57] White House vigil – June 11
58] Learn about solar energy – June 11
59] Why We Need a Climate-Focused
Infrastructure Plan. – June
11
60] Free Julian
Assange –
June 11
61] Peace and justice vigil – June 11
62] Mark Warner must support the PRO Act -- June 12
63] Food Pantry and Food Donation Center – June 12
64] “International Voices for Peace” – June 12
65] Palestinians in Silwan through Eyewitness Palestine – June 12
66] Harriet Tubman Grove Virtual Community Listening Session – June 12
67] Call West Virginians --
June 12
68] Nuclear Imperialism
– June 12
69] Caregiver needed for Eddie
Smith
70] Jonah House needs a car
71]
Tell
JHU no more weapons contracts
72]
Beauty
Fades /Stupid Lasts Forever and The Trial According to Alan Barysh 73] Read
Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints-
a Protest Primer"
74] New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic”
75] Two
Berrigan Books still in print
76] Contribute to the Lin
Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship
77] Do you need a doctor?
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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57]
– The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host
a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., June
11 at noon. Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic
Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.
58] – On Fri., June 11 at noon ET, learn about solar energy and its benefits for your home, or small business. You'll be taken through the technology, economics, financing, and more. This webinar will focus on solar leases and power purchase agreements. The co-op is free to join and members are *not* obligated to buy solar panels. Email Karmstrong@solarunitedneighbors.org to register. Visit https://coops.solarunitedneighbors.org/coops/md-northern-md-2021-solar-and-ev-co-op/events/.
59] – The Climate Reality Project [info@climatereality.com] wants to tell you Why We Need a Climate-Focused Infrastructure Plan. Hear former Vice President Al Gore and friends discuss why The American Jobs Plan is crucial for climate and justice. The American people are demanding bold action to confront the climate crisis threatening our lives, our country, and the future we’re leaving our children. What’s more, it’s clear that now is the time to tackle the pervasive inequality and systemic racism that has plagued us for generations. Join in on Fri., June 11 at 3 PM ET for the webinar. RSVP at https://www.climaterealityproject.org/register/spotlight-why-we-need-AJP?utm_source=advocacy&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=webinar&utm_content=june-webinar-email-1&utm_segment=JuneWebinarEmail10621&emci=0db845a1-a4c4-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=a68f0d3e-72c5-eb11-a7ad-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=1393885S.
60] – Hear this rallying cry Free Julian Assange in Independence Mall, Free Speech Monument, 5th and Market Sts., Philadelphia on Fri., June 11 at 2 PM ET. This is a panel event featuring Julian Assange’s father and brother, John and Gabriel Shipton. Chat with them as they discuss Julian - son, brother, peace advocate and publisher currently held in Belmarsh prison - as the U.S. appeals the “no extradition” verdict by the U.K. Go to https://assangedefense.org/tour/.
61] -- There is usually a Quaker Vigil for Racial Justice on Fridays, from 5 to 6 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 June 11. 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. 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.
62] – Our Revolution [info@ourrevolution.com] wants you to join the group for a Rally for the PRO Act on Sat., June 12 at 10:30 ET at 1601 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202 – two blocks from the Crystal City Metro. Mark Warner is one of three senators who hasn't signed on to support the PRO Act, the most progressive labor legislation since the 1930s. In May, Our Revolution showed up at his house and demanded he support the PRO Act. Rally to pressure Senator Warner to support Virginia’s working families and co-sponsor the PRO Act. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/391357/?akid=1638.8252965.MLegrl&rd=1&t=8.
63] – On Sat., June 5 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.
64] – The Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security [jgerson80@gmail.com] is hosting a webinar on Sat., June 12 at 2 PM ET. There are many speakers who will participate in “International Voices for Peace,” including ICAN’s Alicia Sanders-Zakere. Register at http://bit.ly/voicesjune12. Visit https://www.cpdcs.org/.
65] – Friends of Sabeel North America [friends@fosna.org] are inviting you to meet Palestinians in Silwan through Eyewitness Palestine on Sat., June 12 at 2 PM ET. Visit the Neighborhood of Silwan in Occupied East Jerusalem with your guides Sahar Abassi and Zuheir Rajabi. This is co-sponsored by Madaa Creative Center and Art Forces. Visit https://secure.everyaction.com/PJNPkea3GEeB7sS4O0QF6A2.
66] – On Sat., June 12 at 2 to 3 PM EDT, there will be a Harriet Tubman Grove Virtual Community Listening Session hosted by the Friends of Wyman Park Dell. In 2017, the Lee-Jackson Monument was removed from the west side of Wyman Park Dell. In 2018, the wooded area surrounding the former monument site was dedicated as Harriet Tubman Grove. In 2019, the Friends of Wyman Park Dell received a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council to engage an artist to lead community listening sessions concerning the future of the Lee-Jackson monument site in Wyman Park Dell. Change is coming to Harriet Tubman Grove and the Friends of Wyman Park Dell want your feedback to help determine the future of this part of the park. Join this virtual listening session to share your thoughts. If you are unable to join us, please consider filling out this survey: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSeFeNRgsBxD3t.../viewform. As a nonprofit organization focused on maintaining, enhancing, and activating Wyman Park Dell, the group is in a unique position to foster dialogue about the site’s history and future. Sign up at https://www.facebook.com/wymanparkdell/ or email at wymanparkdell@gmail.com.
67] – We Have a Do-or-Die, Time-Limited Chance to Defeat White Supremacy and Big Money. If you want equal protection so that every voter counts the same regardless of color, income, age, or neighborhood, now is the time to act. If you want freedom from the influence of big money, now is the time to act. In the next months, action by people like you can create a groundswell to pass three major bills (see details in box below). One of them (S. 1) would provide sweeping reforms to end special-interest corruption in our government. Congress must act early this summer or partisan redistricting – based on a flawed census – will have happened. The House of Representatives has the votes to pass these bills, and they can pass the Senate, too - but only if We the People let our senators know how we feel.
If these bills do not pass, action by some state legislatures will reduce the freedom to vote for targeted populations. Get Money Out – Maryland (GMOM) founded For the People – Maryland with 20 other groups to fight for these principles in the U.S. Congress. Therefore, the filibuster rule will need to change to allow these bills to pass with a simple majority.
68] – John Steinbach [johnsteinbach1@verizon.net] is inviting you to hear about on Sat., June 12 at 7:30 PM ET "Nuclear Imperialism: Racism, Imperialism and Colonialism." Join Pan-African Roots and the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee the co-sponsoring groups. John Steinbach and Bob Brown will lead the discussion. The discussion will also be live-streamed at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNeMn6WUaQYYin-M8Q-Nnlg. These two long-time activists will examine the impact of the nuclear industry including uranium mining, nuclear weapons testing and production, the deployment of nuclear weapons on indigenous peoples’ land and the global south, and the relationship between nuclear policy and imperialism. The purpose of nuclear weapons is to serve as a coercive foreign policy instrument designed and intended for actual war fighting to advance the imperial interests of the United States.
Join the Zoom Meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88902535413. The Meeting ID is 889 0253 5413. Or you can dial in by your location: +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC).
69] – Richard Ochs [rjochs@comcast.net] is looking for a caregiver for his friend Eddie Smith, who is recovering from a bone marrow stem cell transplant operation In Morgantown, West Virginia. He requires three months of 20/7 care accompaniment in an apartment there. Some friends and relatives are doing some of it but not able to do it all. A friend will pay someone to fill in the gaps. Do you know anyone who can do some of it for pay? Eddie is 65 and good company. He is a vegan birdwatcher, biker, gardener, activist and an intellectual. He is a retired land surveyor by trade. Caregiver gets 4 hours off every day. You may have seen him at various demonstrations. Caregivers are needed from July 15 through September 15. Call Dick at 443-846-6638.
70] – Jonah House [jonahhouse.md@gmail.com] is in need of a vehicle. After 18 years of service, and around 150,000 miles, the hybrid Honda Insight has given up the ghost! Do you have a car you are ready to part with, or know of anyone else who would be interested in supporting Jonah House by giving or selling your car? Contact Joe Byrne at 443-804-3410.
71] –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.
72] – 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.
73] – 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 5th 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.
74] – 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.
75] –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.
76] – 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.
77] – 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.
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 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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