Baltimore Activist Alert -- April 30 -- May 1, 2021

59] A new China policy that invests in America – April 30

60] Call in for the Green New Deal – April 30

61] Truth, Dissent, & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg – April 30

62] Passport Vaccines – April 30

63] Demilitarize the Budget! – April 30

64] White House vigil – April 30

65] Fire Drill Friday – April 30

66] Fighting the oil and gas industry – April 30

67] Peace and justice vigil – April 30

68] Nuclear Monitoring and Verification in North Korea -- April 30

69] Coffee and Conversation – May 1

70] Prepare for Baltimore’s John Lewis Day of Action – May 1

71] May Day PRO Act Rally – May 1

72] Food Pantry and Food Donation Center – May 1

73] Nuclear Weapons Nowadays – May 1

74] International Workers Day – May 1

75] We Dream in Black Film Screening – May 1

76] Tell JHU no more weapons contracts

77] Beauty Fades /Stupid Lasts Forever and The Trial According to Alan Barysh 78] Read Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"

79] Ted Glick has written a book

80] New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic”

81] Two Berrigan Books still in print

82] Contribute to the Lin Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship

83] Do you need a doctor?

84] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

85] Do you need any book shelves?

86] Join the Global Zero campaign.

87] Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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59] – The Economic Policy Institute [newsletter@epi.org] is letting you know about a WEBINAR] Promoting a new China policy that invests in America. One of the featured speakers will be Senator Bob Casey.  The idea is to promote new approaches with China on national security, rebalancing trade, rebuilding manufacturing, and supporting workers both domestically and abroad. Senator Casey will call for a policy framework that supports competition, holds the Chinese government accountable for practices that harm workers and U.S. firms, and will call for investments in America’s communities and children. The remarks will be followed by a panel discussion featuring EPI President Thea Lee, EPI Senior Economist Robert Scott, and New America’s Director of New Models of Policy Change Heather Hurlburt. This online event will occur on Fri., April 30 from 9 to 10:30 AM ET. Register at https://www.epi.org/event/promoting-a-new-china-policy-that-invests-in-america/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=70b57b9531-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_10_02_06_32_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-70b57b9531-59830565&mc_cid=70b57b9531&mc_eid=72ea77dbdd.

60] – Paris, Sunrise [team@sunrisemovement.org] invites you to be involved in a National Call-in Day on Fri., April 30 from 10 AM to 9 PM ET.  Picture this: It’s Friday morning and every phone in your representative’s office is ringing off the hook. It’s so persistent that they try to escape the noise by stepping out into the hallway. But the noise only grows louder —The calls aren’t just for them. Every phone in the office of every congressperson in Washington DC is ringing. It’s the sound of you, me, and thousands of others, the people they’re supposed to serve, calling to demand they pass a bold $10 trillion jobs & infrastructure package, including the Green New Deal for Public Housing, Green New Deal for Cities, and the Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice. It’s the sound of people who will not go another day being ignored, who will not go another day without a good paying-job or safe, affordable housing. 

  Head to https://www.callforthegnd.org/, and type in your information. Make sure to include your zip code so you will be patched in to YOUR representatives. Click the “MAKE THE CALL” button. Make sure you have your phone ready beside you.  Answer the call that comes through on your phone. Read the script that appears on your screen once you are connected; you can also practice here. Feel free to adapt the script as you see fit, personalized messages are always more effective.

61] –Truth, Dissent, & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg will take place on Fri., April 30 at 10 AM through Sat., May 1 at 4:45 PM ET.  Register at https://www.umass.edu/history/ellsberg-conference/registration.  Inspired by Daniel Ellsberg’s vast collection of personal papers, recently acquired by University of Massachusetts Special Collections and University Archives, this free online conference brings together more than two dozen distinguished historians, journalists, activists, whistleblowers, and former policymakers on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Ellsberg’s leak of the Pentagon Papers. In a keynote address by Daniel Ellsberg and seven roundtable discussions, presenters will explore the major issues that have engaged Ellsberg’s life: the Vietnam War, nuclear weapons, antiwar resistance, the Pentagon Papers, Watergate, whistleblowing, and the wars of the 21st century. The plenary panel is an historic conversation between Ellsberg and fellow whistleblower Edward Snowden, moderated by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now.

62] – Physicians for Human Rights [web@email.phr.org] would like you to attend Vaccine Passports: Equity and Human Rights Considerations on Fri., April 30 at 11 AM ET. Are “vaccine passports” helpful or harmful, from a public health, ethics, and human rights perspective? The conversation will be moderated by Max Hadler, MA, MPH, PHR’s COVID-19 senior policy expert.  The panel discussion will include Arthur Caplan, PhD, the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and the founding head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Langone Health.  RSVP at https://phr-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_61JgQsc4Sb2yfWrXJulx3A?utm_campaign=661126_FY21%20April%20COVID-19%20Webinar%20Invitation%2026_04242021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Physicians%20for%20Human%20Rights&dm_i=4GV7,E64M,1TO2EP,1HDIZ,1. Submit questions for consideration to webinar@phr.org.

63] – Yasmeen from Beyond the Bomb [team@beyondthebomb.org] wants to alert you to a rally on Fri., April 30 at noon ET in Washington, DC to Demilitarize the Budget!  Each year, about two-thirds of the United States' budget is spent on militarized responses to problems—including nuclear weapons, the Pentagon, abusive immigration enforcement, and policing. President Biden just announced his intention to pledge $753 billion for military spending. Together, on April 30th, call on Congress to move our money out of militarism and into communities! $753 billion is an increase even over Trump era military spending and cannot stand. This money could have had a transformative impact on things that would actually make our communities healthy, safe, and strong—like education, universal health care, or peacebuilding. Register at https://www.facebook.com/events/759809094968624?link_id=1&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-rally-to-put-our-money-where-our-mouth-is&email_referrer=email_1159175___subject_1541025&email_subject=join-us-at-the-washington-monument-on-friday.

64] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., April 30 at noon.  Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.

65] – Jane Fonda for Greenpeace [info@greenpeaceusa.org] wants you to participate in Fire Drill Friday on April 30 at 2 PM ET. Keep fossil fuels in the ground. Hear from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, a climate leader who recently introduced the Keep It in the Ground Act with a goal to completely end new fossil fuel leases on our federal lands and waters. RSVP on Zoom at https://greenpeace.zoom.us/webinar/register/6716195392884/WN_Rd11BjfVRWekNx8zu-fkUQ?emci=ca99e329-f5a8-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&emdi=323afcf5-02a9-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&ceid=1705696.

66] – On Earth Day, the Biden Administration continued their call for the U.S. to be a climate leader, yet the oil and gas industry is putting this leadership at risk.  On Fri., April 30 at 3 PM ET, join the Sierra Club and frontline leaders to connect with communities fighting the oil and gas industry and learn more about what we can all do to stop this harm. In the midst of falling fossil fuel demand in the U.S., the oil and gas industry is trying to expand to new markets by exporting oil and gas overseas. Oil and gas projects in our communities cause serious pollution and risk our waterways when fossil fuels are extracted, transported, and used in our homes and in industrial sites around the world. We need leadership who will put a stop to this scheme and stand up for our communities' health and safety, and the climate. Sign up at https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?id=7013q000001lLhSAAU&formcampaignid=7013q000001lKBzAAM&data=b6e24884ef874d561f720648fa7f24c728d130c0ee61950ee534052d92e2b46bad2d2286ded8e97bd08adac88591a989&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sierraclub&utm_campaign=weekofaction&utm_content=earthday2021.

67] -- 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 30. 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.

68] – On Fri., April 30 at 7 PM, tune in to Nuclear Monitoring and Verification in North Korea [Online], sponsored by the National Committee on North Korea. Mark Schanfein, Idaho National Laboratory, will address the issue.  Sign up at https://www.ncnk.org/event-calendar/webcast-nuclear-monitoring-and-verification-north-korea. 

69] –Get with Coffee & Conversation with Our Revolution Baltimore City/County on Sat., May 1 from 11 AM to 1 PM EDT. Chat about politics, progressive issues, or whatever's on your mind on Zoom. Register at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/335231/?link_id=1&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-actions-upcoming-events-our-revolution-baltimore-7&email_referrer=email_1159828&email_subject=actions-upcoming-events-our-revolution-baltimore.

70] – Join an Art Build for Baltimore’s John Lewis Day of Action, scheduled for May 8, in person at The Church of the Holy Nativity, 4238 Pimlico Road, Baltimore 21215 at 11 AM on Sat., May 1 to make signs and banners. Materials will be provided. There is both indoor and outdoor work space, and necessary precautions will be taken.

  Help plan the Baltimore John Lewis Day of Action, scheduled for May 8.  Meet via Zoom on Sat., May 1 at 7:30 PM ET and Mon., May 3 at 7:30 PM ET to discuss logistics of the Votercade and “mini-rallies,” the program/press conference at the Park, and relations with members of Congress. Shannon Sneed will attend this event on behalf of Sen. Van H, and Rep. Mfume is considering it. Sen. Cardin’s office offered to send a video from the Senator himself or a representative. There are two ways to join Saturday’s and Monday’s teleconferences. Dial 1 301 715 8592 with a meeting ID of 931 3066 2622. The password is 173976. Or join by Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/93130662622?pwd=OE15SURJUWdXNHFicW94SDI3c2x3UT09#success.

71] – There is a May Day PRO Act Rally in Old Town Alexandria on Sat., May 1 at 11:30 AM EDT.  Get over to Windmill Hill Park, 500 South Lee Street, Alexandria. The PRO Act is historic legislation that will put power in the hands of workers and reverse decades of legislation meant to crush unions. The bill will completely change labor law as we know it and shift power away from CEOs to workers. Our Revolution will be hosting a rally in support of the PRO Act!  Sign up at https://www.facebook.com/events/754170001949373?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-actions-upcoming-events-our-revolution-baltimore-7&email_referrer=email_1159828&email_subject=actions-upcoming-events-our-revolution-baltimore.

72] – On Sat., May 1 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.

73] –  Tune in to Nuclear Weapons Nowadays: What You Can Know and Do on Sat., May 1 at 1 PM ET. Sign up for this Online Event at http://masspeaceaction.org/event/nuclear-weapons-nowadays-what-you-can-know-and-do-3/?emci=62bfe175-96a6-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&emdi=c9d087de-98a6-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&ceid=269591.  This FREE 4-session course is informative and fascinating!  Sign up now to take it either in MAY or in JULY 2021 (your choice of Tuesdays or Saturdays in either month). We use Zoom video, so people

The Cold War ended three decades ago, but nuclear weapons remain a threat to the world.  Many recent and current actions by the U.S. government have sharply increased the danger of nuclear war in the “new cold war,” so now the “Doomsday Clock” is the closest to midnight it has ever been, since it was devised in 1953.  Also, the U.S. is spending more on nuclear weapons than ever before – even more than at the peak of the Cold War! Go far beyond “doom and gloom” and actually empower people to support the solutions. Each session will be two hours.

74] – On Sat., May 1, May Day - International Workers Day, BUST RACISM - NOT UNIONS.  Join a Car Caravan & March starting at 1 PM at 2011 N. Charles Street.  The rally will end at 3 PM at City Hall for a United Workers Assembly at Gay & E. Fayette Sts.  SIGN UP ON FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/events/1073246209851680. Visit www.PeoplesPowerAssembly.org  or call 410-218-4835.

75] – The National Domestic Workers Alliance [info@email.domesticworkers.org] is inviting you to the We Dream in Black Film Screening of Chèche Lavi, a lyrical portrait of two Haitian migrants at the US-Mexico border on Sat., May 1 from 6 to 8:30 PM ET. RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/NViDQIcFY0WAUdvDlSu79w2?emci=6aa885ff-34a8-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&emdi=1bc67421-6da8-eb11-85aa-0050f237abef&ceid=204641.

76] –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.

77] – 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.

78] – 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. 

 Dave just printed the 5^th edition of the book which is available for $25 by sending him a check: Dave Eberhardt, 4 Hadley Square North, Baltimore, MD 21218. You can contact him at mozela9@comcast.net. He prefers that you DO NOT order the book from Amazon. Image 1 of 2 for FOR ALL THE SAINTS: A PROTEST PRIMER. David Eberhardt; Image 2 of 2 for FOR ALL THE SAINTS: A PROTEST PRIMER; and FOR ALL THE SAINTS: A PROTEST PRIMER.  This is a self-published book printed in 2017 with updates.

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.

79] –  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.

80] – 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.

81] –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.

82] – 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.

83] – 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.  

84] -- 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.

85] -- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.

86] -- 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.

87] – 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