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UNION BOYCOTT OF DOWNTOWN HOTEL CONTINUES — Umar Farooq

Boycott of Baltimore City Center Sheraton Hotel Launched by UNITE-HERE

The state of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries is crucial to the well being of both our local ecosystem and public health, yet polluters dump about 240 million pounds of toxins into our waterways each year. The long-term effects on human health and the environment could be disastrous. Thirty five years after the Clean Water Act became law, this American News Project report explores why our fish are changing sex and our water contains rocket fuel, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals.

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This is Part 6 of "In Solidarity" the story of six African-American Baltimore City high school students who leave the only home they've ever known on a journey to Nicaragua to immerse themselves in a foreign culture through living, working in solidarity with a rural community.

This is Part 5 of "In Solidarity" the story of six African-American Baltimore City high school students who leave the only home they've ever known on a journey to Nicaragua to immerse themselves in a foreign culture through living, working in solidarity with a rural community.

This is Part 4 of "In Solidarity" the story of six African-American Baltimore City high school students who leave the only home they've ever known on a journey to Nicaragua to immerse themselves in a foreign culture through living, working in solidarity with a rural community.

This is Part 3 of "In Solidarity" the story of six African-American Baltimore City high school students who leave the only home they've ever known on a journey to Nicaragua to immerse themselves in a foreign culture through living, working in solidarity with a rural community.

This is Part 2 of "In Solidarity" the story of six African-American Baltimore City high school students who leave the only home they've ever known on a journey to Nicaragua to immerse themselves in a foreign culture through living, working in solidarity with a rural community.

In Solidarity is the story of six African-American Baltimore City high school students who leave the only home they've ever known on a journey to Nicaragua to immerse themselves in a foreign culture through living, working in solidarity with a rural community. Through a two-week program led by their mentor, a Nicaraguan-American Baltimore educator the youth build homes, create murals and develop relationships with families of the Palestine Pineapple Cooperative.

Ashley Milburn is a 2007 Open Society Institute Community Fellow. His work around the Highway to Nowhere began in 2007 while he was a student in the Masters of Community Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art. With the assistance of the West Baltimore Coalition (WBC), he helped establish the first West Baltimore Committee on Arts & Culture as an extension of the WBC. Currently, stakeholders and representatives from both sides of the Highway are developing a cultural plan for the area called the Culture Works and West Baltimore Cultural Space Project.

"...My intent in going there was to save lives. A person may break the law to save lives." - Tom Lewis, quoted in Daniel Berrigan's The Trial of the Catonsville 9

On Saturday May 17, anti-war activists gathered in Maryland to mark the 40th Anniversary of the Catonsville draft card burning action, and to remember Tom Lewis, one of the "Catonsville 9," who died on April 4 of this year. Read more and watch video below.