Baltimore Activist Alert December 11 – 13, 2016
"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] “Pre-trial Detention in Maryland Due for Reform” – Dec. 11
6] Counter-inaugural meeting – Dec. 11
7] Sustainable Gift Fair – Dec. 11
8] Ban fracking meeting -- Dec. 11
9] Liberation Takes Generations – Dec. 11
10] Pentagon Vigil – Dec. 12
11] Marc Steiner on WEAA – Dec. 12 – Dec. 16
12] Protest
Muslim registry – Dec.
12
13] Peace vigil in Philadelphia – Dec. 13
14] Vigil to say "No Drone Research at JHU" – Dec. 13
15] Environmental Legislative Briefing –
Dec. 13
16] Gun violence Town Hall – Dec. 13
17] What are we teaching our
children? – Dec. 13
18] New book, “Born on Third Base” – Dec. 13
19] Green Party meeting – Dec. 13
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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]
– 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., Dec.
11, the platform address is “Pre-trial Detention in Maryland Due for
Reform.” Many citizens who pose no threat to society spend prolonged
periods in prisons awaiting trial without seeing a judge, particularly those
who cannot afford bail. Excessive use of pretrial detention is destructive to
families and may increase costs of criminal justice systems as a whole.
Innovative reform proposals will be a hot topic in the Maryland General
Assembly this year. Tara Andrews Huffman, Esq. is the Director of
the Criminal and Juvenile Justice Program, Open Society Institute-Baltimore.
Previously, Huffman provided coaching and consulting services to non-profit
leaders and organizations—including to the Greater Baltimore Grassroots
Criminal Justice Network. Before that, she served for five years as the Deputy
Director for Policy and Programs at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice in
Washington, D.C. There, she managed a project to advocate for national
standards to reduce incarceration and criminalization of juvenile status
offenders. Active in the community, Huffman has a deep commitment to reforming
policies and practices that contribute to racial disparities, an over-reliance
on incarceration, blocked opportunities, and unrealized potential. Call 410-581-2322 or email ask@bmorethical.org.
6]
– There is a Mass Meeting:
Organizing against Trump's Inauguration on Sun., Dec. 11 from noon to 7 PM.
RSVP here for address and directions -- http://www.disruptj20.org/events/spokes-council/.
The DC Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee is coordinating plans to shut down
the inauguration of Donald Trump. This spokescouncil is open to individual
activists, organization staff, affinity groups, collectives, artists, medics
and healers, and anyone else who wants to help shut down the inauguration. Law
enforcement and media are not welcome.
7]
– On Sun., Dec. 11 from 2 to 6 PM, attend the 7th Annual Wilmington in
Transition Sustainable Gift Fair with local handicrafts, artists,
herbalists, artisan goods, local healthy food options, live music and more!
Come to the Silverside Church, 2800 Silverside Rd., Wilmington, DE. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/1729485487375857/.
8]
– On Sun., Dec. 11 from 2 to 3 PM, come to a meeting to prepare to lobby
Senator Joan Carter Conway for a frack-free future for Maryland at 4 E
University Pkwy., Baltimore 21218. Maryland's moratorium on fracking will
expire in October of 2017. This upcoming legislative session will be the last
chance that Maryland will have to ban fracking before that expiration.
Activists across the state have been working with the "Don't Frack
Maryland Coalition" to build growing support for a permanent state-wide
ban. The key target in this fight is Senator Conway, as she is the head
of the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee that will
decide whether or not to send the ban bill to the Senate for a vote. During the
previous moratorium campaign, Senator Conway weakened the moratorium bill
significantly reducing the moratorium from 8 years to 2.5 years and eliminated
any language that would have required health studies. Instead she put forward a
bill that called for draft regulations to be written that would permit fracking
in Maryland. Brooke Harper from CCAN (Chesapeake Climate Action Network) will
talk about the current state-wide efforts, what folks in the western part of
the state are saying and what we need to say to Senator Conway. RSVP to
Rabbi Nina Beth Cardin at ncardin@comcast.net.
9]
– Liberation Takes Generations is the discussion topic on Sun., Dec. 11 from 5
to 7 PM at Busboys & Poets (5th & K), 1025 K St. NW, WDC 20001. Elle
Hearns, Organizing Coordinator for Black Lives Matter National, and Ramona
Africa, Minister of Information for the MOVE Organization, join Practice Makes
Progress to give a master class on grassroots organizing while Black. Get
the inside story on Black liberation, its history, and the future from this
intergenerational, intersectional conversation among Black women in leadership.
Hors d'oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages included in ticket price. Go to
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/about/5th-k.
10]
– 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 Dec., 11, 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.
11]
– 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.
12]
– As 2016 draws closer to the end, we as a community will need to keep
marching, to keep rallying, and to keep protesting against hate, oppression,
and the deliberate denial to collective liberation. We will need to keep
organizing, strategizing and building side by side. On Mon., Dec. 12 from 1 to
3 PM, there will be a march and rally in front of the U.S. Department of
Justice, 950 Pennsylvania Ave NW, WDC 20530, for Muslims and allies to declare
resistance towards a Muslim registry. Join Desis Rising Up & Moving (DRUM)
and Moveon.org to shut down an already-existing Muslim registry program
(NSEERS) before Donald Trump is inaugurated. The Washington Peace Center signed
on as a partner.
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 Dec. 13. 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 Dec. 13 from 5:30 to
6:30 PM. Call Max at 410-323-1607.
15]
– There is an Environmental Legislative Briefing on the upcoming Maryland
State 2017 Legislative Session with the Sierra Club on Tues., Dec. 13
from 6 to 7:45 PM at the Enoch Pratt Library, 1303 Orleans St., Baltimore
21231. Mark Posner, Legislative Chair, Sierra Club Maryland Chapter
will give an overview of the Sierra Club Maryland Chapter's environmental
priorities and provide an update on the Feb. 20th Sierra Club lobby
night. RSVPs welcome but not necessary. Go to http://www.sierraclub.org/maryland/calendar.
16]
– On Tues., Dec. 13 from 6:30 to 8 PM, the Delaware Coalition Against Gun
Violence is holding a Town Hall—Goals for 2017 and Beyond. There will be a
panel discussion with members of the General Assembly at the Unitarian
Church, Newark, 420 Willa Rd., Newark, DE. Go to http://decagv.org/.
17]
-- ACTION
for BALTIMORE RACIAL JUSTICE is asking What are we teaching our children?
The discussion will be happening on Tues., Dec.
13 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the American
Brewery Building, 1701 N. Gay St., Baltimore 21213. In Baltimore, and
across the country, we are seeing videos on social media of teachers making
racialized statements and hearing how administrations are responding. But the
question remains: what are our responses teaching our children? Are we teaching
them to think about the issues and systemic complexities -- or are we teaching
them to scapegoat? Go to www.bmoreantiracist.org or email bmoreantiracist@gmail.com.
18]
--There is an Author Talk with Chuck Collins at 1658 Columbia Rd. NW, WDC, on
Tues., Dec. 13 from 7 to 9 PM. The conversation will be about
Collins’ new book, “Born on Third Base.” With the heart of an agitator
and the soul of a storyteller, inequality expert Chuck Collins upends our
assumptions about America’s deep wealth divide—one that, for the first time in
recent history, locks the nation’s youth into a future defined by their class
and wealth at birth; limits our ability to address crises like climate change;
and creates a world that no one, not even the rich, will ultimately want to
live in. Collins calls for an end to class war, busts the myths that define our
views of rich and poor, and offers bold new solutions for bridging the economic
divide and re-engaging the wealthy in rebuilding communities for a resilient
future. See http://pottershousedc.org/event-blog/2016/10/27/born-on-third-base-author-talk-with-chuck-collins.
19]
– The Baltimore County chapter of the Green Party will hold its
second membership meeting at 7 pm on Tues., Dec. 13 at the Green
Party Headquarters, 100 East 23rd St. Baltimore 21218. At
this meeting, the group will cover a few organizational matters and begin
planning actions for 2017. All Baltimore County Green Party supporters
are invited to attend and to bring a friend. Go to http://www.baltimoregp.org/.
To
be continued.
Donations
can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; 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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