Baltimore Activist Alert -- December 25 - 27, 2024

16] Support Jessica Reznicek – Dec. 25

17] Ceasefire in Gaza – Dec. 25

18] Feast of the Holy Innocents – Dec. 26

19] The Christmas Bombing – Dec. 27

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16] – Jessica Reznicek has served three years and four months of an eight year sentence. Her clemency attorney indicated that he is going to file for her clemency after the election. His name is Mark Osler, Professor of Law at University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. There are restrictions on Jess because her sentence included a domestic terrorist enhancement.

Jess has a Prison Fund. The fund has provided a few thousand dollars to Jess’s inmates’ friends on the outside and $400 a month to Jess so she can keep doing good deeds on the inside. You can send checks to the Des Moines Catholic Worker – with a note: for Jess’s Prison Fund-- Des Moines Catholic Worker, PO Box 4551, Des Moines IA 50305. You can still write to Jess: Jessica Reznicek #19293-030, FCI Waseca, PO BOX 1731, Waseca, MN 56093. You can contact Catholic Worker Frank Cordaro at 515 490 2490 / frank.cordaro@gmail.com

17] – Join a call for a ceasefire in Gaza in Washington, DC from 5 to 6 PM in Lafayette Park (by White House), sponsored by Nonviolence International, Palestinian-American Christian Alliance for Peace, FOSNA, For All and Isaiah Project. Contact Michael Beer at 202 244 0951 or info@nonviolenceinternational.net. Bring Candles.

18] – Art Laffin <artlaffin@hotmail.com> is inviting you to the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker sponsored nonviolent witness at the Pentagon to commemorate the massacre of the Holy Innocents--past and present! Because the actual Feast of the Holy Innocents falls on a Saturday, the witness will be held on Fri., Dec. 27 from 7 to 8 AM. Gather in the Pentagon Designated Protest Zone on the Southeast Side of Building. Take South exit from Pentagon Metro station. Walk a short distance on sidewalk toward South Parking Lot--vigil site is on left behind fencing.  If you can make it, contact Art.

19] – The Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee [vnpeacecomm-gmail.com@shared1.ccsend.com] on Thurs., Dec. 26 at 8 PM ET will hold a webinar on the Christmas Bombing of Viet Nam. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6f5nZeZeTLm_wGzrHoHeGg

Operation Linebacker II, sometimes referred to as the Christmas bombings and, in Vietnam, Dien Bien Phu in the air, was a strategic bombing campaign conducted by the United States against targets in North Vietnam from 18 December to 29 December 1972, during the Vietnam War. More than 20,000 tons of ordnance was dropped on military and industrial areas in Hanoi and Haiphong and at least 1,624 civilians were killed. The operation was the final major military operation carried out by the U.S. during the conflict, and the largest bombing campaign involving heavy bombers since World War II. Go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Linebacker_II

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