24] Europe
& the Iran Deal – Sept. 9
25] Amazon Watch talk – Sept. 9
26] Environmental
Justice Coalition meeting – Sept. 9
27] Struggle of women in Afghanistan –
Sept. 9
28] Compare Israel’s and Iran’s nuclear
programs – Sept. 9
29]
Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform
General Meeting – Sept. 9
30] Practice
singing a climate song – Sept. 10
31]
No change on venue –
Sept. 10
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23]
– CodePink
is gathering as follows: On Wed., Sept. 9 from 8 AM to 1 PM, vigil on the House
side at corner of New Jersey and Independence Aves. SE (across from the
Longworth House Building). Stand in line at 8:30 AM for a 10 AM to 1 PM Hearing
in the House Foreign Affairs, 2172 Rayburn. At 12:30
PM, march to Ted Cruz/Donald Trump/Sarah Palin/Glen Beck rally (meet at corner
of 1st and Independence Aves. SW) at Capitol South Metro. The Trump rally
starts at 1 PM. From 3 to 5 PM, lobby on the House side. At 8 PM, Seal
the deal" Light Brigade Action is happening on the walkway in front of the
Visitors Center at US Capitol Building.
On Thurs., Sept. 10 at 8 AM, join the all-day vigil on
the House side at the corner of New Jersey and Independence Aves, SE, across
from the Longworth House Building, as well as lobbying in the House. From noon
to 5 PM, lunch together in Rayburn Cafeteria followed by lobbying in
House. At 6:30 PM. The DC Vigil for Peace & Diplomacy is at
Dupont Circle NW, sponsored by MoveOn. Call Michaela
(432-934-5715) or Medea (415-235-6517).
24] –
On Wed.,
Sept. 9 from 12:15 to 1:45 PM, hear from Jean-Marie Guéhenno, International
Crisis Group; Wolfgang Ischinger, Munich Security Conference; Suzanne Maloney,
Brookings Institution; and Cornelius Adebahr, Carnegie Endowment, tackle
"How Europe Will Respond to the Iran Nuclear Agreement" at the
Carnegie Endowment, 1779 Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC. RSVP at http://carnegieendowment.org/events/forms/?fa=registration&event=4976&lang=en.
25] –
Amazon Watch and
Bank Information Center Invite You to a "Green-Bag Lunch"
Presentation: Indigenous Rights in the Peruvian Amazon 2015. Resource
Extraction, Indigenous Territory, and a Tale of Two IDBs will be discussed by
Hamner Manihuari Curitima, Lizardo Cauper and Wendy Pineda, AIDESEP on Wed.,
Sept. 9 from 12:30 to 2 PM at Bank Information Center conference room, 1023
15th St. NW, 10th Floor, WDC. Peru's Amazon jungle - the fourth largest
extension of tropical rainforest in the world - continue to be a hotbed of
controversy and social conflict. With falling commodity prices, the Peruvian
government has weakened environmental legislation to encourage greater
investment. At the same time, indigenous peoples are continuing to organize and
demand respect of their rights, including an initiative to expand collective
indigenous land ownership from roughly 1/5th of the Peruvian Amazon to 50%.
International financial institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank
are playing a schizophrenic role, supporting indigenous land titling through a
climate mechanism while threatening it through a major land titling loan.
Come hear straight
from leaders with Peru's largest and internationally respected indigenous
federation, AIDESEP. What are the key threats to Amazonian indigenous peoples?
How are those peoples organizing to defend their own rights and
self-determination? How can the international community play a constructive
role?
26] – Come to the Sierra Club Offices, 50 F St. NW,
Eighth Floor, WDC, on Wed., Sept. 9 from 6 to 8 PM for a meeting of the DMV
Environmental Justice Coalition to learn more about what communities of color,
low income groups, and others overburdened by environmental hazards, greenhouse
gas emissions and co-pollutants are doing in DC, MD and VA. The Black
Lives Matter will critique white supremacy, and you are urged to learn more
about it. Enjoy refreshments. RSVP to JimDriscoll@NIPSPeerSuport.org or
520-250-0509. Go to http://www.ceejh.org/dmv-ej-coalition or contact
Coalition Coordinator Dr. Sacoby Wilson, Professor, University of
Maryland-College Park, at swilson2@umd.edu.
27] – Come see and hear about the struggles,
determination, and resourcefulness of the women and all people of Afghanistan,
AWF’s efforts to partner with them to build a positive future, and what is
happening for “average” people who don’t make the headlines. The event will
take place at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 3615 Harford Road, Baltimore on
Wed., Sept. 9 from 7 to 9 PM. Enter a free parking lot from Chesterfield
Ave. off Harford Rd. The church hall entrance is off the parking lot. The
church is on the #19 Bus Route. See photographs and hear stories from
this summer by Fahima Vorgetts-Gaheez, director, Afghan Women’s Fund. She
travels to Afghanistan regularly for the Women’s Fund, an all-volunteer
solidarity organization working with women’s groups and villages in rural areas
on survival and rebuilding projects. This summer she spent six weeks there,
meeting with AWF partners and projects, talking with women (and men) who are
displaced persons, teachers, farmers, organizers, entrepreneurs, medical
workers, activists, officials and elders, students, and others. Handicrafts and
other items will be available for purchase. All proceeds go to AWF projects in
Afghanistan. Contact Alicia at aluckste@wacdtf.org or
443-722-2024
28]
– From 7 to 9 PM on Wed., Sept. 9 hear about Israel
and Iran: A Comparison of Nuclear Programs at La Casa, 3166 Mt. Pleasant
St. NW, Kenyon and Mt. Pleasant NW. Use the Columbia Heights Metro. Despite being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty (NPT), since the 1979 revolution and especially over the past ten
years, Iran has come under unprecedented scrutiny by the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations Security
Council over its nuclear program. Meanwhile, Israel, one of only four NPT
non-signatories (Pakistan, India and North Korea are the others)
and the only state in the Middle East actually possessing nuclear
weapons, has remained free from any meaningful international oversight. While
Iran has suffered debilitating economic sanctions over unproven suspicions that
it might have a clandestine nuclear weapons program, Israel, with and arsenal
of hundreds of modern nuclear weapons and a sophisticated delivery system
capable of targeting the entire Middle East and Europe, is permitted to act
with impunity. This blatant double standard over the Iranian and Israeli
nuclear programs has been recognized by many observers as weakening the
international nuclear non-proliferation agenda.
John Steinbach is an activist, educator, researcher and writer, and has written extensively on environmental, economic, social justice and nuclear issues. His published works include the map and database Deadly Radiation Hazards USA co-authored with his late wife Louise Franklin-Ramirez. Other titles include Environmentalism & Social Change, The Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program, Comparing Israel’s & Iran’s Nuclear Programs, Nuclear Nightmare: The Bush Administration and U.S. Nuclear War-Fighting.
Mr. Steinbach has been active against nuclear power and weapons since 1970, participated in the first protest against Fermi 2 south of Detroit. In 1981, he was arrested, along with 2,000 others, at the Diablo Canyon Blockade. Earlier the same year he helped co-found the
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Peace Committee of the National Capital Area, which educates the community
about the need for nuclear disarmament, and hosts an annual delegation of
atomic bomb survivors. Mr. Steinbach lives
and works in Prince William County, VA and was the recipient of the 2007 Prince
William Human Rights Award.
Dr. Bahram
Zandi is an Iranian physicist and a peace & justice activist.
Currently he is co-chair of the International and the Steering Committees of
the Green Party US and a delegate to the Federation of the Green
Parties of the Americas. Dr. Zandi will provide an overview
on Iran's past history and its resistance to colonial powers which leads
to the current situation.
29] – There
is a Maryland Alliance for Justice Reform General Meeting on Wed., Sept. 9 @
7:30 PM at the Annapolis Friends Meeting, 351 Dubois Road, Annapolis. The
MAJR Coordinating Council meeting will report on its plans and request
approval by the general membership present. Also, the three committees
will report. There will be an update on the Md. Justice Reinvestment
Coordinating Council and the focus groups, with requests for volunteers for a
couple of tasks.
30] – In conjunction with Grandparents Climate Action
Day, jubilant singers are needed to SING FOR THE CLIMATE and give our leaders
the message that we must change our nation's energy policies while there is
still time to avoid catastrophic changes in the Earth's climate. We are
elders, parents, grandparents, students and maybe YOU! There are practice
times at 7 AM on Thurs., Sept. 10 outside of Union Station, front left side and
at 10:45 AM on the lawn in front of the Capitol, close to the House Office
Buildings. To join, RSVP to lpiser@aol.com or 215 913
8362. Listen to the video and practice the song at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgBtHoIO4g.
31] – Gather
at the Clarence Mitchell Courthouse, Court House East, 111 N. Calvert St, on
Thurs., Sept. 10 from 8:30 to 11:30 AM. The next major issue is the
question of changing the location of the Freddie Gray trial. No change of
venue, convict the accused and then jail them.
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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