"Black Developer Offers Community $30+ Million Opportunity to Own The Block"

Supporting the local? We are all about that!

Supporting local Black Business? Now your really talking our language!

The buzz about The Block has been popping up since this weekend when Juneteenth celebrations ensued in the city of Milwaukee.

As informed by a provided press release, Lavelle Young, Developer of the Martin Luther King Jr. Library Redevelopment Project announced the opportunity for community members “to pledge support and interest in participating in a community ownership model” of the project.

Young further commented that:
“It’s gruesome to turn on the TV and frequently see a Black man that looks like me, lynched. It’s even more nightmarish to live in a city that has consistently topped most, if not all, major cities as the worst place for Black people to live,” said Young. 

Are you ready to take the pledge?
To pledge your support and interest in participating in a community ownership model of The Block, visit buildingblocksinbronzeville.com 

/CW

Juneteenth Black Lives Matter Street Mural in MILWAUKEE

Many Street murals have been popping up around the country to express solidarity with the Black Lives Matter call to action. Today on this Juneteenth of 2020. Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs, invites our Milwaukee community to join Lead Artist Vedale Hill, in a Black Lives Matter community art mural.

We had a chance to talk to Vedale as he was preparing for todays Juneteenth event. Here is what he had to say:

“The Black Lives Matter Street Mural is a public art piece commissioned by the City of Milwaukee,  funded by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, supported by West Care and the local Walmart. I was selected as the Lead Artist to program and produce the mural with the help of other local artists. During these difficult times in our country, I feel that it is a necessity to help the community grow, while also understanding the beauty of the moment. As a long time advocate for community development, I believe that at this moment we are no longer knocking at changes door but instead, we are kicking it in. The location in its self is ideal because it serves as a double entendre of meaning. It is not only literally an intersection but is an intersection between the police and the community that they have taken an oath to serve.” 

As a local media outlet that is all about community and creative culture, we are proud to see a visual representation of the rhetoric we have always lived by. Please join and be apart of this historic event.

(Don’t forget your mask! #SociallyResponsible)

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

/Lexi, Editor-in-Chief CW

The 28th Amendment - Limiting Militant Infringement of Civilian Rights Bill

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PROPOSAL FRAMEWORK 

United States Constitutional Amendment 28 - Limited Militant-State

Militant Infringement of Civilian Rights Bill

Dismantle and reform all current militant and policing practices/policies within the United States of America, perpetuated by the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, and fortified by law enforcement departments and agencies, which infringement upon basic rights of growth, prosperity, and life, and are based on discrimination of ethnicity, wealth, gender, sex, or sexuality, physical or mental exceptionality, and citizenship. Enact new comprehensive laws that are uniformly practiced across all villages, cities, counties, and states, with no exceptions, which does not infringe upon states’ 10th Amendment Reserved Powers, but assures rights originally granted under the United States Constitution. New universal laws/policies to include without limitation:

 ● Dismantle all current militant policing practices/policies within the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other departments, reforming all agencies within these departments, especially but not limited to the Federal Protective Service (FPS). Enact new comprehensive laws/policies uniformly practiced across all villages, cities, counties, and states, including but not limited to:

1. Rewrite and reform current Use of Force Continuum Models, including but not limited to: De-escalation Stage, and ESCALATED Situations Stage. Reforms to be voted on.

2. Ban of excessive force and lethal force practices, including but not limited to: ban of No-knock entry, ban shooting with traditional guns, ban use of assault weapons, ban Shoot-to-kill practice, ban pepper spray, ban strangulation/chokeholds, ban tear gas, rubber bullets and tanks during civil protests, ban of any other weapons of opportunity (reforming Use of Force Continuum Models), and ban lethal force for security and protection of items, property, resources, and capital (cash or liquid assets).

3. De-escalation practices BEFORE ANY form of physical interaction (reform to be the first stage in Use of Force Continuum Model).

4. Force ONLY to be enacted in ESCALATED Situations (ESCALATED Situations practices to be tiered and voted on, reforming Use of Force Continuum Models).

5. Exhaust all prerequisite options available within the De-escalation Stage BEFORE using ESCALATED Situations Stage within reformed Use of Force Continuum Model.

6. ESCALATED Situations Stage in reformed Use Of Force Continuum Model to allow tasers and rubber bullets ONLY, and ONLY as last resorts due to lethality, tiering tasers use BEFORE rubber bullets.

7. Require warning BEFORE use of EACH stage/tier involving verbal force and physical force. 

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