53] Phone bank for the Tax Scam – June 12
54]
Power
Half-Hour for Gaza – June 12, & 15, 17 & 18
55] Pressure Maersk – June 12
56] Speak Out Socialists – June 12
57] DSA branch meeting – June 12
58]
United
We Dream – June 12
59]
Twenty years of war – June 12
60] National Fight Back call – June 12
61] Hear from an exoneree – June 12
62]
DSA social housing
meeting – June 12
63] Victory Call – June 12
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53] –Phone
bank with Indivisible to Stop the Trump Tax Scam on Thurs., June 12, Wed., June
18, Wed., June 25 and Thurs., June 26 from 11 AM to 12:30 PM0 ET. RSVP at
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/792462/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=_20250604
On Wednesdays and Thursdays in June, join Indivisible for a phone bank where we’ll be calling voters and connecting them directly to their Senator. Together, urge Republicans to oppose the Trump Tax Scam—a reckless GOP tax plan that prioritizes billionaires like Elon Musk while selling out working families. Republicans in Congress are trying to ram this through using budget reconciliation, bypassing bipartisan support to give trillions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. Their plan? Slash Medicaid, SNAP, and early education programs—all so billionaires can hoard more wealth while everyday Americans pay more. You will use Scale to Win, an easy-to-use calling tool, to make sure voters can speak out and be heard.
54] – Jewish Voice for Peace is doing a Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & outrage into action to stop a genocide. A year into the genocide in Gaza, we are overwhelmed with sorrow and rage. There are no words to describe the devastating pain of the past year in which the Israeli military has killed over 44,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 17,000 children. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court have both declared that Israel must stop the genocidal acts being committed on the Palestinian people. And the U.S. government is actively supporting the Israeli military as it wreaks devastation on the over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. JVP continues to come together as a political community in its daily half-hour to take action. Join in and take collective action to demand an arms embargo to Israel, immediate end to the genocide, a lasting ceasefire and an end to Israeli siege, apartheid, occupation, and oppression of Palestinians and Lebanon. All are welcome. All are needed. Get involved at 3 PM ET on Thurs., June 12, Mon., June 16, Tues., June 17 & Wed., June 18. Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration
55] – Between 2019 and 2025, Maersk transported half of all known F-35 wing shipments—including every F-35 delivered to Israel since at least March 2022. The company has also shipped weapons components to Israeli military contractors like Elbit Systems, making it complicit in war crimes. Join the power hour and social media storm on Thurs., June 12 at 3 PM ET to pressure Maersk to stop fueling genocide. https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6917413730309/WN_N_2FQ_wUQa-ihAnHSUEaHw?emci=37102a8e-3946-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=a3e56542-4146-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=6668252#/registration
56] – Speak Out Socialists Baltimore <baltimore@speakoutsocialists.org> informed me that on Thurs., June 12 from 6 to 8 PM ET check out How Can We Change Minds and Build Power? This is a Speak Out Socialists meeting at Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218. See a documentary and join a discussion of a portion of “You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South.”
57] –The Monthly Northern Virginia Branch Meeting will take place on Thurs., June 12 from 6:15 to 7:45 PM at the Culmore Community Library, 6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church, VA 22041. Email novabranch [at] mdcdsa [dot] org. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/nova-branch-general-body-meeting-june-12th?clear_id=true&link_id=11&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-05292025-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events&email_referrer=email_2763085&email_subject=06052025-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events&&
Discuss current campaigns, recent events, organizational questions and updates from allied organizations. New members are always welcome. You must be vaccinated/boosted to join in-person events.
58] – United We Dream [info@unitedwedream.org] on Thurs., June 12 at 6:30 PM ET is inviting you to From LA to Boston: Building Community through Art. You are not alone in caring and fighting for your community. Grieve the absence of our immigrant neighbors and loved ones who have been disappeared from your communities by ICE, millions are ready to fight back alongside you. Over the weekend, as ICE raids erupted across Los Angeles, thousands of working people in communities came together to defend immigrant neighbors, teachers, and classmates who are being torn from their homes and families. Now, with our rights and future at stake, we must come together as one to protect one another. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/unitedwedream/event/801106/?utm_source=email_06.11&link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&email_referrer=email_2771463&email_subject=rsvp-now-from-la-to-boston-building-community-through-art-__&
59] –On Thurs., June 12 at noon, Neta C. Crawford, Internationally known expert on military & climate will discuss Blood and Treasure: United States Budgetary Costs and Human Costs of 20 Years of War in Iraq and Syria, 2003-2023. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-6gqjgoHdEXfUvOLnuHUw8JcWqRPdLp
Crawford is the author of "The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions" (MIT Press, 2022). Crawford is also the author of three other books, "Accountability for Killing: Moral Responsibility for Collateral Damage in America's Post-9/11 Wars" (2013), "Soviet Military Aircraft" (1987) and "Argument and Change in World Politics" (2002), named Best Book in International History and Politics by the American Political Science Association.
60] – Popular Democracy [cpd@populardemocracy.org] on Thurs., June 12 at 7 PM ET will hold a National Fight Back call. Get trained in EMPOWER, a powerful relational organizing tool that can multiply your reach. Learn about which districts and members of Congress we'll be focusing on as we push back on the new administration's right-wing, extremist agenda. Get connected on strategic opportunities to take action at home and in DC. These calls will continue on Thursday through December 18, and the next one will be on June 26. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/cpda/event/550558/?ms=EM+NationalCallFeb132+PD&emci=1adcad8a-8ae9-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=1bdcad8a-8ae9-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=447376
61] – Pennsylvanians against the Death Penalty [askus@witnesstoinnocence.org] on Thurs., June 12 at 7 PM ET are hosting an Evening with Death Row Exoneree Daniel Gwynn and Attorney Jim Moreno. Death Row Exoneree Daniel Gwynn and Attorney Jim Moreno on proving Daniel's innocence. This will be a powerful discussion with Daniel Gwynn, who spent nearly 30 years on Pennsylvania’s death row under the threat of execution for a crime he did not commit, and his attorney, Jim Moreno, to share their story of proving his innocence. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-death-row-exoneree-daniel-gwynn-and-attorney-jim-moreno-registration-1357848303829?can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-an-evening-with-death-row-exoneree-daniel-gwynn-and-attorney-jim-moreno&email_subject=an-evening-with-death-row-exoneree-daniel-gwynn-and-attorney-jim-moreno&email_referrer=email_2771692&link_id=2
62] – On Thurs., June 12 at 7 PM, get over to a Social Housing Organizing Meeting. Host Email social.housing.wg@gmail.com. A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/june-12-2025-social-housing-organizing-meeting?link_id=90&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-may-23-2025&email_referrer=email_2755117&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-may-30-2025&&
63] – Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] on Thurs., June 12 at 9 PM ET will share the Good News on the Campaign to Victory Call. Register and the machine will email you your secure codes: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrcuGgrDItHdeYV7F9QQsruFMypvcMt5Fc?emci=16e075a5-c72a-f011-8b3d-6045bded8cca&emdi=a7413d8f-512b-f011-8b3d-6045bded8cca&ceid=2907617#/registration
Share good news about campaigns and candidates that will turn US politics around for a safer, more peaceful, more prosperous, and more generally-progressive world for all. You'll leave more hopeful, energized and organized.
To be continued.
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/.
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