10] Phone
banking for Bernie – Mar. 19 – Mar 23
11]
Revolution continues – Mar. 19
12] Meet
Margaret Flowers and other Green Party candidates – Mar. 19
13] Black
liberation film – Mar. 19
14] Fundraiser for Democracy Spring – Mar.
19
15] Play
THERE IS A FIELD –
Mar. 19
16] “Can We Keep Our Democracy?” – Mar. 20
17] Protest AIPAC – Mar. 20
18] Film
SONIC SEA – Mar. 20
19] Four
lynchings in Georgia – Mar. 20
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10] – Phone
bank for Bernie on Sat., Mar. 19 from 10 AM to 1 PM at the Westminster Public
Library, small meeting room, 50 E Main St., Westminster 21157. Go to https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/4gwq5?source=dfa.
RSVP to volunteer with Shane Stewart at 617-688-8147.
Banking
for Bernie is on for Sun., Mar. 20 from noon to 3 PM at Rose' and Stokes, 12803
Buckingham Drive, Bowie 20715. Call Matthew Redabaugh at
240-281-8596. Go to https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/44mxx?source=dfa.
Phone
banking for Bernie on Mon., Mar. 21 from 6 to 9 PM at Jodi’s place, 4505
Beechwood Road, College Park, MD 20740. Go to https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/4g8zw?source=dfa.
Join
Bobby's Bernie Phonathon on Tues., Mar. 22 from 5 to 7 PM in North Patterson
Park, 100 Rochester Place, Baltimore 21224. Call 570-506-3007. RSVP at https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/4rvzk?source=dfa.
Phone
Banking will take place at 44 Pennsylvania Ave., Apt. 1,
Westminster 21157, on Wed., Mar. 23 from 6 to 9 PM. Go to https://go.berniesanders.com/page/event/detail/4gwww?source=dfa.
Phone
bank parties are a fun and important way to help elect Bernie. Whether you’re
phone banking in a campaign office or at your own home, you’re making a huge
impact by identifying Bernie supporters. Please click here to review the
phone banking resources. Remember, you'll need a reliable phone, plus a
computer, laptop or tablet.
11] – The
Revolution Continues: A Conversation with Yassin Al Haj Saleh is happening at
419 7th St., NW, WDC, on Sat., Mar. 19 at 2 PM. Saleh known as "the
conscience of Syria" will discuss Syria, the Syrian Revolution 5 years on,
the current rebirth of the protest movement, and what next steps should
be. He will be speaking via Skype. RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1715255328693075/.
12] – On
Sat., Mar. 19, the Baltimore Green Party will be hosting a candidate Meet and
Greet at its office, located just downstairs from the Flowers Community
Engagement Center, 100 E 23rd St., Baltimore 21218. Come meet Margaret and all
the Green Party's candidates in this year's City elections. RSVP http://www.baltimoregp.org/baltimore_green_party_candidate_meet_greet.
Doors open at 3:30 PM, and the Meet and Greet will end at 7 PM. Email s.andrew.ellis@gmail.com or
call 240-285-0843. On Sun., Mar. 20 from 2 to 4 PM, Margaret will
participate in a Senate candidates forum at the Muslim Community Center, 15200
New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring 20905. RSVP at http://www.flowersforsenate.org/muslim-community-center-forum?.utm_campaign=ww_3_9_16&utm_medium=email&utm_source=flowersforsenate.
13] – Come
to The Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Road NW, WDC, on Sat., Mar. 19 at 6:30 PM
for a community discussion and screening of “Self Respect, Self Defense & Self
Determination.” This is a film from Freedom Archives which shows an event
held at the First Congregational Church in Oakland on Sunday, March 14, 2004
with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, welcomed and introduced by Angela
Davis. These two inspiring women of the 60s Black liberation struggle met to
share their personal experiences - resisting the KKK and police repression,
forced into exile by government repression, and their international experiences
in Third World nations. Mabel Williams, with her late husband Robert F.
Williams, met with Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung to help
internationalize support for the Black Liberation Movement. Kathleen Cleaver
was Communications Secretary and the first woman on the Central Committee of
the Black Panther Party. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1605141669706457/.
14] – Come
to the Artist/Activist House Show for Democracy Spring, 4528 4th St. NW, WDC,
on Sat., Mar. 19 from 7 to 10 PM. Gather and share songs,
spoken word, and art for a just, equitable world in which everyone has a voice
in our political system! This is a fundraiser for the efforts to organize
an enormous week of civil disobedience to get money out of politics at the
Capitol in April, known as Democracy Spring. This is about achieving justice
for all, not just a few. See https://www.facebook.com/events/123391654720699/.
15] – See
THERE IS A FIELD at the St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church,
1525 Newton St. NW, WDC, on Sat., Mar., 19 from 7:30 to 9:30
PM. THERE IS A FIELD is a play about Aseel Asleh, a 17-year old
Palestinian citizen of Israel killed by police in October 2000. Based on
interviews and primary sources collected over 15 years, the play offers a
uniquely personal lens for understanding inequality as the root of state
violence and impunity. Audiences throughout the United States will find
particular resonance with themes raised by Aseel’s life and murder, and
post-play discussions and actions will create space to further explore
connections and build solidarity across universal struggles for liberation and
equality. There is a suggested donation of $10 to $20 on a sliding scale, but
no one turned away. The performance is sponsored by the Washington
Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace and others. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/672166759591912/.
16] – 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 Mar. 20, the topic is “Can
We Keep Our Democracy? (Or, Can We Get it Back?)” Ms. Susan Ogden, V.P.
of GMOM, an activist, retired teacher, child welfare advocate, and long-time
member of the Washington Ethical Society, will address the issue. Princeton
political scientists recently demonstrated that the U.S. functions as an
oligarchy. Unlimited campaign money, the corruption of our political system by
the donor class, systematic voter suppression, and voter cynicism conspire to
challenge what’s left of our Democracy. Reform efforts are growing, and Get
Money Out-MD (GMOM) may be on the verge of passing, in the Maryland
legislature, a state resolution to overturn ‘Citizens United’ through a U.S.
constitutional amendment, including a guaranteed right to vote. An
unprecedented direct action for Democracy, including civil disobedience, is
planned in Washington by hundreds of groups this spring (Democracy
Spring/Awakening).
17] – Come
to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Sun., Mar. 20 at noon and join Al-Awda,
The Palestinian Right to Return Coalition and the ANSWER Coalition who are
co-sponsoring the National March to Support Palestine and Protest AIPAC.
Organizers are expecting hundreds of organizations and individual leaders to
endorse this activity and join the effort! At 1 PM, march to the
Washington, D.C. Convention Center to protest AIPAC and support Palestine! RSVP
to https://www.facebook.com/events/1647286998884566/.
If you're interested in going with the
Baltimore Palestine Solidarity, email baltimoretopalestine@googlegroups.com.
18] – See
a free screening of "Sonic Sea" hosted by the Natural Resources
Defense Council on Sun., Mar. 20 at 4 PM at the National Museum of Natural
History, 10th St. & Constitution Ave. NW, WDC 20560. Reservations are
encouraged. To reserve tickets and learn more, you can visit the National
Museum of Natural History's "Sonic Sea" page -- http://naturalhistory.si.edu/calendar.asp#/?i=2.
Contact Rhea Suh at alerts@nrdcaction.org.
This entry (USA, 2015, 60 min.) in the Environmental Film Festival
informs us that a century ago the seas were silent. Now humans fill them
with an unbearable cacophony – the sonic “bombs” of oil prospectors, the whirr
of freight ships, the shrieks of military sonar – driving whales to death and
disorientation. “Sonic Sea,” narrated by Rachel McAdams and featuring Sting,
tells the story of Ken Balcomb, a former Navy officer who solved the tragic
mystery of a mass stranding, and the global network of scientists working to
limit our deadly clamor.
19] – On
Sat., Mar. 20 at 6 PM come to Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 30 W. North
Ave., Baltimore 21201, to hear KAREN BRANAN present THE FAMILY TREE: A LYNCHING IN
GEORGIA. In the tradition of “Slaves in the Family,” the
provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch
mob in 1912—written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with
protecting them. Branan is the great-granddaughter of that sheriff. She
spent nearly twenty years combing through diaries and letters, hunting for
clues in libraries and archives throughout the United States, and interviewing
community elders to piece together the events and motives that led a group of
people to murder four of their fellow citizens in such a brutal public display.
Her research revealed surprising new insights into the day-to-day reality of
race relations in the Jim Crow–era South, but what she ultimately discovered
was far more personal. As she dug into the past, Branan was forced to confront
her own deep-rooted beliefs surrounding race and family, a process that came to
a head when Branan learned a shocking truth: she is related not only to the
sheriff, but also to one of the four who were murdered. Both
identities—perpetrator and victim—are her inheritance to bear. 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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