30 10 291 https://streetvibesarchive.net/files/original/9c8e8db7a9de4265d1ab956681b3cda1.pdf 2925a4754f0fa538354a16a5d8497556 PDF Text Text September 8th - September 21st 2017 | Vol. 20 Issue 45 (No. 364) advocating justice | Building community Cincinnati's Crisis Mode | 5 This issue sponsored by The Economics of Compassion Initiative INSIDE THIS ISSUE The Corrupting Effect of Slavery | 7 Religious Peacemakers: Imam Ismaeel Chartier| 8 The Jubilee Campaign | 9 Dark Skies, Dark Money, Dark Intentions| 3 Find previous issues of Streetvibes online at: cincistreetvibes.org Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition 113 E. 12th Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 streetvoice | 13 �2 LOCAL From The Director: Safety vs. Comfort S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 | N o . 36 4 JOSH SPRING Is being uncomfortable the same thing as being unsafe? Let’s say you are at a neighborhood meeting and you hear a report that attention needs to be given to turn a block from unsafe to safe. You ask how it is known to be unsafe. You are told that there have been many reports of safety issues in that block. You ask what are those reports. You are told that people are reporting they don’t want to walk down that block because they feel unsafe because there is always a group of people hanging around on the sidewalk and stoops. You hear that people feel unsafe because when they walk down the sidewalk they have to walk past a line of people standing on both sides. And another person adds that they are often asked for money on this block. Some say Executive Director the people hanging out are loud with loud music, etc. Now, think about it, does anything in the above description show that this particular block is unsafe? There is no mention of anything that could reasonably harm another person. Instead folks are just hanging out talking, eating, dancing, listening to music, singing, having serious conversation, goofing around, asking for assistance, offering assistance, saying hello, saying nothing; this list could go on forever because in this example people are simply hanging out doing the social things that people do. For reasons related to systems, assumptions, prejudices, ignorance, etc., this person doesn’t feel comfortable around whomever it is they are passing. This level of discomfort may lead to being afraid, and perhaps their first feeling is a lack of safety, but their being afraid in a situation like this should not lead to pressure on this block to change, but instead for certainly self-reflection and ultimately systematic changes to prevent the systematic prejudices which taught them to be afraid in such situations. In other cases, people are conflating the meanings of the words unsafe and uncomfortable. Essentially just because a person interprets an event a certain way or has a certain feeling during such an event, that does not mean their feeling or the way they define their feeling is (Continued on page 6) T 113 East 12th St. Cincinnati OH, 45202 Ph: 513.421.7803 FAX: 513.421.7813 WEB: www.cincihomeless.org BLOG: streetvibes.wordpress.com EMAIL: streetvibes@cincihomeless.org Editor: Justin Jeffre Community Issues Forum Kicks Off Its 37th Season - Making the Case For an Affordable Housing Trust Fund he Community Issues Forum kicks off its 37th season of forums on Thursday September 14th. Sponsored by the Outreach Committee of Christ Church Cathedral, the Forum features presentations on critical community and public policy issues every other Thursday at noon from September to June. The opener on September 14th will showcase a proposal to establish a new public resource for addressing Cincinnati's affordable housing crisis. Drafted and championed by Cincinnatians for Affordable Housing, a coalition of organizations concerned about this issue, the proposed housing trust fund would provide needed financing to create housing for low-income families and individuals. Forum speakers Josh Spring, Executive Director of the Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless, and Katy Heins, representing the Center For Community Change, will describe how the trust fund would operate while also depicting the potential importance of such a local entity. The establishment of a trust fund in Cincinnati comes at an appropriate time. This area confronts an affordable housing crisis with a shortage of approximately 40,000 units. This shortage stems from a steady loss of federal housing dollars Streetvibes is an activist newspaper, advocating justice and building community. Streetvibes reports on economic issues, civil rights, the environment, the peace movement, spirituality and the struggle against homelessness and poverty. 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BILL WOODS Contributing Writer Executive Director: Josh Spring Director of Development: Mona Jenkins Director of Education: Dr. Mark Mussman Distributor Program Manager: Justin Jeffre Layout: Key Beck Reception: Larry Johnson, Anne Evans Maintenance: Pete Roper ----------------------------------------------CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE Writers: Josh Spring, Bill Woods, Key Beck, Dr. Mark Mussman, Justin Jeffre, Michael Earl Patton, Saad Ghosn, Peter Block, Bobby Morris, Robert Park, Kim Green, Willa Denise Jones ----------------------------------------------- Housing Trust Fund One-Pager Credit: Affordable Housing Advocates (ahacincy.org) over the years, the gentrification of neighborhoods such as Overthe-Rhine, and growing income inequality. Housing trust funds already work effectively in many U.S cities, and Katy Heins of the Center (Continued on page 12) THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED Photography/ Artwork: Dr. Mark Mussman, Michael Earl Patton, ahacincy.org, Paul Breidenbach, Saad Ghosn, Bill Woods, google images, cnn.com, Alice Shneider --------------------------------------------------Thank You For Reading Streetvibes And Supporting Our Mission To Build Community And Advocate Justice. Streetvibes and The Greater Cincinnati Coalition for the Homeless do not endorse candidates for public office. �No. 36 4 L LOCAL Dark Skies, Dark Money, Dark Intentions | S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 ike most folx these days, I get my first breath of news information through Facebook, Snapchat and other forms of social media. There is nothing that gets my feed moving faster than a natural disaster. First it was Hurricane Harvey that ravaged parts of Houston and now it is Hurricane Irma approaching the east coast. Along with news of natural disasters, I get advertisements from national companies where a portion of my purchase is donated, webdonation requests from NGO’s and famous people giving me tips for “helping out” those in need. This is not going to be a piece about coming together or giving to those who need it (although you should be doing both of those things). It is going to be about disaster capitalism. According to Wikipedia, disaster capitalism “centers on the exploitation of national crises to push through controversial policies while citizens are too emotionally and physically distracted by disasters or upheavals to mount an effective resistance.” What I would like to add to this definition is the act of using terror and compassion to push social issues, sustain business agreements and further personal agendas. Why is disaster capitalism a problem and how do we recognize it? The concept of disaster capitalism was explored in the book, “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” by Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein. Naomi Klein shares how the neoliberal free market (think capitalism, "corporations are people," manifest destiny, bootstraps) has developed strategies of using “shock therapy” to push policies taking advantage of citizens while they are in shock from the disaster. An example of disaster capitalism is the using of one’s country being at war to encourage folx to go 3 KEY BECK Contributing Writer shopping; promoting the fallacy that spending money helps the country win the war by allowing our military to have more funds to buy weapons, equipment and goods. They then package the process as a “helpful” form of nationalism, so people feel they are “helping” by spending their money because countries are usually economically strapped during wartime. If we apply my additional definition, disaster capitalism also to be respected and rebranded (as altright) in response to the (percieved) danger of black liberation groups, like Black Lives Matter. Look, this is something many of us have seen, but didn’t have a name or term to describe it. Well, now you do and let me tell you why it is not a good thing. When people experience disasters, they are usually in a state of shock so they don’t always make the best decisions. They are easily Naomi Klein describes the ways disasters are monetized and used to further politcs Credit: Google encompasses using terrorist attacks on the US as an excuse to pass oppressive laws like Muslim bans/ travel bans or allow white supremacy influenced and can be influenced with the right stimulus. We also have a human yearning to support others to get to a place of happiness, mostly Reporter interviewing distressed flood victim Credit: CNN THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED Key Beck Credit: Dusty Changepurse due to altruism. When one is faced with fear and terror, they don’t always react rationally. If we continually see someone shooting up heroin on our doorstep, and one day they die on our stoop, we may forget that everyone has a different story or reason why they engage in drug usage. We may take a “No Drugs” policy to things and began to criminalize the behavior. We may be very quick to support arresting those addicted to opiates without thinking that maybe if there was more affordable housing, rehabilitation centers, needle exchanges and employment services there may be less people who are susceptible to opioid drug usage or dying on the streets. This example shows how disaster capitalism, when left unchecked, is a bad thing. We don’t want to throw our economic strength into things that won’t work to solve the problems we are experiencing. Going to war or banning a ethnic group of people are not knee-jerk decisions to be making. So, what does this have to do with Hurricane Harvey. Well, we have organizations such as Red Cross who use this opportunity, like a impromptu-telethon, to gain donations. They are often the most visible organization, but there are many people on the ground who say they don’t really do much to help. For all the donations they receive, they have been criticized for driving empty trucks around, only sending a few agents or not even showing up. There are a number of these organizations who pop up in times of tragedy. Megachurches have currently been in the spotlight for the insensitivity shown when Joel Osteen declined to let residents stay in his megachurch because it was "affected by the flood" (even though there was photographic evidence that showed the opposite). Now he is leading a campaign to collect funds, clothes and food to distribute to residents. They are using one’s willingness to support others for their personal economic gain (this is part of capitalism/neoliberalism). Another shocking example of disaster capitalism is how news organizations will interview people in trauma to garner ratings. There are any number of poor, black folk (Continued on page 11) �4 LOCAL THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 | N o . 36 4 �No. 36 4 LOCAL Cincinnati’s Crisis Mode | S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 DR. MARK MUSSMAN H ave you ever woken up refreshed after a night’s rest? Are you able to leave work and picture the door “closed” and not think about it at all while you are home? Are you able to pay your rent on the first of every month without worrying about bouncing your check? Do you have the food you want in your kitchen, when you want it? What if you were constantly worried about these things with no hope for change? You’d be in a state of crisis. The world in which we live thrives on crisis. Educational theorists believe that there are a series of “crisis” events that we must pass through to get to new stages in our development. A crisis literally changes our brains to where we have options to reject, accept, or assimilate Staff Writer the exception. Having to figure out what and where you are going to eat (if at all), or where you are going to sleep, or if you can even sleep because you are so stressed out, is more than stressful – as Streetvibes Distributor Willa Jones, poet and writer, explains in her poem “Intoxication,” you can be intoxicated without taking a drink because your mind is so preoccupied with survival that it’s impossible to think clearly. How can you think about tomorrow when your basic needs aren’t met today? And this type of crisis-thinking isn’t limited to people experiencing homelessness. Housing, which seems like it should be a basic right, is both fragile and continuously contested. According to a recent LISC study, of us fighting with our neighbors. And we have a wider crisis in Cincinnati – racism – which negatively affects us all. In the study The State of Black Cincinnati, released a couple of years ago, it showed that the reality for people of color in Cincinnati is so far removed from that of white Cincinnati, that there’s no surprise white people have no clue on the experience of people of color in this city. People of color have severely lower health and education outcomes, but more shockingly (because America is touted as a meritocracy) upward mobility for people of color in Cincinnati simply doesn’t exist. There is no path out of poverty for thousands upon thousands of Cincinnati’s residents. No path at all. Until we start to recognize the fact success of people of color.) We must start to recognize structural violence, which, to me, is a continuation of redlining, Jim Crow, and ultimately slavery. As a city we, including what seems to be the business community in Cincinnati, haven’t moved on from white supremacy. It would be a huge step to get everyone to recognize that we have created, and actively maintain, a crisis of immense proportions. If I had all the answers I wouldn’t be open to learning and seeing more. I do know that we must create a more stable and fair community. Affordable Housing Advocates, a local group of housing providers, advocates and consumers dedicated to the goal of ensuring good, safe, accessible, affordable housing for all people in Southwest Ohio, is working vigilantly on a housing trust fund which will help create and preserve affordable housing in Cincinnati. We hope to get the county to start a Willa with student group Willa Jones holds up a recent edition of Streetvibes for a Facebook post Credit: Dr. Mark Mussman Credit: Dr. Mark Mussman our new found perspective. It is at times very daunting, but we generally get through the crisis and have a chance to decompress, celebrate our failures (or successes), and move on to something else. But, for people experiencing homelessness and poverty, crisis mode is the norm, not O 5 55,000 families are trying to get into 15,000 units of affordable housing in Hamilton County. We are, whether or not you recognize it in your daily life, in a community-wide crisis. We are in a severe housing crisis that benefits only a very few wealthy land-owners and developers, while leaving the rest that white people have all the chances and privileges in this city, and we begin to understand how much that holds ALL OF US back, then we will continue to demonize and scapegoat the downtrodden, while falsely celebrating our successes (which were violently pulled from the potential Cincinnatians Protest the Repeal of DACA n Tuesday September 5th nearly 200 people gathered on 3rd Street to protest the announcement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the Trump administration was canceling DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Speakers included Councilmember P.G. Sittenfield, Yvette Simpson, Clerk of Courts Aftab Pureval and local JUSTIN JEFFRE Editor & Staff Writer activists. The event was attended by City Council candidates Tamaya Dennard and Brian Garry. The Greater Cincinnati Republican representatives backed the policy change. Former President Barack Obama - in a rare move for Protesters gather for Pro-DACA rally Credit: Paul Breidenbach former Presidents - spoke out against the administration’s decision. -------------------------------------- THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED program as well. If you want to learn more about the Affordable Housing Trust Fund, please go to ahacincy.org and read the white paper: The City of Cincinnati Affordable Housing Trust Fund Operations – Summary. --------------------------------------- �6 LOCAL JOSH SPRING (Continued from page 2) actually an accurate description of the event. This is not a trivial issue. It is a common occurrence that cops harass people based on the description of how someone else (usually someone who is white) felt in an area or around specific people, when nothing unsafe actually happened. It is a regular occurrence that a developer says they want to make an area safe, when there are not regular occurrences of unsafe happenings, but some people (who don’t live right there) believe it is unsafe because they here that people say it is unsafe. Consider the city budget debates over what politician cares more about public safety and the many people saying public safety YOU CAN SUPPORT THE S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 | N o . 36 4 must be first above all else. What have each of these people meant by the word safety? Often, if you really broke it down, they were really talking about people like themselves feeling comfortable. Here is a caveat to this: people experience and struggle with mental illness. There are times that people because of mental illness feel unsafe and afraid in what are reasonably considered safe situations for most other people. 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GC_HomelessCoal THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED GCHomelessCoalition �LOCAL The Corrupting Effect of Slavery No. 36 4 U 7 | S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 MICHAEL EARL PATTON ntil Hurricane Harvey, the news media was focused on the confrontations surrounding statues and other memorials of Confederate soldiers. Everyone – I hope -agrees that the Southern institution of hereditary slavery was an evil for those unfortunate to be enslaved. Those who want to keep the statues often skirt the question as to why this country has so many memorials to those who fought to keep slaves by denying that the War Between the States (better known as the Civil War) had much to do with slavery at all. They argue instead that the war was fought on the issues of state rights, federal power grabs, and import tariffs This is well-reasoned balderdash, a subject to which I may return in another article. Right now I want to focus on the corrosive effect of owning slaves often had on the slave owners. Many observers recognized this at the time, but it is little mentioned now. If somehow a slave owner were to rationalize “owning” other humans in order to exploit their labor, even breaking up their families by selling the members to different owners in order to make more money, then something is very wrong morally with that person. Sometimes slave owners themselves would recognize this, however dimly and imperfectly, and act. Others would sink deeper into the morass. I want to explore this and give some examples. We cannot assume that those who fought to preserve slavery, no matter how brave, were somehow free of its corrupting influence. At the time of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776 all the states allowed slavery. In fact, most of the signers themselves owned slaves. By 1787 several states had banned slavery, having recognized the inherent contradiction between fighting a war because “all men are created equal …” and that “… they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” and slavery. A couple other states were moving towards outlawing it and would eventually do so. However, none of the southern states were moving in that direction. George Washington is one of those who came to reject slavery as being incompatible with the founding principles of the American Revolution. Not only did he quietly free some slaves during his lifetime, in his will he directed that his remaining slaves be freed upon the death of his wife, Martha. But most Contributing Writer slaves at Mount Vernon were owned by his wife, where they formed part of her dower property; this being property given to a bride to sustain her if she were to be widowed. These slaves passed directly to Martha’s in the South, he encountered a black man who had been kidnapped in the North and brought south to be sold under the pretense that he was really an escaped slave. He also relates how slave families were broken up to be sold and the reverse: how men and women were sometimes paired by Slave Pen displayed at Underground Railroad Freedom Center Credit: Michael Earl Patton heirs upon her death. Martha did not even free her own half-sister Ann. (Ann was finally freed by Martha’s granddaughter when she inherited the slave.) Slave-owner Thomas Jefferson saw the problem, too. In his book Notes on the State of Virginia he wrote that, “The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.” And while the young Jefferson would argue for the eventual abolition of slavery, the older Jefferson would not free his own slaves even when offered money to do so. It appears that the temptations of money and power were too much. Notoriously, Jefferson had several children by his slave mistress Sally Hemmings, whom he kept as slaves until adulthood when he would allow them to escape – never formally freeing them, however. And even in his will he did not free Sally Hemmings (his daughter eventually freed her). Cincinnati’s Levi Coffin was one of the busiest “conductors” of the Underground Railroad and wrote a book about his experiences. He relates how, as a child growing up “Breakdown Stereotypes” their owners regardless of what they themselves wanted. He observed how slavery would corrode the values of the community and gave this example from when he was in Yazoo City, Mississippi: That evening, while sitting on the sidewalk, under the awning, talking to the hotel-keeper, two colored ladies passed by us, dressed in rich silks, and adorned with jewelry. I said to the hotel-keeper: “I suppose that those persons are free?” “No,” he replied, “they are both slaves, but are kept as mistresses by two of our wealthy merchants.” “I asked: “Is such a state of society permitted here?” He answered, “Oh, yes; most of our merchants, and other gentlemen of wealth and high standing, keep such women. The practice is quite common in our community.” He then spoke of a wealthy gentleman living a few miles out of town, who had a wife and a family of children. He owned several plantations, and on one of them he kept a black wife, who had several children. “And does his white wife know it?” I asked. “Yes,” was the reply, but she can’t help it, and I don’t think she makes any fuss about it. One of his colored sons is his carriage driver. That gentleman stands fair in this community.” The last story I give is from Mrs. Trollope’s book, Domestic Manners of the Americans, published in 1832. Mrs. Trollope, who spent 2 years in Cincinnati (where she encountered numerous pigs) then went East and traveled there. She visited several small farms in Maryland with only a few slaves and how few of the “comforts of life” the slave owners generally had. She tells of one family consisting of a young man, his wife, two children, a female slave, and two young boys who were also slaves. Their home was small, only 2 rooms. She noted that the wife would not work in the kitchen, leaving the work to her slave. The food Mrs. Trollope was served was plain and much worse than what she had had at small dairy farms in England. The “dignity” of having her cup handed to her by a slave did not make up for the difference in the quality of the food. Of course, anytime one has absolute power over others there will be the temptation to abuse it, whether or not the person is called a slave. In the twentieth century one only has to think of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, among many others. The Bible contains numerous passages restricting the abuse of authority against servants and slaves, and against anyone for that matter. Jesus rebuked many of the Pharisees, saying that they laid heavy burdens on people’s shoulders but not lifting a finger to move them. The ancient world was one where even most “free” people were ruled by absolute kings and emperors. John the Baptist told the soldiers who came to him not to practice extortion or falsely accuse anyone (Luke 3:14). As Lord Acton observed, power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Jesus also compared the Pharisees to whitewashed tombs which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of bones and filth (Matthew 23:27). We need to be careful about honoring those men who fought to preserve such an abusive and corrupting system as slavery. Sources: The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789 by Edward J. Larson (copyright 2014), Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek (2012), Hidden Cities: The Discovery and Loss of Ancient North American Civilization by Roger G. Kennedy (1994), Reminiscences of Levi Coffin: The Reputed President of the Underground Railroad by Levi Coffin (1876), and Domestic Manners of the Americans by Mrs. Francis Trollope (1832). ------------------------------------------- “Eradicate Misinformation” The Coalition for the Homeless provides Education and Service Programs that help to portray a more accurate and holistic picture of homelessness in Cincinnati. We believe an educated public can be a more compassionate public, willing to dedicate time and effort towards creating solutions to homelessness. The “Voice of the Homeless Speaker’s Bureau” program is made up of individuals currently experiencing homelessness or who have experienced homelessness, who share their experiences. The program is designed to put a face on homelessness and raise awareness about those struggling in our community. To schedule a speaker, contact Dr. Mark Mussman at MarkMussman@cincihomeless.org. THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED �8 RELIGIOUS PEACEMAKERS Worshiper & Servant of God: Imam Ismaeel Chartier Is also a Servant & Liberator of God's Creations "T o serve God properly we need to serve His creations and make sure they have freedom and a life worth living; otherwise we're not doing our work as religious individuals," says Imam Ismaeel Chartier, adding: "In Islam, God commands us to join good versus evil, to side with the oppressed and those in need, to always push justice through and stand against injustice." Imam Chartier is the Imam of the Clifton Mosque in Cincinnati, a mosque that serves the local Muslim community while remaining open and welcoming to all. Raised Catholic in his native Ireland, he came to the United States (Denver, Colorado) at the age of 17 when his father relocated for professional reasons. After college and going through a personal spiritual search, questioning his relation to God and what religion meant to him, he discovered Islam, studied it, deepened his understanding of it, and converted to it. He joined Cincinnati three years ago, chosen by the board of directors of the Clifton mosque to serve as its spiritual leader. Imam Chartier's upbringing was engrained all along in social justice. As a child growing up in Belfast, his grandparents constantly reminded him to fight, until independence, the English occupation of Ireland. When seeing freedom fighters on television, his grandfather, himself a member of the IRA, would praise them, commenting that they were fighting for people's freedom and liberation. His grandfather would also praise, for the same reasons, the Palestinian Liberation and American Civil Rights movements, comparing the plight of Palestinians resisting the occupation and of African Americans fighting the injustice of the Jim Crow laws to that of the Irish people trying to be free. "I was raised with the ideas that freedom for me meant also for all the others, anywhere and everywhere," S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 | N o . 36 4 SAAD GHOSN Contributing Writer states the Imam, "and that I was equally responsible for both." In college, Imam Chartier studied journalism and sociology and spent 2 years in Egypt researching a master's degree thesis in Near East studies. This initiated him to the Arabic language. Back to Denver, Colorado, he met his wife, also a Catholic Christian, and got married. Dealing, however, intensely, with the issue of his religious identity, after serious consideration and study, he felt Islam to be the most in tune with his values and beliefs and decided to convert to it. His wife fully approved and followed suit few days later. One year after, Imam Chartier, dissatisfied with the approach to Islam he was experiencing in the US, and wanting to demystify the perceptions Americans had of Muslims and of Islam in general, decided to become an Imam. And there he went, accompanied by his wife, on a 7 yeartrip to Muslim countries, including Egypt, Morocco, UAE, Kuwait, India, studying the Coran in Arabic, learning from scholars and spiritual leaders at their feet, obtaining permission to teach at his turn. In 2009, at his return to the US, he worked for a short while at the Colorado Muslim Society in Denver, then joined a 3rd space mosque where everyone, irrespective of who he/she was, was welcome to freely worship God, with no formality and a liberal rather than literal understanding, connecting back to the spiritual essence of Islam, also to others. This mosque became very popular and attracted all kinds of people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike. "This is the kind of Mosque I would like to grow in Cincinnati," he says. While in Denver, Imam Chartier got involved in many social justice issues, supporting environmental What is ISLAM Islam is a faith and a comprehensive way of life that literally means "peace through submission to God." Muslims worship the One God, Allah, and revere Prophet Muhammad as His last messenger. They also believe in all the prophets who preceded and the holy books which they brought, such as the Psalms, Torah, and the Gospel. Islam believes in the Day of Judgement, when all humanity will be recompensed for their deeds in this world; also in angels, and in predestination. Islam has Five Pillars of Worship which enable Muslims to cultivate their relationship with God. They are: Testimony of Faith (Shahadah); Prayer (Salat); Charity (Zakat); Fasting (Sawm); and Pilgrimage (Hajj).  There are between 1,2 and 1,6 billion Muslims across the world and around 7 million Muslims in the United States. movements, working actively to repeal mandatory sentencing for juvenile offenders, helping pass a wage theft law to protect fair pay for minorities, refugees and undocumented workers. One of his big achievements there was helping found, and get the Colorado Senate to endorse, a new taxi company owned and operated by immigrants. These later thus became free from the enslavement other taxi companies were keeping them under. Imam Ismaeel Chartier Since his arrival to Cincinnati 3 years ago, Imam Chartier has been constantly involved in many local and national social justice and peace issues. He is part of the Palestinian Coalition Liberation, the Black Lives Matter and the American Indian movements, participating in their activities, supporting their rights, offering his Mosque to facilitate their events, making sure their voice is heard. When Sam Dubose was killed, he worked actively at pursuing justice. He recently married 2 leaders of Black Lives Matter, both nonMuslim. "33% of our congregation are African Americans or Africans," he précises, "and 25% of Muslims living in America are undocumented workers. Our community consists mostly of blacks, refugees, immigrants... I personally strongly identify with them." He is currently working on the cases of 2 Christian women, one from Kenya, the other from Lebanon, both threatened with deportation despite having lived in the US for more than 20 years. Actually, he has made the Clifton Mosque the 1st and only mosque in America and the West to be a sanctuary congregation, offering refuge for such individuals. Imam Chartier wants his mosque, its members and Muslims in general to reach out to their entire community, become socially and politically engaged, create bridges wherever they are and with everyone. During the recent presidential election campaign, he went on a 6-city tour in Ohio, encouraging Muslims to vote. After the Orlando shooting, he was the emcee of a vigil on Fountain Square stressing that not all Muslims were violent. With the support of Jonathan Cohen, Credit: Saad Ghosn dean of Hebrew Union College, he started there a Muslim-Jewish interfaith service and is planning, on the ground of the College, a Muslim theological seminary, the 1st such located one in history. He recently invited youth from Temple Shalom to visit the mosque and teach its own youth Hebrew. He is in constant exchange and dialogue with many of the local Christian churches and congregations and serves on the National Organizing board of PICO, a national network of faith-based community organizations, which try to create innovative solutions to problems communities face. "I am always trying to shatter the negative image people have of Muslims," he states, "shattering the boxes people build around Islam, but also the boxes we build around our own selves." Imam Chartier believes not only in being an active part of the community but also in giving back to it. His mosque operates a food pantry, offers every Sunday 140 free meals to the homeless, and during the month of Ramadan, 400 free meals a night to anyone in the community. (Continued on page 11) Religious Peacemakers is a regular column highlighting Greater Cincinnati individuals who use their faith and religious beliefs for peace and justice. Saad.Ghosn@uc.edu is the founder of SOS (Save Our Souls) Art, an organization that promotes arts as vehicles for peace and justice and for a change. THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED �9 LOCAL Welcome to the Jubilee Campaign and the Economics of Compassion Initiative No. 36 4 | S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 A JUSTIN JEFFRE s the Editor of Streetvibes it is my great pleasure to announce a new series that we will be featuring regularly in our publication. This series will contain writings from the Economics of Compassion Initiative. The goal of the campaign is to challenge the way our community thinks about all of those among us I Editor & Staff Writer who are experiencing poverty and the ways we measure the value of our fellow human beings. In Hubert H. Humphrey’s final speech, he said, “The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life; the sick, the needy and the handicapped. " Here at the Greater Cincinnati Homeless Coalition we believe that poverty and homelessness are not inevitable. They are systemic issues created by the decisions made by The Jubilee Campaign n Cincinnati there is an Economics of Compassion Initiative which seeks a local economy that serves, and is measured by, the well-being of all of its citizens. Central to this effort is the Old Testament idea of a Jubilee Year. Every seven years and every seven times seven years the debts are released and the land is restored to its rightful owners. Historically this includes resting the land, gleaning of the harvest, and forgiving the debts of the poor. We want to bring into modern day economics. Jubilee and an Alternative Consciousness As a culture we have constructed the idea of poor and poverty to falsely describe certain people. As if a person can be measured by their annual income, housing status, education level and their ability to shop a lot. We sustain poverty by believing that these measures best describe who our neighbors are. We describe our neighbors according to these measures because our current economy is by nature competitive, individualistic, selfinterested, best privatized, and blessed with an invisible hand. If you don’t have money then there is something missing in you. One label we use to keep you in your place in this culture begins the moment we call you "poor". This is the code for one who cannot fully participate in the dominant economy. As "poor," we consider you broken and in need of fixing, mentoring, subsidy, and programmatic intervention. The Jubilee idea, central to a compassionate economy, calls us to get interested in what people are good at. People cannot be defined by their income level. A human being is much more than their income level. They are better defined by the gifts, their capacity to care for others and what they can actually do in the world. Jubilee and the Consumer Economy We want to use this column to explore the Jubilee idea and the campaign we are starting in Cincinnati to tilt the economic system towards the common good and end the exiling effects of the current PETER BLOCK Contributing Writer market system. Jubilee in the Old Testament declares that “In the seventh year, all are equal, and this is the real essence of peace." The Israelites had economic its rightful owners every forty nine years. Our intent with the Jubilee Campaign is to take this seriously and make it happen here. The Jubilee task is to engage and explore this landscape of sacred obligation. It is a project of human beings and that they can be eradicated by the decisions of our fellow human beings. We believe that our community has the resources to uplift the downtrodden and underserved. We simply need the will. [These articles can also be found at thrivingcincinnati.org] --------------------------------------communal enterprise, for many an expression of faith and religion that commands attention and generosity. The campaign is to create a local coalition in Cincinnati of the faith community, neighborhood leadership, philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, government, corporations, and social service institutions to support debt release and support expanded Economics of Compassion Initiative logo Credit: The Economics of Compassion Initiative laws which called for forgiveness and freedom from financial debts every 7 years and returning the land to consciousness and imagination first, commitment later. It is not as simple as forgiving debt; it is a way of beginning a conversation that is a Peter Block Credit: The Economics of Compassion Initiative THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED local economic productivity to several vulnerable neighborhoods in Cincinnati. We want to create conditions under which forgiving the debts of neighbors, welcoming them in from exile, and investing in their productive capacity becomes a common task and a common purpose. Action Towards this end, we are conducting a series of Jubilee Forums. These are two hour events every six weeks that bring together a wide range of citizens; business, social service, faith and neighborhood people, to deepen our understanding of Jubilee. These Forums feature ministers, rabbis and Islamic leaders, projects in the city that are examples of valuing the gifts of neighbors. We also hear from residents from marginalized neighborhoods who are engaged in building small businesses. Eventually we will discuss the usury, credit and debt in our neighborhoods. [To find out more information about the Jubilee campaign go to www.econofcompassion.org] --------------------------------------- �10 LOCAL S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 | N o . 36 4 September 8 - 30, 2017 For tickets please call (513) 381-2273 Purchase tickets online at www.cincyshakes.com AD Donated by Mark and Sue Ann Painter season sponsored by the Otto M. Budig Family Foundation THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED �No. 36 4 | S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 KEY BECK (Continued from page 3) being interviewed only to see them in meme form days later. Today, a CNN reporter, who stopped flood survivors -black woman and her children, to ask “You’ve just arrived. Share with us how you were rescued?” The black women and her child were shaking, visibly cold and irritated. The black woman was quick to address the insensitivity of the reporter after sharing how they waited on police for 36 hours, survived for 5 days with no food and walked in four feet of water with children. “Ya’ll trying to interview people during their worst times, that’s not a smart thing to do. People are really breaking down and ya’ll sitting here with cameras and microphones trying to ask what the f**k is wrong with us.” This statement is very telling. The reporter was interested in exploiting that trauma to show folx they needed to care. Perhaps she had the best of intentions. To encourage others to donate or share information. Or maybe she was trying to get the best scoop, to say keep watching our channel because we are on the ground showing you the nitty-gritty. Regardless of her intention, her actions, and the media's reaction to disasters, SAAD GHOSN (Continued from page 8) "If we want to change the world we need to work where we are, be grass root workers. From Adam to Mohammad and passing by Jesus, all 11 LOCAL are harmful and exploitative. We need to stop highlighting trauma for economic, political and social advantages. Don't use xenophobia to fuel your opionion on building a wall. Don't use crime statistics to validate your racist assumptions about Black Lives Matter. You don't have to show people drowning in water for us to know that it is bad. Scroll a list of local agencies needing aid instead. We need to continue to fight unfair representations of poverty, distress, "inspiration." We need to get rid of our “exploitation memes” and “inspiration porn.” Yes, we can care about flood survivors. And yes, we can donate money for services that will help them get back on their feet. But we should look at where our money is going. Do they have a proven track record or caring about the lives of black and brown people, or do they just want an interview or operational funds? We should look for local service agencies to donate towards. They are usually on the ground level, and they could use the resources. It is important to have a sense of empathy, so I am not saying that you shouldn’t care. Nor am I saying don't watch. I am saying that you shouldn’t use trauma, terror and disaster to push prejudiced ideologies and sympathy coins. We need to be more concerned with the intent of messages and not allow ourselves to be fallen prey to the “shock therapy. were grass root organizers," he says. Adding "Real change starts locally." Imam Chartier starts his day every morning with this verse from the Coran: "God is constantly inviting people to the kingdom of peace". It is his daily prayer reminding him of the better world in the afterlife, but also and as importantly of the kingdom of peace that we each need to build on this earth, by getting rid of our ego, our lust, our divisive nationalism; fighting for justice and equality for all; spreading love. For Imam Chartier, --------------------------------------- Many people are concerned with the apropriaton of funds by Red Cross Credit: American Red Cross Website THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED these 2 invitations are inseparable, sowing peace and justice in this world and harvesting them in the future one. This is how he strives to live his life and make a difference. --------------------------------------- �12 LOCAL Growing Pains troubling part of my Growing Pains. The word is “Patience”. I was just talking to a friend about my struggle with Patience. He just laughed and didn’t really say much only that I can only do what is in front of me and leave the rest up to my God. It sounds easy enough. But for me easy and simple are the two things that I seem to complicate every day. Having spent the last 11 months focusing on me and how I can change my thinking and behaviors has been a blessing. I can look people in the eye today and genuinely ask “is there something I can help you with”? Before those were only words that had no validity to them. I was usually looking to gain something from the conversation. I was a taker not a giver. Giving of my time, my experiences however small they may seem to me has helped a few people. And for that I am grateful I want to continue to be of service in some respect to the many people I find myself coming into contact with daily. In particular the ones I see every day as I go to work in Over-theRhine. I too was once that person, and I feel that it is my duty to lend a hand when I can and not ignore the suffering of another human being. I want to end this short but, very consequential article with a dream. I dream that sometime in the not so distant future, I will be able to change the hearts and minds of a still struggling person out there who has given up all hope in life. Trust me things can and will change if only you take the actions necessary and have “PATIENCE”. and the French ruling class staying pretty rich. Simultaneously, a new patronage network and corruption venue was launched. Some EU priorities had more priority than others. Getting the Greek ruling class to pay serious taxes wasn’t nearly as important as ramming austerity down the throats of the Greek people. Then came the immigration crisis. First, the EU rulers refused to even discuss the historical origins of millions of desperate people wanting to exercise free movement the way capital does. A century of oil politics, colonial intrusions and their corrupted legacies were not acknowledged. Second, no gameplan was advanced to right those wrongs (like, for example, helping get rid of the klepto-capitalists in Egypt when they had the chance during the Arab Spring). The US was right in there on the side of reaction and corporate geopolitical manipulation. They all were happy to buy natural gas from Libya under Qaddafi. Unprecedented opportunities for progressive change all across North Africa and the Middle East went receding. Of course, acting there with credibility would have required some improvements on the home fronts like for Algerians living in France, Moslems in Great Britain, Belgium, etc., and that would have required paying more attention to their own working classes’ interests. But failing that, what could the EU do? A big infrastructure push addressing climate change, storm water management, sustainable agriculture funding by a huge surtax on EU corporate profits? Employing lots of locals and immigrants? No. So, Spain tanks, Greece flounders and eventually Britain exits. Response? More of the worst: tighten up the EU austerity screws. But why would we expect the ruling classes to do the right things? Even things that would benefit them in terms of, e.g., “recovery” from the Great Recession? That’s an interesting question but more important is why didn’t the organizations of the working class step up to the plate? Why didn’t the British Labour Party go to their friends in the Italian labor movement, the new populists in Spain, Italy and Greece, to all the old remnants of socialist and communist parties throughout Western and Eastern Europe, and re-make the EU vision? Demand a top-to-bottom redesign that puts the capitalists way down in the power structure, specifies explicit labor standards, including for immigrants, new algorithms for public investment of EU funds and market interventions to promote innovation and catch-up in lagging sectors and regions. Get economists working on it whose allegiance is to the people not to corporations, hedge funds and private wealth managers. There would be permanent conduits of capital from the leading actors in capital accumulation back to the peoples and regions that enabled that profitability, without embarrassment. The system would be unrigged. It’s not too late for Brexitexit. Now that the complexity and downsides of Brexit are plain for all to see it is a good time to counter the EU disease with a whole new perspective, explained to engage and clarify peoples thinking and driven by courageous new leaders backed up if necessary with the weapons of class warfare like the general strike. Cathedral, 318 East Fourth Street from noon to 1:00. Lunch can be purchased for $6.50 or you can bring your own. For further information call 381-4994. --------------------------------------- BOBBY MORRIS H Contributing Writer aving been on my journey for the past 11 months, I have found myself going through what some would call growing pains. I have to admit that these are things that I should have gone through during puberty. But I didn’t or I don’t remember. Let’s look at a growing pain. I have made a decision to move from here and the growing pains that I am going through are of being alone, cooking meals not in a microwave but on an actual stove. I have been doing the going to work everyday thing, the saving of money, the laundry all the simple things that most of you take for granted. Being a person who for so many years who relied on other people to do most of these things for me, I find it a struggle. I have also come to the understanding that I am going to have some ups and downs, some good days, some bad days. What I have to remind myself when things aren’t as I want them to be is to find a little piece of gratitude in what I do have and remember that all things come when they are supposed to not when I want them to. I find this to be the most Brexitexit ROBERT PARK Contributing Writer What was wrong with the European Union (EU)? Isn’t a common market good, aren’t uniform standards, a level playing field, equal rights, etc. generally a good thing? The EU was designed by and for the European corporate elite; the free flow of capital with minimal cross border frictions and obstacles was a dream too good to be critically evaluated. Very “respectable” economists predicted its failure on very solid grounds but they weren’t listened to by drooling neoliberals. What was the problem? It’s all about capital accumulation and banking, taking away local regulations, diluting political accountabilities, decision-making and authority. The subdued class struggles of the prior nation-states got even more removed and protected from working class traction. It created a vastly expanded playground for the finance gamers and trolls. It facilitated Germany getting much richer, Spain, Italy and Greece getting much less richer BILL WOODS (Continued from page 2) For Community Change helped A-HA research the best models. As usual, time will be set aside for questions and comments from Forum attendees. Since 2017 is a local election year, the rest of the Forums in September and October will focus on the Cincinnati mayoral contest, races for City Council, and ballot issues. Consecutive Forums on September 21st and September 28th will feature Mayor John Cranley and then Council member Yvette Simpson. On October 12th and 19th, the nonincumbent candidates for Cincinnati City Council will make their cases for election. Forums are free and open to the public and take place at Christ Church S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 | N o . 36 4 --------------------------------------- Councilmember Yvette Simpson and Robert Richardson Jr. at the Mayoral Forum Credit: Alice Scheider THE VOICE OF THE STREET...UNSILENCED �No. 36 4 | S e p t 8 - S e p t 2 1, 2 0 17 NO ONE ASKED 13 STREET VOICE A QUESTION FOR THE PRESIDENT IN RHYME No one asked. How are you today? (With credit to Dave Altman.) No one asked, Because no one cared Why- oh - why oh - why -oh, Maybe because everyone is too busy Someone went home today Feeling, sad and empty Did Trump pardon Joe Arpaio? No one asked, No one cared Sometimes no one should have to ask. BILL WOODS Contributing Writer When was the last time you asked someone TREASURES could you help them? Life is a treasure or life be can a jewel It’s so sad when no one cares enough to ask! Life is made of choices made of win, draw or pull Looking back on my life not to mention the bridges I've burned KIM GREEN Streetvibes Distributor & Contributing Writer Understanding that I do have a choice which way my life will be turned Having this knowledge, I wonder what changes could I have made in my life Seeing my past and believing in God knowing with him there will be no strife Treasures of recognizing my past and always asking would I have changed to be younger or right Treasures are things I cherish from childhood up to date, anything else is out of sight Knowledge of my past and in the belief of a change which would come with a new day Having lived and grown into who I am right now, question: "who are you?" ANSWER I SAY!! Treasures to me are things of the past that I have memory of, where making changes is too late Treasures, my belief in God and to know with faith his love and grace is forever great! 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