Baltimore Activist Alert -- August 11 - 14, 2025

21] Power Half-Hour for Gaza – Aug. 11 - 14

22] Baltimore Sign Wave – Aug. 11

23] Make Virginia bluer – Aug. 11

24] Fiber Arts group meeting – Aug. 11

25] Trans/Queer Liberation Campaign meeting – Aug. 11

26] Baltimore Sign Wave – Aug. 12

27] Judaization of the Holy City – Aug. 12

28] Gaza Humanitarian [sic] Foundation – Aug. 12

29] Rush hour protest – Aug. 12

30] Protest starvation in Gaza – Aug. 12

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21] – 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. 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., Aug. 11, Tues., Aug. 12, Wed., Aug. 13 & Thurs., Aug. 14. Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration

22] – Baltimore Sign Waves on Mondays, including Aug. 4, from 4 to 5 PM will be at West Northern Parkway & Roland Ave., Baltimore 21210. This will continue through August 25. Join in the waving of pro-democracy signs! Bring your sign or just show up. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/793151/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_closest

23] – On Mon., Aug. 11 from 6:30 to 8 PM ET, Silver Spring Progressive Action will do a virtual phone bank to Make VA Bluer –  by calling Virginia voters to help elect Abigail Spanberger as the next VA Governor and Stacey Carroll [HD 64] to the VA House of Delegates! Identify supporters, recruit local volunteers, and get fact sheets to help you. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/820481/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_of_type

24] – On Mon., Aug. 11 at 7 PM, the Metro D.C. DSA Virginia Fiber Arts group will meet at the Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW, 2nd Floor, WDC 20009. Email DCFiberArtsCollective@gmail.com

This group aims to promote, celebrate, and build community around the fiber arts, including knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidering, felting, and needle-punching. This group is be a way for members to develop fiber skills, mitigate burnout, and connect organizers who normally work in different realms. There is a plan to have sessions dedicated to learning skills such as darning and patching, as well as creating agitpop for the chapter and other radical causes, both for visibility and fundraising projects. A fiber arts community strengthens bonds as organizers and community members while curating a low-barrier space where organizers can exchange ideas and be creative.

This meeting will be the first knitting/crocheting bee, in which you will knit and crochet squares for quilted blankets in partnership with the Foundry Church. The blankets will be donated to those in need for this coming fall and winter. The goal for this is to knit/crochet enough squares for ten 5’ x 6’ blankets. You will be provided yarn, but, if you can, donate yarn, especially cotton/synthetic yarn (in case of wool allergies). Knitting needles/crochet hooks will be available, but please bring your own if you have them! RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/fiber-arts-group-meeting-monday-august-11th-7pm?link_id=70&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-august-1-2025&email_referrer=email_2841121&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-august-8-2025&&

25] – On Mon., Aug. 11 at 7 PM, get with a Trans/Queer Liberation Campaign biweekly virtual meeting. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/transqueer-liberation-bi-weekly-meeting-monday-august-8th-7pm?link_id=71&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-august-1-2025&email_referrer=email_2841121&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-august-8-2025&&

A link to attend this virtual event will be emailed upon RSVP. Email bawg@mdcdsa.org. Discuss ongoing efforts such as Project Sanctuary, the Gender & Name Change Clinics, and more!

26] –  On Tues., Aug. 5 from 8 to 9 AM, join Baltimore Sign Waves at Loch Raven Blvd. and Taylor Ave. to condemn the MAGA madness. This will continue through Aug. 26 RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/778718/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_closest

27] –  Friends of Sabeel North America [friends@fosna.org] on Tues., Aug. 12 at 1 PM ET ‌will host a discussion ‌on the Judaization of the Holy City: An Interactive Convening on the Jerusalem Metropolitan Bill.  At this interactive convening on Zoom, participants will be invited to generate interfaith wisdom for collective action opposing the Jerusalem Metropolitan Bill and the colonization of the West Bank. Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/f2lFgIxcTV2IOdGwhBjZBQ#/registration

28] – Defending Rights & Dissent continues to expose U.S. complicity in war crimes. Hear a conversation with Gaza Humanitarian Foundation whistleblower Anthony Aguilar on Tues., Aug. 12 at 3:30 PM ET. RSVP at https://secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/livestream-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-whistleblower?sourceid=1104610&emci=f65e5a8b-b873-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&emdi=271072d5-d173-f011-8dc9-6045bda9d96b&ceid=2461345

Anthony Aguilar has made headlines for blowing the whistle on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Now he's sharing his first-hand account of what he witnessed in Gaza with Defending Rights & Dissent. A retired U.S. Special Forces officer, Aguilar worked for UG Solutions, a contractor that partnered with GHF, a U.S- and Israeli-backed NGO established ostensibly to provide humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza. Yet according to the former Green Beret, these aid sites were “designed as death traps.” He resigned after witnessing war crimes and is speaking out in hopes of halting the atrocities.

29] –  On Tuesdays, from 4 to 6 PM ET, gather with Indivisible at 9706 Gorman Road, Howard County 20723 for a Rush Hour protest at the I95 Gorman Road Overpass. This event will continue through September 23. Silence Gives Consent Continued. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/772050/

30] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., Aug. 11 from 4:30 to 5 PM ET at 33rd and N. Charles Sts. to condemn the Israeli war crime of denying food to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.  Of course, Israel is involved in a plethora of war crimes both in Gaza and the West Bank. 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/.

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