26] Buy Black on Black Friday – Nov. 24
27] Peace vigil at White House – Nov. 24
28] WIB peace vigils – Nov. 24
29] Adopt an animal – Nov. 24 through Nov. 26
30] Blackity Black Friday Pop-up – Nov. 24
31] Black Lives Matter vigil – Nov. 24
32] Ballroom Dancing – Nov. 24
33] West Chester peace vigil – Nov. 25
34] Celebrate the Nobel Peace Prize – Dec. 8
35] Help deliver a Healthcare not Warfare petition – Jan. 11 & 12, 2018
36] Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases -- Jan. 12 - Jan. 14
37] Catonsville Nine Commemoration – May 4 – 5
38] JONAH HOUSE NEEDS WORKERS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
39] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records
40] Do you need any book shelves?
41] Join the Global Zero campaign
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26] – On Fri., Nov. 24 from 11 AM to 5 PM, Buy Black on Black Friday at the Ujamaa Marketplace at St. Frances Academy, 501 E Chase St., Baltimore 21202. This is a marketplace of black owned businesses that offer great products at reasonable prices. Come out and connect with the community in a family friendly environment infused with culture including a drum circle, ujamaa education, musical performance, kid’s activity, qigong health demonstration, a DJ, food, dessert and more.
27] – On Fri., Nov. 24 from noon to 1 PM, join the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in a vigil urging the powers that be to abolish war and torture, to disarm all weapons, to end indefinite detention, to close Guantanamo, to establish justice for all and help create the Beloved Community! This vigil will take place at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contract Art @ artlaffin@hotmail.com or at 202-360-6416.
28] – On Fri., Nov. 24 from noon to 1 PM, join a Women in Black peace vigil. A vigil will take place in McKeldin Square at the corner of Light and Pratt Sts. After this vigil, gather for lunch at the café on the site. Stay for as long as you can. Wear black. Dress for who knows what kind of weather. Bring your own poster or help with the "NO WAR IN MY NAME" banner. When there are others to stand with, you don't need to carry the burden alone. Do this to be in solidarity with others....when everything around us says “Be afraid of the stranger.” Carpool and parking available. Just send an email that you need a ride [mailto:wibbaltimore@peacepath911.org]. Peace signs will be available.
29] – Bring home a lifetime of unconditional love. The Maryland SPCA will be waiving adoption fees for all animals starting Fri., Nov. 24 and continuing through Sun., Nov. 26 thanks to a sponsorship by Zappos for Good and North Shore Animal League America. This adoption promotion will be running at the following locations: 1] Maryland SPCA Adoption Center, 3300 Falls Road, Baltimore 21211 from Fri.: from noon to 5 PM and Sat. and Sun. from 11 AM to 4 PM; 2] Project Adopt in the White Marsh Mall, 8200 Perry Hall Blvd, Baltimore 21236, on Fri., from 1 to 7 PM, Sat. from 11 AM to 7 PM and Sun. from 11 AM to 5 PM; and Pet Valu in the Rotunda, 711 W. 40th St., Baltimore 21211, on Fri. and Sat. from 9 AM to 9 PM and Sun. from 10 AM to 6 PM. Standard Adoption procedures apply, including the required $25 animal ID Package. Visit http://www.mdspca.org/.
30] -- On Fri., Nov. 24 at 2 PM, get over to the Blackity Black Friday Pop-up at the Greater Baltimore Urban League, 512 Orchard St., Baltimore 21201. Come out and kick off the holiday shopping season by supporting Black owned businesses. There will be quality products of all kinds and food trucks on location! This event is free with registration! This event is proudly co-sponsored by Greater Baltimore Urban League and Brittany T. Oliver of Not Without Black Women! If you are interested in vending, contact Michelle Duberry at 443-799-5300.
31] – There is usually a silent vigil on Fridays, from 5 to 6 PM, sponsored by Homewood Friends Meeting, outside the Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St. The next scheduled vigil is on Nov. 24. Black Lives Matter.
32] – 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 on Nov. 24. Call Dave Greene at 410-599-3725.
33] – 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.
34] – On Fri., Dec. 8 at probably 5 PM, get ready to celebrate the Nobel Peace prize which will be awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons [ICAN] on December 10. Save this date, as more information will be forthcoming. Email max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
35] – Please note that the National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance planned visit on Mon., Nov. 6 at noon to help deliver a Healthcare not Warfare petition to Captain Mark A. Kobelja, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, 4494 North Palmer Road, Bethesda 20889, was postponed. It is now re-scheduled for Thurs., Jan. 11 at noon. And on Fri., Jan. 12 at 10 AM, we will continue the Healthcare not Warfare direct action with a visit to the White House to Say No War with North Korea, Iran or Yemen. Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net to join NCNR on Jan. 11, Jan, 12 or both days. We are still gathering signatures on our petition? If wanting to sign, please provide name, hometown and your organization to Max.
36] – Attend a Conference on U.S. Foreign Military Bases from Fri., Jan. 12 through Sun., Jan. 14, 2018 at the University of Baltimore, Learning Commons Town Hall, 1415 Maryland Ave., Baltimore 21201, hosted by the Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases. Thirteen prominent peace and justice organizations in the United States are collectively organizing this conference. Some of the groups are Black Alliance for Peace, CODEPINK, Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Popular Resistance, Veterans For Peace, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and World Beyond War. The conference will feature national and international experts. Several expert panels will discuss the economic, political, environmental and health costs and impact of U.S. foreign military bases in various regions of the world, including South America, Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The conference will be live streamed for the international audience. For more information and to register for the conference, go to http://noforeignbases.org/conference-on-u-s-foreign-military-bases/?epl_action=process_cart_action&cart_action=add&event_id=723&_rand=59d50af323702.
37] – Save the Dates. The fiftieth anniversary of the Catonsville Nine draft board raid will be commemorated There will be a CATONSVILLE NINE SYMPOSIUM on FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2018 from 4 to 10 PM at the Shriver Center, University of Maryland – Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Cir, Catonsville, MD 21250. Enjoy Films, Lectures, Discussion Panels and Dramatic Readings. There will be more CATONSVILLE NINE COMMEMORATION ACTIVITIES on SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2018 from 9 AM to 2 PM at the Baltimore County Public Library Catonsville Branch, 1100 Frederick Rd., Catonsville, MD 21228. Enjoy more Films, Lectures, Discussion Panels and Dramatic Readings. Go to http://www.catonsville9.org/50th-anniversary-commemoration/.
38] – JONAH HOUSE NEEDS WORKERS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
After 44 years of resisting weapons and war, Jonah House is Baltimore is in danger of shutting down. Two of the three core members have announced their intention to leave the community as of May 2018. That leaves one core member, Joe Byrne, who will remain to recruit and re-form intentional community. But if no one steps forward, Jonah House will have to close.
Jonah House was founded by Phil Berrigan, Liz McAlister, and others, in 1973, during the Vietnam War. It was a center of resistance to that war. When the war ended, the focus of resistance became the nuclear arms race. This resistance blossomed into the Plowshares movement. Jonah House members have spent years in jail for Plowshares disarmament actions. Other members have spent years supporting them, and doing the work of the community in their absence. Resistance to weapons and war continues at Jonah House. More recently, Jonah House has also become involved in racial justice efforts in Baltimore, and the environmental justice movement.
Jonah House is planted in the middle of a 22-acre, mostly-wooded cemetery in West Baltimore called St. Peter’s. Maintaining and slowly restoring St. Peter’s Cemetery is the work that pays the bills for the community. Jonah House also uses the property to serve the living as well as honor the dead. Our gardens and orchards feed the Jonah House community, and the surrounding neighborhood community, via a food pantry and weekly food distribution to low-income neighbors. We envision the cemetery—particularly the 11-acre forest patch—as a haven for the people of the neighborhood, international peace activists, and numberless living beings.
Jonah House is also an interfaith spiritual community. We pray or meditate together daily, and our spiritual practice informs and empowers everything we do, whether in the fields or in the streets.
To continue the vision, Jonah House is looking for a few new core members willing to commit to a two-year stint. We are also open to short- and long-term interns (3 months to a year). The work of radical peacemaking, direct service to the poor, and stewarding the land requires workers. We pray that God will send laborers to the vineyard (yes, we have that too) and that Jonah House will continue to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable for another 44 years! For more information, call 443-804-3410, or email us at engage@jonahhouse.org
39] -- If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs, records, tarps and table cloths, contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
40] -- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
41] -- 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.
Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218. Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.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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