Join us at 2640 St. Paul Street in Baltimore for an exciting and revealing discussion about the Academic Industrial Complex: highlighting the activities of Syracuse and Johns Hopkins and organizing efforts to to challenge these powerful land grabbers…presented by John Burdick and Marisela Gomez Hosted by 2640 and Red Emma’s link to flyer
Links 1. Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America facebook.com/pages/Race-Class-Power-and-Organizing-in-East-Baltimore-MBGomez/382850858455298?ref=stream&sk=info 2. Race and class determine ‘who gets the land’. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2twowz8pped4tbu/MiddleEastBalt.Gomez.2013.pdf This dropbox link should allow you to download and/or print the powerpt presentation from April 1, 2013 public talk at MICA on displacement and resistance in Middle East Baltimore […]
This quote of Audre Lorde’s is timeless, has been interpreted and re-interpreted countless times, and still pertains to the way we rebuild communities today. It may be a good time to revisit this penetrating truth, in light of the heightened awareness of the need to “dismantle the Master’s house”. The Master’s tools, The Master’s house […]
Lawrence T. Brown _____________________ “This is how it’s done. When people are sitting on [stuff] that you want, you make ’em your enemy. Then you justify taking it.” Jake Sully in Avatar The problem of the 21st century is forced displacement. As capitalists and corporations march around the world grabbing real estate, resources, and rare […]
The nature of neo-liberalism, the practice of capitalism, assures inequity in all forms: housing, income, education, recreation, health, transportation…and on and on. Why? Because those with more capital (assets, access to assets and resources to assure more assets, education, housing, income, land, decision-making) have the power to grow power unequally through exploitation of those without. […]
This week while attempting to deliver a book to the Clifton Park Library at 2001 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore I was struck by the hours posted on the window. Basically it was open 4.5 hours three days of the week and 4 hours on another day for a total of 17.5 hours each week (4 […]
The recent article ‘Prospect of prosperity means loss of name: ‘Rebranding’ Middle East at the cost of its heritage’ on May 26 by Steve Kilar suggests that we just have to accept that branding by public-private partnerships rule the day and any history which reminds us of what needs to change to make us a […]
Race class power and organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding abandoned communities in America Go to Introduction Go to Chapter 1. Race Separation in Historic East Baltimore: Yesterday and Today Go to Chapter 2. East Baltimore’s Community Rebuilding History: Abandonment and Displacement Go to Chapter 3. Organized Communities and Resistance in East Baltimore’s Past […]