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Violence against women: Trading safety for survival

I attended a serious event Wednesday called Trading Safety For Survival. The Facebook event depicts it as “A Conversation about Violence Against Women in the Sex Trade and the Police Who are Asked to Protect them.” It was sponsored by …

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Violence against women: Trading safety for survival

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I attended a serious event Wednesday called Trading Safety For Survival. The Facebook event depicts it as “A Conversation about Violence Against Women in the Sex Trade and the Police Who are Asked to Protect them.” It was sponsored by …

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The first Poor People's March on Washington took place June 18, 1968. The marchers were in Lafayette Park and on Connecticut Ave. in Washington, D.C.
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Poor People’s Campaign kicks off in Baltimore

This year (2013) is the 45th anniversary of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. The campaign demanded

Baltimore homeless often sleep under I-83 overpass.

Baltimore homeless sleeping under I-83 overpass need your help

This is a letter from John. John is a homeless man dwelling under the I-83 overpass in Baltimore.  These are his thoughts on what it’s like to live there. 

A publicity photo for the film's screening this past Tuesday (April 16, 2013).

Live Young Blood: Beginning the conversations that inspire change

On Tuesday I had the privilege of attending a screening of a documentary film called Live Young Blood. It was by far one of the best documentaries I have

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Cleaning up Baltimore and leaving the homeless behind is just wrong

There is an encampment of homeless people across from Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) located at 421 Fallsway in Baltimore.  It's been a tough week for Camp 421

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Where are the grief counselors for Baltimore’s homeless?

It sickens me that some people in charge of homeless services and shelters become spin doctors telling stories rather than blatant truths. It angers me to the core that a

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I am soldier in the fight to end homelessness

I fight because I was there sleeping on a park bench. I fight because I was there standing hungry in the soup kitchen line. I fight because I slept

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Homes for homeless in Baltimore

(Loleta Chase a resident of #Camp83) I am in the office with Loleta Chase, director of Souls of Hope Homeless Shelter and Christina Flowers, director of Belvedere Assisted Living. Loleta

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Hundreds rally in Annapolis to support employment bills

Hundreds of  advocates, homeless, and service providers descended on Annapolis on February 28 to support a series of employment bills that could help the  unemployed. The bills are: INCREASE THE MINIMUM

Bonnie speaking at Homeless Sleepout 2012

My struggle on the street

(Here I am speaking at Baltimore's Sleepout in 2012 on the streets of Charm City.) It’s a fact that people are over the world are struggling for food, for housing,

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