34] Fundraiser for Lebanon
refugees – June 24
35] Peace Vigil/Black Lives
Matter – June 24
36] Wine & Wag – June 24
37] FAITHFUL WITNESS IN A
TIME OF ENDLESS WAR – June 24
38] See "Mariposa
& the Saint" – June 24
40] Ballroom Dancing – June
24
41] Activist Initiators
Breakfast – June 25
42] Reaching Beyond Our
Differences – June 25
43] West Chester peace
vigil – June 25
44] Torture Survivor
Awareness Week White House Vigil – June 25
45] How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City -- June 25
46] Remember Ali Iftar --
June 25
47] THE COOK UP – June 25
48] Sign up with Washington Peace
Center
49] Donate books, videos, DVDs
and records
50] Do you need any book shelves?
51] Join the Global Zero campaign
52] Join the Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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34]
– An
Open House Fundraising on Behalf of Refugees in Lebanon is happening on Sat.,
June 25 from 4 to 8 PM at XOL Gallery, 830 Park Ave., Baltimore 21201.
Contact Ronda Cooperstein at (410) 486-6307.
All funds will benefit refugees via the work of Ellen Siegel in coordination
with http://socialcare.org. Every year,
Ellen Siegel returns to Lebanon to assist Palestinian refugees living in the
camps. This year, in Baltimore, we are raising funds that will go
directly to families in need of assistance. Ellen will travel to Lebanon
in September, on this 34th anniversary of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, to
deliver the funds and to provide support to families in the camps. The event is
free, and the gallery will be showing the work of a Ramallah artist. To
see the gallery, go to http://www.xolgallery.com/.
35]
– 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 June 24.
Black Lives Matter.
36] – You and your
tail-waggin' friends are invited to join special host Hayley on Fri.,
June 24 at 5:30 PM at the Maryland SPCA for the 2nd Wine & Wag Happy
Hour of the season. Music will be provided by the talented Jordan August. Wine
& Wag admission is $10 online and $15 at the door per person. Go to https://secure3.convio.net/mdspca/site/Ticketing;jsessionid=00000000.app334a?view=Tickets&id=100082&NONCE_TOKEN=CC73783B9B72A78F250524A6D0852623.
Just Ice Frozen Desserts are coming with delicious sorbet and frozen treats. If
you bring your dog on a retractable leash, please keep the leash completely
retracted at all times. Baltimore City law requires that dogs be leashed at all
times. Contact Lisa Kenney at lkenney@mdspca.org or
410-235-8826, ext. 135.
37]
– FAITHFUL WITNESS IN A TIME OF ENDLESS WAR is happening on Fri., June 24 from 7 to 9 PM and Sat., June 25 from 8 AM-to noon at the
Christopher Dock Mennonite High School, 1000 Forty Foot Road,
Lansdale, PA 19446. The main focus will be on Drone Warfare and God’s Call to
Peacemaking. The gathering will culminate with participation
in a protest at the: Drone War Command
Center/Horsham Air Guard Station, County Line & Easton
Road, Horsham, PA 19044. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called
children of God (Matthew 5:9).
There are many speakers
including Christopher Aaron, who spent two years working at the
CIA on the predator drone program, and a total of five years in US intelligence
agencies. He was an army chaplain who served in Afghanistan and resigned due to
moral objections to Drone Warfare. Also speaking is Medea Benjamin, best
known for co-founding Code Pink. She is the author of the book Drone
Warfare: Killing by Remote Control.
Robert
M. Smith, Brandywine
Peace Community staff and organizer of the campaign to stop the drone war
command center in Horsham, PA, will also share his thoughts and
inspiration. Contact
Peace Action Education Fund/Coalition for Peace Action at (609) 924—5022. Register
at www.peacecoalition.org.
38]
– See "Mariposa & the
Saint," a play about the horrors of solitary confinement at New York
Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1313 New York Ave., NW, WDC, on Fri., June 24 at 7
PM. Longtime friends and collaborators, Mariposa Fonsenca and Julia Steele
Allen, wrote a play through a prison wall after Mariposa had been sentenced to
fifteen months of solitary confinement. Over the course of three years, they
wrote letters to each other, which resulted in this story depicting the horrors
of solitary confinement. The show was favorably reviewed this past October
in The New Yorker. A promotional video can be found at http://www.arcturustheater.org/mariposa-and-the-saint.html.
There will be a 45-minute panel discussion where one of the panelists will be
Roach Brown (http://www.theinnervoices.com/about),
a prison reform advocate. Tickets can be purchased by clicking the Tickets tab
at http://www.arcturustheater.org. General
admission is $30, seniors and students, $27. Formerly incarcerated
individuals may see this for free by contacting jeff@arcturustheater.org.
39]
– CRAIG LEWIS presents BETTER DAYS: A MENTAL
HEALTH RECOVERY WORKBOOK on Fri. June 24, 7:30 PM @ Red Emma's Bookstore
Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201.
Much of mental health and support care falls
along authoritarian and coercive lines, however there are some anarchist
anti-authoritarians doing the work of building better and brighter models that
identify the unique intersections of our experiences and the oppressive systems
in which we live. This book helps those aspiring toward recovery and
wellness and also those in recovery, because it addresses and challenges the
individual - in very real, basic and honest ways - to make significant
cognitive adjustments in how they live their lives. This book is for any person
who struggles with their mental health and who wants to live a happier life as
well as for any person who wants to improve their quality of life, how they
deal with stress, obstacles, difficulties and other people and live a happier,
healthy and much more stable life. Call
443-602-7585. Go to http://www.redemmas.org.
40]
– 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 June 24. Call
Dave Greene at 410-599-3725.
41]
– The
Activist Initiators Breakfast is at the Emergence Community Arts Collective,
733 Euclid St. NW, WDC, on Sat., June 25 from 9 to 11 AM. Juliana
Barnet will host. RSVP at julianabarnet@rainwoodhouse.com.
42]
–
Reaching
Beyond Our Differences is the topic of discussion at the Bethesda Jewish
Congregation, 6601 Bradley Boulevard, Bethesda 20817, on Sat., June 25
from 10:30 AM to 3 PM. For five years, the interfaith community has
welcomed young adults from Israel and Palestine to teach about their
experiences in the renowned New Story Leadership (NSL) program. NSL is an
organization that brings to the D.C. area 10-12 young-adult Israelis and
Palestinians “every year for an intensive program of workshops, conferences,
seminars, professional work exposure, cultural immersion and team
training”. The goal is that, with the help of NSL, these young men
and women will become outstanding leaders who will be invaluable
agents of change when they return to their homes in cities such as Jerusalem,
Haifa, Nablus and Gaza City. This year, the students will be joining the
Shabbat morning service at 10:30 AM and will be offering the morning
sermon. Following the service, there will be a luncheon and presentation
from 12:30 at 3 PM. The cost of the luncheon is $10. Go to http://bethesdajewish.org/event/new-story-leadership-returns-to-bjc/.
43]
– 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.
44]
– The
Torture Survivor Awareness Week White House Vigil will take place at Lafayette
Park, 16th St. & Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Sat., June 25 from 11 AM to
4 PM. Commemorate victims of torture by keeping vigil, celebrating life,
remembering lost friends and family, and renewing our commitment to a world
where torture is banned forever. Listen to music, poetry, survivor testimonies
and statements of solidarity from human rights groups and interfaith allies who
are part of this ongoing struggle. Email Kelsey@tassc.org.
45]
– Join a discussion with Antero Pietila, author
of “Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City, at the
Great Blacks in Wax Museum, 1601 E. North Ave, Baltimore 21213 on Sat., June 25
at 1 PM. Afterwards there will be a guided tour at 2 PM. The book
shows how continued discrimination practices toward African Americans and Jews
have shaped the cities in which we now live. The cost of the bus tour
will be $20, but museum members pay $15. Call 410-563-3404.
46]
–
On Sat., June 25 from
7 to 9 PM, the Fawakih Institute Sponsored Iftar will honor the Legacy of
Muhammad Ali at the America's Islamic Heritage Museum, 2315 Martin Luther King
Jr. Ave. SE, WDC 20020. Email aihm @ muslimsinamerica. Org.
47]
– D. WATKINS & the TAHARKA BROTHERS present THE
COOK UP on Sat., June 25 at 7:30 PM @ Red Emma's Bookstore
Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201.
Watkins has a brand-new memoir out, and he
will read from it. He will discuss his personal transformation from the
streets to the classroom. And, just to make the story a little sweeter, Watkins
teamed up with local youth-led ice cream coop Taharka Brothers to produce a
brand-new flavor based on the book! Get a signed copy of D's book, and sample
the new Taharka Brothers ice cream flavor too! Call 443-602-7585. Go
to http://www.redemmas.org.
48]
-- The
Washington Peace Center has a progressive calendar & activist alert!
Consider signing up to receive its weekly email: info@washingtonpeacecenter.org.
49]
--
If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs or records, contact Max at
410-323-1607 or mobuszewski at verizon.net. 44] -- Can you use
any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
50]
--
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.
51]
– A
Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil takes place every day in Lafayette Park, 1601
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 24 hours a day, since June 3, 1981. Go to http://prop1.org;
call 202-682-4282.
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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