45] Building Worker Power – June 13
46] Film PRETTY UGLY – June
13
47] Poor Peoples Campaign
meeting – June 13
48] Discussion on Black
People and Criminal Justice – June 13
49] "THE FIVE HUNDRED
YEAR REBELLION" – June 13
50] Reset Retirement – June 14
51] White House vigil– June 14
52] WIB peace
vigils –
June 14
53] “Temporary
Protected Status” –
June 14
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45] – On Thurs.,
June 13 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM, hear about Strategies for Building Worker
Power, hosted by the Economic Policy Institute, 1225 I St. NW, #600, WDC
20005. A growing body of research shows the systematic erosion of workers'
bargaining power over the past 40-plus years is at the root of wage stagnation
for working people and rising inequality. If policymakers wish to address these
issues, they must look to policies that build up worker power. Light
refreshments will be served. RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/329727644377057/.
46] – On
Thurs., June 13 from 6 to 8 PM, See the film “Pretty Ugly,” as part of a
Fundraiser Party at the Brookeville Beer Farm, 20315 Georgia Ave., Brookeville
20833. Support a powerful new documentary about toxic chemicals in personal
care products and cosmetics. Watch an extended excerpt of the film. Discover
tools to avoid harmful ingredients in a post-screening discussion with the
filmmaker, and discover Beautycounter, a skincare and cosmetics company whose
mission is to get safer products into the hands of everyone. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/915499021954203/.
47] – On
Thurs., June 13 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, attend the Montgomery County Regional
Monthly Meeting - Poor People's Campaign at the Seekers Church, 276 Carroll St.
NW, WDC 20012. Light refreshments and hot beverages will be served. See https://www.facebook.com/events/303352030597626/.
48] –
On
Thurs., June 13 from 7 to 9 PM, catch the When They See Us Community Discussion
on Black People and Criminal Justice, hosted by the Northern Virginia
Urban League Young Professionals Network at George Mason's University School of
Conflict Analysis and Resolution, 3434 N. Washington Blvd., Arlington 22201.
Have you seen the series When They See Us? Has it stirred up strong emotions?
Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/2323285481326550/.
49] – On Thurs.,
June 13 from 7 to 9 PM, BEN DANGL PRESENTS "THE FIVE HUNDRED YEAR
REBELLION" at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 1225 Cathedral St.,
Baltimore 21201. After centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century
riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a
social and political struggle that would change the country forever. As part of
that project activists took control of their own history, starting in the 1960s
by reaching back to oral traditions and then forward to new forms of print and
broadcast media. This book tells the fascinating story of how indigenous
Bolivians recovered and popularized histories of past
rebellions, political models, and leaders, using them to build movements for
rights, land, autonomy, and political power. Drawing from rich archival sources
and the author’s lively interviews with indigenous leaders and
activist-historians. The book describes how movements tapped into
centuries-old veins of oral history and memory to produce manifestos, booklets,
and radio programs on histories of resistance, wielding them as tools to expand
their struggles and radically transform society. Dangl has a PhD in Latin
American history from McGill University and has worked as a journalist
throughout Latin America for over fifteen years, covering politics and protest
movements for outlets such as The Guardian, Al Jazeera, The
Nation, Salon, Vice, and NACLA Report on the Americas.
50] –
Reset
Retirement: Solutions for the 21st Century will be promoted by Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend, Director, Retirement Security, EPI, and Teresa Ghilarducci, Schwartz
Professor of Economics, The New School for Social Research, on Fri., June 14
from 10 AM to 12:30 PM at the Kennedy Caucus Room (SR-325), Russell Senate
Office Building, 2 Constitution Ave. NE, WDC 20002. There will be panel
discussion which will examine key policy solutions for the ongoing retirement
crisis. Reform the current system to ensure all workers can breathe
easy in old age. This event will be followed by a delicious lunch.
The discussion will be led by Randi Weingarten, president, American Federation
of Teachers, Tony James, Executive Vice Chairman, Blackstone and co-author
of “Rescuing Retirement,” and others. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reset-retirement-solutions-for-the-21st-century-tickets-60889488098.
51]
–
On Fri., June 14 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.
52]
– Women
in Black VIGILS FOR PEACE take place on Fri., June 14 from noon to 1 PM. One
is at McKeldin Square, corner of Light and Pratt Sts., in the Inner
Harbor, Baltimore. Use the purple circulator line. Another
is at Roland Park Place, 830 W. 40th St., Baltimore. Free Parking
available. Vigil at noon. Lunch in the Greenway Room is at 1 PM. If there's a
storm, there is no vigil, but there will be lunch. Contact Anne: awyattbr@gmail.com. The final vigil is in Chestertown,
Kent County on the Eastern Shore at Memorial Park at Cross
Street and Park Row. Email wibbaltimore@peacepath911.org.
53] – On Fri., June
14 from 2 to 3:30 PM, catch a briefing Partially Protected? Non-Asylum
Protection in the U.S. and E.U., hosted by the U.S. Helsinki Commission in
the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2237. Tickets are at www.csce.gov. The United States and the European Union
give legal protection to some people who flee armed conflict or natural
disaster, but do not qualify them as refugees. In the United States, the
Secretary of Homeland Security designates countries of origin for “Temporary
Protected Status” (TPS), enabling their nationals to legally remain in the
United States and work until and unless the Secretary terminates the
designation. Approximately 417,000 individuals from 10 countries currently have
TPS, living in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. commonwealths
and territories. In 2018, more than 100,300 people were granted similar non-asylum
protection, on an individual basis, across the 28 countries of the European
Union.
Since
2017, the United States has extended TPS for Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and
Yemen, and announced terminations for El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal,
Nicaragua, and Sudan. Lawsuits have challenged the terminations. To date,
Members of Congress have introduced at least 10 TPS-focused bills in the 116th
Congress. This briefing will explore the background and implementation of
non-asylum protection in the United States and Europe—including whether some
European Union Member States are according this protection even when asylum
claims are credible—legislative and legal responses, and implications for
policy, law, and protection. See ttps://www.facebook.com/events/2547696295263204/.
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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