28] Mass Incarceration – Nov. 17
29] Film “Okinawa: The Afterburn” – Nov. 18
30] Rights of
Indigenous Peoples – Nov. 18
31] Support the Chagossian people – Nov. 18
32] Lobby Rep. Sarbanes – Nov. 18
33] Book talk THE OCCUPIERS – Nov. 18
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28] – James
Kilgore, author of "Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to
the Key Civil Rights Struggle of Our Time," will speak on Tues., Nov. 17
at 6:30 PM in the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Poe Room, 400 Cathedral St.,
Baltimore 21201. Understanding Mass Incarceration describes in plain
English the many competing theories of criminal justice -- from rehabilitation
to retribution, from restorative justice to justice reinvestment. Kilgore
illuminates the difference between prisons and jails, probation and parole,
laying out key concepts and policies such as the War on Drugs, broken-windows
policing, three-strikes sentencing, the school-to-prison pipeline, recidivism,
and prison privatization. He also addresses the rapidly increasing
incarceration of women, Latinos and transgender people; the growing
imprisonment of immigrants; and the devastating impact of mass incarceration on
communities. James Kilgore is a writer, educator and social justice activist
who teaches and works at the University of Illinois. He spent six years in
prison, during which time he drafted his three published novels. Go to www.prattlibrary.org/.
29] – Come
to the Weschler Theatre, Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC, on Wed., Nov. 18 from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM
to see “Okinawa: The Afterburn,” the first documentary to provide a
comprehensive picture of World War II’s Battle of Okinawa and the ensuing
70-year occupation of Okinawa by the US military.
On April 1, 1945, the United States military launched
its invasion of the main island of Okinawa, the start of a battle that was to
last 12 weeks and claim the lives of some 240,000 people. This film depicts the
Battle through the eyes of Japanese and US soldiers who fought each other on
the same battlefield, along with Okinawa civilians swept up in the fighting,
complemented by extensive footage from the US National Archives.
The film also depicts the long history of
discrimination and oppression forced upon Okinawa by the US and Japanese
governments. Including the controversy over the construction of a new US
military base in Okinawa, the film explores the root causes of the widespread
disillusionment and anger expressed by many Okinawans. Contact johnsteinbach1@verizon.net.
30] – Amazon Watch, CIEL and the
Indian Law Resource Center invite
you to a "Green-Bag Lunch" presentation Building on the UN Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples Implementation in the UN and OAS on Wed., Nov. 18 from 12:30 to 2 PM at Amazon
Watch / CIEL Conference Room, 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, #1100, (Above Cosi,
Dupont Circle South), WDC. The UN Declaration was adopted by the UN
General Assembly in 2007. It is a comprehensive and historic statement of the
rights of indigenous peoples. More than ever before, indigenous leaders are
arming themselves with awareness and knowledge of the Declaration, and they are
calling for its implementation to realize their rights, both domestically and
internationally.
This
session will address the implementation of the UN declaration, in the follow-up
work to the 2014 World Conference on Indigenous Peoples in the United Nations,
and in negotiating the American Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
in the Organization of American States. The Indian Law Resource Center is a
nonprofit law and advocacy organization established and directed by American
Indians. Leonardo A. Crippa is a Kolla lawyer from Jujuy, Argentina, with
substantial experience in international law and policy. Karla E. General is a
Mohawk lawyer and was raised on the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory. She earned her
Juris Doctor with a specialization in Global Affairs from Syracuse University
College of Law and her Master's degree in Sociology from the Maxwell School in
2010.
31] – Come to American
University, Hamilton Building 303, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC, on Wed.,
Nov. 18 from 2:30 to 4:30 PM and show support for the Chagossian
people. In the 1970s, the US Government
created a military base on the Indian Ocean island Diego Garcia, in the British-controlled
Chagos Archipelago. During the base’s creation, the Chagossians were deported
and discarded in abject poverty. Since their expulsion, Chagossians have been
barred from returning to their homeland. Bring your phones & laptops! You
can contact your Congressional reps while enjoying good food. Contact Alyssa
Rohricht at 202-885-2446 or rohricht@american.edu.
32] – As part of the national
"Educate Congress" Campaign Letter Drops, on Wed., Oct. 21 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 vote against the
Trans-Pacific Partnership and in favor of Voting Rights and to speak out
against killer drone strikes. 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?
33] – On Wed., Nov. 18 at 7:30 PM @ Red Emma's Bookstore
Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201, Michael
Gould-Wartofsky presents “The Occupiers.” Occupy Wall Street burst onto the stage of history in the fall of
2011. First by the tens, then by the tens of thousands, protesters filled the
streets and laid claim to the squares of nearly 1,500 towns and cities, until,
one by one, the occupations were forcibly evicted. In his book,
Gould-Wartofsky offers a front-seat view of the action in the streets of New
York City and beyond. Through the use of material gathered in the course of
eighty interviews and two years of on-the-ground investigation, Gould-Wartofsky
traces the occupation of Zuccotti Park—and some of its counterparts across the
United States and around the world—from inception to eviction. He takes up the
challenges the occupiers faced and explores the ways in which occupied squares
became focal points for an emerging opposition to the politics of austerity,
restricted democracy, and the power of corporate America.
Much of
the discussion of the Occupy phenomenon has treated it as if it lived and died
in Zuccotti Park, but Gould-Wartofsky follows the evicted occupiers into exile
and charts their evolving strategies, tactics, and tensions as they seek to
resist, regroup, and reoccupy. Displaced from public spaces and news headlines,
the 99 Percent movement has spread out from the financial centers and across an
America still struggling to recover in the aftermath of the economic crisis.
Even if the movement fails to achieve radical reform, Gould-Wartofsky
maintains, its offshoots may well accelerate the pace of change in the United
States in the years to come. Call
443-602-7585. Go to http://www.redemmas.org.
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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