WOTS WELCOMES NEW VENDOR PAYAM!

PAYAM
NEW VENDOR

 

 

WOTS WELCOMES NEW VENDOR NICK JONES!

Nick Jones
Vendor

 

WOTS NEW ISSUE HITS THE STREETS MONDAY JUNE 1O, 2013

Have you been on the edge of your seat waiting to read the newest Word on the Street? The new issue will be released this upcoming Monday June 10, 2013. Look for a vendor near you or call us at 443-686-9687 and we’ll find you one. Here’s a sneak peek at our cover:

WOTS VENDORS WILL BE AT HONFEST IN HAMPDEN THIS WEEKEND!!!!

DAMIEN HAUSSLING

SIDNEY BOND
Vendor

ELLIS BOLDING

TONY SIMMONS

WOTS VENDORS WILL BE AT HONFEST IN HAMPDEN THIS WEEKEND!!!!

LOOK FOR THESE VENDORS AND GET YOUR WORD ON THE STREET!

Mark Schumann
vendor

COREY BRIDGES
VENDOR

PAM HUGI IS WOTS NEW VENDOR COORDINATOR INTERN

PAM HUGI
WOTS VENDOR COORDINATOR INTERN

WORD ON THE STREET HAS OFFICE HOURS NOW!

WORD ON THE STREET HAS OFFICE HOURS NOW!

235 NORTH HOLLIDAY STREET

MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAYS FROM 9-11 AM

WILL BE EXPANDING HOURS ASAP.

COME CHECK IT OUT & GET INVOLVED

WE CAN HAVE ON OF OUR AWESOME VOLUNTEER STAFFERS MEET WITH YOU! CALL US AT  443-686-9687

 

 

WOTS VENDORS WILL BE AT CHARLES VILLAGE FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND!

BONNIE LANE

LOOK FOR BONNIE & MARK THERE!

Mark Schumann

UPCOMING NEED VOLUNTEERS FOR THE WOTS BBQ FOR THE HOMELESS

SATURDAY JULY 27TH

WOTS BBQ FOR THE HOMELESS

ALL HOMELESS PEOPLE ARE VIP INVITED!

11 AM TO 2PM

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL PARK

IF you are able to donate food or volunteer to help serve the homeless, please contact Bonnie Lane at 443-529-4437 or explosive7300@gmail.com

Senate Accepts Deal to Kick Formerly Incarcerated Off Food Benefits! Budget Cut to Watch for!

by Brentin Mock, Thursday, May 23 2013, 10:13 AM EST (Reprinted from Color Lines.com)

Yesterday, Sen. Vitter of Louisiana offered up an amendment to permanently drop anyone ever convicted of a violent crime from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). According to Robert Greenstein, president of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Democrats in the Senate obliged him. The amendment is for a farm bill, which is currently being debated in the Senate.

Says Greenstein:

The amendment would bar from SNAP (food stamps), for life, anyone who was ever convicted of one of a specified list of violent crimes at any time — even if they committed the crime decades ago in their youth and have served their sentence, paid their debt to society, and been a good citizen ever since. In addition, the amendment would mean lower SNAP benefits for their children and other family members.

So, a young man who was convicted of a single crime at age 19 who then reforms and is now elderly, poor, and raising grandchildren would be thrown off SNAP, and his grandchildren’s benefits would be cut. … Democrats accepted it without trying to modify it to address its most ill-considered aspects.

Two-thirds of SNAP recipients are children, elderly or the disabled, and two-fifths of SNAP households live below half the poverty line.

According to Greenstein, if this amendment ends up in the farm bill and passes, it would hit African Americans particularly hard:

Given incarceration patterns in the United States, the amendment would have a skewed racial impact. Poor elderly African Americans convicted of a single crime decades ago by segregated Southern juries would be among those hit.

Sen. Vitter is claiming that his amendment is only aimed at preventing those convicted of violent crimes from obtaining benefits, apparently under the logic that stripping them of what may be their only form of income assistance will lead to less violence

MAYOR’S HOUSING DEMOLITION PLAN DISPLACING! Will it create more HOMELESSNESS?

 

MAYOR’S HOUSING DEMOLITION PLAN DISPLACING

Dozens of Baltimore City residents will soon have to find a new place to live because their homes will be demolished. The demolition is part of the mayor’s 10 year plan to get rid of the thousands of abandoned buildings in the city. 

Using the power of Eminent Domain, the city will tear down 1,500 homes in 11 neighborhoods around the city. While most of the homes are abandoned, 80 of them are occupied by home owners or renters. 

Everett Whitley has spent the past decade fixing up his home, but within the next year he will be forced to leave and his home will be demolished. His entire block will be a grass field. 

“I would like to keep it, but I guess I just have to let it go,” said Whitley. 

City officials say the project will take residents out of unsafe conditions, but for some, they say it’s taking them out of the only real home they’ve come to know.

http://foxbaltimore.com/news/features/top-stories/stories/mayors-housing-demolition-plan-displacing-residents-19834.shtml?app_data=%7B%22pi%22%3A%22519cc0e5df0a5c230300000c%22%2C%22pt%22%3A%22wall%22%7D#.UZzUi-v43Ir

(REPRINTED FROM FOX NEWS mAY 22, 2013)