23] Climate Change
Commission (MCCC) Mitigation Working Group – June 27
24] Protest
Comcast –
June 27
25] Alternatives to Calling
the Police – June 27
26] Struggle for autonomy
in Washington, D.C. – June 27
27] NPT – June 27
28] New Story
Leadership Team –
June 27
29]
Film “Reinventing Power” – June 27
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23] -- Join
the Sierra Club on Wed, June 27 at 10 AM at Montgomery Park, 1800
Washington Blvd,, Baltimore,21230, to weigh in on Maryland’s plans to cut
climate disrupting pollution and fight for a clean transportation
future! The Maryland Climate Change Commission (MCCC) Mitigation Working Group
provides critical input to shape Maryland’s environmental policies and is
holding a meeting. Help ensure that Maryland’s major plan to reduce
carbon pollution 40% by 2030 includes robust measures to transform our
transportation sector into a climate-friendly, clean, safe, and equitable
system that works for everyone! Speak Out for Bike, Rail, EV, Clean Equitable
Transportation future! Contact Lindsey Mendelson at lindsey.mendelson@mdsierra.org
or 301-277-7111.
Maryland
currently participates in the Transportation and Climate Initiative, a
regional partnership to harness a market-based pollution reduction system in
our region and drive new investment into mass transit, pedestrian-and
bike-friendly communities, smart growth, and electric vehicles and buses. Right
now there is a big gap in the investments we need for clean, equitable
transportation solutions. At this meeting we have an opportunity to make sure
that Maryland’s plans to cut carbon pollution includes a firm and strong
commitment to the Transportation Climate Initiative. At the meeting
you will have an opportunity to make a public comment to the Commission and
tell them we need to be equitable, inclusive, and invest in community solutions
to clean transportation and clean energy.
24] – Cable
companies are sneaking wildly misleading fees onto their customers’ bills — inflating
bills far higher than the list price for the service. Consumer Reports members
will demand an end to these fees. More than 115,000 people signed a
petition to tell big cable companies to drop the fees. The company receiving
the most complaints was Comcast (also known as Xfinity). On Wed., June 27 at
11:30 Am, meet at Comcast’s headquarters in Philadelphia to deliver petitions
to 1701 JFK Boulevard, Philadelphia 19103. RSVP at https://action.consumerreports.org/cable20180627event?extkey=EA186C&utm_campaign=20180614philly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=cr.
25] – On Wed., June 27 from noon to 2 PM,
DC JWJ’s Lunch With Justice: Alternatives to Calling the Police at the
Institute for Policy Studies, 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW, WDC. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/lunch-with-justice-june?link_id=4&can_id=925ebef880a4d248ee7af0204c73d6f3&source=email-june-27-lunch-with-justice&email_referrer=email_367771___subject_453637&email_subject=june-27-lunch-with-justice.
D.C.
has a higher incarceration rate than any state in the country, and any country
in the world according
to a new report. Racial disparities exist throughout the criminal
justice system, where people of color make up 60% of the prison population.
The Sentencing
Project finds that "Black and white Americans experience
different policing practices. They encounter the police at different rates and
for different reasons, and they are treated differently during these
encounters." We all have a role to play to undermine these racial
disparities: advocating for alternatives to incarceration and eliminating
mandatory minimums, closing the education and wage gap, helping returning
citizens access work and services, and examining our own behavior.
26] -- There is a special event -- The struggle for
autonomy in Washington, D.C. -- How the history of race and politics informs
the current fight for basic rights in DC today. It features a
conversation with Derek Musgrove -- co-author of “Chocolate City” and Associate
Professor, UMBC, and Tom Sherwood - co-author of “Dream City” and a current
political analyst on WAMU. Tickets are at http://dcvote.nonprofitsoapbox.com/lunch.
It will happen on Wed., June 27 from 12:30 to 1:30 PM at 1640 Rhode Island Ave.
NW, WDC 20036.
27] – On Wed., June 27 from 4 to 7 PM, the Center for Arms
Control and Non-Proliferation will host "The Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty—The Next 50 Years" with former Sen. Richard Lugar; Sen. Ed Markey
(MA); Chris Ford, Department of State; and others in SD-106, Dirksen Senate
Office Building, WDC. RSVP at apokraka@armscontrolcenter.org.
28] -- On Wed., June 27 from 6 to 8 ,
the New Story Leadership Team from Palestine and Israel will share their
stories at St. Mark's Episcopal Church on Capitol Hill. Visit https://www.facebook.com/NewStoryLeadership/.
29] – Join the Catoctin
Sierra Club Group for a screening of the Sierra Club's new documentary “Reinventing
Power: America’s Renewable Energy Boom” on Wed., June 27 at 6:30 PM at 14 E Patrick St,, Frederick 21701. Go to https://www.sierraclub.org/reinventing-power. The film
will take the viewer across the country to hear directly from the people making
our clean energy future achievable. These individuals are working to rebuild
what’s broken, rethink what’s possible, and revitalize communities. Critically,
Reinventing Power underscores the notion that jobs, economic growth and
innovation don’t have to be sacrificed for a clean environment. Over the film’s
50 minutes, it focuses on people in eight states whose lives were changed by
the renewable energy industry while exploring various aspects of clean energy
from innovation to installation. Contact Kathleen
Rall at treeople@aol.com or (817) 681-4447.
To be
continued.
Donations
can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.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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