10] Environmental
Legislative Kickoff – Oct. 6
11] Statewide
Legislative Kickoff – Oct. 6
12] MD Green New Deal
Meeting – Oct. 6
13] Promote the ERA – Oct. 6
14]
Pentagon
Peace Vigil – Oct. 7
15] UN's First Committee on
Disarmament and International Security – Oct. 7
16] Food Rescue
–
Oct. 7
17] Gender, Equity and
Press Freedom – Oct. 7
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10] –
Sunday, OCT 6-- Eastern Shore Environmental
Legislative Summit, 1- 4 PM (Doors open at noon) hosted at Washington College -
300 Washington Avenue, Chestertown, MD 21620. The Eastern Shore is ground
zero for climate change in Maryland. It is here where we need to make a stand
for ourselves and our children. Explore the issues that face the Shore (and the
state), what steps have been taken, and what obstacles we must overcome to
defeat the existential crisis of Climate Change and other pressing
environmental issues. https://www.facebook.com/events/361641874764169/.
11]
-- Kick off the new year at the Maryland 2020 Statewide Legislative
Kickoff on Sun., Oct. 6 from 3 to 6 PM at Oseh Shalom, 7515 Olive
Branch Way, Laurel 20707. Join Jews United for Justice's to discuss
Maryland’s legislative year. Help choose the campaign priorities for the 2020
Annapolis legislative session. After the kickoff, spend the end of 2019 educating
our legislators about our priorities, and then we’ll fight for them in the
session that starts in January. Call
301-529-3875 or go to www.jufj.org. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/2389558474424919/.
12] –
On Sun., Oct. 6 from 4 to 5:30 PM, come to a MD Green New Deal Meeting, hosted
by Baltimore City Green Party at 4709 Harford Rd., Baltimore. Your
input is needed to draw up this transformative policy founded on the pillars of
social justice, nonviolence, grassroots democracy, and ecological wisdom. If
you have specific access needs, please email owen.s.andrews@gmail.com. Get with https://www.facebook.com/events/2094908120804734/.
13] – On Sun., Oct. 6 from 4 to 5 PM, get on The
CALL - ERA Education Program at Katrina's Dream, PO Box 32003, WDC 20007.
Tickets are at www.katrinasdream.org. Please come
each Sunday and help build the groundswell. The collaboration of grassroots
organizers, lobbyists, and professionals is dedicated to promoting and
educating folks across the United States of America to empowering women around
the world.
The CALL IN NUMBER is 563.999.2090, the CONFERENCE NO: 898879#.
Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1710130249022424/?event_time_id=1710130255689090.
14] – There is a weekly
Pentagon Peace Vigil from 7 to 8 AM on Mondays, since 1987, outside the
Pentagon Metro stop. The next vigil is Oct. 7, and it is sponsored by the
Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Email artlaffin@hotmail.com
or call 202-882-9649. The vigil will be outside the Pentagon's south
Metro entrance and in the designated "protest zone" behind
bicycle fences across from the entrance to the Metro. By Metro, take
Yellow Line and get out at the "Pentagon" stop. Do not go to the
Pentagon City stop! Go up south escalators and turn left and walk across to
protest area. By car from D.C. area, take 395 South and get off
at Exit 8A-Pentagon South Parking. Take slight right onto S. Rotary
Rd. at end of ramp and right on S. Fern St. Then take left onto Army
Navy Dr. You can "pay to park" on Army Navy Dr., and there is
meter parking one block on right on Eads St. Payment for both of these
spots begin at 8 AM. No cameras are allowed on Pentagon grounds.
Restrooms are located inside Marriott Residence Inn on corner of S.
Fern and Army Navy Dr.
15] – On Mon., Oct. 7, this is the First Day of the UN
General Assembly's First Committee on Disarmament and International Security at
United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY. The 74th session of the UN
General Assembly First Committee will meet from October 7 through November 8.
Visit https://www.un.org/en/ga/first/74/documentation74.shtml.
16] – On Mon., Oct. 7 at noon, there will be a
Food Rescue at Land of Kush, 840 N. Eutaw St., Baltimore 21201. Food Rescue
Baltimore is honored to partner with The Land of Kush each and every Monday to
bring access to free vegan/plant-based food in the community. Bring a bag. Take
what you want from noon to 1PM or while supplies last. No purchase is
necessary to take advantage of the Food Rescue Baltimore give away. Items from
The Land of Kush's menu are not included in the give-away but will be available
for sale. See https://www.facebook.com/events/415842178868197/.
17] – On Mon., Oct. 7 from noon to 1:45 PM, check out Gender,
Equity and Press Freedom, hosted by the International Women’s Media Foundation
at the United Nations Foundation, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 300, WDC
20006. Join President and CEO of the United Nations Foundation Kathy
Calvin in a conversation on gender equity and press freedom. Enjoy lunch
and a conversation in celebration of the 30th anniversary of this
gathering. It will spotlight IWMF’s work breaking barriers for female
journalists, who tell under-reported stories in some of the world’s most remote
and dangerous places. Following lunch, World Bank Economist and Author,
Caren Grown, UN Foundation’s Vice President for Girls and Women Strategy, Michelle
Milford Morse, and the Executive Director of the 3D Program for Girls and
Women, Geeta Rao Gupta, will discuss gender equality and the data needed
to tell tomorrow’s stories. The conversation will be moderated by PBS NewsHour
White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor. Visit www.IWMF.org
. Contact Lisa Shepard at lshepard@iwmf.org.
See https://www.facebook.com/events/422858321686404/.
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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