Baltimore Activist Alert -- February 24 - 26, 2022

49] Gaza 101 – Feb. 24

50] Voter Protection Phone banks with Common Cause – Feb. 24 – 26

51] Freedom to Vote – Feb. 24

52] Call for Tiffany Jones – Feb. 24

53] Prepare for the Protest on March 1st – Feb. 24 

54] Our Revolution phonebank -- Feb. 24

55] Call voters in Texas -- Feb. 24

56] Refugee Film Festival – Feb. 24

57] Verses versus War – Feb. 24

58] Climate concerned Federal Reserve – Feb. 24

59] Meet Greg Casar – Feb. 24

60] Strategy Session with Strike Solidarity Updates – Feb. 24

61] Urge Biden to take on the climate crisis – Feb. 24

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49] – Beth Schuman [beth@afcfp.org] wants you to attend Gaza 101 on Thurs., Feb. 24 from 12:30 to 2 PM ET.  Register at https://afcfp.org/gaza-101/?emci=c8e8874e-b989-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&emdi=48f5b36e-ef89-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&ceid=8142762. This is the second of four mini-courses.  The last date is March 3. Each mini-course covers a separate subject -- History, Politics, Culture & Economics. The course will be taught by Combatants for Peace, Churches for Middle East Peace and The Arab American Institute. Discussions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the West all too often neglect to include Gaza and the voices of Palestinians there, seemingly because the situation is seen to be too overwhelming or challenging to take-on.

50] – Join in on Voter Protection phone banks with Common Cause on Thurs., Feb. 24 from 4 to 6 and 6 to 8 PM ET, Fri., Feb. 25 from 4 to 6 PM ET, and Sat., Feb. 26 noon to 2 PM, 1 to 3 PM and 6 to 8 PM ET, and call constituents in Republican states to connect them to their Senators to hold them accountable for blocking voting rights. Register at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/376178/?followup_modal_context=newsletter.

Get involved with Voter Protection Phone banks with Common Cause and call voters in targeted states and connect them to their senators to drive calls of accountability and appreciation around the vote on the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. And begin to advocate for No Excuse Absentee Voting in Delaware and recruit poll monitors for the Texas primary.

51] –  For the Freedom To Vote Act, there is phone bank training & calling into West Virginia with a patch through to Senator Manchin on Thursdays from 6 to 8 PM.  This will continue through Mar. 31. You will need a computer and a telephone (cell or house). Unfortunately, tablets and iPads are incompatible with ThruTalk and will not work effectively. You will also need to download a web browser like Chrome or Firefox. Safari is incompatible with ThruTalk. With over 400 state bills introduced by extremist lawmakers--including in West Virginia--aiming to put up barriers to vote just this year, we cannot afford to fail to pass this bill.  Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/409469/?followup_modal_context=newsletter.

52] – On Throwdown Thursdays phone bank or text bank with the team from 6 to 8 PM ET. Every week call or text voters across the state about a number of important issues. Visit https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemarylandneweraproject/event/416692/?emci=c2a8dfd3-4730-ec11-981f-c896653b9208&emdi=f068a6d2-5b30-ec11-981f-c896653b9208&ceid=136680.  On Feb. 24, call for Tiffany Jones running for Central Committee in Baltimore City!

53] –  Neda Saleh [neda@actioncorps.org] is informing you about attending a planning meeting on Thurs., Feb. 24 at 6 PM ET to prepare for the National Call to Protest on March 1st for a Yemen War Powers Resolution. Join the Zoom meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87175191843.  The Meeting ID is 871 7519 1843.

54] – Our Revolution [info@ourrevolution.com] would like you to phone bank on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 PM ET. There are more than 8 million voters across the country who identify as progressive. These numbers suggest progressives can win at every level of government, but the voters must go to the polls! Sign up to join the Our Revolution phonebank force at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/440081/?akid=2556.8252965.t1Ai8m&rd=1&t=11.  Sign up for Thurs., Feb. 24.

55] – Our Revolution [info@ourrevolution.com] would like you to phone bank on Thurs., Feb. 24 from 6:30 to 8:30 PM ET and Sat., Feb. 26 from 4:30 to 8:30 PM ET. These calls are to voters in Texas where the election is on March 1.  Help elect progressive. Sign up to join the Our Revolution phonebank force at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/438475/?akid=2586.8252965.PaGvZd&rd=1&t=13. 

56] – Check out the Refugee Film Festival starting on Thurs., Feb. 24 through Thurs., Dec. 8.  There is no charge, but donations are welcome.  The festival is organized by Journey's End to the refugee community in Western New York. All films are shown online on Thursdays, 7 PM ET. Please visit and bookmark www.wnyrff.org to access details of each film. Zoom log-in info will be emailed to you prior to each screening. Due to film licensing, films can only be screened once on the designated date and time. Email volunteer@jersbuffalo.org. The first film is The Donut King, and the next film will be shown on March 24.  Go to https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E11271&id=72.

57] – World Beyond War is hosting Verses Versus War: A Webinar with the Poets George Elliott Clarke and Gary Geddes on Thurs., Feb. 24 from 7 PM through 8:30 PM ET. Email David at david@worldbeyondwar.org. Sign up at  https://actionnetwork.org/events/verses-versus-war-a-webinar-with-the-poets-george-elliott-clarke-and-gary-geddes?clear_id=true&link_id=28&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-wbw-news-action-water-12&email_referrer=email_1449289&email_subject=wbw-news-action-water.

58] – Team 350 [350@350.org] wants you to push the Federal Reserve to take action on Thurs., Feb. 24 at 7 PM ET. The idea is to secure as many climate champions to key positions in the Federal Reserve by early March.  ‌Then with new leadership at the Fed, there will be an unprecedented opportunity to reign in banks that are funding and fueling the climate crisis. Learn more and dive into the next phase of this campaign by join a strategy call at https://350org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5C95hg0GRDKxkXFf8zRDew.

59] – BoldProgressives.org [info@BoldProgressives.org] endorses Greg Casar for Congress in Texas – 35th district. On Thurs., Feb. 24 at 7 PM ET, meet Greg Casar and hear what all the buzz is about.  Progressives are working hard to get out the vote.  RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZclcuuoqD4sE9dElnSnWLZ3-jRhDcFwEWc1.

60] –  Alan Minsky, Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] wants your attention on Thurs., Feb. 24 at 8 PM ET to join a Strategy Session with Strike Solidarity Updates & a 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights. Sign up for February's Meeting of PDA's Economics and Labor Issue Organizing Team at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecHc4smKi1BcI2M0hKfSWheeyUDh5jn0VLG0UcyO6xrJSLeQ/viewform. In the first half hour, discuss Secretary of the PDA Board Randy Shannon's latest article: PDA's Strategy: Building a Progressive-Labor Alliance, as well as the steps to take over the next month to build this essential alliance. In the middle third of the meeting, hear from history Professor Harvey J Kaye about PDA's call for progressive candidates to endorse a 21st-Century Economic Bill of Rights.  Then to close out the meeting, hear updates from strikes and labor actions taking place across the country: from Starbucks workers in Wisconsin (or around the corner) to the lockout of UAW members at Collins Aerospace in Toledo, Ohio, to Amazon warehouse workers and striking miners in Alabama to a picket line near you.

61] – The Action Center on Race and the Economy [email@acrecampaigns.org] wants you to join in on Thurs., Feb. 24 at 8 PM ET to urge President Biden to take on the climate crisis.  After millions of Black, Brown, Indigenous, and frontline communities and young people turned out in record numbers to the polls in the middle of a global pandemic to elect him, Biden has failed to tackle the climate crisis with the urgency it demands. Biden will give his first State of the Union address on March 1st. But before then, demand that Biden stop approving fossil fuel projects and declare a climate emergency. JOIN the Build Back Fossil Free (BBFF) coalition for an energizing digital rally at  https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ImwxalnwQI2tcIJC0dNFMQ?link_id=1&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-potus-on-notice-frontline-calls-to-hold-biden-accountable-to-his-climate-promises-2&email_referrer=email_1447569&email_subject=join-us-on-the-24th-to-urge-president-biden-to-take-on-the-climate-crisis.

To be continued.

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