Monday, January 31, 2011

Events

Baltimore Activist Alert Feb. 1 – Feb. 7, 2011

 

"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 BNC, 325 East 25th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218.  Max Obuszewski can be reached at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski [at] verizon.net.

 

The Baltimore IndyMedia Center publicizes peace-related events. Go to http://www.radicalendar.org/group/_baltimore.

  

1] Books, buttons and stickers

2] Web site for info on federal legislation

3] Join Nonviolent Resistance lists  

4] Buy coffee through HoCoFoLA  

5] Used stamps for humanitarian causes

6] Bring the World Home continues        

7] Baltimore Free Store needs a home

8] AVP trainings – Feb. 1 – 3 & Mar. 18-20

9] Protests for Justice – Feb. 1 & 15

10] Protests for Justice – Feb. 1 & 15

11] War Is Not the Answer demo – Feb. 1

12] School of Activism – Feb. 1

13] Philadelphia peace vigil – Feb. 2

14] Celebrate Venezuelan democracy – Feb. 2

15] Chestnut Hill, PA vigil – Feb. 2

16] Film COUNTDOWN TO ZERO – Feb. 2

17] Life in the Chesapeake Bay – Feb. 2

18] Climate chaos conference call – Feb. 2

19] Support Bradley Manning – Feb. 3

20] Muslims & the FBI – Feb. 3

21] WIB Towson vigil – Feb. 3

22] Palestine/Israel Roundtable – Feb. 3

23] Writers Against War demo – Feb. 3

24] First Thursday vigil against war – Feb. 3

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1] – Buttons, bumperstickers and books are available.  “God Bless the Whole World, No Exceptions” stickers are in stock. Donate your books to Max. Call him at 410-366-1637.

 

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] – THE ORGANIZING LIST will be the primary decision-making mechanism of the National Campaign of Nonviolent Resistance [NCNR].  It will be augmented by conference calls and possibly in-person meetings as needed.  It will consist of 1 or 2 representatives from each local, regional, or national organization (not coalitions) that wishes to actively work to carry out the NCNR campaign of facilitating and organizing nonviolent resistance to the war in Iraq.

 

To join the ORGANIZING List, please send your name, group affiliation, city and email address to donmuller@msn.com.  Different local chapters of a national organization are encouraged to subscribe.  

 

THE NOTICES LIST will include only notices of NCNR actions and related information and is open to any interested person to subscribe.  It will be moderated to maintain focus & will include periodic notices about getting involved in NCNR national organizing.  To join the NOTICES List, send an email message to ncnrnotices-subscribe@lists.riseup.net. You will get a confirmation message once subscribed.  If you have problems, please write to the list manager at ncnrnotices-admin@lists.riseup.net.

 

4] – You can help safeguard human rights and fragile ecosystems through your purchase of HOCOFOLA Café Quetzal. Bags of ground coffee or whole beans can be ordered by mailing in an order form. Also note organic cocoa and sugar are for sale.  For more details and to download the order form, go to http://friendsoflatinamerica.typepad.com/hocofola/2010/02/hocofola-cafe-quetzal-order-form-2010.html.

 

Be sure you indicate ground (G) or bean (B) for each type of coffee ordered. Make the check out to HoCoFoLA and send it with your order form to Nancy Meier, 10 Pepperdine Circle, Catonsville, MD 21228.  Contact Pat McLaine at 410-964-0960 or pamcl@aol.com.  The coffee will arrive some time the following week and you will be notified where to pick it up.

 

5] – Brad Hathaway spearheads an effort to sell donated used stamps to raise money for different humanitarian causes around the world. Go to www.mattapoisettquakers.org, and click the link for the stamp ministry.  Carefully clip canceled postage stamps and send to Quaker Missions, PO Box 795, Mattapoisett, MA 02739. Send no small flag stamps or Liberty Bell Forever stamps.

 

6] – Catch the "Bringing the World Home" exhibit in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps!  The exhibit is in the UMBC Library Rotunda through the end of the semester and consists of 5 display cases featuring photos and artifacts from UMBC's faculty, staff and students who have served in the Peace Corps, including many current and alumni Shriver Peaceworker Fellows.  The center case features pieces from the Peace Corps founding era (a tribute to Sarge Shriver!) and the surrounding case highlight experiences from Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe, and the AmericasIf you are coming from off campus, give Joby Taylor a call at (410) 455-6398, and he will give you a tour.

 

7] – Help the Baltimore Free Store find a permanent home. The Free Store takes donated and salvaged goods and provides them to the public for free. Forward any leads, contacts, ideas, numbers on the sides of buildings to Matt Warfield at matt.a.warfield@gmail.com or 410-842-5285.

 

8] –  It’s Time to Learn for ourselves; to Teach others; to reduce and resolve conflict; to learn and use skills with confidence; to create safer and stronger families, workplaces & communities!  A basic Alternatives to Violence Project will take place from Tues., Feb. 1 through Thurs., Feb. 3 from 9:30 AM to 4 PM at the Annapolis Friends Meeting, 351 DuBois, Annapolis 21401. 

 

Then a more extensive training will be offered from 6 to 9 PM on Fri., Mar. 18, 9:30 AM to 6:30 PM on Sat., Mar. 19 and 12:30 to 7:30 PM on Sun., Mar. 20.  You must attend the basic to qualify for the extensive.  The suggested donation is $65 for each training. Register now at kithanley@verizon.net or 443-758-5726 to Kit Hanley, facilitator & trainer.  This is sponsored by the Annapolis Friends Peace and Justice Center.  Go to www.avpusa.org.

 

9] – Join Volunteer Maryland to learn about other organizations and how to move your volunteer program forward on Tues., Feb. 1 at 10:15 AM at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, Southeast Anchor, 3601 Eastern Ave.  Call 410-767-6231 or go to www.prattlibrary.org.

 

10] – PROTESTS FOR JUSTICE!  DISBAND SHOMRIM!  SAY NO TO RACISM!  On Tues., Feb. 1, noon to 1 PM, join community groups again at the courthouse, Lexington & St. Paul Sts.  Be prepared on Tues., Feb. 15 to protest for justice at Eliezer Eliyahu Werdesheim’s trial.  For more information, call 443-909-8964 or email apcbaltimore@pipeline.com.

 

11] – There is a vigil to say "War Is Not the Answer" each Tuesday since September 11, 2001 at 4806 York Road. Join this ongoing vigil.  The next vigil is Feb. 1 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM.  Call Max at 410-366-1637.

 

12] – You are invited to join a live online School of Activism with Tom Hayden, on Tues., Feb. 1 at 6 PM PST/7 PM MST/8 PM CST/9 PM EST.  The online seminar will be held once a week for four weeks, and will focus on how to build a Long Peace Movement to End the Long War. Each session will be one-hour, including a 30-minute presentation and a 30-minute live interactive conversation.

 

The goal of the series is to build leadership in key states and Congressional districts to forge effective progressive coalitions, ones that our government will have to take seriously. Topics will include Defining the Long War and its domestic consequences, Alternatives in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Organizing: What works?, and A strategy for influencing the electoral debate, 2011-2012. Email contacthayden@gmail.com with "School of Activism" in the subject line.

 

13] – Each Wednesday from 4:30 - 5:30 PM, the House of Grace Catholic Worker holds a weekly vigil for peace in Iraq outside the Phila. Federal Building, 6th & Market Sts. The next vigil is Feb. 2. Call 215-426-0364.

 

14] – You are invited to a celebration in honor of 12 YEARS OF PEOPLES DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA: A Tribute to the Bolivarian Revolution, A Growing Hope for Latin America and the World, at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd., NW, WDC 20009, on Wed., Feb. 2 from 6:30 to 8:30.  The honored speaker is Roy Chaderton, Venezuelan Ambassador to the OAS, and the moderator will be Rev. Graylan Hagler- Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ.  Call 202-265-1948.

 

15] – Each Wednesday, the Northwest Greens hold a peace vigil from 7 to 8 PM outside the Borders Book Store, Germantown Ave. at Bethlehem Pike in Chestnut Hill, PA. The next vigil is Feb. 2. Call 215-843-4256 or email nwgreens@yahoo.com.  

 

16] -- On Wed., Feb. 2 at 7 PM, there will be a screening of the documentary film "Countdown to Zero" at the Hoff Theater in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union, College Park, MD.  A panel discussion with John Steinbruner, School of Public Policy professor, and Bruce Blair, co-coordinator of Global Zero, will follow the screening. The film traces the history of the atomic bomb from its origins to the present state of global affairs: nine nations possess nuclear weapons capabilities with others racing to join them, with the world held in a delicate balance that could be shattered by an act of terrorism, failed diplomacy, or a simple accident. Written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Lucy Walker (Devil’s Playground, Blindsight), the film features an array of important international statesmen, including Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair. Call 301-405-7601.

 

17] – Michael Eversmier will present Life in the Chesapeake Bay on Wed., Feb. 2 at 7 PM at Maryland Institute College of Art, room 110, 1300 W. Mount Royal Ave. Call 410-225-2300 or go to www.mica.edu.   

 

18] -- Consider being on a National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance conference call on Wed., Feb. 2 at 9 PM EST to continue to plan a climate chaos action of nonviolent civil resistance at the Pentagon on Apr. 8, calling for an end to the wars and for an end to policies that make the Pentagon the biggest polluter of our earth.  Call Max at 410-366-1637 or email him at mobuszewski at verizon.net to get the call-in number and access code. 

 

19] – The National White House Call-in Day to Support Bradley Manning is Thurs., Feb. 3.  You can reach the White House switchboard at 202-456-1414 or the comment line at 202-456-1111.  Call the White House to voice your disapproval of U.S, Army PFC Bradley Manning’s inhumane treatment while be held in the brig at Quantico, Virginia. Bradley has been held in solitary confinement-like conditions for over eight months, and his trial is still months away. He has not been convicted of any crime, and must endure inhumane conditions of pre-trial confinement like no other inmate at the Quantico brig.

 

Manning should be freed pending court martial for allegedly releasing documents to Wikileaks.  Whoever released the documents was following his/her Nuremberg Obligation.  We have learned from the documents that the U.S. was supporting dictators in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and other places.  People have died in these countries because our government persists in supporting human rights violators. Go to the Bradley Manning Support Network: www.bradleymanning.org. Bradley Manning’s conditions have worsened.  Call Quantico public affairs to push for more humane treatment at 1-703-432-0289.

 

20] – On Thurs., Feb. 3, from 10:30 to 11:30 AM at the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2203, WDC, there will be a briefing to highlight how the relationship between the Arab and Muslim American communities and law enforcement has progressed over the last decade.  What outreach efforts have proven effective for mutually beneficial interaction and dialogue? RSVP to rsvp@adc.org. Contact Abed Ayoub at aayoub@adc.org or at 202-244-2990.  This event is sponsored by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.  Go to www.adc.org

 

21] – There is a WIB peace stand on Thurs., Feb.  3, noon-1PM in Towson at northwest corner of Washington & Chesapeake Aves., across the street from the post office, near the courthouse. Contact mbrainzo@aol.com. This vigil takes place on the first Thursday of the month.

 

22] – The WEEKLY ROUNDTABLE SEEKING A JUST PEACE IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL takes place from 12:30 - 1:30 PM on Thursdays at Potter's House, 1658 Columbia Road NW, WDC.  Join a civil discourse which explores the history, issues, myths, realities, and truth of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Contact Alice Azzouzi at 202-232-5483.

 

23] – Join Writers Against the War and Occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq on Thurs., Feb. 3 from 3:30 to 4:30 PM in Lafayette Park, Pennsylvania Ave. (across from the White House). Then walk to the sidewalk in front of the White House (Metro stops: Farragut North or McPherson Square). A minute of silence will be observed for each year of each war (sixteen minutes), followed by simultaneous readings of lines of poetry (probably lines from Whitman). This brief action will end with chanting Stop Funding War.  Wear a poem or a piece of a poem on your person. Some poem signs will be available for those who want them.  The following day, there will be an opportunity to go to Congressional offices to hand out letters and visit staff.  Support is being provided by Split This Rock. Email info@splitthisrock.org or call 202-787-5210.

 

24] – The Pledge of Resistance-Baltimore will host an End the Wars vigil on Thurs., Feb. 3 from 5 to 6:30 PM in Mount Vernon at Centre & Charles Sts.  The Pledge gathers in Mount Vernon on the first Thursday of the month to protest U.S. Wars.  Call Max at 410-366-1637.

 

To be continued.

 

Donations can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD 21218.  Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net

 

"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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