Sunday, June 30, 2019

Baltimore Activist Alert -- July 1 - 2, 2019


25] Get Money Out of Maryland Teleconference – July 1
26] Community farm volunteer day –- July 2
27] Between the Wall and the Flood in Mexico – July 2
28] Statehood Phone Bank – July 2
29] Peace vigil – July 2
30] Free the Children/Protest killer drone research at JHU – July 2
31] Immigrants & refugees in Baltimore City should not fear the Police. July 2
32] A Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton – July 2
33] Confront the Alt-Right July 2
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25] – Join the Get Money Out of Maryland Teleconference on Mon., July 2 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.

26] -- On Tues., July 2 from 8 AM to 1 PM, join a community farm volunteer day!  The Community Ecology Institute purchased the farm and need lots of help to get it up and running! Please come out with gloves, sturdy shoes, lots of water, sun protection and snacks and you will be put to work (and kids) weeding, watering, removing rocks, etc.  But the first thing we need to do is to get all of the key food fields up and growing! Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/426880618165991/.

27] -- On Tues., July 2 from 10 to 11:30 AM, check AMLO Economics: Between the Wall and the Flood in Mexico, hosted by Center for Global Development, 2055 L St. NW, 5th Floor, WDC 20036.  Tickets are at www.cgdev.org. Over the last 25 years, Mexico has benefited from robust trade and financial integration with North America and strong domestic macroeconomic and financial stability, although much remains to be done on the socioeconomic front. Against this backdrop, the economy is currently facing strong domestic and external headwinds. At home, the economy has slowed since last year, with real GDP contracting 0.2% in 1Q2019, reflecting low productivity in Mexico and softer growth in the United States. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has announced protectionist policies, which are not supportive of private investment. From the external side, the lingering uncertainties about Trump’s tariffs on Mexico's imports could have a major negative impact.  The Latin American Committee on Macroeconomic and Financial Issues (CLAAF) will discuss central questions on the best policy responses to market uncertainties. A light breakfast and coffee will be available at 9:30 AM.  Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/338084550202566/.

28] – Can you participate in a DC Statehood Phone Bank on Tues., July 2 and Tues., July 9, all from 10 AM to 6 PM at the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC 20004 in room G-9. Join the Washington, DC Statehood Office for a DC Statehood Phone Bank. Call state legislatures across the US to raise awareness of DC residents' lack of full and equal voting representation in Congress.   Phones, scripts, materials, and light refreshments will be provided. Consider https://www.facebook.com/events/673834763077915/?event_time_id=673834769744581.

29] –  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 July 2.  Call 215-426-0364.

30] – Vigil to say "No Drone Research at JHU" each Tuesday at 33rd & North Charles Sts. The next vigil will be on July 2 from 5 to 6 PM. Also this will be a call to Free the Children.  Today emergency mobilizations are happening around the country.  So at this vigil, we will demand of Congress to close the camps. Contact Max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607. 

31] – On Tues., July 2 from 5:30 to 7 PM, hear about MIMA - Baltimore City Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs at the Enoch Pratt Free Library-SE Anchor Branch, 3601 Eastern Ave., Baltimore 21224.  Immigrants & refugees in Baltimore City should not fear Baltimore Police. Join the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs (MIMA), Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young, & Police Commissioner Michael Harrison for a conversation with Baltimore's New American communities.  Come & learn about a new police policy that tells officers how to best serve & protect immigrants in Baltimore. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions of City leaders. Email mima@baltimorecity.gov. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/2339008949682665/.

32] – On Tues., July 2 from 6 to 8 PM, get over to D.C. Statehood & Community Building: A Conversation with Eleanor Holmes Norton at the Metropolitan A.M.E. Church, 1518 M St. NW, WDC 20005. This forum is a community event, in which Reverend William Lamar IV will moderate a topical discussion with Congresswoman Norton about the evolution of community in the District of Columbia. The conversation will include a robust discussion on D.C. Statehood and other federal matters that Congresswoman is advancing on Capitol Hill on behalf of her constituents.  Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/336523707022296/.

33] – On Tues., July 2 at 7 PM, there is an Alloutdc community assembly at The Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC 20009.  On July 6th, 2019, the far right and white supremacists alike will be converging at Freedom Plaza for their so-called “Demand Free Speech” rally. Organized by hate group the Proud Boys, the rally is supposed to feature speakers like rape-apologist Mike Cernovich, neo-Nazi Milo Yiannopoulis, notorious Islamophobe Laura Loomer, western Chauvinist Gavin McGuiness, Trump’s former campaign advisor Roger Stone, and alt-right troll Jack Posobiec. They will weaponize free speech to normalize bigotry and hateful rhetoric against communities of color, LGBTQAI2S+, migrant workers, DACA recipients, undocumented communities, Muslim and Jewish communities, and other already marginalized communities.

  An anti-fascist/anti-racist response will be demonstrating to confront the alt-right. See https://www.facebook.com/events/1841643212604509/?ti=icl.  Help mobilize a counter protest against the alt-right’s desire to spread hate, and open the conversation about confronting white supremacy and fascism to the community, in particular to the marginalized communities most impacted by their hate. This panel is a chance for our community to discuss why D.C. should mobilize against the Demand Free Speech rally. The speaker list will be made of organizers and activists from the DMV, of the marginalized communities that are actively being targeted and erased by the MAGA white nationalist hate speech campaign. See https://www.facebook.com/events/2715267901834914/.

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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