Baltimore Activist Alert – October 10 to 11, 2021
"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther King Jr.
Friends, this list and other email documents which I send out are done under the auspices of the Baltimore Nonviolence Center. Go to www.baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com.
If you appreciate this information and would like to make a donation, send contributions to Max Obuszewski, BNC, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212. Max Obuszewski can be reached at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net.
1] Books, buttons and stickers
2] Web site for info on federal
legislation
3] Get involved with NCNR
4] Volunteer with a Catholic Worker house
5] Max is looking for tips
on a garage or a storage suggestion.
6] Welcome an
Afghan Family to Baltimore!
7] Courage -- Oct. 10
8] “Jews and Muslims and Allies Acting
Together” -- Oct. 10
9] World Day Against the Death Penalty -- Oct. 10
10] Maryland Poor Peoples Campaign PG County Meeting -- Oct. 10
11] Gender Equality in Nicaragua – Oct.
10
12] March for Justice – Oct. 10
13] Want to text with Fair Fight? -- Oct. 10 & 12
14] Medical Town Hall --
Oct. 10
15] Youth Intro to Restorative Justice Practices – Oct. 10
16] Make calls for the Freedom to Vote Act. – Oct. 10 - 12
17] Take Action Oct. 11-15 to Demand Climate Solutions. – Oct. 11
18] Under One Roof – Oct.
10
19] Honor
Women Loved Ones – Oct. 10
20] Protest at the
Pentagon – Oct. 11
21] The Struggle to Stay in Honduras -- Oct. 11
22] Emergency
Election Protection Coalition -- Oct. 11
23] Indigenous People's Day – Oct. 11
24] New Era PAC Friend & Fundraiser – Oct. 11
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1] –
Buttons, bumperstickers and books are
available. “God Bless the Whole World, No
Exceptions” stickers are in stock. Call Max at 410-323-1607.
2] –To obtain information how your federal legislators voted on particular bills, go to http://thomas.loc.gov/. Congressional toll-free numbers are 888-818-6641, 888-355-3588 or 800-426-8073. The White House Comment Email is accessible at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.
3] – THE ORGANIZING LIST will be the primary decision-making mechanism of the National Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance [NCNR]. It will be augmented by conference calls and possibly in-person meetings as needed. It will consist of 1 or 2 representatives from each local, regional, or national organization (not coalitions) that wishes to actively work to carry out the NCNR campaign of facilitating and organizing nonviolent resistance to U.S. wars.
To join the ORGANIZING List, please send your name, group affiliation, city and email address to mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net. Different local chapters of a national organization are encouraged to subscribe.
4] - Suzanne Fontanesi and Jeff Ross are in the beginning stages of renovating the basement of their house for purposes of bringing in a volunteer (targeting young adults in discernment mode), starting next fall. They are trying to grow a Catholic Worker House in Irvington (West Baltimore). In a nutshell, there is a lot that a volunteer could do in that neighborhood/Baltimore, in addition to prayer and daily community living and in addition to plugging into all the good work that people are already doing in and around Baltimore (and beyond). If you think you might know of anyone who might be interested in starting a conversation with them about becoming such a volunteer/community member, please contact Jeff/Suzanne at 443-690-6872.
5] – Max is in need of a garage or a storage space. Any suggestions would be welcome. Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
6] – St. Matthew, Blessed Sacrament, and the IOSC are partnering to welcome an Afghan Family to Baltimore! Are you interested in serving our new immigrant family? If you are interested, you will be trained in how you may serve, you will be guided and scheduled at your convenience by the Lead volunteer coordinator, you may also make donations through the IOSC to assist the family in the transition process in order to: Purchase food & Purchase clothes for winter and other necessities. Contact the IOSC at info@IOSCbaltimore.org, call the office at 410-323-8564 and leave a message for Nathalie
7] – Usually, the Baltimore Ethical Society, 2521 St. Paul St., Baltimore 21218, meets on Sundays, and generally there is a speaker and discussion at 10:30 AM. On Sun., Oct. 10, the subject is “Celebrating Courage.” Throughout history, courage is often exemplified by acts of physical bravery. Other times courage is described as an absence of fear. But courage, particularly moral courage, need not involve overcoming bodily risk and suffering. And it does not require that we banish fear. As Mark Twain put it, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” For Felix Adler, the founder of Ethical Culture, real courage emanates from the inner self and arises in the faith that “locked up within us stores of moral power that are practically infinite.”
Hugh Taft-Morales explores the virtue of courage and the reality of vulnerability, and how they can help us lead a more ethical life. He serves as Leader of the Philadelphia Ethical Society and the Baltimore Ethical Society and is a member of the Ethical Action Committee of the American Ethical Union (AEU). The Zoom link and more info can be obtained at PRESIDENT@BMORETHICAL.ORG.
9] – Sunday, Oct. 10 is World Day Against the Death Penalty. The theme this year is women on death row. At 2 PM EDT, check out Women Sentenced to Death: An Invisible Reality. Death Penalty Action, Journey of Hope ...From Violence to Healing and the Ohio Council of Churches invite you to a conversation with Sabrina Van Tassell, producer of the acclaimed film "The State of Texas vs. Melissa," an award-winning documentary about Mellisa Lucio, an innocent Texas death row prisoner. Featured guests also include Rhonda LeBroi, sister of Paula Cooper and Walter C. Long, who advocated for clemency for Karla Fay Tucker. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_J3YmQ7_TS82dNnl3DAnhIw?link_id=6&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-we-have-a-real-problem-2&email_referrer=email_1316847&email_subject=save-the-dates-live-webinars-a-plenty.
10] – On Sun., Oct. 10 at 3 PM ET, get over to the Maryland Poor Peoples Campaign Prince George’s County Monthly Regional Meeting. Discuss how we can advocate for better public schools. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0uf-mtqj0qHdXEWMG8jBJw9I_7xYsLYPTS?link_id=5&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-md-ppc-weekly-update-31&email_referrer=email_1296355&email_subject=md-ppc-weekly-update.
11] –Alliance for Global Justice [reply-afgj@AFGJ.org] wants you to know that on Sun., Oct. 10 at 3 PM ET there will be a webinar about Gender Equality in Nicaragua. Hear from Shaira Downs Morgan, Council President of Nicaragua’s South Caribbean Coast Autonomous Region, and Yorlis Gabriela Luna, popular educator and agricultural researcher, Latin American Agroecological Institute, Via Campesina in Nicaragua. In this webinar, Nan McCurdy will describe awards and recognition Nicaragua has received for gender equality and overall advances for women. Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hqw326QvSDqa3bNQztyPqQ?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f26cf838-ea5f-4af7-8145-62247bba42f0. Contact madeline@afgj.org to sign on.
12] – Delaware Pacem in Terris [info@depaceminterris.org] wants you to get involved with a March for Justice on Sun., Oct. 10 at 3:30 PM ET. Start at 18th St. and Baynard Blvd. in Wilmington, DE. March to Rodney Square and rally around the work of so many amazing community members. For those with limited mobility, meet at Rodney Square at 4 PM ET. Send a message to the city about the justice that we require for ALL of our communities to thrive. Bring signs that tell what you are fighting for. We are all in the struggle for justice, and we want to lift each other up and gather our collective energy to invigorate our efforts as we march together as one. Email info@depaceminterris.org.
13] –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 trainings are on Sun., Oct. 10 from 4 to 4:45 PM ET and Tues., Oct. 12 from 8:30 to 9:15 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.
14] – Dr. Bill Honigman for Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] is inviting you on Sun., Oct. 10 at 4 PM ET to the PDA Healthcare Emergency Online Town Hall. This Sunday, discuss Medicare for All with Health Systems Analyst Dr. Henry Broeska, Ph.D., a Canadian expatriate now living in Orange County, CA, who will share his reflections on the Canadian healthcare system and some personal observations on a recent return visit home to Manitoba, where the Delta variant was similarly threatening there but markedly less devastating than here at the time. Sign up at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tceuhrzsvHdymeeZRwb-i7X50FJa-HMR4.
15] – Youth Intro to Restorative Justice Practices (RJPs) on Sun., Oct. 10 from 5 to7 PM ET. Catch How to Stop Harm: A youth practice session on RJPs, Bystander Intervention and De-escalation, facilitated by the DC Peace Team. THIS EVENT IS NO LONGER ACCEPTING REGISTRATIONS. Email DEBRA@COFS.ORG IF YOU WERE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING.
16] – Join activists around the country at a virtual phonebank to urge voters in key states to demand their senators’ support the Freedom to Vote Act. Work together to demand bold changes to our democracy to create a government that represents all of us, not big corporations or special interests. . Call on voters in targeted states and connect them to their Senators to support the Freedom to Vote Act, and to eliminate the filibuster. These phone banks are subject to change based on variables. 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. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/pfaw/event/376178/?utm_source=PFAW to call on Sun., Oct. 10 from 6 to 8 PM ET, Mon., Oct. 11 from 4 to 6 PM & 6 t0 8 PM ET and Tues., Oct. 12 from 4 to 6 PM ET.
17] –The Nuclear Information & Resource Service [nirs@nirs.org] is saying NO to false climate solutions on Thurs., Oct. 14. This is part of Take Action Oct. 11-15 to Demand Climate Solutions. Demand that President Biden end the fossil fuel era. He must stop approving fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency right now, ahead of the United Nations climate summit in November. Take action over 5 days to highlight the damage done by fossil fuels, the climate impacts we are already facing, and the need for real solutions rooted in justice.
Actions will take place every day between October 11 and 15, starting at 8 AM at McPherson Square. Nonviolent direct action trainings and legal briefings will be held each evening at 6 PM, starting Sun., Oct. 10. See https://actionnetwork.org/forms/people-vs-fossil-fuels/. Monday, Oct. 11 is Indigenous-led action on Indigenous Peoples Day. Tuesday, Oct. 12 is the day to point out fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis. On Wednesday, Oct. 13 make it known climate chaos is happening now. And finally, Friday, Oct. 15 get involved with We did not vote for fossil fuels, a youth-led action. Register at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/people-vs-fossil-fuels?source=direct_link&referrer=group-nuclear-information-and-resource-service&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=2fa20d86-0883-43e4-b19c-723727f2e066.
Beyond Extreme Energy is planning an action to target FERC on Tues., Oct. 12. If you are interested in taking action with BXE specifically- please reach out at actions@beyondextremeenergy.org. Whether or not you can risk arrest- there is a place for you to take meaningful action!
18] – Check out Under One Roof on Sun., Oct. 10 at 7 PM ET at the Goldman Art Gallery, 6125 Montrose Road, Rockville 20852. The Bender JCC of Greater Washington is hosting an art exhibit entitled "Under One Roof," where community organizations were invited to submit artwork. Jews United for Justice Leader Debra Band submitted a piece that reinforces the need for paid family & medical leave in Maryland. Go to https://www.benderjccgw.org/arts-ideas/goldman-art-gallery/. To see more of Debra Band's work, go to: https://www.dbandart.com/.
19] – On Sun., Oct. 10 at 9 ET, get with Honoring Women Loved Ones. Join Amnesty International USA Group 30 and friends for an important panel discussion about the death penalty and life without parole (LWOP - the other death penalty) with four amazing women whose loved ones are on death row or serving LWOP in California. Learn what the death penalty and LWOP have in common and what distinguishes them from each other. Hear about important legislation and what you can do to help abolish the death penalty and LWOP in California. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtdu2tqDktG93Ffd5xJEubA3AmjkRpYV3I?link_id=8&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-we-have-a-real-problem-2&email_referrer=email_1316847&email_subject=save-the-dates-live-webinars-a-plenty.
20] – There is a weekly Pentagon Peace Vigil from 7 to 8 AM on Mondays, since 1987, outside the Pentagon Metro stop. The next vigil is Oct. 11 and it is sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Email artlaffin@hotmail.com or call 202-882-9649. The vigil will be outside the Pentagon's south Metro entrance and in the designated "protest zone" behind bicycle fences across from the entrance to the Metro. By Metro, take Yellow Line and get out at the "Pentagon" stop. Do not go to the Pentagon City stop! Go up south escalators and turn left and walk across to protest area. By car from D.C. area, take 395 South and get off at Exit 8A-Pentagon South Parking. Take slight right onto S. Rotary Rd. at end of ramp and right on S. Fern St. Then take left onto Army Navy Dr. You can "pay to park" on Army Navy Dr., and there is meter parking one block on right on Eads St. Payment for both of these spots begin at 8 AM. No cameras are allowed on Pentagon grounds. Restrooms are located inside Marriott Residence Inn on corner of S. Fern and Army Navy Dr.
21] – The Solidarity Collective [liz@solidaritycollective.org] wants you to join in on Mon., Oct. 11 at noon ET for a conversation with OFRANEH: The Struggle to Stay in Honduras as they discuss the "the genocidal situation facing their Indigenous Garifuna people in Honduras, their resistance, and their response to the Biden administration's message to Central Americans of "Don’t Come." Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6sORQchrSzSmE9qX2DKZeA?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-upcoming-events-delegations-sponsorship&email_referrer=email_1317187&email_subject=upcoming-events-delegations-delegate-supportThe event will also be streamed live on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/InstituteforPolicyStudies?link_id=1&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-upcoming-events-delegations-sponsorship&email_referrer=email_1317187&email_subject=upcoming-events-delegations-delegate-support.
"While the US government invests in borders and policing to keep Central Americans from migrating north, OFRANEH–the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras–is fighting for the right of Garifuna people to stay in Honduras. The Garifuna, a Black and Indigenous people rooted in Central America and the Caribbean, are resisting forced displacement and genocidal violence at the hands of the US-backed Honduran government to the benefit of transnational investments. Join in on Indigenous Peoples Day for a conversation with OFRANEH organizers, including Miriam Miranda, General Coordinator, and OFRANEH human rights defenders, Carla García, Yillian David and Rony Castillo, about the violence they face, how they are resisting forced displacement, and what role people in the US and elsewhere can play to stand in solidarity."
22] – .The Emergency Election Protection Coalition is hosting a meeting on Mon., Oct. 11 at 5 PM ET. Please submit any questions to: Solartopia@gmail.com. Go to https://us06web.zoom.us/w/92810509856?tk=_ORbWw8OeJhb9v6DVAmz9dDNl94EaZZ8MgaLLgcu2s4.DQMAAAAVm-_-IBYycUpXRV9sMFQxcVRoWVhFMlloYnFRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA#success.
23] – Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis [info@poorpeoplescampaign.org] wants your involvement on Mon., Oct. 11 from 6 to 8 PM ET with Indigenous People's Day: Land Back & the Third Reconstruction. Hear a talk with the Shinnecock Nation about #LandBack and the Third Reconstruction. Then on Tuesday, there will be the launch of We Cry Justice: Reading the Bible with the Poor People's Campaign, edited by co-chair Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis, and with a foreword by Rev. Barber. Get involved at bit.ly/landbackandthirdreconstruction.
24] – The New Era PAC Friend & Fundraiser is happening on Mon., Oct. 11 from 6:30 to 8 PM ET. The speakers will include Delegate Jen Terrasa of District 13 and former Circuit Court Candidate Stephen Musselman. Talk about key issues facing Howard County like the often overlooked but important Zoning and Land Use problem. RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/2XaWrYPjCEi8aQviMcMbeg2?emci=aec88b66-4f25-ec11-981f-501ac510a405&emdi=3c6cbf59-5125-ec11-981f-501ac510a405&ceid=136680. Join in on Zoom to discuss important issues to Howard County and help contribute to creating the most progressive slate of candidates that Maryland has ever seen!
To be continued.
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/.
"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their lives." Eugene Victor Debs
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