"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 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski [at] verizon.net.
1] Books, buttons and stickers
2] Web site for info on federal
legislation
3] Join Nonviolent Resistance lists
4] Two
friends are looking to buy a house in Baltimore
5]
Right Care Action Week “Listening Booth”
– Oct. 16
6]
Fight Political Corruption – Oct. 16
7] I Want A President – Oct. 16
8]
Pentagon Vigil – Oct. 17
9] Marc
Steiner on WEAA – Oct. 17 – Oct. 21
10] Films
“Abrazos” & “Sin Pais” – Oct. 17
11]
Rights of Children Under
Occupation – Oct. 17
12]
Call-in Day for Terrence Sterling
--- Oct. 18
13]
Peace vigil in Philadelphia – Oct. 18
14] Protest
drone research at JHU –
Oct. 18
15] COOP Happy Hour – Oct. 18
16]
Nancy Weiser Ignatius
Lecture on the Environment – Oct. 18
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1] –
Buttons, bumperstickers 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] –
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 mobuszewski at Verizon.net. 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] – Janice and Max are looking to
buy a house in Baltimore. Let Max know if you have any leads—410-323-1607
or mobuszewski at Verizon dot net.
5] – Right Care Action Week is going
to be doing a “Listening Booth” at the Baltimore Farmers' Market & Bazaar
on Sun., Oct. 16 from 7 AM to noon. The market is underneath the Jones Falls
Expressway at Holliday & Saratoga Sts. This a chance for people to sound
off about health care issues which bother them. Email rcaw@lowninstitute.org.
6] – Usually,
the Baltimore Ethical Society, 306 W. Franklin St., Suite 102, Baltimore
21201-4661, meets on Sundays, and generally there is a speaker and discussion
from 10:30 AM to noon. On Sun., Oct. 16, the topic is “Represent Maryland – A Grassroots Movement to Fight
Political Corruption.” Represent Maryland is a local chapter of the national
organization known as Represent.Us. The goal is to pass a Maryland state law
modeled after The American Anti-Corruption Act in order to send representatives
to Congress who are, as James Madison wrote, “dependent upon the people alone,”
and to eventually pass The American Anti-Corruption Act federally. While the
act itself is the goal, the grassroots strategy of involving as many citizens
as possible in the political process will be the true tipping point in reducing
the corruption of our political system. Matthew Lindauer hails from
Southwest Ohio, graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in
Criminology, and moved to Baltimore in March of 2016 after 10 years of service
in the Marine Corps as a Tactical Data Network Operator and Manpower Officer.
He resigned as a Captain from the service in order to support and defend the
Constitution against domestic threats like hyper-partisanship, civic
ineptitude, and materialism that he views as equally concerning as any foreign
threat. Call 410-581-2322 or email ask@bmorethical.org.
7] – I Want A President - A
Collective Reading will take place at the White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW, WDC, on Sun., Oct. 16 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. "I want a
president..." is a collective reading to take place just before the 2016
presidential elections. At the appointed hour, the original text will be read,
as written by artist Zoe Leonard in 1992, as well as a new adaptation. Stay
tuned for workshop details and reading date as they are announced. Go to https://www.facebook.com/iwantapresidentdc/.
8] – 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 Oct., 10, 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. 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 begin at 8 AM. No
cameras are allowed on Pentagon grounds. Restrooms are located
inside Marriott Residence Inn on corner of S. Fern and Army Navy Dr.
9] – The Marc Steiner Show airs
Monday through Friday fr6m 10 AM to noon on WEAA 88.9 FM, The Voice of the
Community, or online at www.weaa.org. The call-in number is
410-319-8888, and comments can also be sent by email to steinershow@gmail.com. All shows are also available as
podcasts at www.steinershow.org.
10] – Beyond the Classroom
presents the films “Abrazos” & “Sin Pais" at 4250 Lehigh Rd., 1102
South Campus Commons, Building 1, University of Maryland, College Park, on
Mon., Oct. 17 from 7 to 9 PM. This Fall 2016 Series is on
"Ensuring a World Fit for Children? Rethinking Our Civic
Responsibilities." These two documentaries “Abrazos” (2014, USA,
Guatemala)/ “Sin Pais” (Without a Country, 2011) deal with migrants. Over
4.5 million U.S. children who are citizens have at least one undocumented
parent. “Abrazos” tells the transformational journey of a group of U.S. citizen
children who travel from Minnesota to Guatemala to meet their grandparents and
siblings for the first time!
With intimate access and striking
imagery, “Sin Pais” explores one family’s experience as they are separated for
deportation. Sam and Elida Mejia escaped a violent civil war in Guatemala and
came to California. After raising their family for nearly 20 years in the San
Francisco Bay Area, U.S. immigration agents stormed the Mejia’s house in 2007.
Sam and Elida were deported back to Guatemala, and their two teenage children
were left in the United States. This documentary explores the complexities of
the Mejia’s new reality – parents living without their children, and children
doing their best to succeed without their parents. Visit www.BeyondTheClassroom.umd.edu.
11] – On
Mon., Oct. 17 at 7 PM, hear a presentation of The Rights of Children Under
Occupation, by child rights advocates, Beth Miller, and Jennifer Bing, at
Westminster Church, 1502 W. 13th St, Wilmington. The event is sponsored
by DelNATO, Delaware
Churches for Middle East Peace, & Pacem in Terris. Go to http://www.delnato.org/.
12] – The Call-in Day for
Terrence Sterling is Tues., Oct. 18 from 9 AM to 11 PM. People are
pressing the Bowser administration for answers and to institute accountability
for police. Call-in, tweet, or Facebook D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser demanding answers
to the outstanding questions in the murder of Terrance Sterling. Sample tweets
and a short paragraph you can use for phone calls and posts on Facebook:
@MayorBowser release the name of the accomplice officer in the killing of
#TerrenceSterling #BlackLivesMatter #StopPoliceTerror, @MayorBowser Why was
#TerrenceSterling killed? We want answers, NOW! Call Mayor Bowser at (202)
727-2643 or post on her Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/MayorMurielBowser/). RSVP at https://www.facebook.com/events/1814536918762710/.
13] – Each Tuesday from 4:30 -
5:30 PM, the Catholic Peace Fellowship-Philadelphia for peace in Afghanistan
and Iraq gathers at the Suburban Station, 16th St. & JFK
Blvd., at the entrance to Tracks 3 and 4 on the mezzanine. The next
vigil is Oct. 18. Call 215-426-0364.
14] – Vigil to say "No
Drone Research at JHU" each Tuesday at 33rd & North Charles Sts. join
this ongoing vigil on Oct. 18 from 5:30 to 6:30 PM. Call Max
at 410-323-1607.
15] – There is a COOP HAPPY
HOUR on Tues., Oct. 18 at 6 PM at Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 30 W. North
Ave., Baltimore 21201. The second cooperative happy hour is hosted in
collaboration with 2640, Baltimore Bicycle Works, and the Baltimore Roundtable
for Economic Democracy! Interested in starting a cooperative, or just want to
learn more? Have ideas and expertise from your own experience that you want to
share with other nascent cooperatives in Maryland? Come on out for socializing
with Baltimore's coop crowd, and get free advice from Baltimore's cooperative
experts - the workers themselves! Good food, good drinks, good conversation!
Call 443-602-7585. Go to http://www.redemmas.org.
16] – The
Nancy Weiser Ignatius Lecture on the Environment with keynote speaker United
States Secretary of Energy, The Honorable Ernest Moniz, will happen on Tues.
Oct. 18 from 6:30 to 7:30 PM in the Atrium, School of International Service,
AU, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, WDC 20016. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nancy-weiser-ignatius-lecture-on-the-environment-keynote-speaker-the-united-states-secretary-of-tickets-28228155172.
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.
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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