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The PPA fights to defend the rights of poor and working people, including jobs, education, and healthcare. Help keep the struggle alive! What is to be done then?

We struggle against racism and sexism, police terror, and low wages. Venmo @solidaritycenter
paypal.me/Food4People We oppose war, racism and intervention abroad.

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Our Founding Statement

To Create — Build & Multiply People’s Power Assemblies

Things are already bad — and they are about to get a lot worse! The people must prepare to defend ourselves against the life-threatening and ever-int

ensifying economic and social misery that Wall Street and its politicians are imposing on us, including endless war. WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, propose to all who are concerned about defending the economic, social and political rights of the 99%, that this period, starting with the conventions of the major parties at the end of the summer, through the elections and into 2013, be dedicated to the convening of People’s Power Assemblies, at the local and regional level, and when ready, at the national level. Reverend Cortly “C.D.” Witherspoon, president of the Baltimore Southern Christian Leadership Conference, said at a rally in Maryland for Trayvon Martin: “The political establishments, both local and national, have proven to be bankrupt; they have done virtually nothing to protect or serve the people. It’s time for the people to organize themselves and to build people’s power.”

He was speaking not only of specific circumstances in Sanford, Fla., that allowed George Zimmerman to walk free for more than 40 days after killing Trayvon Martin, but of the fact that politicians and other officials at every level of government have failed to defend the interests of working people in this country, especially the most affected, most of whom are people of color. There is a dual crisis at play. One aspect is the crisis of the economic system, which is global. More than merely a crisis of the financial markets, it is of the system of capitalism itself. And it is the workers who suffer acutely, for workers are thrown out of the workplaces, from their homes, and left destitute. From Greece and Spain to Detroit and Los Angeles, the banks’ demand for more and more money is crushing the lives of workers and poor people, especially young people. Funds for weapon systems, however, and continuing or new wars such as in Syria and Iran, are guaranteed. The other crisis is political. The cold and brutal truth is that no matter who wins the 2012 Presidential Election, cutbacks, wage cuts, and unemployment are going to get 10 times worse in the future. So-called “democracy” as practiced in the U.S. has never been more meaningless than now. The word is little more than a cover for the dictatorship of the big banks. No major institution or government entity is protecting workers, especially the most disenfranchised, Black, Latino/a, Native and other workers of color who have faced historical oppression. Both political parties go along with cutting back programs that address important social needs. Both are attacking public- and private-sector unions, allowing foreclosures to continue at a rapid pace, closing and privatizing schools, continued destruction of the environment, deporting undocumented immigrants at an unprecedented pace, and sitting back while youth of color face rampant police brutality and a jobless, uncertain future. Regardless of what button or lever is chosen in the elections, the primary factor in ensuring change is action and struggle. The eight-hour workday, Social Security, Civil Rights, the right to vote, unionization, Unemployment Insurance — every progressive law or right was won and secured through struggle in the streets. In this period, the Occupy Wall Street movement opened the door, but it’s just the beginning. More is necessary to widen and sustain the rebellion against the 1%’s “take no prisoners” war on the rest of us. A higher level of organization is called for: a block to block, neighborhood to neighborhood, city to city, state to state, region to region approach; a national network of People’s Assemblies — assemblies designed to empower at every level, that take up the interests of working people, especially the most disenfranchised, assemblies that defend our rights and fight for real democracy, assemblies where the least of us is made whole by a deepening social contract that puts working people’s needs and rights before the interests of the wealthy, corporations and financial institutions. Such an organization would be the highest expression of democracy. The People’s Power Assemblies are the vehicles through which we struggle, whether it is defending a home -owner from eviction, occupying a school from being closed, seizing vacant property, fighting against racism, sexism or LGBT oppression. Let the PPA be what the government has failed to be. Onward. Build People’s Power Assemblies.

▩ Rep. Cynthia McKinney, 2008 Green Party Prez Candidate
▩ Rev. C.D. Witherspoon, Brd. Chair Baltimore SCLC
▩ Chris Silvera, Secty. Treas., Teamsters L. 808
▩ Sharon Black, Baltimore Peoples Assembly
▩ Victor Toro, La Peña del Bronx
▩ Clarence Thomas, Int’l Longshore & Warehouse Union L. 10
▩ Larry Holmes, Occupy for Jobs
▩ Bryan Perlmutter, NC State Univ., SDS
▩ Walter Smith, Pres., Nat’l Postal Mail Handlers Union, L. 334 Charleston, SC
▩ Community-Labor United for Postal Jobs & Services - CLUPJS
▩ Committee to Stop FBI Repression
▩ Eddie Oquendo, Nat’l Postal Mail Handlers Union SC L. 334
▩ Philippine Forum Baynihan Community Center NYC
▩ Zaina Alsous, UNC Chapel Hill Student Action w/ Workers
▩ Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March Movement
▩ Pam Africa, Int’l Concerned Families & Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
▩ Deloyd Parker, Exec. Dir., Shape Center Houston
▩ Larry Hales, PPA Staff Organizer
▩ Delbert Jackson, Occupy Houston, Occupy the Hood
▩ Leon Purnell, Pres., Baltimore SCLC
▩ Jersey City Peace Movement
▩ Ramona Africa, MOVE Organization
▩ John Parker, Steering Com., Southern Calif. Immigration Coalition
▩ Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions, and Utility Shutoffs
▩ Lucy Pagoada, Coordinadora, HondurasUSAResistencia
▩ Sara Flounders, Int’l Action Center
▩ MECAWI-Michigan Emergency Committee Against War and Injustice
▩ Messiah Rhodes, NYC Unemployed Council
▩ Teresa Gutierrez, May 1st Coalition; IMA
▩ Parents to Improve School Transportation - PIST
▩ Puerto Rican Alliance Los Angeles
▩ Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement
▩ Bob Carter, Founder, Justice for Palestinians
▩ Chelsea Coalition on Housing
▩ Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement
▩ Rev. Luis Barrios, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
▩ Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Center
▩ Bishop Filipe Teixeira, OFSJC, Diocese of St Francis of Assisi, CCA, Brockton, MA
▩ Women’s Fightback Network, Boston
▩ Rhode Island People’s Assembly
▩ Ed Childs, Chief Shop Steward, UNITE-HERE L. 26, Boston, MA
▩ Steve Gillis, Vice President, USW L. 8751 Boston School Bus Union
▩ Steve Kirschbaum, USW Organizer & Chair, Grievance Committee, USW L. 8751
▩ Brian Shea, Disability Rights Activist, Boston, MA
▩ Jim Grant, Human Justice Coalition, Wilson, NC

11/05/2024

📌Saturday Actions - Protest BPD Cut Ties with Genocide & Justice - Evening film screening - https://mailchi.mp/pipeline/saturday-actions-picket-line-noise-protest-bpd-cut-ties-with-genocide-justice-evening-film-screening

11/02/2024

U.S., British bombing of Yemen’s key port threatens renewed famine, war The United States and British air forces launched a series of air strikes against the Yemeni port city of Al Hudaydah on Oct. 31. This is the second of their kind launched by Western forces against…

11/01/2024

UPDATED WITH ENDORSERS!

Thank you to:

🚨🔊 EMERGENCY NOISE PROTEST 🚨🔊

🔻STOP U.S.-FUNDED GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE & LEBANON!
🔻 FIGHT RACISM, NOT IRAN!
🔻 MONEY FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS & INFRASTRUCTURE, NOT WAR!

🗓️ Friday November 1
📍 MLK Boulevard & N. Howard Street Baltimore MD 21201

🕓 4pm we will hand out literature, hold banners, and make noise
🕕 6pm we will rally and march and make more noise

Bring noisemakers and instruments!

10/31/2024

Our counterparts in Los Angeles are hosting a second telling of “What I Saw in Gaza.”

Dr. Syed, who gave the original presentation, will be calling in from Baltimore, and Dr. Khalil Khalidy will be calling in from Gaza.

In Los Angeles, the Harriet Tubman Center for Soccial Justice wlll host several other doctors who were on the same medical mission as Dr. Syed.

Join us in Baltimore to watch the livestream from Los Angeles.

Saturday, Nov 5
5pm eastern time
Harriet Tubman Solidarity Center
2011 N. Charles St
Baltimore MD 21218

Proceeds to benefit the Gaza Medical Relief project of Humanity Auxilium.

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10/30/2024

🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 Emergency Noise Protest Friday Stop Genocide & War -

🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 Emergency Noise Protest Friday Stop Genocide & War You can also write checks to Solidarity Center Send to 703 E. 37th Street, Baltimore, MD 21218 or Donate on Venmo@SolidarityCenter Follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Telegram

Photos from Peoples Power Assembly's post

10/29/2024

“visits” Baltimore

Let’s not forget—outside of his carefully vetted photo ops, this is how the President of the United States moves: surrounded by a small army.

PPA members were out flyering for our “Amazon: Invest in Workers, not Genocide!” campaign and in support of the campaign ( )

We know that no war criminal president offers no real solutions for workers and oppressed communities.

It’s the revolutionary working class struggle or nothing!

Join the AMAZON: INVEST IN WORKERS, NOT GENOCIDE campaign. Workers & community unite & fight!

10/29/2024

🚨🔊 EMERGENCY NOISE PROTEST 🚨🔊

🔻STOP U.S.-FUNDED GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE & LEBANON!
🔻 FIGHT RACISM, NOT IRAN!
🔻 MONEY FOR HURRICANE VICTIMS & INFRASTRUCTURE, NOT WAR!

🗓️ Friday November 1
📍 MLK Boulevard & N. Howard Street Baltimore MD 21201

🕓 4pm we will hand out literature, hold banners, and make noise
🕕 6pm we will rally and march and make more noise

Bring noisemakers and instruments!

DM to endorse!

10/18/2024

AMAZON: INVEST IN WORKERS, NOT GENOCIDE

Join us on Monday to tape up and hand out flyers for the screening of UNION at the Charles.

Monday Oct 22
5-7pm
2011 N Charles St

10/10/2024

Join the 🇵🇸 Flag Build & Outdoor Art Protest this Sunday - https://mailchi.mp/pipeline/join-the-flag-build-outdoor-art-protest-this-sunday

10/09/2024

PALESTINE FLAG ASSEMBLY

Sunday October 13
Gather @ 1pm
Patterson Park Pagoda

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS
We still need volunteers to hold the squares of the flag, read the stories of martyrs, and read statements from the resistance.
SIGN UP HERE: tiny.cc/PalestineFlagAssembly
(link in bio)

FINAL MEETING
VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION & REHEARSAL
Thursday October 10 @ 6:30pmnomu_
NoMüNoMü Arts Collaborative
709 N. Howard Street

Volunteer orientation & rehearsal are NOT mandatory to participate.

We are assembling a 20 foot Palestine flag from 2x2 cardboard squares in preparation for a highly coordinated and choreographed action.

Bring yourself, your friends, and family.

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10/04/2024

ANSWERING THE CALL OF THE RESISTANCE!

Join us for an emergency action against US/israeli aggression against Lebanon and Palestine.

Friday Oct 4
4:30-5:30 pm
N. Charles & W. Centre St

We will hold our banner at N. Charles & W. Centre Streets and reach out to the community with informational flyers.

THEN we encourage supporting the Hopkins Justice Collective and attending their general body meeting — go to their IG to sign up!

10/03/2024

CALL TO THE COMMUNITY - SUPPORT LONGSHORE WORKERS!
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What’s happening with the longshore workers?
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Longshore workers have always been vital to the world’s supply chain—put simply, they are the workers who load and unload cargo from ships. The big shipping corporations cannot make their profits without them.

But for as long as longshore workers have organized and fought for livable wages and safer conditions, the bosses have fought to cut labor costs by any means necessary—breaking their unions, cutting hard-won wages and benefits, and attempting to make their jobs obsolete.

The containerization of the shipping industry—the organizing of cargo into standardized containers—caused massive layoffs of longshore workers. This not only devastated a huge section of the working class economically, but also shrank the unions. Now, artificial intelligence and automation threaten even more jobs.

The United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), the alliance of employers with whom the ILA is bargaining, has refused to give any guarantees against automation. For longshore workers, automation is an existential threat. They will not back down until automation is defeated.

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How can I support?
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Show the longshore workers they are not alone!

The ILA has expressed appreciation especially for students and community who have joined the picket lines in support.

Going directly to the picket lines is the best way to find out whatever is needed—coffee, water, food, etc. But the most important way to support the strike is to show your solidarity in the streets.

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10/01/2024

PALESTINE FLAG BUILD
Work & info session

Thursday October 3 @ 6-8pmnomu_
NoMüNoMü Arts Collaborate
709 N. Howard Street

We are building a 20 foot Palestine flag from 2x2 cardboard squares in preparation for a highly coordinated and choreographed action.

Stay posted to sign up to fill some roles:
- holding a square of the flag
- reading the stories of martyrs
- reading statements of the resistance

We need all hands on deck!

Bring yourself, your friends, and family.

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09/24/2024

PALESTINE FLAG BUILD
Work & info session

Thursday September 26 @ 6pm
2011 N Charles St

We are building a 20 foot Palestine flag from 2x2 cardboard squares in preparation for a highly coordinated and choreographed action.

We need all hands on deck!

Bring yourself, any extra cardboard you have, and your friends and family.

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Photos from Jewish Voice for Peace's post

09/24/2024

09/21/2024

Petition: Demand for a National Public Transparent BCPSS CEO Search

THIS PETITION CAN BE SHARED PUBLICLY.
Signers will have their names displayed but not any of their contact information. Email addresses will not be shared with other signers and will only be used to send updates about this effort and opportunities for further engagement.

Petition: Demand for a National Public Transparent BCPSS CEO Search THIS PETITION CAN BE SHARED PUBLICLY. Signers will have their names displayed but not any of their contact information. Email addresses will not be shared with other signers and will only be used to send updates about this effort and opportunities for further engagement. The Baltimore Teachers Union...

09/21/2024

All our support to the Anti-Fascist International: A declaration of Casa de las Americas In 1937, when the Spanish Republic was resisting the assault of Franco’s troops, decisively supported by Hi**er and Mussolini, and in the face of the complicit silence of most European governments,…

09/17/2024

09/17/2024

UPDATE: ADDRESS + BRING DRUMS & NOISEMAKERS!

Zionists have announced a sale of stolen Palestinian land, and to add insult to injury, they planned it on the anniversary of the Sabra & Shatila Massacre (September 16-18, 1982).

Tuesday, September 17
4:30-9:30pm

Hilton Doubletree
1726 Reisterstown Road
Pikesville, MD

PALESTINE IS NOT FOR SALE!

Please contact us to endorse or support the event. Safety is in numbers and unity!

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OTHER ACTIONS you can take to shut down the sale of stolen land:

Sign the petition: bit.ly/no-zionist-land

Call the hotel:
410-653-1100 and press 0

Call the hotel manager:
509-939-3700

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09/16/2024

🍉🍉🍉 Tuesday Protest No Sale of Stolen Land - https://mailchi.mp/pipeline/update-tuesday-protest-no-sale-of-stolen-land

09/14/2024

South Africa to sue U.S., Britain for complicity in Gaza genocide South African attorney Wikus Van Rensburg expressed concerns over the ongoing financial and resource support from the U.S. to “Israel,” which effectively enabled crimes against the peop…

09/12/2024

WHAT I SAW IN GAZA
🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉
Dr. Hina Syed relives ten days serving in a Gaza hospital

🗓 Thursday September 12
🕐 6 PM
📍 St. Marks Lutheran Church
1900 Saint Paul St Baltimore MD 21218

Join us for Dr. Syed’s eyewitness account of her time serving in a Gaza hospital. Learn how you can plug in to the fighting mass movement for a free Palestine.

$10 suggested donation at the door
Cash, Venmo, Paypal accepted

FOOD UPDATE
Pakistani cuisine provided by

Free parking at St. Mark’s Parking Lot
20th St between N. Charles and St. Paul
Make sure you see the sign “St. Mark’s Parking Lot”

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09/11/2024

🍉🍉🍉 Reminder Thursday - "What I saw in Gaza" - https://mailchi.mp/pipeline/reminder-thursday-what-i-saw-in-gaza

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2011 N Charles Street
Baltimore, MD
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