20] Stop the execution of Kurdish women
21] Power Half-Hour for Gaza – Jan. 14 – 17
22] Community communication meeting – Jan. 14
23] Labor Working Group
Social – Jan. 14
24] International climate policy – Jan. 14
25] Confirmation hearings – Jan. 14
26] Defunding the Pentagon – Jan. 14
27] Kathy Kelly discusses war – Jan. 14
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20] –The Islamic regime in Iran is using execution verdicts
as a desperate act to suppress peaceful demonstrations and protests due to the
disastrous economic condition in Iran.
The judicial system in Iran executes innocent activist and individuals
by forced confessions, torture and sham trials.
The unjust death sentences for Pakhshan Azizi and Varisheh Moradi is
another act of desperation by the Islamic Republic’s use of capital punishment
to suppress members of minority communities and terrorize Iranian women who are
fighting tirelessly for their rights as equal citizens of Iran. You are asked to show your urgent support for
contacting the United Nations Human Rights office and Iranian mission at United
Nations to demand the Islamic republic of Iran stop the unjust execution
verdicts for both women and hundreds of other prisoners on death row in Iran.
These prisoners must receive fair trials according to international judicial
standards, including the right for all prisoners to independent counsels.
21] – Jewish Voice for Peace is doing a Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & outrage into action to stop a genocide. A year into the genocide in Gaza, we are overwhelmed with sorrow and rage. There are no words to describe the devastating pain of the past year in which the Israeli military has killed over 44,000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more than 17,000 children. The International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court have both declared that Israel must stop the genocidal acts being committed on the Palestinian people. And the U.S. government is actively supporting the Israeli military as it wreaks devastation on the over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. JVP continues to come together as a political community in its daily half-hour to take action, Monday through Friday, for the past year. Join in and take collective action to demand an arms embargo to Israel, immediate end to the genocide, a lasting ceasefire and an end to Israeli siege, apartheid, occupation, and oppression of Palestinians and Lebanon. All are welcome. All are needed. Get involved at 3 PM ET on Tues., Jan. 14 through Fri., Jan. 17. Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration
22] – On Tues., Jan. 14 at 6:30 PM ET, attend a virtual Shore Progress Communications Committee meeting. Help decide the messaging of the local progressive movement! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/603612/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations
23] – On Tues., Jan. 14 at 6:30 PM ET, the DSA Labor Working Group Social is hosting a happy hour at Lymans Tavern, 3720 14th St. NW, WDC 20010. This is for DSA members to meet the new leadership team of the LWG and discuss the challenges and opportunities in the labor movement in 2025 in a more informal setting. Email labor@mdcdsa.org with any questions. Get to know your fellow DSA labor activists and come learn about our organizing and solidarity actions that are planned. Starting in February, the LWG will be holding formal monthly meeting on the second Tuesday of each month. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/labor-working-group-social-meet-your-co-chairs?link_id=76&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-january-3-2025&email_referrer=email_2578831&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-january-10-2025
24] – The Union of Concerned Scientists [action@ucsusa.org] on Tues., Jan. 14 at 7 PM ET will hold a virtual webinar on COP29 and what’s next for an international climate policy. Join UCS experts to learn about efforts on the ground at COP29, the contentious international climate negotiations held in Azerbaijan last November. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) invites you to learn more about efforts to highlight scientifically necessary outcomes at COP29, how to engage on the ground during these contentious international climate negotiations and call out the malign influence of fossil fuel interests, and where to go from here—including the impact of the incoming Trump administration which has threatened to exit the Paris Agreement. RSVP at https://secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-1-14-cop29-intl-climate-policy?contactdata=oQolaefB49+v77NZ7imizDPAaC5RFIcRRd3+9oQijCepDJs2WcnOtaVmKs%2fPpIhaWdeih7dsS47FdSbHLhsBjpVYkGaR+08gXg0LaO35NlOaKyz%2f13ybTI02Edy%2fFg3GNMt7TMF5pmb5BOvrFdS6F1frDmDZKCstiyzWXBIVJZDP2wxNzZ3meBrF7AmiTpvsE+e2oViT%2fuFAC08N9NaishNyorvF0Gld23xjER+4f76Oo17QADocBrqBJMN4ox55ZUQwvyc%2f4hUzSISzu9lNEQ%3d%3d&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email&emci=334427a3-14ca-ef11-88d0-0022482a9b45&emdi=bf3d0e2c-7acc-ef11-88d0-0022482a9d92&ceid=1507036
25] – On Tues., Jan. 14 at 8 PM ET, the Indivisible Team [info@indivisible.org] is teaming up with Public Citizen et al. For a mass call to look at the upcoming confirmation hearings of Trump’s cabinet picks. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/electionresponsecenter/event/748907/?utm_source=indivisible?source=email_20250112&utm_source=email
Get an in-depth look at the upcoming confirmation hearings and learn how you can to take action. The speakers will break down the confirmation process. They'll explain how these hearings work, what's at stake, and how you -- yes, YOU -- can ensure your Democratic senators stand firm against the most egregious nominations
26] – CODEPINK is discussing Defunding the Pentagon: What it Means to Invest in the People and Planet on Tues., Jan. 14 at 8 PM ET. Join in to highlight the differences in approach to Pentagon cuts between the movement and billionaires like Elon Musk, discuss the pressing needs of the people, and reimagine a world where all those resources go to sustaining life instead of promoting death. Hear from Chris Smalls, founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union, and Steven Donziger, lawyer and climate activist, who has been the target of an oil company revenge campaign for over 30 years. RSVP https://www.codepink.org/defund114?e=bd65d633cc8ce57352e78dd768fcdbd5&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=january_member_newsletter&n=20
27] – Ken Jones [info+war-industry-resisters-network-info@email.actionnetwork.org] is inviting you to hear from Kathy Kelly, sponsored by the War Industry Resisters Network, on Tues., Jan. 14 at 8 PM ET. Register at https://secure.everyaction.com/ZH3P-LqLA0q1HtM77VvliA2
WIRN is co-sponsoring this day of action with World Beyond War. Check out https://worldbeyondwar.org/closebases/ Drawing from paintings, photography, poetry and song, this webinar will feature works of art depicting war's consequences. Living alongside people trapped in various war zones reinforced Kathy Kelly's belief that "the means you use determines the end you get." Artists and writers provide us with the means to imagine a better world, a world beyond war. Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War and a co-coordinator of the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. Her protests against militarism have led her to war zones and prisons, and she believes children of war and those who are victims of violence have been her most important teachers. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she and an international network of activists have assisted over 100 young Afghans forced to flee their country.
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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