Baltimore Activist Alert -- January 8, 2025

35] Stop Trump Executions – Jan. 8

36] Team Enough – Jan. 8

37] They Shoot Children in the Head – Jan. 8

38] Zoom community meeting – Jan. 8

39] Witness against Torture Zoom – Jan. 8

40] War is not Green! -- Jan. 8

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35] –Death Penalty Action [info@deathpenaltyaction.org] will do a petition delivery on Wed., Jan. 8 at 10 AM ET, as part of a White House Visibility Action. STOP TRUMP EXECUTIONS. Death Penalty Action will have TWO electronic billboard trucks on Capitol Hill and around the White House in conjunction with the petition delivery. Toll the Delaware Bell, because of course, President Biden is from Delaware. The location will be decided (get a text by 8 AM on Wed. morning) depending on parking and road closures - either the NE corner of Lafayette Square (Vermont & H St NW) OR Pershing Park (15th & Pennsylvania Ave. NW). These locations are just a few blocks apart.  RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcCe_o0Il7fBsfBxjDnGoA8Rm7s0z2s86-gfNwRbOBmD92VQ/viewform

36] –On Wed., Jan. 8 from 6 to 7 PM ET, get with a virtual Team ENOUGH Welcome Session (For Young People under 26).  RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/425528/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_closest

 Are you a young person between 13 and 25 years old who is interested in taking action around preventing gun violence? Learn more about the different ways you can engage. Team ENOUGH is a youth-led program whose mission is to educate young voices about gun violence and mobilize them to take meaningful action against it. Supported by Brady United, it harnesses the expertise and experience of today’s youth to advance its intersectional work across the country. This event will continue on Wednesday, December 18 from 6 to 6:30 PM ET.

37] – MAPA [info@masspeaceaction.org] on Wed., Jan. 8 at 7 PM ET will host a webinar “They Shoot Children in the Head”: A US Surgeon Reports What He Saw in Gaza.  Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who has volunteered in conflict zones around the world. The weeks in March - April 2024 he spent at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza were like nothing else he had ever witnessed: patients universally in extreme physical and psychiatric distress, the rampant dehydration and malnutrition, the total lack of medical equipment and supplies, the squalid conditions. In particular, he was haunted by something he saw again and again: children shot in the head. Since returning, Dr. Sidhwa has been telling the world what he witnessed. His account along with those of 64 other healthcare workers appeared in the widely publicized New York Times opinion piece, “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza.“ His message is clear: the U.S. must enforce American laws and stop supplying weapons to Israel. Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is a surgeon at San Joaquin General Hospital in Stockton, California. He has worked in conflict zones worldwide, including in Palestine, Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso. Register at https://secure.everyaction.com/egafyaVDckyf3FiSAykFCw2?ms=email-241205&emci=97fa6ba5-f4c9-ef11-88d0-0022482a9b45&emdi=d55053fc-b4ca-ef11-88d0-0022482a9b45&ceid=269591

38] – Jews United for Justice [info@jufj.org] on Wed., Jan. 8  at 7:30 PM is holding a Zoom community meeting to prepare for the Maryland General Assembly’s 2025 legislative session. There are several important bills JUFJ is supporting this session while working towards a more just and equitable Maryland. Join to advocate, mobilize, and organize around economic justice, housing justice and youth justice. RSVP at https://jufj.org/event/mdga25-firstday/?emci=07a886c7-37cd-ef11-88d0-0022482a9d92&emdi=f2643486-46cd-ef11-88d0-0022482a9d92&ceid=3403859

39] – Witness against Torture [contact@witnessagainsttorture.com] on Wed., Jan. 8 at 8 PM ET is holding a Zoom Circle. Join for poetry, a brief Guantanamo update, and a sharing circle to grieve and hope for the men as well as to reflect on where we are at this moment in history. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89742837115?pwd=zQGRwYI4g0dzf1AtTNMpplS4PT4VfX.1&mc_cid=b2ec0a0358&mc_eid=5ae22dbd02

40] – CODEPINK is doing a community call on Wed., Jan. 8 at 8 PM ET on War is Not Green! Get educated and help grow our capacity for an anti-militarist, internationalist, and feminist environmental movement!  RSVP at https://www.codepink.org/wing18?e=bd65d633cc8ce57352e78dd768fcdbd5&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=january_member_newsletter&n=14

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