Baltimore Activist Alert February 13 – 15, 2016
"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own
nation. The great initiative in this war is ours.
The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther
King Jr.
Friends, this list and other email documents which I send
out are done under the auspices of the Baltimore Nonviolence Center. Go
to www.baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com.
If you appreciate this information and would like to make a donation, send
contributions to BNC, 325 East 25th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Max
Obuszewski can be reached at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski [at] verizon.net.
1] Books,
buttons and stickers
2] Web site
for info on federal legislation
3] Join
Nonviolent Resistance lists
4]
Buy
coffee through HoCoFoLa
5]
Two
friends are looking to buy a house in Baltimore
6] Peace & Planet – Feb. 13
7] Kindness
for Paws – Feb. 13 - 14
8] Support
Donna Edwards – Feb. 13 & 15
9] West Chester peace vigil – Feb. 13
10]
Community causes – Feb. 13
11] Resistance to racism – Feb. 13
12] Film FLY BY NIGHT – Feb. 13
13] Town
Hall on elections – Feb. 13
14] Healing
through Humanism – Feb. 13
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1] – Buttons,
bumperstickers and books are available. “God Bless the Whole World,
No Exceptions” stickers are in stock. Call Max at 410-323-1607.
2] – To
obtain information how your federal legislators voted on particular bills, go
to http://thomas.loc.gov/.
Congressional toll-free numbers are 888-818-6641, 888-355-3588 or
800-426-8073. The White House Comment Email is accessible at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.
3] – THE
ORGANIZING LIST will be the primary decision-making mechanism of the National
Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance [NCNR]. It will be augmented by
conference calls and possibly in-person meetings as needed. It will
consist of 1 or 2 representatives from each local, regional, or national
organization (not coalitions) that wishes to actively work to carry out the
NCNR campaign of facilitating and organizing nonviolent resistance to the war
in Iraq.
To join the ORGANIZING List, please send your name, group
affiliation, city and email address to mobuszewski at Verizon.net.
Different local chapters of a national organization are encouraged to
subscribe.
THE NOTICES LIST will include only notices of NCNR
actions and related information and is open to any interested person to
subscribe. It will be moderated to maintain focus & will include
periodic notices about getting involved in NCNR national organizing. To
join the NOTICES List, send an email message to ncnrnotices-subscribe@lists.riseup.net.
You will get a confirmation message once subscribed. If you have
problems, please write to the list manager at ncnrnotices-admin@lists.riseup.net.
4]
– You can help safeguard human rights and fragile ecosystems through your
purchase of HOCOFOLA Café Quetzal. Bags of ground coffee or whole beans can be
ordered by mailing in an order form. Also note organic cocoa and sugar are for
sale. For more details and to download the order form, go to http://friendsoflatinamerica.typepad.com/hocofola/2010/02/hocofola-cafe-quetzal-order-form-2010.html.
The coffee comes in one-pound bags.
Fill
out the form and mail it with a check made out to HOCOFOLA on or before the
second week of the month. Be sure you indicate ground or beans for each
type of coffee ordered. Send it to Francine Sheppard at 5639B, Harpers
Farm Rd., Columbia 21044. The coffee will arrive some time the following week
and you will be notified where to pick it up. Contact Francine at 410-992-7679
or FrancineMSW@aol.com.
5]
– Janice and Max are looking to buy a house in Baltimore. Let Max know if
you have any leads—410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at Verizon dot net.
6]
– On
Sat.,
Feb. 13 from 9 AM to 3:15 PM participate in the
Sacred Heart Gathering for Peace and Justice: “Peace and Planet:
Imperatives for the 21st. Century.” Register from 8:15 to 8:45 AM.
Lunch will be provided. The guest speakers are Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, retired
auxiliary bishop of the Detroit archdiocese, leading voice for peace, justice,
and civil rights in the United States, and Mark Doorley, Ph.D., director
of the Ethics Program in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Villanova
University. The gathering is co-sponsored the Brandywine Peace Community. Call
Linda Hayes, 609-792-1094.
7]
– Our third annual
animal-welfare-inspired art collection is on display by the students of Perry
Hall Middle School and General John Stricker Middle School. The artworks will
be on display at the White Marsh Mall the weekend of Sat., Feb. 13 and Sun.,
Feb. 14. There will be a name-your-donation art sale on Sunday from 11 AM to 1
PM. All proceeds from "Kindness for Paws" will go towards helping animals
in need at the Maryland SPCA. Visit mdspca.org/kindness.
8]
– Can you join a Donna Edwards
Baltimore City Phone Bank and Canvass at 10 AM on Sat., Feb. 13 at 11 East
Mount Royal Ave. 1st Floor, Baltimore 21202? How about joining the Baltimore
County Canvass at 10 AM on Sat., Feb. 13 at 7619 Clays Lane, Windsor Mill
21244? Finally, there is a Women United for Donna Meeting featuring: Donna
Edwards and Dr. Julianne Malveaux at 6 PM on Mon., Feb. 15 in the Chesapeake
Building, 1701 N. Charles St., Suite 200, Baltimore 21201. RSVP at http://action.donnaedwardsforsenate.com/.
9]
– Each Saturday, 11 AM – 1 PM, Chester County Peace Movement holds a peace
vigil in West Chester in front of the Chester County Courthouse, High & Market
Sts. Go to www.ccpeace.org. Email ccpeacemovement@aol.com.
10]
– At the Anacostia Community Museum, 1901 Fort Place SE, WDC, on Sat., Feb. 13
from 1 to 3 PM, join Don Murray and Parisa
Norouzi as they reflect on their work in political and community activism
and how their efforts have influenced social change in the communities they
have lived, then and now. Murray is a long-time resident of the District
and has been active in community organizing since the late 1960s. Newer
on the scene is Ms. Norouzi, Executive Director, Empower DC, who has been
active in community causes since the 1990s. Email ACMinfo@si.edu. Go to http://anacostia.si.edu/Events?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent&eventid=117619148.
11]
– Until recently many perceived black Baltimore as having an apathetic track
record for resistance to racism/white supremacy. In fact, the opposite is true.
Baltimore- home of the Goon Squad, the Mitchell, Jackson and Carter families-
has a rich and longstanding tradition of resistance. This event at the
Baltimore Ethical Society, 306 W Franklin St., Baltimore, on Sat., Feb. 13 from
3 to 5 PM will focus specifically on the role of churches, advocates,
and labor in the movement. Come make the connection that there is no
past/present movement-there is ONE movement of resistance. Email bmoreantiracist@gmail.com. Go to http://bmoreantiracist.org/.
12]
– Come to 1901 Fort Pl. SE, Anacostia Community Museum Program Room, WDC, on
Sat., Feb. 13 from 4 to 6 PM to see the documentary “Fly By
Light!” This is a part of a series of events being held to celebrate
Black History Month organized by One Common Unity. A group of
teenagers board a bus for West Virginia, leaving the streets of Washington, DC
to participate in an ambitious peace education program. For the first time in
their lives Mark, Asha, Martha, and Corey play in mountain streams, sing under
the stars, and confront the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of
their past. But as they return to DC, each young person faces an unforgiving
series of hurdles and roadblocks that challenge their efforts to build a better
life. Through breathtaking visuals from street corners to mountaintops, “Fly By
Light” is an intimate exploration of the chaotic, confusing, and emotional
journey to rewrite a young person’s future.
Directed
by filmmaker Ellie Walton and produced by HawaH, this film follows the
experience of a select group of youth who participated in this program
facilitated by One Common Unity. Also involved is the Smithsonian Anacostia
Community Museum. Go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/movie-screening-fly-by-light-tickets-20980870348?aff=erelorgpanelorg.
13]
– Emerge USA is co-hosting a town hall on the 2016 elections on Sat., Feb. 13
from 6 to 8 PM at the Providence Recreational Center, 7525 Marc Drive, Falls
Church, VA 22042 . This is the first of several events, and the Hillary
Clinton campaign is sending a representative to meet and address the
community. Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/election-2016-american-muslim-townhall-tickets-21000659538.
The featured speaker will be The Honorable Farah Pandith, a friend and
representative of Hillary Clinton. 'This is an important convening to engage a
presidential campaign to learn and discuss the issues important to
you. Pandith was the first Special Representative to Muslim Communities
for the United States Department of State under Hillary Clinton. Visit http://www.emerge-usa.org.
The
2016 election is an extremely important election for the Muslim community. As
election day approaches, Emerge USA and Makespace will be hosting a series of
town hall events to discuss important issues for the Muslim community and to
engage campaigns at the local, state and federal levels.
14]
– Usually, the Baltimore Ethical Society, 306 W.
Franklin St., Suite 102, Baltimore 21201-4661, meets on Sundays, and generally
there is a speaker and discussion from 10:30 AM to noon. On Feb. 14, the
topic is “Healing through Humanism: Grief
Beyond Belief and the Secular Support Movement.” Following the death of her infant son, she recognized a need for grief-support
services free of the constant references to heaven, angels, spirits and signs
that dominate mainstream grief support. When she did not find the kind of
community she needed among the many grief-support sites on the internet,
Rebecca Hensler created Grief Beyond Belief, an online community in which
grieving non-believers gather to share their memories, experiences and
emotions, including their anger and frustration with religious and spiritual “comfort.”
The network that she founded now includes a Facebook page, a closed Facebook
group, and an independent website, and collaborates with a variety of
affiliates from a secular pet-loss group to a Portuguese-language grief-support
group out of Brazil.
Rebecca will speak on the needs of those grieving
without faith and the comfort offered by secular peer-to-peer grief support,
how Humanism informs secular grief support and helps nonbelievers learn to live
with grief, the role of the growing secular support movement in the broader
freethought community, and expansion of Grief Beyond Belief from the internet
into real-life grief-support workshops. Following her talk, Rebecca will
welcome questions about surviving and healing from grief as a nonbeliever, as
well as about Grief Beyond Belief itself. She is the founder of secular grief
support network Grief Beyond Belief. She has a BA in Political Activism and an
MS in Counseling, and works as a middle school dean in San Francisco. Call 410-581-2322 or email ask@bmorethical.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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