23] Stop the execution of two Kurdish women
24] Call in to save a food
pantry -- Feb. 11
25] Power Half-Hour for Gaza – Feb. 11 – 14
26] Russia out of Ukraine – Feb. 11
27] Labor Working Group meeting -- Feb. 11
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23] –The Islamic regime in Iran is using execution verdicts as a
desperate act to suppress peaceful demonstrations and protests due to the
disastrous economic condition in Iran. The judicial system in Iran
executes innocent activist and individuals by forced confessions, torture and
sham trials. The unjust death sentences for Pakhshan Azizi and Varisheh
Moradi is another act of desperation by the Islamic Republic’s use of capital
punishment to suppress members of minority communities and terrorize Iranian
women who are fighting tirelessly for their rights as equal citizens of
Iran. You are asked to show your urgent support for contacting the United
Nations Human Rights office and Iranian mission at United Nations to demand the
Islamic republic of Iran stop the unjust execution verdicts for both women and
hundreds of other prisoners on death row in Iran. These prisoners must receive
fair trials according to international judicial standards, including the right
for all prisoners to independent counsels.
Contact the permanent mission of Iran, 622 Third Avenue, 34th Floor, NEW YORK, NY 10017 -- https://geneva.mfa.gov.ir or Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Palais Wilson, 52 rue des Pâquis, CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerland -- ohchr-InfoDesk@un.org
24] – The United Workers [info@unitedworkers.org] on Tues., Feb. 11, on the Catholic Church’s World Day of the Sick, will be holding a Call-In Day to the Director of Parish Renewal Julie St. Croix, to demand that the Baltimore Archdiocese reverse their decision of closing Transfiguration’s Food Pantry in Southwest Baltimore. Since December, over 500 parishioners, pantry goers, and community members signed a petition calling on Director of Parish Renewal Julie St. Croix and the Baltimore Archdiocese to keep the Transfiguration Pantry open. However, soon after the holidays UW was told that it could no longer use a parking lot to feed the over 500 poor and working class people who depend every month on this food pantry. This community already lost their means of sustaining their spiritual needs with the closing of Transfiguration’s Community Church, now their access to fresh food to sustain their physical health is being denied. Go to https://www.unitedworkers.org/
Please call Director Julie St. Croix at 410-547-5488 and demand that the Baltimore Archdiocese permit Transfigurations food pantry to stay open and to meet with United Workers to further the goals of the Right to Health Campaign. Here is a sample script: We know that hunger and lack of fresh food in our communities leads to sickness, chronic health issues, and premature death. As the Catholic Church celebrates its 33rd World Day of the Sick in this Jubilee Year 2025, we are calling on the Baltimore Archdiocese to do more than offer prayers, but to use their resources and power to promote hope and healing, instead of more death and sickness. We have a right to live, a right to health! Meet with United Workers.
25] – Jewish Voice for Peace is doing a Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & outrage into action to stop a genocide. A year into the genocide in Gaza, we are overwhelmed with sorrow and rage. There are no words to describe the devastating pain of the past year in which the Israeli military has killed over 44,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 17,000 children. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court have both declared that Israel must stop the genocidal acts being committed on the Palestinian people. And the U.S. government is actively supporting the Israeli military as it wreaks devastation on the over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. JVP continues to come together as a political community in its daily half-hour to take action, Monday through Friday, for the past year. Join in and take collective action to demand an arms embargo to Israel, immediate end to the genocide, a lasting ceasefire and an end to Israeli siege, apartheid, occupation, and oppression of Palestinians and Lebanon. All are welcome. All are needed. Get involved at 3 PM ET on Tues., Feb. 11 through Fri., Feb. 14. Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration
26] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., Feb. 11 from 4:30 to 5 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.
27] – The Metro DC DSA Labor Working Group is meeting on Tues., Feb. 11 from 6 to 7:30 PM at the Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW, WDC 20008. Contact Zachary T. at 914-357-0696. Workers' rights are under attack! From the Trump administration's threats against workers' right to organize, to corporate union busting, to the DC City Council's attempt to subvert the will of DC voters and roll back minimum wage protections. The Labor Working Group is a holding monthly hybrid meeting to discuss these challenges and map out our plan of action to combat them. Zoom link will be sent after you sign up. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/labor-working-group-february-meeting?link_id=76&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-january-31-2025&email_referrer=email_2609889&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-7-2025 Labor Working Group February Meeting
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
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