Baltimore Voters Stand Up to Water Privatization
In a rare instance of progressive preemption, the city’s voters told private water corporations to leave them alone.
If We Want the Arts in Baltimore, We Need Artists
It’s not enough to see shows and buy local art. Policy changes are needed to fully acknowledge the value that artists bring to Baltimore.
Under Armour Wants to Use Baltimore Tax Revenue Without Giving Back to the City
Development projects in cities across the nation are trying to drive out low-income residents, but local activists are taking control with community-based solutions that are beneficial to everyone.
Want to Stop Gentrification? Start a Union.
Like labor unions, neighborhood unions could help residents bargain collectively for affordable housing, housing security, protections for local businesses, and community reconciliation.
Five Reforms Every Police Department Should Make
Black Americans will never trust the police without serious measures to reduce police violence and improve accountability.
Reclaiming Curtis Bay From Lethal Polluting Industries
Local high school students and Curtis Bay residents have organized a tremendous campaign of resistance against failed development in South Baltimore.
CityLit Festival
Poets Claudia Rankine, Paul Lisicky, and IPS’s E. Ethelbert Miller lead a list of 25 main stage authors and more than 30 concurrent programs at the 13th annual CityLit Festival celebrating national poetry month
The Sad Fate of America’s Whistleblowers
History may smile on these guardians of the public trust, but during their lifetimes they remain outcasts.
The Language of the Unheard
The protesters in Baltimore need to be heard. Are we listening?
Baltimore and the Human Right to Resistance
Violence is structured into the everyday institutional practices of all oppressive societies, not simply an aspect of the resistance of the oppressed.
Crashing the GDP
A harrowing road trip on the first day of my summer internship helped me get the point of my work on the Genuine Progress Indicator.
Towns Are Urging Peace
This op-ed ran in the Lake Worth Herald (Lake Worth, FL) on March 2, 2006.