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Audio: Developing Strategy For Social Transformation with Chris Dixon

26 April 2012 - 14:10 EDT

The question of strategy - how we might win in the near and long term as we struggle against domination, exploitation, and oppression - is pressing. Together, we explore how to build movements in the world as it is - engaging with where and how people are struggling - while cultivating strategies toward the world that we want.

Left Forum 2012 Closing Plenary

Corey Reidy

20 March 2012 - 12:13 EDT

This past weekend, March 16-18, 2012, hundreds gathered in New York City for one of the largest politically progressive conferences in the world. The 2012 theme of the conference drew inspiration from the infamous Occupy movement, entitled: Occupy the System - Confronting Global Capitalism.

Audio: Immanuel Wallerstein - "Upsurge in Movements Around the Globe: 1968 Redux?"

Clayton Conn

14 February 2012 - 12:32 EST

Renowned scholar and author, Immanuel Wallerstein, spoke this past fall at Baltimore's 2640 cooperative events space, on the significance and relevancy of the current waves of global upheaval and resistance.

Full Audio: "Is Blackness History?" Debate

Clayton Conn

13 February 2012 - 13:29 EST

In recognition of Black History Month, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS), hosted a public debate on the meaning of Black history and Black identity in a “post-racial” moment. The debate was held at the cooperative events venue - 2640, this past Saturday, February 10th.

Occupy Schools Not Jails: Mid-Week Check-In

Spencer Compton |

Corey Reidy

20 January 2012 - 15:59 EST

Wednesday, Jan.18th, 2012, marked the third day of the five-day "pop-up" occupation: Schools Not Jails. This demonstration strives to bring awareness and to protest the city's proposed youth jail. While the organizers' original gameplan had been to occupy the site of the proposed youth jail 'round the clock, from Monday-Saturday, by Wednesday the strategy had dramatically shifted.

Indyreader Interviews Lester Spence at Occupy Schools Not Jails

Corey Reidy

19 January 2012 - 13:00 EST

On Monday, Jan.19th, 2012, a.k.a - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, The Indypendent Reader caught up with Lester Spence, at the kick-off action for the Schools Not Jails five-day "pop-up" occupation.

Audio - Two Months Old: Collective Reflections on Occupy Baltimore

Clayton Conn

4 December 2011 - 15:34 EST

On the eve of the two month anniversary of Occupy Baltimore, participants and allies of the emerging movement gathered at the 2640 Space to reflect upon the previous two months of an intensive experiment in mass participatory democracy; it's successes, pitfalls, challenges and potential new directions.

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Audio: Letter from Unions supports Occupy Baltimore and Urges Mayor's Office to Stay Away

Clayton Conn

27 October 2011 - 12:50 EDT

The president of the Baltimore AFL-CIO, Ernie Grecco, along with twleve other union leaders wrote a letter to Mayor Rawlings-Blake urging the city to allow for the Occupy Baltimore encampment to continue. This comes just one day after the city declared the encampment illegal, threatening to evict the near one month protest.

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Radio: Max Rameau on the Baltimore Occupy movement and taking back the land

Clayton Conn

19 October 2011 - 08:48 EDT

Originally published at Free Speech Radio News

Occupy encampments continue across the country, including in Baltimore, where over the weekend Pan-African theorist Max Rameau gave a teach-in and addressed the General Assembly. Rameau is an organizer with the Take Back the Land movement, which uses direct action to push for community control over land.

Audio: Liberate the City not Occupy It - Interview with Reverend Heber Brown

Clayton Conn

11 October 2011 - 00:19 EDT

Indyreader caught up with community activist, Reverend Heber Brown, at the end of the Stop the Youth Jail march this last Tuesday. He spoke on some of Baltimore's fundamental issues that the majority of the city's population faces, as well as positives and potential challenges that the growing Occupation Movement may have within the city.

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