School to Prison Pipeline meeting at Muhammad Ali Center
Sea of Violence - Discriminatory public policy left the West End of Louisville without jobs or adequate public transportation, when the alienated youth turned to street crime and gun violence, every public official wanted to be seen as being part of the solution. HERE
The Mass Psychology of Racism
A Reichian Analysis of Social Pathology
Fair Housing Analysis as an Inadequate’Apology for Slavery
West Louisville Ignored and
Juneteenth Apology
Poverty is the raw resource,
Crime is the extractable product and
Corrections is the value added process
Religious Leadership presiding over economic decline in West Louisville
School to Prison Pipeline:
Anthony D. Perry’s passion for justice brings
new light to Jefferson County Public Schools
‘zero tolerance’ policy and race disproportionate
academic suspensions
A West End History
Racist urban policy has kept the West End off balance HERE
Losing the West End
Since 1997, the transportation planning process eliminated fair consideration of transportation projects addressing the connectivity needs of the impoverished Title VI area.
April 4 Vacant Property Summit
-What it sounds like when a Mayor wants to spend public funds to catalyze neighborhood growth HERE
Vacant and Abandoned Property Policy is missing race disparate data and economic reinvestment in the west end HERE
Parkway Place Housing Unit
trapped by poverty and urban design - structural racism HERE
Social Justice and Urban Form
Billions of dollars in public funds are spent building infrastructure for doomed auto centric suburban centers outside the urban core while low income minorities are trapped in a declining ghetto dominated by joblessness and criminal markets.
Silent Crisis
Public policy neglect and the economic disinvestment in the West End leads to a SILENT CRISIS
Michelle Alexander
Michelle Alexander deconstructs the myths around disproportinate incarceration HERE
Louisville west end 2012
“And you know, my friends, there comes a time,” he cried, “when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July, and left standing amidst the piercing chill of an Alpine November . . . I want it to be known we are going to work with grim and bold determination –to gain justice on the buses of this city. And we are not wrong. We are not wrong in what we are doing. If we are wrong, the Supreme Court of this nation is wrong! If we are wrong God Almighty is wrong! If we are wrong–Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer and never came down to earth! If we are wrong– justice is a lie!. And we are determined here in Montgomery –to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream!”
Martin Luther King
quoted in “Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963” by Taylor Branch
Alternative media blogs
Urban Louisville
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Louisville Courant
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BadwaterJournal.com
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