Baltimore Activist Alert -- March 20 - 22, 2026

61] Peace vigil at White House – March 20

62] Women in Black vigil – March 20

63] Support the people of Gaza – March 20

64] Mutual aid event – March 20

65] Silence gives consent – March 20

66] Peace vigil at Homewood Friends Meeting – March 20

67] Enough is enough – March 20

68] Rent stabilization in Frederick – March 20

69] Support Starbucks workers – March 21

70] Birdwatching tour of Druid Hill Park -- March 21

71] Canvass for Zola and Gabe – March 21

72] PG DSA meeting – March 21

73] Annapolis sign waving – March 21

74] Sign-making workshops – March 21 & 22

75] MOCO DSA meeting – March 21

76] Donations needed for the Silent Fallout project

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

78] Tell JHU president to renounce nuclear weapons contracts

79] Do you need a doctor?

80] Donate books, videos, DVDs and records

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61] – 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. 

62] – 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.

63] – 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

64] –  On Fridays, March 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/

65] – Join RESIST - Silence Gives Consent, a visibility event organized for Indivisible, will take place on Fridays, including March 20, 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/

66] – 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.  

67] – On Fridays, including March 20, 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

Join your neighbors on a 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! This event will continue through April 3.

68] – On Fri., March 20 from 7 to 8 PM, check out a Pivot to Action: Passing Rent Stabilization in Frederick, Maryland, a Town Hall at C. Burr Artz Public Library, 110 E Patrick St., Frederick 21701. Frederick County renters are facing rising housing costs at an alarming rate, and the community has been coming together to talk about what can be done.  To attend virtually click here: https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/922752/

Over the past two town halls, residents, organizers, and local leaders have gathered to discuss rent stabilization and what it could mean for Frederick County. Montgomery County officials indicated how they successfully passed rent stabilization, and from renters about the affordability challenges they’re facing every day. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/progressivemaryland/event/919444/?followup_modal_context=organization_newsletter_custom_recommendations

69] – Starbucks Workers United [sbwu@unsociallyinclined.com] on Sat., March 21 is asking you to stand with Starbucks workers.  Union baristas at Starbucks have done something historic: they've put a package of reasonable contract proposals on the table, one Starbucks could soon sign. Show up this Saturday, host an action, and stand with baristas! Supporters across the country are taking action. Show up at a local non-union store, talk with customers, and invite them to delete the Starbucks app and stop purchasing until the company settles a fair contract. When you sign up, you will be sent a toolkit and flyers. RSVP at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe8tjtzlROGVg8CU7HHetQ4y9jQGbG_rvcGrKopnptykpJadA/viewform 

70] – On Sat., March 21 at 8 AM ET, join a birdwatching tour of Druid Hill Park, 3001 East Drive, Baltimore 21217. Druid Hill Park is Baltimore's oldest large park and is home to 745 acres of forests, fields, and a large lake. 189 species of birds have been documented here, including nesting Baltimore orioles and yellow-crowned night herons. Audubon and Baltimore Bird Club experts will lead a search of avian friends! No experience necessary. Meet at 3001 East Drive. Email baltimore@audubon.org   RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/audubon-mid-atlantic/event/867806/?emci=f82e4ee2-db22-f111-9a48-000d3a14b640&emdi=14b792ee-e422-f111-9a48-000d3a14b640&ceid=2504878

71] – Canvass for Zola and Gabe on Sat., March 21 from 10 AM to 3 PM starting at Harriet Tubman Elementary, 400 Victory Farm Drive, Gaithersburg 20877.  Metro DC DSA has endorsed two amazing candidates - Zola Shaw and Gabe Acevero! Show MoCo that DSA stands with the endorsed candidates by turning up and turning out to knock on doors. Zola and Gabe support renters, teachers, and working families, and that's why DSA supports them. Training for the first canvassing shift will start at 10 AM, and folks will be out canvassing for about two hours to finish out their shift. Training for the second canvassing shift will start at 1 PM. Buddies will be provided to those who need either. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/day-of-action-canvass-for-zola-and-gabe-321-weekend?link_id=83&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-27-2026-2&email_referrer=email_3142527&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-march-13-2026&&

72] – The Prince George’s DSA will hold a hybrid general body meeting on Sat., March 21 from 11 AM to 1 PM at the Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Road, Greenbelt 20770. A virtual link will be communicated before the event. Discuss anti-ICE organizing in the county, hear updates from working groups, and spend the final half of the meeting making signs for the upcoming No Kings rally in Hyattsville on Sat., March 28. Some supplies will be provided, but please bring some to share if you are able to. https://actionnetwork.org/events/pgdsa-march-general-body-meeting?link_id=84&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-27-2026-2&email_referrer=email_3142527&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-march-13-2026&&

73] – Chesapeake Indivisible is doing a Sign Waving protest on Saturdays, March 21 & 28, from 11 AM to 1 PM at a new location Forest Drive, on the sidewalks near Safeway, 1796 Forest Drive, Annapolis 21403. This event will continue through March 28. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/chesapeakeindivisible/event/834849/

There are mountains of snow/ice along the Annapolis mall sidewalks, so instead of cancelling the weekly sign-waving protest, it has been moved. Once those sidewalks are well cleared and look safe, return to the Annapolis Mall area when the footing is safe.

74] – Indivisible Baltimore County [email.replies@newsletter.mobilize.us] on Sat., March 21 from 3 to 5 PM ET is holding a No Kings Sign Making Workshop at Woodbrook Baptist Church, 25 Stevenson Lane, Baltimore 21212. No Kings Day is coming up on March 28. IBC will provide sign ideas, inspiration and supplies. Feel free to bring your own supplies, too. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/indivisiblebaltco/event/922490/

A second sign making event has just been added, if you cannot participate this Saturday. On Sun., March 22 from 1:30 to 4 PM at Woodbrook Baptist Church. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/baltimoresignwaves/event/923317/

75] – Get with a MoCo DSA social on Sat., March 21 from 5:45 to 9 PM at Mayan Monkey Brewery, 227 E. Diamond Ave., Gaithersburg 20877. This social will immediately follow the electoral canvass in support of Delegate Gabe Acevero. This social is open to DSA members, trusted individuals and those who might be interested in DSA.  RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/moco-dsa-march-social?link_id=85&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-february-27-2026-2&email_referrer=email_3142527&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-march-13-2026&&

76] – 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

77] – 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. 

 78] -- 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.

 79] – 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.  

 80]- 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