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Video report from #schoolsnotjails action

Tuesday January 17th, 2012

Ryan Harvey

On January 16th, Occupy Baltimore and the Baltimore Algebra Project, along with a enthusiastic crowd of supporters and allies, marched on the site of the proposed youth detention center in East Baltimore, and erected a wooden schoolhouse on the site to call attention to spending priorities that favor incarceration instead of education.  Indyreader was on the scene to report:

 

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