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 May 6.
Black Lives Matter. Since this is a First Friday, there will be a potluck
dinner afterwards, followed by a DVD showing.
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 May 6 see BUBBLE [USA, 2006]. Steven Soderbergh's film delicately examines
the everyday life of three Ohio factory workers. To cast his film, Soderbergh
used actual blue-collar workers from the Parkersburg,
West Virginia / Belpre, Ohio area, and structured
their performances and the plot, but remained open to their real lives. We
see the desperation of working poverty, in which you work double shifts, stare
at the TV and collapse. Martha (Debbie Doebereiner), who cares for her father,
has enough money to own a car; Kyle (Dustin Ashley), who lives in a mobile
home, depends on her for rides to a doll factory. Then Rose (Misty Dawn
Wilkins) gets a job in the factory. She's younger and prettier than the
overweight Martha, but is Martha jealous? No, she doesn't want Kyle's love but
his dependency on her. How this pays off is completely unforeseen but sort of
inevitable, and it illustrates the bleakness and poverty of imagination of
their quietly desperate world. Call 410-323-1607 or email mobuszewski at
Verizon.net.
Robert Reich. (photo: unknown)
The
Jaw-Dropping Realities of Our Widening Economic Divide
By Robert Reich, Robert
Reich's Facebook Page
03 May 16
Chuck
Collins from the Institute for Policy Studies has new data showing the majority
of Americans now have less than $1,000 in their savings and checking accounts
combined. If they slip on the sidewalk or have a problem with their car, they
can be left penniless.
On the
other side of the widening economic divide is an equally jaw-dropping reality:
The 400 wealthiest Americans now own more wealth than the entire GDP of India,
a nation of nearly 1.3 billion people.
The
problem isn’t inequality per se. It’s the consequences of the degree of inequality:
a shrinking middle class that’s increasingly frustrated and angry, a politics
that as a result has become polarized and shrill, fewer opportunities for the
poor to ascend into the middle class, and a democracy that’s overrun with money
from the wealthy. The trend is unsustainable, politically and economically.
Bernie’s
campaign is a start. But regardless of whether he’s elected president, we must
be mobilized and organized to reverse this.
What
do you think?
C 2015 Reader Supported News
Donations can be sent
to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; 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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