Baltimore Activist Alert – March 9 – 10, 2025
1] Books, buttons and stickers
2]
Web
site for info on federal legislation
3]
Need
help in archiving activist material
4] Get
the book A Bag of Snakes
5] Get the book Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church: An Insider’s
View by Roy Bourgeois
6] Baltimore activist selling her home
7] Anger is information – March 9
8] DSA Social Housing Working
Group meeting – March 9
9] Doctors against Genocide webinar –
March 9
10] Stand up for science -- March 9
11] Montgomery
County DSA meeting – March 9
12] Mutual Aid Fundraiser
Party --
March 9
13] PDA Town Hall – March 9
14] Vigil at the Pentagon – March 10
15] Text voters – March 10
16] Shut down the Coup rally
-- March 10
17] Election Protection – March 10
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1] – Buttons, bumper stickers and books are
available. “God Bless the Whole World, No
Exceptions” stickers are in stock. Call Max at 410-323-1607.
2] –To obtain information how your federal legislators voted on particular bills, go to http://thomas.loc.gov/. Congressional toll-free numbers are 888-818-6641, 888-355-3588 or 800-426-8073. The White House Comment Email is accessible at http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/.
3] – Janice Sevre-Duszynska needs some assistance in archiving her activist material. If you are interested in this project, contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at Comcast dot net.
4] – Barry Lee Burnside, a gaggle of great writers and copy editors are making available “A Bag of Snakes: Selected Writings on Prisons and the Death Penalty by Murphy Davis and Eduard Loring. Edited by Barry Lee Burnside.” Ed indicates the book will be available for sale on April 13, and is asking you to pre-order your copy. Your donation will provide a needed financial boost for the printing costs. The suggested donation is $20 for one copy; and $30 for your copy and an additional copy for a prisoner or someone in need. Any donation is appreciated. More or less you will receive the book. Barry and the team have spent over two years putting this book together. It begins with outlines and notes found in the boxes of materials Murphy left when she ascended. The work is a work of love, and all involved are proud of the fruit borne by seeds nourished in good soil.
To order by postal mail, make your check to Open Door Community. Send it to Open Door Community, PO Box 10980, Baltimore 21234. For any questions, contact David Payne at 404-290-2047 or davidpayne@opendoorcommunity.org.
5] – Another book to consider purchasing is Male Supremacy in the Catholic Church: An Insider’s View by Roy Bourgeois. His new book is both memoir and position-paper, and it makes the case that the Roman Catholic Church is a corrupt system that spits out truth-tellers. The crime he was excommunicated for was attending the ordination ceremony of Janice Sevre-Duszynska in Lexington, Kentucky, in August 2008. The ordination was under the auspices of the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. The Vatican’s response has been to excommunicate any woman who has the audacity to see herself as a priest equal to a male priest. You can purchase a copy from Amazon or by Kindle.
Here are two quotes to contemplate: “I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men. She is to keep silent.” – Timothy 1, 2:12-13. “If the patriarchy that dominates the church is not dismantled and women are not treated as equals, the church will continue to diminish and, eventually, die.” – Roy Bourgeois.
6] – A home in Baltimore is for sale on a dead-end street in the Lauraville neighborhood, with three bedrooms, and one bath. The yard backs into a field and then a forest. There is a serene and quiet setting with an abundance of wildlife. The owner will be asking a reasonable amount for the property but it will not be overpriced. Contact her by text only at 443 500 6733. On the text, leave your name and phone number, and she will get back to anyone that reaches out.
7] – The Baltimore Ethical Society invites you on Sundays at 10:30 AM for a platform presentation. On March 9, the Zoom presentation will be “Anger is information.” Anger happens. Probably a lot these days. So what do we do with it? How do we take in our anger as information and use it to help us live, uphold, and promote our values? How do we elicit the best in others when we are angry? KC Slack (they/them) is the Senior Clergy Leader at the Washington Ethical Society, in Washington, D.C. Their work as a clergy person, chaplain, academic, and artist is grounded in embodied practice and focused on finding and building beauty into the future. They moved from Los Angeles in 2022, and now live, try every hobby they can get their hands on, and sing along to loud music with their wife and three cats in Capitol Heights, MD. To receive a Zoom invitation, please email president@bmorethical.org.
8] – The Metro DC DSA Social Housing Working Group is hosting a recruitment event and meet up from 2 to 4 PM on Sun., March 9 at the Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW, WDC 20001. The group is working to create an alternative to the corporate model of real estate development and to bring deeply and permanently affordable housing to DC. The meeting will review what social housing is and the growth of the movement in the US and abroad. Attendees will also study the history of DC’s fight for social housing and learn ways to plug into the live campaign. It’s critical that the District turns a leaf on gentrification and displacement — and builds housing that actually serves working-class people. RSVP to the meet up to get involved: The meetup will be followed by a happy hour. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/dsa-social-housing-campaign-march-meet-up?link_id=23&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-14-2025-2&email_referrer=email_2645977&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-march-7-2025
9] –Doctors against Genocide [info@doctorsagainstgenocide.org] is doing its weekly webinar on Sun., March 9 at noon ET. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XenkOg43Qtqw3X-X2pHl7Q Hear from Ezz Lulu, a Medical Student in Gaza. Also Sarah Aly, DO and Danielle N Poole will converse about the Systemic Destruction of Healthcare in Palestine.
10] – Ronda Cooperstein [rondacooperstein@hotmail.com] indicates that there is a Stand Up for Science rally on Sun., March 9 from 1 to 2:30 PM on the sidewalk in front of the Woodholme Center, 1829 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills, MD 21208.
11] –There is a Montgomery County DSA Branch General Body Meeting on Zoom on Sun., March 9 from 2 to 4 PM at the Gaithersburg Library, 18330 Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg 20879. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/montgomery-county-branch-march-general-body-meeting?link_id=64&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-14-2025-2&email_referrer=email_2645977&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-march-7-2025
12] – Get over to a Mutual Aid Fundraiser Party on Sun., March 9 from 3 to 6 PM ET at As You Are, 500 8th St. SE, WDC 20003. Email bawg@mdcdsa.org. Join Metro DSA’s Bodily Autonomy Working Group for a fundraiser event. Help raise funds for mutual aid efforts throughout the DMV—and enjoy dancing, drinks, and multiple DJs! Buy a ticket for $5! Your donations will also help cover costs associated with providing community spaces and events, digital tools to reach more people, and printing for canvassing, tabling, and wheat pasting, all of which are all critical to informing people about our work and getting more folks involved. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/ticketed_events/mutual-aid-fundraiser-party-sunday-march-9th-3pm?clear_id=true
13] – Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] wants you to know on Sun., March 9 at 4 PM ET there will be a Town Hall. Hear from Congressperson Ro Khanna and Social Security Work's Alex Lawson and learn how Progressive Policies and Organized Opposition can Defeat Trump. They will share their thoughts on the damage being wrought by the Trump administration, how we can contain the devastation, and why presenting an inspiring vision grounded in progressive policies is the pathway to victory! Rep. Khanna (CA-17) will explain how we can transform America into a modern manufacturing and technology superpower with good-paying jobs, affordable childcare, and investment in public education. Ro is the co-author of the bipartisan CHIPS and Science law that strengthens semiconductor manufacturing and innovation here at home. He has also traveled across the country to hear directly from Americans in places left behind, as he works on policies to help revitalize those communities.
Two recently laid-off manufacturing workers, Chancie Adams and Quentin McCurty, whom Ro met in Milwaukee, will join him. They were both longtime employees at the Master Lock factory, earning high wages with good benefits and job security–or so they thought, until the company shut down its Milwaukee factory after 100 years and moved production offshore. They will explain how Master Lock had been a pillar of the community, employing 400 people. Its closure was devastating for themselves, their families, and left a hole in the heart of a great American city. Khanna will also talk about his upcoming "Benefits Over Billionaires" tour, which begins on March 23rd in three purple districts in California–the 22nd, the 40th, and 41st. He wants to make clear that as Republicans follow orders to dodge their constituents' protests, progressives must be loud and clear in standing up to the unholy alliance of wealth and power in our time and reject the failed neoliberal policies that value billionaires and corporations over the working class. Then, Alex Lawson from Social Security Works will demystify the actions of Trump, Musk, and their whole anti-American team, and explain with crystal clarity what they intend to do to the most popular government programs in the history of the country: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and many others. Register here and the machine will email you your secure codes: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tceuhrzsvHdymeeZRwb-i7X50FJa-HMR4#/registration
14] – There is a weekly Pentagon Peace Vigil from 7 to 8 AM on Mondays, since 1987, outside the Pentagon Metro stop. The next vigil is March 10, and it is sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker. Email artlaffin@hotmail.com or call 202-882-9649. The vigil will be outside the Pentagon's south Metro entrance and in the designated "protest zone" behind bicycle fences across from the entrance to the Metro.
By Metro, take Yellow Line and get out at the "Pentagon" stop. Do not go to the Pentagon City stop! Go up south escalators and turn left and walk across to protest area. By car from D.C. area, take 395 South and get off at Exit 8A-Pentagon South Parking. Take slight right onto S. Rotary Rd. at end of ramp and right on S. Fern St. Then take left onto Army Navy Dr. You can "pay to park" on Army Navy Dr., and there is meter parking one block on right on Eads St. Payment for both of these spots begins at 8 AM. No cameras are allowed on Pentagon grounds. The restrooms are located inside Marriot Providence Inn on corner of S. Fern and Army Navy Dr.
15] – Join the virtual Distributed Texting Team, hosted by Chesapeake Climate Action Network / Action Fund on Mon., March 10 from noon to 8 PM ET. Send texts to CCAN members and voters to help support critical climate legislation like the RENEW Act. The next texting date is Mon., March 17- from noon to 8 PM ET. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/746881/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_from_org
16] – On Mon., March 10 from noon to 3 PM, DC Indivisible calls for a Shut down the Coup rally on the West Lawn of the US Capitol Building, Washington, DC. Democrats cannot sign any funding bill that does not include BINDING mechanisms to limit DOGE or any other agent from impounding and dismantling Federal Agencies. The people need to be out in droves, need to be loud, and need to be united. The message: Where is Congress? Do your Job. Vote NO. After 1 PM, break into groups to go to your representative’s office to meet with staff or leave messages with your concerns. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible-ma/event/757856/
17] – Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] wants you to participate with the Grassroots Election Protection Coalition/ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY Zoom on Mon., March 10 at 5 PM ET. Hear from leading activists, elected officials, and others committed to union organizing as well as cleaning up our elections and the environment, and other critically important issues. RSVP at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqfuygpjIiHtc20uIOxdeqYRiAicjSLWUc#/registration
To be continued
Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, and 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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