61] White House vigil – June 18
62] Abolition 2000 AGM – June 18
63] Peace and justice vigil – June 18
64] The Empire's War on
Venezuela
– June 18
65] Greenbelt Black History – June 19
66] Seeking Peace in
Afghanistan -- June 19
67] Demand removal of Confederate monument – June 19
68] March for
Justice – June 19
69] Food Pantry and Food Donation Center – June 19
70] Harriet Tubman Grove Virtual – June 19
71] Call West Virginians --
June 19
72] Benefit concert
-- June 19
73] Caregiver needed for Eddie
Smith
74] Jonah House needs a car
75]
Tell
JHU no more weapons contracts
76]
Beauty
Fades /Stupid Lasts Forever and The Trial According to Alan Barysh 77] Read
Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints-
a Protest Primer"
78] New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic”
79] Two Berrigan
Books still in print
80] Contribute to the Lin
Romano Peace and Justice Scholarship
81] Do you need a doctor?
82]
Donate books, videos, DVDs and records
83]
Do you need any book shelves?
84] Join the Global Zero campaign.
85] Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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– The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host
a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., June
18 at noon. Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic
Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.
62] – The Basel Peace Office [info@baselpeaceoffice.org] is inviting you to attend the Abolition 2000 annual meeting on Fri., June 19 at noon ET. The meeting is entitled From a dysfunctional to a nuclear-free world. The organization encourages peace and disarmament people to participate in the annual meeting with the global civil society network for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The meeting on June 19 provides an opportunity for those in the nuclear abolition movement to share ideas and initiatives, discuss strategy and build cooperation for more effective campaigns. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIod--sqj4sHdfaeC6-0WewCzpKJ50j2iA6.
66] – Seeking Peace in Afghanistan will be discussed on Sat., June 19 at 11 AM ET. Kelly Campbell, one of the founders of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows who traveled to Afghanistan in January of 2002 to highlight the devastating levels of civilian casualties, will be joined by Kathy Kelly, long-time peace activist who has been working with the Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers in Kabul since 2010, and four Afghan panelists—Dr. Zaher Wahab, Tahmina Hashimi, Lailuma Sharifi Yama, and Nematullah Ahangosh—to explore the prospects for peace in Afghanistan. They will discuss the impact of two decades of war and the recent escalation in violence upon the lives of civilians, especially women and youth. Probing beyond the mechanics of troop withdrawal the speakers will explore the important role of civil society actors in peacekeeping, obtaining reparations, and building peace with justice for Afghanistan. REGISTER at https://jsi.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_drTz_nmYRKmAkjvqfs6orQ?link_id=8&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-protest-advocate-catalyze-change&email_referrer=email_1204819&email_subject=protest-advocate-catalyze-change.
67] – Take action on Juneteenth to demand removal of the last Confederate monument on public land in Maryland. The Confederate statue in Easton has been up for far too long, and shouldn't have been put up in the first place. With your help, we may be able to get it taken down. You may have heard about the lawsuit seeking to move the Confederate monument on the courthouse lawn in Talbot County. The Maryland Office of the Public Defender, Talbot County Branch of the NAACP, and ACLU of Maryland are challenging the statue as government-endorsed racism. This statue is the last standing Confederate monument on public land in our state, and it's past time for it to be removed from its prominent place in the public square. Not only does the monument promote a legacy of white supremacy and slavery, but it also celebrates traitors to our nation. What's even more atrocious is that Talbot County officials tried to block local activists' right to speak out against the monument. Officials sought to shut down an upcoming Juneteenth rally by demanding that organizers obtain a million-dollar insurance policy for that day – a disturbing throwback to Jim Crow era policies. Thankfully, after we pushed back against this restriction, we were able to get the county to abandon its unconstitutional attempt at censorship.
Come out to the Juneteenth march and rally in Easton, MD on Sat., June 19 at 11 AM to demand that the statue be removed. Get more information about the event at https://www.aclu-md.org/en/events/community-justice-march-and-rally-move-talbot-confederate-monument?ms_aff=MD&initms_aff=MD&ms=210603_TalbotJuneteenthMarch_&initms=210603_TalbotJuneteenthMarch_&ms_chan=eml&initms_chan=eml.
68] –On Sat., June 19 at 11AM March for Justice from the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, followed by a noon festival. March for Racial justice, and then enjoy the Festival, taking place at Canal Place from noon to 5 PM ET. Please email western@mdpoorpeoplescampaign.org if you can volunteer at the table for 1-2 hours during the Festival. This is going to be a great way to meet people, enjoy live music and eat some good local food too!
69] – On Sat., June 19 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.
70] – On Sat., June 19 from 2 to 4 PM EDT, join the event organized by Unemployed Workers Union, Peoples Power Assembly and Our Revolution Maryland which will take place at 100 State Circle, Annapolis 21401-1924. Tell Governor Hogan: Pay unemployed workers ALL the benefits they are owed NOW! Stop the cut off of federal pandemic benefits. Social distancing and the wearing of masks will happen. Saturday is Juneteenth! The highest unemployment rates are in the predominately Black and Brown communities of Prince George County and Baltimore City. It is fitting to protest on this historic day which was a milestone in ending chattel slavery. The struggle continues today. Go to https://www.facebook.com/OurRevolutionMD/.
71] – 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.
While there are several Senators who haven’t formally committed, people in-the-know say if we can convince WV Senator Joe Manchin, the others will come along. Opponents are putting lots of money into WV, and we need to fight back. WV residents tell us that Manchin is often willing to do a 180 degree turn if he gets enough pressure. Volunteers asking his constituents to contact him could trigger the biggest reform since the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Make calls to WV residents on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Please sign up to call on Sat., June 19 from 4 to 6:30 PM ET and try to convince one friend to do so also! There is good training and support throughout! Go to https://www.mobilize.us/vopropros/event/389987/. CALL WEST VIRGINIANS.
72] – Alliance for Global Justice [afgj@afgj.org] is hosting a concert with Paul Baker on Sat., June 19 at 7 PM ET. This is a Bilingual Virtual Livestream Concert as a benefit for Fátima who Gave Her Youth for Peace in Nicaragua. Now She Needs your Help. Make a donation and get the Zoom link at https://afgj.salsalabs.org/paul-baker-concert/index.html?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=8a9ed871-7d33-444f-855d-5b3834edd13a.
In the early 1980s, fifteen-year-old Fátima del Rosario Hernández gave up education, health and youth itself to keep Nicaragua free, joining many other teenagers to combat the Reagan/Bush Contras as they pillaged and murdered innocents throughout the land. Once the war was finally over, with the loss of countless companions, she dedicated herself to build lasting peace via the vital coffee-picking and literacy crusades. Eventually coming home, she immediately volunteered to coordinate health brigadistas in her impoverished barrio of La Primavera, a task she continues even today while seriously ill, and during COVID. Largely due to the after-effects of that mountain warfare, Fátima now suffers from serious PTSD, while her spinal column is slowly disintegrating. As if all that wasn’t enough, she was recently thrown from a motor-taxi, shattering her pelvis. Without specialist operations she will probably never walk again. To help fund both these and the long term aftercare they will entail – and, through Fátima, to honor all those fallen companions who sacrificed themselves at her side for today’s peace – AfGJ/Nicaragua Network are co-sponsoring a benefit concert featuring unique bilingual versions of the beautiful, powerful music of Víctor Jara, Chile’s martyred singer/songwriter, composed by Paul Baker Hernández, Fátima’s former husband. They were inspired by working with Joan Jara to heal the very stadium where Víctor was murdered by Russian roulette during the US-backed coup of 9/11, 1973. Paul’s own actual ‘career’ began in the 1960s, when Dylan’s ‘Times They Are a-Changin’ blew up his silent Trappist monastery, via a very loud bootleg tape. Duly Bob-struck, Paul concocted the scrap wood guitar he still plays. At 81, he’s now dedicated to healing the planet by sharing Víctor’s dream. His original songs include, ‘Anyone for Starbucks? (The World’s Greatest Singalong.)’, ‘That Unprintable Cell Phone!’, and, ‘I Thought I Heard Sweet Víctor, Singing in the Night’, this last inspired by playing Víctor’s own guitar.
73] – 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.
74] – 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.
75] –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.
76] – 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.
77] – 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.
78] – 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.
79] –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.
80] – 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.
81] – 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.
82] -- 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.
83] -- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
84] -- 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.
85] – 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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