Baltimore Activist Alert – May 21 to 26, 2023
"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 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]
Need
help in archiving activist material
4] Max is looking for tips on a garage or a storage suggestion.
5] Support the Pratt Workers United
6] Get the book Surely Goodness and Mercy by Murphy Davis
7] Get the book Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church: An
Insider’s View by Roy Bourgeois
8] Support Pekara Bakery
9] Join the Our Revolution
Phone Bank Force!
10] World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue
and Development –
May 21
11] “Inside the Dangerous
Rise of Religious Nationalism” – May 21
12] Al-Nakba: 75 Years of
Catastrophe – May
21
13] Voices
across the Divide and Born in Deir Yassin – May 21
14] India’s G20 meetings in
Kashmir camouflaging settler colonialism – May 21
15] Black Lives Matter rally – May 21
16] DSA general meeting – May 21
17] Hear from Dennis Kucinich – May 21
18] Free Assange – May 21
19] Common Cause phone
bank – May 21, 23, 25 & 26
20] Protest at the Pentagon – May 22
21] Restorative Justice Two-Day
Virtual Training – May 22 - 23
1] – Buttons, bumper stickers 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] – Janice Sevre-Duszynska needs some assistance in archiving her activist material. If you are interested in this project, contact Max at 410-32301607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
4] – 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.
5] – The workers at the Enoch Pratt Free Library have started a drive to organize a union calling themselves Pratt Workers United. Go to https://www.prattworkersunited.org/. There is a letter of support for community members to sign at https://www.prattworkersunited.org/community-letter-support.
"Pratt Library workers are forming a union, Pratt Workers United. We are seeking pay equity for all, safer working conditions, benefits for part-time workers, and a voice in decisions that affect our work.” The workers voted to unionize
6] – Consider getting HOSPITALITY, the newsletter of OPEN DOOR: A prophetic discipleship community honoring the Black Jesus, Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. The September/October 2022 issue contains a wonderful review by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy of Surely Goodness and Mercy by Murphy Davis, reprinted from The Catholic Worker, March-April 2022. Davis, a co-founder of the Open Door Community, died in 2020. You can subscribe to the newsletter or buy a copy of the book by calling 404-290-2047 or by emailing opendoorcomm@bellsouth.net.
7] – Another book to consider purchasing is Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church: An Insider’s View by Roy Bourgeois. His new book is both memoir and position-paper, and it makes the case that the Roman Catholic Church is a corrupt system that spits out truth-tellers. The crime he was excommunicated for was attending the ordination ceremony of Janice Sevre-Duszynska in Lexington, Kentucky, in August 2008. The ordination was under the auspices of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. The Vatican’s response has been to excommunicate any woman who has the audacity to see herself as a priest equal to a male priest. You can purchase a copy from Amazon or by Kindle.
Here are two quotes to contemplate: “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men. She is to keep silent.” – Timothy 1, 2:12-13. “If the patriarchy that dominates the church is not dismantled and women are not treated as equals, the church will continue to diminish and, eventually, die.” – Roy Bourgeois.
8] – Support a small restaurant called Pekara Bakery, 506 W. Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore 21210. Call 443-873-7190 or email pekarabakery@usa.com or visit www.pekarabakery.us.com.
9] – Join the Our Revolution Phone Bank Force! In 2022, 82% of Our Revolution candidates won their election. In 2023, OR is gearing up to Transform the Party, Elect more Progressive Candidates, Hold Biden Accountable, and so much more. To accomplish these goals, there is a need to continue to build the Phone Bank Force. Sign up to become a part of that transformative force at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/440081/?akid=4199.8252965.WFQlSi&rd=1&t=23.
10] – Held every year on May 21, the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development celebrates not only the richness of the world’s cultures, but also the essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace and sustainable development. The United Nations General Assembly first declared this World Day in 2002, following UNESCO’s adoption of the 2001 Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, recognizing the need to “enhance the potential of culture as a means of achieving prosperity, sustainable development and global peaceful coexistence.” With the adoption in September 2015 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the United Nations, and the Resolution A/C.2/70/L.59 on Culture and Sustainable Development adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2015, the message of the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development is more important than ever. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals can best be achieved by drawing upon the creative potential of the world’s diverse cultures, and engaging in continuous dialogue to ensure that all members of society benefit from sustainable development.
11] – Usually, the Baltimore Ethical Society, 2521 St. Paul St., Baltimore 21218, meets on Sundays, and there is a presentation of a platform address at 10:30 AM ET. On Sun., May 21, it will be “Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.” For too long, the religious right has masqueraded as a dispute over theology or a social movement preoccupied with cultural issues such as abortion. Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and impose its vision on all of society. America’s religious nationalists aren’t just fighting a culture war, they are waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy. By pulling back the curtain on the movement’s inner workings and leading personalities, Stewart explains how the movement works – and offers some ideas for mounting an effective resistance.
Stewart is an investigative reporter and author who has covered religious liberty, politics, policy, and education for over a decade. She is the author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children (Public Affairs, 2012); and The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022). Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Atlantic, the Guardian, Washington Post, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books. Email PRESIDENT@BMORETHICAL.ORG FOR ZOOM LOGIN INFORMATION.
13] – Two documentary films, Voices across the Divide and Born in Deir Yassin, pull back the carefully constructed curtain of “a land without people for a people without a land.” Since 1948, a monumental effort has been made to promote a romantic mythology of Israel's creation and to hide the brutal violence. But firsthand accounts by both the oppressor and the oppressed, the expeller and the exiled, reveal the ongoing wounds. Nothing is resolved by dialogue alone, yet nothing will be resolved without it. Any hope of coexistence begins when the historical truth is rediscovered and acknowledged. It begins here.
Watch the film for free at your convenience; then join the Q&A discussion on Sun., May 21 at 3 PM ET with Alice Rothchild, author, filmmaker, and Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School (Retd., Emad Moussa, Palestinian-British journalist, researcher, and human rights activist, Huda Giddens, Palestinian American educator, Nakba survivor, and Ahlam Muhtaseb (moderator), author, filmmaker, and Professor of Media Studies at CSUSB. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkdO6vrjIiEtyE80GXowGjoahmqskX5Bcr?ct=t%28EMAIL_CAMPAIGN+January+2023_COPY_01%29&mc_cid=eecf288bb8&mc_eid=8b93c54c5d#/registration.
14] – Just Peace Advocates [info@justpeaceadvocates.ca] is hosting a webinar India’s G20 meetings in Kashmir camouflaging settler colonialism on Sun., May 21 at 11 AM ET. Register at https://uqam.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkdO2hqTIuGdAIxQO-WayNOMMx6j9U8eoR#/registration?link_id=7&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-shame-mount-allison-is-conferring-an-honorary-degree-for-deborah-lyons-on-nakba-day&email_referrer=email_1919734&email_subject=webinar-on-sunday-may-21-11-am-et-indias-g20-meetings-in-kashmir-camouflaging-settler-colonialism. The intergovernmental forum, G20, is being hosted by India, its current president. As the nineteen member countries and various other stakeholders come together to discuss important issues of global economy, sustainable development, and climate change, India’s role as a host has raised many questions. An expert panel will examine the controversial issue of hosting G20 meetings in an internationally disputed region of Kashmir. Kashmir is subject to settler colonialism, forced and illegal demographic change, expropriation of land, economic extraction, and environmental and ecological degradation by the Indian state. With the Indian state busy in projecting a false normalcy in Kashmir, the reality of everyday Kashmiris subject to gross human rights violations is going unnoticed. The silencing of Kashmiris, particularly suppression of the work of journalists and human rights defenders, and illegal detention and persecution of ordinary Kashmiris must be centered as important nations come together to validate India’s G20 presidency.
15] – On Sun., May 21 from 1:30 to 2:30 PM ET, the Black Lives Matter Interfaith Coalition will rally at the Baltimore City Public Schools Headquarters, 200 East North Avenue. It's been three years since George Floyd was murdered and eight years since Freddie Gray died in Baltimore City police custody. There is still so much work to be done. Our Black brother and sisters continue to die senselessly and tragically. There's been a backlash across the country: censorship of what can be taught in schools, book bans, and open hostility to policies that would promote diversity and address systemic racism. Your voice is still needed! Please bring signs with the names--both locally and nationally known--of our Black brothers and sisters who have been killed. Black Lives Matter Interfaith Coalition can be reached at BLMInterfaithCoalition@gmail.com.
16] – The Northern Virginia Democratic Socialists of America [novabranch@mdcdsa.org] want you to know that the Metro DC DSA is holding a general body meeting on Sun., May 21 from 3 to 6 PM ET at the Friends Meeting of Washington, 2111 Decatur Place NW, WDC 20008. Go to https://actionnetwork.org/events/general-body-meeting-may-21-2023?link_id=6&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events-99&email_referrer=email_1918816&email_subject=nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events. The general body meetings convene all chapter members once monthly. Workgroups, caucuses, committees, and leadership provide key updates on campaigns and other activities. Members may also propose and vote on business. Members, potential members, and supporters alike are welcome to attend. There will be a Happy Hour afterwards at The Admiral in DuPont Circle, which is within walking distance.
17] – Alan Minsky for Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] wants you to know that Dennis Kucinich will discuss the 2024 Presidential Race and What a Progressive Foreign Policy Looks Like on Sun., May 21 at 4 PM ET. Progressive Democrats of America was founded in the summer of 2004, a direct outgrowth of Dennis Kucinich's inspiring campaign for President. Dennis is, of course, the former mayor of Cleveland, a multi-term Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a two-time Presidential candidate, and a lifelong progressive champion. Dennis knows the inner workings of the U.S. government and U.S. politics as well as anyone alive, and he is an inveterate truth-teller! Join this Town Hall at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tceuhrzsvHdymeeZRwb-i7X50FJa-HMR4#/registration.
18] – On Sun., May 21 from 4 to 5 PM ET, there will be a vigil near Attorney General Merrick Garland’s home. Gather at the 5000 block of Edgemoor Lane, along the fence of Sidwell Friends Lower School, two blocks from the Bethesda Metro station. Send a peaceful message: "Drop the Indictment of Assange." Check out the website for updated news & information: www.dcactionforassange.org and the Facebook group "DC Action for Assange."
19] – There are virtual Common Cause phone banks on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Work together to demand bold changes to our democracy to create a government that represents all of us, not big corporations or special interests. Register for a shift to make calls and help strengthen the phone bank team to protect our democracy. Make calls on Sun., May 21 from 6 to 8 PM, or Tues., May 23 from 4 to 6 PM or Thurs., May 25 from 5 to 7 PM or Fri., May 26 from 4 to 6 PM ET. These shifts will also always include training for first-timers before you make calls, so if this is your first time, no worries! This will continue through August 28, 2024. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/376178/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations.
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 May 22, 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. This vigil will honor the visit to the area of the anti-nuclear ship the Golden Rule.
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 begins at 8 AM. No cameras are allowed on Pentagon grounds. The restrooms are located inside Marriot Providence Inn on corner of S. Fern and Army Navy Dr.
21] –On Mon., May 22 & Tues., May 23 from 9 AM to 5 PM ET, sign up for a Restorative Justice Basic Practitioner Two-Day Virtual Training 1.0 hosted by the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. Participants will learn the philosophy and applications of RJ and how to create and facilitate RJ Circles. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/restorative-justice-basic-practitioner-2-day-virtual-training-10-tickets-606600527507?aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail&utm_term=Restorative+Justice+Basic+Practitioner+VIRTUAL+Training+1.0&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_campaign=following_published_event&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=3ef3e511-e6a0-4e2e-8915-37a686571b17. ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST BE AVAILABLE TO ATTEND BOTH DAYS OF THE TRAINING! FOR MORE INFORMATION ON RESTORATIVE JUSTICE TRAININGS, go to https://www.centerforpeacebuilding.org/ourfourpillars. Ticket Price is set for the full two day training. SCHOLARSHIPS AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE are AVAILABLE. Email info@centerforpeacebuilding.org.
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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