Sunday, February 23, 2025

Baltimore Activist Alert -- February 24 - 27, 2025

22] Power Half-Hour for Gaza – Feb. 24 - 27

23] Forget Genocide -- Feb. 24

24] For Gaza Children – Feb. 24

25] Trump’s Funding Freeze – Feb. 24

26] Pray for Vanguard -- Feb. 25

27] Anti-apartheid movements – Feb. 25

28] Text for the climate – Feb. 25

29] Support Ukraine, not Trump – Feb. 25

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22] –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 Mon., Feb. 24 through Thurs., Feb. 27.  Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration

 

23] – Eradicating Gaza: How to Remember and Forget Genocide will be examined virtually on Mon., Feb. 24 from 6 to 7:30 PM ET with a discussion with Israeli-American historian Prof. Omer Bartov. As we've been witnessing a genocide in Gaza for the past 15 months, it's timely to reflect on the politics of the use of the word "genocide", and the use and misuse of the memory of the Holocaust in WW2.  Prof. Bartov will also expand our thinking about the development of Zionism over time: as a settler colonization effort, as a mechanism for helping Jewish refugees and as an ideological national movement. RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/TYj_fwAYtUmLiDhubrd4Dw2?contactdata=XeT9xMRh1FH7QP+nytxkJH7Qc2iNqbxOUuU7r87eicn+0gPQRMYA+Sr1zrdoHqDHB53YWivBrABMTfgoCUkDk1DH5VUuBQ+XOe80Kunqvsd8wiyGjZkVRCLgr66EBF6+s5+mlYLeVgIMt9RT0XxA1zZ%2fzgcBEFIydkMkwcuJXtGbqESVrhQRtxIuq9xZ10BsU3Uyd9O5HRYMJraxgLrz6mtiSWMl3e6hD3sS%2fqBqGWU%3d&ms=email-nl-250220&emci=2ab3d841-d3ef-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=2eab26c8-eeef-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=320042

 

24] –On Mon., Feb. 24 at 6 PM at Busboys and Poets, 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW, WDC 20009, join editors Haki R. Madhubuti and Keith Gilyard to learn why our children are the stewards of our liberation. When we prioritize our children, we are also prioritizing a world shaped by peace, safety, love and justice. When we protect our children, we are also protecting our most beautiful legacies and coveted traditions. When we invest in our children, we are also investing in our most audacious freedom dreams and our most impossible future worlds. The children of Gaza, and indeed all of Palestine, are no different. The editors will promote a book FOR GAZA CHILDREN. Please note that this event is IN PERSON and WILL be livestreamed. RSVP at https://www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-evt-44449672/#

 

25] – On Mon., Feb. 24 at 8 PM ET, join Rep. Rosa DeLauro and leaders in the clean air and clean energy advocacy community to hear how you can fight back against Trump’s illegal funding freeze continues to impact everyday Americans nationwide. We must energize and mobilize to take action and help fight back for our communities, our planet, and our democracy. Join in to hear how you can contribute to the fight, and how uplifting real stories of the human consequences of the freeze helps members of Congress to push back.  RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1417395642563/WN_Noz2oG-AT1uRavN5Jf_kLg#/registration?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-fight-back-against-trumps-reckless-funding-freeze&email_referrer=email_2626677___subject_3142768&email_subject=join-us-to-see-how-you-can-stand-up-for-climate

 

26] – Stop the Money Pipeline [info@stopthemoneypipeline.com] on Tues., Feb. 25  at 10 AM ET wants you to know about an event by the Earth Quaker Action Team in Center City, Philadelphia. Meet for worship as direct action near the home of Vanguard CEO Salim Ramji. Pray for the victims of unnatural disasters fueled by Vanguard’s investments and for Ramji to find the courage to take action.  If you can’t attend in person, you’re invited to gather virtually on Wed., Feb. 26 at 8 AM ET for a meeting for worship during Vanguard’s annual shareholder meeting. RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/XGQtaz7f9k2oGxh6g8VTjg2?link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-looking-for-some-spiritually-grounded-action-right-now-join-us-225&email_referrer=email_2618085&email_subject=looking-for-some-spiritually-grounded-action-right-now-join-us-225

 

27] – On Tues., Feb. 25 at noon ET, take note that from the U.S. to South Africa to Palestine, anti-apartheid movements have mobilized communities to oppose legal systems of racial injustice and oppression. Join the AFSC monthly Apartheid-Free Communities webinar to learn more. Hear from anti-apartheid activists and liberation theologians Rev. Wendell Griffen and Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak as well as Palestinian activist Ms. Shadia Qubti. Learn about the contours of apartheid across countries, how anti-apartheid movements can learn from one another, and how we can continue to build international solidarity to hold Israel accountable for its war crimes against the Palestinian people like we do other apartheid regimes. Register at https://www.mobilize.us/us-palestineactivism/event/753224/?utm_source=weekendreading0222&utm_medium=email&ms=EMA25WR0222&emci=a9820364-c3ef-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=c0cf772d-21f1-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=764241

 

28] – Join the virtual Distributed Texting Team, hosted by Chesapeake Climate Action Network / Action Fund on Tues., Feb. 25 from 3 to 8 PM ET.  Send texts to CCAN members and voters to help support critical climate legislation like the RENEW Act. The next texting date is Mon., March 3 from noon to 8 PM ET. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/746881/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_from_org

 

29] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., Feb. 25 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.

 

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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