65] Poor Peoples' Campaign Mobilization
Meeting –
Feb. 22
66] Tree Maintenance – Feb. 22
67] February
Food Distribution – Feb. 22
68] Animal Safe Haven and Adoptions –
Feb. 22
69] “The Ghosts
of Johns Hopkins” – Feb. 22
70] Fair
Development Plan for Zero Waste -- Feb. 22
71] Facts or
Fakes? -- Feb. 22
72] Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools
Canvass –
Feb. 22
73] Organize
Your Friends with a Bernie Victory Captain -- Feb. 22
74] “The First
Rainbow Coalition” – Feb. 22
75] Write letters
supporting the Plowshares
76] Two Berrigan Books
still in print
77] Emergency Demonstration
against an attack on Venezuela or Iran
78] Donate books, videos,
DVDs and records
79] Do you need any book
shelves?
80] Join the Global Zero campaign.
81] Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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65]
-- There is DC Poor Peoples' Campaign Mobilization Meeting on Sat.,
Feb. 22 at 10 AM at the John Wesley AME Zion
Church, 1615 14th St. NW, WDC 20009.
66] – On Sat., Feb. 22 from 10 AM to 1 PM, get with Tree
Maintenance, hosted by Gunpowder Valley
Conservancy at the Loch Raven Reservoir,
Towson. Check out
gunpowdervalleyconservancy.org. Newly planted trees need TLC to survive. Spend
several hours to help young trees grow into healthy forests! Tree maintenance
involves removing invasive plants, checking planted trees to see if the shelter
needs to be removed and removing if necessary, digging out the planting tube,
and making sure the plant is upright. Community service learning hours
available. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/609988343153273/.
67] – On Sat., Feb. 22
from 10 AM to 1 PM, help out with the February Food Distribution at the Franciscan
Center of Baltimore, 101 W. 23rd St., Baltimore 21218. There is a need of 50 to
60 volunteers to help us unpack and setup a food market to give away 10,000
pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables. Check out https://www.facebook.com/events/2484359231836287/.
68] – On Sat., Feb. 22 from 11 AM to 3 PM, get
with a Meet And Greet, hosted by Animal Safe Haven and Adoptions, Inc. at
Pet Valu, 895 E. Fort Ave., Baltimore 21230. Murray is ready to meet the
public and hopefully find his forever family! He is a fuzzy orange adult who
loves to look outside and play with other cats. Special guest kitties will also
make an appearance! See https://www.facebook.com/events/128788908462546/.
69] – On Sat., Feb. 22 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM,
meet the author Antero Pietila who wrote “The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins,” hosted
by Enoch Pratt Free Library, 5108 Roland Ave., Baltimore 21210-2132.
Pietila's thirty-five years with The Baltimore Sun included coverage of the
city's neighborhoods, politics and government. He also served seven years as a
correspondent in South Africa and the Soviet Union. The book reflects the whole
spectrum of those experiences. A native of Finland, where he graduated from
Tampere's School of Social Sciences, Pietila became a student of urban racial
rotations during his first visit to the United States in 1964. He later
obtained a Master of Arts degree at Southern Illinois University,
Carbondale. He is also the author of “Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry
Shaped a Great American City” (2010).
The Ivy Bookshop will have copies of the book for sale at a book
signing following the program, which is in conjunction with Undesign the
Redline, exhibited at the Central Library November 1, 2019-January 31, 2020 and
Southeast Anchor Library, February 1-February 29, 2020. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/431054730904597/.
70] –On Sat., Feb. 22 from noon to 3 PM,
United Workers <justsociety@unitedworkers.org>
invited you to the upcoming release of Baltimore's Fair Development Plan for
Zero Waste at 525 W Redwood Street, Baltimore 21201 in the University of
Maryland School of Social Work Auditorium. Come together and launch the Fair
Development Plan for Zero Waste which aims to address the city’s worst air
polluter - the BRESCO trash burning incinerator. Build on the momentum of
recent environmental breakthroughs -- the passage of the Clean Air Act and the
plastic bag ban -- to end our reliance on incineration and landfills. This plan
calls for truly green businesses and infrastructure such as composting and
recycling facilities, expanded residential collections, resources to maintain
vacant land and to prevent illegal dumping, which all culminate in hundreds of
local living wage jobs. RSVP here: http://www.unitedworkers.org/events. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/204315524073875/.
71] – On Sat., Feb. 22
from 12:30 to 2:30 PM, come to a SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins
University Training: Facts or Fakes? It is will take place on the Johns
Hopkins Homewood Campus- Croft Hall, Room B32. Did Obama really shake hands
with the president of Iran? Did Trump's lawyer plot with Russian spies to hack
the Democrats? Are Fox and MSNBC reporting from different planets? As the 2020
presidential race heats up, we'll test our skills at separating truth from
fabrication, using real images and video clips, and work together on ways to
make things better. With pizza!
Scott Shane was a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New
York Times from 2004 to 2019, covering national security and other subjects. He
won Pulitzer Prizes in 2017 and 2018 with Times colleagues for coverage of
Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and other issues. His latest book,
“Objective Troy: A Terrorist, A President and the Rise of the Drone,” tells the
story of the American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in a drone
strike in Yemen in 2011 at the orders of President Obama. He has written on
interrogation and torture, the CIA and targeted killing, WikiLeaks and secrecy,
the National Security Agency, and many other topics. He is a former Moscow
correspondent for The Baltimore Sun and his first book, “Dismantling Utopia, is
a firsthand account of the Soviet collapse. Register online at
bit.ly/FactsorFakesSNFAgora. Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/207421580400561/.
72] – Progressive Prince George’s
is promoting the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools Canvass on Sat., Feb. 22
from 1 to 3:30 PM to Reclaim Our Schools at the PGCEA HQ, 8008 Marlboro Pike,
Forestville 20747. Join PPG and talk to voters about supporting community
schools and the Kirwan commission funding recommendations. RSVP at
https://secure.everyaction.com/8Q7UmWifNEKg59JFP4LnXQ2?emci=3fa33d44-d14d-ea11-a94c-00155d039e74&emdi=ac6592b1-de4d-ea11-a94c-00155d039e74&ceid=131431.
73] –
Organize Your Friends with a Bernie Victory Captain on Sat., Feb.
22 from 3 to 4:30 PM at George Mason, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA
22030. Visit https://events.berniesanders.com/event/227876/.
Your friends, family members, coworkers, and classmates are looking to you to
help make their decisions about who to support for President! Studies show that
friend-to-friend organizing, organizing the people you know,
is the most effective strategy for increasing turnout in an election.
Bring a friend to this fun event where we make plans to organize our personal
networks for Bernie using the campaign’s official BERN App. We can’t leave a
single vote on the table! Please bring a smartphone, laptop, or tablet.
74] – On Sat., Feb. 22 from 7 to 10 PM,
Current Movements presents “The First Rainbow Coalition” at Eaton DC, 1201 K
Street NW, WDC 20005. This is a film screening & panel discussion
looking at solidarity movements then & now. In 1969, the Chicago
Black Panther Party, notably led by the charismatic Fred Hampton, began to form
alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based
movements in the city, including the Latino group the Young Lords Organization
and the working-class young southern whites of the Young Patriots. Finding
common ground, these disparate groups banded together in one of the most
segregated cities in postwar America to collectively confront issues such as
police brutality and substandard housing, calling themselves the Rainbow
Coalition. The film is directed by Ray Santisteban. A panel discussion on
solidarity movements then and now with Lynn C French of the Panther Party and
Nnennaya Amuchie of Black Youth Project 100 will follow the screening.
Current Movements is a nonprofit organization to connect
grassroots activists, movements, and organizations through art, film, and
technology. As part of its mission, it hosts a monthly film series in
partnership with Eaton Workshop highlighting the grassroots activism taking
place around the world and here in the DMV. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/1325098070995403/.
75] –
The PLOWSHARES SENTENCING is PENDING, so please WRITE THE JUDGE.
Now is the time to write letters to Judge Lisa Godbey Wood regarding her
sentencing of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. The group is collecting letters,
especially from those who know the defendants, testifying to their character
and the good work that they are doing in their communities which will not be
done if they are serving long terms in prison. These letters are not the forum
to criticize the law, the legal process or government policies. Rather it
is the place to point out positive things about the defendants that should
mitigate a harsh sentence. Letters should be sent to defense attorney
Bill Quigley at the address below. He will compile them and distribute to
various defendants' attorneys for delivery to Judge Wood. The attorneys suggest
it would be helpful to get these done by Thanksgiving or the week after in
order to get processed and delivered. Sentencing may be in January or possibly
February. The best letters are simple, polite, and tell good things
about the person you are writing to support.
The suggested format is as follows:
Date
Sender’s Name
Sender’s Address
Judge Lisa Godbey Wood
C/o Bill Quigley
Loyola University New Orleans Law Clinic
Campus Box 902
7214 St. Charles Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70118
Regarding Sentencing of: Mark Colville
[or] Clare Grady [or] Martha Hennessy [or] Fr. Steve Kelly SJ [or] Elizabeth
McAlister [or] Patrick O’Neill [or] Carmen Trotta (or all seven of the Kings
Bay Plowshares)
Dear Judge Wood,
Suggested outline for the letter:
- Explain who you are.
- Explain who you are writing about, how
you know them, and what good they do for their community.
- Explain why the Judge should not send
them to jail.
- Thank the Judge for reading your
letter.
Valediction,
Signature
For more ideas and details for your
letters, you are welcome to see the defendants' biographies here: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/about/bios/.
Thank you for your attentiveness to the
trial, your support for the defendants and their families, and your focus on
the issue of the abolition of nuclear weapons.
As Fr. Steve Kelly says, "The
nuclear weapons won't go away by themselves." We do this work together.
76] – Two books by Fred Wilcox are still in print.
The first one is “Fighting the Lamb's War Skirmishes with the American Empire”
by Philip Berrigan and Fred A. Wilcox with a FOREWORD by Tripp
York. It can be purchased by Wipf and Stock: https://wipfandstock.com/fighting-the-lamb-s-war.html.
It is a Memoir in paperback/ISBN: 9781532660078/240 pages/republished
8/21/2018/ Retail Price: $26.00/and Web Price: $20.80.
The
second one is “Uncommon Martyrs The Berrigans, the Catholic Left, and the
Plowshares Movement” by Fred Wilcox, who profiles members of this anti-war
movement, whose Christianity compels them to acts of civil disobedience against
the military industrial complex. The ISBN is 0201522314/$6.50 for a
hardcover, and it can be purchased at Powell's Books. See https://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/book-reviews/view/7094/uncommon-martyrs.
77] – The Trump Administration is again beating
the war drums. Most recently, the target is Iran. Should the Trump
administration initiate an act of war against Iran, consider joining us. It is a violation of U.S. law for the Trump Administration to attack a country that
has not attacked us, as only Congress can declare war. The Trump administration
is nevertheless beating the war drums for war against Iran and Venezuela.
Should a war criminal, John Bolton, convince Trump to attack either of these
countries, such a military strike would demand an immediate and unequivocal
response from us to show that we will not tolerate his abuse of power.
Let's mobilize to show that we the
people will not tolerate another military adventure, which would be bound
to have profound negative consequences. If a military strike against Iran
or Venezuela takes place, then meet at 33rd and
N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218. If the attack is before 2 PM local
time, then the event will begin at 5 PM, local time. If the attack
occurs after 5 PM local time, then the event will begin at 5 PM,
local time, the following day. Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or
mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
78] -- If you would like
to get rid of books, videos, DVDs, records, tarps and table cloths, contact Max
at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
79] -- Can you use any
book shelves? Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
80] -- Join an
extraordinary global campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons: http://www.globalzero.org/sign-declaration.
A growing group of leaders around the world is calling for the elimination of
nuclear weapons and a majority of the global public agrees. This is an
historic window of opportunity. With momentum already building in favor
of Zero, a major show of support from people around the world could tip the
balance. When it comes to nuclear weapons, one is one too many.
81] – A Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil
takes place every day in Lafayette Park, 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 24 hours a
day, since June 3, 1981. Go to http://prop1.org; call 202-682-4282.
Donations
can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.
“One
is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems
impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through
nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total
inability of violence to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan
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