40] Healthy Families legislation – Mar. 2 & 3
41] Film YASUNI MAN
– Mar. 2
42] Ban Fracking Now – Mar. 2
43] Access to Healthcare Town Hall – Mar. 2
44] Fundraiser for
Ulster Project Delaware
– Mar. 2
45] Community
Forum on Immigrants’ Rights – Mar. 2
46] Refugee Program
of Jewish Family Services – Mar. 2
47] Book talk on “Suspect
Freedoms” - Mar. 2
48] Book talk AMONG MURDERERS – Mar. 2
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40]
– As
a result of strong grassroots pressure from across the state on key lawmakers
the House Economic Matters Committee passed a strong version of the Healthy
Working Families Act for earned sick days (HB 1/SB 230) with no harmful
amendments! While this was a major victory in ensuring more than half a million
Marylanders will be able earn sick days that never have before, we still have a
long way to go in getting this bill passed in 2017. We’ll never have the money
and influence of the corporate lobbyists, but what we do have is our voices and
stories as people that work, especially in the low-wage industries like
restaurants and retail that consistently do not offer their workers the ability
to earn sick days. On Thurs., Mar. 2, the full Maryland House of Delegates will
vote on the Healthy Working Families Act. We need to continue to show our
lawmakers that there is a growing movement in Maryland for the human right to
work with dignity, which includes paid sick days. On Mar. 2 at 9:30 AM, meet at
Lawyers Mall in front of the Maryland State House to greet Delegates. We will
then sit in the gallery for the vote. RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1656076738030837/
or to crystal@unitedworkers.org.
Carpools will be leaving from Baltimore at 8 AM. If you need a ride, call Luis
at 401-365-7233 to confirm your address and pick up time.
There
will also be a rally on Lawyers Mall in front of the Maryland State House for
the Healthy Working Families Act at 9:30 AM on Fri., Mar. 3. Carpools will be
leaving from Baltimore at 8:00am. If you need a ride, please call Luis at
401-365-7233 to confirm your address and pick up time. Go to http://www.unitedworkers.org/.
41]
– On Thurs., Mar. 2 from 12:30 to 2 PM, come to Amazon Watch / CIEL Conference
Room, 1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, #1100, (above Cosi, Dupont Circle South), WDC,
and see the film YASUNI MAN, a documentary feature, which tells the story of
the conflict in Ecuador's Yasuni National Park that has pitted biodiversity and
human rights against extractive industries and human consumption. Director,
producer and cinematographer Ryan P. Killackey, leads us on an incredible
expedition through Yasuni – a 1,500 kilometer journey along seven rivers – exploring
the impact of oil development on the biodiversity of the forest and its people.
Through the documentary, Killackey ushers the viewer into a world unexplored
and illustrates a cautionary tale of the far-reaching impact our dependence on
fossil fuels can have on wildlife and indigenous people. This social,
political, environmental and human rights drama forces the question: How far
would you go to save it? Ryan will lead a discussion after the film.
42]
– On Thurs., Mar. 2 at 1 PM, march from the Asbury United Methodist Church, 87 West St., and then rally
with one clear demand: ban fracking now. March through Annapolis and around
the State House, then have a massive rally in Lawyers Mall. RSVP at https://sierra.secure.force.com/events/details?formcampaignid=70131000001DpPkAAK.
Buses are being organized from multiple locations across
Maryland. Go to http://www.dontfrackmd.org/march/ to get
tickets for the bus nearest you. At 3 PM, buses depart from College Ave. On March 2nd, we’re marching
on Annapolis with one clear demand: ban fracking now. Join hundreds of
Marylanders from across the state to show legislators just how powerful our
movement is. We’ll march through Annapolis and around the State House, then
have a massive rally in Lawyers Mall.
The
Baltimore bus will be leaving from the Rogers Avenue Metro Station -- 4300
Hayward Ave. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1731463936867344/.
43]
– There will be an Access to Healthcare Town Hall (ACA) on Thurs., Mar. 2
at 6 PM at St Paul's UCC Fellowship Hall, Westminster, MD 21157. Join a
non-partisan discussion on affordable access to healthcare for all citizens. We
have a diverse panel of experts to educate participants and answer questions.
Contact information for elected officials will be distributed at the end of the
meeting. All federal, county, state and municipal elected officials for Carroll
County, MD have been invited to attend. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/622892697918244
and https://www.resistancerecess.com/event/resist-recess/search/?source=climatehawks.
44]
– On Thurs., Mar. 2 from 6 to 9 PM, get over to the
fundraiser for Ulster Project Delaware. Enjoy live music, drink specials,
appetizer buffet and a Chinese auction at Dead Presidents Restaurant, 618 N.
Union St., Wilmington, DE. Visit http://ulsterprojectdelaware.org/.
45]
– There is a Community Forum on Immigrants’ Rights on Thurs., Mar. 2 from
6 to 8 PM at the Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School, 1100
Harvard St. NW. Councilmember Brianne K. Nadeau, in collaboration with Carlos
Rosario International Public Charter School, CARECEN, MLOV, Capital Area
Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, and other community partners, will hold a forum
about rights and resources for our immigrant community. Residents will also be
able to share concerns and ask questions and breakout sessions will facilitate
organizing of neighbors and school leaders. Allies are encouraged to attend.
Call 202-724-8181.
46]
– On Thurs., Mar. 2 from 7 to 9 PM, the Refugee
Program of Jewish Family Services [JFS] will be hosting several general
orientations over the next few weeks to go over various volunteer roles, and
necessary screening required for each of them. Volunteer orientations are
required in order to volunteer with the Refugee Program. There are
Volunteer Orientations at Wilmington Friends School, 101 School
Rd., Wilmington, and another at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, 500 W. Chestnut Hill Rd., Newark, DE. Register at https://www.jfsdelaware.org/event/rise-orientation-0302/.
47]
– “Suspect Freedoms” is an Author Talk with Nancy Mirabal at 1658
Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, on Thurs., Mar. 2 from 7 to 8:30 PM. The
largely unexamined and often forgotten history of more than a hundred years of
Cuban exile, migration, diaspora, and community formation. Beginning in
the early nineteenth century, Cubans migrated to New York City to organize and
protest against Spanish colonial rule. While revolutionary wars raged in Cuba,
expatriates envisioned, dissected, and redefined meanings of independence and
nationhood. An underlying element was the concept of Cubanidad, a shared sense
of what it meant to be Cuban. Deeply influenced by discussions of slavery,
freedom, masculinity, and United States imperialism, the question of what and
who constituted “being Cuban” remained in flux and often, suspect. This is the
first book to explore Cuban racial and sexual politics in New York during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Mirabal is Associate
Professor in the American Studies Department and U.S. Latina/o Studies Program
at the University of Maryland at College Park.
48]
– On Thur., Mar. 2 at 7:30 PM at Red Emma's Bookstore
Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201, hear a book talk AMONG
MURDERERS with SABINE HEINLEIN and MIKITA BROTTMAN IN CONVERSATION. Welcome
authors Sabine Heinlein and Mikita Brottman, alongside Out for Justice
organizer Vince Greco, who will explore the criminal justice crisis from the
inside of the prison cell and the outside. Heinlein is the author
of AMONG MURDERERS: Life After Prison (2013), a book that follows the
lives of three returning citizens over the course of several years as they
painstakingly learn how to master their freedom. Having lived most of their
lives behind bars, the men struggle to cross the street, choose a dish at a
restaurant and withdraw money from an ATM. Brottman, who teaches in the
Humanistic Studies department at MICA, is the author of “The Maximum
Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison” (2016), a
riveting account of the two years she spent reading literature with prisoners
(including Greco) at the Jessup Correctional Institute, a maximum-security
men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them. Call 443-602-7585. RSVP at http://www.redemmas.org.
To be continued.
Donations can be sent to the
Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218. Ph:
410-323-1607; 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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