Baltimore

One Year & 44 Rounds Later, Questions In Baltimore Case Of Keith Davis

June 10, 2016 Alice Speri, www.theintercept.com Resist! #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), police brutality

By Alice Speri for The Intercept - ONE YEAR AGO this week, Keith Davis Jr. almost became another rallying cry against police brutality when four Baltimore police officers chased him into a garage and fired off 44 rounds at him, striking him three times, including in the face. Had he died, Davis would have become the first person killed by Baltimore police since Freddie Gray, who died in April 2015 of a severed spine after officers loaded him handcuffed, shackled and unrestrained into a police van.

Fighting For Environmental Justice On Streets Of Baltimore

June 8, 2016 Justin Worland, www.time.com Resist! Baltimore, Environmental Justice

By Justin Worland for Time - Spend a few hours with Destiny Watford and you could be forgiven for mistaking her for a normal college student. But Watford is no ordinary 21-year-old. Since her senior year of high school, Watford has led a committed group of teenagers, called Free Your Voice, in a movement to stop a company from building what would have been the largest incinerator on the Eastern Seaboard in her community’s backyard. The group’s members knocked on doors, pressed elected officials and confronted corporate executives until authorities revoked the project’s permit earlier this year.

The Hypocrisy Behind The Prosecution Of Officer Nero

May 28, 2016 Todd Oppenheim, www.baltimorebrew.com Educate! Baltimore, Police

By Todd Oppenheim for Baltimore Brew - The acquittal earlier this week of Baltimore Police Officer Edward Nero was not only a disappointment for the State’s Attorney’s Office, but it also exposed a legal strategy that was inherently inconsistent with the office’s prosecution of other defendants. The state contradicted its own positions in handling criminal cases in three ways: • First, by asserting a 4th Amendment violation by Nero that was nearly identical to police actions that it has long defended as legal.

Reaction To Nero Acquittal On All Charges In Freddie Gray Case

May 24, 2016 Fern Shen, www.baltimorebrew.com Educate! #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Freddie Gray, police brutality

By Fern Shen for Baltimore Brew - There was disappointment from some quarters – but not much surprise – that Edward Nero, the second Baltimore police officer to stand trial in connection with the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, was found not guilty today on all charges. During a five-day bench trial before Circuit Court Judge Barry G. Williams, prosecutors presented evidence on four misdemeanor charges, including second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.

The Faltered Dreams Of Two Baltimore Rebellions

April 26, 2016 Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, www.inequality.org Educate! Baltimore, Rebellion

By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad for Inequality - Forty-seven years later, Baltimore has become an industrial city in a post-industrial world, one of the many American cities that have erupted in protest over the death of young African-Americans in police custody. But the 2015 insurrection, sparked by the arrest and killing of Freddie Gray, unfolded on a much smaller-scale than its 1968 counterpart, thanks in part to the defensive posture of the police department ordered by the mayor’s office. The “riot” only lasted the night, with about 250 people arrested and no deaths.

Newsletter: Ending The Political Charade

April 23, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance Newsletter Baltimore, climate crisis, COP21, Democracy, Democracy Spring, Divestment, Environmental racism, Fracking, Freddie Gray, Freedom of the Press, Gas, Incinerators, killed by police, Noam Chomsky, Nonviolence, Nuclear Energy, Nuit Debout, Police violence, Racism, Solar Energy, TPP, wealth inequality, Wind

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese. This week, on Earth Day, representatives from 130 countries gathered at the United Nations in New York City to sign the climate treaty agreed upon in Paris last December. As they smiled for the camera and promised to do their best to hold the temperature down, climate activists posted an open letter stating that it is too late, the climate emergency is already here. Leading up to the signing of the Paris Treaty this week were actions to stop the advance of fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Many events to mark the one year anniversary are taking place this week and the next in Baltimore to remember the uprising. Erica Chenoweth, the author of "How Civil Resistance Works", writes that elections both locally and globally are being shaped by nonviolent resistance. In the US, no matter who is elected president in the November election, it will be critical for those who have been activated to continue to organize and visibly protest.

Baltimore: One Year After The Uprising

April 23, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Create! Baltimore, killed by police, Land trusts, Participatory budgeting, Police violence, Public Banking, Worker Cooperative

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Last April after the killing of Freddie Gray Baltimore experienced an uprising. It was not what was shown on television, which highlighted a few hours of burning cars and buildings, but a week long event that brought the city together. People of all ages and races called for transformation of the city so it corrected the injustices of decades of neglect and racism in the poor black communities of East and West Baltimore. As you can hear from our first two guests the problems of police violence continue to plague Baltimore but residents or also organizing to make the call for change a reality. A year later there is a lot of community organizing going on, as you can hear from Derrick Chase and Abdul Salaam below, which will take time to show results. The city is also going through a major local election where a new mayor and city council will be elected.

Baltimore Youth Leader Wins Goldman Environmental Prize

April 19, 2016 Greg Sawtell, www.unitedworkers.org Resist! Baltimore, Energy, Environment, health, Trash incinerator

By Greg Sawtell for United Workers. Baltimore, MD - The Goldman Environmental Foundation today announced the six recipients of the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize, the world’s largest award for grassroots environmental activists. Awarded annually to environmental heroes from each of the world’s six inhabited continental regions, the Goldman Prize recognizes fearless grassroots activists for significant achievements in protecting the environment and their communities. Baltimore youth leader, Destiny Watford, is one of the six global winners, for her work to spearhead efforts to stop the nation’s largest trash burning incinerator from being built less than a mile from her public high school in Curtis Bay.

Baltimore Police Condemned On Freddie Gray Anniversary

April 17, 2016 John Zangas and Anne Meador, www.dcmediagroup.us Resist! Baltimore, Freddie Gray, killed by police, Police violence

By John Zangas and Anne Meador for DC Media Group. Families of unarmed Blacks who were slain by police rallied in West Baltimore one year after Freddie Gray died of injuries sustained in police custody. Six families joined protesters to tell stories about family members who had also been killed by police. They marched to the site where Gray had been apprehended and dragged into the police van, paused for a moment of silence and then proceeded four blocks past the local police precinct. “This is 21st-century lynching at its best,” said Reverend C.D. Witherspoon. “And it goes by the name police brutality.” People gathered in front of the CVS at the corner of West North and Pennsylvania Avenue. The store became infamous when rioters smashed the windows, looted and set fire to it a year ago. Today, large signs saying “Now Open” are displayed on the building.

Activist ‘Squatters’ Take Over Home Near Gray’s Arrest A Year Later

April 14, 2016 Catherine Rentz, www.baltimoresun.com Resist! Baltimore, Freddie Gray, Housing

By Catherine Rentz for The Baltimore Sun - A coalition of activists has claimed a vacant red brick rowhouse at the site of Freddie Gray's arrest, though the city has marked the home for demolition and says it's not the activists' to use. The self-described squatters say they want to use what they call the "Tubman House" — named after the underground railroad organizer Harriet Tubman — as a hub to organize food gardens and giveaways, host community cookouts and orchestrate art and occupational training courses, mainly for residents in and around neighboring Gilmor Homes.

Police Invent Murder Charge To Keep Man In Jail

March 20, 2016 Baynard Woods, www.theguardian.com Educate! Baltimore, Criminal Justice, Police abuse

By Baynard Woods for The Guardian. Feb. 27, 2016, Baltimore, MD - For the more than 240 days since Keith Davis was shot in the face by Baltimore police, he has nursed his wounds from a jail cell, facing a barrage of charges on allegations that he robbed an unlicensed cab driver and fled. Davis was the first police-involved shooting since the death of Freddie Gray in police custody set off citywide protests in April. And while Gray became a household name as representative of the more than 1,000 people who are killed by police each year, activists have held up Davis as an example of how Gray and others like him might have been treated by the law enforcement system if they had lived. On Thursday, a jury found Davis not guilty on all the charges but one.

Newsletter: Justice Takes A Lifetime

March 19, 2016 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter #BlackLivesMatter, Baltimore, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter (BLM), Chicago, Cleveland, Desegregation, Detroit, Donald Trump, Environmental Justice, Ferguson, Flint, Freddie Gray, Hillary Clinton, Incinerators, Inequality, Internet, Jeb Bush, Jim Crow, LAPD, Laquan McDonald, Los Angeles, Mass Incarceration, North Carolina, Prison Labor, Prisons, Privatization, Slavery, Student Activism, Tamir Rice, Wall Street, Water

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. The #BlackLivesMatter movement continues to grow its power and have notable victories, but 600 hundred years of racial oppression, older than the nation itself, will not be rooted out quickly. The movement had a series of electoral and other victories this week. These victories for #BLM and their supporters are notable but problems still persist and the movement must continue to grow and get stronger. There are no quick fixes to a country that is crippled by its history of racism. We must all recognize that the work we are doing for racial, economic and environmental justice requires us to be persistent and uncompromising. achieve the transformational justice we seek will last our lifetimes – a marathon and not a sprint.

Victory: Community Forces Setback For Incinerator Polluter

March 18, 2016 Fern Shen, www.baltimorebrew.com Resist! Baltimore, Environmental Justice, Incinerator

By Fern Shen for the Baltimore Brew. Residents of the Curtis Bay, Brooklyn, and Brooklyn Park neighborhoods closest to the incinerator site – including a student-led organization called Free Your Voice – have been fighting the proposed 4,000-ton-per-day trash burning incinerator because of the air pollution they say it would add to a neighborhood already suffering from toxic air emissions. “Today marks a crucial point in the communities of Brooklyn, Curtis Bay and Brooklyn Park,” said Destiny Watford, who grew up in the area and has been leading the campaign against the incinerator. Watford said residents have been not only opposing the project but looking for alternative uses for the land that would generate jobs for the community. “Community members have been working to bring truly green community-driven positive alternatives like solar, recycling, and composting that provide good jobs for residents, and don’t put our lives at risk,” she said. “The incinerator was holding us back from that positive vision.“

Survey: Freddie Gray’s Neighborhood Rife With Police Brutality

March 13, 2016 Colin Daileda, www.readersupportednews.org Educate! Baltimore, Freddie Gray, police brutality, Racism

By Colin Daileda. Baltimore, MD - The Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown-Winchester consumed the news cycle for a brief period in April 2015, when Freddie Gray, a black resident of the area, died in police custody. His death put a spotlight on the police department's relationship with the black residents of Baltimore, and the results of a survey released on March 8 show why the tension therein was bound to boil over. According to a survey conducted by Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development and the No Boundaries Coalition, which describes itself as a resident-led advocacy group based in west Baltimore, 453 out of 1,500 survey respondents in Sandtown-Winchester had experienced or witnessed "police misconduct."

Vacants To Vegetables: Community Farms Spring Up In Baltimore

March 5, 2016 Rebekah Kirkman, www.citypaper.com Create! Baltimore, Urban Farming

By Rebekah Kirkman for City Paper - Leaning against his rusty red pickup truck, and clad head-to-toe in Real Tree and camouflage, Eric Kelly of Charm City Farms gets philosophical about the connection between humans and nature. "When we're on our deathbed, we're not gonna remember American Idol TV shows, our best video game score. But we'll remember things like fishing with our grandpa or helping a community member move out into a retirement home. . . We'll remember the disgusting thing we found buried in that field," he says, gesturing toward a currently empty lot in Johnston Square on the south side of Green Mount Cemetery.

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