41] Climate Action Coffee – Oct. 16
42] Fill the House for
House of Ruth – Oct. 16
43] Maryland State
Legislative overview for Prince George’s Dist. 47 –
Oct. 16
44] Hear from
a land rights activist – Oct. 16
45] Labor History class – Oct. 16
46] Hear from
a land rights activist – Oct. 16
47] US-NK Relations: The Post-Hanoi Summit – Oct. 16
48] “Blueprint for
Maryland’s Future” – Oct. 16
49] Protest ICE – Oct. 16
50] Political Record Labels
– Oct. 16
51] Hear from
a land rights activist – Oct. 17
52] Hear from
a land rights activist – Oct. 17
53] Pacem in Terris ANNUAL
DINNER – Oct. 17
54] Ron Kipling Williams’
one man show – Oct. 17, 19 & 20
55] Forum on full funding
for schools – Oct. 17
56] Women Suffragists and the Men Who Supported
Them – Oct. 17
57] "Suppressed: The
Fight to Vote” – Oct. 17
58] Beyond Coal meeting – Oct. 17
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41] – On Wed., Oct. 16 from 7:30 to 9 AM, enjoy Climate
Action Coffee at Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW, WDC 20012. The
Climate Action Coffee is an every-Wednesday gathering at Busboys and Poets
Takoma, a cooperative production of Busboys and the Takoma Alliance for a Local
Living Economy (TALLE), a working group of the Takoma Park Mobilization. This
weekly series is meant to provide an organizing workspace with action-oriented
discussion circles focused on building the kinds of markets, society, food
systems and resiliency that we want for our region; raising watershed and
environmental justice consciousness; and following youth climate leaders in
taking immediate action to reverse the dramatic disruption of our climate
systems. Bring your vision and passion for reshaping our communities and local
economies in the service of resiliency, racial equity, and
carbon-neutrality. See http://tpmobilization.org/talle
and https://www.facebook.com/events/2536864976380836/?event_time_id=2536864989714168.
42] – On Wed., Oct.
16 from 8 AM to 6 PM, Fill the House for House of Ruth, hosted
by WMAR-2 News at Weis Markets, 1238 Putty Hill Ave., Towson 21286.
Donations will be collected at the Weis Markets at Towson Place. Here are
the items needed: new diapers, wipes, formula, comforters, pillows, blankets
and new underwear for woman and children. See https://www.facebook.com/events/377801136437823/.
43] – On Wed., Oct.
16 from 9 AM to 2 PM, catch the Maryland State Legislative overview for Prince
George’s Dist. 47 residents with state Sen. Malcolm Augustine who will provide
information and guidelines on the legislative process from the Department of
Legislative Services, a tour of the State House and a light
lunch. Recommended arrival is 8:45 AM in the Joint Hearing Room,
Legislative Service Building, 90 State Circle (College Avenue entrance),
Annapolis. Email Malcolm.Augustine@senate.state.md.us
or call 301-858-3745. RSVP at https://www.malcolmaugustine.com/md_legislative_training?utm_campaign=leg_training2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=malcolmaugustine.
44] – Hear from land rights activist
Altamiran Ribeiro, who represents the Pastoral Land
Commission of the Catholic Church in Piauí, Brazil, and also works with the
Campaign to Defend the Cerrado, Brazil’s largest savannah region. On Wed., Oct. 16 from 9 to
10:30 AM at Oxfam America, 1101 17th St. NW, WDC, hear a discussion: What’s
the role of the World Bank and international funds in land grabbing Brazil?
Learn more from Altamiran Ribeiro and Maria Luisa Mendonça of Rede Social de
Justiça e Direitos Humanos. RSVP at Doug.hertzler@actionaid.org.
Land grabbing is driven by big money interests, vying for control over food and
water. And as the climate changes, they are the ones putting forward false
climate solutions like biofuels and factory farming – all of which lead to deforestation, fires, water
pollution, and violation of local peoples’ right to food. The
struggle for human rights transcends borders. As Afro-Brazilian communities in
the northeast of Brazil are losing their land and forests, rural black
communities in the South are also facing decades of discrimination and land
loss – all while investors like TIAA and Harvard are profiting from their
stolen wealth. And
it’s all happening right now.
45] – Bill Barry is
teaching the history of modern US labor history (20th/21st century) for
Towson-Osher on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 PM. It is continuing October
16. The course will cover the early AFL unions, the rise of the CIO and
the IWW, and will cover right up to today--Red for Ed, the BSO strike and the
UAW strike at General Motors. The course will also discuss why we were
37% of the workforce in 1947, and now are down to around 11%, and will
look at why there were no open shop states in 1947 and now there are 27--more
than half of the country. For a full course description, go to page 14 of the
Osher catalog: https://www.towson.edu/campus/partnerships-research/osher/documents/osher-catalog-fall-2019.pdf.
Contact Barry at mailto:billbarry21214@gmail.com.
46] – On
Wed., Oct. 16
from 2 from 3:30 PM at Howard University Founders’ Library 300A, hear about Black Farmers and Land
Grabbing Universities, featuring Vann Newkirk II of The Atlantic with Altamiran
Ribeiro. RSVP at Doug.hertzler@actionaid.org.
Land grabbing is driven by big money interests, vying for control over
food and water. And as the climate changes, they are the ones putting forward
false climate solutions like biofuels and factory farming – all of which lead
to deforestation,
fires, water pollution, and violation of local peoples’ right to food. The
struggle for human rights transcends borders. As Afro-Brazilian communities in
the northeast of Brazil are losing their land and forests, rural black
communities in the South are also facing decades of discrimination and land
loss – all while investors like TIAA and Harvard are profiting from their
stolen wealth. And
it’s all happening right now.
47] – The Institute of World Politics, 1521
16th St. NW, WDC 20036, on Wed., Oct.
16 from 4:30 to 6 PM will present US-NK Relations: The Post-Hanoi Summit with a
senior policy panel, including Gen. Kim Dong-shin, former ROK Minister of
National Defense, Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and holder of the Korea Chair,
Center for Strategic and International Studies, and others. North Korea
remains a highly critical foreign policy and intelligence issue for not just
the U.S., but for the international community as well. A new, relatively
untested leader with a burgeoning weapons inventory – both nuclear and
conventional, and a penchant for unpredictability, Kim Jong-un represents both
an enigma and an unprecedented dilemma. From what appeared to be a relatively
promising first ever meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting U.S.
President in Singapore to a disappointing sequence of events in Hanoi, the
current situation on the Korean peninsula remains potentially extremely
volatile. Visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lessons-learned-the-inter-korean-dialogue-and-the-hanoi-summit-tickets-72961067517.
48] – Progressive
Maryland is hosting forums to find out more about the Kirwan proposals: the “Blueprint
for Maryland’s Future.” How about more funding for education? The next forum is
on Wed., Oct. 16 at 5:30 PM at Harper’s Choice Middle School, 5450 Beaverkill
Road, Columbia. Look at https://www.marylandblueprint.org/.
49] – In
August, Jews United For Justice and allies organized a demonstration and Tisha
B’Av service at the Howard County Detention Center, where ICE rents space to
detain people. Hundreds of Jews, immigrants, and allies gathered in Jessup, MD
to call for an end to this enabling of brutality, and hundreds signed an open
letter to County Executive Calvin Ball. But Tisha B’Av was not the end of this
campaign. Sukkot commemorates a time when ancestors wandered the
desert with no permanent home. We have a
duty to make sure immigrants in Howard County feel that their homes here are
permanent, reliable, and safe. That is what it is
to have a home. On Wed., Oct.
16 at 6 PM, come to a press conference with
the Howard County Immigrant Justice Coalition to call on Howard County
officials to welcome the immigrant neighbors in the spirit of Sukkot. Urge
them to end their ICE collaboration, which violates the county’s human rights
policy. Then, come afterwards to the Howard County Human Rights Commission’s
meeting to demand justice for the immigrant communities and an end to the
contract.
Visit https://jufj.org/immigration-5780/?emci=e3a0fa99-a9eb-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68&emdi=5104e3a0-63ec-e911-b5e9-2818784d6d68&ceid=3403859.
50]
– On
Wed., Oct. 16 from 7 to 9 PM, JOSH McPhee PRESENTS "AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF
POLITICAL RECORD LABELS" at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 1225
Cathedral St., Baltimore 21201. MacPhee, a founding member of both
the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, will do a for
a presentation of his new book “An Encyclopedia of Political Record
Labels,” a collection of information about political music and radical cultural
production. Focusing on vinyl records, and the labels that produced them, this
groundbreaking book traces the parallel rise of social movements in the second
half of the twentieth century and the vinyl record as the dominant form of
music distribution. Josh will be spinning selected cuts from labels included in
the book as part of the talk! Go to http://redemmas.org/.
51] – On
Thurs., Oct. 17 from 2 from 3:30 PM at Johns
Hopkins University, Mergenthaler Hall, Room 426, hear a discussion with land
rights activist Altamiran Ribeiro. RSVP at Doug.hertzler@actionaid.org. Land
grabbing is driven by big money interests, vying for control over food and
water. And as the climate changes, they are the ones putting forward false
climate solutions like biofuels and factory farming – all of which lead to deforestation, fires, water
pollution, and violation of local peoples’ right to food. The
struggle for human rights transcends borders. As Afro-Brazilian communities in
the northeast of Brazil are losing their land and forests, rural black
communities in the South are also facing decades of discrimination and land
loss – all while investors like TIAA and Harvard are profiting from their
stolen wealth. And it’s all
happening right now.
52]
– On Thurs., Oct. 17 from 4 to 5:30 PM at Towson University,
Liberal Arts 4310, hear a discussion with land
rights activist Altamiran Ribeiro. RSVP at Doug.hertzler@actionaid.org. Land
grabbing is driven by big money interests, vying for control over food and
water. And as the climate changes, they are the ones putting forward false
climate solutions like biofuels and factory farming – all of which lead to deforestation, fires, water
pollution, and violation of local peoples’ right to food. The
struggle for human rights transcends borders. As Afro-Brazilian communities in
the northeast of Brazil are losing their land and forests, rural black
communities in the South are also facing decades of discrimination and land
loss – all while investors like TIAA and Harvard are profiting from their stolen
wealth. And it’s all happening right now.
53]
– On Thurs., Oct. 17 from 5:30 to
9 PM, attend the Pacem in Terris ANNUAL DINNER at the Westminster Presbyterian
Church, 1502 W. 13th St., Wilmington, DE 19806. The keynote speaker
is Jane Golden, Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. Also see the Youth Peace Art
Exhibition, and enjoy delicious Food. Tickets are at https://squareup.com/store/delaware-pacem-in-terris.
54]
– Ron
Kipling Williams is back with a brand new one man show called How Many Orgasms
Does It Take To Stop Dropping Bombs! It’s coming to the Charm City Fringe
Festival located in the Bromo Arts and Entertainment District through October
20. The performance takes you on a pedagogical, Socratic, interactive,
radical performance deep dive into ethics. A raw and real show where the
audience are the students, and what happens in the classroom, stays in the
classroom!
There are three more performances, all held at the historic Maryland Art Place, 218 W. Saratoga Street on the 5th floor. Show times are as follows: Thurs., Oct. 17 @ 6:30 PM, Sat., Oct. 19 @ 8:15 PM and Sun., Oct. 20 @ 1:15 PM. Tickets are available online at https://charmcityfringe.ticketleap.com/how-many-orgasms-does-it-take-to-stop-dropping-bombs/.
55]
– On
Thurs., Oct. 17 from 7 to 9 PM, STUART SCHRADER LAUNCHES "BADGES WITHOUT
BORDERS: HOW GLOBAL COUNTERINSURGENCY TRANSFORMED AMERICAN POLICING" IN
CONVERSATION WITH OSITA NWANEVU at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 1225
Cathedral St., Baltimore 21201. From the Cold War through today, the U.S.
has quietly assisted dozens of regimes around the world in suppressing civil
unrest and securing the conditions for the smooth operation of capitalism.
Casting a new light on American empire, the book shows, for the first
time, that the very same people charged with global counterinsurgency also
militarized American policing at home.
In
this groundbreaking exposé, Stuart Schrader shows how the United States
projected imperial power overseas through police training and technical
assistance—and how this effort reverberated to shape the policing of city
streets at home. Examining diverse records, from recently declassified national
security and intelligence materials to police textbooks and professional
magazines, Schrader reveals how U.S. police leaders envisioned the beat to be
as wide as the globe and worked to put everyday policing at the core of the
Cold War project of counterinsurgency. A “smoking gun” book, “Badges
without Borders” offers a new account of the War on Crime, “law and order”
politics, and global counterinsurgency, revealing the connections between
foreign and domestic racial control. Go to http://redemmas.org/.
56] – On Thurs., Oct. 17 from 7 to 8:30 PM, take in Women
Suffragists and the Men Who Supported Them, hosted by the US National
Archives, WDC 20004. Go to www.archives.gov.
What role did men play in the women's suffrage movement, and how did they aid
in the fight for the 19th Amendment? At a time when public support for women’s
issues could cause men ridicule, their backing of the movement was
significant. A distinguished panel will discuss the men who involved themselves
in the suffrage movement, including the Men's League of Women's Suffrage.
Moderated by Betsy Fischer Martin, Executive Director, Women and Politics
Institute, American University School of Public Affairs, panelists include
Brooke Kroeger, author of "The Suffragents: How Women Used Men to Get the
Vote"; Johanna Newman, author of "Gilded Suffragists"; and Susan
Ware, author of "Why They Marched." This program is presented
in conjunction with the exhibition: Rightfully Hers: American Women and the
Vote. See https://www.facebook.com/events/2444795992303188/.
57] – On Thurs.,
Oct. 17 from 6 to 9 PM, get with "Suppressed: The Fight to Vote,” hosted
by Impact Silver Spring at Arts on the Block, 8510 Fenton St., Silver
Spring 20910. The new documentary by Robert Greenwald weaves together personal
stories from voters across the state of Georgia to paint an undeniable picture
of voter suppression in the 2018 midterm election where Stacey Abrams fought to
become the first Black female governor in the U.S. The issues Georgians faced
included polling place closures, voter purges, missing absentee ballots,
extreme wait times and a host of voter ID issues – all of which
disproportionately prevented many students and people of color from casting
their ballots. After this viewing, engage in a lively discussion! Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/385221088812674/.
58]
– Join the Maryland Sierra Club in
Baltimore County for a conversation about how to move Maryland beyond coal and
ensure a just transition that provides resources to impacted workers
and communities most affected by coal pollution. The meeting is on Thurs., Oct.
17 from 7 to 8:30 PM at 5 Lochwynd Ct., Phoenix 21131. At the meeting,
learn more about the work to move Maryland beyond coal to a clean energy
future, and how you can get involved. Email David Smedick at david.smedick@sierraclub.org. RSVP https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?id=7010Z000001wNjiQAE&formcampaignid=7010Z000001wIXAQA2&data=b6e24884ef874d561f720648fa7f24c728d130c0ee61950ee534052d92e2b46bad2d2286ded8e97bd08adac88591a989&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sierraclub&utm_campaign=beyondcoal.
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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