Baltimore Activist Alert -- June 4, 2024

24] Write-in GAZA – June 4

25] Russia out of Ukraine – June 4

26] Student debt questions – June 4

27] Defend the Squad – June 4

28] Migrant Justice working group – June 4

29] Phone bank for a climate hawk – June 4

30] Power Mapping & Campaign – June 4

31] J-Street unmasked – June 4

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24] – DC’s primary election day is Tuesday, June 4, and there is a call to write-in GAZA. Also volunteer at the polls for Palestine on June 4. This is the last chance to reach people where they vote and encourage voters to write in “Gaza” rather than voting for Joe Biden. Write-in DC 2024 is a grassroots effort by DC residents — Palestinians and allies, natives and transplants, all ages, all races and ethnicities — inspired by the national Vote Uncommitted movement to show Biden that his failure to address this issue is costing him electoral support. Sign up at  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4ZPRfYHBt0AnGmrJTK26wifp0bxljbLO6AFVqcW594V6K4g/viewform?link_id=45&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-may-24-2024&email_referrer=email_2337797&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-may-31-2024

25] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., June 4 from 5 to 5:30 PM ET at 33rd and N. Charles Sts. The invasion of Ukraine has the potential to become a war extending throughout Europe.  Putin has destroyed Aleppo and Grozny and has threatened the use of nuclear weapons.  Russian soldiers were sent into the area around the contaminated and still radioactive Chernobyl nuclear plant. Now they are stationed in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.   Contact Max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607.

26] – On Tues., Jun 4 ·from 5:30 to 7:30 PM ET, the Student Debt Crisis Center in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education will hold an in-depth clinic on federal student loan repayment at the France-Merrick Creative Arts Center at Enoch Pratt Central Library, 400 Cathedral St., Baltimore 21201. It will address challenges facing student loan borrowers by offering insights, explaining repayment options, and sharing resources to help navigate your student debt. This event is provided at NO-COST to you and whether you're just starting your repayment journey or are well into it, this clinic is for you! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/625978/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_of_type

27] – Every other Tuesday, the Working Families Party will engage in a Virtual Text Bank. On Tues., June 4 from 6 to 7:45 PM ET, volunteer to text. From local elections to ballot initiatives to Congress, we're building power at the local, state, and federal level for working people in 2024! On June 4, Defend the Squad -with Jamaal Bowman. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/545747/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual

28] – The Northern Virginia Democratic Socialists of America [novabranch@mdcdsa.org] on Tues., June 4 at 6 PM ET is holding a virtual NOVA Migrant Justice working group meeting. Fill this out this interest form to get involved with the Migrant Justice Working Group: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeZV0wYx8MQkiLvPuWV6QFUKVTBSbvG-QrqNUWhqCR1ZoI2zg/viewformlink_id=12&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email nova-branch dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events-158&email_referrer=email_2326420&email_subject=nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events

29] – Climate Hawks Vote [info@climatehawksvote.com] on Tuesdays, June 4, 11 & 18 at 6 PM ET needs you to help win in an East Coast swing district.  We're just weeks away from the big New York primaries and in addition to defending incumbent climate hawks like Rep. Jamaal Bowman, also Sarah Klee Hood, an environmental policy expert and town councilor in upstate New York’s 22d Congressional District, is being supported. Pollsters and election experts rank this district as the most flippable district in the country.  Make sure it's a climate hawk who flips it. Democrats can’t flip the House without winning New York’s 22d, and Sarah is the candidate to do it. Join a phone bank for Hood at https://www.mobilize.us/climatehawksvote/event/594140/?emci=016e2632-ac21-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&emdi=c11ee5dd-b021-ef11-86d2-6045bdd9e096&ceid=13143726

30] – Taylor Smith-Hams, 350.org [350@350.org] thinks you will be interested in an event on Tues., June 4 at 7 PM ET -- Power Mapping & Campaign Research.   RSVP at https://350org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf-yoqDMpG9PbGKzmWbXzeNvV680rx_8x?source=em2024M0419-1-120-MD-us#/registration

 Join every Tuesday at 7 PM ET to dive deep into utility campaigning! Each session will feature different guest speakers who will share their expertise and then lead attendees in interactive breakout sessions through July 16.

31] – CODEPINK [info@codepink.org] thinks you might be interested in joining in on Tues., June 4 on 8 PM for J-Street Unmasked – The End of Liberal Zionism as part of the CODEPINK Congress Capitol Calling Party! Join the discussion of the end of liberal Zionism and the ascendant movement of anti-Zionist Jews demanding decolonization.

Ever since J-Street’s founding in 2007, the organization has promoted itself as the liberal alternative to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). For left-leaning politicians fearful of AIPAC’s wrath, aligning with J-Street provided insulation from Zionist primary election challenges; lawmakers could be mildly critical of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, yet still profess allegiance to the State of Israel as a Jewish ethno-state even if it came at the expense of millions of Palestinians.  The featured guests are Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org, the founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and the author of the book, War Made Invisible, and Abba A. Solomon, an independent researcher and author of The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel and The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein's Speech ‘The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews,' given to the Baltimore Chapter, American Jewish Committee, February 15, 1948. RSVP at https://www.codepink.org/cpc604?utm_campaign=cpc060324&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

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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