A Jingoistic Fantasy and the Utter Futility of Biden’s China Rhetoric

Friends,

  How could people vote for someone who voted for the Iraq War? How can we move Biden from being a corporate Democrat to a candidate that recognizes war mongering is what got us into the current disastrous mess. Tax dollars going to weapons contractors is funding that should have been going to heath care supplies. We must continue to blast Biden for his jingoistic policies, and force him to understand the U.S. Empire must end. Kagiso, Max

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A Jingoistic Fantasy and the Utter Futility of Biden’s China Rhetoric

Peter Beinart

April 20, 2020

The Atlantic

  If he wants to attack Donald Trump’s response to COVID-19, Joe Biden has an embarrassment of options. The presumptive Democratic nominee could slam Trump for ignoring his own advisers’ warnings about the potential severity of the virus. Biden could skewer the president for his administration’s inability to develop a coronavirus test. He could blast the Trump administration for failing to adequately stockpile personal protective equipment. He could condemn the large quantities of misinformation that Trump has propagated about the disease.

  For the moment, however, Biden has chosen a different angle: He’s attacking Trump for knuckling under to Beijing. Yesterday, the Biden campaign unveiled an ad—filled with menacing images of Chinese soldiers—claiming that “Trump rolled over for the Chinese.” It follows another spot, paid for by the pro-Biden super PAC American Bridge 21st Century, depicting the incumbent as a stooge for Beijing. “Everyone knew they lied about the virus—China,” a narrator declares, against the backdrop of a fluttering Chinese flag. “President Trump gave China his trust.” On Friday, the Biden adviser Antony Blinken told reporters that “the president praised China and President Xi more than 15 times.”

  The Biden camp’s logic is easy to understand. Trump has made China the primary scapegoat for his failures. His supporters are running ads under the hashtag #BeijingBiden. So Biden and his strategists are meeting fire with fire. They’re answering the charge that the former vice president is soft on China by saying that Trump is.

  This form of ideological jujitsu comes naturally to Democrats of Biden’s generation, who in the 1990s tried to turn the tables on Republicans who had been painting them as antibusiness, anti-military, and pro-criminal during the Nixon and Reagan eras. In 1992, Bill Clinton ran for president promising to cut taxes. In 2000, Al Gore proposed to spend more on the military than George W. Bush. And in 1994, after successfully shepherding Clinton’s crime bill through the Senate, Biden crowed, “The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is now for 60 new death penalties … The liberal wing of the Democratic Party is for 125,000 new state prison cells … I’d like to see the conservative wing of the Democratic Party.”

  In the 1990s, beating the GOP at its own game was at times politically shrewd. Clinton’s ghoulish enthusiasm for the death penalty—which in 1992 led him to leave the campaign trail to oversee the execution of the mentally disabled murderer Ricky Ray Rector—probably helped inoculate him from the soft-on-crime attacks that had helped sink Michael Dukakis in 1988. Still, Biden’s decision to try to out-hawk Trump on China has three major problems. First, it promotes bad foreign policy. Second, it could stoke anti-Chinese racism. Third, it doesn’t even make long-term sense politically. 

  Republicans, who promoted economic integration with China in the past, are now committing themselves to a cold war with China. If Democrats think that’s a political environment in which they’ll thrive, they’re making a big mistake.

First, the policy. The implication of Biden’s new ad is that China didn’t give Trump timely information about the COVID-19 outbreak, because Trump wasn’t tough enough on China’s leaders. 

The commercial mocks Trump’s praise for Xi Jinping and is filled with supposedly damning images of Trump and Xi together. By contrast, it shows Biden vowing, “I would be on the phone with China making it clear: We are going to need to be in your country. You have to be open. You have to be clear. We have to know what’s going on.” In other words, Biden would boss the Chinese around.

This is a jingoistic fantasy. China is a rival superpower run by an authoritarian and fiercely nationalistic regime. Biden can’t force it to comply. When Beijing has given the United States valuable information about virus outbreaks in the past, it’s because American presidents spent time and money building joint U.S.-Chinese initiatives and took pains to make China’s leaders feel like equals. In 2009, Biden’s then-boss, Barack Obama, stood on a stage with the Chinese leader Hu Jintao in Beijing—in the kind of scene Biden mocks in his ad—and said the two governments should “build upon our mutual interests and engage on the basis of equality and mutual respect.” The two leaders announced that they would “deepen cooperation on global public health issues, including Influenza A (H1N1) prevention, surveillance, reporting and control.” As the Rand Corporation’s Jennifer Huang Bouey has noted, this cooperation hastened the development of an H1N1 vaccine. In suggesting that Biden could bludgeon China into submission—in a phone call, no less—the Biden campaign is peddling a lie about how public-health cooperation with China actually works.

The second problem with Biden’s attempt at ideological jujitsu is that, as with the crime bill, vulnerable people may get hurt. Democratic presidential candidates have bashed China before. But this isn’t an ordinary moment. The coronavirus—and Trump’s racist rhetoric about it—have sparked a horrifying rise in attacks on Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans. To his credit, Biden has condemned Trump’s “xenophobia and fear-mongering.” Without meaning to, however, his new ads may exacerbate it.

  A presidential candidate can, of course, attack the Chinese government without attacking Chinese Americans. But doing so requires some rhetorical finesse—something the Biden ad lacks. The ad doesn’t say that Trump “rolled over” for “Xi Jinping” or the “Chinese government” or even “China.” It says he rolled over for “the Chinese.” As a result, Kaiser Kuo, editor at large of the website SupChina, told me, the ad may contribute to a political “race to the bottom,” in which “Asian Americans will suffer even more terribly from racism.”

   Were the Biden camp’s anti-China ads a surefire winner with voters, Machiavellians might justify them as a necessary evil. But for Democrats, posturing as more anti-China than the GOP is a poor long-term bet.

  For Republicans—such as Trump, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, and Josh Hawley—stoking antagonism toward China makes ideological sense. The GOP is the party of military spending, national sovereignty, and white anxiety. For decades, Republicans have been looking for a new Ronald Reagan to lead them to victory over a new evil empire. They’ve tried Iraq, Iran, and North Korea. But China is the most credible candidate yet: a nonwhite, non-Christian, nominally Communist power that really can challenge America’s dominance in the world.

  Democrats are by nature the party that advocates spending on health care and education rather than on military confrontation. Democrats are the people who now say, in some polls, that climate change is their second-highest priority. You can’t view the climate threat as existential and simultaneously embrace a cold war that keeps the world’s two largest emitters of carbon dioxide from cooperating. Hawks won’t find the Democrats’ anti-China posturing credible. Even if a few Never Trumpers abandon the GOP in 2020, they’ll eventually come home to Cotton’s or Rubio’s or Nikki Haley’s more respectable militarism. And in trying to out-jingo the GOP, Democrats will alienate their Millennial activist base.

   By 2005, after two decades of Democrats like Biden and Clinton seeking to beat the GOP at its own game, the historian Rick Perlstein wrote a short book entitled The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo. Perlstein argued that for a political party, as for a corporation (“Superjumbo” is a reference to 

   Boeing’s competition with Airbus), short-term gyrations in response to the vagaries of the market (the “stock ticker”) can have devastating long-term effects if they undermine its core identity. Clinton—who passed free-trade deals, deregulated the financial markets, cut welfare benefits, signed legislation against gay marriage, and helped fill America’s jails—won two presidential elections. But toward the end of his tenure, Democrats controlled fewer Senate seats and fewer state legislatures than they had in 50 years, and fewer governorships than they had in 30 years. Clinton had won; the Democratic Party had lost.

   By attacking Trump for being insufficiently nationalist rather than being insufficiently internationalist, Biden is hastening a geopolitical confrontation that threatens progressive goals. And he’s sowing doubts about what the Democratic Party actually believes. He’s choosing short-term advantage over long-term principle.

  This is what supporters of Bernie Sanders were worried about, and Biden is proving them right.

PETER BEINART is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and a professor of journalism and political science at the City University of New York.

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Dr. Donald S. Gann, professor of surgery at Hopkins and Maryland, dies

https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-donald-gann-20200426-vdanhi6u5zgztad2pdviqivr5u-story.html

Dr. Donald S. Gann, professor of surgery at Hopkins and Maryland, dies

By FREDERICK N. RASMUSSEN

BALTIMORE SUN |

APR 26, 2020 | 5:07 PM

Dr. Donald Gann was a longtime member of the Stony Run Friends Meeting.(Nanine Hartzenbusch / XX)

Dr. Donald S. Gann, a trauma surgeon and a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and at the University of Maryland, died Feb. 3 of undetermined causes at his Brooklandville home. He was 87.

Donald Stuart Gann, son of Dr. Mark Gann, chief of surgery at Sinai Hospital, and his wife, Beatrice Gann, an educator, was born in Baltimore and raised on Eutaw Place and later in Catonsville.

He attended Polytechnic Institute through the 11th grade, when he left high school early to attend Dartmouth College at the age of 16.

“He never received a high school diploma,” said his daughter, Susan Hibbs of Brooklandville.

Dr. Gann was a 1952 magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with a double major in physics and philosophy. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

He earned his medical degree in 1956 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. From 1956 to 1957, he completed a residency in surgery at Hopkins and an assistant residency in surgery at Union Memorial Hospital.

“His contribution to medicine was multi-faceted; he was a surgeon, an innovator, an educator, a mentor, a research scientist and the author of hundreds of published articles, chapters and books,” according to a biographical profile submitted by his family.

“The surgery decision happened to me in medical school,” Dr. Gann explained in an interview with the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. “I initially intended to be some variety of scientist. I was sort of groping around. I had a bit of a head start working with some pretty distinguished physiologists but didn’t have any sense of what I was going to do. I also found that I was dexterous enough to do some unusually complicated things.”

In 1967, when Dr. Gann was 36, he became the first chair of the newly established department of biomedical engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He was an assistant resident in surgery at University Hospitals from 1960 to 1962 and chief resident in surgery from 1962 to 1963.

In 1970, he returned to Hopkins as a professor of biomedical engineering and associate professor of surgery, and four years later was appointed professor of emergency medicine and director of the division of emergency medicine, a newly created department.

When he came to Hopkins, he told The Evening Sun that his long-range interest was “the application of science to the care of people.”

Dr. Gann left Hopkins in 1979 and went to Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, to establish and chair the department of surgery at the university. He also had a second role as surgeon in chief at the Rhode Island Hospital, also in Providence.

After returning to Baltimore in 1988, he practiced surgery and held four high-level assignments at the University of Maryland Medical Center, where he headed the division surgical critical care from 1992 to 2000. He was also chief of the trauma surgery and critical care sections, and chief of the section of endocrine surgery.

He retired from UMMS in 2010.

Dr. Gann’s professional associations included serving as president from 1987 to 1988 of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. He was also a member of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, Halsted Society, Southern Surgical Association, Endocrine Society and the Biomedical Engineering Society, of which he was president from 1971 to 1972.

Dr. Gann and Dan Darlington, a physiologist, established Shock Therapeutics Biotechnologies Inc., whose mission is to create and develop patented treatment for hemorrhagic shock and currently is raising funds to develop a patented antibody that will allow patients to live from one to four hours until appropriate lifesaving procedures can be performed.

“I’ve known Dr. Gann all of my academic life. I shared a post-doc fellowship with him and he gave me a faculty position in surgery at Hopkins which I had for 18 years,” said Dr. Darlington, who holds a Ph.D. “He was very smart and very kind but very demanding. His thoughts were don’t shoot for the moon but shoot for the stars and then you can see how you can soar.”

He said that Dr. Gann eschewed all titles.

“He’d tell academics everyone was equal. He treated you like a peer, and he expected you to act like one. And because everyone was equal, there was no fear or retribution," he said. “And he realized he didn’t know everything and he’d say,

‘Tell me what you know so we can move this along faster.’ He wanted to learn as much as he possibly could.”

Dr. Darlington, who lives in San Antonio, described Dr. Gann as a “genius and was simply something else.”

Dr. Gann became a Quaker at a young age and was a longtime member of the Stony Run Friends Meeting. “His life was deeply informed by his spiritual practice and the values of Quakerism,” according to the family profile.

He served twice as clerk of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization founded in 1917 to promote peace and social justice locally, nationally and internationally. In his capacity as AFSC clerk, he worked with multiple Nobel laureates to restrict the global trade in small arms.

In a 1997 Baltimore Sun interview he mocked the slogan, "Guns don’t kill people, people do."

“I do think guns kill people. And sometimes, the people pulling the trigger are people who don’t even know what they’re doing — like little kids. And sometimes the victims are people who are not intended to be shot — like little kids,” he said.

In 1960, Dr. Gann married the former Gail Burgan, a nurse practitioner at the University of Maryland.

“I couldn’t have done it without the kind of support I’ve had, not to mention somebody who is willing to live anywhere, almost,” he explained in the American Association for the Surgery Trauma interview. “I learned early on that I’ve married somebody that’s smarter than I am, and I like it that way; but she feels the other way about it, and that makes it nice, too.”

Because of the coronavirus pandemic, plans for a memorial service to be held this summer are incomplete.

In addition to his wife of 60 years and daughter, Dr. Gann is survived by three sons, Donald S. Gann Jr. of Reisterstown, Robert Gann and Richard Gann, both of Providence; and three grandchildren.

Frederick N. Rasmussen

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I am one of The Sun's obituary reporters and have been writing them since the early 1990s. I attended Emerson College in Boston and wrote for Boston Magazine. I also was the author for nearly 20 years of The Sun's Back Story column.

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Baltimore Activist Alert – April 26 – 28, 2020

Baltimore Activist Alert – April 26 – 28, 2020

"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 Max Obuszewski, BNC, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Max Obuszewski can be reached at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net.

1] Books, buttons and stickers

2] Web site for info on federal legislation

3] Get involved with NCNR   

4]”The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks”

5] Bill Marker is running for the seat in District 10 for Baltimore City Council.  

6] Baltimore Ethical Society closed April 26

7] Bmore Humane Race Ready Virtual 5K -- April 26

8] Laudato Si' Online Faith Sharing Group -- April 26

9] Pentagon Peace Vigil – April 27

10] Fairfax Car Caravan to Free Them All – April 27

11] Challenges to Democratic Governance -- April 27

12] Updated Food Collection Needs – April 27

13] Sew Face Masks – April 26 - 30

14] "Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony" – April 27

15] Celebrate the front line workers – April 27

16] Baltimore Teachers Union Mayoral Candidate Interviews -- April 27 - 28

17] Food Truck Mondays – April 27

18] From Emmett Till to Freddie Gray– April 27

19] Get Money Out – Maryland call – April 27

20] Tell JHU President Ron Daniels to renounce weapons contracts – April 28

21] Southern Workers Fight Back and Organize – April 28

22] MomsRising -- April 28

23] Teaching Palestine – April 28

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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 U.S. wars.

To join the ORGANIZING List, please send your name, group affiliation, city and email address to mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.  Different local chapters of a national organization are encouraged to subscribe.  

4] – Courtesy of the National Park Service and Google Arts & Culture, you can do a Virtual Tour of Five National Parks Online. ”The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks” is a satisfying escape. Whether you spend five minutes on the site or an hour, it’s an important reminder that the world is still beautiful and wonderful and weird, even in uncertain times.  Learn more about how you can take a digital adventure into your national parks: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/stuck-home-visit-these-5-national-parks-online?utm_source=insider&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter.

5] – Bill Marker is running for the seat in District 10 for Baltimore City Council. He is deeply committed to the community and promises great constituent service, better city government, community building and bold ideas.   You can speak to him at 443-827-6669 or email him at wmmarker@gmail.com.

6] - Usually, the Baltimore Ethical Society, 2521 St. Paul St., Baltimore 21218, meets on Sundays, and generally there is a speaker and discussion at 10:30 AM.  However, there will not be a meeting on Sun., April 19.  Call 410-581-2322 or email ask@bmorethical.org. 

7] – On Sun., April 26 from 9 to 10:30 AM, get over to the Bmore Humane Race Ready Virtual 5K & Fun Run, hosted by the Baltimore Humane Society. Tickets are at e.givesmart.com.  There is a 50/50 Raffle, where $20 could net you $5000.  All proceeds benefit the animals, programs and services of the Baltimore Humane Society! Register and get more info at www.BmoreGoRun.GiveSmart.com! Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/513343986020431/.

8] – On Sun., April 26 from 3 to 4 PM, this is the start of a New Sunday Series - Laudato Si' Online Faith Sharing Group, hosted by Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, 1725 Rhode Island Ave. NW, WDC 20036.  Pope Francis has invited Catholic communities around the world to celebrate Laudato Si’ Week, May 16 to May 24. He invites us to take an honest look at our progress in the five years since Laudato Si’ was released and to consider the next steps in our “ecological conversion.” In response to Pope Francis’ invitation, the co-chairs of the Creation Care Team, Phil Downey and Simone Seym, will host the Laudato Si’ Online Study Series, a seven-week web-based series on Sundays from 3 to 4 PM with no session on Easter Sunday.  RSVP at stmattcreationcareteam@gmail.com. Join through Zoom: https://www.stmatthewscathedral.org/news/2020/04/new-series-laudato-si-connect-zoom. Check out https://www.facebook.com/events/645695239332337/?event_time_id=645695252665669.

9] – 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 April 27, 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.  

10] – On Mon., April 27 from 10:30 AM to 1 PM, join the Fairfax Car Caravan to Free Them All, hosted by Sanctuary DMV. Demand that jails, prisons and detention centers #FreeThemAll!  Drive together and take action at three locations in Fairfax, VA to echo the demands from around the country that people who are incarcerated be released. Even before the pandemic, imprisonment was inhumane and a death sentence for many members of our communities. As the corona virus ravages our country and exposes its divisions and injustices, it is even more unconscionable.  To join, fill out the form at https://bit.ly/car-caravan-VA, and you will be sent more information including the starting location. If you can't join in person in your car, you can still join on zoom as the action will be broadcast.  This protest will comply with CDC recommendations for social distancing. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/225454965454250/.

11] – On Mon., April 27 from 11 AM to 2 PM, hear about Covid19: Challenges to Democratic Governance, hosted by Organization of American States (OAS).  Open consultation with civil society on possible Organization of American States (OAS) areas of action on issues of democratic governance in the context of the #COVID19 and promotion of the principles of open government (transparency, accountability, collaboration, and participation) in any initiative carried out by governments. Visit https://www.facebook.com/events/598634824072649/.

12] - On Mon., April 27 from noon to 2 PM, note the Updated Food Collection Needs  by Assistance Center of Towson Churches and Ascension Lutheran Church.  This will continue through Mon. May 4 at 7601 York Road, Towson 21204.  The ACTC remains open to provide assistance for food insecure people in our community. During the upcoming weeks, the need for food will increase while supplies will diminish. With churches closed, it's difficult to collect food right now.  Bring food each Monday to the parking lot across the street from Ascension Lutheran Church in Towson. Simply place your food in the truck waiting for this purpose.  Those who are uncomfortable going out and picking up groceries, but want to help, can make financial contributions to ACTC directly online: http://www.actconline.info/.  Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/226765075311832/?event_time_id=226765078645165.

13] – Sew Face Masks for UMMS hosted by Pets on Wheels, P.O. Box 44176, Baltimore 21236, on Sun., April 26 through April 30 from 1 to 4 PM. As many of you know, the hospital systems in the United States have been and will continue to be challenged to meet the needs of patients who may be COVID-19 positive. In light of this, in the coming weeks many hospitals will need additional personal protective equipment (PPE), including face masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued guidance approving the use of cloth masks, and anyone who has sewing experience should consider making cloth face masks to be delivered to the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) for distribution.  There is a PDF for making folded masks at https://files.constantcontact.com/c9e08a1b201/13dbf7af-4ee5-4470-be1f-451542bf468e.pdf, and there are links below with detailed instructions, including a video, for making fitted and folded masks.

For example, there is DIY Cloth Face Mask (fitted mask): https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Cloth-Face-Mask/; and Folded Mask: https://sweetredpoppy.com/how-to-sew-a-surgical-face-mask/.  Both of the websites listed above follow CDC guidelines and have links to the CDC website. Unlike the N95 masks, these are not designed to prevent COVID-19 entirely; however, they will prevent some transmission, and the CDC has approved them for use. Once you have made the masks, please send them via mail to Susan Dorsey, 5401 Hamlet Avenue, Baltimore 21214.  If you have any questions about connecting with Susan, please email her (sdorsey@umaryland.edu). Susan will deliver the face masks to UMSON weekly, and UMMC will arrange to send someone to UMSON to pick them up.

If you have questions, or need additional guidance for making the masks, please feel free to reach out to Deb Greenspan, who is coordinating this effort with Susan. Her email address is dbg003@hotmail.com.  Go to

https://www.facebook.com/events/661361757959670/?event_time_id=661361797959666. 

14] – Check out "Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Ceremony" on Mon., April 27 at 1:30 PM.  Tune in at https://afcfp.org/get-involved/memorial/?emci=8fca9c91-bb68-ea11-a94c-00155d03b5dd&emdi=bcaaa14f-a96e-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=8142762.

15] –  On Mon., April 27 at 2 PM, Essential, Not Expendable is hosted by Shut Down DC-Climate Strike Washington, DC and Black Lives Matter DC. Look at www.shutdowndc.org. Climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic are both global crises, but here in Washington, DC the effects are very local. And while both of these crises impact everyone, they do not impact everyone equally. The moving protest with cars and bicycles will celebrate the front line workers who are keeping us safe during the pandemic and confront the politicians and corporate executives that are putting our communities at risk. Fill out the form at edtmd.org/BLM and you will be sent the meet-up location the morning of April 27th.  See https://www.facebook.com/events/1167448020253534/.

16] – Starting on Mon., April 27 from 4 to 5:30 PM, the Baltimore Teachers Union will start doing Mayoral Candidate Interviews Live on Facebook. The first interview is with Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young; and on Tues., April 28 with TJ Smith. If you cannot make one of these times don't worry, you will be able to watch the recorded interviews at your convenience. If you'd like to submit a question in advance for a candidate, email Corey Gaber at cgaber@baltu.org. See https://www.facebook.com/events/2817694108553466/.

17] – On Mondays from April 27 through June 22 from 5 to 8 PM, get with Food Truck Mondays at Mt. Zion, 1643 E. Churchville Road, Bel Air 21015. Each week will feature a few different local food trucks. Proceeds will benefit Children of Zion Village in Namibia. Weekly food truck lineups coming soon! Each event will be held rain or shine... indoor seating will be available in inclement weather. Skip cooking and come have dinner to support a great cause. Look at https://www.facebook.com/events/518593122133594/?event_time_id=518593132133593.

18] – From Emmett Till to Freddie Gray: The Impact of Murders and Lynchings on Radicalizing African American Youth is happening on Mon., April 27 at 6:30 PM EDT. To hear an inter-generational conversation about a multi-generational issue, register at https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jXCGDNuNRzO-WHK8fE7NFQ.  This will include a cultural performance, which includes a spoken word artist and Baltimore Stand Strong video and song!  It is better TO PREREGISTER. 

19] – Join the Get Money Out of Maryland Teleconference on Mon., April 27 from 8:30 to 9:30 PM.  There are two ways to join the conference: Dial 1 929 205 6099, and then use meeting ID: 512 862 260. Or Click on your device if you have downloaded the app from Zoom. The focus will be on organizational sign-ups, public relations, and logistics for lobbying in Annapolis.

20] – The Vigil to say "No Drone Research at JHU" at 33rd and N. Charles Sts. on Tuesdays from 5 to 6 PM is postponed until further notice. Contact Max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607.  You may consider contacting President Ron Daniels and telling him that the university should reject all military contracts, including those for killer drone and nuclear weapons research.  The president’s mailing address is Office of the President, 242 Garland Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218.  You can also reach his office by Phone: (410) 516-8068, Fax: (410) 516-6097 or email: president@jhu.edu.

21] – At 6 PM EDT, On Tues., April 28 at 6 PM ET, tune in to COVID-19: Southern Workers Fight Back and Organize, a webinar organized by the Southern Workers Assembly to launch a campaign to protect U.S. Southern workers. The group hopes to launch a South-wide campaign that unites workers on the following PRINCIPLES: 1) Right to a safe workplace, 2) Building workplace organization and 3) Healthcare is a human right. Go to https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-V719ZhhSPOVviEHzXujKg?fbclid=IwAR3DsVfMavs_Kh3Lbz0efc_uHKUfWUHkniVG2uYE8KTLPht3e-JrRh-UaDc.

22]--On Tues., April 28 at 8 PM ET, join MomsRising for the next #KeepMarching online Zoom meeting. We are in a crisis on multiple fronts right now, and one such crisis at a breaking point with COVID-19 is our mass incarceration rate — the highest in the world — and crowded detention facilities in which we have totally inadequate health protections. There are 2.3 million people behind bars. On any given day, more than 400,000 people are held pretrial in jails mostly because they don’t have enough money to be home with their families. Moreover, 38,000 people are currently being held in ICE detention centers. Look at incarcerated communities, how our systems are broken, how so many people are detained unjustly, the impact of COVID-19 on these populations, and what should be done. RSVP to join the discussion -- https://action.momsrising.org/go/66167?t=7&akid=13790%2E2545036%2EaIiqzZ.

23] – The Jewish Voice for Peace April Spotlight Webinar is “Teaching Palestine” with Professors Loubna Qutami, Justin Leroy, and Keith Feldman on Tues., April 28 at 8 PM ET. The academics in JVP are at the front lines of challenging dominant narratives around Zionism, Palestine, colonialism, and more. There is a reason Zionist institutions have zeroed in on college campuses as priority fights - the power of the classroom is massive, and the challenges graduate students and faculty face when trying to teach Palestine are growing and changing every day. From fighting institutional and government attacks on academic freedom, to enduring and pushing back against bullying and blacklists, to producing essential knowledge for students and the public, JVP’s academics are in the fight year-round. Email info@jewishvoiceforpeace.org. Register at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KF2Dpqz2wDqnWcg0_JHmWyYk2uVrbWk2/view?emci=efee9c81-6270-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&emdi=9ccf2229-dc74-ea11-a94c-00155d03b1e8&ceid=237778.

To be continued.

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.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