75] Day of
Silence – April 23
76]
Demand
a WTO waiver for access to the vaccine -- April 23
77] Book club about children on the border – April 23
78]
White
House vigil – April 23
79]
Korean Kinship, Adoption, and Diaspora – April 23
80]
Stop Banking the Bomb
–
April 23
81]
How Power Shapes
Nuclear Regimes –
April 23
82] Peace and justice vigil – April 23
83] Launch
of UMBC Net-Zero 2030 campaign – April 23
84]
Virtual Member Coffee for Indivisible Columbia – April 24
85] Building
Political Support for the Nuclear Ban Treaty – April 24
86] Food Pantry and Food Donation Center – April 24
87]
Climate and Militarism – April 24
88] Where Does Peace Go from Here? – April 24
89] Meet Dr. Paul Farmer – April 24
90] Lift the Sanctions Day of Action – April 2489] Lift the Sanctions Day of Action – April 24
91] Tell JHU no more weapons contracts
92] Beauty Fades /Stupid Lasts Forever and The Trial According to Alan Barysh
93] Read
Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints-
a Protest Primer"
94] Ted Glick
has written a book
95] New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic”
96] Two
Berrigan Books still in print
97] Contribute to the Lin
Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship
98] Do you need a doctor?
99]
Donate books, videos, DVDs and records
100]
Do you need any book shelves?
101] Join the Global Zero campaign.
102] Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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75] – GLSEN is letting us know that Friday, April 23 is a Day of Silence
[info@glsen.org]. Learn more about the Day of
Silence, student stories, and resources about the event by visiting
glsen.org/DayOfSilence.
76] – Ryan Harvey [rharvey@rethinktrade.org] wants you to join Senator Bernie Sanders for a Live Event on the TRIPS Campaign on Fri., April 23 at 11:30 AM EST. Joining Bernie will be members of Congress, and consumer, faith, health and labor leaders who will deliver two million petition signatures urging President Biden to support an emergency waiver of pharmaceutical monopolies at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ramp up production of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments worldwide. The signatures add to a deluge of support for the wavier, including from 60% of U.S. voters, ten U.S. senators, 170+ former heads of state and Nobel laureates, 400+ U.S. civil society organizations, and 250 international organizations.
The WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) requires WTO signatory countries to provide lengthy monopoly protections for medicines, tests and the technologies used to produce them. These rules block countries and manufacturers from potentially accessing the formulas and know-how needed to boost production for COVID-19 vaccines. That’s why over 100 nations at the WTO are supporting a temporary, emergency TRIPS waiver, introduced by South Africa and India, for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and diagnostics. It is an immoral decision, but the U. S. is not only blocking this emergency waiver, they will not even agree to negotiate about the proposal's language to address whatever concerns they may have with the current text. Help win a TRIPS waiver by going to http://rethinktrade.org/live/?link_id=3&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-tomorrow-join-senator-bernie-sanders-for-a-live-event-on-the-trips-campaign-2&email_referrer=email_1152489___subject_1533245&email_subject=tomorrow-join-senator-bernie-sanders-for-a-live-event-on-the-trips-campaign.
77] – Merrill Zack, HIAS [info@hias.org]is letting you know about the HIAS Book Club which will discuss the book TELL ME HOW IT ENDS by Valeria Luiselli on Fri., April 23 at noon ET. This powerful story is structured around the forty questions the author asked undocumented Latin American children facing deportation as she provided volunteer translation assistance. RSVP.at https://www.hias.org/events/hias-book-and-film-club-april-2021?utm_medium=email&utm_source=hias.org&utm_campaign=events&utm_content=April+Events+at+HIAS:+hear+from+Uygher+and+Rohingya+activists.
78] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., April 23 at noon. Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.
79] – The GW Institute for Korean Studies [gwiks@gwu.edu] wants to alert you to an event on Fri., April 23 from 1 to 4:30 PM ET via Zoom -- GWIKS Signature Conference: Korean Kinship, Adoption, and Diaspora. The conference will focus on the complicated and contradictory experiences of Korean adoptees and Koreans in the diaspora. Population movements challenge many of our assumptions about identity and belonging, including the centrality of the state as a primary constituent of identity, and the notion that kinship is a biological or natural phenomenon as opposed to an object of cultural knowledge. The conference reflects on how Koreans outside of Korea, and those who have returned to Korea from other nations, resist some forms of identity and seek to create new, innovative, alternative forms. The participants will also reflect on historical roots of Korean transnational adoptions and the concept of Korean-ness as a “race” characterized by homogeneity and sameness. To some extent, the conversation will echo movements in the broader diversity literature on disability and LGBT movements, and other areas of “difference.” Topics to be discussed include: bio-politics, transnationalism, kinship/social organization, multiculturalism, diaspora, civil society, the vexed “nature” of transnational adoption. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gwiks-signature-conference-korean-kinship-adoption-and-diaspora-tickets-146382797889.
80] – ABetterPNC Bank [abetterpncbnk@gmail.com] wants you to attend a webinar on Fri., April 23 at 3 PM ET with Rev. Paul Dordal entitled "Stop Banking the Bomb - Community Action in a Time of Crisis." Register at https://uscatholicpriests.ourpowerbase.net/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=57. Dordal saw the devastation of war first hand as a combat chaplain during the Iraq War. Since then, he's become the head chaplain for the Veterans Administration Hospital in Pittsburgh. When the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons helped introduce the Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons at the UN in 2017, Fr. Dordal was inspired to start the Stop Banking the Bomb Pittsburgh chapter and call out PNC Bank for their financial assistance to nuclear weapons manufacturers. The campaign is now in its fourth year.
81] – On Fri., April 23 from 4 to 5 PM ET, check out Haves and Have Nots: How Power Shapes Nuclear Regimes [Online] with Gabrielle Hecht, Debak Das, Vincent Intondi and Chantell Murphy. The REDI Task Force invites you to the next event in the "Critical Conversations: Race in Global Affairs" series, featuring a panel moderated by Professor Gabrielle Hecht on inequality in nuclear regimes. The sponsor is the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force, Stanford University. RSVP at https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/haves-and-have-nots-how-power-shapes-nuclear-regimes.
82] -- 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 April 23. 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=311508113576861.3&akid=18263%2E3302379%2Ez6bJVQ.
83] – Gracie at Sunrise Movement Baltimore [general@sunrisemovementbaltimore.org] wants us to know about the UMBC Sunrise for Earth Week! On Fri., April 22 from 6:30 to 8 PM, there will be Launch of UMBC Net-Zero 2030 campaign. Visit https://www.mobilize.us/greenteamumbc/event/383344/?emci=334d6795-68a0-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&emdi=b9b7a64a-69a0-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&ceid=177631.
84] – There is a virtual Member Coffee for Indivisible Columbia, MD 21045 on Sat., April 24 at 10 AM. There is much, much, more to do to help democracy prevail. Republicans are trying more than ever to undermine democracy in every direction. Have fun with a community of like-minded activists! Learn how IndivisbleHoCoMD takes action in the community, builds collective purpose and creates change to improve lives nationally, statewide, and in Howard County. Learn about what you can do from home and make a real difference. Go to https://actionnetwork.org/events/member-coffee-3?source=direct_link&Member Coffee.
85] – Asha Asokan [timmon@nuclearban.us] wants you to get involved on Sat., April 24 from 10:30 AM to 12:45 EDT. Tune in the Zoom Event - Building Political Support for the Nuclear Ban Treaty. Help spread the word for the Event in Congress and at the state and local levels. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect on January 22nd. Everything to do with nuclear weapons is now illegal in 50 countries, and that number will continue to rise. In countries where governments are not yet ready to sign this treaty, their elected officials are pressuring them to do so. Over 250 parliamentarians in Italy have signed the ICAN Pledge, nearly 200 in Germany, over 100 in Australia and almost every member of the Scottish Parliament. So far, ten members of the US Congress have signed the ICAN Pledge.
Join us on April 24th to hear from Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of ICAN, and from ICAN campaigners around the world, on how they have successfully used the ICAN Pledge to build support for nuclear abolition in other countries. Discuss how to get many more members of the US Congress to sign, and how this could really change the conversation about nuclear weapons in Washington towards a clear call for the abolition of these weapons. Also look at how getting state and local legislators to sign the Pledge can help build the pressure on Members of Congress to also sign. Register to attend at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrdu-tpzMtHdwxFC9WoGz6OmC3GegKlVdc.
86] – On Sat., April 24 from noon to 2 PM EST, get over to the Food Pantry and Food Donation Center at First and Franklin Presbyterian Church, 210 W. Madison St., Baltimore. This Food Pantry is open every Saturday. Get a grocery bag – breakfast, jelly and peanut butter (a good source of protein) for lunch, the makings for a balanced dinner such as beans and rice, pasta and sauce, soup, vegetables, fruit, and a paper goods. Also added is a little fun food, such as popcorn or cookies, for everyone enjoys a treat. Contributions of shelf stable foods can be brought to Reid Chapel every Saturday between noon and 2 PM. If shopping is difficult for you, monetary donations earmarked food pantry may be sent to the church. How else can you help? Volunteers are needed to help collect and distribute food. Contact the church office to volunteer. You can also help by spreading the word to those you know who are facing food insecurity. See https://www.facebook.com/firstfranklinbaltimore.
87] – Climate & Militarism: How to Create Change is happening on Sat., April 24 from 1 to 3 PM. This is Part 4 of a 4-part teach-in series. In the final session, Nick Rabb of Sunrise Boston and the Mass Peace Action Peace & Climate Working Group will lead a discussion to explore how we can move forward in light of the revelations around these connections. What does our analysis lend us in terms of theories of change? Though the climate crisis has become something clearly worth addressing for so many of us, our understanding of what caused, perpetuates, and is caused by the crisis could often stand to be deeper. Particularly for those of us who grow up in the U.S., one aspect of the crisis that we rarely understand is how it is intertwined with militarism. The U.S. is perhaps the most violent empire in history. Its tentacles stretch to almost all corners of the world, and it concerns itself with maintaining supremacy at very high costs. Yet, we in the core of empire rarely see it for what it is. Therefore, we also fail to see how U.S. militarism is deeply intertwined with the U.S. role in the climate crisis. Sign up at bit.ly/climate-militarism-teachin!
88] – Jonathan King, Massachusetts Peace Action [info@masspeaceaction.org] wants to let you know about Where Does Peace Go from Here? Join in on Sat., April 24 at 1 PM for the Massachusetts Peace Action 2021 Annual Membership Meeting. The Keynote Speakers are Jim McGovern, Congressperson from the Massachusetts 2nd and Rules Committee Chairman; Nina Turner, Candidate for Congress from Ohio's 11th District and former Ohio State Senator. 2020 was a tough year in many ways, but despite everything that was thrown at us Massachusetts Peace Action continued to grow and thrive. That's thanks to our tireless volunteers, activists, interns, staff, and especially our members. Come to the Mass. Peace Action annual meeting to make your voice heard, reflect upon the achievements of the past year, and help set the agenda moving forward!
Click this URL to join: https://zoom.us/w/96046620959?tk=q2zhHYdZ6wflpZjOH79. The Meeting ID is 60 4662 0959.
89] – Jon Shaffer [info@email.actionnetwork.org] is inviting you to a conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer on Sat., April 25 at 3 PM ET. Right to Health Action is hosting an exclusive interview with Farmer as a low-dollar fundraiser to help fuel the fight. He is a medical anthropologist, chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and co-founder of Partners in Health. He has revolutionized the way the world thinks about global health, particularly how we approach the healthcare of the most marginalized people. On top of that, Dr. Farmer’s work has helped to ignite a real movement for global health equity. Tickets start at only $15. Sign up at https://www.r2haction.org/paul-farmer?link_id=3&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-will-you-join-me-and-r2h-action-on-saturday&email_referrer=email_1147133&email_subject=youre-going-to-want-to-be-at-this-convo-with-dr-paul-farmer. Every dollar of your ticket purchase will go directly to funding grassroots organizers who are hosting hundreds of lobby meetings and building power locally to WIN the People’s Pandemic Prevention Plan. If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Paul Farmer, you can watch his documentary, Bending the Arc, which is currently on Netflix.
90] – Participate in Lift the Sanctions Day of Action on Sat., Apr 24 at 3:30 EDT. Maryland Peace Action and others are teaming up with the RootsAction Team [info@rootsaction.org.] This is a call to action with experts on extreme sanctions on Iran and Venezuela and the blockade in Yemen. REGISTER at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodO2tqD8iHNCdt-bLzNCH1UpPd6BMjwdF. After discussing each country, Iran, Yemen and Venezuela, there will be a call to action urging Congress members and the White House to lift the sanctions on Iran and Venezuela during COVID and beyond, and end the military support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.
91] –This is A PLEA TO CONVINCE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY TO OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW. The world reached a historic milestone on January 22, 2021: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW] entered into force and become binding international law -- https://www.icanw.org/the_treaty.
Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland has called attention to the growing danger of nuclear war and the outrageous $1.7 trillion dollars we are spending to upgrade the nuclear arsenal. On July 18, 2017, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Navy - affiliated research center received a seven-year, $92 million contract to continue its systems engineering and research-and-development services for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. Help convince JHU to renounce nuclear weapons contracts. Contact the president, Ron Daniels, to urge him to reject all nuclear weapons contracts: Office of the President, 242 Garland Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218. Call his office at (410) 516-8068 or email president@jhu.edu.
92] – Bad Attitude Publishers Announces the release of Beauty Fades /Stupid Lasts Forever and The Trial According to Alan Barysh. In light of the fascist/Q Annon/Truther/Alex Jones and Trump-inspired attack on the capital, Bad attitude Publications has released a photo essay by Alan Barysh. In the follow-up book to Sorry Truther, it was an OUTSIDE JOB Beauty Fades.... gives the reader an upfront look at the reactionary forces and the deadly beliefs these folks uphold. In pictures and texts, one gets a good look at the faces and ideas that pose a real threat to this country. The Trial According to Alan Barysh is a rewrite of the Kafka Classic The Trial. With pictures from the original movie, Alan Barysh rewrites this scathing satire with just a tad more cutting edge satire, and a different ending. The appendix to the book talks about the lonely uphill struggle of Tawanda Jones to get justice for her brother. This afterthought is included, because of the real Kafkesque struggle of the West Family to get justice for her brother. Both books can be purchased on Amazon.com. For every purchase of The Trial, Alan Barysh will give all of his royalties to the West Family. Just text a picture of the book to 443-239-5325.
93] – David Eberhardt was a member of the Baltimore Four with Father Philip Berrigan, Tom Lewis and Rev. James Mengel. The group poured blood on draft files on October 27, 1967. They would be convicted and sentenced to prison. Dave has written a book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"- documenting the Baltimore Four action and many others up to and including the most recent Plowshares action – Kings Bay Plowshares 7. Phil Berrigan’s wife, Elizabeth McAlister, is a member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.
The
price is $25 for a Spiral Bound, and Signed.
This edition being what the publisher calls “The 4th edition (or first edition
4th state?) of this books (with “final” additions) has been printed by the firm
of FEDEX numbered 150-200, signed by the author, February 2017.”This is copy 187 and is numbered and signed by David
Eberhardt on the title page.~~While the bibliographical information is a bit
head-spinning, this is an engaging memoir by David Eberhardt recounting his
involvement with the Brothers Berrigan in the protests against the Viet Nam
war, and his subsequent time as an inmate at the Lewisburg Federal Prison.
There is Near Fine binding: Item #291479.
94] – Ted Glick has written a book about his years of active draft resistance during the Vietnam War, and published by PM Press! It’s entitled “Burglar for Peace: Lessons Learned in the Catholic Left’s Resistance to the Vietnam War. The book is part history, part autobiography and may be a valuable source of ideas and inspiration for today’s organizers against injustice, oppression, war, ecological devastation and the bad guys! Frida Berrigan has written a wonderful intro. The paperback book, all 220 or so pages, will cost $20, but if you order it now, you can get a 20% discount if you use the code “Burglar” when you do so. Go to: https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1093 and click 'Add to Cart'. In the coupon code area be sure to put: Burglar to get the discount.
95] – Check out a New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic: A Memoir by Fred L. Pincus,” now available from Adelaide Books (https://adelaidebooks.org/collections/latest-releases/products/confessions-of-a-radical-academic) or from Amazon. Fred taught sociology at UMBC for more than 40 years and is on the board of Research Associates Foundation. His memoir details his struggles to have a successful career while keeping true to his radical principles and activism. One major theme is his struggle with race and racism both on and off campus. Go to www.fredlpincus.com.
96] –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, who’s 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.
97] – Consider making a donation to a scholarship in her honor that would be most welcome. Contributions to the Lin Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship can be made online via https://www.ndm.edu/lin-romano-peace-and-justice-scholarship or by check made out to Notre Dame of Maryland University (Memo line: Lin Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship) and mailed to Notre Dame of Maryland University, Office of Institutional Advancement, 4701 North Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210.
98] – Yousef Zarbalian [mailto:yzarbali@gmail.com] started his own medical practice in December before the pandemic hit. It is called East-West Medicine and Rheumatology, and its website is EastWestMD.com. Yousef is licensed in Maryland and Virginia. He is doing primary care as well as rheumatologic care (focusing on joint problems and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and sjogren's). He is offering telemedicine visits, and he has very reasonable rates for uninsured individuals. He makes use of herbs (which can be sent directly to patients from the herbal dispensary) as well as prescribing medications to their local pharmacy if needed.
99] -- 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.
100] -- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
101] -- 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.
102] – 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 Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212. Ph: 410-323-1607; 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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