36] Call in for $15 minimum
wage – Feb. 6
37] JHU Walkout for
Immigrant Lives – Feb. 6
38] Food Rescue – Feb. 6
39] Ban on
polystyrene foam foodservice products – Feb. 6
40] School of Food
and Food Rescue Baltimore – Feb. 6
41] Thrive DC Monthly
Dinner – Feb. 6
42] Maryland Environmental
Legislative Summit – Feb. 6
43] Peace-Building on the
Korean Peninsula -- Feb. 6
44] City Council Monthly Oversight Hearing
-- Feb. 6
45] Global LGBT Civil Rights Policy – Feb. 6
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36] – On Wed., Feb. 6 & 13 from all over
Maryland. These are Call-in days for a $15 Minimum Wage! Call 800-492-7122
to ask to speak with your Senator and Delegates. Visit https://maryland.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=177afa87a67746a4ac5496b2d0897fb7
to use your street address to find who represents you. Tell them to pass a “clean”
$15 minimum wage bill with “NO exemptions” for youth, rural Maryland.
37] – On Wed., Feb. 6 from 11 AM to 1 PM, join the JHU
Walkout for Immigrant Lives! It is hosted by Hopkins Coalition
Against ICE in the Brody Learning Commons, Johns Hopkins University, 3400
N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218. During the summer of 2018, it became known
that JHU is being paid millions of dollars to provide leadership and medical
training to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers - the same
agency that has torn thousands of immigrant families apart. This is a
campus-wide walkout followed by a rally with community members to demand that
Johns Hopkins END THESE SHAMEFUL CONTRACTS that enable and encourage the
detainment, deportation, and traumatization of innocent people seeking a better
life! JHU argues that by providing training to ICE officers the
university is actually helping immigrants. This statement will sound outrageous
to anybody familiar with the agency's endless history of human right violations
- from sexual abuse, to medical neglect, to the disgraceful policy of family
separation under the Trump administration. To this day, thousands of
immigrant children have been separated from their families, so many that the
number is still unknown (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/us/family-separation-trump-administration-migrants.html).
For more information as to how JHU instructors (professors, TAs) can
participate in the walkout, check out the following link: https://bit.ly/2Uvle9y. Take in https://www.facebook.com/events/2049919015307299/.
38] – On Wed., Feb. 6 at noon, get food at
the Free Farm, 3510 Ash St., Baltimore 21211. This is hosted by Food
Rescue Baltimore. Bring a bag, bring a friend, and take delicious,
nutritious, free rescued food. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/327125147795282/.
39]
– Get
over to the hearing on House Bill 109 -- Ban on polystyrene foam foodservice
products on Wed., Feb. 6 at 1 PM In the House of Delegates Environment and
Transportation Committee. Go to http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga/frmMain.aspx?id=hb0109&stab=01&pid=billpage&tab=subject3&ys=2019RS.
It is sponsored by Delegate Lierman.
40]
– On
Wed., Feb. 6 at 2 PM, and every Wednesday until July 24, 2019, School of Food
and Food Rescue Baltimore will give out food at 1412 N. Wolfe St.,
Baltimore 21213. Bring a bag, bring a friend, and take delicious, nutritious,
free rescued food. See https://www.facebook.com/events/2105994779640314/.
41] – On Wed., Feb. 6 from 2 to 4 PM, join in the
Thrive DC Monthly Dinner, hosted by CREW DC at St. Stephen & the
Incarnation Episcopal Church, 1525 Newton St. NW, WDC 20010. Find tickets
at crewdc.org. Volunteers are needed to serve dinner to Thrive DC's
clients, the 1st Wednesday of every month. Pre-register at www.thrivedc.org. Volunteer to serve dinner, coordinate
shower & laundry schedules and to pass out hygiene supplies to clients.
Thrive DC's dinner program offers a safe peer supported environment for women
and children. This includes a warm nutritious dinner, crisis intervention
services and physical fitness/therapeutic activities. Seek out https://www.facebook.com/events/2206201502938180/.
42]
– On
Wed., Feb. 6 at 4 PM, come to the Maryland Environmental Legislative Summit in
the Miller Senate Office Building, 11 Bladen St., Annapolis 21401. The
CCE (Citizen Campaign for the Environment) is hosting an environmental
legislative summit. The CCE is an informal group of environmental advocacy
organizations who work together to define and support key environmental
legislation during the General Assembly. RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepyEfhVm4MjyF0lq5GSEKIZcaxkO8pQpfo7gGup8Q-v9vzDA/viewform.
Join the Environmental Community in Annapolis to learn about our 2019
Environmental legislative priorities, hear from elected officials, community
leaders, and connect with your neighbors about environmental issues affecting
all Marylanders. This year our legislature will
decide about important bills that will address climate change and move Maryland
to clean renewable energy. The keynote speaker of next week’s Legislative
Environmental Summit will be Destiny Watford, winner of the
Goldman Environmental Prize (known as the “Green Nobel”). As a high
school student in a low income neighborhood of Baltimore, Destiny led her
community in stopping construction of yet another polluting incinerator in her
neighborhood. She has become recognized nationwide as a leader in
combining a visionary approach to a clean energy future with practical
approaches to getting it done.
43] – On Wed., Feb.
6 from 4:30 to 6 PM, catch up with Peace-Building on the Korean Peninsula: Does
Multilateralism Matter? It is hosted by Edwin O. Reischauer Center
for East Asian Studies at the Bernstein-Offit Building, 1717 Massachusetts Ave.
NW, Room 500, WDC 20036. Dr. Jae-Seung Lee is Professor and Jean Monnet
Chair in Division of International Studies and Director of Nordic-Benelux
Center at Korea University. He has also served as Policy Advisor to the Foreign
Ministry of Korea and Chairman of Asia-Europe Energy Policy Research Network
(AEEPRN). As a scholar in international political economy, Prof. Lee has
authored a number of books and articles on energy security and European
affairs. His current research also includes regional cooperation in Northeast
Asia and foreign policy of Korea. Prof. Lee holds a B.A. in Political Science
from Seoul National University, M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale
University. He joined Johns Hopkins University-SAIS (2015-16) and Stanford
University (2011-12) as a visiting scholar. He has contributed op-ed articles
to major Korean newspapers and commented on international affairs for BBC, CNN
and Korean broadcast stations.
The Korean Peninsula is undergoing a crucial political transition with a series
of bilateral talks. While North Korea’s actual steps for denuclearization
remains uncertain, there are simultaneously hopes and fears for the future
progress of détente. Successful peace-building, however, would also require
multilateral frameworks to lock-in denuclearization and possible economic
initiatives. This lecture explores the utility and limitation of
multilateralism toward peace-building on the Korean Peninsula. The role of
broader stakeholders including the EU and international institutions will also
be discussed. Check out https://www.facebook.com/events/1091724041034536/.
44] -- On Wed., Feb. 6 from 5 to 9 PM, come to a City
Council Monthly Oversight Hearing of the Baltimore Police Dept., hosted
by Councilperson Eric T. Costello and Councilperson Brandon M.
Scott at Baltimore City Hall, 100 Holliday St., Baltimore 21202. If you can't
make it to City Hall, you may watch on Comcast channel 25 and the hearings will
also be streamed live on: www.charmtv.tv/watch-live.
Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/619807928435775/.
45]
– On
Wed., Feb. 6 from 5 to 6 PM, be at Global LGBT Civil Rights Policy at
McCourt School of Public Policy, OLD N, WDC 20007. The last two years of LGBT
(lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) civil rights policy under the Trump
administration have been regressive in light of progress made in recent
decades. While there was a blue wave in the House of Representatives, it was
accompanied by a more colorful rainbow wave. The 2018 Midterms marked an
unprecedented gain of political representation for the LGBT community. Sexual
minorities made history in Congress and in Governors houses, while transgender
people made history in state legislatures across the country. This has obvious
implications for LGBT civil rights policy in the United States, but what are the
implications of this representation for LGBT asylum seekers and governments
across the globe? This discussion centers its focus on LGBT asylum seekers,
family and LGBT children. See https://www.facebook.com/events/329326921014022/.
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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