Friday, October 4, 2024

Baltimore Activist Alert -- October 4 to 6, 2024

62] Train for Jury Duty – Oct. 4 - 5

63] Peace vigil at White House – Oct. 4

64] Women in Black vigil – Oct. 4

65] Friday Power Lunch – Oct. 4

66] AFSC Action Hour for ceasefire – Oct. 4

67] Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance -- Oct. 4

68] Guns, Race and America’s Love Affair with Killing -- Oct. 5

69] Caravan to PA/knock on doors -- Oct. 5

70] Christian Zionism and the Israel Lobby -- Oct. 5

71] Healthcare Now – Oct. 5

72] When we all vote -- Oct. 5

73] Ahimsa in Action -- Oct. 5

74] Baltimore for Palestine -- Oct. 5

75] One Year of Genocide -- Oct. 5

76] Get out the Vote -- Oct. 5

77] CODEPINK Year of resistance-- Oct. 5

78] High Traffic Canvassing -- Oct. 6

79] Write to anti-nuke protesters

80] Baltimore activist selling her home

81] Medical supplies are needed in Ukraine

82] Read Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"

83] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts

84] Do you need a doctor?

85] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

86] Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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62] – Harriet's Wildest Dreams in partnership with The Juror Project invites you to a special two-day community expose' that brings together various stakeholders to discuss the critical role of jury duty in our justice system. This event is designed to raise awareness about the importance of serving on a jury, especially for those with marginalized identities who are disproportionately targeted by the criminal legal system.  Jury duty is not just a civic responsibility; it’s a powerful tool for ensuring fairness and justice. As community members, our participation in juries is vital to safeguarding the rights of those who are most vulnerable to systemic biases. By serving on a jury, you can influence outcomes and help create a more equitable legal process.

 On Fri., Oct. 4 from 10:30 AM to 3:30 PM and on Sat., Oct. 5 from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM ET at 2006 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE, WDC 20020, come and engage in meaningful conversations, learn from legal experts, activists, and fellow community members, and find out how you can play a pivotal role in shaping a more just society. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/hwd/event/691480/?link_id=15&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events-179&email_referrer=email_2476793&email_subject=nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events

63] – There is a weekly vigil at the White House on Fridays from noon to 1 PM sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker.  Email artlaffin@hotmail.com or call 202-882-9649. 

64] – Every Friday from noon to 1 PM, Baltimore Women in Black vigil for peace with men and women who live in Roland Park. WIB invites all to join, and any peace sign is welcome, such as "Defuse Nuclear War."  The vigil takes place outside Roland Park Place at 830 West 40th Street and Elm Street. The VFP peace walkers will join he vigil. Parking is free at RPP or at the Rotunda across the street. Contact Ann Vinup at annvinup@gmail.com.

65] – On Fri., Oct. 4 at noon ET, join the Friday Power Lunch, a weekly show amplifying the voices of the Virginia Grassroots on politics, culture, and making change with the BADASS women of Network NOVA. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscumspzMoHtOe4-JRDrtezzQNNh9EhWEh#/registration

66] – The American Friends Service Committee holds an Action Hour for a Cease-fire Now every Friday at noon ET. Join AFSC staff to hear updates from Gaza. Then, take action by contacting elected officials and call for an immediate cease-fire and humanitarian access to Gaza. Our elected officials need to keep hearing from us. RSVP at https://afsc.org/events/action-hour-cease-fire-now?ms=EMA24EI1103&emci=17faec34-887a-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&emdi=9695a439-f87c-ee11-b004-00224832eb73&ceid=764241

67] – Kathy Boylan [kathyboylan5@gmail.com] is inviting you to attend on Fri., Oct. 4 at 7:30 PM ET a Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House, 503 Rock Creek Church Road, WDC 20010, Clarification of Thought meeting - In Hope with Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance. Jessica Sun, a local volunteer community organizer, will be sharing her powerful experiences in Palestine and her reflections on nonviolent resistance.

68] –Fellowship of Reconciliation [info@fellowshipofreconciliation.ccsend.com] hopes you will attend a hybrid event Guns, Race and America’s Love Affair with Killing on Sat., Oct. 5 from 8 AM and 8 PM ET at Metropolitan AME, 1518 M St. NW, WDC 20005. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrdemurjIjHtzXJNEheZhxwaNly4d6gVfT?_x_zm_rtaid=FAFxY447QBmlLVylwOS2uQ.1727918101179.48e383b4926772c3f73f298a43a27699&_x_zm_rhtaid=99#/registration

69] – Mike Tidwell, CCAN Action Fund [info@ccanactionfund.org] urges you to get to Pennsylvania on Saturdays.  On Sat., Oct. 5 from 11 AM to 3 PM ET get over to 2608 Chichester Ave., Boothwyn, PA 19061. This will continue through Sat., Nov. 2. The noted pollster Nate Silver just clarified the odds for the Presidential race. If Kamala Harris wins the state of Pennsylvania, she has a 91% chance of winning the White House. If Donald Trump wins Pennsylvania, he has a 95% chance of winning the presidential race. CCAN Action Fund will organize carpools and give you training and make it FUN. Register at https://www.mobilize.us/ccanactionfund/event/691894/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=ftv&utm_content=FTV-91+reasons-0924-c4+C

70] –Attend Christian Zionism and the Israel Lobby: A Conversation with Ilan Pappe is to happen on Sat., Oct. 5 at noon ET. Join the sponsors, Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace (PCAP) and Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), as Dr. Awad Halabi will be interviewing Ilan Pappe over Zoom about his latest book, "Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic." Donate $100 or more to PCAP for a free copy of the book. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEucO-rrTsjHdDd3Vv306ObK-lhi5PlRH7g#/registration

71] – Healthcare NOW [info@healthcare-now.org] on Sat., Oct. 5 at 1 PM ET wants to hear your personal healthcare story at a workshop. Your personal story is the best message to let folks know about our broken healthcare system and get them excited to join in fixing it! Join for a training to get some tips for telling your story and practice with a friendly audience. Register at https://www.healthcare-now.org/trainings/?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-m4atraining-series-starts-next-week-2&email_referrer=email_2469398&email_subject=this-saturday-105-telling-your-story-workshop

72] – When We All Vote Voter Registration Drive is on Sat., Oct. 5 from 1 to 4 PM ET at 2500 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21216. Register at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/698276/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_of_typ

73] – Nancy Merritt [info@peacealliance.org] on Sat., Oct. 5 at 1 PM ET wants you to know about a panel discussion Ahimsa in ACTION: Transforming the Future Thru Nonviolence."  Email lynnea.bylund@gandhiforchildren.org. RSVP at‌ ‌ ‌https://docs.google.com/forms/d/15CNIlYWNOujIcdOktMn3FVJmWK1g_ny5R1A_YE8M16k/viewform?edit_requested=true&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=2944e00e-61fe-4c3a-9c3e-22c6aa7a628c

74] – After a full year of demonstrations, mobilizations, disruptions, fundraisers, and educational events here in Baltimore, genocide continues and the war is broadening.  There is a global call to action to stand with the Palestinian people. In Baltimore meet at City Hall on Sat., Oct. 5 at 2 PM ET for a march and rally. This event is organized by the Baltimore Branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.  Email baltimore@pslweb.org

75] – On Sat., Oct. 5 at 3:30 PM ET, join Metro DC DSA's Internationalism Working Group for a DSA contingent at One Year of Genocide, One Year of Resistance International Day of Action at the White House. The official action starts at 4 PM, but DSA members will meet up at a location near the White House at 3:30 PM ET. Attendees who RSVP will receive location and meetup info ahead of the event. RSVP at https://www.instagram.com/p/C_bMVNgy9Hb/?link_id=15&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events-178&email_referrer=email_2466795&email_subject=nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events

76] – The Maryland Poor People's Campaign (MD PPC) [gotv@marylandppc.org] wants you to canvass to Get Out the Vote on Sat., Oct 5 at 9 AM in the  Sandtown Winchester neighborhood.  RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSewsCjg__iENdaB5eBQ68JhieMsEZFjKhDUE4Z3ZbGT0Ta8Vg/viewform

77] – CODEPINK is starting the month of October with heavy hearts, as Israel, backed by the U.S., completes one year of its relentless genocide in Palestine, and spreads horrific carnage across the border into Lebanon. Redouble our efforts in demanding justice, an arms embargo, and a Free Palestine. End the Genocide in Gaza: One Year of Resistance! On Sat., Oct. 5 from 4 to 7 PM ET, gather near the White House/Lafayette Square.  Note that the area is blocked off, so gather as close as possible to the White House.  RSVP at https://www.codepink.org/oneyear?utm_campaign=october_member_newsletter_2024&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

78] – On Sun., Oct. 6 from 10 AM to noon and from noon to 2 PM ET, join the Chesapeake Climate Action Network / Action Fund with High Traffic Canvassing at the Mt. Washington Farmer's Market, 2101 W. Rogers Ave., Baltimore 21209. You will be set up with clipboards and forms, and teach you best practices for having high traffic canvassing conversations. The goal is 1000 new members this fall, so we your help is needed in reaching out. The canvassing will continue through November 3. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/655176/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_closest

79] Two anti-US nuclear weapons in Germany activists are serving time in a German prison.  Should you want to write the women, use these addresses: Susan Crane or Susan van der Hijden, JVA Rohrbach, Peter-Caesar-Allee 1 55597 Wöllstein, Germany. Visit this website -- www.noelhuis.nl/kernwapensweg

80] – A home in Baltimore is for sale on a dead-end street in the Lauraville neighborhood, with three bedrooms, and one bath. The yard backs into a field and then a forest. There is a serene and quiet setting with an abundance of wildlife. The owner will be asking a reasonable amount for the property but it will not be overpriced. Contact her by text only at 443 500 6733. On the text, leave your name and phone number, and she will get back to anyone that reaches out. 

81] -- If you are able to donate any kind of surplus medical supplies for field hospitals in eastern Ukraine, please email Brendan.walls@seaseton.org or call 410-721-70 x231.  There is a colleague whose father is a medic on the front line. One container is shipped every month to the Donbass region. Donations can be picked up in Baltimore and Columbia every Thursday, and on other days in Annapolis and Crofton.

82] – David Eberhardt was a member of the Baltimore Four with Father Philip Berrigan, Tom Lewis and Rev. James Mengel.  The group poured blood on draft files on October 27, 1967.  They would be convicted and sentenced to prison.

He has written a book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"- documenting the Baltimore Four action and many others up to and including the most recent Plowshares action – Kings Bay Plowshares 7.  Dave printed new copies of For All the Saints, a Protest Primer- 250+ pp w photos-therefore #'s 351-400 making it o so collectable with two Berrigan book reviews added. The books are signed, and the price remains $25. Will send free if need be- he is not in it for the money! If you want one, send him a check, or contact Dave Eberhardt, 4 Hadley Square North, Baltimore, MD 21218 by email at 1941mireille@gmail.com

83] -- This is A PLEA TO CONVINCE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY TO OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW. The world reached a historic milestone on January 22, 2021: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW] entered into force and become binding international law -- https://www.icanw.org/the_treaty.

Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland has called attention to the growing danger of nuclear war and the outrageous $1.7 trillion dollars we are spending to upgrade the nuclear arsenal. On July 18, 2017, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Navy - affiliated research center received a seven-year, $92 million contract to continue its systems engineering and research-and-development services for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. Help convince JHU to renounce nuclear weapons contracts. Contact the president, Ron Daniels, to urge him to reject all nuclear weapons contracts: Office of the President, 242 Garland Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218.  Call his office at (410) 516-8068 or email president@jhu.edu.

84] – Yousef Zarbalian [yzarbali@gmail.com] started his own medical practice in December before the pandemic hit. It is called East-West Medicine and Rheumatology, and its website is EastWestMD.com.  Yousef is licensed in Maryland and Virginia. He is doing primary care as well as rheumatologic care (focusing on joint problems and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and sjogren's).  He is offering telemedicine visits, and he has very reasonable rates for uninsured individuals.  He makes use of herbs (which can be sent directly to patients from the herbal dispensary) as well as prescribing medications to their local pharmacy if needed.  

85] -- If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs, records, tarps and table cloths, contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.

86] -- A Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil takes place every day in Lafayette Park, 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 24 hours a day, since June 3, 1981. Go to http://prop1.org; call 202-682-4282.

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, and 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.

“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan

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