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Of Public Space and Perpetual Motion: Istanbul, NYC, and Elusive Lessons
Contributed by: Joshua StephensIn recent weeks, a parcel of land that had been vacant for two decades in the southern portion of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was seized by New York City environmental direct...
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Getting Schooled on the BCPSS Teacher Contract
Contributed by: Iris KirschOctober 14 of 2010 was a monumental day. On that day, the Baltimore Teachers Union (BTU), Local 340 of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), voted down the contract...
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I Can Stay Here: Istanbul, On-the-Ground in Protest
Contributed by: Sarah Liz PerrichKoş means run in Turkish. When you hear it while you're behind a barricade, you do not ask questions, you run. This is the best way to avoid physical harm, whether from...
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Localizing Direct Democracy: A Matter of Survival?
Contributed by: Joshua StephensA little over a year ago, I found myself sitting in a newly-opened kitchen-café space in the Petralona area of Athens, sharing reflections on Occupy Wall Street with...
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Stop Violence, Save Social Security
Contributed by: Bill HughesOne of Baltimore's best street journalists, Bill Hughes, covered two actions from last week. On Tuesday, July 2nd, a demonstration was held at the Social Security...
View ArticlePoet Shirley Brewer Reads from her Book, “After Words”
Contributed by: Bill HughesAbout three years ago, Stephen Pitcairn, age 23, a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, was murdered on North Charles Street, only blocks from his home in Charles...
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Word on the Street Holds Barbecue for the Homeless
Contributed by: Bill HughesUnder cloudy skies, a barbecue for the homeless was held Saturday morning, July 27th, at the St. Vincent De Paul Park, in Baltimore. Bonnie Lane helped to coordinate the...
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To Protest Injustice: Baltimore Demonstrates Against Zimmerman's Acquittal
Contributed by: Corey ReidyOn July 13, 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted on the murder of Trayvon Martin. The nation disrupted and thousands rose in protest. Baltimore demonstrated that very night...
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Poverty Creates Crime: Bloomberg Creates Bogeymen
Contributed by: Auset Marian LewisIt is poverty that kills. But Mayor Bloomberg, defending his stop-and-frisk policy that was shot down by federal Judge Shira Scheindlin as racist and unconstitutional,...
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Black August Honors Freedom Fighters
Contributed by: Lamont LillyOn August 28th 1963, the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom galvanized hundreds of thousands in the streets of the nation’s capital. On August 25th 1925, A. Philip...
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The Truth About Civil Rights
Contributed by: Jeffrey McNeilAs Americans commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of The March on Washington, our nation will reflect on Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream, a utopian vision which placed...
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What the Light Rail lobby doesn't want you to know
Contributed by: Burkely HermannThe Light Rail Lobby groups have lot of power, making it seem monumental to challenge these vested interests in a city with a black ruling elite. Already, it seems the...
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Anti-Fascist Struggle and Race in the Face of Golden Dawn: A Greek Anarchist...
Contributed by: Joshua StephensToday, the world learned of the stabbing death of Greek antifascist hiphop artist Pavlos Fissas, who performed under the name MC Killah P, at the hands of thugs...
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The Ahmet Atakan Protests: On Being Beaten, Detained, and Deported by the...
Contributed by: Sarah Liz PerrichThere has been a great misconception in Western media that the protests in Turkey died down after the initial Gezi Park protests. In fact, Western media consumers,...
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Bombing Blacks in the South: The 16th Street Massacre
Contributed by: Lamont LillyOne of the most tragic acts of U.S. terrorism occurred September 15th, 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama. The murderous bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church is a story that...
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