Baltimore Activist Alert -- October 15 -- 19, 2021

62] Film The Boys Who Said No – Oct. 15 & 17

63] Nuclear Submarines and Safeguards Application -- Oct. 15

64] White House peace vigil – Oct. 15

65] Women on Death Row – Oct. 15

66] Vigil for the Freedom to Vote Act – Oct. 15

67] Phone bank for the Freedom to Vote Act – Oct. 15 – 16

68] Peace and Justice Vigil – Oct. 15

69] War on Terror Film Festival – Oct. 15 – 19

70] Food, hunger, farming, and distribution in the USA -- Oct. 15

71] Demanding Justice: A History of Domestic Workers -- Oct. 15

72] Ahmaud Arbery Week of Action -- Oct. 16 – 23

73] Compost workshop – Oct. 16

74] Bike more at Lake Montebello -- Oct. 16

75] Gather at the MLK Memorial for its 10th Anniversary Celebration. – Oct. 16

76] Fossil Free Future Action training – Oct. 16

77] Food Pantry and Food Donation Center – Oct. 16

78] Opposing Militarism: A Key Task for Climate Justice – Oct. 16

79] Anti-oppression training session – Oct. 16

80] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts

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

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

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

84] Two Berrigan Books still in print

85] Do you need a doctor?

86] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

87] Do you need any book shelves?

88] Join the Global Zero campaign.

89] Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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62] – From Fri., Oct. 15 through Sun., Oct. 17,  you can view online the incredible film The Boys Who Said No, and on Oct. 17 at 8 PM ET you can join an online event featuring Joan Baez, David Harris, Daniel Ellsberg, film director Judith Ehrlich, and others. Learn more and sign up here: https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/boyswhosaidno.

63] –On Fri., Oct. 15 at 7 AM, tune in online to Nuclear Submarines and Safeguards Application, sponsored by the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. The speakers is Laura Rockwood, Open Nuclear Network and John Carlson, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Sign up at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eilu7bac7a6366c0&oseq=&c=&ch=.  Email events@vcdnp.org.

64] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., Oct. 15 at noon.  Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.

65] – On Fri., Oct. 15 at 3 PM EDT, check out Women on Death Row, co-sponsored by Death Penalty Action, Death Penalty Focus & Witness to Innocence, featuring Diann Rust-Tierney, Executive Director of the National Coalition To Abolish the Death Penalty, and death row survivors (Death Penalty Action Advisory Board Member) Sunny Jacobs and Witness to Innocence member Sabrina Butler-Smith. They will be discussing their experiences in the criminal justice system, their journey to freedom, and how they have dedicated themselves to ending the death penalty. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3716325010941/WN_uwvI0vkhSlS9J3fJrviW6A?fbclid=IwAR2MVBzcgE713Bgwz5l2zfDpF0gtCvU8rpnNjVrvSc45DPb2xpJwuqoAw6w&link_id=9&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-save-the-dates-live-webinars-a-plenty-6&email_referrer=email_1322729&email_subject=report-from-the-road-the-row.

66] –  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.

67] –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. 15 from 4 to 6 PM ET, and Sat., Oct. 16 from noon to 2 PM ET, 1 to 3 PM and 6 to 8 PM ET.

68] -- 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. 15. 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.

69] – 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 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 next four films to be shown are as follows. On Fri., Oct. 15 at 6 PM ET see Taxi to the Dark Side. Written and directed by Alex Gibney, this Academy Award-winning film exposes the haunting details of the USA's torture and interrogation practices during the War in Afghanistan. The film can also be seen on Tues., Oct. 19 at noon ET.

On Sat., Oct. 16 at 11:30 AM EDT, see The Day Shall Come, directed by Chris Morris, and written by Chris Morris & Jesse Armstrong. An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI, and the FBI plans on turning him into a criminal by fueling his revolutionary dreams. A comedy based on a hundred true stories.

On Sat., Oct. 16 at 1 PM EDT, watch In the Shadow of 9/11, written and directed by Dan Reed. The film depicts what America was willing to do to make a panicked nation feel safe — offering a window into how American intelligence changed in the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, and the ramifications of a desperate search to hunt down the “enemy within.”

On Sun., Oct. 17 at 1:30 PM EDT, take in Control Room, directed by Jehane Noujaim, and written by Julia Bacha & Jehane Noujaim. This is a documentary on the perception of the United States' war with Iraq, with an emphasis on Al Jazeera's coverage.

70] – On Fri., Oct. 15 from 6 to 7:30 PM ET, get over to the Report Release on Low-income Voters & Press Conference by registering at https://peoplesforum.org/event/a-world-without-hunger-peoples-organizations-on-the-struggle-for-food-sovereignty/.  This online panel discussion will be with key organizations confronting the various challenges surrounding food, hunger, farming, and distribution in the capitalist center of the world.

“The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)’s 2021 report, The State of Food Insecurity and Nutrition in the World, notes that ‘nearly one in three people in the world (2.37 billion) did not have access to adequate food in 2020 – an increase of almost 320 million people in just one year’. The UN’s World Food Programme projects that the number of those who are hungry could nearly double before the COVID-19 pandemic is contained ‘unless swift action is taken’.  Scientists inform us that there is no shortage of food for the population: in fact, the overall supply of calories per capita has increased across the world. People are hungry not because there are too many of us, but because peasant subsistence producers all over the world are being forced off their land by agribusiness and pushed into city slums, where access to food is dependent on monetary income. As a result, billions of people do not have the means to buy food.”  Email tahia.i@peoplesforum.org.

71] –The Organizing Team, National Domestic Workers Alliance [info@email.domesticworkers.org] will invite you on Fri., Oct. 15 from 8 to 9:30 PM ET for a Making History event.  Learn more about the rich history of domestic workers, celebrate women like Dorothy Bolden who laid the foundation for domestic worker organizing, and hear from today's domestic worker leaders.  Making History will feature the premiere screening of the new short documentary film Demanding Justice: A History of Domestic Workers, and is the launch of the first-ever digital timeline of domestic worker history as well as the unveiling of a series of original portraits of domestic worker “movement ancestors.” You will also hear from movement leaders including Ai-jen Poo, Alicia Garza and more. Sign up at https://secure.everyaction.com/8semwyKo_0CAt5o86iOaOw2?ms=ndwaweb&emci=fc4535c8-aa2a-ec11-981f-c896653b9208&emdi=9d397749-ac2a-ec11-981f-c896653b9208&ceid=204641.

72] – The Hip Hop Caucus Team [info@hiphopcaucus.org] is seeking supporters to travel to Georgia on Sat., Oct. 16 and staying through Sat., Oct. 23 as part of Ahmaud Arbery Week of Action. The Caucus and the Transformative Justice Coalition are partnering with the Ahmaud Arbery family for this week of action.  REMEMBERING AHMAUD ARBERY THE BRUNSWICK PLAN: "AMERICAN JUSTICE ON TRIAL" Transformative Justice Coalition will cover buses and hotels to bring people into Georgia and make sure that justice is served. Sign up here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tjc-justice-for-ahmaud-arbery-week-of-action-tickets-187745220007?link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-time-to-pack-ahmaud-arbery-week-of-action&email_referrer=email_1321399&email_subject=time-to-pack-ahmaud-arbery-week-of-action.

 On Sun., Oct. 24, there will be an Evening Prayer Service. On Mon., Oct. 25 at 10 AM ET, the trial will resume. From 6 to 8 PM ET, there will be a Wrap up Session on Ahmaud Arbery Trial.

73] – The FREE backyard composting workshops are scheduled through the end of October, offered by the Department of Public Work's GROW Center. However, they are now full.  However, if you have interest in joining and want to be on the waitlist, reach out to natallia.reid@baltimorecity.gov so she can reach out to you if there's space available for you to join the day of Sat., Oct. 16 from 9 AM to 1 PM ET.  The Compost Workshop will be at Pop-up at Mervo High School, 3500 Hillen Road, 21218.  Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/food-matters-compost-workshop-tickets-172276492627.  Register: https://bgscompostworkshop.eventbrite.com.  This Workshop is limited to 10 people. The other workshops are on Oct. 20, 23 and 31.

74] – 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.

75] –On Sat., Oct. 16 at 11 AM, gather at the MLK Memorial for its 10th Anniversary Celebration, 1850 West Basin Dr. SW, WDC.  See  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OCXLdeiieImnH0QIhFW5hWHv0SO1mArT/view?link_id=5&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-md-ppc-weekly-update-35&email_referrer=email_1315543&email_subject=md-ppc-weekly-update.

76] -- The Youth Climate Finance Alliance [info@futurecoalition.org] wants to know if you are planning to host a Fossil Free Future Action on October 29th? Join an Action Design Training, on October 16, to work on the first steps for planning an action in your community! Do you want additional support before taking action? The training will take place from noon to 3:30 PM ET to work on the first steps for planning an action in your community! Visit https://airtable.com/shrP6RL3jEweoK9NV?link_id=3&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-join-us-in-the-streets-on-october-29th&email_referrer=email_1312488&email_subject=learn-how-to-lead-an-action-in-your-community.

77] – On Sat., Oct. 16 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.

78] – Tune in to Opposing Militarism: A Key Task for Climate Justice on Sat., Oct 16 and 23 from noon to 2 PM ET.  Anti-militarism/peacebuilding and climate justice intersect in many ways: from shared roots in capitalist extraction to manifestations in endless wars to protect access to fossil fuels and enrich weapons manufacturers. The Pentagon is both the single largest institutional polluter on the planet, and the largest enforcer of fossil fuel greed at the expense of our land and futures. The confluence of the climate crisis and rampant militarism -- two existential crises -- demands our attention and centering in our work.

Join Massachusetts Peace Action and 350 Mass activists for two self-contained, complementary webinars led by climate & anti-militarism organizer Nick Rabb. Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsdu-tqjIpHNVaMhI3a58oH_cM_CMW20AR.

79] – Toni Preston, SumOfUs [us@sumofus.org] wants you to be at a free 90-minute online anti-oppression training session designed for campaigners, activists, and nonprofit leaders who are interested in social justice issues on Sat., Oct. 4 at 1 PM ET. You will be emailed a Zoom link for the training session the day before the scheduled session. Register on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/training-incorporating-anti-oppression-values-into-campaigns-tickets-169517670917?source=fwd. During the training, share SumOfUs's approach for ensuring that the values of equity, liberation, and inclusion are centered in all of our campaigns and initiatives. The training will also explore concrete strategies for implementing anti-oppression values into campaigns.

80] -- 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.

81] – 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.

82] – 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.

83] – 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.

84] –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.

85] – 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.  

86] -- 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.

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

88] -- 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.

89] – 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