20] REUNION
breakfast – Oct. 27
21] Protest at RNC
– Oct. 27
22] Stop Fukushima
Freeways – Oct. 27
23] Gender through the United Nations – Oct.
27
24] Philadelphia
Peace Vigil – Oct. 27
25] Vigil against JHU’s drone research – Oct. 27
26] Animal
advocacy – Oct. 27 - 28
27] Film
PRISONS FOR PROFIT – Oct. 27
28] Legislative
Preview – Oct. 27
29] Book on homelessness
industry – Oct. 27
30] Get rid of racist name for D.C. football team
– Oct. 27
31] Protest Killer
Drones – Oct. 27
32] Peace Academy
course – Oct. 27
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20] – On Tues., Oct. 27 at 8 AM enjoy REUNION’s Re-entry
and Reconciliation Roadmap Breakfast. REUNION - Ending Mass Incarceration Through Relationships and Commitment - is an
interfaith community dismantling the crippling injustices of mass
incarceration. This is happening at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist
Church, 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC 20001. RSVP to reunionofficedc@gmail.com or 202-387-8001.
21] – Get over to the Republican National
Committee Headquarters, 310 First St. SE, WDC, on Tues., Oct. 27 at 11 AM
because the RNC’s Unwillingness to Condemn Hateful Speech is
Unacceptable. Immigrant Rights advocates, including several people who
fasted last week in New Orleans, will deliver over 30,000 petition signatures
to the RNC calling on Chairman Reince Priebus to take a strong and public
stance against bigotry by denouncing any presidential candidate who targets
immigrant communities for racist attacks as a way to appeal to voters, and by
denying funding for their campaigns. Contact Carlos Vogel at 202-239-2133
or cvogel@communitychange.org.
22] – Join the Crabshell Alliance and the Chesapeake
Physicians for Social Responsibility in Baltimore.in the STOP FUKUSHIMA
FREEWAYS CAMPAIGN on Tues., Oct. 27 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM outside the CSX
Tunnel, Howard and Lombard Streets, near Camden Yards, where a chemical fire
burned out of control in 2001. Besides the radiation emitted by nuclear
reactors, there is a major environmental woe created by nuclear waste. No
one has been able to come up with a safe plan to transport the more than 70,000
tonnes of the highest radioactive waste. Yet some in government want to revive
these plans. Recent maps show Baltimore and other major cities on the path of
these shipments.
If the controversial Yucca Mountain site were to open, transporting the
nation's nuclear waste stockpile there would involve more than 12,000 shipments
on roads and railways, making accidents a statistical certainty. We must not
forget the Howard Street Tunnel fire. Contact Dr. Gwen DuBois at 410-615-0717.
Go to www.crabshellalliance.org.
23] –
Global Security: What Does Gender Have To Do With It? Celebrate 15 Years of
UNSCR 1325 on Tues., Oct. 27 from 2 to 5:30 PM. The imperative for women
to participate fully in decisions about peace and security won unprecedented
recognition 15 years ago with the U.N. Security Council's adoption of
Resolution 1325 calling for members to craft national plans to accomplish that
objective. Now, the new U.N. Strategic Development Goals declare women's
equality as a precondition to resolving many of the world's national and
regional crises. Join the U.S. Institute of Peace and the five Nordic Embassies
for a discussion with Nordic representatives that have helped pave the way on
the connections between gender and security. This is happening at the
United States Institute of Peace, 2301 Constitution Ave, NW, WDC 20037. Call
(202) 457-1700. Go to http://www.usip.org/
24] – Each
Tuesday from 4:30 - 5:30 PM, the Catholic Peace Fellowship-Philadelphia for
peace in Afghanistan and Iraq gathers at the Suburban Station, 16th St. &
JFK Blvd., at the entrance to Tracks 3 and 4 on the mezzanine. The
next vigil is Oct. 27. Call 215-426-0364.
25] – Vigil
to say "No Drone Research at JHU" each Tuesday at 33rd & North
Charles Sts. Join this ongoing vigil on Oct. 27 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM.
Call Max at 410-366-1637.
26] – Mark your calendars,
animal advocates! You're invited to special animal advocacy meetings across
Maryland this fall to discuss hot topics—including puppy mills and dog
fighting—and give you insider tips on how you can make Maryland a more humane
state. The first two meetings are as follows. On Tues., Oct. 27 from 6 to
7:30 PM at the La Plata Library Meeting Room, 2 Garrett Ave., La Plata,
MD. The special guest is Ed Tucker of Charles County Animal Control. Then
on Wed., Oct. 28 from 6 to 7:30 PM at the Towson Library, Wilson Room, 320 York
Rd. The special guests include Delegate Dana Stein, Lisa Radov of
Maryland Votes for Animals and Julianne Brown of ReLove Animals. RSVP at http://www.aspca.org/fight-cruelty/advocacy-center/maryland-were-coming-your-town-fall?ms=em_ade_MD-advocate-for-animals-meetings-article-advocacy-alert-20151026&initialms=em_ade_MD-advocate-for-animals-meetings-article-advocacy-alert-20151026&utm_source=MD-advocate-for-animals-meetings-article-advocacy-alert-20151026&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=advocacy.
Contact Chloe Waterman
at chloe.waterman@aspca.org.
27] – On
Tues., Oct. 27 from 6 to 8 PM, join American Civil Liberties Union of
the Nation's Capital (ACLU-DC) & George Washington University School of Law
ACLU-DC Student Club for a screening of “Prisons for Profit,” a short
documentary chronicling the first 18 months in the life of the nation's first
state prison sold to a for-profit corporation. The screening and the discussion
which will follow is at GWU, 650 20th St. NW, Tasher Great Room, WDC. What
impact will privatization have in the District? Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/what-happens-when-prisoners-become-dollar-signs-tickets-18802765578.
28] –
The Maryland League of
Conservation Voters Legislative Preview is happening on Tues., Oct. 27 from
6:30 to 8:30 PM at the National Aquarium, 501 E. Pratt Street, Baltimore
21292. Join advocates, elected officials, and conservation-minded voters
in a discussion of some of the most important environmental issues of the 2016
Maryland General Assembly Legislative Session. RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/986227188107165/.
Go to www.mdlcv.org.
29] – At
the Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, on Tues., Oct. 27 at 7 PM, Crig
Willse traces the emergence and consolidation of a homeless services industry.
How to most efficiently allocate resources to control ongoing insecurity has
become the goal, he shows, rather than how to eradicate the social, economic,
and political bases of housing needs. Drawing on his own years of work in
homeless advocacy and activist settings, as well as interviews conducted with
program managers, counselors, and staff at homeless services organizations in
New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, Willse provides that first
analysis of how housing insecurity becomes organized as a governable social
problem. His book “The Value of Homelessness” offers new ways for students and
scholars of social work, urban inequality, racial capitalism, and political
theory to comprehend the central role of homelessness in governance and economy
today. Willse is assistant professor of cultural studies at George Mason
University.
30] –
On Tues., Oct. 27 from
7 to 9 PM, come to an educational forum at Temple Shalom, 8401 Grubb Road,
Chevy Chase, featuring Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska, tribal rights lawyer, and Mike
Wise, currently with ESPN and a former sports columnist with the Washington
Post. The controversy surrounding the name of Washington's football team
is not going away and will remain a topic of debate in these dynamic cultural
times. The nation has experienced historic changes regarding civil
rights, including a seminal Supreme Court ruling on single-sex marriage. Are
names and symbols important in this context? Pejorative labels for gays
and lesbians that were commonplace are no longer tolerated. Confederate
flags are beating a retreat from flagpoles to museums. To many, the name and
logo of the Washington football team is a relic of a segregationist and
oppressive past.
31] – Protest Killer Drone Speaking Event on Tues., Oct. 27 from
7 to 8:30 PM on the National Mall side of the Air and Space Museum, 600
Independence Ave. SW, WDC 20560. The museum is sponsoring an event called “Predator:
Transforming Modern Warfare with Drones” with speaker James G. “Snake” Clark,
who personally oversaw killer drone operations.
Killer drones have murdered thousands of innocent people in
Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Recently, the Drone Papers revealed by The Intercept showed that the
terror (and inaccuracy!) drones have wrought has spread anti-American sentiment
throughout the world, and their use has created a state of perpetual war with
minimal transparency and accountability. Join us to protest outside the Air &
Space Museum to tell them to stop glorifying these horrible tools of war! Go to
https://www.facebook.com/events/736569696471412/.
32] – The
Peace Academy has four course offerings ranging from family peace-keeping
strategies to nonviolent communication tactics. Each is to be conducted at The
Perry School, 128 M St. NW, WDC, or interested parties can arrange a course at
their particular sites. Registration can be completed online at www.lffp.org or by contacting MJ Park at mjpeace@gmail.com or 240-838-4549. Details for the first
course is listed below.
On
Tues., Oct. 27 from 7 to 8:30 PM, you could attend Course III: Peaceful
Parents, Peaceful Children, Session I: Practicing LFFP strategies, games and
tools with other parents to use with family members at home. The cost is $45
per person.
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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