Baltimore Activist Alert -- February 3 - 6, 2025

18] No more Medicaid cuts – Feb. 3

19] Power Half-Hour for Gaza – Feb. 3 - 6

20] Abolition Working Group – Feb. 3

21] Trans/Queer Liberation Campaign – Feb. 3

22] Federal Unionists Network – Feb. 3

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18] – United Workers [info@unitedworkers.org] on Mon., Feb. 3 will join a National Call-in Day: Tell Congress that Medicaid Cuts = Death! 25 million people were purged from Medicaid in the last two years. ‌ ‌Now, the Trump administration plans to use Medicaid funding to pay for tax cuts. Billions of our tax dollars go to war profiteers, and now they want to take more. Tax cuts for billionaires shouldn't be paid for by cutting our healthcare! Call members of Congress and tell them no more cuts to Medicaid! You will receive a call script and the information for how to contact your members of Congress. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/forms/organize-to-protect-and-expand-medicaid-national-call-in-days-to-congress?source=direct_link&

19] –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. 3 through Thurs., Feb. 6.  Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration

20] – The Northern Virginia DSA Abolition Working Group meets virtually every other Monday at 7 PM ET.  The next meeting is Mon., Feb. 3. Fill out the Interest Survey to get involved with NOVA Abolition: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfEcShQX51IL2Z1sNff7bqiYz68vAtPjUxpTuIrfvAK8iBDqA/viewform?link_id=40&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events-195&email_referrer=email_2590813&email_subject=nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events The group organizes on issues ranging from abolition of the police and the carceral state to migrant justice. 

21] – The Metro D.C. DSA [info@mdcdsa.org] has a Trans/Queer Liberation Campaign (BAWG) which will meet virtually on Mon., Feb. 3 at 7 PM ET. RSVP to get the Zoom link at https://actionnetwork.org/events/transqueer-liberation-bi-weekly-meeting-8?link_id=59&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-january-3-2025-2&email_referrer=email_2593574&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-january-24-2025

This is a bi-weekly meeting. Discuss ongoing efforts such as Project Sanctuary, our Gender & Name Change Clinics, and more!

22] – On Mon., Feb. 3 at 8 PM Et, the Federal Unionists Network hosts a follow up to the first roundtable hosted on Dec. 16th. If you missed the first, you can watch that event here: https://youtu.be/5tnef2qRQQg

 Just like the first one, the roundtable discussion will be followed by workshop sessions in virtual breakout rooms for federal workers looking to get involved to protect the civil service, jobs, agencies and the public served. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/2uhjJ0d6SoisMuJpT4g8ug#/registration

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