Sunday, March 13, 2022

Baltimore Activist Alert -- March 14 - 19, 2022

18] Emergency Election Protection Coalition – March 14

19] Take on White Supremacy – March 14

20] Organize to Win Call – March 14

21] Gaza in Focus – March 15

22] Make Calls with the DNC National Call Crew – March 15 - 19

23] Putin, Stop the Killing demo – March 15

24] Text on behalf of the Environmental Human Rights Amendment! – March 15

25] Reentry: Where Do You Stand? – March 15

26] Letters to the Editor Workshop - Promote the Vote 2022 – March 15

27] Make Calls with the DNC National Call Crew – March 15 - 19

28] Progressive Prince George’s chapter meeting – March 15

29] Our Revolution phone bank – March 15, 16 & 17

30] Hondurans Confront Crises Made in USA – March 15

31] Water & War Film Fest – March 15

32] SPECIAL SERIES ON FOREIGN POLICY – March 15

33] Healthcare, Housing & Human Rights rally – March 16

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18] – The Emergency Election Protection Coalition is happening at 5 PM ET on Mon., March 7. Please submit any questions to: Solartopia@gmail.com. Sign up at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYldumtrjIiH9L7_KfcFV1n8ynuO3anTGwp. Progressive Democrats of America are part of the coalition.

19] – The  Women’s March Organizing Team [organizing@womensmarch.com] needs your help in fighting white supremacy on Mon., March 14 at 6 PM ET by text messages and phone calls. ‌‌ ‌Jan. 6, 2021 was a wake-up call.  ‌Women's March knows those being recruited into white nationalism are many of our neighbors, family members, and friends. Can we shrink, neutralize, and transform the grip of white supremacy and authoritarianism in our country?  Join the United Vision Project Open House. Women's Marchers from across the country will come together virtually to learn about our texting and phone banking efforts to utilize relational organizing methods to combat white nationalism. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/womensmarch/event/398997/?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=em20220311&akid=12111%2E508952%2Ec1M1El.

20] –Our Revolution [info@ourrevolution.com] is hosting its next Monday Night Organize to Win Call on Mon., March 14 at 8:30 PM ET.  Hear from US Rep. Cori Bush and Our Revolution member Greg Casar - who’s on his way to being our next progressive champion in Congress. Attica Scott, candidate for Congress in Kentucky’s 3rd Congressional district, and David Campos, candidate for the California State Assembly, will also join! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/148017/?akid=2690.8252965.gY6rl1&rd=1&t=12.

21] –The American Friends Service Committee [actioncenter@afsc.org] hopes you can participate on Tues., March 15 at noon ET with a webinar “Gaza in Focus.” Hear from human rights defenders in Gaza, and discuss recent U.S. opinion polling data on U.S. policy supporting the 16-year-old blockade on Gaza. This webinar is part of AFSC’s No Way to Treat a Child campaign with Defense for Children International-Palestine.  Sign up at https://nwttac.dci-palestine.org/nwttac_webinar_20220315?utm_campaign=weekendreading&utm_source=weekendreading0312&utm_medium=email&ms=EMA22WR0312&emci=019e08a0-ee9f-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=adfe6b9a-08a2-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=764241.

22] – Make Calls virtually with the DNC National Call Crew – on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Call voters in battleground states to build strength for the 2022 Midterms. Please email digitalorganizing@dnc.org. Sign up for calls on Tues., March 15, Wed., March 16, Thurs., March. 17, Fri., March 18 and Sat., March 19. The times are 2 to 3 PM, 3 to 4 PM, 4 to 5 PM, 5 to 6 PM, 6 to 7 PM, and 7 to 8 PM EDT. Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/388091/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual.  

23] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., March 8 from 4:30 to 5:30 PM ET for a support demonstration for the people of Ukraine at 33rd and N. Charles Sts. The protest against Johns Hopkins University’s weapons contracts is suspended. The invasion of Ukraine has the potential to become a war extending throughout Europe.  Putin has destroyed Aleppo and Grozny and has threatened the use of nuclear weapons.  Russian soldiers have taken over the contaminated and still radioactive Chernobyl nuclear plant.  A Russian tank sent projectiles very close to a nuclear power plant. The workers are under guard, and this is tremendously dangerous.  People who believe in peace and justice must come forward and take the risks of peace. Contact Max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607. This vigil will takes place each Tuesday. 

24] – Get involved virtually with Texting Tuesdays from 6 to 8 PM EDT through June 28.  Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemarylandneweraproject/event/437643/?followup_modal_context=newsletter. Text on behalf of the Environmental Human Rights Amendment!! Join Progressive Maryland and its endorsed candidates every Tuesday to text voters across the state!

25] –  The Reentry Work Group of Progressive Maryland is hosting Reentry: Where Do You Stand?, a series of virtual listening sessions with candidates running for statewide and Prince George's County office. At each session, candidates will present their plans to support reentry services for the formerly incarcerated and will take questions from community members during a Q & A session. These candidate forums will take place over Zoom on Tuesdays and Fridays from 6–7:30 PM. The next session is on Tues., March 15 with the Maryland State Senators in all PG County Districts.  Sign up at https://secure.everyaction.com/5csW_dapMkenSZ-QvfK9pg2?emci=1f93b3bb-ec98-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&emdi=ce593161-f498-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&ceid=136680. Contact the Reentry Work Group at reentryworkgroup@progressivemaryland.org with any questions. 

26] –  Get involved in the Letters to the Editor Workshop - Promote the Vote 2022 which is a Virtual Community Event, hosted by Voters Not Politicians on Tues., March 15 from 6 to 7:15 PM EDT.  Join from anywhere at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/442925/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual.

27] – Dylan Contrino [info@brookelierman.com] wants you to do some texting for Brooke Lierman on Tues., March 15 at 6 PM ET. Help elect Brooke as the next Comptroller of Maryland.  Sign up at https://www.mobilize.us/brookeliermanforcomptroller/event/444772/?emci=470e1845-ce9b-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&emdi=0c5c76a9-d59b-ec11-a22a-281878b85110&ceid=14404480.

28] – On Tues., March 15 from 6 to 7:30 PM, come to Progressive Prince George’s chapter meeting. Meet fellow activists and plug into issue and electoral work in the coming months. RSVP at https://secure.everyaction.com/4XtsxhkjsEyJfX_Tnh6ZrA2?emci=1f93b3bb-ec98-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&emdi=ce593161-f498-ec11-a507-281878b83d8a&ceid=136680.

29] – Our Revolution [info@ourrevolution.com] would like you to phone bank on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 PM ET. There are more than 8 million voters across the country who identify as progressive. These numbers suggest progressives can win at every level of government, but the voters must go to the polls! Sign up to join the Our Revolution phone bank force at https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/440081/?akid=2556.8252965.t1Ai8m&rd=1&t=11. Sign up for Tues., March 15, Wed., Mar. 16 and Thurs., March 17.

30] – Alliance for Global Justice [eduardo@Afgj.org] wants you to get involved on Tues., March 15 at 7 PM ET with Hondurans Confront Crises Made in USA. Session 1 is about Where are we now?  The elections of November 28, 2021, became a historic event for Honduras.  Xiomara Castro’s electoral victory is another step in the popular resistance that preceded the 2009 coup. This victory resulted from the work of a coalition that spanned the political spectrum in Honduras to oppose the re-election of newly-displaced dictator, Juan Orlando Hernandez. It is also because of the countless sacrifices of criminalized and murdered activists that the people of Honduras can continue to resist the harmful impacts of the U.S. and Canada-backed neoliberal model (global free-market capitalist).  Join this webinar to gain a deeper understanding of the current political landscape in Honduras after the election of President Xiomara Castro, the new foreign policy interests of the U.S. and Canada towards Honduras, and what it means now to build solidarity with the people of Honduras. U.S.-Honduran solidarity. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honduras-solidarity-webinar-series-hondurans-confront-crises-made-in-usa-tickets-288792565337?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f6fccc00-66b9-4a84-9056-881fed67e605.

31] – Greta, World BEYOND War [greta@worldbeyondwar.org] announced a Water & War Film Fest starting on Tues., March 15 at 7 PM ET. There will be a discussion of the sweeping water contamination caused by U.S. military bases worldwide with screenings of No Defense & The Empire Files' A Battle for Water in Hawai’i. No Defense exposes the first known U.S. military site with PFAS pollution, the former Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan. First-hand accounts from community members detail the health impacts caused by PFAS, known as a "forever chemical" due to its lasting legacy. A Battle for Water in Hawai’i tells the story of water contamination caused by the infamous leak at the U.S. Navy’s Red Hill fuel tanks and how Native Hawaiians are campaigning to #ShutDownRedHill. The post-film discussion will include Craig Minor, Tony Spaniola, Mikey Inouye, and Vicky Holt Takamine. Get tickets at  https://act.worldbeyondwar.org/water/?link_id=3&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-water-war-virtual-film-fest-march-15-22&email_referrer=email_1468883&email_subject=starting-next-week-water-war-film-fest.

32] – Join CODEPINK Congress & Massachusetts Peace Action for the fourth and final event in the SPECIAL SERIES ON FOREIGN POLICY on Tues., March 15 from 8 to 9 PM ET.  No matter how Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine ends, the repercussions are enormous and will be felt for many years–perhaps decades–to come. What will be the consequences of a more united and militarized NATO? How will the reshuffling of energy markets affect global politics? Has this destroyed the prospects for nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament? Will there be a stronger Russia/China alliance? How will the Global South be affected? Discuss these questions and many more with Dr. Gerald Horne and Walden Bello.  RSVP at https://www.codepink.org/03152022.

 Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and is the author of more than 30 books, including Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution and the Origins of the Dominican Republic and Black Revolutionary: William Patterson & the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle. Bello is a vice presidential candidate in the Philippines. He is a former member of the Philippine Congress, cofounder of Focus on the Global South, an academic, environmentalist and journalist, and a lifelong human rights and peace campaigner.

 33] – The Takoma Park Mobilization [info@tpmobilization.org] is hosting a rally on Wed., March 16 at 9 AM ET for Healthcare, Housing & Human Rights.  Join advocacy groups from across the state in Annapolis to call on the General Assembly to move forward with several critical pieces of legislation impacting immigrant families. Leading activists, advocates, and legislators demand that the legislature move forward in passing bills including: Healthcare Expansion for Undocumented Families, Eviction Protection for Tenants, and Lawyers for Immigrants in ICE Detention. If you can offer a ride from Takoma Park to the rally and back, or you could use a ride, email tpmobilization@gmail.com.

 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

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