Baltimore Activist Alert -- November 18 -- 22, 2019

17] Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit – Nov. 18 - 19

18] Organizing for Social Change – Nov. 18 - 22

19] “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future” – Nov. 18

20] Get Money Out of Maryland – Nov. 18

21] Picket with Striking Metrobus Workers– Nov. 19

22] Winter Holiday Gift Drive -- Nov. 19

23] DC Statehood Phone Bank – Nov. 19

24] Food Rescue at YO! Baltimore West – Nov. 19

25] “All We Do Is Talk Steel” – Nov. 19

26] Ambassadors on Refugee Issues Panel – Nov. 19

27] Protest killer drone research at JHU – Nov. 19

28] “Badges Without Borders” – Nov. 19

29] Anne Arundel Green Party Meeting – Nov. 19

30] Prepare to meet legislators – Nov. 19

31] "Imperial Intimacies" – Nov. 19

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17] – On Mon., Nov. 18 and Tues., Nov. 19 from 8 AM to 5 PM, visit the Waging Peace in Vietnam Exhibit, hosted by the New Village Press, 1957 E St. NW, WDC 20052-0041.  November 15, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War Mobilization March on Washington, a gathering of over half a million demonstrators against the war. The George Washington University offers a series of events to educate students and the general public about often overlooked facets of the history of US involvement in Vietnam, including the impact that antiwar GIs and veterans had on ending the war. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/508974299680430/?event_time_id=513544722556721.

18] – From Mon., Nov. 18 at 9 AM through Fri., Nov. 22 at 12:30 PM, get with Organizing for Social Change, hosted by the Midwest Academy at the Maritime Institute, Baltimore.  Get tickets at salsa3.salsalabs.com.  This training provides concrete skills as well as a framework for thinking about how to do effective progressive organizing. The tools are compatible with a wide variety of organizing models, and provide a framework for critical and constructive thinking about how to achieve the goals of your particular organization, constituency, issue mix, and social and political context. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/686369338426735/.

19] – Progressive Maryland activists can find out more about the Kirwan proposals.  The “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future” coalition, including Progressive Maryland and teachers’ organizations statewide, has set up information sessions from the mountains to the Shore.  There is a forum on Mon., Nov. 18 from 7 to 8:30 PM at Oxon Hill High School, 6701 Leyte Dr., Oxon Hill 20745.  It will headline Drs. Brit Kirwan and Alvin Thornton. RSVP at marylandblueprint.org.  The town halls continue to November 25. Visit https://www.progressivemaryland.org/princegeorges?utm_campaign=memonov32019&utm_medium=email&utm_source=progressivemaryland.

20] – Join the Get Money Out of Maryland Teleconference on Mon., Nov. 18 from 8:30 to 9:30 PM.  Call 605-475-6711, code 1136243#.  Work only on brainstorming ideas for participation in the upcoming General Election.

21] --  On Tues., Nov. 19 from 7:45 to 9:45 AM and then from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM and other dates and time, join the  WMATA HQ Picket with Striking Metrobus Workers at 600 5th St. NW, WDC 20001-2610.  Go here for the schedule: https://www.facebook.com/events/2310195405775260/. This secondary WMATA HQ picket will run from 7:45-9:45 a.m. and from 11:30-1:30 p.m. each day. See https://www.facebook.com/events/553753515478162/?event_time_id=553753548811492.

22] – On Tues., Nov. 19 from 9 AM to 5 PM, get with the Winter Holiday Gift Drive organized by Project PLASE, Inc. , 3601 Old Frederick Rd., Baltimore 21229. Help the clients out for a hopeful holiday season by hosting a Winter Holiday Gift Drive at your office, club, school, or organization! Email Jordan at jborkoski@projectplase.org or call 410-837-1400 ext. 121 if you would like to host a drive! Check out https://www.facebook.com/events/2183186298648674/?event_time_id=2183186418648662

23] –  Can you participate in a DC Statehood Phone Bank on Tues., Nov. 19 from 10 AM to 6 PM at the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC 20004 in room G-9. Join the Washington, DC Statehood Office for a DC Statehood Phone Bank. Call state legislatures across the US to raise awareness of DC residents' lack of full and equal voting representation in Congress.   Phones, scripts, materials, and light refreshments will be provided. The Phone Bank continues each Tuesday. See https://www.facebook.com/events/673834763077915/?event_time_id=673834836411241.

24] – On Tues., Nov. 19 from noon to 1 PM, and continuing each Tuesday, come to a Food Rescue at YO! Baltimore West, 1510 W. Lafayette Ave., Baltimore 21217.  Enjoy fresh, delicious, and free food. Bring a bag. Bring a friend! Take what you want.  See https://www.facebook.com/events/403785397093000/?event_time_id=403785490426324.

25] – Bill Barry [mailto:billbarry21214@gmail.com] will be speaking about “All We Do Is Talk Steel” and showing short video clips of the people interviewed in this book at the Ateaze Senior Center on Tues., Nov. 19 at 12:30 PM and the Edgemere Senior Citizens Center on Tues., Dec. 3 at 10 AM.

26] – On Tues., Nov. 19 from 5 to 6:30 PM, check out Ambassadors on Refugee Issues Panel, hosted by No Lost Generation GWU and The American Academy of Diplomacy at the Elliott School of International Affairs/George Washington University, Lindner Family Commons, Room #602, 1957 E St. NW, Washington D.C. 20052.  Discuss current refugee crises and the US role in mitigating these problems, featuring a distinguished panel of diplomats. Ambassadors who have dedicated their careers to tackling refugee issues around the world will consider the future of displacement and migration at a time of globalization and rising nationalism. See

academyofdiplomacy.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/events/1003208386688772/.

27] – Vigil to say "No Drone Research at JHU" at 33^rd and N. Charles Sts. on Tuesday, Nov. 19 from 5 to 6 PM. Contact Max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607. 

28] – On Tues., Nov. 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM, hear about “Badges Without Borders” with author Stuart Schrader, hosted by The Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC 20009.  Schrader is Associate Director of the Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship and Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. In this groundbreaking exposé, 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. This “smoking gun” book 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 https://www.facebook.com/events/359675128303545/.

29] – On Tues., Nov. 19 from 7 to 8 PM, come to the Anne Arundel Green Party Meeting at 49 West St., Annapolis 21401.  Please join the Anne Arundel Green Party on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 7-8 PM in the back room of 49 West Coffeehouse in Annapolis. Discuss legislation, candidates, and actions in Anne Arundel County and Maryland. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/748015478906214/?event_time_id=748015632239532.

30] - On Tues., Nov. 19 from 7 to 9 PM, get over to a prep sessions to help all to get on the same page about what to tell our legislators and what is wanted from them. To attend a legislator meeting with Jews United for Justice, you must attend a prep sessions. This one is for State meetings with Baltimore legislators, and will take place at Beth Am Synagogue, 2501 Eutaw Place, Baltimore   21217.  Learn about this year’s issues and practice your advocacy skills. We will have light refreshments!  RSVP at rianna@jufj.org! See https://jufj.org/events/category/legislator-meetings/?emci=86dbed52-7afa-e911-828b-2818784d6d68&emdi=56ff5105-a1fc-e911-828b-2818784d6d68&ceid=3403859.

31] – On Tues., Nov. 19 from 7 to 10 PM, hear Hazel Carby present "Imperial Intimacies" with Nathan Connolly, hosted by Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 1225 Cathedral St., Baltimore 21201. Go to http://redemmas.org/.  “Where are you from?” was the question hounding Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighborhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic.

   Carby is a co-author of “The Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70s Britain” and author of “Cultures in Babylon: Black Britain and African America, Race Men, and Reconstructing Womanhood.”  Nathan "N.D.B." Connolly is an American historian and professor. He is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and co-host of the U.S. history podcast BackStory. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/2614280088630505/.

To be continued

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