Baltimore Activist Alert -- May 8 & 9, 2023

21] Election and Climate Protection Zoom – May 8

22] CODEPINK Community Call – May 8

23] Strike Ready Campaign – May 8

24] Organize to Win call – May 8

25] Russia out of Ukraine – May 9

26] Nonviolent Journalism – May 9

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21] – Mike Hersh for Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] wants you to join the Election and Climate Protection Zoom on Mon., May 1 at 5 PM ET.  There are attacks on our democracy, and climate chaos threatens us. Since its founding in 2004, PDA has mobilized for open, clean, and fair elections and for stopping global warming. Register at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqfuygpjIiHtc20uIOxdeqYRiAicjSLWUc.

22] – Shea Leibow [shea@codepink.org] wants you to join in to the CODEPINK Community Call on Mon., May 8 at 6 PM ET.  The first half of the call is for the national team to share their current work and ways to plug in. The second half of the call is for local groups and leaders to discuss their current work, support they're seeking, and ideas they have for collective peace work! Join in, as anyone is welcome who considers themself a part of the CODEPINK feminist peace community. RSVP at https://www.codepink.org/community_05082023.

23] – The Northern Virginia Democratic Socialists of America [novabranch@mdcdsa.org] are organizing a DSA Strike Ready campaign to support the UPS Teamsters’ contract fight.  On Mon., May 8 at 8:30 PM ET, learn about the campaign. RSVP at https://act.dsausa.org/signup/dsa-strike-ready-5-8-23/?link_id=4&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events-97&email_referrer=email_1901383&email_subject=nova-branch-dsa-upcoming. The campaign encourages chapters to pass the Strike Ready resolution and appoint solidarity captains. This mass call will explain what the Strike Ready campaign is, why the UPS Teamsters’ contract fight is important, what work has already been done, and how members, including those at-large, can plug into the work.

24] – Our Revolution [info@ourrevolution.com] wants you to join the LIVE National Organize-to-Win Call on Mon., May 8 at 8:30 PM ET.  RSVP for the LIVE Freedom from Medical Debt Town Hall with US Rep. Ro Khanna and patient advocates: https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/148017/?akid=4251.8252965.8aXysV&rd=1&t=12. Hear from Berneta Haynes of the National Consumer Law Center who will dig into the systemic solutions that Congress and the White House have the power to enact right now.  Strategize to take on price-gouging hospitals, predatory debt collectors, and others who perpetuate this sick system. Our Revolution is organizing an outside coalition to work with Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, and other allies in the fight for Medicare for All and declare Freedom from Medical Debt. The next Organize to Win call will happen on May 22.

25] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., May 9 from 4:30 to 5 PM ET at 33rd and N. Charles Sts. 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 were sent into the area around the contaminated and still radioactive Chernobyl nuclear plant. Now they are stationed in the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe.   People who believe in peace and justice should come forward and take the risks of peace. The burial sites continue to expose ruthless war crimes by the invaders, Contact Max at mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607.

26] -- World BEYOND War [info@worldbeyondwar.org] wants you to know about Nonviolent Journalism: A Book Debut and Dinner on Tues., May 9 from 5 to 7 PM ET at Busboys & Poets, 2021 14th St. NW, WDC 20009. RSVP at https://worldbeyondwar.org/upcoming-event-in-dc-nonviolent-journalism-a-book-debut-and-dinner.  Email david@worldbeyondwar.org.

This book aims to reflect the first twelve years of collective effort of a non-profit organization run by volunteers from the fields of journalism and communication: Pressenza, an international press agency with a nonviolent approach. Twelve years of successes and failures, of experiments, alliances, and learning through dialogue with and the know-how of communicators, activists, and friends from academia who have provided the impetus to put down on paper the foundations and principles, the tools and suggestions that could shape a nonviolent approach to communication and journalism at the service of those who may find it useful.

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