Baltimore Activist Alert -- August 26 - 29, 2021

47] What’s happening in Canada – Aug. 25?

48] Coffee and a column – Aug. 25

49] Climate Action – Aug. 26

50] Mass Moral Motorcade on Joe Manchin – Aug. 26

51] Support the ERA -- Aug. 26

52] For the People Act! – Aug. 26 - 29

53] Mobile Bike Shop at Lake Montebello – Aug. 26

54] Support Pedro Castillo – Aug. 26

55] Conflict and Cooperation in U.S.-China Relations – Aug. 26

56] Meet Mckayla Wilkes – Aug. 26

57] Medicare for All strategy call -- Aug. 26

58] For the People Act – Aug. 26

59] Support Chesa Boudin – Aug. 26

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47] – Metta Spencer [metta.spencer@utoronto.ca] wants your attention on Wed., Aug. 25 at 12:30 PM ET to hear Mike Simpson discuss Canadians in a Climate Emergency. You can listen to the shows live and type in questions to ask the guest, or you can watch the edited version later on the YouTube channel. One of them is playing at every hour of every day for anyone in the world to watch. Tune in at https://youtube.com/c/ToSaveTheWorld.  On Thurs., Aug. 26 at 12:30 PM ET hear Shazzka Beyerle on Corruption; and on Fri., Aug. 27 at 12:30 PM ET catch Ronald St. John about Canada’s lost leadership in epidemiology.  The website is at https://tosavetheworld.ca.

48] – James J Zogby [jzogby@aaiusa.org] wants you to join him on Wed., Aug. 25 at 2 PM for Coffee and a Column to discuss his take on President Biden’s handling of Afghanistan and its impact on politics at home and diplomatic relations abroad.  You can read the column here https://jameszogby.com/washingtonwatch2021s/the-impact-of-afghanistan?emci=2f4e847d-f504-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=1c6d85aa-0305-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=389907.  Please register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkfuGprDkvH9BDTkFRLGZAfBLYpxs-D1QK?emci=2f4e847d-f504-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=1c6d85aa-0305-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=389907 to receive the dial-in information for the Zoom call. After you register, you will automatically get the dial-in information for the call.

49] –On Thurs., Aug. 26 at 11 AM, get involved with a Climate Action with young people from Sunrise MOCO who will block traffic around the MOCO County government buildings in Rockville to save the planet and solve the interrelated crises in MOCO of racism, housing, health, food—the mess we are leaving them.  Go to  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeoVNzasNHK44c_oFfipji_5-cvZvFKtEm22RKSKnyDoGiduw/viewform?link_id=5&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-md-ppc-weekly-update-21&email_referrer=email_1261813&email_subject=md-ppc-weekly-update.

50] – The Maryland Poor People's Campaign [maryland@poorpeoplescampaign.org] is asking if you will stand on Thurs., Aug. 26 at noon ET with the PPC leaders who organized a Mass Moral Motorcade on Joe Manchin in West Virginia. Push Sen. Manchin to have the moral courage to do what's right: To end the coward’s filibuster, pass all provisions of the For the People Act, fully restore the 1965 Voting Rights Act and pass $15/hr. federal minimum wage. https://actionnetwork.org/events/mass-moral-motorcade-on-manchin?link_id=&link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-take-action-join-the-mass-moral-motorcade-on-manchin-in-west-virginia-this-thursday-6&email_referrer=email_1269126&email_subject=take-action-join-the-mass-moral-motorcade-on-manchin-in-west-virginia-this-thursday.

51] –The Women's March [info@womensmarch.com] will be at the Supreme Court in support of the ERA on Thurs., Aug. 26 at noon ET.  It is time to finally pass the Equal Rights Amendment. Women's Marchers across the nation have demanded it: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. The U.S. House has already officially removed the time limit for passing the ERA — but the Senate *still* has yet to act. Join Women's March on the steps of the Supreme Court.  RSVP at https://womensmarch.com/form?akid=3511.508952.v1TYb5&rd=1&source=em20210819&t=2.

52] –Join activists around the country at a virtual phonebank to urge voters in key states to demand their senators’ support of the For the People Act! The August deadline for 2022 is fast approaching! Our democracy is in crisis: with redistricting around the corner and hundreds of voter suppression laws being introduced in states across the country, we do not have time to wait. Every day we’re getting closer to a very real deadline to take action to pass the For the People Act (S.1): If the Senate does not overcome the filibuster and pass S. 1 by late August, states will not have enough time to implement the legislation’s regulations before the 2022 midterm elections! Join activists around the country at a virtual phonebank to urge voters in key states to demand their senators’ support of S. 1! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/pfaw/event/376178/?utm_source=PFAW to call on Thurs., Aug. 26 from 3 to 6 PM and 6 to 8 PM ET, Fri., Aug. 27 from 4 to 6 PM ET and Sat., Aug. 28 from noon to 2 PM ET and 4 to 6 PM and 6 to 8 PM ET or Sun., Aug. 29 noon to 2 PM ET and from 6 to 8 PM ET.

53] – Get over to the Mobile Bike Shop at Lake Montebello, 3451 Hillen Road, Baltimore 21218 on Thurs., Aug. 26 from 4 to 7 PM ET with Graham Projects! Bikemore is collaborating with the Baltimore City Department of Transportation, Black People Ride Bikes, and Graham Projects on the NACTO grant funded “Lake to Lake” project. This infrastructure project will increase visibility and access to Druid Hill Park and Lake Montebello. Graham Projects will collect YOUR ideas for public art leading to Lake Montebello and Druid Hill Park.  Visit https://www.bikemore.net/event/mbs-lakemontebello-0826?emci=dc7ec69d-fc00-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&emdi=5c8f9085-d904-ec11-b563-501ac57b8fa7&ceid=9712492.

54] – The ANSWER Coalition DC [dc@answercoalition.org] urges you to support Pedro Castillo on Thurs., Aug. 26 at 5 PM ET at the Organization of American States, 200 17th St. NW, WDC.  Soon after being sworn in as president of Peru, Pedro Castillo's government is being stonewalled by right-wing forces in the country, preventing Castillo's cabinet from being formed. Show support for Castillo and the will of the Peruvian people.

55] – The U.S. and China – Past, Present and Future: Conflict and Cooperation in U.S.-China Relations will be discussed on Thurs., Aug. 26 from 7 to 8:30 PM EDT, hosted by Massachusetts Peace Action. It will feature Mark Selden and Zhiqun Zhu. Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZModOmorz4rHtwRKZ9w0MwVaDenIP6Hy8GI. See an article “Paradoxes in the Taiwan Strait” that Professor Zhu published in Modern Diplomacy. You’ll find it at https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/08/23/paradoxes-in-the-taiwan-strait/.  The NPR broadcast about the fall of Kabul, and the end of a disastrous war that should never have been fought, made the point that President Biden is focusing on other foreign and military policy priorities. Between the lines, we could hear “military and other containment of China” – a potentially even greater error. As part of MPA’s effort to build an informed popular movement to impact U.S. China/Indo-Pacific policies, participate in this webinar. The prophetic historian Howard Zinn taught that if we don’t know our history, we can’t be free. Without that knowledge, he warned, whenever a president comes on TV and says that we are in danger from here or there, we lack the framework needed to critically judge its truth. Today the near unanimous Washington and media consensus is that China is a threat to democracy and freedom around the world, and that we must defend them by challenging and containing China militarily, economically, technologically, diplomatically, and politically. Provocative military operations near Taiwan or in the South China Sea carry the danger of an accident or miscalculation escalating to war, even, though, highly unlikely, a nuclear war. 

56] – On Thurs., Aug. 26 at 8:30 PM ET, you are invited to virtually meet an inspiring candidate for Congress, Mckayla Wilkes, progressive challenger to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.  Please join RootsAction to meet a candidate in Maryland's 5th Congressional District. Register for the Zoom gathering at bit.ly/MckaylaWilkesRAZoom.

57] – Jasmine Ruddy [info@medicare4all.org] wants you to join a Medicare for All strategy call on Thurs., August 26 at 9 PM ET.  Note that there is $140 billion in unpaid medical bills.  RSVP athttps://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DtdBGVJ0Qgy281aWFAzUeQ?akid=115657.162593.RV1Jth&rd=1&source=em20210824-115657&t=2.  The medical debt in the USA is nearly twice as much as was previously known. National Nurses United suspects you can be a part of replacing our current broken system with a single-payer system that guarantees health care to all free at the point of service.

58] – On Thurs., Aug. 26 and Tues., Aug. 31 from 5:30 to 8:30 PM ET, RepresentUs members across the country are joining the National For the People Act Phonebank and calling RepresentUs members in key states and asking them to make a quick call to their senator. The phonebank will start with a training hosted virtually on Zoom. Sign up at https://vol.represent.us/a/pb_081921.

59] – Real Justice [info@realjusticepac.org] wants you to help Chesa Boudin on Thurs., Aug. 26 from 9:30 PM to midnight ET. If you follow the money, you will see who the real corrupt interests are attempting to oust justice-minded District Attorney Chesa Boudin. Sign up now to join a Stand with Chesa virtual phonebank! Your calls will help us generate real grassroots support for Chesa and his change-making policies and push back against big donors with people-powered organizing. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/chesaantirecall/event/399637/?source=em20210818-67199-rj&utm_source=em20210818-67199-rj. Phone banking will also take place on Thurs., Sept. 2 from 9:30 to midnight ET.

To be continued.

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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