56] Peace vigil at White House – March 13
57] Women in Black vigil – March 13
58] Support the people of Gaza – March 13
59] Mutual aid event – March 13
60] Silence gives consent – March 13
61] Peace vigil at Homewood Friends Meeting – March
13
62] Enough is enough – March 13
63] Annapolis sign waving – March 14
64] Knock on doors for DSA candidate – March 14
65] Bystander intervention
skills workshop – March 14
67] MOCO DSA meeting – March 14
68] Donations needed for the
Silent Fallout project
69] Read Dave Eberhardt’s book "For All the Saints- a Protest
Primer"
70] Tell JHU president to renounce
nuclear weapons contracts
71]
Do you need a doctor?
72] Donate
books, videos, DVDs and records
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56] – 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.
57] – 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.
58] – 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, 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
59] – On Fridays, March 13, 20 & 27 and April 10, from noon to 4 PM, get over to the Mutual Aid Event at Pip Moyer Recreation Center, (Annapolis Recreation and Parks), 273 Hilltop Lane, Annapolis 21403. Join Chesapeake Indivisible and other local volunteers in helping to unpack, sort, bag food, help load packed food in cars and, optional, help deliver in your vehicle, food to families unable to come to the drive through. Meet at 12 noon at Pip Moyer Center, and operation leaders will direct you to where help is needed. This event does not take place on the first Friday of the month. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/chesapeakeindivisible/event/913253/
60] – Join RESIST - Silence Gives Consent, a visibility event organized for Indivisible, will take place on Fridays, including March 13, from 3 to 5 PM at on an overpass at 9706 Gorman Road, Laurel 20723. This event will continue through June 5. Protest this Trump administration and to protect our democracy. If you too feel a need to speak out and use your freedom to protest, then this is your opportunity to join like-minded people who believe in our constitution and in humanity. This is a fun way to do something useful - lots of honking and affirmation from the 20K+ cars below. Wear your warm clothes or your character costumes. Bring your flags, small signs (for local traffic) and large signs for the 95 traffic below. Or just bring yourself and friends too of course. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/891474/
61] – Homewood Friends Meeting is holding a peace vigil at 5 PM outside the meetinghouse, 3107 N. Charles St., Baltimore 21218 on Fridays--War is not the Answer! No War on Iran.
62] – On Fridays, including March 13, from 5 to 6 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. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/dfadcoalition/event/781857/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations
64] – On Sat., March 14 from 11 AM to 3 PM ET, Canvass for Josie Caballero. Go to https://actionnetwork.org/events/canvass-for-josie-caballero-saturday-314?link_id=78&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-27-2026&email_referrer=email_3130893&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-march-6-2026&&
Meet at Jesup Blair Park, 900 Jesup Blair Drive, Silver Spring 20910. Come out to canvass for MoCo DSA endorsed candidate Josie Caballero for Montgomery County Council at-Large! Knock on doors to tell all about Josie and her tireless support for teachers. The park is an 18 minute walk from the Metro stop.
65] – Pax Christi USA [jcoode@paxchristiusa.ccsend.com] on Sat., March 14 from 2 to 6 PM ET is holding a bystander intervention skills workshop with the Mobile Peace Team on Zoom. RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMZy4EeO1nxfOSvmLJ9EFuP1QcyPkvaSSC7tN4QnIRVh4OYA/viewform
The increased violence in our communities and the targeting of individuals based on how they look add another layer of divisiveness and "us vs. them" thinking in our nation. The emphasis will be on BYSTANDER INTERVENTION. This workshop offers skill-building on how to do effective bystander intervention when someone is being harassed or threatened with violence. The Fee is $45 (but free for members of Pax Christi USA). MPT never turns away anyone from a training program. If you would like to request a scholarship, please contact Mary Hanna at maryhanna.mpt@gmail.com or call (517) 489-2607.
66] – Indivisible Baltimore County [email.replies@newsletter.mobilize.us] on Sat., March 14 from 3 to 5 PM ET is holding a virtual meeting. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblebaltco/event/852063/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations
IBC is a progressive, grassroots organization committed to peaceful civic engagement and collaboration with like-minded organizations and individuals. Our core aims include policies and laws that promote and protect the rights of all people and defending democracy and the rights of every individual as written in the Constitution. The group meets twice a month--Saturday on Zoom, and 4th Saturday in-person--and sponsors multiple opportunities a month to engage with members.
67] – There is a MoCo DSA general body meeting on Sat., March 14 from 3 to 5 PM at the Gaithersburg Library, 18330 Montgomery Village Ave., Gaithersburg 20879. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/moco-dsa-march-general-body-meeting?link_id=79&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-27-2026&email_referrer=email_3130893&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-march-6-2026&&
If you're brand new to DSA, this meeting is open to the public. There are many working groups, including ICE Watch, Palestine Solidarity, Electoral and others. If you can't attend in-person, please use the Zoom link for hybrid options: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84353505731
68] – Hideaki Ito [silentfalloutproject.org@gmail.com] wants to give you an update about the Silent Fallout Project. 2025 was a successful year. Now there are plans for 2026. Make a donation at https://www.silentfalloutproject.org/donation
69] – 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.
70] -- 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.
71] – 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.
72]- 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.
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
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