79] White House peace vigil – Oct.
29
80] Gender Gap in Nuclear
Policy -- Oct. 29
81] Phone bank to voters in Virginia – Oct. 29
82] Vigil for the Freedom to Vote Act – Oct. 29
83] Phone bank for the Freedom to Vote Act – Oct. 29 –
30
84] Phone bank for Medicare
for All -- Oct. 29
85] Peace and Justice Vigil – Oct. 29
86]
War on Terror Film Festival – Oct. 29 – Nov. 3
87] Knock on doors/phone bank in Virginia – Oct. 30
88] Bike more at Lake Montebello -- Oct. 30
89] Food Pantry and Food Donation Center – Oct. 30
90]
March to the polls -- Oct. 30
91] Call Virginia voters – Oct. 30
92] Music for Peace – Oct. 30
93] Tell JHU president to
renounce nuclear weapons contracts
94]
Beauty
Fades /Stupid Lasts Forever and The Trial According to Alan Barysh
95] Read
Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints-
a Protest Primer"
96] New Book: “Confessions of a Radical Academic”
97] Do you need a doctor?
98]
Donate books, videos, DVDs and records
99]
Do you need any book shelves?
100] Join the Global Zero campaign.
101] Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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78] – The Youth Climate
Finance Alliance [info@futurecoalition.org] is taking it to the streets on
Fri., Oct. 29 PM ET. Future Coalition
and leading climate justice groups have teamed up to target the financial
institutions that continue to fund the fossil fuel industry. On Fri., Oct. 29
at 9 AM, get over to the Fossil Free Federal Reserve - Board of Governors,
Constitution Ave. NW and 20th St. NW, WDC 20551. Email kathleen.brophy@sunriseproject.org. What's
spookier than a Federal Reserve Chair driving us toward climate-related
financial crisis? Is there anything more ghoulish than a Fed Chair who lets
banks operate in the shadows? President Biden is considering re-nominating
Trump-appointee Jerome Powell to head the Federal Reserve and time is running
out. Protest Jerome Powell's failed leadership at the Federal Reserve and
demand Biden appoint a climate champ to head the Fed! RSVP
https://fossilfreefuture.earth/#join-us?link_id=5&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-take-these-digital-actions-now-contact-chase-bank&email_referrer=email_1333146&email_subject=_-our-day-of-action-is-just-days-away.
79] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil
at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., Oct. 29 at
noon. Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker:
202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.
80] –On Fri., Oct. 29 from 1 to 3 PM, tune in to Pipelines
and Ceilings: The Gender Gap in Nuclear Policy, sponsored by the Harvard
Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and hosted by the Project on Managing the Atom
(MTA) as part of its Atomic Voices series.
This is a discussion forum for perspectives on diversity, inclusion, and
belonging in the nuclear field. RSVP to receive the Zoom link: https://www.belfercenter.org/event/pipelines-and-ceilings-gender-gap-nuclear-policy.
The field of national and international security, and nuclear policy in
particular, has traditionally been predominantly white and predominantly male
in composition. It remains so, despite the declared commitment of many
organizations to attract women and minorities and earnest policies and
practices to do so. Only about one-third of professionals in the WMD policy and
research field are women. The gap is far wider for women of color.
81] – Phone banking is the highest impact volunteer activity
you can do from home. Hundreds of thousands of Virginians have yet to vote early
in this race. You can sign up here: https://events.democrats.org/event/416729/?utm_source=partners&link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&email_referrer=email_1330358&email_subject=2-crucial-actions-virginia-race-build-back-better.
The next opportunity is on Fri., Oct. 29 from 2 to 4 PM EDT and 6 to 8 PM EDT,
and Sat., Oct 30 from noon to 2 PM EDT and 4 to 6 PM EDT.
82] – Our
Revolution Howard County and Indivisible HoCoMD
continue their joint weekly action at the Gorman Road I-95 Overpass in support
of HR1/SR 1, aka the Freedom to Vote Act on
every Friday from 3:30 to 5:30 PM ET. Committed activists stand by large
banners and wave at approximately 12,000 vehicles per hour as they whiz by.
Go to https://www.facebook.com/Our-Revolution-Howard-1907025362884865/events/?ref=page_internal.
83] –Join activists
around the country at a virtual phonebank to urge voters in key states to
demand their senators’ support of the Freedom to Vote Act! Our democracy is in
crisis: with redistricting around the corner and hundreds of voter suppression
laws being introduced in states across the country, we do not have time to
wait. Every day we’re getting closer to a very real deadline to take action. If
the Senate does not overcome the filibuster and pass this legislation, states may
not have enough time to implement the legislation’s regulations before the 2022
midterm elections! Join activists around the country at a Common Cause virtual
phonebank to urge voters in key states to demand their senators’ support the
vote! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/pfaw/event/376178/?utm_source=PFAW
to call on Fri., Oct. 29 from 4 to 6 PM and Sat., Oct. 30 from noon to 2 PM ET,
1 to 3 PM ET, and 6 to 8 PM ET.
84]
–
Jasmine Ruddy [info@medicare4all.org] would like
you to join a Halloween-themed phone bank on Sat., Oct. 30 at 4 PM ET to promote Medicare for All. Sign up at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuceCgpj0tGdWgH_Q4Awb5kd9OAXuGuPa8?akid=123680.162593.-VnXYY&rd=1&t=3.
Then consider signing up on Mon., Nov. 1 at 7 PM ET to also promote Medicare for All. Visit https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdeuoqT8pHdZsk1PM04WAP0JS7I1erYy2?akid=123680.162593.-VnXYY&rd=1&t=4. Contact as many Medicare for All supporters in four key
districts as possible and urge them to contact their representative. These phone banks
are part of the lead up to a national Day of Action on November 6th when Medicare for All supporters in
each of the four districts will organize massive car caravans that include
starting or ending at the office of each member of Congress.
85] -- 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
Oct. 29. 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.
86]
– Check
out the War on Terror Film Festival running through Sun., Oct. 31 at 6:30 PM
EDT. The Festival is a month-long, public virtual event featuring 20
award-winning films made over the last 20 years that document abuses, highlight
crimes, and satirize absurdities of the “war on terror. Since 9/11, filmmakers
have shined a spotlight on the wars on Afghanistan and Iraq, indefinite
detention at Guantanamo Bay prison, torture, surveillance, and the targeting of
Muslim communities in the US and Europe. The slate of films include documentary
and narrative features and cut across genres from drama to comedy. The next
dates for the virtual festival are October 29–31, with four films screened per
weekend. The festival is entirely free and accessible to the public
following registration.
Each film screening will be accompanied by a live
discussion with filmmakers, survivors, actors, scholars, journalists, and
resistors, who will reflect on the challenges of living through the policies of
the “war on terror” and telling these stories. Confirmed panelists include
Edward Snowden, Michael Moore, Rory Kennedy, Kate Davis, Noam Chomsky, John
Pilger, Laura Poitras, Dan Reed, Chris Morris, Amy Goodman, Jehane Noujaim,
Glenn Greenwald, Alex Gibney, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Mat Whitecross, Jeremy
Scahill, and many others. To register, go to wotfilmfestival.com.
Ghosts of Abu
Ghraib will be
shown on Fri., Oct. 29 at 6:30 PM EDT, followed by a panel discussion at 8 PM
ET. It will be rescreened on Tues., Nov.
2 at noon ET. Directed by Rory
Kennedy, the film is an examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving
U.S. soldiers and detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in the fall of 2003.
My Country, My
Country, by Laura
Poitras, will be shown on Oct. 30 at 9:30 AM EDT followed by a panel discussion
at 1:30 PM ET. You can also watch the film on Sat., Oct. 30 at 3 PM ET and
Wed., Nov. 3 at noon ET. Filmed in Baghdad, My Country, My Country tells the story of Dr. Riyadh, an
Iraqi doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. An outspoken critic
of the U.S. occupation, he is equally passionate about the need to establish
democracy in Iraq, arguing that Sunni participation in the January 2005
elections is essential. Yet all around him, Dr. Riyadh sees only chaos.
Citizenfour by Laura Poitras stars Edward Snowden and Glenn
Greenwald. A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of
many meetings with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. See it on Sat., Oct. 30 at
11:30 AM EDT and at 5 PM EDT and noon on Wed., Nov. 3. The panel discussion is
on Sat., Oct. 30 at 1:30 PM EDT.
87] –
The DNC Environment and Climate Crisis
Council [info@dncclimate.org] needs you to knock on doors. Do some knocking on Sat., Oct. 30 from 9 AM
to noon ET, noon to 3 PM ET, 3 to 6 PM ET, or 6 to 9 PM ET in Arlington, VA
22201. The address is private, but it
will be sent to you when you sign up:
https://www.mobilize.us/virginiaturnoutproject/?address=Washington,+DC+20010,+USA&event_type=1&lat=38.9339046&lon=-77.03053899999999&start_date=2021-10-16T04:00:00.000Z&link_id=1&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-2-crucial-actions-virginia-race-build-back-better&email_referrer=email_1330358&email_subject=2-crucial-actions-virginia-race-build-back-better.
88] – Bikemore
tells me that every Saturday from 9 AM to noon through Oct. 30, Baltimore City
Recreation and Parks brings out their fleet of bikes for adults and youth so
you can rent them for free to ride around Lake Montebello. Pedal around Lake Montebello on the 1.3-mile
paved track. To check out a bike, a current government issue Id is required.
This is an easy self-paced ride. First come, first served. Due to COVID-19 physical distancing requirements,
all participants will be required to provide/wear PPE aligning with Maryland
regulations and are expected to maintain physical distancing throughout the
program. Email bcrp.bikes@baltimorecity.gov. Visit https://www.bikemore.net/event/rides-around-lake-montebello-m2jbp-3p52g-eb9am-mkzcy-7zcgr-55jrr-7sthw-er6p7-d8szg.
89] –
On Sat., Oct. 30 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.
90] – On
Sat., Oct. 30 at noon ET, "MARCH TO THE POLLS"
starting at Freedom High School, Riding Center Drive. Exercise
your right to vote with the Loudon County, VA NAACP. Safely vote early and
absentee. Fight Voter Suppression.
91]
–Future Coalition [info@futurecoalition.org]
needs your help with phone banking on Sat., Oct. 30 from 3:45 to 5 PM ET. This is part of the Virginia mobilization as
the elections are rapidly approaching, and turnout is critical. This is especially in communities whose vote
has been traditionally suppressed. Future Coalition is the leading organization
behind progressive youth activism. The completely youth-led team is providing
young people with the tools, resources, and support to power their ideas and
amplify their impact around the nation.
Virginians will elect a governor, a lieutenant governor, attorney
general, and state delegates and these newly elected policymakers will decide
the future of the state’s voting rights laws.
Join in for a youth-led guided phone bank to call young voters of color
in Virginia every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday until Election Day: https://www.mobilize.us/cfcg-rov/event/419798/?link_id=6&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-virginia-phone-banking-rsvp-now&email_referrer=email_1331244&email_subject=help-needed-virginia-mobilization.
92] – Music for Peace: Introducing
Samuel Andonian and Alice Chenyang Xu is happening on Sat., Oct. 30 from 7:30 to 9 PM EDT. The musicians will play a variety of music
ranging from Bach through Clara Schumann to contemporary Shulamit Ran. The
concert will be performed live at Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church for a
limited number of socially distanced attendees, who must already have completed
their COVID-19 vaccinations and be masked during the event. It will also be
livestreamed for those who prefer to watch online from home, or if the number
of in-person attendees has been reached. Buy tickets at https://secure.everyaction.com/c4RwuT-zMUSJgMHbvb56pg2. This is a benefit for Massachusetts Peace
Action. The price of a ticket is $25 for Mass. Peace Action members, $35
for non-members, $100 for supporters, $10 for students and low income folks. Reserve your tickets online,
or call 617-354-2169 with credit card number.
93]
-- 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.
94] – 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.
95]
– 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 book (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.
96] – Check out “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.
97] –
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.
98] -- 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.
99] -- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or
mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
100] -- 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.
101] – 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/.
