44] Criminalizing
homelessness – Feb. 11
45] Oil
train town hall –
Feb. 11
46] Democracy Spring
meeting – Feb. 11
47] Jobs With Justice
National Conference – Feb. 12 - 14
48] Peace vigil at White House – Feb. 12
49] WIB peace vigil – Feb. 12
50] Protest at the
Bahraini embassy – Feb. 12
51] “Where to Invade Next”
-- Feb. 12 – 18 [at least]
52] Just Hours – Feb. 12
53] Black Lives Matter – Feb.
12
54] Film TRIP ALONG EXODUS
– Feb. 12
55] From Baltimore to
Chicago to the World -- One Struggle – Feb. 12
56] The Vagina Monologues –
Feb. 12
57] Rent court – Feb. 12
58] Ballroom Dancing – Feb. 12
59] Sign up with Washington
Peace Center
60] Donate books, videos,
DVDs and records
61] Do you need any book
shelves?
62] Join the Global Zero
campaign
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44] – Come to 1317 G St.
NW, WDC, on Thurs., Feb. 11 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM and hear from a
panel of experts about the rise in the criminalization of homelessness in
D.C. and across the United States and how you can be a part of the
solution. Refreshments will be provided. There are at least five
speakers. Visit StreetSense.org.
45] – Join the discussion
Lac-Megantic to Baltimore: Oil Train Town Hall in the 2640 Space at St. John's
Church, 2640 St. Paul St., Baltimore 21218, on Thurs., Feb. 11 from 7
to 8:30 PM. Over the past year, Chesapeake Climate Action Network
halted plans for a new crude oil shipping terminal in South Baltimore. However,
oil trains already run through the city. Hear from Marilaine Savard, a mom who
lived through the Lac-Megantic oil train disaster in Canada, City Council
representatives, and experts. During the meeting, discuss plans for 2016,
including passing a city ordinance requiring the first-ever health and safety
study on oil trains in Baltimore. Go to http://org.salsalabs.com/o/423/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=85268.
46] – It’s time to take
mass nonviolent action on a historic scale to save our democracy. This April,
demand a Congress that will take immediate action to end the corruption of big
money in our politics and ensure free and fair elections in which every citizen
has an equal voice. The campaign will begin on April 2nd with a 10-day
march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to DC, where on April 11th,
thousands will gather to reclaim the Capitol building in a powerful, peaceful,
and massive sit-in that no one can ignore.
On
Thurs., Feb. 11 from 7:15 to 9 PM at St. Stephen and the Incarnation
Episcopal Church, 1525 Newton St. NW, WDC, come to the launch for the local hub
in D.C. that allows you to plug into this inspiring movement! This work will
make it possible for thousands to participate in this powerful action, bring
this issue to the national attention, and create a momentous shift in the
political weather to ensure a democracy that is responsive to we the people. Go
to democracyspring.org.
47] – Get over to the
2016 Jobs With Justice National Conference from Fri., Feb. 12 through Sun.,
Feb. 14 in the Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave. NW. WDC.
The nearest Metro is at Union Station. While online registration is closed,
there will be on-site registration. Contact Amy Smoucha at (202) 393-1044
x105 or conference@jwj.org.
48] – On Fri., Feb. 12
from noon to 1 PM, join the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in a vigil urging the
powers that be to abolish war and torture, to disarm all weapons, to end indefinite
detention, to close Guantanamo, to establish justice for all and help create
the Beloved Community! This vigil will take place at the White House, 1600
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contract Art @ artlaffin@hotmail.com
or at 202-360-6416.
49] – On Fri., Feb. 12
from noon to 1 PM, join Women in Black peace vigil. This vigil will take place
at the corner of Light and Pratt Sts. Stay for as long as you can. Wear
black. Dress for who knows what kind of weather. Bring your own poster or help
with the "NO WAR IN MY NAME" banner. When there are others to
stand with, you don't need to carry the burden alone. Do this to be in
solidarity with others....when everything around us says Be afraid of the
stranger.
50] – Be at 3502
International Dr. NW, WDC, on Fri., Feb. 12 from noon to 4 PM, join
ADHRB as its members Rebuild the Roundabout at the Bahraini embassy in
Washington, DC, and show the Bahraini people that you stand in solidarity with
their cause. Commemorative speeches will be delivered by Maryam Alkhawaja,
human rights activist, Matar Ebrahim Matar, NED fellow and former Bahraini MP,
Brian Dooley, director of the Human Rights Defenders program at Human Rights
First, and Husain Abdulla, ADHRB executive director. In February 2011,
thousands of Bahrainis gathered for a month-long vigil around the Pearl
Roundabout to protest for the government to recognize their rights. One month
later, the government violently assaulted the movement, demolishing the
Roundabout. Bullhorns, posters, water, and a 12-FOOT INFLATABLE PEARL
ROUNDABOUT will be provided! Email events@adhrb.org or
visit https://www.facebook.com/events/904874556297842/.
51] –Note that Michael
Moore is ill, and unable to promote his latest film “Where to Invade
Next.” So we must promote it. It opens at the Charles Theatre, 1711
N. Charles St., Baltimore, on Fri., Feb. 12, and the show times are as follows:
1:40 PM, 4:10 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:25 PM. It will at least stay
at the Charles until Thurs., Feb. 18. Of course, the run can be extended
if the crowds turn out. Call 410-727-FILM or email charlestheatre@yahoo.com.
52] – Working people are
winning better wages in cities and states around the country, but there’s one
big group standing in the way of ensuring a fair return on work for the men and
women with retail and service industry jobs. Opponents of the movement will
keep fighting tooth and nail to undermine the needs of these workers, so
disrupt business as usual on that turf. At 400 New Jersey Ave. NW, WDC,
on Fri., Feb. 12 at 3:15 PM, join the hundreds of activists, organizers, and
leaders in town for the National Jobs With Justice Conference, DC Jobs With
Justice & many others as they march to stop the corporate abuse of “on-call”
scheduling and take the fight for “Just Hours” and fair wages to the
public! The march will kick off right outside the conference at the Hyatt
Regency Washington and make its way downtown, ending in a brief rally. Visit http://www.rsvpbook.com/event.php?561660.
53] –There is usually a
silent peace vigil on Fridays, from 5 to 6 PM, sponsored by Homewood Friends
and Stony Run Meetings, outside the Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N.
Charles St. The next scheduled vigil is on Feb. 12. Black Lives
Matter.
54] – The Jerusalem Fund,
2425 Virginia Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., Feb. 12 from 6 to 8 PM. See
the film "Trip Along Exodus," which explores the last 70 years of
Palestinian politics through the prism of the life of Dr. Elias Shoufani, who
left a tenured position at an American university in the early 1970s to join
the underground PLO in Beirut. Born in Mi’liya in the Galilee and educated at
the Hebrew University and Princeton, the multilingual and erudite Dr. Shoufani
became one of the Arab world’s leading analysts of Israeli affairs for more
than a generation. As a leftist intellectual, he was also one of the leaders of
the opposition to Arafat within Fatah. He was opposed to policies meant to lead
toward a two-state solution, grounded in a political clarity and prescience
about the direction in which Israel was headed, and in his understanding that
the two-state solution would never actually be allowed to be realized.
To
try and understand his choices, his daughter, Hind Shoufani, made a documentary
that traced her family’s journey through Palestine’s 20th century history. It
starts in Palestine in 1948 and ends in current day war-torn Syria, traveling
through Washington DC, New York City, the Galilee (Israel), Jordan, Lebanon,
and Syria. In recreating Palestinian history, the film uses archival footage,
poetry, family photos/8mm films, glitter, cartoons, animation,
macro-photography, interviews, and multimedia formats to produce both a
personal and political memoir.
Hind
Shoufani is a Palestinian filmmaker and poet. A Fulbright scholar with an MFA
in filmmaking from NYU, she has been working in the film/TV and literature
worlds for seventeen years. This is her first feature documentary. Go to http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/EventDetails/i/57180/pid/187.
55] – On Fri., Feb. 12
from 7 to 9 PM, come to Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, 430 E. Belvedere Ave.,
Baltimore 21212 for a Black History Month program From Baltimore to
Chicago to the World -- One Struggle. Use the #8 bus line. Make a free
will offering.
What do the murders of Laquan McDonald and Freddie Gray have in common? Civil
and Justice Rights activist Frank Chapman will discuss the role of police
violence in propping up an unjust social order here and abroad. Chapman
was wrongfully convicted of murder and armed robbery in 1961 and sentenced to
life and fifty years in the Missouri State Prison. His case was taken up by the
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (NAARPR) and after 14
years of imprisonment he was released in 1976. In 1983 he was elected
Executive Director of NAARPR. For the past three years he has been a leading
figure in the struggle in Chicago to stop police crimes, especially murder, torture,
beatings and racial profiling. He is presently Field Organizer and
Educational Director of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political
Repression.
There will be performances by Lady Brion, Baltimore Grand Slam Champion, and
the Charm City Labor Chorus. Doors open at 5:30PM. Come early and
enjoy an exhibit of 20th century African-American Communist freedom fighters
and a dinner special, which includes a vegetarian dinner for a $10
donation. The evening is sponsored by Maryland Friends of the Peoples
World [go to www.peoplesworld.org] and the Communist
Party of Maryland [email md@cpusa.org].
56] -- The Vagina
Monologues: A Performance is happening at 4340 Connecticut Ave. NW, Room 515,
WDC 20008, on Fri., Feb. 12 from 7:30 to 9 PM. Join students of
the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law for a benefit performance for the Amara
Legal Center. This event is a result of the collaboration of the
International Human Rights Law Student Association, the Women's Law Society,
local actors, and members of the community. The performance will highlight the
need to promote and protect human rights, rights for women, social justice, the
importance of law for protecting rights, and the use of theater as a tool for
activism and giving voice to the voiceless. Tickets are $5. Visit http://www.law.udc.edu/event/VMonologues.
57] – On Fri., Feb. 12
at 7:30 PM come to Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave.,
Baltimore 21201, as the Right to Housing Alliance presents a panel on Baltimore
City Rent Court. More than half of households in the city rent their housing.
Half who rent are paying more than 30% of our income to pay for housing, and
one in four is paying more than half of one’s income. Baltimore has some of the
least affordable rental housing in the country according to median income, and
for many, safe, affordable housing is out of reach. Rental housing is often
riddled with habitability issues: mold, pests, lack of heat or hot water,
leaking pipes, faulty wiring.
Each
year, 150,000 Baltimore families struggling to afford safe
housing—overwhelmingly black women—are summoned to walk through “the eviction
pipeline” at Baltimore City rent court, and as many as 7,000 of those families
are ultimately evicted. A recent report by the Public Justice Center and
Right to Housing Alliance shows how the court diverts renters from deserved
justice. The results of the study are a launch pad to transform the court to
one of justice. Panelists include Jessica Lewis, organizer
with Right to Housing Alliance; and Zafar Shah, staff attorney with the Human
Right to Housing Program at Public Justice Center. Call 443-602-7585. Go
to http://www.redemmas.org.
58] – 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 Feb. 12. Call Dave
Greene at 410-599-3725.
59] --
The
Washington Peace Center has a progressive calendar & activist alert!
Consider signing up to receive its weekly email: info@washingtonpeacecenter.org.
60] -- If you would like
to get rid of books, videos, DVDs or records, contact Max at 410-366-1637 or
mobuszewski at verizon.net.
61] -- Can you use any
book shelves? Contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
62] -- Join an
extraordinary global campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons: http://www.globalzero.org/sign-declaration.
A growing group of leaders around the world is calling for the elimination of
nuclear weapons and a majority of the global public agrees. This is an
historic window of opportunity. With momentum already building in favor
of Zero, a major show of support from people around the world could tip the
balance. When it comes to nuclear weapons, one is one too many.
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/.
“One
is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems
impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through
nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total
inability of violence to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan
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