15]
Rally Against Racism – May 1
16] March on May Day
-- May 1
17]
D.C. on Strike -- May 1
18]
Resist Trump -- May 1
19] Tea Ceremony – May 1
20]
May Day Poetry – May 1
21] Get
Money Out of Maryland conference call – May 1
22] Philly peace vigil -
May 2
23]
Stop JHU’s drone research –
May 2
24]
See LA92 -- May 2
25]
Moco meeting -- May 2
26]
Cappuccino City – May 2
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14] – There
is a May Day Action and Immigrants March at the National Mall and Memorial
Parks, 900 Ohio Dr. SW, WDC, on Mon., May 1 from 10 AM to 5 PM, hosted
by SEIU 32BJ and CASA. Immigrants work, immigrants build, immigrants
raise families, immigrants vote. #WeAllBelong. As attacks on immigrants
and refugees continue to come under the Trump administration, it's important to
unite and show the President that the people will not be intimidated.
RSPV at https://www.facebook.com/events/245084992585200/.
15] – On
Mon., May 1 at noon, attend the YWCA's Rally Against Racism, Stand
Against Racism: Beyond the Moment, at the DE Legislative Mall, 411
Legislative Ave., Dover, DE. Go to http://www.ywcade.org/site/c.ahKKIZMHIlI4E/b.9019519/k.2BF6/Stand_Against_Racism_Beyond_the_Moment.htm.
16] – There’s
a March on May Day on Mon., May 1 from noon to 1:30 PM in Malcolm X Park,
2400 15th St. NW, WDC 20009. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/579966565528426/.
17] – D.C.
on Strike will happen at Lamont Park, 3258 Mt. Pleasant St. NW, WDC, on Mon.,
May 1 from 12:45 to 3 PM, hosted by Many Languages One Voice
(MLOV). Mayor Bowser, the City Council, and other elected officials must
pass policies that ensure benefits, protection, and sanctuary for ALL
communities under attack in DC. The group will march to the White House to join
the regional rally. Collectively demand the kind of city that folks want as a
home - do not let the federal government define DC! See https://www.facebook.com/events/154530288401949/.
18] – On
MAY DAY – UNITE TO RESIST TRUMP at 3 PM @ McKeldin Square, Light & Pratt
Sts. Call 443-221-3775. There is a call for a GLOBAL MAY DAY
STRIKE--No work, No school, No shopping, and Boycott businesses. Defend
immigrants & Muslims – Fight racism, sexism, and LGBTQ & Trans bigotry.
At 4 PM, march to specific locations to highlight demands and conclude at City
Hall @ 6 PM. Visit www.PeoplesPowerAssemblies.org.
19] – On Mon., May 1 from 4 to 5 PM, Pacem in Terris will
host a Tea Ceremony for Peace, a quiet, reflective pause from the great buzzing
confusion at the Pacem office, Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse, 401 N. West
St., Wilmington. Go to http://depaceminterris.org/.
20] – Enjoy
May Day Poetry with Natasha Trethewey at National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin
Ave. NW, WDC, on Mon., May 1 from 7 to 8:30 PM. Former Poet
Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey headlines an evening
of poetry and spoken word. Acclaimed poet Ailish Hopper and literary
scholar Angelo Robinson will also provide inspirational readings highlighting
past and present movements for racial justice and immigrant rights. Connect at https://www.facebook.com/events/1911138899117154/.
21] – Get Money Out of Maryland has
a weekly teleconference, every Monday evening at 8:30 PM. Call
605-475-6711, and use the Code 1136243#. Go to http://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/.
22] – Each Tuesday from 4:30 -
5:30 PM, the Catholic Peace Fellowship-Philadelphia for peace in Afghanistan
and Iraq gathers at the Suburban Station, 16th St. & JFK
Blvd., at the entrance to Tracks 3 and 4 on the mezzanine. The next
vigil is May 2. Call 215-426-0364.
23] – Vigil to say "No
Drone Research at JHU" each Tuesday at 33rd & North Charles Sts. join
this ongoing vigil on May 2 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Call Max
at 410-323-1607.
24] – Beyond the Classroom presents "LA 92" at 4250 Leigh Rd.,
1102 South Campus Commons, Building 1, College Park on Tues., May 2 from
6:30 to 9 PM. This documentary is part of Spring 2017 Series on
"People Power." Few images are seared into the American
consciousness like the beating of Rodney King at the hands of four white Los
Angeles police officers and the riots after the officers’ acquittal in the
spring of 1992. The unrest, sparked by a verdict many viewed as yet another
example of judicial indifference to law enforcement’s harassment of Los
Angeles’s African American population, lasted for six days. Twenty-five years
after the verdict, Academy Award®-winning directors Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin
(Undefeated) draw on archival news images and unseen footage to craft an
in-depth portrait of those riots and the tempestuous relationship between Los
Angeles’s African American community and those charged with protecting it. Go
to https://www.facebook.com/events/1667187540243384/.
25] –
There is a monthly general meeting on Tues., May 2 from 7 to 9 PM at the Albert
Einstein High School cafeteria, 11135 Newport Mill Road, Kensington
20895. If you live in MoCo and are stricken with Post Trumpmatic Stress
Disorder, the best cure is to join a growing coalition of your friends and
neighbors who are passionate about civil rights and civil liberties. The
guest speaker is Brandon Anderson, developer of "Raheem," a Facebook
app to improve police accountability. Brandon will explain his chatbot, and how
it could revolutionize police accountability in Montgomery County. There will
be time for questions and discussion. Then break into working groups and
get down to business! RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1227196057349539/.
26] – At
The Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, on Tues., May 2 at 7 PM, catch
an author talk. For long-time residents of Washington, DC’s Shaw/U
Street, the neighborhood has become almost unrecognizable in recent years.
Where the city’s most infamous open-air drug market once stood, a farmers’
market now sells grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioli. On the corner
where AM.PM carryout used to dish out soul food, a new establishment markets
its $28 foie grass burger. Shaw is experiencing a dramatic transformation, from
“ghetto” to “gilded ghetto,” where white newcomers are rehabbing homes,
developing dog parks, and paving the way for a third wave coffee shop on nearly
every block.
Race, Class, and
Politics in the Cappuccino City is an in-depth ethnography of this gilded
ghetto. Derek S. Hyra captures here a quickly gentrifying space in which
long-time black residents are joined, and variously displaced, by an influx of
young, white, relatively wealthy, and/or gay professionals who, in part as a
result of global economic forces and the recent development of central business
districts, have returned to the cities earlier generations fled decades ago. As
a result, America is witnessing the emergence of what Hyra calls “cappuccino
cities.” A cappuccino has essentially the same ingredients as a cup of coffee
with milk, but is considered upscale, and is double the price. In Hyra’s
cappuccino city, the black inner-city neighborhood undergoes enormous
transformations and becomes racially “lighter” and more expensive by the year.
Connect at www.facebook.com/events/388186608247376/.
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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