Press Advisory: For Immediate Release For media queries, please contact the Schools Not Jails Media Team: (410) 849-9626 | schoolsnotjails@gmail.com JANUARY 17: SCHOOLS NOT JAILS ORGANIZERS WILL RETURN TO SITE, DESPITE ARRESTS Organizers of today’s Schools Not Jails Occupation kickoff rally and action say that they have no plans to cancel the program of...
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Occupy Baltimore Joins Three Year Long Campaign To Halt Construction of Youth Jail in East Baltimore
WE MUST TELL THE CHILDREN: President Ronald Reagan & Others Didn’t Want To Create A Holiday For Dr. King But The People Prevailed
While it’s not spoken of much these days, it’s important to remember that the creation of a national holiday for Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. was fiercely opposed by those who self-identify as “conservatives” and many others, including then-president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. If we want the children to value the King Holiday;...
They Goin’ Make Me Dust Off My Mic For This One! Can I Kick It?!
Who knows if I can still kick it, but I used to back on the school bus. In fact, a little known Black History Fact about me was that I was the Battle Rap Champ among my peers. Punch lines for days. Those days are gone, but my love for Hip Hop remains (After...
This Sunday I’ll Be Praying & Standing in Solidarity With A Woman Facing Eviction in West Baltimore
People in Baltimore are organizing to stop foreclosures and evictions! More than symbolic gestures (which certainly has its place); I am more excited to see the development of this kind of direct organizing and activism in Baltimore. There is real potential here to raise the profile of the predatory practices of banks in Baltimore...
Kwanzaa Reflection 2011: Today’s Principle is Ujima – Collective Work & Responsibility
Habari Gani? Ujima – Collective Work & Responsibility To build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems our problems and to solve them together. While preparing to write today’s reflection on Ujima, my eyes zoned in on the word “problems” in the description of this sacred value. I began...
Kwanzaa Reflections 2011: Today’s Principle is Kujichagulia – Self-Determination
Habari Gani? Kujichagulia! which means Self Determination – To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves. Self-Determination is such a beautiful principle which speaks to the freedom that all individuals and people-groups should be able to rightly exercise. Though not always using the term, I have been writing about “kujichagulia”...
U.S. Senate Hopeful, Rev. C. Anthony Muse, Makes Case For Clergy Support
On the same day that Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was being formerly inaugurated into the office of Mayor of Baltimore, State Senator C. Anthony Muse met with Baltimore clergy at First Apostolic Faith Church to share his ideas related to a potential run for U.S. Senate. The Baltimore-native and and Prince George’s County Pastor currently is...
Sick & Tired of Being Sick & Tired: “Die-Vestment” in Black Baltimore
“I think I have some sense of what neighborhoods in Baltimore are like and what they need.”-M.J. “Jay” Brodie, President, Baltimore Development Corporation “I think I have some sense of what neighborhoods in Baltimore are like and what they need.” That was, in part, M.J. Brodie’s response to my critique of his agency’s impact...
Palestinian Freedom Riders To Ride Settler Buses to Jerusalem: Baltimore Plans Solidarity Action
FROM: Baltimore Solidarity with Palestine Facebook Event Page: On November 15, 2011, young Palestinian activists are planning a bold new assertion of their human rights in the face of Israeli state-instituted segregation, and they are reaching out to American allies for support, especially in cities like Baltimore which know segregation and anti-segregation activism. On...
Another Baltimore Development Corporation is Possible
MEETING TONIGHT ON THE STEPS OF THE BALTIMORE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’S OFFICE AT 5:00PM (EST) LOCATED: 36 S Charles St # 1600 Baltimore, MD 21201-3015 To brush up on what the Baltimore Development Corporation is and explore it’s role in Baltimore click here to read: “The Baltimore Development Corporation: A Case Study of Economic Development...
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