Baltimore Activist Alert -- April 13 - 14, 2026

25] What Really Happened January 3? – April 13

26] DSA organizer will do a training – April 13  

27] Phone bank Virginia voters – April 13

28] DSA meeting – April 13  

29] No detention centers – April 13

30] Organizing workers – April 13

31] Sign wave in Towson – April 14 

32] The legislative session – April 14

33] Dump Trump for invading Venezuela – April 14

34] Common Cause phone bank – April 14

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25] – MAPA Ed Fund [info@masspeaceaction.org] on Mon., April 13 at 8 PM is asking these questions: Venezuela: What Really Happened January 3? What is Happening Now? Two leading activists and former members of the Bolivarian government will speak to these questions, and then answer yours. Micaela Ovelar, former political advisor to President Hugo Chavez and currently professor of Political Studies, Government and International Relations at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela, as well as a member of the "State and Social Protests" Study Group at the Bolivarian University of Venezuela. Leonardo Flores is a Venezuelan-American political analyst and activist with CODEPINK. Register to attend: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/venezuela-what-happened-january-3/

26] – On Mon., April 13 at 5:30 PM at the Arlington Central Library, 1015 North Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22201, join the Northern Virginia branch of Metro DC DSA for an organizing training with a regional organizer from National DSA, Eric Wimer! Discuss how to better organize the NoVA area! Afterwards, there will be a meet and greet at 7 PM. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/organizing-skills-workshop-with-national-dsa-representative?link_id=70&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-april-3-2026&email_referrer=email_3186207&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-april-10-2026&&

27] – On Mondays, April 13 & 20, from 6 to 8 PM, get with a Silver Spring Progressive Action.  Join a phone bank to urge VA voters to support this temporary redistricting measure in a special election on April 21. Training is provided. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/917262/?followup_modal_context=nonexclusive_newsletter_more_events_of_type

 MAGA GOP started mid-cycle redistricting in Texas as a ploy to maintain their grip on the House of Representatives, but they didn’t count on people fighting back in California and now in Virginia. A new (temporary) VA map could yield up to 4 additional blue seats! Democracy is on the line.

28] – There will be a D.C./MD DSA Abolition Working Group biweekly virtual meeting on Mon., April 13 from 7 to 8 PM. A virtual link will be communicated before the event. Email abolition@mdcdsa.org. Discuss strategy and planning. This event is open to both DSA members and supporters. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/dcmd-abolition-working-group-biweekly-meeting-413?link_id=71&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-april-3-2026&email_referrer=email_3186207&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-april-10-2026&&

29] – Get involved in Fighting Detention Center Expansion on Mon., April 13 from 7:30 to 9 PM. This is a virtual vent, and a link will be communicated before the event. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/fighting-detention-center-expansion/?link_id=0&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-tomorrow-at-8pm-et-fighting-287g-agreements-no-collaboration-w-ice&email_referrer=email_3184127&email_subject=mon-at-730pm-et-fighting-detention-center-expansion&&#:~:text=Fighting%20Detention%20Center,to%20fight%20back

At the beginning of the second Trump administration, 90% of the country’s 41,500 immigration detention beds were owned or operated by private prison companies. Now, after a year of congressional capitulation and the enormous increase in DHS funding, the Trump administration is proposing to vastly increase is immigration detention bed space, mostly through private contractors and non-traditional prisons such as converted warehouses. Stopping these is a critical area of work, since fewer detention sites available helps to bottleneck ICE arrests, and cooperation from local governments and private corporations is necessary to permit and operate these facilities. Both are vulnerable to public pressure and present key opportunities for chapters to develop long-term campaigns in strategic collaboration with broad coalitions of migrant rights organizations.

30] – There is a virtual Organizing Workers Training Session 1 on Mon., April 13 at 8 PM. A virtual link will be communicated before the event. Are you looking for a new job? Want to join the labor movement and build power on the shop floor with your co-workers? Salting, or getting a non-union job and organizing your workplace, is a key tactic that organizers have used for decades to build the labor movement. Learn organizing basics, share information about priority industries, and help you get a job you can organize. RSVP at https://actionnetwork.org/events/april-workers-organizing-workers-training-session-1?link_id=72&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-april-3-2026&email_referrer=email_3186207&email_subject=metro-dc-dsa-weekly-newsletter-for-april-10-2026&&

31] – Join a Sign Wave at Loch Raven Blvd. and Taylor Ave. on Tuesdays, including April 14, from 8 to 9 AM.  This is an Indivisible Baltimore County visibility event to let Trump know that the people are not backing down, hosted by Baltimore Sign Waves.  It will continue through July 28.  RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/baltimoresignwaves/event/778718/?share_medium=native_share&share_context=event_detail_page&force_banner=true

32] – Maryland LCV [info@mdlcv.org] on Tues., April 14 from noon to 12:45 PM will go live the day after Sine Die. This will be a special interactive Tuesday Digest after the legislative session. This will be a look at the just-completed legislative session from a conservation perspective and also look ahead to this election year, inviting you to join in the work for a better Maryland. RSVP at  https://www.mdlcv.org/event/4-14-2026-tuesday-digest?contactdata=560KufY5ySN1Bmt9UUr0TZY%2fuITPa7DgHmLHxy6N5ixdcfS5casaUnpxxplOPZRZiWo6Z8Dq%2fGDEgfTrPHE4xrnvBg3807rSdaIeCRHQjbKarplU5Vt%2ftqPqN7%2fLjbVA2awe4%2f3czFglS3Fke7HynGhhI0G+lAIJOk0R8AF9K5VZFWTKoTRrPaYfF4JyA4ydbArEXOmjF0Nc1268XsuLkbNbbYq5B4knj0J%2fvf+yvy0cBP9fG3piRLZQ4zSbEBXbC%2fXLpEA6Qe1O3KykoCaR4A%3d%3d&emci=0317aaec-7833-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&emdi=828a56a7-2034-f111-8ef2-000d3a14b640&ceid=578562

33] – Join the Baltimore Nonviolence Center on Tues., April 14 from 4:30 to 5 PM ET at 33rd and N. Charles Sts. to challenge President Trump for a long list of illegal executive orders. And now he has invaded Venezuela. Without resistance Trump will undermine our flawed democracy.  Right now Trump wants fascism as the order of the day. Contact Max at Comcast dot net or 410-323-1607.

34] – Grassroots Action Team (via Common Cause) [causenet@commoncause.org] on Tues., April 14 from 6 to 8 PM wants you to join a weekly phone bank to help move pro-democracy bills forward or push back on harmful legislations moving through State Houses and US Congress. Each phone bank focuses on the most urgent campaign fights happening right now. Every week, volunteers from coast to coast come together to get the latest updates, receive training, and make calls as a team. Be part of this powerful community and help voters across the country call their elected officials and make their voices heard. The next phone bank will be on Tues., April 21 at 6 PM ET.  This event will continue through Jan. 12, 2027. RSVP at https://www.mobilize.us/commoncause/event/758610/?link_id=2&can_id=4b9d4061aec5469758759317ac0f5285&source=email-five-things-you-can-do-right-now-4&email_referrer=email_3077543&email_subject=five-things-you-can-do-right-now&&

To be continued

Donations can be sent to Max Obuszewski, Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 431 Notre Dame Lane, Apt. 206, Baltimore, MD 21212.  Ph.: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski2001 [at] comcast.net. Go to "http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/" http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.

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