47] Weekly Town Hall Podcast about Media & Democracy – Dec. 22
48]
Peace
vigil at the White House -- Dec. 22
49] Women in Black vigil – Dec.
22
50] AFSC Action Hour for ceasefire – Dec. 22
51] Sexual and Reproductive
Health 101 – Dec. 22
52] Banner drop Ceasefire Now – Dec. 22
53] No Christmas as usual during a genocide – Dec. 23
54] Food pantry – Dec. 23
55] “Christ
in the Rubble” service live from Bethlehem – Dec. 23
56] Food Pantry and Food
Donation Center – Dec. 23
57] “Decolonizing
Palestine” – deadline
Dec. 30
58] March with Healthcare for All – Maryland – Jan. 15
59] Medical
supplies are needed in Ukraine
60] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts
61]
Read
Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a
Protest Primer"
62] Do you need a doctor?
63]
Donate
books, videos, DVDs and records
64]
Do
you need any book shelves?
65] Join the Global Zero
campaign.
66] Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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47] – The Democratic National
Committee is holding a Weekly
Town Hall Podcast about Media & Democracy on Fri., Dec. 22 from noon to
1:30 PM ET. Tune in at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/546677/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual.
The podcast will continue through Fri., Jan. 26 from noon to 1 PM ET
48] – The Dorothy Day Catholic Worker will host a peace vigil at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, WDC, on Fri., Dec. 22 at noon. Contact the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker: 202-882-9649 or artlaffin@hotmail.com.
49] – Every Friday from noon to 1 PM, Baltimore Women in Black vigil for peace with men and women who live in Roland Park. WIB invites all to join, and any peace sign is welcome, such as "Defuse Nuclear War." The vigil takes place outside Roland Park Place at the corner of West 40th Street and Elm Street. Parking is free at RPP or at the Rotunda across the street. Contact Ann Vinup at annvinup@gmail.com.
50] – The American Friends Service Committee holds an Action Hour for a Cease-fire Now every Friday at noon ET. Join AFSC staff to hear updates from Gaza. Then, take action by contacting elected officials and call for an immediate cease-fire and humanitarian access to Gaza. Our elected officials need to keep hearing from us. RSVP at https://afsc.org/events/action-hour-cease-fire-now?ms=EMA24EI1103&emci=17faec34-887a-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=9695a439-f87c-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=764241
51] –The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s Lighthouse Learning Collective's queer harm reduction training series is back! Running through June 2024, there will be one session each month. The focus will be on building basic knowledge about various intersectional public health issues. The free sessions, running from noon to 2 PM ET on the last Friday of each month, are for providers, peers, and anyone in the harm reduction community as well as anyone looking to learn more about the field. To sign up for the next session, Sexual and Reproductive Health 101, happening Dec. 22, visit this link at https://harmreduction.org/our-work/training-capacity-building/training-center/
Stay tuned for more details about the trainings. Contact Jose Martinez. martinez@harmreduction.org
52] -- Baltimore Peace Action invites you to attend on Fri., Dec. 22 at 3:30 PM on the pedestrian bridge over West Northern Parkway for a banner drop calling for a CEASEFIRE NOW in Gaza and an end to state-supported settler violence in the West Bank. Many people will be returning from work for a long weekend. Join the banner drop. You can park on the street by Springwell Retirement Community, 2211 West Rogers Avenue, which leads to the pedestrian bridge, approximately a five-minute walk.
53] – The ANSWER Coalition [info@answercoalition.org] is calling for a Day of Action on Sat., Dec. 23 -- No Christmas as usual during a genocide! Shut It Down for Palestine. Register an action in your area at https://www.answercoalition.org/
The genocidal Israeli assault on Gaza is continuing with incredible cruelty. This Christmas, occupation forces are sniping Christians sheltering in their besieged churches in Gaza and Christians in Bethlehem have declared that their celebrations are canceled. People everywhere must continue to declare that there can be no Christmas as usual during a genocide! In solidarity, the Shut It Down for Palestine movement will organize actions to boycott, disrupt, and rally at commercial centers on Dec. 23. We demand a ceasefire, an end to all U.S. aid to Israel, freedom for all Palestinian prisoners and the end of the occupation from the river to the sea! 0The Biden administration has provided Israel with an endless supply of weaponry that makes the genocide possible. And now it is threatening to attack Yemen to punish the country for its support for Palestine.
54] – St. Matthew United Methodist Church, 101 Avon Beach Rd., Turner Station, MD 21222, holds a Food Pantry every Saturday from 10 AM to noon ET. Please bring nonperishable items such as canned fruits & vegetables, pasta, cooking oil, mixes, etc. to the church or make out a check payable to St. Matthew UMC with "food pantry" in the memo line. Visit https://stmatthewts.org/
55] -- Pax Christi USA [johnny@paxchristiusa.ccsend.com] urges you to join in on Sat., Dec. 23 at 11 AM ET the “Christ in the Rubble” service live from Bethlehem. Folks from around the world are joining forces in solidarity to simulcast a live worship gathering guided by Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac and his team at Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem. Central to this liturgy of lament will be their prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born “under the rubble.” Click here for links to the social media sites of Global Immersion where the service will be livestreamed: https://globalimmerse.org/blog/save-the-date-christ-in-the-rubble-service-live-from-bethlehem-on-december-23rd/
56] – On Sat., Dec. 23 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.
57] -- Eduard Loring [edloring@opendoorcommunity.org] is promoting a course by The Alternative Seminary “Decolonizing Palestine.” He has started reading the book, and brings to our attention that children and the elderly are starving to death in Gaza. Since he states we are complicit, he hopes that people will act and learn what can be done to bring Peace to this war torn land. If you have any questions or problems registering for the course, contact Will O’Brien at (267) 339-8989 or willobrien59@gmail.com.
Settler Colonial Theory in Conversation with Palestinian Liberation Theology is a FOUR-WEEK VIRTUAL COURSE on Monday evenings, January 8 – 29 from 7 to 9 PM ET, led by Rev. Amy Yoder McGloughlin. Two weeks before the war began, Palestinian liberation theologian, Mitri Raheb, released his latest book, Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, The People, The Bible. This book contains a much-needed framework to understand what's happening in Israel and Palestine, and to address the questions that often come up as folks struggle to understand the history and context of modern-day Palestine. Discuss a chapter each week, and engage with Palestinian guest speakers to unravel the colonial mindset and envision a world where all are liberated from oppression. Amy is a Mennonite pastor who travels to Palestine every year and volunteers with Community Peacemaker Teams, an organization that monitors human rights violations in the West Bank and stands in solidarity with Palestinians using nonviolent practices.
A donation of $50 is recommended, to cover the costs associated with having Palestinian guest speakers, but please pay what you can. The deadline for registration is December 30. Register at https://bit.ly/DecolonizingPalestine
58] – As it has done for many years, Healthcare is a Human Right- Maryland will be participating in the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Parade in Baltimore on Mon., Jan. 15. Join in and march behind a banner that contains Dr. King's famous quote, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." The t-shirts will say "Medicare for All" and "Healthcare is a Human Right." Signs will be available for all. You are encouraged to join the parade and show your support for healthcare justice.
The parade starts at noon at MLK Jr. Blvd. and Eutaw Street. HCHR-MD will gather there by 11:30 AM. For additional information, please contact Rich Bruning [barbruland@gmail.com] at [410] 235-3504 or [443]-509-7095.
59] -- If you are able to donate any kind of surplus medical supplies for field hospitals in eastern Ukraine, please email Brendan.walls@seaseton.org or call 410-721-5770 x231. There is a colleague whose father is a medic on the front line. One container is shipped every month to the Donbass region. Donations can be picked up in Baltimore and Columbia every Thursday, and on other days in Annapolis and Crofton.
60] -- 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.
61] – 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.
Dave just printed 50 new copies of For All the Saints, a Protest Primer- 250+ pp w photos-therefore #'s 351-400 making it o so collectable with two Berrigan book reviews added. The books are signed, and the price remains $25. Will send free if need b- he is not in it for the money! If you want one, send him a check: or contact Dave Eberhardt, 4 Hadley Square North, Baltimore, MD 21218 by email at 1941mireille@gmail.com .
62] – Yousef Zarbalian [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.
63] -- 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.
64] -- Can you use any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.
65] -- 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.
66] – 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
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