Baltimore Activist Alert -- June 22 - 25, 2022

41] Build support for the TPNW in Congress – June 22

42] Make Calls with the DNC National Call Crew – June 22 – 25

43] Door knocking for Brooke – June 22 - 25

44] Employer exploitation – June 22

45] Communities United – June 22

46] Solar United Neighbors meeting – June 22

47] Quaker Push for Reparations – June 22

48] The World is MY Country – June 22

49] Virtual Town Hall with Katie O’Malley – June 22

50] Our Revolution phone bank – June 22 - 23

51] Civil Disobedience & Nuclear Abolition – June 22

52] Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board – June 22

53] “The Urgency of a Nuclear Weapons Ban" – June 22

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41] – On Wed., June 22 at 10:30 AM ET, tune in to a Press Conference, hosted by Rules Committee Chairman Rep. Jim McGovern with other Congress people (Reps. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Earl Blumenauer, and Don Beyer). They'll describe their efforts to build support for the TPNW in Congress. The press conference will be livestreamed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RepJimMcGovern.

42] – Make Calls virtually with the DNC National Call Crew through June 30.  Call voters in battleground states to build strength for the 2022 Midterms. Please email digitalorganizing@dnc.org. Sign up for calls on Wed., June 22, Thurs., June 23, Fri., June 24 and Sat., June 25. 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. For a training, sign up at https://events.democrats.org/event/440875/. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/388091/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual.

43] – Do Door Knocking for Brooke in Your Neighborhood from 2 to 4 PM ET on Wed., June 22, Thurs., June 23, Fri., June 24 and Sat.., June 25. This event’s address is private.  Sign up for more details. Canvass in your community and share Brooke's vision to transform the Comptroller's office to work for every Marylander. YOU CAN DO THIS ON YOUR OWN TIME, SELECTING A DATE IS REQUIRED TO USE THIS FORM. YOU CAN KNOCK WHENEVER WORKS FOR YOU. Once you sign up the team will follow up with everything you need to knock on doors including materials, a t-shirt, stickers, and a quick training. This will continue through July 19.  Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/brookeliermanforcomptroller/event/449990/?followup_modal_context=newsletter.

44] –The Economic Policy Institute [newsletter@epi.org] hopes you will attend on Wed., June 22 at 4 PM ET  for a webinar Ability to quit does not prevent employer exploitation. Discuss how excessive unemployment, employer power—“monopsony” (monopolies in the labor market)—and financial and work–life considerations indicate that quitting is not easy, especially for non-college-educated workers, Black and Hispanic workers, and women. Register for the webinar at https://www.epi.org/event/ability-to-quit-does-not-prevent-employer-exploitation/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=43d17975fa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_6_1_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-43d17975fa-59830565&mc_cid=43d17975fa&mc_eid=72ea77dbdd.

45] – Communities United [jessi@communitiesunite.org] is hosting a membership meeting on Wed., June 22 from 5:30 to 7 PM ET. It will take place at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 1900 St. Paul St., Baltimore. RSVP athttps://bit.ly/MMMeeting.

46] – The Solar United Neighbors [mdteam@solarunitedneighbors.org] wants you to attend a meeting on Wed., June 22 from 6 to 7 PM ET. Find the key to unlocking solar for more Marylanders by signing up at https://www.solarunitedneighbors.org/events/category/engagement-activity/list/?posts_per_page=13. Have you wanted to help build solar in your community but aren’t sure where to start? You’re invited to join Marylanders on June 22 who are interested in getting more involved and sharing the benefits of solar power with local neighborhoods and businesses. There will be a focus on volunteer opportunities for local solar co-ops, and you will get updates on research related to refundable state tax credits for residential solar. 

47] – Emma Hulbert, FCNL [support@fcnl.org] is asking you to join in on Wed., June 22 at 6:30 PM ET -- “H.R. 40 and the Quaker Push for Reparations.” At June's Quaker Changemaker event, learn how FCNL and F/friends are advocating for reparations in the policy sphere and in local communities. Congress has finally taken steps to address reparations for slavery. If passed, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act (H.R. 40) would examine the detrimental impacts that slavery continues to have today. In local communities, some Friends are also beginning to address this original sin.  Register for https://www.fcnl.org/events/hr-40-and-quaker-push-reparations?akid=24428.152065.5SGc5h&rd=1&t=16&utm_campaign=event&utm_medium=email&utm_source=ak&utm_term=24428.152065.5SGc5h.

48] –Massachusetts Peace Action [info@masspeaceaction.org] is inviting you on Wed., June 22 at 6:30 PM ET to engage in a discussion about the film The World Is My Country! The movie tells the story of a Broadway actor who was so mortified about bombing civilians in WW II and so determined to prevent WW III that he dared to interrupt the UN General Assembly to call on the delegates to unite. “If you won’t do it, step aside and a people’s world assembly will arise from our ranks to do it!” he shouted. Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0of-uuqTgqGdcavRFWj9fz-e52qDyUb0oU.

 This bold act ignited war-weary Europe. Albert Einstein, John Paul Sartre, Simon de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus joined him. 20,000 people rallied with him to demand the United Nations to recognize the rights of humanity. The very next day, December 10, 1948, the Soviets stepped aside and let the UN unanimously pass the Universal Declaration of Human Rights! For the next 65 years, as a citizen of no nation, only the world, Garry took on border guards, guns and jail – in an audacious effort to inspire the people of our world to rise above the borders that divide us and build a bottom-up way we can outlaw war and ecocide, and create what he called, “a People-Powered Planet.”  This Event will feature excerpts from the film, but the first 100 registrants will receive a free link to watch the entire film before the event.  Arthur Kanegis, director of “The World Is My Country” is president of Future WAVE, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to shifting our culture of violence to a culture of peace.

49] – Jared Schablein [admin@lowershoreprogressives.com] is suggesting that you consider attending a virtual Town Hall on Wed., June 22 at 6:30 PM ET. You can watch on Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube with Maryland's former First Lady, Katie Curran O'Malley, who will discuss her plans for the office of Maryland's Attorney General. Email lowershoreprogressivecaucus@gmail.com. Go to https://www.facebook.com/lowershoreprogressivecaucus/.

50] – 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 Wed., June 22 and Thurs., June 23.  

51] –   On Wed., June 22 from 7 to 8 PM ET, join an event: Civil Disobedience & Nuclear Abolition. This 1-hour webinar will discuss the historic blockade of the UN 40 years ago and plans today for the use of nonviolent direct action to help rid the world of all nuclear weapons.  “Blockade the Bombmakers!” was the call that inspired more than 3,500 people — 1,700 of whom were arrested — from 34 states and 10 countries to come to New York City on June 14, 1982, in order to nonviolently shut down the UN missions of the world’s seven nuclear-armed countries. Closely following on the million-person June 12 antinuclear rally in Central Park, these determined activists took their demands directly to the nations threatening the world with their nuclear weapons. Of the 1,700 arrests more than 1,000 were at the U.S. Mission alone with the balance scattered among the missions of the Soviet Union, France, Britain, China, Israel, and South Africa. Only South Africa subsequently heeded the disarmament call by dismantling their nuclear weapons. Sign up at https://www.facebook.com/events/341470551394099/?source=6&ref_notif_type=plan_user_invited&action_history=null.

52] – On Wed., June 22 at 7 PM ET, tune in to What is the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) really up to?  The CPPIB is accountable first and foremost to the federal and provincial governments, not the contributors and beneficiaries. Over the years, the CPPIB has moved from real assets to equities, and from investments in Canadian infrastructure to foreign investments. With over $539B of the public pension at stake, tax payers should have transparency. Panelists will speak about the CPPIB and its investment in the military arms, mining, Israeli war crimes, and privatization of life sustaining public infrastructure including water in the Global South, and other alarming investments. The discussion will delve into what can be done to hold the CPPIB accountable for the public pension funds entrusted to it. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dWGLzvQ2T2GiRHveW-L_eQ?link_id=16&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-wbw-news-action-block-the-entrance-to-every-weapons-fair-5&email_referrer=email_1573677&email_subject=wbw-news-action-block-the-entrance-to-every-weapons-fair.

53] – Just World Ed [helena@justworldeducational.org] wants you to join in on Wed., June 22 at 7 PM ET for “The Urgency of a Nuclear Weapons Ban." Bill Quandt and Helena Cobban will have a conversation about Israel's nuclear arsenal! Quandt is the veteran Middle East affairs specialist who was the principal Middle East advisor in Pres. Nixon’s White House during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war and later played the same role in Pres. Jimmy Carter’s White House.

  There is an event every Wednesday at 7 PM ET, and every Saturday, starting at noon ET. Registration for these webinars is required. Please register at bit.ly/Ban-nukes-news. Registration for any one session gives you access to all the others in this series. On Sat., June 25 at noon, Tom Unterrainer will give a wrap-up on ICAN/TPNW’s Nuclear Ban Week.  Unterrainer is the head of European Nuclear Disarmament (END), a project of the UK-based Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, and is also Chair of Britain's own venerable Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).

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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