Baltimore Activist Alert -- October 1 - 3, 2021

68] MoveOn Summit -- Oct. 1 - 3

69] Hazardous waste drop-off -- Oct. 1 - 2

70] Volunteer at Freetown Farm – Oct. 1

71] White House peace vigil – Oct. 1

72] Gender Justice Conversation – Oct. 1

73] Death Row talks -- Oct. 1

74] Want to text with Fair Fight? – Oct. 1

75] Support the Uyghurs – Oct. 1

76] Vigil for the Freedom to Vote Act – Oct. 1

77] Phone bank for the Freedom to Vote Act – Oct. 1 - 2

78] Peace and Justice Vigil – Oct. 1

79] War on Terror Film Festival – Oct. 1 - 3

80] Sleep Out – Oct. 1 - 2

81] Film THE CAMDEN 28 – Oct. 1

82] Nonviolence in the 21st Century – Oct. 2

83] Bike around Lake Montebello – Oct. 2

84] Power Hour – Oct. 2

85] Food Pantry and Food Donation Center – Oct. 2

86] Love and Fear – Oct. 2

87] Protest at drone base -- Oct. 2

88] CCAN Power Hour – Oct. 2

89] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts

90] Beauty Fades /Stupid Lasts Forever and The Trial According to Alan Barysh

91] Read Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"

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

93] Two Berrigan Books still in print

94] Do you need a doctor?

95] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

96] Do you need any book shelves?

97] Join the Global Zero campaign.

98] Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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68] – Chris Percy, MoveOn Political Action [moveon-help@list.moveon.org] wants you to know that there’s never been a more important time to come together for celebration and change to continue cultivating a more inclusive and progressive world. And there’s no better way to do this than attending MoveOn’s Progressive Power Summit, a virtual summit from Fri., Oct. 1 through Sun., Oct. 3.  Register at https://www.edcomhq.com/events/details/educateme-moveon-presents-progressive-power-summit/?utm_source=mo.email1.

69] – On Fri., Oct. 1 and Sat., Oct. 2, there is the household hazardous waste drop off at the Sisson Street location from 9 AM to 5 PM.  Now is the time to relinquish your old batteries and lightbulbs and other such items. 

 The Department of Public Works GROW center is doing a Pop-up on Sat., Oct. 2 from 9 AM to noon at Herbert Street Park, N. Smallwood and Herbert Sts., just north of North Avenue, 21217. The next Pop-up will be on Tues., Oct. 5 from 5 to 7 PM at Boone Street Commons, 2100 Boone St. between E 21st and E 22nd Sts., east of Greenmount Avenue, 21218.  Attend one of the upcoming activities and get some great resources to help you with your greening projects. Free trees, mulch, and reusable shopping bags will be available, as well as information on storm water fee credits, plant advice, recycling and composting, and other ways to make your home and community greener, cleaner, and more resilient. First come, first serve while supplies last. Masks and social distancing are recommended. Visit http://www.energyjustice.net.

70] – Strong Future MD [info@strongfuturemd.org] wants you to volunteer on Fri., Oct. 1 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET.  Join SFM advisor Chiara D’Amore at Freetown Farm, 80000 Harriet Tubman Lane, Columbia 21044. Do a couple of hours of gardening work. Freetown Farm is a project of the Community Ecology Institute focused on cultivating communities where people and nature thrive together with an emphasis on equity and diversity. Rsvp to maya@strongfuturemd.org.

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

72] –Paola Fuentes Gleghorn, Sojourners [sojoaction@sojo.net]inviting you to a conversation on Fri., Oct. 1 at noon ET.  RSVP here to receive a Zoom meeting link and password: https://act.sojo.net/page/26935/survey/1?ea.url.id=991948. This is a time of connection and communal learning about how to prevent and respond to sexual and domestic violence (SDV). The conversation will be centered on Domestic Violence Awareness Month – statistics, opportunities for learning and taking action, and how VAWA and the ERA help us address domestic violence. 

The Gender Justice Conversations are networking and community times to connect with other people of faith working to eliminate sexual assault and domestic violence, creating a space where we can encourage and advise each other to build the momentum needed to enact the changes we would like to see in congregations, communities, seminaries, and society at large.  Register for the call at bit.ly/GenderJusticeConvos!

73] – Remember that Sat., Oct. 2 is International Wrongful Convictions Day. On Fri.,  Oct.1 at noon EDT,  check out a conversation with  Jeffrey Deskovic, Esq., M.A.;  Kwame Ajamu - Exonerated Ohio Death Row Survivor and Board Chair, Witness to Innocence; and Charles Keith, brother of former Ohio death row prisoner and innocent man, Kevin Keith. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Q4PRQp3qShup4ctx2fFEvw?link_id=3&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-every-day-4&email_referrer=email_1308264&email_subject=watch-live-today-tomorrow-tuesday.

74] – Want to text with Fair Fight? Join a texting training to see what texting with Fair Fight looks like, the texting platform, how to set up your account on it and get you all the information you need to text with Fair Fight in the future!  This is a training, NOT a text bank. No texting during this training.  To text with Fair Fight you will need either a smartphone OR a computer (you can set up the texting system on either or both). The next texting training is on Fri., Oct. 1 from 1:30 to 2:15 PM ET.  Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/fairfight/event/380601/?emci=1ec65536-76f5-eb11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=9099f5e0-77f5-eb11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=1234726.

75] – Stop the Uyghur Genocide event on Fri., Oct. 1 from 2 from 4 PM at the Lincoln Memorial, 2 Lincoln Memorial Circle, WDC 20002. Join the Uyghur American Association and the Uyghur Human Rights Project in an event to protest the Genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in China. Call 703-309-6726.

76] –  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.

77] –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. 1 from 4 to 6 PM ET, and Sat., Oct. 2 from noon to 2 PM ET and 1 to 3 PM ET.

78] -- 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. 1. 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.

79] – Check out the War on Terror Film Festival from Fri., Oct. 1 at 5:30 pm 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 dates for the virtual festival are October 1–3; 8–10; 15–17; 22–24; and 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.

The first four films to be shown are as follows: Fri., Oct. 1 at 5:30PM ET The Mauritanian [Mohamedou Ould Slahi fights for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years.];  Sat., Oct. 2 at 1 PM EDT The Road to Guantanamo which focuses on the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge;  Sat. Oct. 2  at 3 PM ET The Confession with Moazzam Begg which captures the entirety of his story;  and Sun., Oct. 3 at 1 PM ET The Battle of Algiers, the classic fight for independence in Algeria. All films are free.

80] –Carlos Childs [carlos@ourrevolutionmd.com] wants you to join  Our Revolution Maryland in coalition with CASA and other progressive and tenant's rights organizations on Fri., Oct. 1 through Sat., Oct. 2 from 6 to 8 PM and then 8 PM to overnight at Lawyer's Mall and St. Anne's Parish in Annapolis for a rally and sleep out. Thousands of renters and their families in Maryland are on the verge of being evicted. This is horrific, especially when millions of dollars in unspent federal rental assistance are at risk of being reallocated from our state to other states, due to Maryland's inability to get the funds distributed. Demand Gov. Hogan implement protections for renters and the Maryland General Assembly pass tenant protections during the next session. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/418384/?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-stop-md-evictions-rally&email_referrer=email_1305553&email_subject=stop-md-evictions-rally-sleep-out.

81] – The Peace Center of Delaware County invites you to see “THE CAMDEN 28” on Fri., Oct. 1 at 7 PM ET at Springfield Friends Meetinghouse, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, PA 19064.  Doors open at 6:30 PM. There is no charge to see a film on the 50th anniversary of the daring break-in at a Camden draft office by activists intent on thwarting the US military’s actions in Vietnam. The Peace Center requires facemasks and contact-free temperature checks.  Supreme Court Justice William Brennan called the trial of 28 activists “one of the great trials of the 20th century.” Despite acknowledging their involvement, all defendants were acquitted of the crime that took place 50 years ago this year. Sign on to the https://delcopeacecenter.wordpress.com/.

82] – 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.

83] – Basel Peace Office [info@baselpeaceoffice.org] informed us that the Other Right Livelihood Laureates will speak on Sat., Oct. 2 from 10 AM to noon ET to commemorate the International Day of Nonviolence. 2021 Right Livelihood Awards go to community leaders against violence and climate change. You are invited to Nonviolence in the 21st Century with some of the previous winners of the Right Livelihood Award as speakers.   Hear about methods and examples of nonviolent actions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. This is an event to commemorate the International Day for Non-violence and the 152nd anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IheTqZxrQgOB11tgRSCNzQ?fbclid=IwAR1Q3EAoRkivrv6AphUW5JwVSbZB0BSmGN529OQ1bPI6ie2xEK7ffGqO4Pg.

84] -- Communities United [jessi@communitiesunite.org] is holding its next Power Hour on Sat., Oct. 2 from 11 AM to noon ET. This month is all about #ProtectingOurLegacy. Growing strong children means teaching them to speak up by listening to them and taking them seriously. Focus on building community power through knowledge: your knowledge and the collective knowledge together. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ocuChrD8qG9Qz1XLIDL98M3p88QbP_Shg?emci=6bf5b8c1-9b0a-ec11-981f-501ac57ba3ed&emdi=7f6d67f4-8820-ec11-981f-0050f271a1a2&ceid=5737738.

85] – On Sat., Oct. 2 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.

86] – Massachusetts Peace Action [info@masspeaceaction.org] is announcing Love and Fear in the Era of COVID: Race, Climate Change, and Love for Neighbor on Sat., Oct. 2 from 1 to 5 PM EDT. This is the thirty second annual Agape Community’s St. Francis Day. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIudOCprzItH9WGVJho-4gULMPxrJS3Ol0p. The zoom link to access the event will automatically be emailed to you by Oct. 1 upon you registering. Contact Sam Leuschner at samantha@agapecommunity.org.

87] – On Oct. 2, do a Happy Birthday for Mahatma Gandhi, and Ignite Peace in Horsham. Protest Drone War Operations in Pennsylvania/Across the U.S./Around the World.  Support the Peace Encampment to 'Close Creech' at the U.S. Air Force Base in Nevada, outside of Las Vegas.  Creech is the command center of U.S. drone war operations worldwide.

On Sat., Oct. 2 from noon to 2 PM, protest the Horsham Air Guard Station, home to the drone war remote command base, where people have gathered in protest since the deadly operation was announced in 2013.  Gather at Route 611/Easton & County Line Roads, Horsham, PA. Go to http://www.brandywinepeace.com/event/celebrate-gandhis-birthday-ignite-peace-in-horsham-protest-drone-war-operations-in-pa-across-the-u-s-around-the-world/.  Contact the Brandywine Peace Community at www.brandywinepeace.com or 215-843-4827.

88] – Mustafa Abdullah, CCAN [info@chesapeakeclimate.org] needs you on Sat., Oct 2 at 2:30 PM ET or on Tues., Oct. 5 at 5:30 PM ET. Sign up for a Power Hour and learn about our new structure and help us mobilize for climate justice nationwide. The Chesapeake Climate Action Network is transitioning into a membership organization. Sign up for the Saturday “Power Hour” at https://act.chesapeakeclimate.org/page/33409/data/1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=membership&utm_content=Mem-Powerhourinvite-0921-c3+E&ea.url.id=996923. Or join in for the Tuesday Power Hour at https://act.chesapeakeclimate.org/page/33412/data/1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=membership&utm_content=Mem-Powerhourinvite-0921-c3+E&ea.url.id=996924&forwarded=true.

89] -- 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.

90] – 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.

91] – 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 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.

92] – 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.

93] –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.

94] – 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.  

95] -- 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.

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

97] -- 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.

98] – 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