Baltimore Activist Alert -- December 7 - 8, 2025

Baltimore Activist Alert – December 7 - 8, 2025

"I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours." -Martin Luther King Jr.

Friends, this list and other email documents which I send out are done under the auspices of the Baltimore Nonviolence Center.  Go to www.baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com. 

If you appreciate this information and would like to make a donation, send contributions to Max Obuszewski, BNC, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Max can be reached at 410-323-1607 or mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net.

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] Friends meeting -- Dec. 7

7] Baltimore in WWII – Dec. 7

8] Catonsville against Trump – Dec. 7

9] Town Hall with progressive viewpoints -- Dec. 7

10] Sale of Afghan crafts – Dec. 7

11] Vigil at the Pentagon – Dec. 8

12] Baltimore Sign waves – Dec. 8

13] Stop the billionaires -- Dec. 8

14] Grassroots protection for the vote – Dec. 8

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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] – Homewood Friends Meeting [homewoodfriends@gmail.com] gathers for worship on Sundays at 10:30 AM at 3107 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218 and on Zoom.  A simple lunch will take place after the 10:30 AM worship. Call 410-235-4438. To join by Zoom, go to https://us02web.zoom.us/j/255867065?pwd=UDNxVnlVSkZQOHlXWlc3NHpHeHdhZz09#success

7] – The Baltimore Ethical Society on Sun., Dec. 7 at 10:30 AM will meet using a Zoom link.  The platform address is "Baltimore in the War Years" by John Burkert, author and historian. This the story of Baltimore and how its citizens and industry committed themselves to ‘War on the Homefront.” During WWII just three manufacturing forces: steel, ships, and aircraft, employed locally over 100,000 people, won countless production awards and shifted forever the opinions of who could be employed to do which jobs. And the “Big Three” were just the beginning, as the businesses and industries that supported and assisted them numbered in the hundreds. Of course, an all-consuming war effort also meant change to the social fabric of the city, a fabric stressed and occasionally torn, as gender and racial barriers collapsed. Every citizen felt the need to make as great a contribution as his or her individual abilities made possible. Register at https://www.meetup.com/bmorethical/events/311743243/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

8] – On Sun., Dec. 7 from noon to 1 PM, get with Catonsville Nine Redux for a Sign Wave over the Frederick Road Overpass, Frederick Road and I-695, Catonsville 21228. This event will continue through Dec. 27, 2026.  RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/853167/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_of_type

9] – Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] on Sun., Dec. 7 at 4 PM ET will hold its weekly town hall. This Sunday's Town Hall will feature three parts. First, Executive Director Alan Minsky will preview a major public forum on the State of the Democratic Party that PDA is hosting on Thursday evening, Dec. 11 at the Teachers Union (UTLA) Hall in Los Angeles - to coincide with the quarterly DNC meeting taking place in Downtown LA from the 10th through the 13th. Second, meet Dylan Blaha, who is challenging incumbent centrist corporate Democrat Nikki Budzinski in Illinois’ 13th district that stretches 200 miles from East Central Illinois to the Metro East near St. Louis. He explains “The system is broken. It doesn't work for working people. I'm a combat veteran and former cancer researcher, and I'm running for U.S. Congress to change the system.” 

 To round out the Town Hall, meet Rachel Rybaczuk, host of the exceptional podcast Shifting Terrain, that studies the underrepresentation of working-class Americans in our political system by documenting the struggles (and occasional triumphs) of working-class Americans who run for office. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tceuhrzsvHdymeeZRwb-i7X50FJa-HMR4?emci=ced5d1ed-71c8-f011-8196-6045bdfe8e9c&emdi=ea000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001&ceid=2907617#/registration

10] – Jeannie Athey [jlathey@comcast.net] is inviting you to a sale of Afghan Handcrafts, such as jewelry, embroidery, scarves, rugs, and more at 10 E. Lee St. in Baltimore. This is a benefit for women in Afghanistan. 

11] – 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 Dec. 8, 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.

12] –  Baltimore Sign Waves on Mondays, Dec. 8 & 22 from 7:30 to 8:15 AM will be at West Northern Parkway & Roland Ave., Baltimore 21210. Join in the waving of pro-democracy signs! Bring your sign or just show up. This event will continue through Dec. 22. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/793151/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_closest

13] – Our cities are under attack by ICE and President Trump’s deportation agenda. Did you know that trillions of our retirement dollars and endowments are supporting the billionaires that are driving Trump’s deportation machine? Learn more on Mon., Dec. 8 at 3 PM ET for a webinar on how we stop funding the billionaires that are propping up fascism, undermining workers, and destroying our communities. Billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel and their companies Tesla and Palantir have huge investments from our pension funds. They're using our money to attack our communities, destroy our jobs and steal our democracy—and they're driving the kidnapping and deportation of immigrant families today. Dig in on examples such as the Chicago Teachers’ Union’s Resolution for a Pension Fund that Provides a Dignified Retirement while Promoting a More Just Society from October 2025, community labor work engaging the California Public Employees' Retirement System and the University of California around their housing and climate investments, and the campaign that got New York’s pension fund to commit to no new money in fossil fuels. RSVP at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GPFiF3fYSJ2xJzx5Zcnbmg?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-register-for-the-stop-funding-billionaires-webinar-on-december-8&email_referrer=email_2996486&email_subject=register-for-the-stop-funding-billionaires-webinar-on-december-8&&#/registration

14] – Progressive Democrats of America [info@pdamerica.org] wants you to participate with the Grassroots Election Protection Coalition/ALLIANCE 4 GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY Zoom on Mon., Dec. 8 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