Baltimore Activist Alert -- February 9 - 10, 2022

27] Delving into Kim Jong-un’s Ten Years – Feb. 9

28] Cuban Adjustment Act – Feb. 9

29] Veterans for Peace Russia Working Group – Feb. 9

30] Coffee and a Column with Amnesty International -- Feb. 9  

31] Make Calls with the DNC National Call Crew – Feb. 9 - 10

32] Voter Protection phone bank with Common Cause – Feb. 9 

33] Phone bank for Green New Deal champion Jessica Cisneros -- Feb. 9

34] Missile Defense [sic] – Feb. 9

35] Ukraine and Russia Crisis – Feb. 9

36] Truth Brigade 2.0 – Feb. 9

37] Film Stranger/Sister – Feb. 9

38] Dorothy Day film – Feb. 9

39] Ideas about Islam & Judaism – Feb. 9

40] Greenbelt Climate Action Network – Feb. 9

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27] – The GW Institute for Korean Studies [gwiks@gwu.edu] presents on Wed., Feb. 9 from 8:30 to 10:30 AM ET a North Korea Economic Forum: Delving into Kim Jong-un’s Ten Years.  Sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nk-economic-forum-delving-into-kim-jong-uns-ten-years-tickets-256925339607.

28] – Ilana Greenstein - Immigration Justice Campaign [justice@immcouncil.org] is hosting on Wed., Feb. 9 at 1 PM ET a Free Webinar on the Cuban Adjustment Act. Learn about the legal contours of the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA) in relation to the “Remain in Mexico” policy, a.k.a. the Migrant Protection Protocols. Register at https://aila-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fdXyfGN_TkyzuXsJug3qrw. Discuss the practical and legal considerations for representing CAA-eligible clients in immigration proceedings when they were formerly subject to “Remain in Mexico.” 

29] – Robert Prokop [bobprokop1952@gmail.com] is inviting you on Wed., Feb. 9 at 1 PM ET to attend the next Veterans for Peace Russia Working Group Zoom Meeting. The URL for signing in is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83405021007?pwd=K05IQ3lWVWxreU1TOHJjcE1rQml4QT09. As the situation on the Russia/Ukrainian border continues to move at lightning speed and in unpredictable directions, the VFP needs to be able to both walk and chew gum. That is, it needs to respond to the immediate situation while simultaneously planning for the long term. All that while the tsunami of information flooding our collective inboxes shows no sign of letting up. The group has identified some pretty ambitious goals in its Mission Statement, which is now in the hands of the VFP leadership. The immediate task is to decide how we are actually going to accomplish these goals. Come with your ideas!

30] – James J Zogby [jzogby@aaiusa.org] wants you to join him on Wed, Feb. 9 from 2 to 2:30 PM ET for Coffee and a Column with Amnesty International USA's Executive Director Paul O’Brien. They will discuss the murder of Palestinian American Omar Assad & Amnesty International’s recent report documenting crimes against humanity, including apartheid, pointing to a shift in criticism of Israeli policies. Read Jim's column at https://www.aaiusa.org/library/a-turning-point-in-criticism-of-israeli-human-rights-policies?emci=881e1fab-ee88-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&emdi=873585da-f888-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&ceid=389907.  Register for the conversation at bit.ly/292022cc.  After you register, you will automatically get the dial-in information for the call.

31] – Make Calls virtually any time with the DNC National Call Crew – on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Call to voters in battleground states to build strength for the 2022 Midterms. Please email digitalorganizing@dnc.org. Sign up for calls on Wed., Feb 9 from 2 to 3 PM EST, 3 –4 PM EST, 4 to 5 PM EST, 5 to 6 PM EST, 6 to 7 PM EST, and 7 to 8 PM EST and on Thurs., Feb 10 from 2 to 3 PM EST, 3 –4 PM EST, 4 to 5 PM EST, 5 to 6 PM EST, 6 to 7 PM EST, and 7 to 8 PM EST. Go to https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/388091/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual.

32] – Join in on Voter Protection phone banks with Common Cause on Wed., Feb. 9 from 6 to 8 PM ET, and call constituents in Republican states to connect them to their Senators to hold them accountable for blocking voting rights. Register at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/376178/?followup_modal_context=newsletter.

33] –Help out on Sundays and Wednesdays through the end of February (times vary). On Wed., Feb. 9 from 6 to 8 PM and Sun., Feb. 13 from 4 to 6 PM ET. Phone bank for Green New Deal champion Jessica Cisneros in Texas’ 28th Congressional district! Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/sunrise2022/event/428089/?emci=6d0ae0cc-ff76-ec11-94f6-c896650d4442&emdi=3402a187-0977-ec11-94f6-c896650d4442&ceid=177631.

34] –Cate Henning, Massachusetts Peace Action [info@masspeaceaction.org] wants you to tune in to Missile Defense: A Forgotten Program That Is Fomenting a Global Nuclear Arms Race on Wed., Feb. 9 at 7 PM EST.  Subrata Ghoshroy will discuss the recommendations of the recently released report of the international working group called “Moving Beyond Missile Defense and Space Weapons,” which was sponsored jointly by the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES) and Abolition 2000. In this talk, Subrata will focus on missile defense, while acknowledging its strong linkage with the weapons in outer space. He is a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society. Sign up at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkcuuppjIoG9FJu1gkOz5EChdsYsJhUvaF?emci=3f5af3eb-3684-ec11-94f6-281878b85110&emdi=6332e5cc-9c86-ec11-94f6-281878b85110&ceid=269591.

35] – On Wed., Feb. 9 from 6 to 7 PM ET, check out the Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Can Diplomacy and Democracy Prevail? Tensions between Ukraine and Russia are rising quickly. The border crisis raises the questions: Does a democratically governed country have the right to exist? What role does the rest of the world play in supporting that right? And what important international conflicts and diplomatic efforts aren’t we talking about with the global spotlight on Eastern Europe?  To help frame the ongoing confrontation, the JFK Jr. Forum will host former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor (HKS ‘77), Vice President, Russia and Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace, for a conversation on the unfolding conflict and America’s role in defending democracy abroad. Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky, Senior Fellow of the “Future of Diplomacy Project” at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs and former Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs, will moderate the conversation, sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.  Sign up at https://www.belfercenter.org/event/ukraine-russia-crisis-can-diplomacy-and-democracy-prevail.

36] –Disinformation campaigns designed to bring confusion to the people and power to the powerful will increase in 2022.  Register now to kick off the year with a strategic disinfo-disruption action on Wed., Feb. 9 at 6:30 PM ET entitled Big Truths about The New Indivisible Truth Brigade: Launch of the expanded and improved Truth Brigade 2.0. Register at https://indivisible.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdu-vrz8rH93lduLYHXOvC0ISDDLRfy5L.

37] –See a Film Screening and listen to a Discussion of Stranger/Sister on Wed., Feb, 9 at 6:30 PM ET. This documentary by Odyssey Impact follows the interfaith movement created by two women, one Muslim and one Jewish, who dare to believe they can join hands to stop the surge of white supremacy and hate crimes.  Watch the 45-min documentary together, followed by panel-style discussion. The Panel will feature Sisterhood of Salaam Shalom co-founders Sheryl Olitzky and Atiya Aftab, Director/Producer Kirsten Kelly, and will be moderated by Jennifer Howe Peace, senior advisor for the Pluralism Project at Harvard University. Both the screening and panel discussion are free and will take place on Zoom. If you'd like to join, register at www.gvsu.edu/interfaith/strangersister.

   The film deals with the surge in hate crimes as a tide of white supremacy gathers momentum nationwide. Muslim and Jewish communities are particularly at risk. Stranger/Sister is the story of two ordinary women, one Muslim and one Jewish, who dare to believe they can join hands to stop the wave of hate.  Overcoming a long history of distrust between their two religions, they build a movement that turns strangers into sisters, challenging our assumptions about how to fight hate in America. Intimately following women from Sisterhood chapters in Austin, Chicago and across the Nation, the Sisters build a powerful network of hope in a time of chaos and hate.

38] –The Martin Doblmeijer film Revolution of the Heart about Dorothy Day will be shown by the Michigan Citizens for Peace on Wed., Feb. 9 at 7 PM EST.  Register at https://www.pbs.org/video/revolution-of-the-heart-the-dorothy-day-story-lwz697/. Michigan Public Television presents Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story.  It takes you through Dorothy Day's journey from young, communist journalist, to her awakening as co-founder of The Catholic Worker newspaper and "houses of hospitality," sheltering and feeding New York City's poor.

39] – On Wed., Feb. 9 at 7 PM ET, put on your thinking caps on and get set for a fascinating evening of ideas about Islam, Judaism, and their confrontation with modernity.  Jewish Islamic Dialogue Society, in collaboration with the Rumi Forum, will virtually present four scholars who will each talk about a modern Jewish or Muslim thinker who inspires them.  Herb Levy will present on Rami Shapiro, who has brought a passion for various eastern faiths into his study of Judaism; Rabbi Lee Weissman will present on Menachem Mendel Schneerson (aka the Lubavitcher Rebbe), whose ideas sparked the rapidly growing Chabad Movement within Judaism; Dr. Zeki Saritoprak will present on Said Nursi, whose commentary of the Qur’an inspired a renewed way of engaging with the modern age; and Dr. Marcia Hermansen, will present on Muhammad Iqbal, who had a remarkable impact on the intellectual and cultural reconstruction of Islam in British India and beyond. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-discussion-modern-muslim-and-jewish-thinkers-who-have-inspired-us-tickets-238428113907.  Email creedroom AT danielspiro. Com.

40] – On Wed., Feb 9 from 7 to 9 PM ET, attend the February meeting of the Greenbelt Climate Action Network (GCAN). The Zoom link is available at www.chears.org/gcan. You can invite friends through Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/419533129940063. With the Maryland General Assembly in full swing, hear from various GCAN members on legislative updates regarding the top bills the group is following, including the Climate Solutions Now Act, comprehensive legislation introduced by Senator Paul Pinsky.  See https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0528?ys=2022RS. Contact Lore Rosenthal at SimplicityGroupsMD@gmail.com or 301-345-2234 (landline, no text).

To be continued.

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