Community Real Talk

Open Letter To Dr. Sacoby Wilson and the Heinz Family Foundation This open letter is issued on behalf of the Brandywine/TB Southern Region Neighborhood Coalition, known as BTB Coalition, and the residents whose lived experience, documentation, organizing, legal advocacy, and public-health concerns helped establish Brandywine as a defining environmental-justice case in Maryland. We write regarding the public narrative surrounding Dr. Sacoby Wilson’s environmental-justice work,

Eight Years of Representation Require More Than a First Public Statement Your recent public comments regarding data centers have been praised by some as a “lesson in leadership.” From the perspective of Brandywine and Southern Region residents who have lived with the consequences of industrial concentration, environmental harm, infrastructure neglect and top-down development decisions throughout your eight years in office, that characterization requires a serious reality chec

"Doomed to Slaughter." When the Prince George's County NAACP Chapter letter endorsed by Mr. Bob Ross contrary to National NAACP in support of heavy pollutant industry in a Black neighborhood for a second time being presented at the DSP-19008 MNCPP-C hearing on July 18, 2019* (ref: bottom of page); Amazon as tenants of Duke Reality Merchandise Logistics Center at Westphalia we where flabbergasted by Déjà vu… diesel truck traffic, disproportionate health risks, environmental im

Community interests not represented in most legislative bills that affect constituents that have elected these officials to "SERVE" us...

Parachuting and Exploritation of Brandywine Wednesday, May 24, 2017 This is a long read and this is not the half of it... there's much...

Prince George's County, and Brandywine MD the hot topic for the pimping healthnologist. We suddenly need to talk about the unhealthiness...

Pimpologer is the Professional who makes it there business to pimp the disparity hosting communities of color be it black or white. Want...

Who Let the Elephant in the Room? Analyzing Race and Racism through a worldview shaped by ones own racial identity that informs their...

The depths to which the environmental justice movement is being whitewashed and the way in which it is framed in general to "all",...

Don’t let political correctness shut you up. Focus on the Debate, Not The Debator (or: An Argument Is Not A Fight) it is remiss to ignore...

The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the “issues” they work to address. These nonprofit...

“A fly in a bowl of milk”. It’s important to create communities that are free of oppressive social relations. The history continues of...

Aspire Power in Unifiyng & Solidarity. In my adversity and struggles in hopes to "Change the Wind" decided to blog for someone in hopes...

The environmental justice movement has highlighted not only the unequal distribution of environmental hazards across lines of race and...

Slanderous defamatory assertions made in an email sent by Bill Cavitt, the IHHAAC, President in 2013. "He who throws dirt always loses...