Baltimore Activist Alert -- July 10 - 16, 2025

48] Justice for Kilmer – July 10

49] Power Half-Hour for Gaza – July 10, 14, 15 & 16

50] Picket with Unite – July 10

51] DSA meeting – July 10

52] Remember John Lewis – July 10

53] National fight back call – July 10

54] Anti-fascism training – July 10

55] Webinar with Mr. Fish – July 10

56] Nuclear containment – July 10

57] Special election – July 10

58] Bike Breakfast – July 11

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48] – Demand Justice for Kilmar on Thurs., July 10 at 1 PM at 6500 Cherrywood Lane, Greenbelt 20770. Show up in support of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s safe return to Maryland. Judge Xinis will be hearing arguments about bringing Kilmar back under Maryland’s jurisdiction. RSVP at. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfwJpRa5XPtQSAqPRpkiHqvqFOYpP0M-Q5GiqJMY1CCcFpbPg/viewform?emci=6cd15218-155d-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&emdi=866f6fb0-195d-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&ceid=4262660

49] – 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. 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 Thurs., July 10, Mon., July 14, Tues., July 15 & Wed., July 16. Visit https://jvp-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Un0Lupy1SFObVVXJaZO5UQ?_x_zm_rtaid=8L0JUS3pQkenMGtx9ha3mQ.1732760660364.03949df73aedc7035fc618f76c52fc75&_x_zm_rhtaid=249#/registration

50] – Join an Informational Picket at Le Diplomate, 1601 14th. St. NW, WDC 20009 on Thurs., July 10 from 5 to 7:30 PM. UNITE HERE Local 25 is holding informational pickets outside of STARR's Le Diplomate to let the public know the workers there do not have a union contract!

Metro DC DSA's Labor Working Group is mobilizing the community and its members to come out for ongoing pickets in support of the restaurant workers organizing to join UNITE HERE Local 25. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/informational-picket-at-le-diplomate-710?link_id=80&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-june-27-2025&email_referrer=email_2802069&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-july-4-2025&&

51] –The Northern Virginia Branch of Metro D.C. DSA [novabranch@mdcdsa.org] will hold a hybrid General Body meeting on Thurs., July 10 from 6:15 to 7:30 PM ET at the Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St., Arlington 22201. Email novabranch [at] mdcdsa [dot] org. Yu can join in-person or on Zoom. Join in at https://actionnetwork.org/events/nova-branch-general-body-meeting-july-10?clear_id=true&link_id=8&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-06262025-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events&email_referrer=email_2800686&email_subject=07032025-nova-branch-dsa-upcoming-actions-and-events&&

Discuss current campaigns, recent events, organizational questions, and updates from allied organizations. New members are always welcome. You must be vaccinated/boosted to join in-person events.

52] – On Thurs., July 10 from 7 to 8 PM ET, join the John Lewis National Day of Action Informational session. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/792911/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_most_popular_virtual Come learn how you can participate in the National John Lewis Day of Action! Get next involved on Thurs., July 10. On July 17, honor the anniversary of the passing of civil rights icon, John Lewis—not with ceremonies, but with action. This is more than a protest—this is a moral reckoning; a fight against voter suppression; a continuation of Congressman Lewis’ legacy and a new front in the freedom struggle; this is a movement for Democracy!

This will be a special program to mark the anniversary of the Shelby County Ruling, which gutted the heart of the Voting Rights Act. Hear from U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Congresswoman Terri Sewell, and Congressman Joe Morelle! You will also hear from movement leaders and local organizers about what is planned!

53] – Popular Democracy [cpd@populardemocracy.org] on Thurs., July 10 at 7 PM ET will hold a National Fight Back call. Get trained in EMPOWER, a powerful relational organizing tool that can multiply your reach. Learn about which districts and members of Congress we'll be focusing on as we push back on the new administration's right-wing, extremist agenda. Get connected on strategic opportunities to take action at home and in DC. These calls will continue on Thursday through December 18, and the next one will be on July 24. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/cpda/event/550558/?ms=EM+NationalCallFeb132+PD&emci=1adcad8a-8ae9-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&emdi=1bdcad8a-8ae9-ef11-90cb-0022482a94f4&ceid=447376

54] – The Workers Circle [socialjusticeinfo@circle.org] on Thurs., July 10 at 7 PM for the latest Effective Advocate training – a critical conversation about how organizing and elections are the most powerful tools of resistance.  The threat of fascism isn’t abstract. It’s real, it’s rising, and it’s happening here. From purging civil servants and rewriting history, to openly plotting mass deportations and the end of democratic norms – the foundations for the death of our democracy are being laid.  RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/effective-advocate-making-change-from-your-hometown-and-beyond-july-10?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-july-10th-join-the-fight&email_referrer=email_2804621&email_subject=july-10th-join-the-fight&&

55] – Ken Jones [info+war-industry-resisters-network-info@email.actionnetwork.org] on Thurs., July 10 at 8 PM ET wants you to attend a webinar with Mr. Fish, a political cartoonist and analyst, aka Dwayne Booth. You can register here: https://secure.everyaction.com/kz53-V50k0mfaPJDX0qs7Q2

What is the future of political cartooning, protest art, and visual satire? How can pictures rendered in celebration of the precious vulnerability of the human experience make crystal clear the toxic barbarity of the military and retail industrial complexes, both built on the hideous notion that the commodification of people everywhere and the willful disenfranchisement of their natural inclination towards peace, love, and understanding is better for business – better business being predatory capitalism and capitulation to hierarchy? What can be done to assert the importance and indispensability of the artist’s unique role in a free society as both a witness and predictor and, in some circumstances, instigator of all the comedy and tragedy that motivates our politics, shapes our cultural identities, and informs, for better or worse, the internal voice that shames, praises, and confounds our tenuous relationship with truth, beauty, and treachery every moment of everyday?

56] – On Thurs., July 10 at 8 PM ET, there is a Progressive Democrats of America co-sponsored roundtable discussion about the imperative of nuclear containment in the wake of the Iran/Israel/USA war, which once again reminded the world that we all live on the precipice of nuclear annihilation. PDA members are encouraged to attend the first hour of this national Zoom call and then consider joining the all-important campaign call at 9 PM ET. Check out the panel discussion: From Bunker Busters to Mushroom Clouds, there are the Attacks upon Iran and the Enduring Nuclear Peril. Sign-up at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/1dyfEXFXTBOulgY7E3UE2w?emci=70e18c39-275d-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&emdi=c1bb5588-295d-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&ceid=2907617#/registration

57] – The weekly PDA campaign call is at 9 PM ET on Thurs., July 10.  No campaign call is more important than this week's call, as the special election in Arizona's 7th U.S. Congressional District is taking place on Tuesday, and all must do what they can to elect PDA-endorsed candidate Adelita Grijalva, a true progressive who is facing off against two candidates backed by big money. Sign up at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcrcuGgrDItHdeYV7F9QQsruFMypvcMt5Fc?emci=1b32c6d2-775c-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&emdi=87b2cb5f-cf5c-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&ceid=2916407#/registration

58] – Jed Weeks, Bikemore [jed@bikemore.net] on Fri., July 11 at from 7:30 to 9 AM ET wants you to know his group is holding a Bike Breakfast in the courtyard behind Sophomore Coffee, 2223 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.  Drop in for some coffee and light snacks and talk biking in Baltimore!

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/.

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