60] Peace vigil at the White House – Aug. 2
61] Women in Black vigil – Aug. 2
62] Friday Power Lunch – Aug. 2
63] AFSC Action Hour for
ceasefire – Aug. 2
64]
Sunrise
Recruitment Hour -- Aug. 2
65] Health & Human Rights in Gaza – Aug. 2
66]
Audubon Habitat Team in Patterson Park – Aug. 3
67] Volunteer at Howard
County Fair – Aug. 3 - 10
68] Knock on doors for Democrats – Aug. 3
69] Support Cori Bush – Aug. 3
70] What is an agrihood? – Aug. 4
71] Commemorate Hiroshima & Nagasaki -- Aug. 6 & 9
72] Write to anti-nuke protesters
73] Baltimore activist selling her home
74] Medical supplies are needed in Ukraine
75]
Read
Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a
Protest Primer"
76] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts
77] Do you need a doctor?
79]
Donate
books, videos, DVDs and records
79] Peace Park
Antinuclear Vigil
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60] – There is a weekly vigil at the White House on Fridays from noon to 1
PM sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Email artlaffin@hotmail.com
or call 202-882-9649.
61] – 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 830 West 40th Street and Elm Street. The VFP peace walkers will join he vigil. Parking is free at RPP or at the Rotunda across the street. Contact Ann Vinup at annvinup@gmail.com.
62] – On Fri., Aug. 2 at noon ET, join the Friday Power Lunch, a weekly show amplifying the voices of the Virginia Grassroots on politics, culture, and making change with the BADASS women of Network NOVA. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscumspzMoHtOe4-JRDrtezzQNNh9EhWEh#/registration
63] – 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
64] – Sunrise 2024 [email.replies@newsletter.mobilize.us] needs you on Fri., Aug. 2 from 6 to 7 PM ET for a recruitment hour. Help get people signed up to call for Cori Bush. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/sunrise2024/event/651376/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations
65] – On Fri., Aug. 2 at 6:30 PM ET, Alice Rothchild will speak at the Islamic Center of Maryland (ICM) – Banquet Hall, 19411 Woodfield Road, Gaithersburg about “Health and Human Rights Consequences of the War on Gaza.” The event is organized by the Noor Center (TNC) of Germantown, the Islamic Center of Maryland (ICM) in Gaithersburg, and Arab Americans of MoCo. Visit https://justworldeducational.org/2024/07/coming-soon-to-washington-dc-dr-alice-rothchild/
Dr. Alice Rothchild, a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, serves on the board of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation, and is a mentor liaison for We Are Not Numbers. She writes and lectures widely, is the author of several books, produced the documentary film, Voices across the Divide, exploring the history of Palestine/Israel through the voices and experiences of Palestinians. She was last in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel in August 2023.
66] – On Sat., Aug. 3 at 8 AM ET, join the Audubon Habitat Team in Patterson Park to build the native gardens. Email baltimore@audubon.org
You can weed, mulch, and/or plant while spending the morning outdoors with friends, family, and Audubon to make sure the gardens remain healthy habitats for the park’s birds, butterflies, and people. Visit https://md.audubon.org/events/habitat-team-volunteers-patterson-park-1?ms=aud-email-_20240417_(midatl)_ama_md_programming_april_may_2024&utm_source=ea&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=_20240417_(midatl)_ama_md_programming_april_may_2024&emci=2c6a8010-ec3e-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&emdi=ff197686-8c43-ef11-86c3-6045bdd9e096&ceid=2504878
67] – On Sat., Aug. 3 and Sun., Aug. 4 from 10 AM to 10 PM ET, volunteer with the Maryland Democratic Party Booth at the Howard County Fair. It's a terrific opportunity to meet people in the community, register voters, and sign up volunteers. The booth will be open each day from 10 AM to 10 PM ET through Sat., Aug. 10. Also consider joining the parade on Sat., Aug. 10 at 5 PM ET. Visit https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/641678/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_of_type
Get over to the Howard County Fairgrounds, 2210 Fairgrounds Road, West Friendship, MD 21794. Sign up at https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050E4AACAC2AA3F49-50000418-2024#/
68] – Knock on doors in Baltimore City and join the canvass, hosted by MD Victory. Gather at the Baltimore Office, 2330 N. Howard St., Baltimore 21211. Knock on doors to elect Angela Alsobrooks to be the next United States Senator and Kweisi Mfume to be re-elected as the Congressperson from Maryland's 7th! First time volunteering? No worries. Each canvass shift starts with a training with an organizer who will be there to help you out. You will go out with a buddy so you can knock on doors together.
You will need a smartphone so you can download the MiniVAN Touch app, the Democratic Party’s canvassing app. Download it on an iPhone or android. Also bring a full water bottle! Canvass on Sat., Aug. 3 from noon to 3 PM or 3 to 6 PM ET. The canvass will continue until Aug. 4 from noon 6 PM ET, RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/646353/
69] – Beth Miller [info@jvpactionpac.org] is asking you to get virtually involved on Sat., Aug. 3 from 3 to 5 PM ET with defending Cori Bush from AIPAC. Join the Jews for Cori coalition to fight back against big money in politics and to defend Congresswoman Cori Bush! AIPAC and other special interest groups have turned their sights on her. But people power can out-work hate. Do a virtual phone bank, which will continue through Aug. 6. The next phone bank is on Sun., Aug. 4 from 7 to 9 PM ET. Register at https://www.mobilize.us/jvpaction/event/640443/?sourceid=1003090&emci=26b72af2-bb42-ef11-86c3-6045bdd9e096&emdi=19a7ae5a-c342-ef11-86c3-6045bdd9e096&ceid=237778
70] – The Maryland LCV Ed Fund [edfundinfo@mdlcv.org] is asking if you are curious about what an "agrihood" is? Get the answer on Sun., Aug. 4 from 2 to 4 PM ET at the Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm, 3811 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore 21215. The Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm is an integral part of climate solutions in Maryland. Maryland LCV Education Fund invites environmental organizations and interested community members to attend this event. You’ll be able to learn all about the organization, its mission to create an “Agrihood” in Baltimore, and how you can be involved, while also getting to enjoy delicious food! RSVP at https://www.marylandconservation.org/event/are-you-curious-about-what-an-agrihood-is?contactdata=uhSLFsEyEyB4t7H4Jt3sOLB%2fxbFwGETNy5pRz%2fAgIrtNjr1ZH8T4A6dbsX6a0pybWQVFPayvhIbZIlGYSSGnqcnmNIwPB0wYLbXT19rQzWMwlvMaFnzuNnaZnM68pvxqeAtXmvIu8q5f9GH3SDc1BczDSM1LmVfZ%2fOMx3zsF66dSaCwE6DmbT4at4t5qWnn2NOWDYBd0%2f%2f7myWl10sy5gpFjtXqno4iLIdNOho5nlz8A%2fi18kgyi8ZTNwDWsJi5gmhpTOV67hC+%2fDmsi+TUE7g%3d%3d&emci=af836bff-0449-ef11-86c3-6045bdd9e096&emdi=d63eed58-a74a-ef11-86c3-6045bdd9e096&ceid=578562
71] –Baltimore’s Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration Committee will gather on August 6 & 9 as part of Forty Years of Resistance to living with Nuclear Weapons. On August 6, there will be a rally from 5 to 6 PM with some participants at 33rd and North Charles Streets and others at 34th & North Charles Streets near the Johns Hopkins University sign. At 5:30 PM a small delegation will go onto the Homewood campus to the home of President Ron Daniels to deliver a letter supporting the students’ call for divestment from weapons contractors. Most of the weapons contracts take place at the Applied Physics Laboratory near Laurel, Maryland. The weapons contracts there total more than $1 billion.
At 6:15 PM, there will be a potluck dinner in the basement of Homewood Friends Meeting, 3107 North Charles Street. At 7:15 PM, there will be a panel discussion about JHU’s weapons contracts with Max Obuszewski, Gwen Dubois and Jasmine Sausedo, a doctoral student in sociology at Johns Hopkins University.
On August 9, an educational exercise will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 PM outside the Johns Hopkins Hospital on Broadway near the shuttle service between Orleans and Monument Streets. An information table will be set up, some participants will hold placards and others will leaflet students getting on and off the shuttle. At 6:30 PM, there will be a community meal at 18-8 Sushi, 727 W. 40th Street, Suite 138, Baltimore 21211. The restaurant phone number is 410-889-1888. Contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
72] – Two anti-US nuclear weapons in Germany activists are serving time in a German prison. Should you want to write the women, use these addresses: Susan Crane or Susan van der Hijden, JVA Rohrbach, Peter-Caesar-Allee 1 55597 Wöllstein, Germany. Visit this website -- www.noelhuis.nl/kernwapensweg
73] – A home in Baltimore is for sale on a dead-end street in the Lauraville neighborhood, with three bedrooms, and one bath. The yard backs into a field and then a forest. There is a serene and quiet setting with an abundance of wildlife. The owner will be asking a reasonable amount for the property but it will not be overpriced. Contact her by text only at 443 500 6733. On the text, leave your name and phone number, and she will get back to anyone that reaches out.
74] -- 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 410-721-70 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.
75] – 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.
He 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 printed 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 be- 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.
76] -- 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.
77] – 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.
78] -- 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.
79] -- 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, and 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
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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