45] Peace
vigil at White House – Feb. 5
46] WIB
peace vigil – Feb. 5
47] Fire Graziano – Feb. 5
48] Paid family leave -- Feb. 5
49] Black Lives Matter – Feb. 5
50] Film BEYOND HATRED – Feb. 5
51] Film CITIZENFOUR – Feb. 5
52] Film VALENTINO’S GHOST – Feb. 5
53] Benefit for St. Stephen’s – Feb. 5
54]
Blacktivism: The New Generation – Feb. 5
55] Ballroom Dancing – Feb. 5
56] Sign up with
Washington Peace Center
57] Donate books,
videos, DVDs and records
58] Do you need
any book shelves?
59] Join the
Global Zero campaign
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45]
– On Fri., Feb. 5 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.
46]
– On Fri., Feb. 5 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.
47]
– It is suspected that Baltimore housing commissioner
Paul Graziano knew that his employees were
forcing women to have sex in exchange for crucial home repairs for years--yet he still has
a job. It's shocking that Graziano hasn't been fired yet, but momentum is
growing to get him out of office. Last week, over 3,000 UltraViolet
members called the mayor's office and billboard trucks highlighting the
controversy blanketed Baltimore and garnered headlines. Now, the organization
will deliver over 35,000 signatures to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake. Can
you join them? On Fri., Feb.5 from 12:30 to 1 PM, come
to City Hall, 100 Holliday St, Baltimore. Look for the people holding
purple signs! RSVP http://act.weareultraviolet.org/survey/baltimore_delivery/?t=1&akid=2701.609822.sXOA2k
48]
– Visit The Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, on Fri., Feb. 5 from
5 to 6 PM and find out more and learn how you can get involved in the
PAID FAMILY LEAVE campaign which believes that everyone living and working in
the District deserves the financial stability and dignity of paid time off to
care for their families and ourselves when life happens. Currently, District
residents are forced to make impossible choices between caring for the people
we love and earning the money they need when, for example, a new baby arrives
or a partner is diagnosed with cancer. You can change this by advocating for a
paid family and medical leave insurance program in DC. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1717768911775167/.
49]
–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. 5.
Black Lives Matter. Since this is a First Friday, there will be a potluck
dinner afterwards, followed by a DVD showing.
50]
– The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee,
Baltimore Quaker Peace and Justice Committee of Homewood and Stony Run Meetings
and Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility are continuing the FILM &
SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS DVD SERIES. The DVDs will be shown at Homewood
Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218, usually on the
First Friday. At 7:15 PM, from January through June, a DVD will be shown with a
discussion to follow. There is no charge, and refreshments will be
available. The series theme is CHANGE IS INEVITABLE.
On Fri., Feb. 5 see BEYOND HATRED [France, 2007]. In
September 2002, three skinheads were roaming a park in Rheims, France, looking
to "do an Arab," when they settled for a gay man instead.
Twenty-nine-year-old François Chenu fought back fiercely, but he was beaten
unconscious and thrown into a river, where he drowned. The acclaimed French
vérité documentary is the story of the crime's aftermath; above all, of the
Chenu family's brave and heartrending struggle to seek justice while trying to
make sense of such pointless violence and unbearable loss. With remarkable
dignity, they fight to transcend hatred and the inevitable desire for revenge.
Call 410-323-1607 or email mobuszewski [at] verizon.net.
51]
– Go to the Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old
Sproul Road, Springfield, PA 19064 for the First-Friday Free Large Screen
Film Series on Fri., Feb. 5 at 7 PM to see CITIZENFOUR.
Doors open at 6:30 PM for light refreshments. Call (610)
544-1818 or visit www.delcopeacecenter.org. The
screening is co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community.
Have your heard? Oliver Stone's next film, due out in May, is a dramatization of the Edward Snowden story. Get the story by seeing CITIZENFOUR [a 2014 documentary by Laura Poitras at 1 hr., 54 min.]. ‘My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.’ —Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower.
The
film is last year's Oscar winner for “Best Documentary”
about National Security Agency whistleblower and exile (code-name: "citizenfour"),
the global reach and extent of U.S. government spying, and the cost of
revealing it. The documentary is the gripping and first-hand account of the
meaning and price of the biggest national security intelligence coup of our
time. Go to https://ad.atdmt.com/c/go;p=11042209007763;a=11042209015489;ev.a=1;idfa=;idfa_lat=;aaid=;aaid_lat=;cache=.
52]
– On Fri., Feb. 5 from 6:45 to 7:45 PM, join the
Palestine Center at the Jerusalem Fund Jerusalem Fund, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW,
WDC 20037, for VALENTINO’S GHOST [2012], narrated by Mike Farrell. The
film exposes the way the US foreign policy agenda in the Middle East influences
Hollywood and mainstream media portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. It tracks the
transition from the Arab as "Romantic Hero" to the Arab today as the
embodiment of evil. It highlights the question of why do supremely talented
artists and intellectuals in the United States consider it perfectly "realistic"
to depict Arabs and Muslims in a fashion that would be described as bigoted, if
applied to blacks, Jews, gays, Native Americans, et al.?
This
95-minute film features fresh, riveting and often stunning perspectives from
the legendary late American writer Gore Vidal; John Mearsheimer, author of The
Israel Lobby; celebrated British war correspondent Robert Fisk; Pulitzer Prize
winning journalist Anthony Shadid; Harvard and Oxford historian Niall Ferguson;
historian Melani McAlister; TV star Tony Shalhoub; media expert Jack Shaheen;
and Hollywood writer Alan Sharp.
The
2015 re-release of VALENTINO’S GHOSTt condenses the film's earlier version by
15 minutes and adds 20 minutes of new material, including segments regarding
the Israeli bombing of Gaza, the Charlie Hebdo murders, the Hollywood film
AMERICAN SNIPER, the San Bernardino mass shooting, and Donald Trump's
anti-Muslim crusade, while redirecting the 2012 version's attention to the Arab
Uprisings, toward the current phenomenon of ISIS. Go to http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/RegisterForEvent/i/57155.
53]
– There is a Positive Force DC Benefit Concert for St. Stephen's, 1525 Newton
St. NW, WDC, on Fri., Feb. 5 from 7 to 11 PM. This is part of a new
monthly benefit concert series hoping to curate a space to highlight new and
upcoming artists while supporting causes you care about! RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/229305210734109/.
54]
– On Fri., Feb. 5 from 7 to 9 PM at 805 21st St. NW, GWU School of
Media & Public Affairs, 2nd Floor Reception Area, WDC, come and enjoy an
art & multimedia exhibit about the experiences of black lives, shown
through the mediums of photography, painting, sculpting, written pieces and a
musical performance by the One Common Unity Performance Troupe!
Blacktivism: The New Generation will capture and visualize their progression.
The photos will represent freedom and hope. Each photo will have a quote by it
from someone in the new generation of black leaders, who ties in with what the
photo represents. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/blacktivism-the-new-generation-w-one-common-unity-tickets-20980386902.
55]
– 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. 5. Call Dave Greene at 410-599-3725.
56]
-- The
Washington Peace Center has a progressive calendar & activist alert!
Consider signing up to receive its weekly email: info@washingtonpeacecenter.org.
57]
-- If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs or records, contact Max
at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
58]
-- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at
verizon.net.
59]
-- 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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