Baltimore Activist Alert -- July 11 - 12, 2025

59] House for sale

60] Peace vigil at White House – July 11

61] Women in Black vigil – July 11

62] Support the people of Gaza – July 11

63] Pro-democracy demo – July 11

64] Protest DOGE, support workers & Ukraine – July 11

65] Enough is enough – July 11

66] Baltimore Vigil for Palestine – July 11

67] Queer Quaker Potluck – July 11

68] Peace Wave – July 11 - 12

69] Resist the Fossil Fuel training – July 12

70] Tyrone West Run – July 12

71] Community Clean-up -- July 12

72] Medicare for All petition – July 12

73] Tesla Takedown Party – July 12

74] Tesla Takedown in Rockville – July 12

75] Tesla Dance Party – July 12

76] Abolition 2000 meeting -- July 12

77] Support the tenants – July 12

78] Donations needed for the Silent Fallout project

79] Read Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"

80] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts

81] Do you need a doctor?

82] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

83] Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil

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59] – Judy Geisler, activist/teacher, is selling her home in Lauraville community. It has 4 bedrooms and 1 bath with a good basement. It is quiet and somewhat secluded for Btown since it is on a dead end street and backs into a field/forest. It is connected to an amazing extended green space with a stream. There is so much wild life here. Good neighbors, many teachers and activist live here. Safe neighborhood. Big, old trees everywhere. You can text her at 443 500 6733 if you are interested.

60] – There is a weekly vigil at the White House on Fridays from noon to 1 PM sponsored by the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker.  Email artlaffin@hotmail.com or call 202-882-9649. 

61] – Every Friday from noon to 1 PM, Baltimore Women in Black vigil for peace with men and women who live in Roland Park. WIB invites all to join, and any peace sign is welcome, such as "Defuse Nuclear War."  The vigil takes place outside Roland Park Place at 830 West 40th Street and Elm Street. Parking is free at RPP or at the Rotunda across the street. Contact Ann Vinup at annvinup@gmail.com.

62] – The American Friends Service Committee holds an Action Hour every Friday at noon ET.  You’ll get updates from AFSC staff in Gaza, hear what’s happening on Capitol Hill, and get resources for your activism. Together, contact Congress to demand an arms embargo on Israel, a permanent cease-fire in Gaza, and fully funded humanitarian aid for Palestinians. Our elected officials need to keep hearing from us. RSVP at https://afsc.org/actionhour?emci=822f3fb8-241a-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&emdi=20221eff-f41a-f011-8b3d-0022482a9fb7&ceid=764241

63] – Baltimore Sign Waves on Fridays from 2:30 to 3:30 PM at 5129 Roland Ave., Baltimore 21210 will do a pro-democracy demo.  Bring your sign or just show up! Sign wave first in a large median near Roland Park Elementary, Roland Park Country, & the Gilman School pick up area. Then when traffic slows make your way up to Northern Parkway and finish the day there. This will continue through August 29! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/793151/

64] – Protest DOGE/Elon and Support our Federal Workers and Ukraine on Fridays, through July 18, from 4:15 to 6:15 PM ET at Gorman Road 95 Overpass, Howard County 20723. Gather again on the 95 Overpass, and bring signs! RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/762787/

65] – On Fridays, including July 11, at 5 PM ET, join Indivisible to say Enough is Enough at the east side of 16th St. between 2nd Avenue and Grace Church Road, Silver Spring 20910. This will continue through July 18. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/781857/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations

Join your neighbors every Friday evening. Bring flags, signs, and energy. Make a stand for Democracy and the Rule of Law and signal to passing motorists that enough is enough! 

66] – The Baltimore Vigil for Palestine takes place on Fridays from 5:30 to 7 PM. The Baltimore Vigil for Palestine is dedicated to building the movement for the emancipation of oppressed peoples from Baltimore to Palestine. Meet at E. 33rd St and Hillen Road, right off Lake Montebello. Visit https://linktr.ee/Baltimore2Palestine?emci=773af0f6-c74a-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=c765ba90-cc4a-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=4262660

67] – There will be a QUEER QUAKER POTLUCK on Fri. July 11 at 6:30 PM at Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218. The Outreach Team will hold a potluck on Friday for Homewood’s LGBTQ members, attenders, newcomers, and friends. The potluck is hosted by Dominique and Paula. All welcome! RSVP to dzeltzm1@gmail.com.

68] – World BEYOND War [info@worldbeyondwar.org] is starting its Peace Wave on July 12 from 0:00 to 24:00 UTC. In U.S. and Canada Eastern Time that is 8 PM July 11 to 8 PM July 12. The peace wave is a 24-hour-long Zoom featuring live peace actions in the streets and squares of the world, moving around the globe with the sun.  The peace wave visits dozens of locations around the globe and includes rallies, concerts, production of artworks, blood drives, installations of peace poles, dances, speeches, and public demonstrations of all variety. In 2025 it is hoped that participants address the need to abolish nuclear weapons. To sign up to watch the Peace Wave, to embed the sign-up on your website, to watch the past three years' peace waves, and to answer most questions, go to https://24hourpeacewave.org

69] – Rising Tide North America [risingtidenorthamerica@riseup.net] on Sat., July 12 is organizing a training in Baltimore to Resist the Fossil Fuel Billionaire Takeover.  The group is mobilizing activists across the country to level up their organizing skills and to take action at this critical moment. Sign up to host a training in YOUR community this July or August and get matched to a regional training of trainers. Each training will center on building action skills and getting people to plan actions together.  If you know someone who might be interested, there is more information and a sign-up form at this link: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/host-a-trainings-to-resist-the-fossil-fuel-billionaire-takeover/?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-resist-the-fossil-fuel-billionaire-takeover&email_referrer=email_2796612&email_subject=resist-the-fossil-fuel-billionaire-takeover&&

70] – RUNNERS4JUSTICE's annual Justice for Tyrone West Run/Walk will take place on Sat., July 12 from 6:30 to 9 AM at Lake Montebello at 33rd St. & Hillen Road. There are options to run/walk 5K, 12K, or 12 miles—one mile for every year without accountability, for every year that Tyrone's family has lived without him. Routes are provided that visit meaningful places along the way. Meet at Lake Montebello entrance. Twelve-mile runners meetup is 6:00-6:30 AM. All other distances meetup is 6:30 to 9 AM. You're welcome to start at any time between this meetup. Routes and bib-making stations will be available during this time as well. RSVP at https://www.instagram.com/runners4justice?emci=6cd15218-155d-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&emdi=866f6fb0-195d-f011-8f7c-6045bda9d96b&ceid=4262660

71] – On Sat., July 12 from 8 to 10:30 AM ET, join a Community Clean-Up with Shore Progress at Maryland 991, Salisbury 21801. Wicomico Clean, Shore Progress and Green SBY are hosting a Volunteer Clean-Up to pick up litter at and near the Salisbury City Boat Ramp. All are welcome! Gloves, litter grabbers and trash bags will be provided. Please wear waders if you plan to go into the river. Help protect the waterways and beautify the Shore. Sign up to lend a hand: https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/811231/?emci=12477b8f-6c5b-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=a18bb2d5-715b-f011-8f7c-6045bdfe8e9c&ceid=136680

72] – The Northern Virginia DSA Medicare 4 ALL working group will do a Shirlington M4A Resolution Petition Drive on Sat., July 12 at 10:30 AM at the Shirlington Library, 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington 22206. Join volunteers from the DSA NoVA Branch Medicare For All Working Group and the M4A coalition partners to gather petition signatures and hand out flyers outside the Shirlington Library to build support for our Medicare for All Resolution Campaign. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/shirlington-m4a-resolution-petition-drive-july-12th-at-1030am?link_id=69&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-june-20-2025&email_referrer=email_2792482&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-june-27-2025&&

73] – Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it. Take nonviolent action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup.  Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. No violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of your First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. On Sat., July 12 from 11 AM to noon at Tesla Owings Mills, 9428 Reisterstown Road, Owings Mills 21117. #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown?zipcode=21117&country=US&title_search=&start_date_threshold=&end_date_threshold=

74] – Get over to the Tesla Takedown on Saturdays, July 12, 19 & 26 from 11 AM to noon at the Rockville Tesla, 1300 Rockville Pike, Rockville 20852. Email maryland@thirdact.org. Musk is responsible for mass suffering and death. And he will cause more if we give him the chance to recover his reputation. Tesla Takedown is a peaceful protest movement. No violence, vandalism and destruction of property. This protest is a lawful exercise of your First Amendment right to peaceful assembly. #TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla RSVP at h https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown?zipcode=21117&country=US&title_search=&start_date_threshold=&end_date_threshold=

75] – Get over to a Tesla Takedown Dance Party every Saturday from 11 AM to 1 PM at Tesla Georgetown, 3307 M St. NW, WDC. Email danceagainstdoge@gmail.com. Protest the hostile takeover of our government! Signs, fun accessories and awesome music will be provided. The joy is strategic. Fascists want us to be afraid, demoralized, and checked out. Bring joy to the resistance! It’s the most fun you will have standing up for our Freedoms, our Families, and our Future! Please refrain from swastikas in your signage. Because of its historic and current use, the swastika makes millions of potential allies feel unsafe or unwelcome at our protests. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/teslatakedown?zipcode=21117&country=US&title_search=&start_date_threshold=&end_date_threshold=

76] – UNFOLD ZERO [info@unfoldzero.org] wants you to know about the Abolition 2000 annual meeting on Fri., July 11 and Sat., July 12: Building the nuclear abolition movement. In Eastern Standard Time, you can participate in the meeting starting at noon on Sat., July 12. The world is facing increasing nuclear threats and lack of progress on nuclear disarmament. Join nuclear risk-reduction and disarmament campaigners from around the world for Abolition 2000's 30th Annual General Meeting, to help build the global movement for nuclear disarmament.  UNFOLD ZERO is proud to be an affiliated network of Abolition 2000, the global open-entry network for nuclear disarmament organizations and individuals established in 1995. Over 2000 organizations have endorsed the Abolition 2000 founding statement which outlines 11 concrete measures to achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world, some of which we have already achieved. RSVP at https://www.abolition2000.org/en/save-the-date-annual-general-meeting-registration-open/

77] – Mayor Muriel Bowser's RENTAL Act would further decimate the rights guaranteed to Washingtonians by the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), stripping these rights from huge swaths of tenants in both new developments and covenanted affordable housing throughout the District. The RENTAL Act also speeds up evictions, limits the Emergency Rental Assistance Program, allows slumlords to mass-serve eviction filings via email, and limits consumer protections relating to rental debts, among other attacks on tenants. Stomp out Slumlords is organizing to defeat this broadside attack on tenants' rights and save TOPA. On Sat., July 12 at 1:30 PM, get over to the Fort Totten Metro Station, 550 Galloway St. NE, WDC 20011. Join for a canvass to talk to tenants about fighting back and organizing against these attacks on TOPA. This will be one of many canvasses speaking to tenants in critical councilmember wards across the District. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/july-topa-canvas?link_id=70&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-june-20-2025&email_referrer=email_2792482&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-june-27-2025&&

78] – Hideaki Ito [silentfalloutproject.org@gmail.com] wants to give you an update about the Silent Fallout Project. It has been more than five months since Silent Fallout was screened in Baltimore. He wants to express his sincere gratitude to all who supported the project during its US tour and hosted screenings. The film was shown in 20 locations over 43 days to over 600 people. The film aims to raise awareness about the reality of radiation contamination across the American continent and how many Americans are unknowingly exposed. It helps people understand that they are impacted by this issue and then use the US as a starting point to spark a global conversation about radiation.

Currently, the project is facing a deficit of $100K, and its future is uncertain. However, Ito is determined to raise funds and continue its activities. In 2025, which marks the 80th year since the birth of the atomic bomb, there is a plan to embark on a European screening tour, produce a new film, conduct a second US tour, and host a large-scale event on August 6th. Make a donation at https://www.silentfalloutproject.org/donation

79] – David Eberhardt was a member of the Baltimore Four with Father Philip Berrigan, Tom Lewis and Rev. James Mengel.  The group poured blood on draft files on October 27, 1967.  They would be convicted and sentenced to prison.

He has written a book "For All the Saints- a Protest Primer"- documenting the Baltimore Four action and many others up to and including the most recent Plowshares action – Kings Bay Plowshares 7.  Dave printed new copies of For All the Saints, a Protest Primer- 250+ pp w photos-therefore #'s 351-400 making it o so collectable with two Berrigan book reviews added. The books are signed, and the price remains $25. Will send free if need be- he is not in it for the money! If you want one, send him a check, or contact Dave Eberhardt, 4 Hadley Square North, Baltimore, MD 21218 by email at 1941mireille@gmail.com. 

80] -- This is A PLEA TO CONVINCE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY TO OBEY INTERNATIONAL LAW. The world reached a historic milestone on January 22, 2021: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons [TPNW] entered into force and become binding international law -- https://www.icanw.org/the_treaty.

Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland has called attention to the growing danger of nuclear war and the outrageous $1.7 trillion dollars we are spending to upgrade the nuclear arsenal. On July 18, 2017, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, a U.S. Navy - affiliated research center received a seven-year, $92 million contract to continue its systems engineering and research-and-development services for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center. Help convince JHU to renounce nuclear weapons contracts. Contact the president, Ron Daniels, to urge him to reject all nuclear weapons contracts: Office of the President, 242 Garland Hall, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218.  Call his office at (410) 516-8068 or email president@jhu.edu.

81] – Yousef Zarbalian [EastWestRheum@gmail.com] started his own medical practice in December before the pandemic hit. It is called East-West Medicine and Rheumatology, and its website is EastWestMD.com.  Yousef is licensed in Maryland and Virginia. He is doing primary care as well as rheumatologic care (focusing on joint problems and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and sjogren's).  He is offering telemedicine visits, and he has very reasonable rates for uninsured individuals.  He makes use of herbs (which can be sent directly to patients from the herbal dispensary) as well as prescribing medications to their local pharmacy if needed.  

82] -- If you would like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs, records, tarps and table cloths, contact Max at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 at comcast.net.

83] -- A Peace Park Antinuclear Vigil takes place every day in Lafayette Park, 1601 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 24 hours a day, since June 3, 1981. Go to http://prop1.org; call 202-210-3886.

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/.

“One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible. It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan