Through direct action, coalition building, education, and advocacy, we’re empowering new community leaders and building a movement for the human right to housing in Baltimore.
Tyrone West Coalition
West family members, friends, and supporters demanding justice for Tyrone West and all victims of police brutality.
Tubman House: 1619 Coalition
In a time in which similarly situated neighborhoods across the nation are being demolished or skillfully cleansed of its indigenous residents, Tubman House will provide aspiration, inspiration, and motivation for investment in native grassroots leadership by using a self-governing model of having the community build and maintain the necessities of what the community needs to not only survive but also thrive.
United Workers
The United Workers was founded in 2002 by homeless day laborers meeting in an abandoned firehouse-turned-shelter. We were inspired by past human rights struggles, such as the fight to end slavery, the struggle for civil rights, calls for immigration with dignity, the labor movement, the fight for international economic justice and other human rights and justice movements. For the first years of our founding, we focused on understanding the root causes of poverty and dedicated ourselves to organizing around universal human rights. The Living Wages at Camden Yards Campaign was developed out of this process.
Everyone's Place
African Cultural Center:
"Supporting knowledge of self from pre-K to PhD and beyond."
Books, CDs, Lectures, Health food products, Spiritual products, Clothing & Jewelry, Art, Fragrances and MUCH MORE....
Red Emma's
We're a radical bookstore and a vegetarian restaurant and acoffee roaster and a space for public events.
Red Emma's is a worker cooperative and family of projects dedicated to autonomy, sustainability, participatory democracy, and solidarity. Since 2004, our space has been a grassroots answer to the collapse of civic infrastructure, a radical gathering place and experiment in self-organized education, all made possible by a horizontally organized collective of folks who own the underlying business cooperatively. We also serve some amazing ethically sourced food and a fine cup of transparently traded coffee.
I Mix What I Like
iMixWhatiLike.org
“i MiX WHAT i LiKE” is borrowed – in phrase and philosophy – from the work ofSteve Biko. The collection of Biko’s “Frank Talk” columns titled I Write What I Like is much of the inspiration for the attempt here to blend the traditions of radical broadcasting, the mixtape and Black Consciousness with what Dr. Hemant Shah has called “Emancipatory Journalism.”
Emancipatory journalism:
A) presupposes that inequality and oppression exist and that there are (neo)colonies and colonized populations requiring a form of journalism that is;
B) bottom-up. Central to EJ’s concept of good journalism are the perspectives of those most oppressed, those of members of the communities themselves –particularly those organizing social/cultural/political movements – as opposed to government or business officials and elites and;
C) argues that notions of “objectivity” must be critiqued if not entirely discarded in favor of clearly identified, studied, researched perspectives that advocate radical re-ordering of societies.
Emancipatory Journalism Model (first published by Shah, 2007 and here reprinted from I Mix.., p. 128)
Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture
Oak Hill Center for Education and Culture is a school for learning, researching, sharing, and exploring creative strategies and tools for transformative social movement building. We develop and identify organizers, educators, and artists committed to economic and social justice.