Baltimore Activist Alert -- November 3 - 4, 2026

 Thank you for signing Baltimore Nonviolence Center on the October 20th nationwide Day of Action. Rallies in communities across the country sent Congress a clear message: Block the funding, enforce the constitution, investigate war crimes, and support a peace deal: the American people want this war to end.

 

To keep our organizing moving forward, we're launching a running No Iran War / United for Just Peace Coalition Call. We'll meet every other Tuesday including Nov. 3 at 11 AM ET on Zoom. 

 

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Each call will feature coalition experts from Washington, D.C. and around the country sharing:

 

• On-the-ground updates
• Legislative priorities and where key votes & vehicles stand
• Grassroots planning for our next large in-person action & small actions
• Emergency response planning if the situation escalates

Thank you for everything you and Baltimore Nonviolence Center are doing for peace & justice. Etan Mabourakh 

 

NIAC | Senior Advisor for Organizing

 

Brooklyn For Peace| Executive Director

 

DMV advocates for Guantanamo inmates and survivors will vigil on Wed., Nov. 4 at noon at the White House. Email Helen at h.schietinger@verizon.net.

 

CCAN <info@chesapeakeclimate.org> is inviting you to a FREE Book Talk on Big Tech's data center threat at Red Emma's, 3128 Greenmount Ave., Baltimore 21218, on Wed., Nov. 4 at 7 PM. Data centers are, quite possibly, THE top issue this election season. Their out-of-control expansion in Maryland and across the country threatens to increase electricity demand and drive-up utility bills, hijack precious water and land resources, and increase pollution from dirty energy. Come hear about the forces behind the AI data center boom from author Paris Marx’s new book, Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires. RSVP at https://withfriends.co/event/31017084/paris_marx_presents_hyperscale_the_ambition_and_excess_of_big_techs_data_empires_in_conversation_w_dillon_mahmoudi

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph.: 443-761-5899; 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

Vasily Arkhipov Day: After 64 Years, The Nuclear Threat Returns

 Vasily Arkhipov Day: After 64 Years, The Nuclear Threat Returns

A Virtual Teach-In on the Current Nuclear Crisis

Tuesday, October 27, 7 to 9pm

 

Dear Friends,

 

Tuesday, October 27 marks the 64th anniversary of the day Vasily Arkhipov single-handedly saved the world from nuclear annihilation. Off the coast of Cuba, the US Navy was attacking the nuclear torpedo equipped Soviet submarine B-59 with depth charges. The ship’s captain gave the order to fire the torpedoes at the Navy flotilla. As the flotilla commander, Vasily Arkhipov countermanded the order, thus preventing a likely thermo-nuclear exchange. Today, Vasily Arkhipov is known as “The Man Who Saved the World.”

 

According to many experts, the World is again on the verge of nuclear war. The immediate causes are the Ukraine War bringing Russia and the US/NATO to the precipice of direct military confrontation, and the rapidly spreading conflagration in Southwest Asia. And, the issues of climate disruption, resource depletion, a rapidly changing geo-political landscape, and the danger of impending world-wide economic collapse greatly exacerbate the threat. The Doomsday Clock is currently set to 85 seconds to midnight, the closest ever!

 

On Thursday, October 27, Vasily Arkhipov Day, the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee is sponsoring a Virtual Teach-In on the Renewed threat of nuclear war. We are fortunate to have an outstanding panel to discuss the situation:

 

Peter Kuznick: Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States.

 

Ray McGovern: Retired CIA officer and founding member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.

 

Arjun Makhijani: President (retired) of the Institute for Energy & Environmental Research and Co-Founder of the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee. Arjun is the Principal Editor and co-author of Nuclear Wastelands, co-author of Target Japan, and other books.

 

John Steinbach: Long-time community activist and organizer for the Hiroshima Nagasaki Peace Committee will moderate the discussion.

 

Following the presentations, there will be community time for comments and questions. The program will be recorded and posted on the Committee website <hiroshimapeacecommittee.net>

 

Please use the Zoom link to participate.

 

John Steinbach is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

 

Topic: Vasily Arkhipov Day Zoom Meeting

 

Time: Oct 27, 2026 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

 

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Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph.: 443-761-5899; 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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Vasily Arkhipov Day: Aefter 64 Years, The Nuclear Threat Returns A Virtual Teach-In on the Current Nuclear Crisis Tuesday, October 27, 7 to 9pm Dear Friends,

Dick Ochs cannot handle any criticism of Putin

Project Lakhta was a success

 As usual Dick Ochs, who is a supporter of Vlad Putin, will continue to ignore rampant knowledge of Russian involvement in the 2016 presidential election.  He ignores the facts, and remains convinced that Putin would never do wrong. It was sad to read this: "Putin did not get Trump elected. Any election interference by Putin was minuscule and insignificant as stated by experts."  You should note that Dick frequents disinformation sites.  Of course, his "experts" remain unknown.

   Let us start with Jill Stein and Peter Kuznick, as well as Michael Flynn, a criminal in Trump’s administration, who received a pardon. Where were they in December 2015?  They were in Moscow sitting at a table with Vlad the Impaler. Why would you sit at a table with a war criminal? See the photograph online.

 

 Putin started to spin the web which eventually placed his ally, Donald Trump, in the White House. It was called Project Lakhta. Stein was there as Putin was aware that the Green Party candidate would take votes away from Hillary Clinton.  And Flynn, a long-time con artist, was there as a grifter willing to sell his soul.  Also, he wanted a role to play in the future Trump administration. He did get that job, was convicted and pardoned. 

 

  Russian intelligence was working with Wikileaks to release DNC emails which indicated the powers-to-be did not want to support Bernie Sanders for president. As Trump cheered for Wikileaks, Bernie supporters did not vote for Hillary. In battleground states—specifically Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan—Stein's total vote counts exceeded Donald Trump's margin of victory over Hillary Clinton. Roger Stone, also convicted and pardoned, was Trump’s point person with Wikileaks.

 

Russian state media outlets like RT and Sputnik actively covered and promoted Stein's campaign messages to critique U.S. foreign policy and target Clinton's voter base. Also, a Russian troll farm created thousands of social media accounts that purported to be Americans supporting Trump and opposing Clinton. There is much more evidence that Putin pulled off a coup, but let me close with a Baltimore connection.

 

 Rev. Heber Brown of the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church was contacted online by Blacktivist, which was a front for the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russian government-funded troll farm based in St. Petersburg. The plan was to convince Black voters to support Trump.  Rev. Brown eventually recognized it was a Russian scam.

 

 Of course, this evidence will not sway Dick, a true believer.  Like Trump's diplomat on the make, Steve Witkoff, Dick believes Putin is a humanitarian. I had to respond to his false statements, just in case someone also believed that Putin could do no wrong.  Kagiso, Max

 

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph.: 443-761-5899; 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

The film Unabomber left me disappointed

 The film Unabomber left me disappointed

 For 15 years, we gathered on Mondays near Baltimore’s prison complex, which included a building where executions took place.  This vigil was organized by the Jonah House and Viva House Catholic Worker.  It ended when the State of Maryland on May 2, 2013, repealed the death penalty. This was a great and hard-fought victory.

 

  On Netflix I watched the 2026 film Unabomber, directed by Janus Metz Pedersen about Ted Kaczynski. The film stars Russell Crowe, as Professor Henry Murray, Annabelle Wallis, his assistant, Christiano Morgan, and Shailene Woodley, as an FBI agent.

 

In 1958, 16-year-old math wizard, Theodore Kaczynski enrolled at Harvard University and Murray and Morgan got Ted involved in a series of psychological experiments. The film tries to make the point that these experiments caused young Ted to become isolated from his friends and family and to develop a strong opposition to a technological society.

 

First, we see that Ted’s relationship with Professor Murray ended badly. Next, Ted comes home to Chicago for a visit with his mom and dad, Polish immigrants, and his younger brother David.  At dinner, he insults his father for being a working-class stiff.  Having grown up in Erie, PA in a Polish American family and neighborhood, I found the scene insulting.  Almost all the dads in the neighborhood were working class, and they and their spouses emphasized to their children the importance of getting an education. 

 

After Ted graduates from Harvard, the film moves into the 1990s as the FBI is befuddled by terror attacks by the Unabomber.  Eventually, the Unabomber issues a manifesto, and despite arguments against publishing it, it appears in The Washington Post. And David recognizes that the manifesto was written by his brother. Again, the film is misleading as the agency is reluctant to believe the brother.

  It gets more ahistorical as Agent Miller goes to Montana and sees Ted come out of his cabin with a rifle. And the tension mounts, but Ted does not shoot her.

 Getting back to reality, in 2003 at a Lutheran Church in south Baltimore, David Kaczynski and Bud Welch (whose daughter was killed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing), told the audience that capital punishment does not bring healing or peace to families affected by violence. In fact, Welch wanted to kill Timothy McVeigh but eventually rejected revenge.  David told us he contacted the FBI to indicate he knew the Unabomber. But he wanted a promise that the government would not seek the death penalty. The FBI agreed but later reneged on the promise.  

As a film buff, I accept the idea of dramatizing a true story.  But in this film the premise is that Ted became the Unabomber because of the experiments at Harvard. To make this argument, the film ignores the back story that Ted went to Michigan University and got an MA and Ph.D. Then he taught at Berkeley in the late 1960s and did not move to a cabin in Montana until 1971.

 

I do not know what caused Ted to send letter bombs to scientists. I do question the idea of sending a sixteen-year-old to a university quite far from his family. But I think a better film would have left the question of how Ted became the Unabomber unanswered. Kagiso, Max

 

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph.: 443-761-5899; 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