Baltimore Activist Alert -- September 25 - 26, 2020

63] Climate Strikes vs. Chase Bank -- Sept. 25

64] Free Assange – Sept. 25

65] White House vigil – Sept. 25

66] Women in Black VIGILS FOR PEACE – Sept. 25

67] Training on the tool of Early Warning, Early Response for Unarmed Civilian Protection teams -- Sept. 25

68] Peace and justice vigil – Sept. 25

69] Fridays for Freedom on Capitol Hill – Sept. 25

70] NO JUSTICE NO PEACE – Sept. 25

71] Byte Night: ZooFari – Sept. 25

72] Film RBG – Sept. 25

73] Black Lives Matter Rally – Sept. 25

74] No Cold War: International Peace Forum – Sept. 26

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63] – On Fri., Sept. 25 from 9 AM to 9 PM, get with the Climate Strikes vs. Chase Bank Every Friday! Flatten the climate pollution curve together! Help run an online climate strike at Chase Bank--the #1 investor in fossil fuels of any bank in the world--every Friday until further notice. You can post your own virtual climate strike on social media in 4 easy steps: https://www.climatefirst.us/calendar. Contact Ted at tconwell@climatefirst.us/ (301) 589-7598 (mobile). Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/3398894953477457/.

64] – Free Julian Assange - End the Rendition, hosted by Action 4 Assange. Action 4 Assange will be in D.C. through September 25 to continue the fight started when Julian's extradition hearings first began in February.  On Fri., Sept. 25 at noon, rally at the Department of Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, WDC 20530. See  https://www.facebook.com/events/253465719296846/.

65] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., Sept. 25 at noon.  Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.

66] – There will be two Women in Black VIGILS FOR PEACE on Fri., Sept. 25 from noon to 1 PM.  One is at Roland Park Place, 830 W. 40th St., Baltimore.  Free Parking is available. There will be NO LUNCH.   If it doesn't rain, vigil. If it rains, the vigil will be cancelled.  If you arrive for the vigil and don't see someone else, please don't leave. Other folks are on the way.  Email awyattbr@gmail.com.

The other is in Chestertown, Kent County on the Eastern Shore in Memorial Park at Cross Street & Park Row.  This will be a safe-distanced stand for Peace with Justice  & No to War. Email wibbaltimore@peacepath911.org.

67] – The DC Peace Team has some relevant training coming up both for individual bystander situations and unarmed protection team deployments. On Fri., Sept. 25 from noon to 2 PM, there will be an ONLINE training on the tool of Early Warning, Early Response for Unarmed Civilian Protection teams. REGISTER at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuzjRFqRoAb6P3W5xdcaTXND47YEkSvm7hYgLFXFdN6o8SiA/viewform.  Payment is requested on a sliding scale. Please consider $30-$60 to support the work and help better serve the community. It is FREE for students. No one will be turned away for lack of payment.  Please submit payment today-- https://dcpeaceteam.com/donate/; or checks can be written out to DC Peace Team and mailed to Eli McCarthy, 7305 Baylor Ave., College Park, MD 20740.

68] -- There is usually a Quaker Vigil for Racial Justice on Fridays, from 5 to 6:30 PM, hosted by the Baltimore Quaker Peace and Justice Committee (BQPJC) outside the Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St.  The next scheduled vigil is on Sept. 25. From 6 to 6:30 PM strategize. Black Lives Matter. Stop the Killing. Physical distancing applies. Wear your face mask. Email homewoodfriends@gmail.com or call 410-235-4438. Quaker values call us to speak truth and to seek equality for all people. We aim to follow Bayard Rustin’s wisdom that “we need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers” and John Lewis’s call to “make good trouble.” See https://www.facebook.com/events/311508100243529/?event_time_id=311508113576861.

69] -- Fridays For Freedom on Capitol Hill, 80 M St. SE, #100, WDC 20003 are hosted by Now! Join in each Friday from 5 to 6 PM on Sept. 18 and continuing until Fri., Dec. 18.  See www.now.world/fridaysforfreedom.  Hong Kong’s freedoms and civil rights have been under constant attack by China for years, but the situation has been dramatically deteriorating lately with the introduction of draconian new laws. Yesterday it was Tibet, and today is Hong Kong. Only by standing as one across the world can we safeguard our future. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/375084010556061/?event_time_id=375084020556060. 

70] – On Fri., Sept. 25 at 6 PM, join No Justice No Peace ll : Breonna Taylor at the Baker Park Bandshell, hosted by Frederick United.  A grand jury didn’t charge any officers with shooting of Ms. Taylor in her Louisville apartment. A former officer, accused of firing recklessly, was indicted on three counts of “wanton endangerment.” The charge is a Class D felony under a Kentucky law that took effect in 1975, with each count carrying a possible sentence of 1 to 5 years in prison and fines as high as $10,000. Hankison was not charged in Taylor's death, but rather for shooting up a wall and endangering her neighbors' lives. This is NOT justice served! Breonna Taylor we will continue to march until justice is served and your life means more to people than that of a WALL. See #showupandshowout. 

71] – On Fri., Sept. 25 from 6 to 7 PM, enjoy Byte Night: ZooFari, an Online Event, hosted by Friends of the National Zoo.  Tune in at http://fonz.org/bytenight to help save animals. Sign up for a VIP experience and have a celebrity chef make an exclusive meal for you, bid on incredible auction items, or just kick back and enjoy some furry fun during the FREE show!

72] – On Fri., Sept. 25 from 8 to 10 PM, see the film RBG, hosted by HOPthon as an online Event.  Watch at http://cglink.me/r776670.  This is an incredible documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in honor of her life.

73] -- LET OUR VOICES BE HEARD “IF NOT NOW – WHEN?”  Join a Black Lives Matter Rally on Sat., Sept. 26 from 11 AM to noon outside the Baltimore City School Administration Building, 200 E. North Avenue, Baltimore.  Join a RACIAL JUSTICE CIRCLE.  Email or call Ryan Sattler – ryansattler@comcast.net/ 717-891-6156.

74] – Check out No Cold War: International Peace Forum on Sat., Sept. 26 from 9 to 11:30 AM ET.  This will bring together peace activists from China, the US, Britain, South Africa, India, Morocco, Bolivia and Belgium to discuss how to oppose the US-led New Cold War. Register on Eventbrite. Registered users will receive a link within 24 hours of the event starting. The event will also be streamed to YouTube and Facebook.  See http://masspeaceaction.org/event/no-cold-war-international-peace-forum/?emci=425ba017-90f6-ea11-99c3-00155d039e74&emdi=4c177c07-c4f6-ea11-99c3-00155d039e74&ceid=269591.

To be continued.

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Baltimore, MD 21212.  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