Monday, May 25, 2020

Baltimore Peace and Justice Advocates to Engage in Peace Caravan on Memorial Day


Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apartment 206, Baltimore, MD 21212   Ph: 410-323-1607 

CONTACT: Max Obuszewski 443-761-5899 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net

Baltimore Peace and Justice Advocates to Engage in Peace Caravan on Memorial Day

PRESS RELEASE-FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

May 24, 2020

WHO:   A group of organizations in Baltimore are joining with CODEPINK, which is organizing demonstrations around the country, to do Peace Caravans on May 25, Memorial Day.  The event in Baltimore is co-sponsored by the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, Baltimore Peace Action, Baltimore Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter Veterans For Peace, Pax Christi-Baltimore, the Peoples Power Assembly and Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland.   

WHAT: The theme for the Peace Caravan is HEALTHCARE, NOT WARFARE.  Advocates will participate in two ways.  Those with a vehicle will decorate it with some peace signs and park by Wyman Park just off 29th Street at 5 PM.  Those without a vehicle will gather with peace signs wearing masks and remaining six feet away from each other at 33rd and North Charles Streets by John Hopkins University, Baltimore’s #1 nuclear weapons contractor.

  At 5:30 PM the Peace Caravan will depart heading north on Howard Street.  The lights on the vehicles will be turned on and blinking, and the horns will be honking. It will continue to Wyman Park Drive near the Baltimore Museum of Art.  Continue to follow around the university on San Martin Drive until University Parkway.  At the light, the caravan will turn right and proceed to Charles Street.  There it will head south hugging the university past 33rd Street until turning right at 29th Street.  Then it will go south on Maryland Avenue until 25th Street.  There it will turn left and head to Greenmount Avenue.  At Greenmount, turn left and go north until 33rd Street. Turn left and head to Barclay Street.  At Barclay turn left and head south to 25th Street.  At 25th turn right at Guilford Ave.  Head north until 33rd Street.  Go to St. Paul Street and turn left.  Head south to 25th Street.  At 25th turn left and go to Calvert Street.  Turn left on Calvert and proceed to 33rd Street.  At 33rd head to Charles St.  At Charles Street turn right and head north.  Cross University Parkway and pull into the parking lot of the Episcopal Cathedral.  Those on foot at 33rd Street will come to the parking lot. 

WHEN: Monday, May 25 starting at 5:30 PM

WHERE:   Starting at 29th Street, by Wyman Park, continuing through Charles Village and ending at the Episcopal Cathedral parking lot at University Parkway in Baltimore

WHY:  Celebrate peace and justice in Charles Village, as far as possible away from President Donald Trump and his horrible policies and dangerous behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. The progressive neighborhood of Charles Village was selected for Baltimore’s Peace Caravan so that participants would hear that Peace Will Not Be Denied.   
Many of us have been in lock down since mid-March while watching continued insanity out of the White House, not just around COVID-19 but even in the midst of a rising death toll, they are still threatening countries with war, and doubling down on sanctions.  It is time to be visible for peace again.  May 25th is Memorial Day, often used to celebrate war but the day before is International Women’s Day of Peace and Disarmament.
We hope to inspire onlookers with the message of Peace as we call for an end to wars, and deaths to be memorialized.  CODEPINK LA is starting theirs in a parking lot and organizing the cars in the image of a peace sign for a drone photo and driving along the beaches ending the caravan by delivering care packages at centers serving the ever growing houseless population.  In Miami they will caravan around Senator Marco Rubio’s house.  

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"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

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/



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