lunch-time dialogue will feature David
Cole (Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at the
Georgetown University Law Center) and Russell Miller (Professor of Law at
Washington & Lee University School of Law). RSVP is required for this event
at http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/was/ver/en14421231v.htm.
46] – Go to the street between the
White House and Lafayette Park on Wed., June 17 at 2 PM and JOIN THE DC
COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS TO WELCOME THE CARAVAN OF HONDURAN MIGRANTS FROM
AMIREDIS AS THEY ARRIVE TO WASHINGTON, DC.
AMIREDIS is the association of migrants who have become disabled or lost
limbs after suffering serious accidents from the northward train known as LA
BESTIA. Join us to hear their testimonies and spread the word about the REAL
consequences of US policies that are forcing people risk life and limb to head
north. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/387556748094268/.
47] – Get over to
McPherson Square NW, WDC on Wed., June 17 from 4 to 5 PM to support janitors.
Bargaining is currently underway for 10,500 Janitors in the D.C. Area. There
will be activities all week throughout the area centered on creating more
full-time opportunities for workers. The march will start in McPherson Square
Park, the closest Metro Station is McPherson Sq. - Blue and Orange Lines. Go to
https://www.google.com/calendar/render?eid=cGg1ajc0cG9pZDc4NDAwb3NibWY4cWg2NG8gY2dhcmxvY2tAZGNsYWJvci5vcmc&ctz=America/New_York&sf=true&output=xml#eventpage_6.
48] – As part of the national "Educate
Congress" Campaign Letter Drops, on
Wed., June 17 at 4:30 PM, the Pledge of Resistance will go to Rep. John
Sarbanes’ office, 600 Baltimore Ave., Suite 303, Towson, MD 21204, to deliver a
letter. The letter urges him to cosponsor
the Voter Empowerment Act (H.R. 12), the Democracy Restoration Act (H.R. 1459),
the End Racial Profiling Act (H.R. 1933), the Commission to Study Reparations
for African Americans Act (H.R. 40), the Formerly Incarcerated Voter Registration
Act (H.R. 871), and the New Columbia Admissions Act (H.R. 317). Finally, we are seeking an end to the use of
killer drone strikes, which we believe to be illegal and
unconstitutional. Let Max know
if you can sign on to the letter and go to Sarbanes’ office--410-366-1637 or
mobuszewski at verizon.net. Are you a constituent?
49] – Catch a book
talk with Dr. Robert K. Musil, author of “Rachel Carson and Her Sisters:
Extraordinary Women Who Have Shaped America’s Environment” for a presentation
about women active in the nascent environmental movement during Woodrow
Wilson’s time
on Wed., June 17 from 5:30 to 7 PM at the President Woodrow Wilson
House, 2340 S St. NW, WDC 20008. Tickets
are $15. Contact Sarah Andrews at 202-792-5807.
Although “green” is not the first term that comes to mind when you
think of President Wilson, he was an advocate of protecting our natural
resources and established the National Park Service in 1916. In Woodrow
Wilson’s first inaugural address on March 4, 1913 he stated, “With riches
has come inexcusable waste. We have squandered a great part of what we might
have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature,
without which our genius for enterprise would have been worthless and impotent,
scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient.”
Many people of the early 20th century had come to see that with
industrialization had come great cost. These early
activists, writers and scientists pioneered the modern environmental movement. Dr.
Musil is the President and CEO of The Rachel Carson Council, Inc. and
Senior Fellow, Adjunct Professor at The Center for Congressional and
Presidential Studies, School of Public Affairs, American University. Go to
http://www.woodrowwilsonhouse.org/ai1ec_event/booktalk-rachel-carson-and-her-sisters-3?instance_id=.
50] –Join
Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) in the
Rayburn House Office Building, 45 Independence Ave. SW, WDC on Wed., June 17
from 5:30 to 7:30 PM for a Capitol Hill screening of filmmaker Jen Marlowe's
new documentary,” Witness Bahrain.” The event is open to the public, but due to
limited seating RSVP @: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/witness-bahrain-documentary-screening-on-capitol-hill-tickets-17230426670. The film is a piercing look inside Bahrain,
two years after the start of Bahrain's uprising. The film follows a Bahraini
activist as she travels all over Bahrain, uncovering stories of Bahrainis,
including doctors arrested and tortured under trumped up charges, nurses
treating injured protestors at underground clinics, the family of a boy killed
by riot police, and the arrest of human rights defender Nabeel Rajab. Scores of
ordinary Bahrainis are also featured: women explaining why they protest, people
praying on the remains of their demolished mosques, and youth clashing daily
with riot police. The DC premiere of the film is sponsored by Congressman Hank
Johnson (D-GA). After the film, the
director and former Bahraini MP Matar Matar will engage with the audience in a brief
Q&A. Light refreshments will be served. See
https://www.facebook.com/events/911105535614636/.
51] – Unlike Don
Quixote, the group, Physicians For Social Responsibility, is no longer
fruitlessly "tilting at windmills." In fact, wind energy is the
fastest-growing source of power in the U.S. Join in on a Wed., June 17 Climate
Health Action Team webinar. It will focus on wind energy and how to advocate
for clean, efficient and healthy wind power to be a major part of our energy
future. Wind Power: Clean, Efficient and Healthy is schedule for 8 to 9 PM
EST. REGISTER at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2412091380717740545. Email psrnatl@psr.org.
52] – On Thurs., June 18 at noon, Jeffrey Kimball and
William Burr, will do a book discussion of “Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret
Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy and the Vietnam War,” at the National Archives,
McGowan Theater, 700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC. There will be a
webcast on YouTube of the event--https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa0NBRKMzzU.
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
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