Baltimore Activist Alert -- May 5 - 7, 2022

59] Creating a Broader “We” – May 5

60] Make calls with the DNC – May 5 – 7

61] Voter Protection Phonebanks – May 5 – 7

62] Phone bank for Brooke – May 5

63] Help elect MD climate leaders – May 5

64] Meet a progressive candidate – May 5

65] Throwdown Thursdays phone bank or text bank – May 5

66] Our Revolution phone bank – May 5

67] Lower Shore Progressives are hosting a Town Hall – May 5

68] Revolutionary Nonviolence and Decolonization – May 5

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59] –- On Thurs., May 5 at 11 AM ET, the Indivisible People of Color (POC) Organizing Caucus and We Make the Future present Race, Class, Gender Narrative: Creating a Broader “We.” Register at https://indivisible.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkd-ygrDstGN051Nzkx9mD6qKD6OOf6FVA. Over the last year, right-wing lawmakers, advocacy groups, and media machines have conspired and organized to use Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a smokescreen to misinform, sow division, and divert focus from the real problems at hand. Join this three-hour, interactive training on how we can utilize race, class, and gender messaging to build bridges and create a multicultural working-class coalition that mobilizes our base and persuades people in the middle. 

60] – Make Calls virtually with the DNC National Call Crew – on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Call voters in battleground states to build strength for the 2022 Midterms. Please email digitalorganizing@dnc.org. Sign up for calls on Thurs., May 5, and Fri., May 6. The times are 2 to 3 PM, 3 to 4 PM, 4 to 5 PM, 5 to 6 PM, 6 to 7 PM, and 7 to 8 PM EDT. On Sat., May 7, the times are 2 to 3 PM, 3 to 4 PM, 4 to 5 PM, 5 to 6 PM. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/388091/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual.  

61] – Get involved with Voter Protection Phonebanks with Common Cause on Sundays through Saturdays. Work together to demand bold changes to our democracy to create a government that represents all of us, not big corporations or special interests. On Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, call voters in Connecticut to connect them to Senate President Pro Tempore Martin Looney’s office to urge him to pass state voting legislation. On Thursdays and Fridays, call voters in Pennsylvania to recruit them for election protection work in their state. These phone banks are subject to change. On Thurs., May 5 from 4 to 6 PM and 6 to 8 PM ET, Fri., May 6 from 4 to 6 PM ET, and Sat., May 7 from noon to 2 PM and 6 to 8 PM ET. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/376178/?followup_modal_context=newsletter.

62] – Joe Francaviglia [info@brookelierman.com] wants you to Phone Bank for Brooke Lierman on Thursdays from 4 to 5 PM ET.  Go to https://www.mobilize.us/brookeliermanforcomptroller/event/397560/?emci=dc721680-b092-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&emdi=acb88e23-b592-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&ceid=14404480. Join in a canvass of the community and share Brooke's vision to transform the Comptroller's office to work for every Marylander. Once you sign up the team will follow up with everything you’ll need to phone bank! This will continue through Thurs., May 12.  

63] – CCAN Action Fund [info@ccanactionfund.org] wants you to help elect MD climate leaders.  Get involved with the campaign launch on Thurs., May 5 at 6:30 PM ET.  This new campaign will support climate leaders running for Maryland General Assembly, Governor, and more — for example, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who CCAN Action Fund has endorsed for re-election to the US Senate. Join in on https://act.ccanactionfund.org/page/40605/data/1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=utm_Maryland&utm_content=MD-FTV-Launch+SINGLE-0422-c4+12:38:07&ea.url.id=1258644.

64] – PCCC (Bold Progressives) [info@BoldProgressives.org] is asking you to meet on Thurs., May 5 at 7 PM ET Jamie McLeod-Skinner (OR-05) on Zoom. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIud--vqDspGtN_2cxepL3uKzVYIiX3zoph.  Jamie is taking on the "Joe Manchin of the House," Rep. Kurt Schrader (OR-5).  Like AOC, Cory Bush, and Jamaal Bowman before her, Jamie is taking on an entrenched incumbent who has lost touch with voters -- selling his soul to stuff his campaign coffers with corporate donations. How bad is it? ABC News reports "Schrader opposed a $15 minimum wage and a proposal to contain prescription drug prices, and he initially voted against last year’s $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill." He even likened the Trump impeachment trial for Jan 6 to a "lynching."

65] – 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. Election season is here!! The time has finally come. Progressive Maryland announced its first round of election endorsements, and now it is time to call and text for incredible candidates in order to elect as many progressives into office as possible!! Make sure you join the Throwdown Thursday Team now to start making a difference! Visit https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemarylandneweraproject/event/416692/?emci=c2a8dfd3-4730-ec11-981f-c896653b9208&emdi=f068a6d2-5b30-ec11-981f-c896653b9208&ceid=136680. 

66] – 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 phone bank force at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/440081/?akid=2556.8252965.t1Ai8m&rd=1&t=11. Sign up for Thurs., May 5.

67] – Jared Schablein [admin@lowershoreprogressives.com] wants you to know about an event on Thurs., May 5 at 6:30 PM ET.  Get with the monthly Town Hall and meet special guest Amber Green. The discussion will center on Amber Green's plan for Wicomico County Council's District 1 if she is elected. There is a live Question & Answer Segment beginning at 7 PM, and then get to hear from several community leaders that also support Amber’s campaign. Join this live event at https://www.facebook.com/lowershoreprogressivecaucus. Mike Fox for Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] wants you to be on an organizing call on Thurs., May 5 at 8 PM ET. Discuss the labor surge and the 21st-Century Bill of Economic Human Rights. With the victories for workers unionizing at Starbucks, Amazon, and elsewhere, we're seeing the strongest surge of solidarity in over 50 years. Workers are learning that when they organize effectively, they win.

68] – Tonya Histand, AFSC [actioncenter@afsc.org] thinks you might be interested in an event on Thurs., May 5 at 8 PM ET the Launch of “Insurrectionary Uprisings: A Reader in Revolutionary Nonviolence and Decolonization.” Join AFSC’s Joyce Ajlouny for the virtual launch of this collection of essays that explore what it will take to win a world based on love and justice.  Register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-of-insurrectionary-uprisings-a-reader-in-revolutionary-nonviolence-tickets-300101621027?keep_tld=1&ms=EMA22EI0503&emci=99aa819b-2cc7-ec11-997e-281878b83d8a&emdi=3b8fbc67-e9ca-ec11-997e-281878b83d8a&ceid=764241.

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/.

"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