Remember Philip Berrigan on October 5, his birth day in 1923.
35] Annual War Abolisher Awards – Oct. 6
36] EconCon
2021 -– Oct. 6 & 7
37] Necessity of a broadband nutrition label – Oct. 6
38] Bring back a supermarket to 21217, 21216, & 21223. – Oct. 6
39] Freedom to Vote Act! – Oct. 6
40] Phonebank for a Green New Deal – Oct. 6
41] United We Dream – Oct. 6 &
7
42] Backyard
compost workshop – Oct. 6
43] Principles of Political
Economy – Oct. 6
44] Make
phone calls to expand Medicare! – Oct. 6
45] Hiroshima’s former Mayor
Tad Akiba – Oct. 6
46] Build Back Better ACT – Oct. 6
47] Defund environmental racism. – Oct.
6
48] Engaging
China -- Oct. 6
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35] – Get with the First Annual War Abolisher Awards Starting
on Wed., Oct. 6 at 8 AM ET and ending 9:30 AM ET. Email David, david@worldbeyondwar.org. Join World Beyond War
for the presentation and acceptance of the first annual War Abolisher
Awards. The event is open to the public
and will include presentations of three awards, a musical performance
by Ron Korb, and three breakout rooms in which participants can meet
and talk with the award recipients. Participation is free. The event will
include interpretation into Japanese and English.
36] – Economic Policy Institute [newsletter@epi.org] is inviting you to attend on Wed., Oct. 6 from noon to 5 PM ET and Thurs., Oct. 7 from noon to 5 PM ET EconCon 2021: Building an Economy That Works for All of Us. This virtual conference co-hosted by EPI and nine partner organizations is an opportunity to hear from and connect with experts, organizers, and advocates shaping our economy. Register for EconCon 2021 at https://hopin.com/events/econcon-2021-cc157eb0-7157-43f3-ad78-5ed2f618037a?ref=746f753a8fc6&utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=dd71c1f4a4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_09_15_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-dd71c1f4a4-59830565&mc_cid=dd71c1f4a4&mc_eid=72ea77dbdd.
37] – Tim Marvin, Consumer Reports [action@cr.consumer.org] wants you to join in on Wed., Oct. 6 at noon ET for a webinar on the necessity of a broadband nutrition label. Consumer labels are an important component of consumer protection. We expect to see standardized labels on vitamins, cars, toys, clothing, and food products — but on broadband internet? That could soon be the case if the infrastructure package being debated in Congress passes. Included in the measure is a requirement that internet service providers give consumers a “broadband nutrition” label -- a standardized way to compare broadband on things like speed, price, and fees before customers sign up for service. If you’d like to know more about this proposed broadband label, tune in for a two-part webinar co-sponsored by Consumer Reports and New America’s Open Technology Institute -- https://warningthislabelisreallyimport.splashthat.com/.
38] – On Wed., Oct. 6 from noon to 1 PM ET, attend a MAHNA/MHCDC Food Market Support Rally at TRANSAMERICA, 100 Light St., Baltimore 212011515 N. McKean Ave., Baltimore. Join local civil rights groups and concerned citizens to support this bid to bring back a food market to currently food apartheid/desert areas. Visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/10fMnvDDhd-YPxFm_rafliBX8gL_DEZn0/view?link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-md-ppc-weekly-update-32&email_referrer=email_1305165&email_subject=md-ppc-weekly-update. Then from 4 to 5 PM ET, gather at 1553 N. McKean Ave., Baltimore 21217 and show community support. Bring back a supermarket to 21217, 21216, & 21223.
39] – 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/commoncause/event/376178/ to call on Wed., Oct. 6 from 4 to 6 PM ET and 6 to 8 PM ET.
40] – Phonebank for a Green New Deal with Sunrise National on Wed., Oct. 6 from 4 to 5:30 PM ET. Sign up to call Sunrisers and ask them to demand a bold climate infrastructure package from their representatives. Sunrise will provide all the training you need and a lot of fun and hype too! Register at https://www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovement/event/403248/?emci=16326b3a-a4ff-eb11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=7c2e4f48-a5ff-eb11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=177631.
41] – United We Dream Action [info@uwdaction.org] is teaming up to phone bank AZ senators in support of a pathway to citizenship in the reconciliation package! Undocumented people have been in the front lines of this pandemic as essential workers and have not had access to any relief funds. Call for permanent protection for millions! RSVP now to join the phone bank on Wed., Oct. 6 from 5 to 8 PM EDT & 7 to 10 PM ET and Thurs., Oct. 7 from 8:30 to 10 PM ET. Go to https://www.mobilize.us/luchaaction/event/405536/?utm_source=UWDA&link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&email_referrer=email_1275121&email_subject=we-knocked-doors-in-az-heat-to-demand-citizenship-now.
42] – Register for your backyard compost workshop on Wed., Oct. 6 from 5:30 to 7 PM in which you'd receive a free backyard compost bin after attending. Trying to recycle your food scraps? Want to start composting at home and not sure where to begin? This Home Composting workshop will give you the knowledge to be a successful composter! It will take place at the Filbert Street Garden (Filbert and Prudence Streets, 21226) Register at https://bcccompostworkshop.eventbrite.com.
43] – Attend a course Principles of Political Economy on Wed., Oct. 6 at 6:30 PM ET and continuing each Wednesday through Oct. 6. Discover the fundamental laws of political economy and how they can guide policy toward shared and sustainable prosperity. This 5-session course offers a basic introduction to political economy in the tradition of Henry George as presented in his book “Progress and Poverty.” Get introduced to the key concepts, axioms and fundamental laws of the discipline and use this understanding to analyze and explain economic issues in the real world. Examine the causes of poverty and discuss George’s unique approach to the problem. Additional issues such as the alternating cycles of boom and bust that are so characteristic of capitalist economies will be also discussed. The Instructor is Dr. Marty Rowland. Sign up at https://www.hgsss.org/principles-of-political-economy/.
44] – Progressive Maryland’s Healthcare Justice Campaign is fighting to Expand Healthcare: Make phone calls to expand Medicare! Push back against PhRMA’s outrageous $20 million lobbying campaign to take away drug price negotiating power in the budget deal. Help call out some of the Democratic House members who are siding with PhRMA instead of seniors and everyone else who would benefit from lower prices for medicines. Join a phone bank on Wed., Oct. 6 from 7 to 8:30 PM ET. As in previous phone banks, make calls to ask constituents to leave patch-through messages for their Representative. Congress needs to keep holding the line on the Build Back Better Act. Urge your House member to vote no on the Bipartisan Infrastructure bill unless and until the reconciliation bill moves to the floor for a vote. Email patty@progressivemayland.org. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/peoplesaction/event/418719/?emci=aec88b66-4f25-ec11-981f-501ac510a405&emdi=3c6cbf59-5125-ec11-981f-501ac510a405&ceid=136680.
45] – The Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security [jgerson80@gmail.com] is inviting you to join a webinar with the International Peace Bureau’s World Conference on Wed., Oct. 6 at 7 PM ET with Hiroshima’s former Mayor Tad Akiba who will be sharing from his wisdom and experience. Register at: https://www.cpdcs.org/october-6-2021-fundraising-webinar/.
As mayor, Tad highlighted the importance of the Hibakusha, or A-bomb survivors, and he led the Mayors for Peace network as it greatly increased its presence and impacts around the globe. Please note that this event is a fund raiser for CPDCS. The ask is a $50 contributions, but please be as generous as you can. Tad served as Mayor of Hiroshima from 1999-2011. He earlier represented Hiroshima as a member of the Japanese Diet (parliament) and taught at Tufts University, Hiroshima Shudo and Hiroshima Universities. As President of Mayors for Peace, he led the organization’s growth from 440 members to approximately 5,000, and from 2011 to 2014 he served as Chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative.
47] – Stop the Money Pipeline [info@stopthemoneypipeline.com] is calling you to attention on Wed., Oct. 6 at 8 PM ET to defund environmental racism. There is a grassroots fight against the incredibly toxic Formosa Plastics petrochemical complex. Sign up for a webinar about this fight: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TghtORMdSFGOZetdNUrVzw?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-another-toxic-plastic-plant-in-cancer-alley-2&email_referrer=email_1312199&email_subject=defund-environmental-racism. Formosa Plastics wants to build a massive 14-plant petrochemical complex on the banks of the Mississippi River in St. James, Louisiana. This complex would have devastating and fatal consequences for people living in the area that's already known as Louisiana's "Cancer Alley." Last month the US Army Corps of Engineers announced it will require Formosa to undergo a thorough Environmental Impact Statement before building the complex.
48] – On Wed., Oct. 6 from 8 to 9:15 PM ET, get in involved with Engaging China: Fifty Years of Sino-American Relations [Online], sponsored by Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford Center at Peking University. The speakers are Mary Bullock, Agnes Scott College; Thomas Fingar, Stanford University; David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins; and Anne Thurston, Grassroots China Initiative. Visit https://fsi.stanford.edu/events/engaging-china-fifty-years-sino-american-relations. Register at https://bit.ly/38ME0m3. Contact Callista Wells at cvwells@stanford.edu.
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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