Baltimore Activist Alert -- February 26 to March 4, 2025

39] Hands off Healthcare -- Feb. 26

40] Ellen Grady on trial – Feb. 26

41] Nuclear Abolition – Feb. 26

42] Power Half-Hour for Gaza – Feb. 26 – 27 & March 3 - 4

43] Meet DSA – Feb. 26

44] Cooperation or competition – Feb. 26

45] Disabilities Issue Organizing Team Call – Feb. 26

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39] – The Progressive Maryland Healthcare Task Force is concerned about the dangerous Trump Musk plan to slash Medicaid, Medicare, the ACA and other health programs. Join People’s Action and other allies on Wed., Feb. 26 from 9 AM to 12:30 PM at the

Metro Center - station entrance, 1078 G St. NW, WDC 20001. For questions and requests, contact Patty at patty@progressivemayland.org. This is a day of demonstrations against the corporations and MAGA Musk forces that want to raid Medicaid, Medicare, the ACA and vital public health programs. Don't let Trump and Musk rip off billions of our tax dollars and leave millions of people without healthcare.  RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/756368/?emci=403964b2-3cee-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=f3a2c04e-4cee-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=136680

40] –  On Wed., Feb. 26 at 10 AM, Ellen Grady will go on trial in Federal Court at 100 South Clinton St., Syracuse, NY 13261 facing a charge "unreasonable obstruction of an entrance." She was arrested on Nov. 15 while demanding an end to illegal US arms sales to Israel for a year-long genocide in Gaza. Ellen and nine others of the Berrigan Collective sat in the lobby of the Syracuse Federal Building housing Senators Schumer and Gillibrand’s offices calling on the senators to stop funding Israel’s year of genocide. Ellen was the only one arrested. Among possible witnesses are people who resigned from the State Department and the Department of the Interior because of the Biden administration’s violation of six laws prohibiting the US from sending weapons to a country committing war crimes and genocide. 

 On Friday, November 15th, 2024, members of the Berrigan Collective, based in Ithaca, NY, with other upstate peace activists, went to the Syracuse Federal Building to ask for an immediate meeting with staff in the offices of New York's US Senators Schumer and Gillibrand to "exercise our right to petition the government for a redress of grievances." They wished to "impress upon the Senators the urgency of the impending vote (in 3 business days) to cut off offensive weapons for Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples." They were specifically asking the Senators to support the Senate Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that would block the sale of U.S. weaponry to Israel.

 Earlier last fall Senators Bernie Sanders (VT), Peter Welch (VT), Jeff Merkley (OR), and Brian Schatz (HI) introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to stop a $20 billion weapons shipment approved by the Biden administration. “There is a mountain of documentary evidence” that Israel uses US weapons to violate the law, Sanders said. Contact Mary Anne Grady Flores at 607-280-8797 or gradyflores08@gmail.com

41] – On Feb. 26 at 1 PM ET, tune in to this webinar: Seek Peace and Pursue It: Advocating for Nuclear Abolition in 2025. Learn more about the United Methodist Church’s position on nuclear weapons, hear from civil society and faith partners, and discover how you can get involved in the movement for nuclear abolition. Register at umcjustice.org/peace Visit https://www.umcjustice.org/latest/webinar-seek-peace-and-pursue-it-advocating-for-nuclear-abolition-in-2025-4102

 42] – 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 Wed., Feb. 26, Thurs., Feb. 27, Mon., March 3 & Tues., March 4. Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration

 43] – Get over to the Metro DC DSA Campaign Fair & How to Get Involved on Wed., Feb. 26 at 6:30 PM ET at the MLK Library, room 401-F, 901 G St. NW, WDC 20001. Metro DC DSA [member-engagement@mdcdsa.org] continues to build a working-class movement to defend our communities from right-wing attacks. Are you a new member eager to get involved but having trouble figuring out where to plug in? Come to this event, and learn how Metro DC DSA operates and provide opportunities for you to meet face-to-face with people who run campaigns on issues like Trans rights, climate justice, labor, tenant organizing, and international solidarity. Get your questions answered and get to know how to get involved. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/metro-dc-dsa-campaign-fair-how-to-get-involved?clear_id=true&link_id=33&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events-197&email_referrer=email_2605564&email_subject=nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events

44] –Marie with Local Peace Economy [peaceeconomy@codepink.org] on Wed., Feb. 26 at 8 PM ET wants you know there is a gathering. ‌ ‌ You might have heard humanity is governed by the survival of the fittest?  But many sociologists now believe ‌ ‌in cooperation rather than competition.  But when did the concept of the "other" begin to be considered, "less-than" or "unworthy," or "enemy?" When did we begin to dehumanize each other? Join a conversation about these issues: https://www.codepink.org/lpe0226?utm_campaign=2_26_lpe_meeting&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink

45] – Mike Fox for Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] on Wed., Feb. 26 at 9 PM ET indicates there will be a Disabilities Issue Organizing Team Call. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpdumvqDwoGNx6xKMg-liSlwcpK1dJ0jzb#/registration

Discuss issues, legislation, and actions we can all participate in to help make life better for all with disabilities. The featured speaker is Andrew Pulrang, (He/Him), a disabled, disability-focused freelance writer, online activist, and former Center for Independent Living Director living in Northeastern New York. He has been a contributing writer on disability topics for Forbes.com, and was a co-partner, with Gregg Beratan and Alice Wong, of #CripTheVote, a nonpartisan online movement encouraging the political participation of people with disabilities. He'll be discussing how social media can be used by the disabled and others to build the movement.

 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/.

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