Black Power Initiative

it’s that time again! come to our April meeting/potluck this saturday for some time with your community 🪴

We could use your help! We’ve been given the wonderful opportunity to help reshape the garden area at Evanston Academy to be a space for students to learn how to grow, and we could use some extra tools for students to have for the year. If you have any extra tools to share, please consider sharing them with us! You are also welcome to help us as well if you have time Saturday. We appreciate any support 🙏🏿

Cincinnati, don’t be distracted, City Council just approved more funding to go towards more surveillance and more policing in our communities in the name of “public safety.”

While our Black and Brown communities continue to suffer from the lack of healthy food access, safe and affordable housing/healthcare, and adequate funding to our educational system (CPS just cut 100* teaching/admin positions). These are the real “public safety” initiatives that should be prioritized and funded significantly more.

In a 6-3 vote, the approved funding will be allocated to more policing, license plate readers, drones, 3CDC ambassadors (non law enforcement), FUSUS (a company that our city contracted with to support a “crime center” with active surveillance, look up “connect cincinnati”) and other “safety” measures that will disproportionately impact primarily Black and Brown neighborhoods more than other neighborhoods in Cincinnati.

Vice Mayor Jan Kearney, council members Scottie Johnson and Victoria Parks voted against this proposal.

Cincinnati, don’t be distracted. We have to work to do. Our communities deserve better and we have to demand better. Now is the time to organize with us or organize with a group that is fighting for all of us.