{"id":188,"date":"2018-04-30T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/?page_id=188"},"modified":"2018-05-18T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T18:48:09","slug":"grassroots-organizing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/grassroots-organizing\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots Organizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Local Grassroots<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Baltimore Racial Justice Action<\/strong> is a network of activists working toward racial equality through social and economic transformation. One of the organization\u2019s leading initiatives \u201cWhat the Funding\u201d, working specifically to address the inequality of school funding through a racial lens. <a href=\"http:\/\/bmoreantiracist.org\/\">http:\/\/bmoreantiracist.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Baltimoreans for Educational Equity (BEE)<\/strong> is a coalition of teachers, parents, students and community members working together to achieve educational equity. The group constantly adapts and morphs dependent on the particular issue at hand, including segregation. <a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beequity.org\/\">http:\/\/www.beequity.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_214\" style=\"width: 596px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-image-214 \" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2018\/05\/DYCPJg4XkAERhbi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2018\/05\/DYCPJg4XkAERhbi.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2018\/05\/DYCPJg4XkAERhbi-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2018\/05\/DYCPJg4XkAERhbi-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2018\/05\/DYCPJg4XkAERhbi-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2018\/05\/DYCPJg4XkAERhbi-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/209\/2018\/05\/DYCPJg4XkAERhbi-624x342.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/beequity<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Teachers\u2019 Democracy Project<\/strong> works to provide equity in teacher distribution throughout Baltimore, notably through their Black Teachers Matter movement. They also work to implement what they label their \u201cBaltimore Grassroots Curriculum\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdpbaltimore.org\/\">http:\/\/www.tdpbaltimore.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Orita\u2019s Cross Freedom School<\/strong> is a youth development program focused on increasing academic achievement of black youths and empowering them to take on social change. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oritascross.com\/\">http:\/\/www.oritascross.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Grassroots Baltimore Racial Justice Action is a network of activists working toward racial equality through social and economic transformation. One of the organization\u2019s leading initiatives \u201cWhat the Funding\u201d, working specifically to address the inequality of school funding through a racial lens. http:\/\/bmoreantiracist.org\/ Baltimoreans for Educational Equity (BEE) is a coalition of teachers, parents, students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-188","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2018-sscaplan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}