We must acknowledge that young people from ‘underrepresented’ backgrounds respond well to positive role models with similar backgrounds.

Scene piece that goes deeper into research on PB in the US; countering interpretation of CLE politicians (& a solid read too) clevescene.com/news/why-cleve…

🚨Over the weekend Council leadership quietly proposed Ord. 1035-2023 for a vote TODAY. It would allow the City to spend public taxpayer dollars to run a private vote no campaign against participatory budgeting. It's a pure power grab that undermines public trust. I'm appalled.

Wait so Twitter really isn’t Twitter anymore 😳🤦🏽‍♀️

Now look.. We may disagree on participatory budgeting, but this policy is bad for Cleveland's future and the health of our democracy… like this just ain’t it..

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mobilize.us/pbcle/event/58…

I don’t have many moments where I feel particularly prescient, but damn if I didn’t call this. Straight out of the Kevin Kelly Fight For Fifteen playbook!

Celebrating indigenous loved ones, family, liberation, Mac and cheese, music, joy, greens w/ hot sauce and rest !!

Michelle ate though. That’s my tweet 🤷🏾‍♀️

A thread.

Guess I won’t be staying in any AirBnB anytime soon

Malcolm X, sixty years ago, from the Ballot or the Bullet. You do too much singing...not enough swinging

Professionals shouldn’t be doing “engagement” in neighborhoods they’re afraid to walk in, in my humble opinion. Reducing engagement to social media blasts and cdc outreach ensures the inequities persist.

“Because people are racist..”

And THIS is why we must continue to speak up.

Story here: signalcleveland.org/dispute-over-p…

After considering running elsewhere, Rebecca Maurer says she is sticking in Cleveland City Council's newly drawn Ward 5 — setting up a showdown with fellow incumbent Richard Starr.

It always seems impossible until it’s done - Nelson Mandela

"When you allow gun ownership, you're going to have gun deaths. There is a cost to liberty". - Charlie Kirk