Baltimore Activist Alert -- October 28 - 29, 2020

55] Nagorno-Karabakh: Potential Consequences of a Small War – Oct. 28

56] Indivisible Rural Call – Oct. 28

57] Election Protection volunteer – Oct. 29 – Nov. 3

58] Help reach voters in Georgia. – Oct. 29

59] Blocking the Vote: Voter Suppression – Oct. 29

60] Stephen Miller Hate Monger – Oct. 29

61] Victory Fest 2020 – Oct. 29

62] Global implications of the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO – Oct. 29

63] CCAN Action Fund -- Oct. 29

64] Vote Trump Out – Oct. 29

65] Bearing Witness Voter & Volunteer Training -- Oct. 29

66] People's Hearing on MD police reform – Oct. 29

67] Practice de-escalation – Oct. 29

68] Our Revolution D.C. Phonebank – Oct. 29

69] Climate crisis and militarism – Oct. 29

70] Join the SQUAD – Oct. 29

71] Frontline Election Defenders Training – Oct. 29

72] Gun Safety Laws – Oct. 29

73] How should revolutionaries prepare for the outcome of this election? – Oct. 29

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55] – Check out Nagorno-Karabakh: Potential Consequences of a Small War on Wed., Oct. 28 from 7:30 to 8:30 PM with David Phillips and Aram Arkun.  On September 27 Azerbaijan with the help of Turkey invaded Karabakh, and there has been heavy fighting since. There is a real fear that this war could lead to a wider war with larger powers becoming involved and the possibility of ethnic cleansing. Sign up at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMldOCuqDIsG9ULGlE0ucowvESA70U851mK?emci=f14b615c-7818-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&emdi=85ff2ede-7d18-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&ceid=269591.  The webinar with cover both history and present situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.  Phillips is from the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University and Arkun is a specialist in modern Armenian history.   The event is sponsored by the Middle East Working Group of Massachusetts Nonpartisan Election Protection volunteers are voters’ first line of defense against restrictive election laws, coronavirus-related voting disruptions, or anything else that could silence their voices.  

56] – Indivisible Rural Call on October 28 at 8 pm ET. On Wed., Oct. 28 at 8 PM ET, join Indivisible's National Political Director Mari Urbina for a final election pep talk and Nora Sharp, who will discuss the Protect the Results work through a rural lens. For those that want to stay on the call, there will be phone banking into North Carolina and Arizona! Go to https://indivisible.zoom.us/meeting/register/uJMkdemrqDordbKAxHxN-HPFyE6sfH8Hzg?utm_source=email&utm_medium=actionitems_20201026.

57] – Sign up to be an Election Protection volunteer today and read on for more specific needs and roles: https://protectthevote.net/?source=di&link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&email_referrer=email_977612&email_subject=can-you-help-protect-the-vote. Volunteers are especially needed in the following locations such as Baltimore, Norfolk, VA and Milwaukee, WI.

58] – The Southern Poverty Law Center needs your help to make sure all people who want to vote do so. Help reach voters in Georgia. Beginning on Thurs., Oct. 29 from noon to 8 PM, join the Virtual Phone Bank platform to volunteer every day through Election Day. Using your own phone in your own home, you can help Georgians turn out to the polls in record numbers. The Virtual Phone Bank will provide you with a complete script, the names and phone numbers of voters, and easy-to-follow instructions to record the results of your conversation. Sign up here https://action.splcenter.org/a/october-29th-splc-power-hour-virtual-phone-bank.

59] – On Thurs., Oct. 29 from noon to 1 PM EDT, attend Blocking the Vote: Voter Suppression, Then and Now at the Maryland Center for History and Culture. In the year 2020, 55 years after the Voting Rights Act, voter suppression efforts range from the seemingly unobstructive like voter ID laws and cuts to early voting, to mass purges of voter rolls and systemic disenfranchisement. But how did we get here? Registerat https://us02web.zoom.us/.../731.../WN_2c0sQcfLSaKSOop4VmUFgQ.

60] –  On Thurs., Oct. 29 at 1 PM ET, hear Michael Edison Hayden, an investigative reporter for the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, and Jean Guerrero, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of Hatemonger: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump and the White Nationalist Agenda, will host a webinar on work as one of the most influential White House advisers. Guerrero’s book provides previously unseen insight into Miller’s path to radicalization and the devastating impacts of his anti-immigration work. Register at https://splcenter-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pU0HFXapSgyOCJLvn6KbKg.

61] –Thousands of young people across the country are organizing to make sure this election has the biggest turnout this country has ever seen. On Thurs., Oct. 29 at 1:30 PM, join for the launch of Victory Fest 2020, a 6-day online event that will give everyone in the movement a chance to help get out the vote. Register at https://www.sunrisemovement.org/victoryfest/?utm_source=email&emci=5db967b5-9f18-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&emdi=c2d28195-a218-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&ceid=177631.  Each day of Victory Fest, there will be events to reach young voters in swing states and fight to elect Green New Deal champions to Congress. In between phone and text banking shifts, you can enjoy fun breaks to connect with other leaders in the movement, hear inspiring stories, and enjoy live musical acts!

62] – On Thurs., Oct. 29 at 2 PM EDT, Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) will host a discussion on the global implications of the U.S. withdrawal from the WHO, including the added strain on global health systems and capacities, impacts on future vaccine development, limited access to vaccine supplies in the United States, threats to diplomacy, and the decimation of vital U.S. public health institutions. The conversation will be moderated by Roopa Dhatt, MD, MPA, co-founder of Women in Global Health, a nonprofit working to achieve gender equality in health leadership at the global, national, and local levels. There are two panelists. Georges C. Benjamin, MD is executive director of the American Public Health Association. Lawrence Gostin, JD is a university professor, director, and founding chair of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law School.

You can submit questions for consideration to webinar@phr.org. RSVP at https://phr.org/issues/covid-19-pandemic/events-and-webinars/. Please note, pre-registration for this panel is required.

63] – The CCAN Action Fund is holding phone banking shifts on Thurs., Oct. 29 from 4 to 6 PM ET and on Thurs., Oct. 29 from 6 to 8 PM. Sign up at https://act.ccanactionfund.org/page/23231/data/1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=utm_ftv&utm_content=FTV-phonebankreminder-1020-c4+B&ea.url.id=632835.

64] – The deadline is 2030. If we want even a chance of avoiding catastrophic runaway climate chaos, then that is the year by which we need to cut global emissions by half. Four more years of Trump will mean we have next to no chance of meeting that deadline, at which point the future of organized human society would be in severe peril. The #VoteTrumpOut campaign is contacting thousands of swing voters on Facebook every day, and your help is needed.  Volunteer Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with the Digital Canvass team, and help flip a crucial swing state! Everyone who can should be giving time to help save our planet from this aspiring tyrant. Sign up here to get started: https://www.mobilize.us/unitedagainsttrump/event/329042/.  Take a slot on Thurs., Oct. 29 from 4 to 5 PM ET or 7 to 8 PM ET.

65] – There is still an urgent need for volunteers to help all voters safely cast their ballots and have them counted. Your help in recruiting and mobilizing volunteers—or serving as a volunteer yourself—will make a huge difference and bring turnout to historic levels.  Check out Bearing Witness Voter & Volunteer Training on Thurs., Oct. 29 at 6 PM EST, sponsored by The League of Women Voters of the United States. Sign up for the training at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ll6kK7IFSvmAb3Cb-G0U3g?link_id=0&can_id=68535cd012c6455620389d22fb7054b6&source=email-today-10am-important-briefing-for-the-urgent-democracy-fight-ahead&email_referrer=email_976229&email_subject=urgent-volunteers-needed-for-election-protection-and-1029-training-to-combat-voter-intimidation&link_id=1&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&email_referrer=email_977612&email_subject=can-you-help-protect-the-vote.

66] –Jews United for Justice is hosting on Thurs., Oct. 29 from 6 to 8:30 PM the People's Hearing on MD police reform. See https://jufj.org/event/police-md/?emci=0ada6f18-6a18-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&emdi=1111d380-9918-eb11-96f5-00155d03bda0&ceid=3403859. RSVP at bit.ly/mdpeopleshearing.

67] – On Thurs., Oct. 29 from 6 to 7:15 PM ET, practice de-escalation well. Come to this Faithful America call to get what you need to practice on and how to keep things cool and calm at the polls when people are trying to be antagonizing. Learn how to keep your faith at the center of your response to chaos and how to help center those around you. https://www.faithinpubliclife.org/issues/democracy/count-every-vote/#cevevents?source=FaithfulAmerica. All trainings are co-hosted by Count Every Vote, Bend the Arc, and Faith in Public Life.

68] – Our Revolution is hosting a D.C. Phonebank for Ed Lazere and for Get Out the Vote on Thurs., Oct. 29 from 6 to 8 PM. Upon signing up, you will receive an email with all pertinent information.  Get involved with this virtual event at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/270118/?followup_modal_context=newsletter. 

69] – The climate crisis is a threat multiplier; whether we’re talking about racial justice, migrant rights, or war, the stakes become unparalleled when also set against the backdrop of an intensifying climate crisis. Join in a conversation, which will focus on the bloated military budget, the US war machine, and how it impedes us from working towards climate justice. This takes place on Thurs., Oct. 29 at 7 PM ET.  RSVP at https://buff.ly/34CpIlB.

70] – United We Dream Action is moving faster than ever to make sure that Trump and his evil amigos GET OUT. Join the SQUAD and special guest Anna Eskamani on a call on Thurs., Oct. 29 at 7 PM ET.  Rep. Eskamani is a daughter of immigrants.  SIGN UP here https://actionnetwork.org/events/welcome-to-the-squad-14/?source=invitemail&link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&email_referrer=email_976181&email_subject=were-7-days-away-from-election-day-join-our-hts-squad.

71] – On Thurs., Oct. 29 from 7:30 to 9 PM ET, attend a Frontline Election Defenders Training. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/thefrontline/event/321224/.  The Frontline's Election Defenders, from the Working Families Organization and the Movement for Black Lives' Electoral Justice Project, is working to provide safe supports for voting (such as PPE and water), provide election and voter defense, de-escalate white supremacist intimidation tactics, and signal to a network of groups and lawyers if and where trouble breaks out.

72] – Amy Coney Barrett's Confirmation Could Be a Huge Setback for Gun Safety Laws. Join Senator Chris Murphy, Parkland school shooting survivor and March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg, PCCC members, and the Biden for President Campaign in calling swing-state voters about the need for bold action on gun safety -- just as this is being discussed in the SCOTUS hearings. Can you join the Progressive Change Campaign Committee PAC on Thursdays Oct. 29 at 7 PM ET to get involved with a phone action? Get involved by Zoom to call voters, remind them of the stakes in this election, and urge them to vote early -- in person if they can. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/joebiden/event/293778/?utm_source=pccc.

73] –   How should revolutionaries prepare for the outcome of this election? No matter who’s elected, what can really end the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of white supremacist and police terror, and the growing hunger and desperation of the working class? How can we use this crisis to build our movements in the streets, in our communities, and in workplaces to win what we need? How can we defend people's democratic rights while deepening the struggle for systematic, revolutionary change? Join Workers World Party and friends in a discussion about providing answers to these questions.  This is happening on Thurs., Oct. 29 at 8 PM ET, and you can register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xDOKEVrETP2zMF04PM0lWQ.

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