"I speak as an
American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is
ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther King Jr.
Friends, this
list and other email documents which I send out are done under the auspices of
the Baltimore Nonviolence Center. Go to www.baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com.
If you appreciate this information and would like to make a donation, send
contributions to BNC, 325 East 25th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218. Max
Obuszewski can be reached at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net.
1] Books, buttons and stickers
2] Web site for info on federal legislation
3] Get involved with NCNR
4] Buy an Anti-War Veteran hat
5] Lawyers
Against War
6]
SUPPORT
AMAZON WORKERS OF CONSCIENCE
7]
Little Friends for
Peace
8] Maryland 2,000 – July
29
9] International
Bog Day – July 29
10]
Evaluation of the Trump
Administration's Nuclear Weapons Policies – July 29
11]
Cuban National Ballet
School Teaching Seminar – July 29
12] Development of Environmental Law & Enforcement in China
– July 29
13] Fund Trans Legal Access Now –
July 29
14] “Fight
Like a Mother” – July 29
15] Training
how YOU can support our immigrant neighbors – July 29
16] Overturn
Citizens United – July 29
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1] –
Buttons, bumperstickers and books are available. “God Bless
the Whole World, No Exceptions” stickers are in stock. Call Max at
410-323-1607.
2] – To obtain information how your federal
legislators voted on particular bills, go to http://thomas.loc.gov/.
Congressional toll-free numbers are 888-818-6641, 888-355-3588 or
800-426-8073. The White House Comment Email is accessible at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.
3] –
THE ORGANIZING LIST will be the primary
decision-making mechanism of the National Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance
[NCNR]. It will be augmented by conference calls and possibly
in-person meetings as needed. It will consist of 1 or 2 representatives
from each local, regional, or national organization (not coalitions) that
wishes to actively work to carry out the NCNR campaign of facilitating and
organizing nonviolent resistance to U.S. wars.
To join the ORGANIZING List, please send your name,
group affiliation, city and email address to mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot
net. Different local chapters of a national organization are encouraged
to subscribe.
4] –
Get
a good-looking black hat which says Anti-War Veteran in the front and Viva
House 50th in the back. The cost is $10. Contact Max at
410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
5] – Jeff
Ross, an attorney in Maryland, is interested in gathering with other lawyers to
discuss ways in which the legal profession and the law generally can be
conceptualized as a peace-building and war-resisting institution and redirected
to these ends. Areas to explore might include: 1) ways in which this
group could support with legal analysis/writing those lawyers who are
representing peace-builders/war-resisters in criminal prosecutions; 2) ways in
which, from a more theoretical perspective, the law might be grounded in an
ethic of non-violence; and 3) ways in which law students and young lawyers
might be exposed to a non-violent vision of the law. All religious,
philosophical, and critical perspectives on the law are welcome. The group
might want to call itself Lawyers Against War. Jeff can be reached at
443-690-6872 and jross50@hotmail.com.
6] -- SUPPORT
AMAZON WORKERS OF CONSCIENCE. We are in a deep struggle to support
conscience within the high tech community, which may be the only way to prevent
a major leap into artificial intelligence warfare that we see the beginnings of
in the expanding global U.S. drone war system. This may be of particular
interest to Johns Hopkins' Navy-funded researchers, some of whom have been
working on swarming drone technology.
These
are not major asks and can
be a powerful reinforcement of conscience at an extremely critical
moment. Please consider circulating this link to your lists encouraging
people to sign the linked RootsAction petition - https://www.knowdrones.com/blog/2019/3/6/support-amazon-workers-who-dont-want-to-work-for-war
and
leafletting Whole Foods in your areas. This is a link to the leaflet -- https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dd110b000ca250d868d4f419b/files/107fc695-8af9-4f7e-a523-ecd1d1dfd28f/Wholefoods_Leaflet.pdf.
Should you have interest in circulating the links and possibly leafletting,
contact Nick Mottern at nickmottern at gmail.com.
7] -- Little Friends for Peace (LFFP - http://www.lffp.org/) has been
conducting summer peace camps around the Metro DC area for well over 30
years. For approximately the last ten years, LFFP has been offering free
tuition to children of TASSC (Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition
- https://www.tassc.org/)
members. Recently they have also been welcoming children of refugees to
their camps without regard for tuition payment. If you would like to assist
with this undertaking, there are many ways you can including:
Driving -
many of the TASSC and other refugee families want their children to attend camp
but they do not have the ability to drive them there and back. For the
last 8 to 10 years, Helen Schietinger has been working with LFFP and TASSC to
provide drivers for these children. If you can drive some children even
one way, on one day on any day during the following three weeks of peace camp
this summer, it would be much appreciated. Many drivers from past years
have moved or "aged out" of feeling comfortable driving and we really
need as many volunteer drivers as possible. If you can possibly drive,
please contact either Helen (202-344-5762 - h.schietinger@verizon.net ) or
Bob Cooke (301-661-0449 or cookerh1251@gmail.com) regarding
exactly when you can drive and from where you might be comfortable
driving. Most of the children live in PG County, D.C. or Montgomery
County.
The weeks
drivers are needed include: August 5 - camp is in Colesville/Silver Spring, MD
and August 19 - camp is in Mt. Rainier, MD. Share this information.
Donate for
Scholarships. In order to help as many scholarship asylee, refugee (and other)
children attend camp, LFFP (http://www.lffp.org/donate.html) can use as
much scholarship money donations as possible. No amount of scholarship
money is too little.
8] – Maryland 2,000 organized by the Animal Welfare
League Queen Anne's County continues from midnight through noon on Mon.,
July 29, Tues., July 30, Wed., July 31 into the future. Tickets are at www.maryland2000.com. Also
involved is the Baltimore Humane Society. There’s no better time to find your
feline bestie than right meow!
The third
annual Maryland 2,000 is back and homes are needed for cats and kittens living
in shelters across Maryland this July. Stop by any one of our 21 participating
shelters listed at Maryland2000.com to find a cat or kitten that is just right
for you and your family. Normal adoption procedures apply, but cat and kitten
adoption fees are waived! Sponsored by the Cat Hospital at Towson,
Maryland 2,000 adopters will receive a certificate for a free wellness exam for
their new cat or kitten at one of our participating veterinary clinics. Find
your nearest veterinary practice at https://www.maryland2000.com/participating-veterinarians. See https://www.facebook.com/events/476717003131923/?event_time_id=476717096465247.
9] –
On Mon., July
29 from 8 to 10 AM, hosted by International Bog Day USA at Howard's Branch
Restoration Site, Anne Arundel County, Maryland 21012. Celebrate
International Bog Day (which is actually on Sunday, July 28) by visiting a
world-renowned wetland restoration site (listed at number 11 of the most
significant Earth Day Projects recognized by the Environmental News Network).
Completed in 2001, Howard’s Branch wetland and stream enhancement project was
designed to support the reintroduction of Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis
thyoides) by creating a seepage wetland in a degraded stream valley previously
impounded for use as a drinking water reservoir. A series of cobble weirs and a
network of sand berms was placed over a dry lakebed to mimic the hydrology
found in natural Atlantic white cedar sites and provide habitat for a robust
native plant community. This is the site of a successfully reproducing stand of
Anne Arundel County MD Atlantic white cedar trees that were grown from seed
collected at the last 10 remaining AWC sites on the Western Shore of MD back in
the 1990's. Some of the other natives we may see at the site are Sweetbay
magnolia (Magnolia virginiana), Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia), Sweet gum
(Liquidambar styraciflua), sedges, iris, rushes and ferns. After we visit
Howards Branch, we will return to the meeting place and if you have time, you
can stick around to see another wetland and stream restoration site, Cabin
Branch, which is about a 2 minute walk from the parking lot. All registration
goes through https://www.mdflora.org/event-3489158. See https://www.facebook.com/events/506855360118881/.
10] – On Mon., July 29 from 9:30 to 11 AM, hear
about A Critical Evaluation of the Trump Administration's Nuclear Weapons
Policies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Choate Room, 1779
Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC. Since taking office in January 2017, the
Trump administration’s strategy to reduce nuclear weapons risks has been marked
by significant controversy. The administration has withdrawn from the 2015 Iran
nuclear deal, began high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with North Korea, proposed to
develop new low-yield nuclear capabilities and is pressing forward on a $1.7
trillion plan to maintain and upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal, announced its
intent to withdraw from the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
on August 2, and has yet to make a decision on whether to extend the 2010 New
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). Hear from Lt. Gen. (ret.)
Frank Klotz, Corey Hinderstein, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Kingston Reif, Arms
Control Association; and Thomas Countryman, Arms Control Association.
Visit https://www.armscontrol.org/events/2019-07/critical-evaluation-trump-administrations-nuclear-weapons-policies.
11] – On Mon., July 29 at 10 AM through Thurs., Aug 1
at 4 PM, get with the Cuban National Ballet School Teaching Seminar, hosted
by the Towson University Department Of Dance and the Ruth Page Center
for the Arts at Towson University Department Of Dance, Center for the Arts,
8000 York Rd, Towson 21252. For the first time ever in the United States,
this four-day seminar will focus on the intermediate years of the Cuban
National Ballet School's 8 year curriculum (ages 15-17). Seminar
participants will learn about the History, Methodology, Cultural Traits, and
Distinctive Characteristics of the Cuban National Ballet School curriculum. Call
(410) 704-3495 or go to https://www.towson.edu/campus/artsculture/centers/communitydance/adult/. See https://www.facebook.com/events/313313932862519/.
12] – On Mon., July 29 from 11:30 AM to 1 PM, get over
to Development of Environmental Law & Enforcement in China, hosted
by Environmental Law Institute, 1730 M St. NW, Suite 700, WDC 20036.
Tickets are at www.eli.org. This
past spring, senior EPA and DOJ officials visited their Chinese counterparts to
discuss recent legislative and regulatory developments. The U.S. officials also
met representatives from U.S. multinational corporations and NGOs, as well as
members of the Chinese judiciary and the academia. On July 29, ELI and the
Woodrow Wilson Center’s China Environment Forum will host three of these top
U.S. officials to hear about their recent trips and to discuss Chinese
environmental law developments, new approaches to enforcement, and the effects
of Chinese environmental laws on U.S. companies. Register at: https://bit.ly/2XBl3KV. Look
at https://www.facebook.com/events/856165214784014/.
13] – On Mon., July 29 from 6 to 9 PM, participate in
Fund Trans Legal Access Now! This is hosted by TransLAW: Trans Legal
Advocates of Washington at TRADE, 1410 14th St. NW, Ground Floor, WDC
20005. Trans Legal Advocates of Washington (TransLAW) is hosting our 7th
Annual Fundraiser & Celebration! Join LGBTQ+ friends and allies for a fun,
casual evening of celebrating accomplishments and fundraising to support the
legal needs of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the DMV area. Go
to https://www.facebook.com/events/348162032517989/. All
funds raised go directly to clients receiving name and gender change services
at Whitman-Walker Health's Name and Gender Change Clinic! There is a $10
suggested donation. Visit https://TransLAW2019.eventbrite.com/.
14] – On Mon., July 29 at 7 PM, join us at the ERUCC
Downtown Community Room, 15 West Church Street in Frederick, 21701, for an
author talk and book signing with Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action
for Gun Sense in America and author of “Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots
Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World.” On
the morning of December 14, 2012, stay-at-home-mom Shannon Watts was folding
laundry when the news broke that there had been a shooting in Newtown,
Connecticut involving young children. Outraged and heartbroken, Shannon felt an
overwhelming need to act. Discovering there was no organization for gun
violence similar to MADD—Mothers Against Drunk Driving—she vowed to build it.
Tickets can be had at curiousiguana.com. “Fight Like a Mother” is the powerful
story of how one mother’s cry for action started a national women’s movement.
Moms Demand Action has established chapters in all 50 states and, along with
Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Students Demand Action, and the Everytown Survivor
Network, is part of Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence
prevention organization in the country with nearly 6 million supporters.
This event is presented in partnership with Curious Iguana and Evangelical
Reformed United Church of Christ (ERUCC). Books will be available for purchase
and signing at the event. Contact Curious Iguana at 301-695-2500 or info@curiousiguana.com. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/1883367228430591/.
15] – On Mon., July 29 from 6:30 to 8 PM, the Episcopal
Refugee and Immigrant Center Alliance (ERICA) will host a training about how
YOU can support our immigrant neighbors and be a positive force in ensuring
their constitutional rights are not violated. Learn about the rights of
immigrants and bystanders alike and how to respond safely and effectively if
you witness harassment or exclusion or, in particular, ICE activity. The
training will take place at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, 4 E. University
Pkwy., Baltimore 21218. This workshop is free. Please RSVP by clicking 'Going'
on this event page https://www.facebook.com/events/330422281241000/?active_tab=about.
Refreshments will be served.
16] – On Tues., July 30 from 11:30 AM to 1 PM, check
out U.S. Senate Introduction - Amendment to Overturn Citizens United, hosted
by End Citizens United at the Supreme Court of the United States, 1
1st St NE, WDC 20002. Senator Tom Udall and other Democratic senators
will introduce a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and to
prevent Big Business and wealthy individuals from spending unlimited amounts of
money to try to influence our elections. Join us to show your support and hear
from Senator Udall and others about how we can reduce the power of special
interest money, bring dark money into the light, and create a democracy that
works for all of us. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/democracy-for-all-amendment-to-overturn-citizens-united-tickets-66487631295. Check out https://www.facebook.com/events/339673673622418/.
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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