26] Janice and Max in court for protesting starvation in Gaza – Nov. 12
27] Be at the White House -- Nov. 12
28] Lower Shore Progressive
Caucus meeting – Nov. 12
29] CCAN climate lobby training – Nov. 12
30] Listening to the Land – Nov. 12
31] From Election to Action – Nov. 12
32] Peace Economy Writing Workshop – Nov. 12
33] Election watch party – Nov. 12
34] Discuss election debrief – Nov. 12
35] Moral Abdication – Nov. 13
36] Plutonium warhead core – Nov. 13
37] Wildlife Coexistence – Nov. 13
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26] – On April 9, Janice Sevre-Duszynska and Max Obuszewski were
arrested in the Dirksen Senate Office
Building cafeteria with Christians for a Free Palestine and charged with
incommoding. The group went to a Senate cafeteria to lobby Senate staffers to
implore upon their respective senator that Palestinians are being starved. The situation today is even worse. They both
will appear at 2:30 PM on November 12 in Courtroom 310 in D.C. Superior Court
in order to argue two motions: Compel Additional Discovery and Be Allowed to Offer
Expert Testimony. Max and Janice’s attorney,
Mark Goldstone, will argue that the defendants have received insufficient discovery.
Max, alone, will argue that it is necessary to allow an expert witness who will
detail that starvation is occurring in Palestine. The defendants are scheduled for trial on
November 18. Max can be reached at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast
dot net.
27] – Democrats for Human Rights Civil Resistance Action for an Arms Embargo are fighting to end the horror in Gaza AND defeat fascism. As we face the disaster of Trump's election victory, we will honor our pre-election pledge to escalate the fight to stop the genocide. On Tues., November 12 at 6 PM, Biden's deadline for Israel to stop its extreme violations of our laws, if a ceasefire or arms embargo has not begun, we will do nonviolent civil resistance at the White House to demand he uphold US law. We will continue nonviolent organizing from direct action to electoral campaigns to secure a ceasefire or arms embargo and shift US policy to support Palestinian human rights. We are organizing to lead the Democratic Party and make support for Palestinian human rights the prevailing position of our party. Sign the pledge: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSci8nr0HHTtqWaBXfvgbvUIvdp82T3enPG-VR0rcBCELCu6ng/viewform
28] – On Tues., Nov. 12 at 6:30 PM ET, there will be a Lower Shore Progressive Caucus Communications Committee virtual meeting. Help decide what the progressive movement should do. These meetings will continue on Dec. 10 through Tues., Jan. 14 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM ET. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/603612/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations
29] – CCAN Action Fund info@ccanactionfund.org] is offering Climate lobby training on Tues., Nov. 12 at 7 PM ET. After the election: We FIGHT. No matter what happens on Election Day, when it’s over, we will need to do a full press on climate justice in Maryland right away. Join a hybrid lobby training in Baltimore at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 1900 St. Paul St. or on Zoom to get the ball rolling quickly on climate justice in Maryland. You will be provided with guidance on how to lobby as well as important climate legislation coming up. You will also meet with your local team to prepare and practice a lobby meeting and coordinate on next steps. The goal is recruiting 300 volunteers to form lobby teams across the state to meet with your state legislators both before and during the upcoming legislative session to advocate for climate justice policies that will impact our communities–everything from making sure that polluters cover the cost of damages resulting from extreme weather to building as much clean energy in Maryland as possible. In the last legislative session, activists came up short on getting any significant climate justice legislation passed.
This session, activists will go back stronger than ever by setting up in-district meetings before session and nearly tripling turnout to lobby night. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfund/event/739079/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=mdce&utm_content=MD-CE-Lobby+training+SINGLE-1024-c4
30] – On Tues., Nov. 12 from 7 to 8 PM ET, be aware of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, an online event. Hear from Louise Dunlap, an author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind, which traces her ancestors' role in the violent colonization of what's now "California" and "New England." For many years, she lived in the Boston area, teaching at UMass, MIT and Tufts and working with a range of peace and justice organizations including the Cambridge Peace Commission, Community Change, Inc., Coalition against Apartheid, and Cambridge Eviction Free Zone. She often wrote for the AFSC's PeaceWork on Indigenous solidarity issues and helped coordinate peace walks with The New England Peace Pagoda. Now back in Northern California, she supports a vibrant range of Land Return projects and is proud to pay shuumi (a land tax) to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust. RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/Ykp02X4QlU-3NWqabexs-Q2?contactdata=gemMO7CzcT1tcBgutOuX0uguZlOKAqfrdfXDWtomZ+VJPyX2iaxsH+ni5unENMc0XB9iquWiI%2f+96UJiYO262cVoX34pnMrnV%2f5MV+kHIP3WRrS8MwExopumVGQf6ejhi83D5dyumCLJ7XxFfjundUFRb0q0O8KzUvI%2fofGkbYj0IV+fsT90KSdHiVbXcqUE0DCNRPw3agryDBGI1vupYX+fi1G32IlEMr0IO+HNrMQ%3d&ms=email-nl-241108&emci=d091b48f-689c-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&emdi=c979fb60-089e-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&ceid=320042
31] – AFSC is hosting From Election to Action: How we can work together for lasting change on Tues., Nov. 12 at 8 PM ET. Join AFSC General Secretary Joyce Ajlouny, AFSC's Global Policy and Strategy team, and program leaders for a conversation on transforming this moment into sustainable progress. Explore concrete ways that we can push forward in our work with communities worldwide to organize, advocate, and act for peace, justice, and equality for all people. RSVP at https://afsc.org/events/election-action-how-we-can-work-together-lasting-change?ms=EMA25WR1109&utm_source=weekendreading1109&utm_medium=email&emci=8b65c0e9-1c9e-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&emdi=97571ab8-9e9e-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&ceid=764241
32] – On Tues., Nov. 12 at 8 PM ET, get with the Peace Economy Writing Workshop. Get together to workshop writing in a supportive environment: poems, short stories, songs and novel chapters (up to 1,000 words). This workshop will be led by Michelle Humphrey, a literary agent based in Tucson, AZ. RSVP at https://www.codepink.org/lpe1112?utm_campaign=member_november_newsletter_24&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink
The workshop will focus on the peace economy: works that speak to a culture of empathy, solidarity and connectedness, and resist a culture of violence and war. Please feel free to bring work to share via a Google Doc link. All skill levels are welcome.
33] – Common Cause [causenet@commoncause.org] on Tues., Nov. 12 at 8 PM ET is holding a Post-Election Debrief. RSVP NOW https://www.mobilize.us/commoncause/event/742132/?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-join-us-tuesday-night-2&email_referrer=email_2523306&email_subject=join-us-tomorrow-night
34] – No matter the results of the election, Jews United for Justice want to process what it means for communities here in DC and Maryland. On Tues., Nov. 12 from 8 to 9:30 PM ET, JUFJ leaders and supporters are invited to discuss the election results, how local communities are being impacted, ways to take action to support democracy here in DC and Maryland, and how to protect the safety and rights of all in the region. This event will include a large-group conversation as well as breakout sessions for organizing in DC, Montgomery County, Baltimore, and statewide in Maryland. You will receive call-in instructions via email after you RSVP: https://jufj.org/event/post-2024-election/?emci=44e5bcf3-d397-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&emdi=d7140a4e-7f98-ef11-88ce-000d3a98fa6b&ceid=3403859
35] – Scientists for Palestine [admin@scientists4palestine.com] are holding a Bisan lecture on Wed., Nov. 13 at noon ET with Professor Didier Fassin: Moral Abdication. On the Consent to the Destruction of the Palestinians of Gaza. Consent to the destruction of the Palestinians in Gaza has created an enormous gulf in the global moral order. History will record how Western governments and large parts of their elites have supported the war waged by Israel following Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, and have silenced voices calling for a ceasefire, a just peace, and the respect of international law. Not only have buildings been devastated and civilians massacred, but language and thought have also been damaged. The webinar will discuss how the history of the occupation of Palestine and the oppression of Palestinians has been negated, how a specific vocabulary and grammar of facts have been imposed, how accusations of antisemitism have produced censorship and self-censorship, how mainstream media have contributed to rendering the brutalization invisible, and how the unequal worth of lives and the differential treatment of deaths have been normalized. Elements of interpretation of this moral abdication will be proposed. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMlcOmqqT8sH9O-SyiGs-mdzU1BHtfugw0V#/registration
36] –Get over to a panel discussion at the National Press Club, 529 14th St., WDC, regarding plutonium warhead core ("pit") production on Wed., Nov. 13 from 1 to 4 PM ET. Contact Greg Mello at 505-265-1200. The Los Alamos Study Group has organized this panel discussion. As of this past April, National Nuclear Security Administration's rough estimate for the cost of acquiring pit production capability was $28-37 billion. So this is a very large program, indeed "the largest and most complex infrastructure undertaking at NNSA since shortly after the Manhattan Project," as Dr. Jill Hruby has said. The Los Alamos Study Group’s own estimate of the cost for acquiring pit production capacity in both factories combined is ~$46.5 B, of which $13.3 B has already been spent, which may be comparable with NNSA's estimate after allowing for definitional differences. In other words, acquiring two separate factory complexes for plutonium pits for nuclear weapons is one of the very largest infrastructure projects currently funded in the United States. How about dismantling the nuclear arsenal?
37] -- WildEarth Guardians [info@wildearthguardians.org] are inviting you to a Wildlife Coexistence webinar on Wed., Nov. 13 from 2:30 to 3:30 PM ET. 3 for our Wildlife Coexistence Webinar. Join in for an inspiring conversation about WildEarth Guardians’ efforts to build a compassionate coexistence ethic in the West led by Guardians’ Executive Director, Hop Hopkins, joined by Chris Smith, Wildlife Program Director, and Lizzy Pennock, Carnivore Coexistence Attorney. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0scO6qpjotGdSi4JXRr6LKA_DV1_mYYUWV#/registration.
WildEarth Guardians’ vision for the West has always included ending the killing of wildlife on public lands for the sake of livestock and ushering in a new era rooted in an ethic of compassion and coexistence. This webinar will be an opportunity to gather as a community to discuss WildEarth Guardians’ efforts to champion coexistence by challenging harmful practices and fighting for a new era of non-lethal wildlife management on public lands.
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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