29] No to Jay Clayton – Mar. 22
30] Take it to Ryan’s office – Mar. 22
31] Gas too dirty – Mar. 22
32] Avoid Nuclear Tensions – Mar. 22
33] Jam Session at the Wilson
Building – Mar. 22
34] Support the Maryland SPCA –
Mar. 22
35] No More Heroes ??? -- Mar. 22
36] Civil Rights in the Trump Era: Lessons
from History – Mar. 22
37] ADAMS BEAT Choir performance
– Mar. 22
38] Change Through Better
Facilitation - Mar. 22
39] Book DIRECT ACTION – Mar. 22
40] Development Projects in the Amazon –
Mar. 23
41] Defend Our Healthcare rally -- Mar. 23
42] Attend the SAALT Town Hall
on Rights -- Mar. 23
43] Come to fundraiser for Casa Ruby – Mar. 23
44] “Night of
Spoken Word" – Mar. 23
45] Book
talk NO MORE HEROES – Mar. 23
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29] --
Jay Clayton has made a
career of representing Wall Street clients like Goldman Sachs when they've
broken the rules at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now Donald Trump
has nominated him to be the chair of the SEC and enforce their rules. Join Senator
Bernie Sanders and the Resist the Hostile Takeover coalition of Our Revolution,
Public Citizen, Allied Progress and Good Jobs Nation in opposition to this
dangerous Wall Street power grab. Resist the Hostile Takeover Day of
Action at the Our Revolution DC Office, 603 2nd St NE, WDC 20002, on Wed., Mar.
22 from 12:30 to 3 PM. RSVP at https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/event/detail/volunteeractivityormeeting/gpg7cc?source=em170318-dc.
30] – The ‘Trump Ryan Take Care Away’ bill being pushed through
Congress is an unmerciful act of meanness. If passed and signed into law by
President Trump, 24 million Americans who are currently covered under the
Affordable Care Act will lose coverage. And thousands of them will die.
Join interfaith clergy and moral activists in Washington D.C. to march on
Speaker Paul Ryan’s office to save health care on Wed., Mar. 22 at 1 PM at the
U.S. Capitol Grounds, the corner of First Street SE & Independence Ave
SE. When our elected representatives commit to immoral action, we have no
option but to march and resist by all nonviolent means available. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1497871773566124/.
Contact Clinton Wright at cwright@breachrepairers.org.
31] --
Join a webinar, "Too Dirty, Too Dangerous: Why Health Professionals Reject
Natural Gas" on Wed., Mar. 22 from 2 to 3 PM. Hear about the
scientific and medical studies that document just how harmful natural gas is to
health and to the climate. Are you concerned about fracking and natural gas
pipelines? Concerned about climate change? If you are—and you should
be—you should join Physicians for Social Responsibility for a webinar: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/255494997792545283.
Natural
gas is worse for health than many people realize. More and more gas is
extracted using fracking, and scientific studies now associate fracking with
hospital admissions, low-birth-weight babies, and other grave health effects.
You'll learn about these studies in the webinar. Methane, natural gas's
primary component, has a disproportionate impact on climate change. And it
leaks into the atmosphere from fracking wells, compressor stations, even the
distribution pipes that carry it to our homes. This leakage makes natural
gas at least as bad for the climate as coal, if not worse, over a 20-year
timeframe—which is about how long we have to avoid climate catastrophe
32] – On
Wed., Mar. 22 from 2 to 3:30 PM, the Arms Control Association will host Sergey
Rogov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Walter Schmid, former German Ambassador in
Moscow, and Steven Pifer, Brookings Arms Control Initiative, will tackle "How
U.S. and Russian Leaders Can Avoid Renewed Nuclear Tensions" at the
National Press Club, First Amendment Lounge, 529 14th St. NW,
WDC. RSVP at https://www.armscontrol.org/civicrm/event/register?id=45&reset=1.
33] – There is a Special Invitation from Councilmember David
Grosso to join POLITICS & ART: A Jam Session at the Wilson Building, 1350
Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC 20004 on Wed., Mar. 22 from 5:30 to 9
PM! Washington Performing Arts’ Mars Urban Arts Initiative, in partnership
with Councilmember David Grosso, will host the fourth annual event. Come
network and celebrate D.C.'s arts scene and its intersections with political
life! If you are a performer, we invite you to bring your instrument to
help celebrate D.C.’s unique performing arts culture and join our Community Jam
led by host, Dior Ashley Brown and The dAb Band! RSVP at http://www.washingtonperformingarts.org/calendar/view.aspx?id=3475.
34] – Support the Maryland SPCA [mailto:give@mdspca.org]
dining at the Mountain Branch Country Club, 1827 Mountain Rd., Joppa
21085, on Wed., Mar, 22 from 6 PM to midnight. Choose any 3-course-meal from
the pre-fixed menu for $30 that evening, and a portion of the proceeds from the
restaurant and bar sales (including tips), karaoke and raffles will be donated
back to the Maryland SPCA. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/708227366021142/.
35] – No More Heroes: a panel and discussion will take place at
The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, on Wed., Mar. 22 from
7 to 9 PM. Folks working within and alongside traditional non-profits
often face significant internal structural and cultural barriers to shifting
power, resources and priorities to do work informed by solidarity. Trying
to shift power and decision making away from a wealthy white Board of Directors
towards the leadership and needs of grassroots community leaders? Curious about
organizational models of mentorship and leadership development that prioritizes
those of us who are People of Color, Trans and queer, immigrants, poor and
disabled? The panel will include Jordan Flaherty, author of “No More Heroes:
Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality,” Sapna Pandya, MPH, Executive
Director of Many Languages One Voice (MLOV), and Stephanie Sneed, Co-Director
of DC Fair Budget Coalition. Contact nora.rasman@gmail.com. The event is
co-sponsored by Service 2 Justice Conference, Soteria Community School and The
Potter's House. Go to https://service2justice.splashthat.com/.
36] – On Wed., Mar. 22 from 7 to 9 PM, Civil Rights in
the Trump Era: Lessons from History, hosted by OSI-Baltimore, will be held at
the University of Baltimore - Mt. Royal, Moot Court Room, 1401 N. Charles St,
Baltimore 21217. How can a thorough understanding of the African-American-led
freedom movement of the 1950s and 60s inform those looking to create a new
sustaining civil rights movement to defend communities threatened by new
federal and local policies? Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch,
author of the seminal trilogy “America in the King Years” and a
member of OSI-Baltimore's Advisory Board, discusses what defenders of democracy
from America's past can teach today's activists about resisting threats to open
society. This is co-presented with the University of Baltimore School of Public
Affairs. A donation of $20 is suggested to support the work of
OSI-Baltimore. No one who registers will be turned away. Register at https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/about/offices-foundations/open-society-institute-baltimore.
37] -- On Wed., Mar. 22 from 7:30 to 9 PM, the ADAMS BEAT Choir
will perform at Children of One World: Celebrating the Cultures of the Excluded
at Kreeger Theater at Arena Stage, 1101 6th St. SW, WDC 20024. Go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/children-of-one-world-celebrating-the-cultures-of-the-excluded-tickets-32176813716?aff=es2.
38] -- The DC Trainers Network:
Building Change Through Better Facilitation will be at St. Stephen's Church,
1525 Newton St. NW, WDC, on Wed., Mar. 22 at 7 to 9 PM, hosted by the
Washington Peace Center. Have you ever attended a meeting and thought "why
am I wasting my time here?" Were you excited about continuing in the
movement and then were turned off by attending a meeting? Have you been the
facilitator that wanted more tools to have clearer outcomes and goals from a
meeting? Are you an activist who loves to organize events and meetings and
wants more skills on facilitating more successful meetings? If so this workshop
is for you! The DC Trainers’ Network monthly skillshare is a structured,
interactive space where people can share skills and gain confidence in their
training abilities and everybody is both a teacher and a learner. It strives to
provide an inclusive practice space to experiment with different approaches for
learning and teaching. This skillshare is part of our new Resistance Training
Series to strengthen the skills of people in the movement. The Metro stop on
the Green Line is Columbia Heights.
39] – On Wed., Mar. 22 at 7:30 PM at Red Emma's Bookstore
Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201, hear about DIRECT ACTION by L.A. Kauffman. As people take to the streets in record numbers to resist
the presidency of Donald Trump, this history of protest offers unique insights
into how past movements have won victories in times of crisis and backlash and
how they can be most effective today. This deeply researched account,
twenty-five years in the making, traces the evolution of disruptive protest
since the Sixties to tell a larger story about the reshaping of the American
left. Kauffman, a longtime grassroots organizer, examines how movements from
ACT UP to Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter have used disruptive tactics
to catalyze change despite long odds. There are hundreds of candid interviews
conducted over a span of decades. “Direct Action” showcases the voices to key
players in an array of movements- environmentalist, anti-nuclear,
anti-apartheid, feminist, LGBTQ, anti-globalization, racial-justice, anti-war,
and more- across an era when American politics shifted to the right, and a
constellation of decentralized issue- and identity-based movements supplanted
the order ideal of a single, unified left. Call 443-602-7585. RSVP
at http://www.redemmas.org.
40] --
Amazon Watch invites you to a "Green Bag" presentation Development
Projects, Community Rights, and the Role of the Church in the Amazon on Thurs.,
Mar. 23 from 12:30 to 2 PM at the Amazon Watch / CIEL Conference Room,
1350 Connecticut Ave. NW, #1100, WDC. Large-scale development projects
abound in the Amazon: railroads, mines, climate mitigation projects, and
agriculture. These projects threaten land and human rights, and the unique
Amazon ecosystem. The Catholic Church, through the new Pan-Amazon Ecclesial
Network (REPAM) is partnering with indigenous and campesino communities to
defend their rights and territories. REPAM is in DC with eighteen
indigenous, campesino and pastoral leaders.
Hear
from some of these representatives on both the challenges faced by the
communities and the partnership with local, regional and international
representatives of the Catholic Church. Jakelyn Vasquez Díaz is a pastoral
leader who is accompanying indigenous communities, Afro-Brazilian communities,
and peasant farmers to stop the expansion of the Carajás train that carries
iron ore from the Carajás mine, the largest mining project in the world. The
railroad and mine are in the Mariñhao state in Brazil. Rosildo Da Silva is an
indigenous leader from the Jaminawa Arará tribe. The Jaminawa Arará are
opposing the climate mitigation REDD project (Reduction in Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation) that would provide carbon offsets to California
in the form of carbon credits. The REDD project threatens land rights and
indigenous rights for local people. Luis Rodrigo Sanchez Zhiminaycela is a
Shuar indigenous leader in the Cascomi community of Ecuador. They are opposing
the large-scale Condor-Mirador open pit copper mine financed by Chinese
investors. The mine would be the first mega-project in Ecuador. Marco Martinez
Quintana is a campesino leader from el Chaparrito, Colombia in Meta state. They
are opposing an African palm oil project used to make biofuels. The community
is composed of former displaced people from Colombia’s internal conflict. They
now face displacement again for the biofuels project.
41] – On Thurs., Mar. 23 is
the seventh anniversary of President Obama signing the Affordable Care Act,
popularly known as Obamacare. For many Communities United members, the ACA has meant new or improved
healthcare. We have to stop Trump and the Republican Congress from taking our
healthcare away via their proposed repeal and “replace” legislation – which the
Congressional Budget Office estimates will uninsure 24 million people! A vote
in the House of Representatives has been scheduled for March 23.
Come to a Defend Our Healthcare rally and march on Thurs., Mar 23
at 1 PM in Freedom Plaza, 14th St. & Pennsylvania Ave, NW, WDC. To reserve your seat on the bus, call
410-775-6673 or email nabeehah@communitiesunite.org!
Baltimore bus departure locations are
as follows: location #1 at 10:30 AM, Bank St and S Caroline St
or location #2 at 11:15 AM at McCulloh St. and Dolphin
St. Go to http://www.communitiesunite.org/.
42] -- Attend the SAALT
Town Hall on Rights at the AFL-CIO, 815 16th St. NW, WDC, on Thurs., Mar. 23
from 6 to 9 PM. SAALT invites all D.C., Maryland, and Virginia
residents to attend the first in a series of national community town halls in
2017. The recent spike in hate violence aimed at South Asian, Muslim, and Sikh
communities is part of a dangerous trend electrified by the 2016 election cycle
and now the current administration. Come listen to community leaders discuss
the latest executive orders on immigration, the impact of these on communities,
local organizing efforts to support our communities, and participate in a know
your rights training. SAALT promises a rich discussion and food. It will
be in the Gompers Room (1st floor), 815 16th St. NW, WDC. Use the Metro
(Red line – Farragut North and Dupont Circle). RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/saalt-town-hall-on-rights-tickets-32854982136 (free
event but please register}! Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1243534195743993/.
43] – Come to a Benefit for Casa Ruby LGBTQ Community Center at
JR's Bar, 1519 17th St. NW, WDC, on Thurs., Mar. 23 from 7 to 9
PM. As many of you might have heard Casa Ruby was vandalized and an
employee was attacked. It would be great to raise enough money to make
sure they have a proper security door so this never happens again. Please come
out and support a great cause. Casa Ruby helps homeless LGBTQ people who have
no place to go. Ruby is an amazing person and RJ's would like to help anyway
they can. To donate, get over to https://www.gofundme.com/casa-ruby-benefit.
44] –
“Night of Spoken Word" is Part I of a
series of events organized by a collective of artists in Baltimore for the
purpose of raising funds for the Peoples Power Assembly. On Thurs., Mar.
23 at 7 PM, come to the Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center, 2011 North Charles
St., Baltimore 21218. Funds will cover the
running cost of educational events, protests against Trump as well as the fight
against police brutality, racism, and crimes against the LGBTQI community. You are invited to be a part of
this evening of performance by extremely talented local artists who are
donating their time. The suggested donation is $5.Light refreshments will be
provided.
45] – On Thurs., Mar. 23 at 7:30 PM at Red Emma's Bookstore
Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201, hear NO MORE HEROES:
GRASSROOTS CHALLENGES TO THE SAVIOR MENTALITY from activist-journalist Jordan
Flaherty. Jordan asks: How can we build a better world? And he tries to make
the case why do so many people with privilege end up making things worse when
they try to help? It’s called the savior mentality. Then he goes way out
on a limb by claiming the saviors are FBI informants, anti-sex-work crusaders,
Teach For America corps members, and out-of-touch journalists. That is a tough
sell. 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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