b. medusa 3 March 2009 7:37:48 pm
| 6 March 2009 | ||
| 7:30 pm |
Formerly of the Moldy Peaches, recently featured on the soundtrack to Juno, and creator of five gorgeous solo albums, Kimya creates music celebrating “all the magnificent strangeness and unwavering beauty in the world and in people”, and she’s on a mission to embrace the whole world.
Doors open at 7:30, come early for music by local favorites 1602 Destructure Street and Beans! All ages, $10. more info…
b. medusa 30 December 2008 10:58:29 pm
this blog is tech-challenged, along w/ my sig other’s blog. comments are closed until further notice. so just when i’m ready for my big comeback w/ my end of year revelations, musings, & of course rants, instead i realize i have to get into geek mode. a complete overhaul of 2 blogs is in order. yuk. but i digress…
for the remaining winter months there is an independent workout/practice/skilll share every wednesday @ 2640 from 11am to 2pm. the space is open for hooping (of the hoola variety), yoga, dance, stilt walking, aerobics, or any activity that can coexist peacefully w/ the aforementioned activities. this lunch time workout is for folx who want to get/stay in shape, but are inhibited by the cold, prohibited by fees @ gyms/studios, lack space @ home, &/or desire company while working out. no instruction will be formally given. everyone should bring their own equipment & take it w/ them when they leave (extra hoops will be available). please enter through the side entrance on 27th st, ring the doorbell if that entrance happens to be locked.
a donation to defray any costs incurred for light & heat is requested. please forward this info to anyone in the b’more area you think would be interested. see ya wednesdays!
b. medusa 10 December 2007 8:07:35 am
today is International Human Rights day. so let’s begin shall we…
EDIT: just found this after completing the post:
Seven Year Old Alexis Goggins Shot Six Times Protecting Her Mother
A 7-year-old-girl is being hailed as an “angel from heaven” and a hero for jumping in front of an enraged gunman, who pumped six bullets into the child as she used her body as a shield to save her mother’s life.
Alexis Goggins, a first-grader at Campbell Elementary School, is in stable condition at Children’s Hospital in Detroit recovering from gunshot wounds to the eye, left temple, chin, cheek, chest and right arm.
“She is an angel from heaven,” said Aisha Ford, a family friend for 15 years who also was caught up in the evening of terror.
The girl’s mother, Selietha Parker, 30, was shot in the left side of her head and her bicep by a former boyfriend, who police said was trying to kill Parker. The gunman was disarmed by police and arrested at the scene of the shooting, a Detroit gas station. Police identified him as Calvin Tillie, 29, a four-time convicted felon whom Parker had dated for six months.
[...]
Ford said she dialed 911 on her cell phone as she walked into the station.“The first operator clicked off and I dialed again and told that operator a guy with a gun was holding me hostage with a mother and baby and threatening to kill us. I told her the name of the gas station and then she said they didn’t have a unit to send.”Ford said she paid for $5 of gas and slowly returned to the vehicle, stalling for time as she handed Tillie the change. She said she kept stopping and starting the pump, hoping the police would show up.“I told him I needed more gas and took money out of my purse and went back into the station,” she said. The attendant, Mohammad Alghazali, 30, said he noticed Ford was crying and she told him what was happening. He called 911 as he heard shots coming from the vehicle.
[…]
Alghazali said a police car on a street nearby arrived in less than a minute after his call.
an update on her condition can be read here. a fund has been set up for Alexis, checks should be made out to the Alexis Goggins Hero Fund & sent to the following address:
Campbell Elementary School
c/o Alexis Goggins Hero Fund
2301 E Alexandrine St
Detroit, MI 48207for information, call (313) 494-2052
ADDITIONAL INFO (courtesy of all about race): Alexis is a special needs child, due to a massive stroke she suffered as an infant. she walks with a limp & has a weak left eye. her right eye was just removed.
Alexis, who walks with a limp, slipped momentarily on the icy sidewalk and as she helped the girl up, she saw the man and recognized him as Tillie. He was holding a gun.
[...]
Before Tillie could fire again, Alexis jumped over the seat between her mother and the gunman and begged him not to shoot her mother.The police report said Tillie “without hesitation” pumped six shots into the child.
G*TD*MN M*THAF*CKIN SORRY *SS PIECE OF SH*T!!!!!
(i don’t usually bleep myself here, but i don’t want to be excessively disrespectful to my readers. all 2 of them.)
also contact the msm & ask them why they’ve ignored this story.
CNN
Phone: 404-827-1500
Fox News Channel
Phone: 212-301-3000
ABC News
Phone: 212-456-7777
CBS News
Phone: 212-975-4321
NBC
Phone: 212-664-4444
MSNBC
Phone: 201-583-5000
Newsweek
Phone: 212-445-4000
Associated Press
Phone: 212-621-1500
Reuters
Phone: 646-223-4000
United Press International
Phone: 202 -898-8000
i don’t have to tell you why this is a human rights (as well as police brutality) issue do i?
i can’t believe i missed this story until now. much respect & gratitude to Sylvia, Nez, Carmen D., Ann & all other bloggers covering this.
b. medusa 6 September 2007 2:41:04 am
![[concert flyer]](http://mnemosyne-blog.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/concert_flyer.jpg)
i already posted this on my event calendar, but i just saw an article about their 3 year struggle on dissident voice:
The UWA, a human rights group founded by homeless day laborers in Baltimore, represents 800 low-wage workers who make up the pool of the 100-120 people who keep Camden Yards clean. Stadium workers — the people who clean out the bathroom stalls, sweep up the small mountains of cigarette butts and make the Camden Yards experience as pristine as promised — make poverty wages, just $7 an hour.
Work schedules for stadium workers can vary as well. Some workweeks can be well over forty hours; in other weeks, if the Orioles are on the road, the laborers don’t work at all. Take-home pay varies accordingly, depending on the number of home games in a week and how long the games last. The windfall earned from a game that goes into extra innings can make a real difference in the way a family eats in a given week.
Because they are doing “day labor,” members of the UWA who show up to work are sent home if they’re not needed. The wages are so low, and the job so “flexible,” that some workers live in homeless shelters. One worker was kicked out of public housing because her pay that month couldn’t match the monthly rent.
[...]
Also of note is that the UWA is largely composed of African-American and Latino workers. In an era when communities of color are often pitched against one another, their solidarity inspires hope.
excerpted from Cleaning Up After the Orioles by Dave Zirin.
read the full article. more info also @ http://unitedworkers.org/
IMPORTANT UPDATE!!! TOMORROW’S CONCERT NOW A VICTORY CELEBRATION!!!
visit the United Workers link above for more info. see also:
Stadium crews get raise|Maryland agency approves $11.30 ‘living wage’ next year
Hannah Cho, Baltimore Sun
Md. Workers Cancel Hunger Strike
Ben Nuckols, AP/Forbes.com
b. medusa 25 August 2007 10:07:55 am
afrospear blogger D. Yobachi Boswell @ BlackPerspective.net has devoted a page or two to brainstorming new strategies for dealing with the Jena 6 case. currently plans are developing for a “Blogging for Justice” day in the very (very) near future. make sure you head over there to stay updated.
meanwhile, i’ve created a banner distributor download, modeled on the one i got from Tom @ Automatic Preference. please consider becoming a banner distributor, so we can spread the word (and the bandwidth drain 
) around. you can download the distributor here.
EDIT: an example of the banner distribution page can be found on the Jena 6 banners page & each choice generates a banner similar to the one found in the far right sidebar. apologies for not making that clear.
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Now playing: Buddy Miles – Down By The River
via FoxyTunes
b. medusa 24 August 2007 12:00:27 am
| 8 September 2007 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 11:00 pm |
Join workers from Camden Yards in the fight for human rights and freedom from poverty.
Concert is free and outdoors. Call 410-522-1052 to volunteer or visit the united workers web site for more info.
b. medusa 24 August 2007 12:00:13 am
| 3 September 2007 |
![[living wages flyer]](http://mnemosyne-blog.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/living_wage_flyer.jpg)
After three years of broken promises, the cleaners at Camden Yards are fed up. That’s why we’ve set Sept 1st as the deadline for this publicly-owned stadium to end subpoverty wages.
On Sept. 3rd we will begin a living wages hunger strike at the stadium. It will continue until living wages are secured from the Maryland Stadium Authority.
More info at the unitedworkers.org web site
b. medusa 15 August 2007 4:04:49 am
| 19 October 2007 | to | 21 October 2007 |
The 2007 Mid-Atlantic Radical Bookfair, bringing together radical and independent publishers, distributors, bookstores, and authors for a weekend of workshops, panel discussions, and performances, all free and open to the public, will take place on October 20th and 21st. As an added bonus this year, we’re also organizing a Radical Film Festival on October 19th to kick things off.
The bookfair will be taking place in Baltimore at 2640, the new cooperative events venue and social center launched this year by Red Emma’s, which also serves as one of the organizations behind the Bookfair. More info…
b. medusa 10 August 2007 12:32:41 pm
| 18 August 2007 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
The Radical Artists Movement presents Sean-Toure and Legion Lost live in concert! Join R.A.M. for an evening of arts and activism, hiphop and roots rock!
With a special appearance by Kim Snowden of the Coalition against the BGE Rate Hikes to update the community on the Coalition’s fight to pass legislation reducing BGE rates to pre-rate hike levels. R.A.M. will also take a moment to commemorate the life and times of Marcus Garvey, leader of the United Negro Improvement Association and the creator of the Back to Africa movement.
General Admission: $6
Location: 2640 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD
(R.A.M. is premiering its monthly series, R.A.M. Presents! Subsequent R.A.M. Presents! will be the third Thursday of every month)
b. medusa 26 June 2007 12:56:39 pm
i’ve read some fantastic stuff about the amc & added a few new woc bloggers to my bookmarks. i will be adding to my blogroll shortly. obviously i’ll update this as more bloggers update their blogs after their return. but there’s plenny of great stuff they have to tell already:
“So rather than try and create homogenous transnational movements, international solidarity between various self concerned peoples DOING WHAT MATTERS TO THEM can be just as effective.”
and sez this
“We have grown accustomed to being alone and discounted and thinking of our spoken experiences as us addressing personal needs to be heard.”
(i’d just like to say, before i die i hope i get a chance to get one of those amazonian hugs.)
head on over to these outstanding blogs & read what they have to say dammit! hell, you shoulda been reading them before now anyway!
