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"Let's hope the damage Republicans have done over the last four decades isn't so severe that America can't be brought
back from the brink of chaos and desperation..."
"How Toronto Got Addicted to Cars" - Not Just Bikes (October 3, 2022)
#HonorNativeLand - U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (October 3, 2017)
#HonorNativeLandHONOR NATIVE LAND: A GUIDE AND CALL TO ACKNOWLEDGMENT - U.S. Department of Arts and Culture
Acknowledgement Must Lead To Action - Changes
"We envision broad understanding that land acknowledgements are central to understanding complicated histories of people
and regions. We emphasize the necessity for including perceptions beyond land and people. The realms for these understandings
include air, water, plants, animals, birds, spirit, memory, and more."
"Sunsetting Honor Native Land" - U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (June 27, 2023)
(1965) "THE MOYNIHAN REPORT: THE NEGRO FAMILY, THE CASE FOR NATIONAL ACTION" (1965)
But focusing entirely on competing in the global economy results in sidestepping the necessary reckoning needed for all of
Baltimore’s residents to flourish and thrive, especially those living in the collection of predominantly Black Baltimore
neighborhoods that has come to be known as the “Black Butterfly.” To move forward, the GBC must take stock of
its own role in perpetuating what amounts to economic apartheid in Baltimore.
"Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors Call for DOJ Investigation After Dismissal of Reparations Case' - AFRO American Newspaper (July
3, 2024)
"How American Descendants of Slaves (ADOS) is Counter Revolutionary" - AFRO American Newspaper (July 5, 2024)
"Maryland Considering Reparations Bill That Would Raise Taxes for 'Reinvestment" Fund" (March 1, 2024)
"Notable Black Americans Who Helped Change the World" - WPVI TV 6 (February 7, 2024)
"Survivors Want a Say in Jim Crow Crownsville Hospital Future" - American Descendants of Slavery Advocacy Foundation Maryland
Chapter (May 23, 2024)
PLACES THAT MATTER: VIDOR, TEXAS: I LOVE the various ways ATONEMENT SHOWS UP!!!!
DJ Daniels, is sworn in for 840th time, becoming honorary police officer, receiving 840th Police badge from Vidor, Texas Police
Department and Government. Special significance of "Sundown" past. DJ Daniels, 12 years old, has rare anaplastic
ependymoma grade III, type of cancer that affects brain and spine. "Sundown Towns: Vidor, Texas Works to Restore Reputation
From Being Racist" - TV 26 Houston (June 19, 2024)
"Abolish Columbus Day Campaign" - Zinn Education Project
"Teaching for Black Lives Campaign" - Zinn Education Project
"Teach Reconstruction Campaign" - Zinn Education Project
"Teaching The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" - Zinn Education Project
"Transportation Protests: 1841 to 1992." - Zinn Education Project
"Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant
differences and make our nation whole."
- President Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "MIDDLE-CLASS BLACKS" ~ TIME MAGAZINE ~ JUNE 17TH, 1974 |
"Thomas Pettigrew, a social psychologist at Harvard, believes that the middle class is gaining the “know-how to pass
on from generation to generation.” As it does, an increasing number of blacks will meet with whites on equal terms without
the insecurities that beset both races. The best guarantee of durable, amicable race relations in America is the continued
growth of a strong, self-confident black middle class." - "Middle-Class Blacks" - Time Magazine (June 17, 1974) [Click picture
for article!]
President Carter Executive Order 12250: Coordination of Grant-Related Civil Rights Statutes
This Executive Order of President Carter's crisscrossed all federal departments and agencies, addressed any overlooked discrimination,
providing consistent and effective implementation of various laws; prohibiting discriminatory practices on the basis of race,
color, national origin, sex, disability, or religion in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance. He
also placed the Attorney General responsible for implementing. This Executive Order was placed with the Attorney General.
Except for authority to approve regulations, this responsibility was redelegated to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil
Rights. The Federal Coordination and Compliance Section carries their responsibilities on a day-to-day basis. This Executive
Order is still in effect today.
LETTER Executive Order 12250 Enforcement and Coordination Updates: TO: Federal Agency Civil Rights Directors and General Counsels
FROM: Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, Civil Rights Division U.S. Department of Justice (January 20, 2023)
Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle
"An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
- Orlando Aloysius Battista
Wrongly attributed to President John Kennedy
"Getting us {Natives} to cities, was supposed to be the final, necessary step in our assimilation, absorption, erasure; completion
of a five hundred year old genocidal campaign. But the city made us new, and we made it ours. We didn't get lost amidst the
sprawl of tall buildings, the stream of anonymous masses, the ceaseless din of traffic. We found each other: started up Indian
Centers, brought out our families and powwows, our dances, our songs, our beadwork.... We did not move to cities to die."
- There There - Tommy Orange, Citizen of Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and - Oakland, California
"On East Baltimore Street, Lumbee Indians were relocated, and plans revealed - for expensive townhouses."
- Task Force of Homeownership - The Baltimore Hearings - The United States Government (1978)
"The History of the Negro in the United States of America remains yet untold. Moreover, it will remain untold until the mountain
of records in the National Archives are effectively utilized as an historical source. This is not only true of the history
of the Negro but of American history in general, since the National Archives, the federal repository of raw record materials,
and original source materials of an official type in the United States of America, is virtually untapped as a source for research
in history." - Dr. Roland McConnell
"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will
little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather,
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to
that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not
have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." — Abraham Lincoln, "Gettysburg Address"
"I speak tonight for the dignity of man...."
"These are the enemies: poverty, ignorance, disease. They are the enemies and not our fellow man, not our neighbor. And these
enemies too, poverty, disease and ignorance, we shall overcome." - President Lyndon Baines Johnson, March 15th, 1965
The First "New World" Democracy - Is First Nation: "Native America" - PBS
"It is cheaper to commemorate the dead than it is to empower the living."
- Nancy Goldring, president of the Northeast Towson Improvement Association
"We need a reconciliation in the form of economic justice."
- Delegate Marlon Amprey, Maryland, District 40
Click on arrow to view the testimony by Delegate Lewis. Sad that the co-sponsors did not testify, or even attend to support.
Bill, "died."
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The famous Supreme Court case all started with a train ride. The train owners did not want to segregate. Florida & Louisiana
governments did. Restoring equitable transit, Streetcars, are - the heart of Reparations.
"Anthem - Grow Grow Grow" - Little Anthony & The Imperials
"Runnin' Bear" - Sonny James
"Reparations: a program of acknowledgement, redress, and closure for grievous injustice."
"'Acknowledgement' constitutes a circumstance of which a culpable party acknowledges or recognizes that it has committed
a vicious harm, and it also acknowledges or recognizes that it has benefited from the execution of this vicious harm.
'Redress" is the act of restitution on the part of the culpable party... the role of the wealth differential in the
United States between blacks and whites as a critical component of a redress process for black American decedents of U.S.
slavery.
The final component is 'closure,' which is a point at which the culpable party and the victimized community come to
an agreement that the debt has been paid, and no further claim will be made, unless there is a renewal of the atrocities that
have taken place in the past, or a new array of atrocities is forthcoming."
- Dr. William "Sandy" Darity and Kirsten Mullen
A HOUSE, VOCATIONAL ARTS CAREER, ENTREPRENURSHIP [Micro-Loans], DEDICATED LANED FREE STREETCARS, ALLEYS TO ALLÉES, TREE SHADE,
& BREATHING HEALTH.
"Love walked right in and drove the shadows away
Love walked right in and brought my sunniest day
One magic moment and my heart seemed to know that love said, 'hello'
Though not a word was spoken"
What Reparations spiritually can FEEL like.
A PLAN FOR BALTIMORE REPARATIONS
~ ADDRESSING NECESSITOUS ~ A DRAFT ~
A tremendous amount of library hypothesis-to-fact is needed in order to connect just which indigenous people whose ancestors
dwelled in the general vicinity of today's Baltimore's terrain. What we do know is that there are decedents of our indigenous
people. Those "Called;" genuine in pursing building, igniting, reweaving the tapestry of legends of their extant
family, tribe, nation are the ones that will come.
Come to Baltimore! American Indian history is abound with places, and continued presence with cultural spaces and businesses.
The Historic American Indian "reservation" is found in Eastern side of Baltimore.
"By 1860, Baltimore had the largest concentration of freed blacks of any city — in the 1860 census, more
than 90 percent of blacks counted in the city were free."
"'If you're waiting for money to come from someone who's supposed to give you money, who resents your existence, then it's
a formula for abject poverty and despair,' says Lance Morgan, J.D. '93, a Winnebago tribal citizen. 'What does self-determination
look like when you don't control the purse strings? It looks a lot like begging. And that's essentially what we had going
on for a long time.'"
"What benefit would that mean to my celebration of my ancestors to destroy something that they built? It makes
no sense." - Rev. Lawrence E. Walker, Montpelier Descendants Committee President
What is available on-line are merely like darts piercing a completely dark target, compared to what resources are available
in libraries. Being in Baltimore, it is especially nice to have Maryland's Depository, The Enoch Pratt Free Central Library
right here. It also comes in handy to be so close to The Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. Naturally, as the picture
has more puzzle pieces together, people whose expertise is to track down what is not in libraries, such as family heirlooms,
photographs, diaries... come into play.
Recognizing more Maryland tribes produces environmental, infrastructural, and financial benefits:
Clean Water Indian Set-Aside Program: EPA Announces Actions to Improve Drinking Water and Wastewater Services for Tribes and
Alaska Native Villages
RESEARCH ~ RESEARCH ~ RESEARCH ~ RESEARCH
What is available on-line are merely like darts piercing a complete dark target, compared to what resources are available
in libraries. Being in Baltimore, it is especially nice to have Maryland's Depository, The Enoch Pratt Free Central Library
right here. It also comes in handy to be so close to The Library of Congress, in Washington D.C. Naturally, as the picture
has more puzzle pieces together, people whose expertize to track down what is not in libraries, such as family heirlooms,
photographs, diaries... come into play.
In Catoctin Furnace, Cunningham Falls State Park in Frederick County, advanced ancient DNA collection methods of unmarked
bodies is linking nearly 42.000 living-today relatives. I believe this method will too link indigenous people whose relatives
were forced to flee - for Baltimore and Maryland mainly, the families, tribes, and nations who survived the harsh Trail of
Tears - today's Oklahoma.....
"In 1979, a previously unknown cemetery at Catoctin Furnace was found and excavated as the state worked on a highway
in the area. The unmarked bodies were put in the care of the Smithsonian. Now, with more advanced methods of collecting ancient
DNA, the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, the Smithsonian, Harvard University and the biotech company 23andMe have connected
27 of those bodies to nearly 42,000 people from the present-day who are related in some way to the people buried there - and
to each other. Further DNA analysis was able to hone down the 42,000 people to a list of closer relatives."
Catoctin Furnace - Cunningham Falls State Park - Maryland Department of Natural Resources
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Reparation For Our Home, Our Ecosystem, through Educated Action to Assure Current and Future Livability
When native plants and animals not only thrive, but are eliminated, when mammals, including human beings don't live where
they are meant to be, a place has little survival future.
BALTIMORE IS NOW (2023) TIED AT #7TH WORST URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN THE UNITED STATES in 2 of 3 categories:
- City-wide urban heat rankings city average UHI index &
- Population-weighted average UHI index values
"A PLAN FOR EACH PERSON"
Reparation Through Peace-Focused Lifestyle Means:
Living Peacefully is a skill that must be practiced everyday. Through The United Nations and other studies, each Baltimore
citizen and resident will learn through joy the art of Peace.
"Across the globe, there are extraordinary young people creatively seeking ways to prevent violence and consolidate peace.
However, many are frustrated by the tendency of their Governments and international actors to treat youth as a problem to
be solved, rather than as partners for peace.
Throughout the world, young people consulted for the Progress Study on Youth, Peace, and Security expressed that they have
lost faith and trust in their Governments, the international community and systems of governance that they feel excluded from,
contributing to a strong and ongoing sense of injustice.
This must be addressed in order to support and benefit from young people’s contributions to peace, and to realize the
potential of 1.8 billion young people."
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DIFFERENCES: "Conspicuous Consumption in USA & Germany" - Institute for New Economic Thinking (2023)
"Peaceful Means of Dealing With a Bully" - "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C."
Introduction Presentation to United Nations Youth, Peace, and Security Handbook
United Nations: Peace Building
"The successful implementation of this handbook will ensure that projects and programmes are informed by a full understanding
of the ways in which young people experience and participate in their societies, and their interaction with peace and security
matters."
United Nations: Peacebuilding Support Office
"A Message of Peace, Hope, and Inclusion" - Yusuf Cat Stevens - Ted Talks (2018)
"We all know what it's like to feel LEFT OUT. We can change that."
"Seattle Makes History: First U.S. City to Ban Caste Discrimination" - National Public Radio (2023)
Baltimore Peace Movement
"Project Pneuma is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in the heart of downtown Baltimore, MD. Here at Project
Pneuma our mission is to Breathe New Life holistically into the young men we serve by challenging them intellectually, strengthening
them physically, nurturing them emotionally and uplifting them spiritually. We strive to teach our young men the art of forgiveness,
self-control and discipline while giving them exposure to a new world of endless possibilities."
High School Resources: Y's Next Generation Scholars Program (NGS) - Y of Central Maryland
Reparation Through Eradication of Poverty Through Home Ownership Quells Crime, Especially Murder:
Homeownership Racial Segregation-and Policies for Racial Wealth Equity" - The Brookings Institution (2021)
Reparation Through Quelling Pollution:
"Fossil Fuel Racism: How Phasing Out Oil, Gas, and Coal Can Protect Communities" - Greenpeace (2021)
Reparation Through The Commons: Communal Land and Zone Changes:
"Why should I invest if I don't know what's going to happen to the {land}? A garden or farm takes... a lifetime to develop,
and it's for the generations. That's why we do it;
we plant seeds for multiple generations." - J. B., Baltimore
PROJECT REPORT: "Community Control of Land: The People's Demand for Land Reparations in Baltimore City" - Black Yield Institute
(BYI) & Farm Alliance of Baltimore (2021)
Webinar Session
[Introduction]: Features Baltimore
"Transformative Placemaking: Expanding Opportunities for People and Places" [Introduction (1) & 2] - Anne-T. and Robert M.
Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking, The Brookings Institution
Reparation Through Peaceful Accountability:
Simple song with album cover.
Upsetting pictures
GUN LOCK SAFETY.
Too many guns, including legal guns, are not secure - locked up. This offers ample opportunity for kids to play, shoot, and
kill. This offers access for those who contemplate suicide - to do so.
For all guns to be manufactured with a lock. For all other guns to be required to have a lock, be retrofitted with a lock,
even historical guns.
Unfortunately, unsecured loaded guns are found to be used for unattended purposes, such as a child killing a sibling, or
themselves. A lock, even with changeable combination type, slows illegal user to be able to use the firearm. Often people
place their legal guns in their automobiles, lockers at gyms and clubs.... only for them to be stolen. Locks work for all
guns to be safe, whether owner has conceal and carry, or unconcealed permits. Even a police firearm can be stolen.
There are those who are concerned, and will not allow their children go over to a school friend's house for fear that there
are guns. Mandatory locks ingrained into the body of guns offer confidence to gun owners and non-gun owners alike.
"JUSTIN" - End Family Fire
"How To Use Different Gun Safety Locks" - American Gun Association
House bill would provide free firearm locks to Tennesseans
End Family Fire
PEN-PALS
An in-person/zoom and pen-pal program for kids to learn from people in penitentiaries through relationship. Approach
for kids to learn that bad behavior and beyond consequences may not be what they want their life to be about, and hence daily
be able to, "choose again" by people who did not, and may of whished they had. [S.S. Proposal.]
Ban assault weapons.
....
DOUBLE BLIND POWDER WEAPON REGISTRATION
Powder Weapon Registration: Register all guns, hand grenades, cannons, including historical. We need to know the inventory
of all weapons, especially newly assembled arsenals. The issue, more than who has what gun or guns, is to have an accurate
account and what kinds. A double-blind registration separates the already registered gun owner from the type(s) of guns.
This is a realistic step that can foster, render bipartisan support.
"Does an Individual Need a License to Make a Firearm For Personal Use?" - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
(ATF)
....
REGISTER GUN PARTS
All gun kits (commonly known as, "Ghost Guns") and parts must have registered numbers.
"U.S. Ghost Gun Use in U.S. Crimes Has Risen More Than 1,000% Since 2017, Federal Report Says" - CBS News (2023)
....
LIABILITY INSURANCE
Insurance allows protection for gun owner, especially if stolen and used in a crime. Will work just like automobile insurance.
....
LIMITING ABILITY TO MAKE OWN AMMUNITION
It is amazing what is left at a home or business when police have a warrant for arrest and weapons raid. Countless bullet-making
machines are often left. There are no laws regarding making bullets, even one's own. Ban - at least regulate ability to
make own ammunition. Unregulated ability to make bullets can be made wrong. In the, "Wild Wild West," a box of 50 bullets
lasted most to all of a year. Today, especially illegal gun practice, 50 bullets can last 2 minutes, beginning at 7:09 A.M.
on a Sunday morning.
"Manufacturing of Firearms and Ammunition" - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF)
"Make Your Own Ammo Vs Buying Ammo Prepper - Tactical Rifleman
"The Exploding Bullet" - Journal of Clinical Pathology - Pub Med NIH
“Across the country, police departments are increasingly turning to the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network,
and its catalog of more than three million detailed images of spent shell casings, to connect dots and solve investigations
that might otherwise have stalled. Overseen by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the database, also
known as NIBIN, can identify whether the same gun was used in multiple shootings. ....
The A.T.F. is increasingly confident in the accuracy of its leads. This year, it removed a disclaimer warning police departments
against using the leads as probable cause for search warrants, after an agency study found that the leads were correct in
more than 98 percent of cases that were later verified by examiners. ....
By connecting these dots,” Mr. Eberhardt said, 'Police aren’t just solving past shooting murders, they’re
preventing the next ones from happening.'"
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PERSONALIZED NUMBERED ENGRAVED BULLETS:
Industry must produce only personalized numbered engraved bullets. Personalized bullets, just like personal Social Security
Number, ties crime to person. Example, bullets fired by several police, for example can be traced, and is helpful for studying
reactions, shooting patterns.... Makes gun owner more responsible - keeping tabs onto where and storage of their bullets.
Should bullets be stolen, immediate call to authorities offers a trail to more quickly and solidly apprehend the criminal.
Direct.
Even if only generic "Numbered Bullets," it would greatly help. The seller of the bullet sales would, however, need to be
documented. For example, AA1 - AA100 for a box of 100 bullets. So it makes sense for people to order their bullets direct
at store from manufacturer. [S.S. Proposal.]
Even if only number-engraved custom bullets, this will reduce crime, as people will hold their bullets as "precious" and will
lower rates of willy-nilly "just shoot for fun". The bullets otherwise left behind will lead to arrest, for example, for
vandalism.
RECRUIT PSYCOLOGIST, PSYCOLOGIST, AND SOCAL WORKER STUDENTS TO BECOME POLICE OFFICERS
For Police Officers to have Dual Trainings: Recruit current Mental Health Workers. Develop college curriculums in Social
Work that include becoming police officers. Offer paying school debt. Offer must be on force for 5 years of service. Higher
wages compensate for 2 separate people, a social worker and a police officer so value is great. The benefit is that the person
"in the system" has the same person to help how to put together their life.... - Exclusively Website Owner - S.S. Proposal
"Its Time for Journalism to Break the Cycle of Crime Reporting: The Public Good Rather Than the Publics Interest Should be
a Prevailing Factor." - The Poynter Institute for Media Studies (2021)
The Pointer Journalistic Standards - Canadian Association of Journalists - National Newsmedia Council - The Pointer Group
Sample: "BALTIMORE BLOODBATH | 6 people shot in 5 hours, including 14-year-old boy" - WBFF FOX45 Baltimore (April 25th, 2023)
STATE OF MARYLAND [What laws there are]
"Possession of explosives for use in firearms.-
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a person need not obtain a license to possess or store up to 5 pounds of
smokeless powder for the loading or reloading of small arms ammunition, and up to 5 pounds of black powder for the loading
or reloading of small arms ammunition or for use in the loading of antique arms or replicas of antique arms, if the smokeless
powder and black powder are stored in their original shipping containers and are possessed only for personal use in firearms.
(2) A person may not possess or store explosives for use in firearms in any quantity in multifamily dwellings, apartments,
dormitories, hotels, schools, other public buildings, or buildings or structures open for public use."
"A person may not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, purchase, receive, or transfer a detachable magazine that has
a capacity of more than 10 rounds of ammunition for a firearm."
Reparation Through Homeownership. Owning a House - and Tax-Free:
Qualified recipient, through working on repairing (or due to illness or disability other tasks) one of 15,000 houses that
is as close to as possible from where home was before. House must be primary house for the Reparation Recipient. Baltimore
City pays for repair of the house: complete "net zero" even "net positive" (ability to sell excess energy
back to grid) house with appliances, garden starter... The property becomes "tax-free," as there were no taxes when
ancestors were living in Baltimore. Monthly property insurance in monthly installments into escrow as well as designated amount
for house upkeep. The owner may pass down the house to another family member, but cannot sell the house. Should no one be
chosen, house reverts back to Baltimore City ownership for another who has ancestors who were Indigenous to Baltimore area
or slaves.
Reparation Through Quality Inspection-Safe with Built-In Rent Control/Rent Stabilization:
"Fair Housing Act Overview and Challenges" - National Low Income House Coalition (2018)
Metropolitan Segregation = Residential Segregation
How Racially Segregated is the Baltimore Metro?: Baltimore Ranks 39 of 331 Metropolitans in Levels of Segregation" - Greater
Baltimore Community Housing Resource Board (2001)
Reparation Through a Career in Vocational Art Trades:
A multitude of choices. Woodworker including Fine furniture maker. Various scholarship programs available from several organizations..
It is important that people choose jobs and careers that cannot be done by robots. Seek how quickly people are disposable
by this documentary (good to see entire documentary too).
"Workforce Wire: Half of Black Workers Want to Quit - Here's What Companies Can do Better" - CNBC (2023)
"Significant EEOC Race/Color Cases (Covering Private and Federal Sectors)" - U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Reparation Through Fair Wages (not tips to compensate, which causes much stress):
One Fair Wage
REPORT: "One Fair Wage: Ending a Legacy of Slavery and Addressing Maryland's Restaurant Staffing Crisis" (2023)
"The Myth of the Rugged Individual" - Robert Reich, Inequality Media
"How Wealth Inequality Spiraled Out of Control" - Robert Reich
Please Seek "Work" Here
"The People's Republic of The Future" [Automation] - Bloomberg Quicktake Original (2019)
Reparation Through Other Careers:
There are other scholarships available if not interested in any Vocational Art Trades.
"Inner Harbor Was Epicenter of Brutal African Slavery; Six Generations Later Man of African Ancestry is Inner Harbor Landlord,
Reflect on That" - The Baltimore Times (2023)
Please Seek "Work" Here
Reparation Through Micro Loans for Entrepreneurship: Own your own business!:
Entrepreneurship is the ability to dictate your own future. It is vital that Baltimore have many varied businesses; from
food businesses to furniture making businesses, to glassware businesses, or something never thought of! We are blesses with
Maryland School for the Arts (MICA) and Baltimore - University of Maryland having courses in patent-making. The sky is TRULY
the limit!
By illegal financial means. those who risk their lives to engage in, for example, the drug selling industry are first and
foremost smitten with the idea that they will be their own boss. Despite the veneer, these people want to be entrepreneurs,
but are not taught in school that this is possible, or have availability to be able to attend the miriad of choices a Baltimore
City Entrepreneurial-focused Vocational Arts School and Guilds presents. As important that people be exposed to the skills,
successful entrepreneurial mentorship is vital to help keep on the peaceful fulfilling entrepreneurial path. Every child
needs people to look up to. Mentorship is vital to cultivate early in life, especially regarding how to build a social network,
relationships that last a lifetime.
Illegal means, whether selling something or stealing, retains only a present need, with no regard to, future - leaving something
behind. A true entrepreneurial business works whether you are there or not, and one that has value to for someone to purchase
- on paper.
Moving from self-preservation --> to a fulfilling thriving life.
"Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self-Employment" - Journal of Labor Economics (2002)
Some Salty Language
Famous Entrepreneurs Who Were Drug Dealers
"You will find our participants to be extremely courteous and thoughtful. We have a few participants in our program who made
the bad mistake of having an extra drink after a cocktail party and killed someone in a drunk-driving accident on their way
home. Others grew up on the streets – without a chance, without hope, without fathers. They learned violence and drugs
at an early age. They have paid dearly for their choices. The only reason why they were hand-selected to participate in PEP,
and why they have persisted through this intensive program, is because they are choosing to live a different life
and have new values."
"PEP is more than building business skills and acumen. It is designed to bring positive, transformative changes to the
students, their families and communities. We begin to engage family members as soon as their loved one is involved with
PEP and try to get as many as possible to attend the class graduation. We love to see families reunited and empower our men
to rise up and become better husbands, fathers, and sons."
Please Seek "Work" Here
Reparation Through Fast and Free Transportation For All: Dedicated Lane Streetcars:
It was simple - even of ease, to physically move about Baltimore city - on streetcars:
"Segregationist values, notions that blacks should be separated and subordinate, prevailed throughout the country in these
turn-of-the-century years, and Baltimore whites deemed the emerging black community of Old West Baltimore a tolerable, even
useful city neighborhood. Residents were close enough to be in the employ of affluent whites who still resided downtown, in
Bolton Hill, or near Harlem Square, and a mere streetcar ride from the more spacious northern sections."
"Out of the 100 largest counties in the U.S., Baltimore City ranked dead last, meaning that those in the city stuck
in poverty have the toughest chance of escaping it. As many in poverty do not have access to their own personal
vehicles, they are dependent on public transit to go anywhere beyond walking distance.
Improved rail transit lifts the city together more. Baltimore is famously segregated, but if you have improved
rail transit, it simply brings these parts of the city closer together and makes it much more feasible to
bring not just people, but to spur economic development in those plighted areas themselves." - Alec MacGillis
Baltimore already had an electric only transit system. Starting in 1865, the first electric streetcar started rolling on
Baltimore streets, and expanded into the suburbs (mostly all Baltimore City today). Electric streetcars in Baltimore City
soon were not segregated, though Plessy versus Ferguson's ruling for not just for trains, but everything, "Separate but Equal."
It helped that streetcars were run by several different private owners. Automobile manufacturers, and tire-making companies
dictated to city politicians to purchase buses. Baltimore's last streetcar ran in 1963. In 2017 the Maryland Bus System
was made worse, continuing its trend to serve less neighborhoods, and more for suburb in-and-out bus rides. We never should
of got rid of the streetcars. Baltimore needs its own system again, evidenced by popular free Charm City Circular. Everyone
deserves comfortable, fast, traffic-less, on time, quiet, and smooth service, especially for those who do not have automobiles.
The point is - you do not need to have one. Streetcars are light, lighter than light-rails, and well lighter than buses.
Electric batteries raise bus' weight exponentially. Batteries need to be recharged. Streetcars do not. The electricity
only engages above with the trolley pole rubbing against it. Baltimore being an Urban Heat Island, "F" Ozone - we already
cannot breathe due to all our air pollution. We start with the least served neighborhoods. Most of the tracks are still
under the asphalt and tar. Just need to polish them up.....
"Randallstown NAACP, Police Working to Stop Car Meets at Security Square Mall" WBAL TV 11 (2023)
SEEK: Streetcar Versus Bus
SEEK: Streetcar Revival
SEEK: Streetcar Routes Today
SEEK: Streetcar Routes Today
"Mural in Catonsville Honors One of the First Black Men to Drive Streetcars in Maryland" - WMAR TV 2 (2023)
Reparation Through Alleys to Allées:
Reparation Through Breathing Better - Proper and Equal Healthcare Access:
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Manual - State of Maryland Department of Human Services
Reparation Through Breathing Better - Healthcare:
"Bianca Dove explains that when our visions feel like distant possibilities, it’s because we haven’t allowed our
bodies to experience them, palpably."
ENCOURAGE PHYSICAL HEALTH --> Recreation Centers are FREE [In Montgomery County]
SEEK: STATE OF BALTIMOREAN HEALTH
HEAT, DROUGHT, & WATER-FUTURE
Health Justice Now - Timothy Faust [Book] (2019)
Reparation Through Breathing Better - Proper and Equal Healthcare Access:
"Doctor Doctor (Have Mercy On Me)" - Ray Stevens
"In 2020, Black families had over double the risk of losing an infant to SUID, versus the average for the country as a whole.
For every 100,000 Black infants born that year, 214 died suddenly — up from about 190 per 100,000 in 2019, the study
found.
Meanwhile, SUID rates were lower, and did not spike in 2020, among white, Hispanic or Asian-American infants.
There is no single reason that Black infants are dying at a higher rate, experts said.
'It's obviously a complex issue. While safe sleeping practices are critical to preventing SUID, there are also social and
economic disparities at work. For one, Black women in the United States are less likely to have access to early prenatal
care, which, among other benefits, can reduce the risk of preterm birth. Preterm birth is a risk factor for SUID.' - Dr. Rebecca
Carlin, pediatrician at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (NYC)
Similarly, when Black families cannot get to routine pediatrician visits, they may not learn about safe sleep practices.
'Meanwhile, many Black moms lack paid maternity leave from their jobs. That means they have to rely on other caregivers, who
may not always know how to put infants to sleep safely. Plus, those same moms may find it impossible to breastfeed —
which helps lower the risk of SUID.' said Carlin."
"We estimated that 104 million individuals had/{have} annual LEQ(24) levels > 70 dBA (equivalent to a continuous average exposure
level of >70 dBA over 24 hr) in 2013 and were/{are} at risk of noise-induced hearing loss. Tens of millions more may be at
risk of heart disease, and other noise-related health effects. Direct regulation, altering the informational environment,
and altering the built environment are the least costly, most logistically feasible, and most effective noise reduction interventions."
"Municipal regulation evolved into noise ordinances that regulate the timing and intensity of noise, are expensive and difficult
to enforce, and have not proven to be effective at reducing noise (Dunlap 2006).
Given these considerations, we believe that the most cost-effective legal interventions at the state and local levels are
through a) spending and procurement, and b) altering the built environment."
"Although substantial opportunity exists for improved pain management broadly across the United States, data underscore opportunities
for addressing specific, long-standing health disparities in the treatment of pain. For example, patients who identify as
Black or African American (Black), Hispanic or Latino (Hispanic), and Asian receive fewer postpartum pain assessments relative
to White patients. Black and Hispanic patients are less likely than White patients to receive analgesia for acute pain. Among
Black and White patients receiving opioids for pain, Black patients are less likely to be referred to a pain specialist, and
Black patients receive prescription opioids at lower dosages than White patients. Racial and ethnic differences remain even
after adjusting for access-related factors, the needs and preferences of patients, and the appropriateness of the intervention.
These disparities appear to be further magnified for Black and Hispanic patients who live in socioeconomically disadvantaged
neighborhoods. Women might be at higher risk for inadequate pain management, although they have higher opioid prescription
fill rates than men at a population level.
Geographic disparities contribute to increased use of opioids for conditions for which non-opioid treatment options might
be preferred but are less available. For example, adults living in rural areas are more likely to be prescribed opioids for
chronic nonmalignant pain than adults living in non-rural areas. Although not Hispanic or Latino (non-Hispanic) American Indian
or Alaska Native and non-Hispanic White populations have experienced much higher rates of prescription opioid–related
overdose deaths than non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic, or non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander populations, application of safeguards
in opioid prescribing are disproportionately applied to Black patients. In one study, Black patients were more likely than
White patients to receive regular office visits and have restricted early refills. In another study, clinicians were substantially
more likely to discontinue opioids if there was evidence of misuse for Black patients compared with White patients. Differentially
untreated or undertreated pain as a result of clinician biases persists and demands immediate and sustained attention and
action."
REPARATIONS FOR THE STATE OF OUR HEALTHCARE SCHOOLS and INSURANCES
"In the still ~ of the night" or "While you weren't attending"
Since March 2020, Baltimore City residents lost substantial healthcare services by insurances never re-opening up Pre-Covid
19 services, noticeably extending same services to more Baltimore County locations, and quietly even getting out of the business
all together.
"This community is predominantly people of color, and of low income. We're tired of people dying in our communities from illnesses
that are produced from these industries," said Campbell, who co-founded the youth activist group Free Your Voice in 2012,
along with a classmate, Destiny Watford. The two were awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for grassroots environmental
activists in honor of their efforts."
State of Dentistry: Medicaid Insurance Being Dropped
"Dollars and Dentists" - "Frontline" PBS (2022)
"2022 Maryland Medical Assistance Program Professional Services Provider Manual" - Maryland Medical Assistance Program ["Does
Not Cover": Pages 17-19]
"Loophole in Medicaid Omits Dental Coverage for Needy Adults in Maryland" - The Washington Informer (2022)
"In 2018, 38% or about 75,000 of the 200,000 licensed dentists in the United States accepted Medicaid, according to the ADA.
Many dentists who responded to a survey by The Wealthy Dentist are reluctant to accept Medicaid patients because
Medicaid typically pays as little as half of what private insurance pays for the same procedures."
WHO HAS PLANS TO ABANDON: [Who else????]
Baltimore City Dental Group on January 1st, 2022 planned to drop Medicaid Insurance, which includes kids. Decided last minute
to keep current patients, and not take any new Medicaid insurance holders. Will take other new patients.
SEEK: STATES OF BALTIMORE HEALTH
For world-renowned, Baltimore's own Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland to have more locations in Baltimore City serving
the most vulnerable especially in preventive care. Both institutions are tax exempt, and have been able to continue purchasing
land and buildings that could have been for taxpaying entities. The taxpayers of Baltimore provides infrastructure for their
employees and students: roads, streetlights, telephone poles electrical and cable wires, water, sewer, public transportation,
houses, 911, fire, police, sheriff, use our parks, pools, and waterway, yet receiving no benefit but some being able to
have opportunity to work for them.
The University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, though take up acres and acres of Baltimore, and pays no taxes, decided to completely get out
of serving Baltimore City. They sold off University of Maryland Health Advantage Inc. and University of Maryland Health
Partners, Inc. (Medicaid). So not only no healthcare, made money. This means that University of Maryland, all of its doctors
and groups do not offer any healthcare to Baltimore City especially to citizens and residents who receive Medicaid or Medicare
not affiliated with work HMO. The only thing University of Maryland must compulsory give is medical service through the Emergency
Room, the high caliber moneymaker.
"CareFirst Takes Over Management of Medicaid plans from University of Maryland Medical System" - The Baltimore Sun (2020)
University of Maryland Advertisement (Left hand side 9 ads down) - Healthcare through Sisters of Charity - The Baltimore Sun
(April 25th, 1839)
History: BlueCross Inception: 1937 BlueShield Inception: 1948 CareFirst Inception: 1997 CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Inception:
1998 [Timeline]
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins home is Baltimore, yet is focused on creating university branches and hospitals all over the world. Yet for
the few locations they have in Baltimore via Priority Partners, they are all found in southeast (with most northern part of
southeast, Chase Brexton), in predominantly Caucasian neighborhoods.
"The Johns Hopkins Hospital, completed in 1889, was considered a municipal and national marvel when it opened. It was believed
to be the largest medical center in the country, with 17 buildings, 330 beds, 25 physicians and 200 employees. As a Baltimore
American headline put it on May 7, 1889, the hospital’s opening day, 'Its aim is noble,' and its service would
be “for the good of all who suffer.'"
"YOUR HEALTH IS OUR TOP PRIORITY"
"What CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) pays Johns Hopkins’ doctors, nurses and other caregivers has not kept
up with inflation. In fact, what CareFirst insurance pays for Johns Hopkins’ care is lower than what most other area
insurance companies pay. It is very hard for Johns Hopkins — or any health care system — to provide care at the
rates we are currently paid by CareFirst."
Johns Hopkins doctors, nurses and other caregivers, as well as ambulatory surgery centers, may have to leave the CareFirst
network as soon as December 5, 2022. This means that after December 5, CareFirst may cover less - or none -
of the care you receive at Johns Hopkins, leaving you to pay more to see your doctors, nurses and caregivers."
"Johns Hopkins is under scrutiny once again for taking the most financially-strapped patients to court over unpaid
medical debt."
"Johns Hopkins Warns Patients it May Leave CareFirst Network" - WYPR 88.1 F.M. (September 8th, 2022)
"Johns Hopkins Medicine Reaches Agreement with CareFirst: Johns Hopkins Doctors, Nurses, and Other Caregivers, as Well as
JHM's Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Will Remain in CareFirst's Network - Johns Hopkins University (October 26th, 2022)
"Johns Hopkins Medicine to Start Charging Patients for Some MyChart Messages" - The Baltimore Sun (2023) [Doctor advice]
Kaiser Permanente
Other insurances, whether serving businesses or Medicaid or Medicare. It is ridiculous that insurance companies, like Kaiser
Permanente, cut Baltimore City services ("Harbor" President & Pratt street), sneakily at very beginning of Covid Pandemic.
It completely took away "Urgent Care" completely, never restoring - even an hour - now going into 3 years,
forcing people to go to Baltimore County for "Urgent Care." This puts ever so much pressure on Baltimore's Hospitals
due to Kaiser Permanente. Kaister Permanente also forces people to go for other services to Baltimore County, Prince Georges
County, Montgomery County, and even Washington D.C. and Virginia from a simple ultra-sound to surgeries.
This forces tense times for people, as buses, especially at night may not be running at all (Yellow Kaiser-stopping line in
Halethorpe): having to find any which way an automobile to travel, whether by friend, taxi, or ride hire contributes to further
air-pollution. One way or another, having to spend money to get to Baltimore County. Let's have healthcare at home.
Again, Streetcars to the rescue! Have streetcars have a schedule so that people can have neighborhood care. In not so recent
past, doctors would come to people's homes - for most income levels. This is how most people in the world, including the
United States had healthcare.
Reparations Because of Tobacco Influence Addiction:
Indigestibles
"Modern Science" - The Playmates
"Raising the legal minimum age for cigarette purchaser to 21 could gut our key young adult market 17 to 20 year olds where
we sell about 25 billion cigarettes and enjoy a 70 percent market share." - Philip Morris report, January 21, 1986
IT TOOK 33 YEARS - 2019 - FOR U.S.A. CONGRESS TO PASS INTO LAW.
SMOKING
Teenager smoking tobacco rates are at all time high. Imperative that Baltimore City Health Department devote to impactful
succession campaign. Statistics: if one never smokes by age 21, they will never start.
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United States Average: 13 out of 100 Teens Smoke - use tobacco products. - National Center for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC)
Maryland: 27.4% = 27/28 of 100 Teens Smoke - use tobacco products - "Extinguishing the Tobacco Epidemic in Maryland" - CDC
"Youth and Tobacco Use" - CDC
Tobacco-Free Kids: Why they advocated for Age 21
Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) - CDC
"What Do Europeans Think About American Life?" - New York Times Opinion
"What Does U.S. Health Care Look Like Abroad?" - New York Times Opinion
"No Smoking" - "All In The Family" - [Season 05 Episode 24]
SOLUTIONS
For University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins: Preventive Care Focus: Focuses on offering support through medical and medical
students and employees in vulnerable communities through small centers where all ages can walk to and receive a multitude
of services beginning with smoke addictions. Peer support. Learn nutrition. Learn how to read labels, and exactly what
every conceivable ingredient exactly is.
For all of these services to be paid by University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins in immense gratitude to Baltimore
City.
For Johns Hopkins expand Priority Partners into insurance companies that seem to have little interest due to their actions
of cutting services to Baltimore City residents in Baltimore City, like Kaister Permanente.
Baltimore City: Ban sale of tobacco and e-cigarettes. Make non-sugar (chewable) vitamins and oral supplements, what the Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) already categorizes as, "FOOD" to be able to be purchased through SNAP and WIC.
Reparation Through Baltimore Canopy - Tree Shade:
Trees keep us cool. Just because one lives in a city doesn't mean there can't be forests. Baltimore doesn't just need trees,
but a canopy of various plants native to Baltimore. Well, we have a lot of houses that do not have any trees for which to
cool their homes. Lower-incomed people tend to not have trees to help them out with cooling bills. Besides this dire benefit,
trees are simply pretty, and soon you will have the types of neighbors you always welcome and want - birds!
SEEK: Alleys to Allées
Reparation Through Food Growing Independence
"A Nation That Cannot Feed Itself is Not Free" - La Via Campesina
[Stemming from Nicaraguan peasant movement]
We must adapt to eating less of a variety of fruits and vegetables, and grow the ones that can be grown in Baltimore City
and State of Maryland. By being able to self-provide, neighborhood provide, or city-wide provide food, through growing enough
food for all. Cannot depend, especially on other countries to provide food, as well as states, such as Arizona, whose waterways
are depleting and disappearing.
"Moreover, rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns and more frequent extreme weather events are impacting food
production and distribution systems throughout the world. Climate change is no longer a distant threat. It has reduced
global agricultural productivity by about 21% since 1961."
"Global Food Security Under Climate Change" - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
(PNAS) (2007)
"Food Innovation: Investing to Feed our Future" - Franklin Templeton (2022)
"Every Neighborhood Should Have a Corner Store - But Can't - City Beautiful (2021)
Consider - every neighborhood a, "small town." Cooperative "General Stores" catering directly to the
nutrition and products the want and need, while knowing that they own a part in the store, insures the viability and strength
not only of a prosperous store, but a prosperous, "Small Town" neighborhood.
"Preserving General Stores, the Heart of Small Towns" - "CBS Sunday Morning" (2023)
MORE ON FOOD
Reparations Through Spiritual Freedom:
"Our slogan must not be, 'Burn, baby burn.' It must be, 'Build, baby Build!' Organize, baby organize.' learn earn"
"I cannot believe that I found this footage. I am the student cameraman that recorded this speech. I remember this
like it was yesterday. I have been telling my boys for years about this and now I can show them. I thought this was lost years
ago and am so happy that it survived the years. I was 12 or 13 years old when he can to Barrett and was mesmerized by what
he was saying. I can't wait to share this with my family. Wow I am elated that I found this." - Rodges Lawton (2015/6)
MLK's "Experience of God" - Martin Luther King Junior
Reparation Through More - Extensive Legal Services:
MAY: "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Month" - FSTV Speaks |
"Ammon Hennacy and Joe Hill House of Hospitality and song, "Pig Hollow" - Utah Phillips - J. Willard Marriott Library
For criminal cases one is bound to have representation, a "Public Defender." For civil cases, there is no one, leaving people
ever so lonely.
When one is financially challenged, and worse, a victim of harm and neglect - from domestic abuse to slumlord abuse, often
the last thing one receives is representation, even through making the rounds to every conceivable clinic and organization
possible. Often left to one's own devices, most succumb to the defendant lawyer's wishes in the name of, "I'm doing you a
favor. Just sign." There is Legal Aid and a few other organizations. Baltimore has two - two law schools, and there needs
to be an increast in all matters of law - from contract to trust law. If one does win a civil case, often there is no compensation.
Rarely will the non-profits or the school law clinics represent someone that should receive compensation for their harm.
So financially challenged people become even poorer. No money to have any chance for their well-being to be attended to.
The majority of people that financially challenged can see for mental health are students, or just out of school to receive
experience. They is often quite an age gap, and therefore no life experience to offer. After a while, a therapist gets established,
and stops wanting to take Medicaid or Medicare. The therapists want more money, and often abandon clients due to their decision.
So the more experienced therapists are for more lucrative insurances, and "pay-out-of-pocket" clients.
2022 Poverty Guidelines - Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation {ASPE)
Attorney Norman Goldman's Educational Pieces: Law, Civics, and Politics
"Non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds
to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. We work to protect the Earth’s climate system for present and future
generations by representing young people in global legal efforts to secure their binding and enforceable legal rights to a
healthy atmosphere and stable climate, based on the best available science. We support our youth clients and amplify their
voices before the third branch of government in a highly strategic legal campaign that includes targeted media, education,
and public engagement work to support the youths’ legal actions. Our legal work – guided by constitutional, public
trust, human rights laws and the laws of nature – aims to ensure systemic and science-based climate recovery planning
and remedies at federal, state, and global levels."
Reparation Through Educational Tools
Libraries have disappeared in recent years due to budget cuts, demoralizing neighborhoods like Carrolton Ridge. The focus
was to have bigger libraries - hubs, with no understanding that a library is still what one walks to. It is often the very
first place a child is allowed to walk to alone in their life. Neighborhood libraries can again be reality with Streetcars.
Double decker streetcars will house study sections on second floor, complete with computers, while on first floor, will have
reference books like dictionaries and atlases, and a variety of newspapers, books, magazines, films, and music to enjoy in
comfy chairs, as well as check out for home use.
"California's Largest-Ever Investment in Public Libraries"
California is Financing Libraries and "Help Now Tutors" (Continuously: 24 hours 7 days a week) for all ages
- "Governor Newsom Announces Free Online Tutoring Available to All Californians, $254 Million in Grants to Improve Libraries
Across the State" - Office of the Governor Gavin Newsom - State of California (2022)
Reparation Through Written Language Literacy & Comprehension:
"Beyond Books: The 21st Century Public Library" - CBS Sunday Morning (2022)
PEN America - "The Freedom To Write"
"Native American Proverbs"
"The Impact of Words and Tips for Using Appropriate Terminology: Am I Using the Right Word?" - National Museum of the American
Indian
"The basic goal of the marketing campaign, 'Library in the tram - Tram to the library,' is an elegant and clear communication
of the good name of the brand, 'library.' As a tram, the library accompanies the city of Brno and its people in their everyday
lives, brings peace and optimism into the streets, and motivates people to visit the library again or even to come for the
first time. The comfortable environment of a tram invites thousands of passengers to the library and stimulate their desire
to get to know the mysterious world of literature there better. Get on, please... and become our readers!"
Munich, Germany Mobile Tram Library (1929) - British Pathé
Kolkata Gets World's First Tram Library | India News - WION (2020)
Tram History To New Tram Library in Kolkata 2020 | Tram in Kolkata (2022) Birds of the Dawn
Reparation Through Medical Literacy & Comprehension:
"According to the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), the top 60 banks by assets globally provided a total of $1.3 trillion to
the top 100 companies expanding fossil fuels between 2016 and 2021 -- the years since the Paris climate accord. The network
of advocacy organizations released the update on Wednesday on the sidelines of the U.N.'s COP27 climate summit.
Of that $1.3 trillion, the big six U.S. banks -- Bank of America (BAC), JP Morgan Chase (JPM), Citi (C),
Wells Fargo (WFC), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Goldman Sachs (GS) -- provided 33%, or funding valued at about
$445 billion, to the top 100 coal, oil and gas expanders."
THE REPORT "Banking on Climate Chaos: Fossil Fuel Finance Report 2022" - Rainforest Action Network [List Pages 8-9]
Reparation Through Financial Literacy & Comprehension [Retirement....]:
"Human life expectancy has boomed since the industrial times, doubling between 1900 and 2000. Scientists predict that
more than half of babies born in rich countries today will live to be 100.
However, declining birth rates around the world means that there are currently more people over the age of 60 than children
under the age of 5. In fact, according to the WHO, over the next 30 years, the proportion of the world's population over 60
years will nearly double from 12% to 22%."
Some Cuss Language
Reparation Through Art:
"Indigenous people are hoping for further signs they are finally vanquishing a problem that's plagued them for centuries -
their obliteration from mainstream American society. One positive indicator, they said, is that many projects are happening
outside the traditional Native American Heritage month of November.
'Native people feel that they have been made invisible,' Turner said. 'It came up again and again and again in conversation
with our 11-member Native advisory panel. This erasure has a huge impact on their lives. It affects their health.' Turner
grew up in California as a member of the Yurok Tribe. She recalled her mother’s fury when every student in her fourth
grade class was assigned a project to construct a Spanish mission from sugar cubes - missions that played a major role in
decimating the Native population in the U.S. between the 16th and 19th centuries. 'The missions were horrible places of trauma
and violence and enforced assimilation, and my mother would not allow me and my brother to participate in that assignment,'
Turner recalled. 'Instead, we made a diorama of a Yurok village for the class that showed our people fashioning redwood canoes
and smoking fish on the side of the river.'
According to the 2020 census, 1.6% of Maryland’s nearly 6.2 million residents — or roughly 99,000 people —
identify themselves wholly or partly as Native American or Alaska Native. Ryan Koons, a folklife specialist for the Maryland
State Arts Council, thinks that Free State residents, 'Are particularly likely to be unaware' of their Native neighbors, though
he is at a loss to explain why."
In April 2024, The Baltimore Museum of Art launches "Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum," a series encompassing nine exhibits
of Native American art over 10 months which will include scholarly essays, poetry, personal stories, quotes, and comics.
The curators believe it will be among the most comprehensive showcases of contemporary Native American art ever undertaken
by a U.S. cultural institution.
Work now is to watch out for tribal sovereignty infringements: redistricting and vote dilution. Greater voting power alleviate
many barriers Native American citizens face, and at same time; centering and strengthening tribal sovereignty.
Reparation Through Trade Economics:
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Reparation Through State of Maryland and Federal:
Advocacy for those receive Baltimore reparations to receive additional things. Perhaps ancestry origin trips to various countries
in Africa. Caribbean...
POPULATION
"NUMBER OF AMERICAN INDIAN & ALASKA NATIVE RESIDENTS IN MARYLAND" - Indian Affairs Committee, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of
the Religious Society of Friends (2017)
COMING SOON - FOUR NEW PAGES! [Amongst many others]
FINANCING REPARATIONS: COLLECTIVE EFFORT IN $ & SWEAT EQUITY [NOT AS MUCH CITY $ AS YOU THINK]
PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS: SUPPORT! GENEOLOGISTS... CELEBRITIES...
DEFINITIONS and
ENTREPRENEURSHIP [Obliterates crime...]
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