Baltimore Activist Alert -- September 9 - 14, 2024

17] Coastal Resilience – Sept. 9

18] DSA meeting – Sept. 9

19] Hear from Jamie Raskin -- Sept. 9

20] U.S.-Chinese Relations – Sept. 9

21] Summer of Love for Gaza Debrief – Sept. 9

22] Christians for a Free Palestine call – Sept. 9

23] Fostering Unity through Dialogue – Sept. 9

24] Take Action Tuesdays – Sept. 10

25] Deep Canvass Election phone banks -- Sept. 10 - 12 & 14 

26] Russia out of Ukraine – Sept. 10

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17] – The Union of Concerned Scientists [action@ucsusa.org] are holding a virtual webinar on Mon., Sept. 9 from 4 to 5 PM ET -- Looming Deadlines for Coastal Resilience. Join to learn more about rising seas, disruptive tides, and other risks climate changes poses to coastal infrastructure.  Research led by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) shows that between now and 2050, climate change-driven sea level rise will expose more than 1,600 critical buildings and services to disruptive flooding at least twice per year. Learn more about how countries’ choices around global heat-trapping emissions will leave critical infrastructure in jeopardy later this century.  REGISTER at https://secure.ucsusa.org/a/2024-09-09-looming-deadlines-for-coastal-resilience?contactdata=KxCsye23MFtuRa5sxGkvG%2fy%2fQGTyKk%2f9Vq7M4l+CTWaHVf3%2ffyvdDuMP9HBAKsuttyg26ESVcZ4k7JcbctK7SiArbCYOYLgJ1%2f+WVntpWPEd0jfgwsxOTRFv9TOTG3PZx698tygwx6fU5GE%2fpbCsNYw197jpk8CUNYfKTYVDwSvBqM7DHikM2q12HJr8vA4TmC1fHs6z6ZZ8SEQ3J+bIiINARf9CMJGrDW0rMitOWYfIgl+i0wnsaqFnP4ayzOQXonRAIfG+hO3u0gdLN28D+g%3d%3d&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email&emci=6f87853b-ec60-ef11-991a-6045bddbfc4b&emdi=04e1570e-c063-ef11-991a-6045bddbfc4b&ceid=1507036

18] – On Mon., Sept. 9 from 7 to 8:30 there is a Montgomery County Branch Meeting. A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/september-montgomery-county-branch-meeting?link_id=68&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-august-30-2024-2&email_referrer=email_2441941&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-september-6-2024

 Join for an introduction to Montgomery County DSA's organizing work, updates on upcoming campaigns and events, as well as a discussion on creating a voter guide for the ballot initiatives and candidate races that will be coming up for election in November! Email montgomerycountydsa@gmail.com

19] – The Takoma Park Mobilization [info@tpmobilization.org] wants you to know that the Silver Spring Progressive Action is meeting on Mon., Sept. 9 at 7:30 PM ET on Zoom. The featured speaker is Jamie Raskin to talk about flipping the House!  Sign up at https://ssprogressiveaction.org/2024-09-09-raskin/?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-join-sspa-and-jamie-raskin-on-september-9-to-flip-the-house&email_referrer=email_2442359&email_subject=join-sspa-and-jamie-raskin-on-september-9-to-flip-the-house

This program, like all SSPA programs, is free. All are welcome, whether or not you choose to donate! If you choose to, there will be an opportunity to contribute to the "Flip the House Blue 2024" fund (targeting tossup House races) during the event.

20] – Enjoy a virtual Peace & Justice Conversation: An Introduction to U.S.-Chinese Relations on Mon., Sept. 9 at 7 PM ET with Joseph Gerson, president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Convener of Peace & Planet International Network, and co-chair of the Committee for a Sane U.S.-China Policy. He works closely with peace organizations and advocates across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe. https://actionnetwork.org/events/peace-justice-conversations-an-introduction-to-us-chinese-relations?clear_id=true&fbclid=IwY2xjawFJie9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXEF1gxxGV-JOrt-JAtkzmmrMY-zWfjmvuJGQiePgKleBBsG-8Bd6viGJg_aem_YD4SHMGIJDZEE0EI1WI62A

  The webinar is sponsored by New Hampshire Peace Action.   The group asks a series of questions. How do we want to live in the world? What do we value? How can we make the changes we’ve been yearning for? NH Peace Action has been engaged in working for change for decades. We’d like to bring you into these conversations about issues and options for the future. There is no hope of halting and reversing the existential dangers of the climate emergency without U.S.-Chinese cooperation.

21] – CODEPINK [info@codepink.org] is doing Missing Peace Monday on Sept. 9 at 8 PM ET -- Summer of Love for Gaza Debrief.  Unite to demand peace and justice in Gaza and an end to the Israeli occupation in Palestine. Get a debrief on the DNC, RNC, Gaza Summer School and more! RSVP at https://www.codepink.org/missingp99?utm_campaign=mpm_9_9_2nd_invite&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

22] – Christians for a Free Palestine are holding a Mass Mobilization Community Call on Mon., Sept. 9 at 8 PM ET. RSVP at https://christiansforafreepalestine.com/events/septembermasscall?link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-join-our-mass-mobilization-call-on-june-25-2&email_referrer=email_2433569___subject_2970256&email_subject=firstname-default-friend-its-been-a-while-lets-jump-on-another-cfp-community-call Hear stories and reflections from the Interfaith Action for Palestine, and you’ll be the first to find out about what's next for Christians for a Free Palestine.

23] – As part of Standing against Racism: Fostering Unity through Dialogue, MPT will be showing on Mon., Sept. 9 at 9 PM ET The Five Demands.  In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. The CCNY strikers were the vanguard of a national Black student movement that transformed the culture, mission, and curriculum of American higher education. Told through the participants' point of view, the film follows the students' struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this institution and other public universities.  Visit https://www.mpt.org/racism/

24] – Join Take Action Tuesdays organized by People Power United on Tuesdays from noon to 1 PM ET.  Use your lunch hour to take action on issues, text bank, do letters and postcards to voters, and more! No supplies needed. You will be trained. People Power United is a group of community members that champions progressive values and power for the people. The 2024 election depends on us, and we are attempting to persuade people to vote for Freedom over Fascism. Participate on Tues., Sept. 10 from noon to 1 PM ET.  The next Action Tuesday is Sept. 17, and these events will continue through October 29. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/peoplepowerunited/event/643588/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

25] – The People's Action [info@peoplesaction.org] on Tues., Sept. 10, Wed., Sept. 11 and Thurs., Sept. 12 from 5 to 8 PM and Sat., Sept. 14 from 1 to 4 PM ET, join Deep Canvass Election phone banks.  RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/peoplesaction/event/565765/?link_id=3&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-whats-next-after-bidens-decision&email_referrer=email_2393896&email_subject=whats-next-after-bidens-decision

 People’s Action has a vision for the future in which we all have a say, we all have what we need, and we all belong. In that vision, our government and our economy serve all of us, not a handful of billionaires, and concerns about corporate profits take a back seat to the well-being of our people and our planet. Over the coming weeks, reach out to voters in critical states to share this vision with them and invite them to join us in working towards it. The next phone bank at 5 PM ET is on Tues., Sept. 17.   These calls will continue through Sat., Oct. 19 at 1 PM ET.

26] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., Sep. 10 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.

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