56] Peace vigil at White House – Jan. 16
57] Women in Black vigil –
Jan. 16
58] Support the people of
Gaza – Jan. 16
59] Enough is enough – Jan. 16
60] Rent
Stabilization Town Hall – Jan. 16
61] Thinking about running
for office? – Jan. 17
62] Sign wave at Harford
Mall – Jan. 17
63] Sign waving in Annapolis – Jan. 17
64] BES to Blacks and Wax
Museum – Jan. 17 & 18
65] Silent worship – Jan.
17
66] Tesla Takedown in
Rockville – Jan. 17
67] End Wars meeting – Jan. 17
68] Indivisible Odenton
meeting – Jan. 17
69] Join DSA – Jan. 17
70] Donations needed for the Silent Fallout project
71] Read Dave
Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"
72] Tell JHU
president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts
73] Do you need
a doctor?
74] Donate books, videos,
DVDs and records
75] Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil
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56]
– 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.
57] – 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.
58]
– 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, 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
59]
– On Fri,
Jan. 16 from 4
to 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 event
will continue through Feb. 20. 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!
60] – Join a hybrid Rent Stabilization Town Hall
on Friday, January 16, from 6:30–8 PM, featuring leaders from Montgomery County
who successfully enacted rent stabilization. Hear from Councilmember Will
Jawando and Councilmember Izola Shaw, ask questions, and learn how this fight
can move forward in Frederick. It will take place at the Asbury United
Methodist Church, 101 West All Saints, Frederick, 21701. RSVP at https://pgmd.us/FrederickRentStabilization
This event is sponsored by: Frederick County Progressives,
Frederick DSA, Progressive Maryland, Nigerians in Frederick, Rockville Renters
United and Frederick County Young Dems. RSVP here to join in virtually: https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/879910/?emci=f45d964a-f7ef-f011-8194-000d3a11f903&emdi=9d7bfcc6-09f0-f011-8194-000d3a11f903&ceid=136680
61] – Thinking
about running for office in 2026—or just curious about what’s on the ballot?
Join Shore Progress for Bagels & Buddies on Sat., Jan. 17 from 9 to 11 AM
at Brick Row Market, 120 N. Division St., Salisbury 21801
for a casual gathering to learn about local offices in Wicomico County and how
you can get involved as a candidate, volunteer, or supporter. Enjoy free
bagels, good conversation, and connect with local organizers who can help you
take the next step. Sign up here
https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/883458/?emci=f45d964a-f7ef-f011-8194-000d3a11f903&emdi=9d7bfcc6-09f0-f011-8194-000d3a11f903&ceid=136680
62] – Join sign waving on Saturdays, Jan. 17 & 24 from 10 AM
to noon at Harford Mall Macy’s parking lot, 696 Belair Road, Bel Air 21014.
Park in the front of Macy’s. Create visibility with sign waving at the
intersection of Belair Road and Rt. 24 in Bel Air. Bring your signs, costumes,
noise makers and especially your voices to draw attention to this fascist
regime. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/840421/
63] – Chesapeake
Indivisible is doing a Sign Waving protest on Sat., Jan. 17 from 11 AM to 1 PM
near the Annapolis Mall sidewalks at the corner of Bestgate Road and 2082
Generals Highway, Annapolis 21401. This event will continue through March 28.
RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/chesapeakeindivisible/event/834849/
Trump
launched military strikes and kidnapped Venezuela's president - without
congressional approval. He's also threatened Cuba, Mexico, and Greenland. The
Constitution requires congressional approval for war. Trump ignored it. The
demands when Congress returns: Hold Trump accountable for violating the
Constitution, and halt all further military aggression. Here is the mobilize
link: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/880353/
64] – Members
of the
Baltimore Ethical Society, on Sat., Jan 17 from 11 AM
to 12:30 PM, will visit the National
Great Blacks in Wax, 1601-03 E. North Ave.,
Baltimore 21213. Call 410-563-3404. The Blacks in Wax Museum is filled with amazingly lifelike wax figures
depicting key individuals or scenes of life from African American history. The
Museum’s mission is to stimulate an interest in African American history by
revealing the little-known, often neglected facts of history; using great
leaders as role models for youth; improving race relations by dispelling myths
of racial inferiority and superiority; supporting and working with community
groups, schools, and other organizations to provide opportunities for youth to
pursue careers in the museum industry; and promoting economic development in
the East North Avenue corridor. If you want to come, sign up by emailing president@bmorethical.org
On Sun.,
Jan. 18 at 10:30
AM, BES will gather by Zoom for Great Blacks
in Wax visit: a
Conversation about Race in the US. Begin with a guided discussion among those who
visited the Great Blacks in Wax Museum the previous day, then open the floor up
for questions and comments by all attending. The museum's displays vary from
painful to inspiring, and our reactions to what we've learned and our responses
to seeing actual figures as opposed to just drawings or photographs along with
the often detailed explanations will be illuminating even for those who did not
attend. Join the Zoom Meeting:
https://zoom.us/j/93214062778?pwd=dENwemN3QjJrR3A1MlRCVnVSc2JHdz09 The meeting ID is
932 1406 2778 with a passcode: 609561. To join the Zoom by phone, call +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC).
65] – On
Sat., Jan. 17 from 10:45 AM to noon in Lafayette Square (meetup at central
statue), 16th St. NW, WDC, join AFSC for silent public worship. This is Love as
Action: Resisting Authoritarianism and Bearing Witness, Building Hope. Quaker
public witness has stood in opposition to cruel and authoritarian actions in
our country before. It is time to show this love in action again. Join the
American Friends Service Committee and DC Area Friends to bear witness and show
resistance to the authoritarian actions in our country. Visit https://www.mobilize.us/afsc/event/885380/
66] – Get over to the
Tesla Takedown on Saturdays, Jan. 17 through Feb. 21, 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/
67] –Dan
O'Neal [dan@pdamerica.org] wants you to know that on Sat., Jan. 17 at noon ET
Progressive Democrats of America will hold a Zoom with the End Wars Working
Group. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86902426390?pwd=ePrBGamhqRhbZ7C5843iOUhidNXb2f.1
68] – Indivisible
Odenton will hold its first meeting on Sat., Jan. 17 from 1 to 2 PM ET. This
event's address is private. Sign up for more details. The agenda will be:
Introductions: Getting to know each other; Quick discussion of purpose: Combat
DJT & Project 2025 destruction of democracy in USA; Possible selection of
leaders; Plans for what to do; and Future meetings. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/887443/
69]
– On Sat., Jan. 17 at 4 PM at Red Emma’s, 3128 Greenmount Ave.,
Baltimore 21218, join the Greater Baltimore Democratic Socialists of America
for an introduction to socialism and the DSA! Discuss the theory of change, why
it centers on working people like you and me, and get to know one another and
the chapter a bit better. This is how to build a movement capable of making
concrete change in all of our lives! RSVP RSVP https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe5fBhT5O69eNMJyfGOgbnp4KmdlKvb4I8XUz-3WJ42_EJ5XA/viewform
70] – Hideaki Ito
[silentfalloutproject.org@gmail.com] wants to give you an update about the
Silent Fallout Project. 2025 was a successful year. Now there are plans for
2026. Make a donation at https://www.silentfalloutproject.org/donation
71] – 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.
72] -- 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.
73] – 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.
74]-
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.
75] -- 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
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