Baltimore Activist Alert -- June 1 - 2, 2023

36] Hear from the Baltimore Banner – June 1

37] Power in the Park – June 1

38] Social Housing organizing meeting – June 1

39] Lower Shore Progressive Caucus meeting – June 1

40] Working Families Party Campaign Camp – June 1

41] Bike breakfast – June 2

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36] – The Baltimore Banner [giving@thebaltimorebanner.com] is hosting a discussion with Banner journalists and newsroom leaders on Thurs., June 1 from  5:30 to 8 PM ET at the Goucher College Hyman Forum of the Athenaeum, 1021 Dulaney Valley Road, Baltimore. RSVP at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-banner-revealed-6123-tickets-629286923127?utm_source=The+Baltimore+Banner&utm_campaign=499133ac53-BANNER_REVEALED_FOLLOWUP_INVITE_SUBS_052423&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-429d26545e-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D. Hear from CEO and Publisher Imtiaz Patel, Editor in Chief Kimi Yoshino, Deputy Managing Editor Richard Martin, Enterprise Reporter Tim Prudente, Investigative Reporter Brenna Smith, and Columnist Leslie Gray Streeter. The team will take you behind the scenes on their best recent stories concluding with an interactive portion with participants. Coffee, dessert, and networking with the newsroom will follow.  

37] – The Maryland League of Conservation Voters [info@mdlcv.org] on Thurs.., June 1 from 6 to 8 PM ET is inviting you to the Chispa Maryland program at Power in the Park. You'll learn about Saving Energy, Lowering your Energy Bills, Utility Assistance, Clean Energy and Healthy Housing. It will occur at the New Hampshire Estates Park - and it will have kid-activities.  This annual event is hosted by Delegate Lorig Charkoudian in coordination with Community Health & Empowerment through Education & Research (CHEER) to connect the Long Branch community with energy assistance, weatherization, and community solar programs. Sign up at https://www.mdlcv.org/event/power-in-the-park?emci=95e7c028-13f4-ed11-907c-00224832eb73&emdi=dd5dc8a1-8af5-ed11-907c-00224832eb73&ceid=578562.

38] – The Metro DC DSA [info@mdcdsa.org] indicates that on Thurs., June 1 at 6:30 PM ET there will be a Social Housing organizing meeting. Learn about its latest activities, what is planned for the future, and how to get involved. The Social Housing Working Group seeks to educate Metro DC DSA chapter members and the general public about social housing and to facilitate collective action in support of the passage and implementation of the Green New Deal for Housing Amendment Act. The legislation proposes to create mixed-income, district-owned housing with market rate units that subsidize a larger number of affordable units. It's a pioneering approach that deepens affordability, invests surplus funds into the creation of more social housing, and locks-in financial sustainability. The bill also includes climate and labor standards and elected tenant boards with oversight over building management. This event is open to both DSA Members and supporters. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/social-housing-organizing-meeting-12?link_id=60&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-may-12-2023&email_referrer=email_1923199&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-may-19-2023.

39] – Jared Schablein [admin@lowershoreprogressives.com] wants you to know that the Lower Shore Progressive Caucus will hold a virtual Monthly Meeting with Shelley Johnson on Thurs., June 1 at 6:30 PM E. She is a Princess Anne Town Councilmember. To participate, RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qf-2prjsqEt3XcBPp5pKGGqp9ZBhwVV9r#/registration.

40] – On Thurs., June 1 from 7 to 9 PM ET, get with the Working Families Party Campaign Camp for a virtual training for Activists about Elections and Building Power. This session covers the following concepts: contextualizing WFP as an independent political party, discuss elections as one of the movement’s many tools for change, debunk some myths about winning an election, and map out how to get a campaign started. Share the application here: http://wfpus.org/campaigncamp. As working-class communities continue to be crushed under the weight of stagnant wages, rising costs of living, mounting debt, environmental calamities, and the dismantlement of long-established rights and protections — this is a time to organize, mobilize, and empower each other to rise up in sustained mass resistance.  Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/561675/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual.

41] – Jed Weeks, Bikemore [info@bikemore.net] wants you to know about a Bike Breakfast on Fri., June 2 from 7:30 to 9 AM ET at Socle Courtyard (by Fadensonnen/Sophomore Coffee), 3 W 23rd St, Baltimore, MD 21218.  RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/lx0QSVeaCE-ZrWsDsV0PBg2.

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