23] Food Rescue Pop-Up –
May 20
25] Community Land Trust
Information Meeting – May 20
26] Takoma Trivia – May 20
27] “Journey for Justice:
The Life of Larry Itliong” – May 20
28] “Blood on the Mountain”
– May 20
29] Get the Money Out
conference call – May 20
30] Beyond the Headlines:
Central African Republic – May 21
31] Peace Vigil – May 21
32] No Drone Research DEMO – May 21
33] See the play REPUBLIC
UNDONE– May 21
34] American
Promise DE meeting – May 21
35] Open Energy Committee
Meeting – May 21
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23] –On
Mon., May 20 from 3 to 4 PM, there is a Food Rescue Pop-Up at Flourish, 3418
Belair Road, Baltimore 21213-1233. Bring a bag, and take home healthy,
free food! View https://www.facebook.com/events/301851223848295/?event_time_id=301851250514959.
This
will continue into the future.
24]
– On Mon., May 20 at 6 PM, get over to the Delaware Coalition
Against Gun Violence's Biden Family Award presentation honoring Rep. Valerie
Longhurst and David Bentz - as well as student activist Avery Jones -- for
their tireless work to prevent gun violence in Delaware. The event will
be a "casual cocktail party" at Bella Vita, Cavaliers Country Club,
100 Addison Dr., Newark, DE 19702. Check out https://delawarecoalitionagainstgunviolence.salsalabs.org/bidenfamilyaward/index.html.
25] – On Mon., May 20 from 6 to 7 PM, attend the
Community Land Trust Information Meeting, hosted by the Harwood Community
Association, the 29th Street Community Center, 300 E. 29th St., Baltimore
21218. Join a citywide movement for fair development! Learn what you and your
neighbors can do to make sure there's a place for everyone in Harwood. This is
a special meeting of the Harwood Community Association. If you can't come but
want to learn more contact Ryan Flanigan at ranigan@gmail.com.
Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/438573913385369/.
26] – On Mon., May 20 from 7:30 to 10 PM, get with
TAKOMA TRIVIA: THE LABOR EDITION, hosted by Metro Washington Council
AFL-CIO at Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW, WDC 20012. Feel
free to bring team members!
Join
us for this special labor edition of the popular weekly competition, hosted by
Max Johansen. Test your knowledge of the labor movement, have fun with friends
and enjoy Busboys’ terrific food and drink. No team minimum: play by yourself
or grab some friends. Prizes for the top teams! This will benefits DC Jobs with
Justice, a dynamic coalition of labor organizations, community groups,
faith-based organizations, and student groups dedicated to protecting the
rights of working people and supporting community struggles to build a more
just society. See https://www.facebook.com/events/460885684716931/.
27] – On Mon., May 20 from 6 to 8:30 PM, catch up with
the Book Tour of “Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong,” hosted
by Apala D. C. Chapter at Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625 Monroe St. NE,
WDC 20017. Welcome the book’s co-author and Bridge and Delta publisher,
Gayle Romasanta, from Stockton, California. As the first book about Larry
Itliong, co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) with Cesar Chavez,
the book also gives a glimpse of Filipino American history and the solidarity
between Filipino and Mexican farm workers that created the largest farm labor
movement in the history of the United States. RSVP athttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/national-book-tour-of-journey-for-justice-the-life-of-larry-itliong-tickets-61551259474.
See https://www.facebook.com/events/413747882690743/.
28] – On Mon., May
20 at 7 PM, see a free screening as part of the “Reel & Meal at the New
Deal” features “Blood on the Mountain,” an historical account of the coal
industry’s grip on workers and entire mining communities of West Virginia that
also probes the rippling effect of environmental and economic injustice felt by
many other workers and regions. There is an optional vegan meal priced at $14
and served from 6:30 PM, all at the New Deal Café, 113 Centerway, Roosevelt
Center, Greenbelt. The program is jointly sponsored with the DC LaborFest.
Representatives of Earth Justice and Maryland Sierra Club will co-lead a
discussion of the film. Go to https://www.newdealcafe.com/events/reel-and-meal/blood-on-the-mountain/.
29] – Join the Get Money Out of Maryland
Teleconference on Mon., May 20 from 8:30 to 9:30 PM. Call 605-475-6711,
code 1136243#. Work only on brainstorming ideas for participation in the
upcoming General Election.
30] – On Tues., May 21 from noon to 1:30 PM, check out
Beyond the Headlines: Central African Republic, hosted by Women's Foreign
Policy Group at the Evening Star Building United
Technologies Corporation,10th Floor, 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC
20004. Tickets are at www.wfpg.org.
The Central African Republic's (CAR) humanitarian crisis is the third worst in
the world in the number of citizens per capita in need. Violence erupted again
in CAR in 2013, leading to a collapse of the state and displacing over 1
million citizens. Five years later, state authority has been re-established in
the capital, but armed groups still control much of the country. Despite the
continued humanitarian crisis, is there reason to be hopeful? The UN
peacekeeping mission continues to successfully negotiate local peace accords
and the African Union-led peace talks have led to an agreement with fourteen of
the armed groups. What is the situation on the ground today? Are there
prospects for sustainable peace? What challenges lie ahead?
Alexandra
Lamarche is an advocate at Refugees International where her work focuses on
sub-Saharan Africa and peacekeeping. She has led research missions on
displacement crises in the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of
the Congo, Cameroon and Nigeria, among others. Prior to joining the RI team in
2017, Alexandra worked on issues of conflict, reconciliation, and migration in
the Central African Republic, Chad, Lebanon, Mauritania, Côte d'Ivoire, and
Uganda. She holds a Masters in Conflict, Security, and Development from the
University of Sussex in the UK and Bachelor of Social Sciences in Conflict
Studies and Human Rights from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Twitter:
@AlyLamb | @RefugeesIntl. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/2293725134233924/.
31]
– 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 21. Call 215-426-0364.
32]
– Vigil
to say "No Drone Research at JHU" each Tuesday at 33rd & North
Charles Sts. The next vigil will be on May 21 from 5 to 6 PM. Contact Max
at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607.
33] – On Tues., May 21 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, see the
play Republic Undone, which features the galaxy of personalities that sashayed
across the stage as Woodrow Wilson ascended to power and orchestrated America’s
entry into the Great War, at the Woman's National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW (at Q St.), WDC 20036. Republic Undone is directed by
Rick Davis, Dean of George Mason’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. The
bar open at 6:30 PM, light snacks included. The performance begins at 7 PM.
Tickets are $30 for members, and $40 for others.
Against
the backdrop of World War I, John Henry’s Republic Undone dramatizes the
conflict over the meaning of the American Revolution -- what it means to be an
American. Besides Wilson, meet first wife Ellen, Andrew Carnegie, William
Jennings Bryan, Alice Paul and Henry Cabot Lodge who argue for a Madisonian
America that exalts separation of powers and prohibits presidential wars.
Colonel House, Mary Peck and his second wife Edith defend a Wilsonian America
that salutes limitless executive power to go abroad in search of monsters to
destroy. The play explores Wilson’s narcissistic personality as he
crushes any opposition to his will. The ghost of James Madison attacks Wilson
for destroying the Republic that secured peace to enable women and men to march
to their own drummer. Wilson dismisses Madison as a museum piece that would
hobble Americans from spreading goodness in every corner of the world.
See
https://democraticwoman.org/republic-undone/.
Contact Patricia Fitzgerald, Woman's National Democratic Club, at (202)
232-7363 or pfitzgerald@democraticwoman.org.
34] – On Tues., May 21 from 7 to 8:30 PM,
there is an American Promise DE meeting in Room 25, First Unitarian Church of
Wilmington, 730 Halstead Rd. All are welcome! Go to https://www.facebook.com/APADelaware/.
35] – On Tues., May 21 from 7:30 to 9 PM, get over to
Open Energy Committee Meeting, hosted by the Sierra Club Maryland Chapter
at the Silver Spring Civic Center, Fenton Room, 1 Veterans Place, Silver Spring
20910. Tickets can be had at act.sierraclub.org. You can also participate
via webinar here: https://zoom.us/j/561590614 or dial in by
phone: +1 646 876 9923 - Meeting ID: 561 590 614. The climate crisis is real,
so there is a lot to do. See https://www.facebook.com/events/676428379475800/.
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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