56] Train the Trainers Workshop – Aug. 10
57] WIB peace
vigils –
Aug. 10
58] White House vigil – Aug. 10
59] Solidarity with
Immigrants – Aug. 10
60] Teach-in &
Interfaith Vigil – Aug. 10
61] Black Lives Matter –
Aug. 10
62] Refugee Stories – Aug.
10
63] Ballroom Dancing – Aug.
10
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56] – On Fri., Aug. 10 from 10:30 AM to noon come to the
Working Matters Train the Trainers Workshop covering the Maryland Healthy
Working Families Act (earned sick and safe leave) in Capitol Heights, MD with
Progressive Maryland at Clout Workspace, 922 Hampton Overlook, Capitol Heights,
MD. RSVP to Sulma at GuzmanS@publicjustice.org.
57] – On
Fri., Aug. 10 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. STAY
FOR LUNCH at Baba's Kitchen.
Warm-up, dry off, and enjoy a vegetarian chili lunch and lots of good
conversation. Bring a side or topping for the chili. There are still
places at the table; invite a friend to come along with you.
Another vigil is at Roland Park Place, 830 W. 40th St,
Baltimore. 21211. However, if weather is iffy, contact Anne at awyattbr@gmail.com. Lunch will take place at 1 PM at the
RPP Café, 830 W. 40th St., Baltimore 21211.
A third vigil will be in Chestertown, Kent County at Memorial
Park at Cross Street and Park Row. This vigil is looking for more peace
bodies on the Eastern Shore. Welcome to the network, Chestertown Women in
Black.
Wear black. Dress for who knows what kind of weather. Peace signs will be available. 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 to: wibbaltimore@peacepath911.org.
58] – On Fri.,
Aug. 10 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.
59] – On
Fri., Aug. 10 from 3 to 5 PM, get involved with Solidarity with
Immigrants Picket, hosted by Baltimore Democratic Socialists of America at
3701 Koppers St., Halethorpe, MD 21227-1024. The US Customs and Immigration
Service (USCIS) is the federal agency that administers the newly-formed "denaturalization
task force," whose purpose is to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who
are already naturalized US citizens. Stand in solidarity with all immigrants
and in opposition to the deportation machine. We join
the #AbolishICE movement in calling for amnesty for all undocumented
people. We call on USCIS in particular to end the denaturalization task force,
and to end its participation in this administration's racist attacks on
immigrant rights. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/197680257762780/.
60] – On Fri., Aug. 10
from 3 to 7:15 PM, participate in a Teach-in & Interfaith Vigil with
Reps. Jamie Raskin and Eleanor Holmes Norton at the Washington Hebrew
Congregation, 3935 Macomb St. NW, WDC 20016. This Teach-In on Effective
Community Responses to Hate & White Supremacy will be held from 3 to 6 PM,
and followed by an interfaith vigil until 7:15 PM. Reverend William J. Barber,
II, president and lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, will deliver the keynote
address, and Leonard Zeskind, Founder of the Institute for Research & Education
on Human Rights, will explain the current context of far-right organizing and
vigilante violence.
The
teach-in will feature a panel discussion, entitled “Developing Effective
Responses to Eliminate Hate.” The panel will feature Dr. Wes Bellamy, Vice
Mayor, Charlottesville, VA; Dr. Randy Blazak, Oregon Coalition Against Hate
Crime; Lecia Brooks, Outreach Director, Southern Poverty Law Center; Monica
Hopkins, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Washington,
D.C.; and Tony McAleer, Board Chair, Life After Hate. Refreshments will
be served throughout the teach-in and vigil.
Parking
is available at Annunciation Church, 3810 Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC
20016. Please call Rep. Raskin’s D.C. office at 202-225-5341 with any
questions. See https://www.facebook.com/events/210454709635454/.
61] – 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 August
10. Black Lives Matter.
62] – On Fri., Aug. 10
from 7 to 9 PM, check out The Refugee Stories Library, hosted by The Omi
Collective at Femme Fatale DC Pop-Up Store, 4620 Wisconsin Ave. NW, WDC
20002. General Admission is $10. Join in for an evening of storytelling and
community building: Listen to the enthralling stories of refugee storytellers,
engage in one-on-one conversations, and learn why people are forced to flee
their homes.
The
Refugee Stories Library gives voices to different perspectives and humanizes
the roots and routes of the migration experience. The personal stories of
refugees presented through the Refugee Stories Library Project challenge the
simplistic refugee narrative that categorizes refugees into worthy and unworthy
victims. By fleeing their home and becoming refugees, they are deprived of
their identity as individuals. In addition, by the media, politicians, and the
public there is a tendency to depict refugees in categories of two extremes,
enemies to national security or victims that were mistreated. In the current
environment, a sense of humanity and social agency is often absent in the
depiction of refugees.
ALL
PROCEEDS of the event will go to the Women’s group of the Ethiopian Community
Development Council (ECDC), one of the organizations resettling refugees to the
DMV area. The Women’s group empowers newly arrived refugee women in Northern
Virginia and Maryland to navigate the challenges of their new life here in the
U.S. See https://www.facebook.com/events/1853298431392879/.
63] – 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 August 10. Call
Dave Greene at 410-599-3725.
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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