Thursday, November 14, 2019

Baltimore Activist Alert -- November 14 - 15, 2019


52] Food Rescue at the Pratt – Nov. 14
53] Food Rescue with Dovecote Café – Nov. 14
54] See “Across the Bridge” – Nov. 14
55] Protest Border Patrol – Nov. 14
56] Stop Robbing Our Kids – Nov. 14
57] “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future” – Nov. 14
58] The Power of Protest – Nov. 14
59] Baltimore Peace Action – Nov. 14
60] Exploring Animal Behavior – Nov. 14
61] Food Drive for the animals – Nov. 15 & 16
62] Fire Drill Friday – Nov. 15
63] White House vigil – Nov. 15
64] WIB peace vigils – Nov. 15
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52] – There is a Food Rescue at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1303 Orleans St., Baltimore 21231 on Thursdays from noon to 1 PM.  Food Rescue Baltimore partners with Baltimore’s esteemed Enoch Pratt Free Library at the Orleans Street Branch. Come to the library, bring a bag, and take home delicious free food. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/567424937414955/?event_time_id=567425064081609.

53] – On Thursdays from 4 to 5 PM, Food Rescue Baltimore is working with Dovecote Café, 2501 Madison Ave., Baltimore 21217.  Bring a bag, bring a friend, and take delicious, nutritious, free rescued food.  See https://www.facebook.com/events/2095151417235683/?event_time_id=2095151543902337.

54] -- Across America, people with diabetes are going to disturbing lengths to stay alive. From rationing their insulin to traveling hundreds of miles to buy it, Big Pharma’s greed has put people in heartbreaking situations. These stories need to be told, so see a short film on Thurs., Nov. 14 from 4:30 to 5:30 PM at the Outrage, 1722 14th St. NW, WDC 20009.  On World Diabetes Day, see “Across the Bridge,” which follows a group of Americans living with diabetes and advocates as they travel to Canada to buy insulin because of the ridiculously high prices in the U.S. This film highlights the extreme measures Americans are going through to obtain the medication they literally need to survive, and the corporate greed responsible. Check out https://www.eventbrite.com/e/affordable-insulin-now-across-the-bridge-short-film-screening-tickets-80767932059?utm_campaign=ATBScreening11.12&utm_medium=AINEmails&utm_source=AffordableInsulinNOW. Eli Lilly, one of the largest insulin manufacturers, has increased their prices by more than 585% in the last 20 years. This price gouging is the root cause of the sky-high prices that are forcing people to travel to Canada to get their insulin. For people with diabetes, insulin is the difference between life and death.

55] –On Thurs., Nov. 14 from 4:30 to 6 PM, Honor Those Killed By U.S. Border Patrol -- Candlelight Vigil, hosted by Close Immigrant Children Prisons at 14th and C Sts. NW, WDC.  Read the names of those killed by Border (Murder) Patrol during the last several years, including Jose Antonio Rodriguez and Sergio Adrian Guereca of Mexico who were fatally shot by Border Patrol agents while on the southern side of the U.S.-Mexico border.  Bring a candle. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/529564581215634/?notif_t=plan_user_invited&notif_id=1573690621435237.

56] – On Thurs., Nov. 14 at 5 PM, Stop Robbing Our Kids!  Take on corporate tax-dodgers to build support for corporate accountability (and revenue generation) legislation in 2020. You pay taxes, so why don’t Under Armour and Marriott? Both companies paid ZERO state taxes in recent years. Meanwhile, Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank’s development firm, Sagamore Development, also received $660 million in tax breaks to build his exclusive (read “white”) Port Covington development - which was questionably designated an “Opportunity Zone” by Governor Hogan and secured additional federal tax breaks! This action is led by CU youth at Baltimore’s Harbor East - between Under Armour Brand House and Marriott’s Four Seasons Hotel Baltimore. Meet at the circle at S. President and Aliceanna Streets. Contact steven@communitiesunite.org.

57] Progressive Maryland is promoting forums to find out more about the Kirwan proposals: the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.” How about more funding for education? The next forums are on Thursdays. On Nov. 14 at 6 PM it is at Centreville Middle School, 231 Ruthsburg Road, Centreville. There is one at 6 PM at the Wicomico Public Library, 122 S. Division St., Salisbury. Then there is one at 7 PM at the Urbana Fire Hall, 3602 Urbana Pike, Frederick.

Our schools are underfunded. Our students have growing needs. An out-of-date funding formula doesn't address the needs of our schools. Join us for a discussion about public education funding and find out how you can get involved to advocate for full funding for our students, our teachers, our families, and our future! Look at https://www.marylandblueprint.org/.

58] – On Thurs., Nov. 14 from 6 to 7:30 PM, see Women of Color: The Power of Protest at the National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F Streets NW, WDC 20001. Noted speakers will expand upon the current exhibitions "Vote for Women: A Portrait of Persistence" (NPG) and "I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa" (NMAfA), and will highlight art and material culture from the National Museum of the American Indian. These engaging conversations will connect historical efforts to contemporary movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Discover how women of color have found empowerment and raised their voices for change!  This event is free and open to the public. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1703703073094782/?event_time_id=1703703083094781.

59] – Baltimore Peace Action meets every second Thursday of the month.  The next meeting is Thursday, Nov. 14 at 7 PM at First & St. Stephens UCC, 6915 York Road, Baltimore--near corner of Register Ave. AGENDA: 1. stop arms to Saudi Arabia, 2.  Oppose ICE roundups and putting kids in cages, 3. Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange, 4. Lobbying Congress, 5. JHU APL robotic assassination technology, 6. Green New Deal, Sunrise & Extinction Rebellion, 7. Suggestions for website  www.bmore4peace.org, 8. Vigils and bannering and 9. Plan for protest of CIA coup in Bolivia.

60]On Thurs., Nov. 14 from 7 to 9 PM, get over to Exploring Animal Behavior with Jane Marlow at the Natural History Society of Maryland, 6908 Belair Rd., Baltimore 21206. Tickets are marylandnature.wildapricot.org.  The cost is $30 for NHSM members, and $45 for non-members.  Tickets are at https://marylandnature.wildapricot.org/event-3527031. Behavior is a hallmark of animal life – we are constantly behaving, even when we sleep! Join noted animal behaviorist, Jane Marlow on an exciting journey through the many phases of animal behavior. Most animals have the ability to learn and many are amazing problem solvers! Discover how animals change their behavior to meet their needs, develop new skills, and thwart danger in the second part of the Animal Behavior series. Marlow is a nature educator, animal behavior analyst, and certified exotic animal trainer. She has over 12 years of experience working in animal training and educational capacities at accredited zoos and aquariums.  See https://www.facebook.com/events/1179999658852068/?event_time_id=1179999668852067.

61] –  On Fri., Nov. 15 from 8:30 AM to 6:30 PM and Sat., Nov. 16 from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM and more dates, help with the Food Drive for SPCA Food Bank at the Annapolis Cat Hospital, 2244-48 Bay Ridge Ave., Annapolis 21403.  Consider donating to an animal in need. Details about donation drop off days, times, and items accepted can be found below. Your donations mean so much, and the entire Annapolis Cat Hospital staff thanks you! Donations accepted are unopened canned or bagged dog and cat food.  No boxed foods or treats. Call Annapolis Cat Hospital at 410-268-2287 or Bay Ridge Animal Hospital at 410-268-6994.  Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/397186717891355/?event_time_id=397186731224687.

62] – Inspired by the Swedish student, Greta Thunberg, the student strikers and Naomi Klein's new book "On Fire: The Burning Case for the Green New Deal," Jane Fonda decided to upend her life, left her comfort zone and move to Washington, D.C. for four months to focus on climate change. As Greta said, "This is a crisis. We have to act like our house is on fire, because it is.”  So, every Friday she will host an action called — Fire Drill Friday — at 11 AM on the East Lawn of the Capitol Building, followed by a direct action.  Each Friday focus on a different aspect of the climate crisis and what needs to be done moving forward. On November 15, that Friday will make the connection with Environmental Justice.

Here’s the deal: We are living at the last possible moment in human history when we can do something about climate change or fail to do so, thereby denying hundreds of millions of people a livable future. Last year, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its regular report which stated in no uncertain terms that given the worsening disasters we’re already seeing and the additional warming that is already baked in because we didn’t act 30 years ago, we do not stand a chance at changing course in time without profound, systemic economic and social change in the next 11 years. Visit https://www.codepink.org/firedrillfridays.

63] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., Nov. 15 at noon.  Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 202-882-9649, artlaffin@hotmail.com.  

64] – Women in Black VIGILS FOR PEACE take place on Fri., Nov. 15 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.  Enjoy an AFTER VIGIL LUNCH from the food trucks in the Inner Harbor.  Bring Your Own Sandwich or stop by one of the food trucks in the McKeldin Square.

  Another is at Roland Park Place, 830 W. 40th St., Baltimore.  Free Parking available. Vigil from noon to 1 PM. Lunch in the Bistro 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.

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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