Baltimore Activist Alert -- August 8 - 10, 2025

63] House for sale

64] Awakening Nuclear Consciousness – Aug. 8

65] Peace vigil at White House – Aug. 8

66] Women in Black vigil – Aug. 8

67] Support the people of Gaza – Aug. 8

68] Pro-democracy demo – Aug. 8

69] Phone bank for Spanberger for Governor – Aug. 8

70] Protest DOGE, support workers & Ukraine – Aug. 8

71] Rally for Democracy – Aug. 8

72] Enough is enough – Aug. 8

73] Join UNITE on picket line -- Aug. 8

74] Baltimore Vigil for Palestine – Aug. 8

75] NIH protest – Aug. 9

76] Nagasaki commemoration – Aug. 9

77] Tesla Takedown Party – Aug. 9

78] Tesla Takedown in Rockville – Aug. 9

79] Teach-in 80 Years Later – Aug. 10

80] Donations needed for the Silent Fallout project

81] Read Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"

82] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts

83] Do you need a doctor?

84] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

85] Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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63] – Judy Geisler, activist/teacher, is selling her home in Lauraville community. It has 4 bedrooms and 1 bath with a good basement. It is quiet and somewhat secluded for Btown since it is on a dead end street and backs into a field/forest. It is connected to an amazing extended green space with a stream. There is so much wild life here. Good neighbors, many teachers and activist live here. Safe neighborhood. Big, old trees everywhere. You can text her at 443 500 6733 if you are interested. It is priced at $190,000.

64] – On Fri., Aug. 8 at noon ET, Mary Olson [olson.mary@gmail.com] wants you to attend a webinar Awakening Nuclear Consciousness, a panel from Love Your Neighbor CC. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83928141397?pwd=hbIyt4vaVKReuGokrvrUUXR0ahf8HS.1#success

Kolawole Olaniyi, co-chair of loveyourneighborcc is from Nigeria and will moderate the panel. Some of the panelists are as follows: Rev. Yuel Bhatti, from Canada and Pakistan, will speak about the bombing of Japan; Peter Rickwood - Canada- publishes The Atomic Reporter; and Marylia Kelly is a longtime leader of Tri-Valley CAREs, monitoring and litigating against the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is developing nuclear weapons and working on new plutonium pits to trigger them. She will discuss taking positive action to halt the U.S. nuclear weapons buildup and support peace and disarmament.

65] – There is a weekly vigil at the White House on Fridays from noon to 1 PM sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker.  Email artlaffin@hotmail.com or call 202-882-9649. 

66] – Every Friday from noon to 1 PM, Baltimore Women in Black vigil for peace with men and women who live in Roland Park. WIB invites all to join, and any peace sign is welcome, such as "Defuse Nuclear War."  The vigil takes place outside Roland Park Place at 830 West 40th Street and Elm Street. Parking is free at RPP or at the Rotunda across the street. Contact Ann Vinup at annvinup@gmail.com.

67] – The American Friends Service Committee holds an Action Hour every Friday at noon ET.  You’ll get updates from AFSC staff in Gaza, hear what’s happening on Capitol Hill, and get resources for your activism. Together, contact Congress to demand an arms embargo on Israel, a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, and fully funded humanitarian aid for Palestinians. Our elected officials need to keep hearing from us. RSVP at https://afsc.org/actionhour?emci=822f3fb8-241a-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=20221eff-f41a-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=764241

68] – Baltimore Sign Waves on Fridays from 2:30 to 3:30 PM at 5129 Roland Ave., Baltimore 21210 will do a pro-democracy demo.  Bring your sign or just show up! Sign wave first in a large median near Roland Park Elementary, Roland Park Country, & the Gilman School pick up area. Then when traffic slows make your way up to Northern Parkway and finish the day there. This will continue through August 29! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/793151/

69] – Phone bank for Spanberger for Governor on Fridays, 4 to 6 PM ET, through Oct. 31 at the Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave., McLean, VA 22101. Join in to make calls to community members! Learn more about our neighbors and what issues are most important to them right now. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/812215/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_of_type

70] – Protest DOGE/Elon and Support our Federal Workers and Ukraine on Fridays, through August 29, from 4:15 to 6:15 PM ET at Gorman Road 95 Overpass, Howard County 20723. Gather again on the 95 Overpass, and bring signs! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/762787/

71] –On Fri., Aug. 8 from 5 to 6 PM, Rally for Democracy with Indivisible at Georgia Ave. & Forest Glen Road, NE Corner of intersection, Forest Glen 20910. Bring your signs in support of government workers, immigrants, the rule of law, the planet, our children, and for jobs. For parking, go behind Forest Glen Medical Center, 9801 Georgia Ave. Enter drive way from Forest Glen Road. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/807326/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations

72] – On Fridays, including Aug. 8, at 5 PM ET, join Indivisible to say Enough is Enough at the east side of 16th St. between 2nd Avenue and Grace Church Road, Silver Spring 20910. This will continue through Aug. 29. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/781857/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations

Join your neighbors every Friday evening. Bring flags, signs, and energy. Make a stand for Democracy and the Rule of Law and signal to passing motorists that enough is enough! 

73] – Join an Informational Picket at Le Diplomate, 1601 14th. St. NW, WDC 20009 on Fri., Aug. 8 from 5:30 to 7 PM. UNITE HERE Local 25 is holding informational pickets outside of STARR's Le Diplomate to let the public know the workers there do not have a union contract!

Metro DC DSA's Labor Working Group is mobilizing the community and its members to come out for ongoing pickets in support of the restaurant workers organizing to join UNITE HERE Local 25. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/informational-picket-at-le-diplomate-88?link_id=86&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-july-25-2025&email_referrer=email_2832950&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-august-1-2025&&

74] – The Baltimore Vigil for Palestine takes place on Fridays from 5:30 to 7 PM through Aug. 8. The Baltimore Vigil for Palestine is dedicated to building the movement for the emancipation of oppressed peoples from Baltimore to Palestine. Meet at E. 33rd St and Hillen Road, right off Lake Montebello. Visit https://linktr.ee/Baltimore2Palestine?emci=773af0f6-c74a-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=c765ba90-cc4a-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=4262660

75] – Come join in to commemorate, mourn, and joyfully protest the devastating cuts to jobs, science, funding, patient care, and future cures at the National Institutes of Health on Sat., Aug. 9 and through Aug. 30, from 10 AM to 11 AM at Medical Center Metro Station, 8810 Rockville Pike, Bethesda. Black attire is encouraged! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/795983

76] – On Sat., August 9 from 10 AM to noon, gather outside the White House to commemorate the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.  This will be organized by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker and other anti-nuclear organizations.  Contact John Whitehead at jwwhiteh@yahoo.com

77] – Get over to the Tesla Takedown on Saturdays, Aug. 9, 16 & 23, from 11 AM to noon at the Rockville Tesla, 1300 Rockville Pike, Rockville 20852. Email maryland@thirdact.org. Musk is responsible for mass suffering and death. And he will cause more if we give him the chance to recover his reputation. Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. No violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of your First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/812078/

78] – Get over to the Tesla Takedown on Saturdays, Aug. 9, 16, 23 & 20, from 11 AM to 12:30 PM at Tesla Silver Spring, 2320 Broadbirch Dr., Silver Spring 20852. Email maryland@thirdact.org. Musk is responsible for mass suffering and death. And he will cause more if we give him the chance to recover his reputation. Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. No violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of your First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/771738/

79] – On August 10 from 1 – 3 PM at The Parkway, 5 W. North Ave., Baltimore 21201, attend a Teach-In -- 80 years later: the atomic bomb, Maryland and nuclear abolition. Sponsors include: Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility, Maryland Peace Action, Prevent Nuclear War-Maryland, Asian Arts and Culture Center, & Pax Christi Baltimore. This teach-in will remember these events through a series of short films featuring: Marylanders who had a direct part in the bombing and aftermath, an interview with one of the most famous hibakusha (survivors), an animated depiction of what nuclear war would mean in 2025 and local and worldwide efforts to prevent nuclear war and achieve nuclear abolition.  Knowledgeable panelists will answer your questions. The event is free and open to the public; but registration is required: https://www.mobilize.us/backfromthebrink/event/814062/

80] – Hideaki Ito [silentfalloutproject.org@gmail.com] wants to give you an update about the Silent Fallout Project. It has been more than five months since Silent Fallout was screened in Baltimore. He wants to express his sincere gratitude to all who supported the project during its US tour and hosted screenings. The film was shown in 20 locations over 43 days to over 600 people. The film aims to raise awareness about the reality of radiation contamination across the American continent and how many Americans are unknowingly exposed. It helps people understand that they are impacted by this issue and then use the US as a starting point to spark a global conversation about radiation.

Currently, the project is facing a deficit of $100K, and its future is uncertain. However, Ito is determined to raise funds and continue its activities. In 2025, which marks the 80th year since the birth of the atomic bomb, there is a plan to embark on a European screening tour, produce a new film, conduct a second US tour, and host a large-scale event on August 6th. Make a donation at https://www.silentfalloutproject.org/donation

81] – David Eberhardt was a member of the Baltimore Four with Father Philip Berrigan, Tom Lewis and Rev. James Mengel.  The group poured blood on draft files on October 27, 1967.  They would be convicted and sentenced to prison.

He has written a book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"- documenting the Baltimore Four action and many others up to and including the most recent Plowshares action – Kings Bay Plowshares 7.  Dave printed new copies of For All the Saints, a Protest Primer- 250+ pp w photos-therefore #'s 351-400 making it o so collectable with two Berrigan book reviews added. The books are signed, and the price remains $25. Will send free if need be- he is not in it for the money! If you want one, send him a check, or contact Dave Eberhardt, 4 Hadley Square North, Baltimore, MD 21218 by email at 1941mireille@gmail.com. 

82] -- This is A PLEA TO CONVINCE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY TO OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW. The world reached a historic milestone on January 22, 2021: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW] entered into force and become binding international law -- https://www.icanw.org/the_treaty.

Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland has called attention to the growing danger of nuclear war and the outrageous $1.7 trillion dollars we are spending to upgrade the nuclear arsenal. On July 18, 2017, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Navy - affiliated research center received a seven-year, $92 million contract to continue its systems engineering and research-and-development services for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. Help convince JHU to renounce nuclear weapons contracts. Contact the president, Ron Daniels, to urge him to reject all nuclear weapons contracts: Office of the President, 242 Garland Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218.  Call his office at (410) 516-8068 or email president@jhu.edu.

83] – Yousef Zarbalian [EastWestRheum@gmail.com] started his own medical practice in December before the pandemic hit. It is called East-West Medicine and Rheumatology, and its website is EastWestMD.com.  Yousef is licensed in Maryland and Virginia. He is doing primary care as well as rheumatologic care (focusing on joint problems and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and sjogren's).  He is offering telemedicine visits, and he has very reasonable rates for uninsured individuals.  He makes use of herbs (which can be sent directly to patients from the herbal dispensary) as well as prescribing medications to their local pharmacy if needed.  

84]- If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs, records, tarps and table cloths, contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.

85] -- A Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil takes place every day in Lafayette Park, 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 24 hours a day, since June 3, 1981. Go to http://prop1.org; call 202-210-3886.

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, and 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.

“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan