33] PeaceCon 2019 – Oct. 2
34] Hearing Friends VS BGE
Regarding the Granite Pipeline – Oct. 2
35] Between Two
Giants: The Korean Dilemma – Oct. 2
36] American Foreign Policy
in the Trump Era and Beyond – Oct. 2
37] The history of modern
US labor – Oct. 2
38] Commemorate the death
of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi – Oct. 2
39] See film screening of
OFFICIAL SECRETS – through Oct. 3
40]
Rethinking
the Middle East – Oct. 2
41] 43rd Annual
Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards – Oct. 2
42] What should be done
with the Bay Bridge? – Oct. 2
43] Domestic Violence – Oct. 2
44] Gandhi’s birthday – Oct. 2
45] Commemorate the death
of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi – Oct. 2
46] DC Working Families
Monthly Meeting – Oct. 2
47] PARIS TO PITTSBURGH – Oct. 2
48] Resignation of
Vice-President Spiro Agnew – Oct. 2
49] Tree Giveaway – Oct. 3
50] American Foreign Policy
– Oct. 3
51] Moms Demand Action – Oct. 3
52] Gender Equality – Oct. 3
53] Black Reconstruction – Oct. 3
54] Progressive Cheverly
Forum – Oct. 3
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33]
– On Wed., Oct. 2
from 8:45 AM to 5 PM, attend PeaceCon 2019: Seizing the Moment for Peace in a
Disrupted World, hosted by the United States Institute of Peace, 2301
Constitution Ave. NW, WDC 20037. Tickets are at www.usip.org. With a global upsurge in violent conflict,
environmental degradation, great power competition, and technological change,
the challenges facing the peacebuilding community have never been greater or
more urgent. In response to these challenges, USIP is pleased to partner with
the Alliance for Peacebuilding to host the largest annual gathering of
peacebuilding practitioners in the United States: PeaceCon 2019. This critical
and timely discussion of today’s complex conflict dynamics will explore
conflict prevention amid a rapidly evolving global landscape and offer ways the
peacebuilding community can advance innovative efforts amid these
disruptions. RSVP at https://www.usip.org/events/peacecon-2019-seizing-moment-peace-disrupted-world,
and see https://www.facebook.com/events/490399648210523/.
34] –
On
Wed., Oct. 2 from 11 AM to 1 PM, attend the Court Hearing Friends VS BGE
Regarding the Granite Pipeline, hosted by Friends of Gwynns Falls/Leakin
Park at the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Room 236, Clarence M. Mitchell,
Jr. Courthouse, 100 North Calvert St. Look at http://www.baltimorecitycourt.org/general-information/directions-parking/.
Information about the lawsuit can be found at https://friendsofgwynnsfallsleakinpark.org/.
Additional information may be found at https://friendsofgwynnsfallsleakinpark.org/News.
Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/488549595026467/.
35] – Between Two Giants: The Korean Dilemma
within U.S.-China Competition will take place on Wed., Oct. 2 from 12:30 to 2
PM at the Stimson Center, 1211 Connecticut Ave. NW, 8th Floor, WDC 20036. Hear
from Byung Kwang Park, Institute for National Security Strategy and Zheng
Jiyong, Fudan University. Go to https://www.stimson.org/content/between-two-giants-korean-dilemma-within-us-china-competition.
Lunch will be served.
The intensifying theme of great power competition between the U.S.
and China has major implications for the Korean Peninsula, its future
unification and the U.S. alliance system in Northeast Asia. Most directly,
China could be even more reluctant to change the status quo on the Korean
peninsula in the hope of maintaining leverage against the U.S. and its allies
during great power competition. These prospects pose significant challenges to
the policy of South Korea politically and in terms of its security policy.
Complicating matters for South Korea even more is the U.S.-China trade war,
which is reshaping supply chains across Asia and poses the risk of aggravating
competition on the Peninsula. With U.S.-China relations at a perilously low
point, understanding South Korea’s position and dilemma, between an ally and a
strategic partner, is central to assessing South Korea’s policy direction. Dr.
Byung Kwang Park will discuss the characteristics of U.S.-China competition and
how the Korean policy community views the implications of this renewed great
power competition on the Korean peninsula.
36] – On Wed., Oct. 2
from noon to 7:30 PM, check out American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era and
Beyond, hosted by the International Studies Program, JHU Levering Hall- Great
Hall, Baltimore 21218. SAIS professors Hal Brands, Andrew Mertha, Adria
Lawrence, and Matthias Matthijs will share their perspectives. These professors
will also preview the undergraduate courses they will teach at Homewood during
the spring 2020 semester. Lunch will be provided. Hal Brands is the
Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns
Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Senior Fellow at
the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA). Andrew Mertha is the
George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies, Director of the China
Program, and Director of SAIS China at the Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Adria Lawrence is the Aronson Associate
Professor of International Studies and Political Science at Johns Hopkins
University, a joint appointment by the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies (SAIS) and the Political Science Department at the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences (KSAS). Matthias Matthijs is
Assistant Professor of International Political Economy. He teaches graduate
courses in International Relations, Comparative Politics and International
Economics. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/395170364515260/.
37] – Bill Barry will be
teaching the history of modern US labor history (20th/21st century) for
Towson-Osher on Wednesdays from 1 to 3 PM, starting October 2. 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.
38] – On Wed., Oct. 2
from 1 to 2 PM, Commemorate the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, hosted
by CODEPINK at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, WDC 20037. 1:14 PM on
October 2, 2018 was the last time Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was seen
alive. Join CODEPINK, CAIR, American Muslims for Palestine and Nonviolence
International to mark the first anniversary of his murder. The CIA
concluded that this savage murder was done at the behest of Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammad bin Salman. The UN special rapporteur found credible evidence that
high-level Saudi officials were responsible. Yet one year later, not a single
Saudi official has been found guilty or punished. Join to demand Justice for
Jamal. See https://www.facebook.com/events/2427063930721747/.
39] – One day in 2003, in
the lead up to the Iraq War, British intelligence specialist Katharine Gun receives
a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the United States is enlisting
Britain's help in collecting compromising information on U.N. Security Council
members to blackmail them into voting for war with Iraq. OFFICIAL SECRETS is a
cinematic pleasure, which explores the deceitful past to remind us that we must
resist in the present government deceitfulness, malfeasance and
brutality. Katherine Gun will always be a hero, unlike Colin Powell who
lied to the world about weapons of mass destruction. All involved in this
decision to attack Iraq under false pretenses should face criminal
charges. This includes Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who voted for
Cheney’s war. It can be argued that the invasion of Iraq might be the
greatest foreign policy disaster ever made by a U.S. president with the help of
Congress. Don't miss the film version of one person having the courage to blow
the whistle while facing intense and severe pressure to be quiet.
Director Gavin Hood showcases Keira Knightley as Gun. The film will
be at the Charles Theatre in Baltimore at 3:45 PM, 6:20 PM and 9 PM at least
through Thurs., Oct. 3.
40] – On
Wed., Oct. 2 from 5:30 to 7:30 PM, get with Rethinking the Middle East: Reality
vs Rhetoric, hosted by Johns Hopkins SAIS Middle East Studies Program,
1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC 20036. Insights from on-the-ground
experts that challenge the foundations of US policy and investigate stories
beyond the headlines. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rethinking-the-middle-east-reality-vs-rhetoric-tickets-73164782835.
The participants’ recent, on-the-ground experiences will be presented as fresh,
provocative perspectives on the region. What dynamics do policymakers
mistakenly overlook? If you should share one experience from the Middle East
with members of Congress, what would it be? What are the biggest misconceptions
the American public has regarding the region? Where do we see economic, human
rights, or social innovation in the region? Contributors will draw on their
experiences on the ground in countries such as Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, and Syria while commenting on the dynamics shaping the region as a
whole. Look over https://www.facebook.com/events/1615501205259827/.
41] – On Wed., Oct. 2 from 5:30 to 8 PM, be at the 43rd
Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards, hosted by Institute for
Policy Studies and FUSICOLOGY at the Carnegie Institution for Science.
Tickets are at secure.ngpvan.com. Honor Orlando Letelier and Ronni Karpen
Moffitt, with an incredible evening of food, drinks, and celebrating human
rights! Enjoy an amazing performance by DC-native hip hop artist Tarica
June and celebrate the revolutionary grassroots work of youth climate group
Zero Hour and Honduran environmental and human rights organization Comité
Municipal en defensa de los bienes comunes y naturales del Municipio de Tocoa.
Presenting the awards to these organizations will be by Representative Ilhan
Omar of Minnesota’s 5th District!
If
you qualify for a student or young nonprofit professional discount, or need
special accommodations, please contact Violeta Curiel at violeta@ips-dc.org or at (202)
787-5237. Visit ips-dc.org/lm2019 or https://www.facebook.com/events/529653357810811/.
42] – What
should be done with the Bay Bridge? MDTA has scheduled an open house for
public review and comment on Wed., Oct. 2 and Thurs., Oct. 3 from 6 to 8
PM. The Wednesday event will be at Anne Arundel Community College,
Student Union Dining Hall, 101 College Pkwy., Arnold. Parking available in Lot
A. The Thursday event is at Talbot County Community Center, 10028 Ocean
Gateway, Easton. Look at https://patch.com/maryland/annapolis/bay-bridge-crossing-options-public-hearings-run-sept-24-oct-9.
43] – On Wed., Oct. 2 from 6 to 8 PM, get
with the NOT ONE Campaign Against Domestic Violence, hosted by Aisha
Braveboy at Prince George's Community College, 301 Largo Road, Largo 20774.
October is Domestic Violence month. It affects millions of people, women and men
alike. It touches every race, religion, culture and social status. It’s not
just hits, punches and slaps. It's humiliation, stalking, manipulation, threats
and isolation. One out of 10 people personally know someone who is or has been
a victim of domestic violence.
Come
support survivors and speak out against domestic violence at the "Not One
Campaign Against Domestic Violence" this Wednesday with SA Braveboy,
domestic violence survivors and special guest speakers. See https://www.facebook.com/events/446572979322128/.
44] – On Wed., Oct. 2 from 6 to 7:30 PM, BE THE CHANGE - An
evening of Peace on Gandhi's 150th Birthday, hosted by the International
Association for Human Values in Meridian Hill Park, WDC 20009. See https://www.facebook.com/events/541974959941628/.
45] – On Wed., Oct. 2
from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, commemorate the One-year anniversary of Khashoggi’s
murder with a candlelight vigil, hosted by the Committee to Protect
Journalists at the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, WDC 20037. Saudi officials at the
kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, killed Khashoggi, a columnist for the
Washington Post, last October in a murder that the CIA concluded was done at
the behest of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. In June, the U.N. special
rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Agnes Callamard,
concluded there was credible evidence warranting further investigation of
high-level Saudi officials’ individual liability, including that of the crown
prince. Yet one year after Khashoggi’s murder, there has been no justice and
the mastermind remains at large. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/541295089974287/.
46] – On Wed., Oct. 2
from 6:30 to 8 PM, come to a DC Working Families Monthly Meeting at 1730 M St.
NW, WDC 20036-4541. Tickets are at actionnetwork.org. Help build a movement of
individuals developing their skills as activists, working collaboratively to
recruit, support, and elect the next generation of progressive candidates in
DC. Use new tools alongside tried-and-true methods of organizing to get out the
vote and win campaigns that mean real change for DC. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/2271862679794274/?event_time_id=2271862686460940.
47] – Get with Climate
Community and You: A Film Series, hosted by One Montgomery Green at Brookside
Gardens, 1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton 20902. The first film will be shown
Wed., Oct. 2 from 6:30 to 9 PM -- “Paris to Pittsburgh.” This is a National
Geographic Documentary. As the weather grows more deadly and destructive,
citizens are demanding solutions to climate change and they aren’t waiting on
Washington to act. Check out https://www.facebook.com/events/383084785710879/?event_time_id=383084792377545.
48] – Join
the Church of the Redeemer for their VOICES Series. All events start
at 7 PM and will be held at the Church of the Redeemer, 5603 N. Charles St.,
Baltimore 21210. On Wed., Oct. 2 from 7 to 8:30 PM. The
Investigation, Prosecution, and Resignation of Vice-President Spiro
Agnew: A Talk by Tim Baker, one of the prosecutors. On October 10,
1973, in the midst of Watergate, Spiro Agnew resigned and pled to a tax felony
based on over $250,000 in bribes and kickbacks he had received as County
Executive, Governor, and Vice President. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Barney
Skolnik, Tim Baker, and Ron Liebman developed and prosecuted the case under
George Beall, the U.S. Attorney for Maryland. Tim Baker’s talk will detail how
the investigation began and progressed and how Elliot Richardson, the U.S.
Attorney General, conducted the plea bargaining which achieved his overriding
objective: the corrupt Vice-President’s removal from his position a
heartbeat away from the Presidency. Visit http://www.redeemerbaltimore.org/event/tim-baker-the-investigation-prosecution-and-resignation-of-vice-president-spiro-agnew/.
49] – On Thurs., Oct. 3 from 9 AM to noon, get with the
Robert W. Coleman Tree Plantings, hosted by Blue Water
Baltimore and Herring Run Nursery. Tickets are at
bluewaterbaltimore.org. Planting trees is good for the water, good for the air,
and good for the soul. Come get your hands dirty for clean water and a greener
community! Help add 80 new street tree pits and trees to beautify the
neighborhood and cool and clean the air for all residents. The tree
planting projects are rain or shine, so wear proper clothes and sturdy
(closed-toe) shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty or wet. Please bring a
reusable water bottle. We will provide the trees, gloves, tools, training, and
lots of fun! Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/759131874556876/.
50] – On Thurs., Oct. 3 from 3 to 4 PM, check out Challenges
Facing American Foreign Policy: Do We Have One, Many, or None? This is
hosted by the School of International Service, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC 20016. Join a dialogue between Ambassador Akbar
Ahmed and Ambassador Ronald Neumann as they discuss the challenges that
American foreign policy faces today. The former diplomats will consider
America’s priorities in Afghanistan, America’s policy toward Russia, and the
turbulent trade relationship between the US and China. The ambassadors will
accept questions from the audience following their discussion. Ambassador Ahmed
is the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at American University and is
considered the "world's leading authority on contemporary Islam" by
the BBC. Neumann was US ambassador to Algeria, Bahrain, and Afghanistan
and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East. See https://www.facebook.com/events/511603432932276/.
51] – On Thurs., Oct. 3 from 6 to 9 PM, get over
to the Training Class by MOMS Demand Action, hosted by the Domestic
Violence Wears Many Tags Organization (DVWMT) at the Johnson Memorial Baptist
Church, 800 Ridge Rd. SE, WDC 20019. This is education, encouragement, and
empathy to support domestic violence awareness month. REGISTRATION IS FOR
SERIOUS INQUIRES ONLY at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/moms-demand-action-community-domestic-violence-training-class-tickets-69325844467.
See https://www.facebook.com/events/1209418755911855/.
52] – On Thurs., Oct. 3
from 6:30 to 8 PM, hear about Gender Equality: A conversation with Zuleika
Rivera, Macarena Sáez and Mercedes D'Alessandro, hosted by Latin America
and Caribbean Society at Dupont Underground, 19 Dupont Circle NW, WDC
20036. The feminist and LGBTQI+ movements have had many advances in recent
years. However, much more remains to be done. Join Zuleika Rivera and Mercedes
D'Alessandro in a conversation about key moments in the fight for LGBTQI+
rights and gender equality. Mercedes D’Alessandro was born in Posadas. She has
a PhD in Economics and is currently based in New York City. She taught for over
15 years at the University of Buenos Aires and was head of the Political
Economy department at the National University General Sarmiento. Macarena Sáez
is the Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law and
a Fellow in the International Legal Studies Program at Washington College of
Law. She teaches in the areas of Gender and Sexuality, Family Law, Comparative
Law, and International Human Rights. Zuleika Rivera is a Puerto Rican feminist
lawyer and human rights defender. See https://www.facebook.com/events/2573751389340869/.
53] – On Thurs., Oct. 3
from 7 to 9 PM, check out “Black Reconstruction and its Legacies in Baltimore,
1865-1920” at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 1225 Cathedral St, Baltimore,
Maryland 21201. In “A Brotherhood of Liberty,” Dennis Patrick Halpin
shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue
that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the 1870s and early 1880s, a
dynamic group of black political leaders migrated to Baltimore from rural
Virginia and Maryland. These activists, mostly former slaves who subsequently
trained in the ministry, pushed Baltimore to fulfill Reconstruction's promise
of racial equality. In doing so, they were part of a larger effort among
African Americans to create new forms of black politics by founding churches,
starting businesses, establishing community centers, and creating newspapers.
Black Baltimoreans successfully challenged Jim Crow regulations on public
transit, in the courts, in the voting booth, and on the streets of residential
neighborhoods. They formed some of the nation's earliest civil rights
organizations, including the United Mutual Brotherhood of Liberty, to define
their own freedom in the period after the Civil War.
Halpin
shows how black Baltimoreans' successes prompted segregationists to reformulate
their tactics. He examines how segregationists countered activists' victories
by using Progressive Era concerns over urban order and corruption to
criminalize and disenfranchise African Americans. Indeed, he argues the
Progressive Era was crucial in establishing the racialized carceral state of
the twentieth-century United States. Tracing the civil rights victories scored
by black Baltimoreans that inspired activists throughout the nation and
subsequent generations, the book highlights the strategies that can continue to
be useful today, as well as the challenges that may be faced.
Dennis
Patrick Halpin teaches history at Virginia Tech. Reverend Alvin C. Hathaway,
Sr., the 10th pastor of Union Baptist Church, will be there. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/2122824121344672/
or http://redemmas.org/.
54] – On Thurs., Oct. 3 at 7
PM, attend a Progressive Cheverly Forum -- Immigration: Counteracting the
crisis here in PG County in the multipurpose room at Gladys Noon Spellman
Elementary School, 3324 64th Ave., Cheverly. Direct access to the
multipurpose room is available via the 63rd Avenue entrance. Speakers are Trent
Leon-Lierman, Lead Regional Organizer for CASA, and Tana Stevenson of the
Maryland Immigrant Rights Coalition. Check out https://www.progressivecheverly.org/weekly-bulletin.
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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