Common Ground class: Stories of the Civil Rights Movement

  

Common Ground: July 13-17, 2020 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.

Drs. Charlie Collyer and Pam Zappardino will be teaching a couple of online courses at Common Ground during Traditions Week III (Mon July 13 through Fri July 17).

One is called Stories of the Civil Rights Movement, 3rd period (1:00 to 2:15pm). We will dig into the history of major civil rights achievements, and also tell stories from our own experiences in the Deep South.

I hope you can join us. To register, go to https://www.commongroundonthehill.org/traditions-weeks-home.html?fbclid=IwAR2LDsXVYCOz8_B_Q3Mmt5B4leWyLXD_bcv7a-nSCehhsFAzNC6TX_yGFzs

If you have any questions - find Charlie’s post on Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/charles.collyer/posts/10157567449331235

We Believe

Maggie Kunz, Jim Kunz, and I were happy to pick up our signs Sat., July 4, 2020 from Greg and Kris Thorne at the Westminster Farmer's Market.

Who enforces mask rules in Carroll County Maryland?

Who enforces mask rules in Carroll County?

CORONAVIRUS With coronavirus pandemic ongoing, who enforces mask rules in Carroll County? By SHREEYA AGARWAL CARROLL COUNTY TIMES | JUL 05, 2020 AT 5:00 AM

https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/cc-carroll-coronavirus-masks-rules-enforcement-20200705-ujsg62rxybhz5apnifhbe3nx3m-story.html#nt=related-content

You notice that many of your favorite local businesses have begun to open their doors after months of closure, per state orders to limit the spread of COVID-19, and have decided to stop by a local business. You walk in and are surprised to find that no one, not even the store owners, are wearing masks. Concerned, you wonder what you should do.

In such a scenario, ideally you would call the Carroll County Health Department rather than the police, according to Andrea Hanley, a spokesperson from the Bureau of Environmental Health at the Carroll County Health Department.

“They [police] are not the ones getting complaints about masks. We’re the ones doing the investigations,” she said. “If we have a problem during the investigation, we will follow up with the police, and that doesn’t happen very often.”

[…]

According to Gov. Larry Hogan’s April 15 executive order, “all customers over the age of nine are required to wear Face Coverings while inside the enclosed area of any Retail Establishment or Food service Establishment.”

And “all Foodservice Establishments shall require staff who interact with customers (including, without limitation, delivery personnel) to wear, and those staff shall wear, Face Coverings while working.”

Those who failed to comply with the orders could be subject to a $5,000 fine or imprisonment not exceeding one year.

Read much more here: https://www.baltimoresun.com/coronavirus/cc-carroll-coronavirus-masks-rules-enforcement-20200705-ujsg62rxybhz5apnifhbe3nx3m-story.html#nt=related-content

Related: As Maryland coronavirus numbers decline, officials warn of possible spikes from summer beach trips »

Do Carroll County police need to wear masks? That depends on the circumstances and the department. »

April 9, 2003 - National styles of pulling down statues.

War stories Toppled National styles of pulling down statues.

By Fred Kaplan Posted Wednesday, April 9, 2003, 

http://www.slate.com/id/2081309/ 

As I write this, 100 or so Iraqis are gathered in Baghdad's Firdos Square, trying to tear down an enormous statue of Saddam Hussein…

[…]

I am reminded of 1991, when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Baltic nations took their own hammers to their most prominent statues of Lenin. Much could be discerned about national style from the effort. In Lithuania, the most emotional of the republics, the crowd just went at it, using all tools at hand, bringing down Vladimir Ilyich with great gusto. In Latvia, some engineers assumed the task, judging the statue's material, pulling up a crane, and taking it down very systematically. In Estonia, the town leaders coolly hired a Finnish firm to do the job.

Read more here: http://www.slate.com/id/2081309/

https://kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/2020/07/06/april-9-2003-national-styles-of-pulling-down-statues/

https://ccnaacp7014.blogspot.com/2020/07/april-9-2003-national-styles-of-pulling.html

https://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2020/07/april-9-2003-national-styles-of-pulling.html

Sept. 17, 2013: Westminster celebrates diversity at TriStreet block party

Sept. 17, 2013: Westminster celebrates diversity at TriStreet block party

By Kevin Dayhoff, 3:45 p.m. EDT, September 17, 2013

July 5, 2020 – I am cleaning some of my old Google Drive files (because I am about to run out of storage capacity.) And I ran across this old article from September 17, 2013 about working with my friend Dr. Darcel Harris. The links still work but it does not provide a preview of the pictures...

https://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff/posts/10220056374893244

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-tristreet-block-party-20130917,0,934631.story

Fully equipped with a spatula, sunglasses, hat and an apron, Darcel Harris was all smiles Sept. 15 as she answered questions, cooked hamburgers, and hot dogs and helped coordinate activities for over 300 folks who attended the 11th annual Pennsylvania Avenue – TriStreet Association block party in Dutterer Family Park in Westminster.

The event included multi-cultural food dishes made by residents, local fruits and vegetables donated by local farmers, dancing, pie eating contests, and educational activities for children provided by the Westminster Police Department, the Carroll County NAACP and GROW Mission (God’s Regeneration of Westminster) – one of the many local grassroots community organizations in which Harris participates.

According to Harris, the March 2013 recipient of the of the 21st annual Carroll County Human Relations Commission achievement award, the neighborhood get together was the brainchild of former Westminster City Councilwoman, 1991-1995, Rebecca Orenstein.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-tristreet-block-party-20130917,0,934631.story

http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/09/westminster-celebrates-diversity-at_26.html

Labels: Annual PA Ave Block Party, Dayhoff Media Explore Carroll, Diversity, Diversity Hispanic, History, Westminster File PA Ave, Westminster File PA Ave Block Party, Westminster Police - See more at: http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2013/09/westminster-celebrates-diversity-at_26.html#sthash.Bnrjh8DC.dpuf  

For pictures go to: http://kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/post/62355185981/westminster-celebrates-diversity-at-tristreet

https://kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/sept-17-2013-westminster-celebrates-diversity-at-tristreet-block-party/

First Thursdays film series takes on issue of voter suppression

First Thursdays film series takes on issue of voter suppression

You may also find this information here: CC CAACP website

https://ccnaacp7014.blogspot.com/2020/07/first-thursdays-film-series-takes-on.html

Facebook: Carroll County NAACP

“Our democracy hangs in the balance. This is not an overstatement.” — Michelle Alexander in the NY Times, June 8, 2020

Attempts to interfere in our election by Russia and other foreign players have received much deserved attention since 2016. But an even more insidious threat to our democracy may be homegrown: voter suppression.

“In a close election the rules matter,” says Rick Hasen of UC Irvine and author of Election Meltdown, “and if the rules can be manipulated it can affect the outcome of elections.”

Recognizing that voting rights are civil rights, the July selection for the MD LMP First Thursday film series is a provocative and disturbing documentary that takes a sobering look at the hydra that is voter suppression: Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook.

Narrated by Jeffrey Wright, Rigged chronicles how our right to vote is being undercut by a decade of dirty tricks - including the partisan use of gerrymandering and voter purges, and the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court. The film captures real-time voter purges in North Carolina and voter intimidation in Texas.

We are honored to welcome a distinguished panel to discuss the film:

David Blight, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom

Tim Smith, award-winning producer of Rigged

Gilda Daniels, Associate Professor at University of Baltimore School of Law and author of Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

The cause and course of racial justice in our nation is intimately bound to the outcome of the 2020 election. It’s therefore incumbent upon all of us to understand the grave and imminent threat that voter suppression poses to “free and fair elections” and what we, as citizens, can do to protect the vote and our democracy. 

Please join us on Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 7.00p for an important discussion of the issue and this film. We look forward to seeing and hearing from you then.

When you register, you will receive a link and password allowing you to screen the film on your own for free, in advance of the discussion.  

Attendance at the panel discussion is also free, but you must pre-register here.

https://mdlynchingmemorial.networkforgood.com/events/21517-first-thursday-film-discussion-series

For more information go here: https://www.mdlynchingmemorial.org/

https://www.facebook.com/ccnaacp/posts/3483608811657770?__xts__[0]=68.ARB757yAbFtMNK3-mMdIeVs6ti8B0U5CDR8Ob20-RcZP_3lGy5F0_DdZ2sFafupmDpOZBV8K7KO6ZjWUGUFxXxSTWny4WLCWR-19rOte7B0yW2JSpnkkAF5GaD9Q-3eRi9kSh76pFVFsex5RcYn780c9X7KXiDRTBqpS5Dg2bFKBmB5NdfQVEL9muPJMwA66VqJUw0T3472E6aNiFTNLw7xYiwhDgmt4WBRNJJCaRgQLSdCs2FQIzY8MJgYxa8F-SxWPDMQdDGfLwJ6q7kTNL5XbLBYLQ8IgcfW430Fef_Qv7kPWzybv97Qux--B6KyOSDReoTLxVU5y8lY-MAdEvor9mA&__tn__=-R

NAACP opposes commissioner diversity commission

NAACP opposes commissioner diversity commission

(In full disclosure I am on the board of the Carroll County NAACP)

Carroll County commissioner withdraws diversity commission initiative after NAACP chapter president expresses opposition 

Akira Kyles Carroll County Times |Jun 29, 2020

In the Board of County Commissioners meeting on Thursday, Commissioner Eric Bouchat withdrew his initiative to establish a diversity commission after the president of Carroll County’s NAACP chapter expressed her opposition toward it.

[…]

Bouchat previously said he’d like for the commission to look into memorials to lynching victims and Black Americans who served in the Civil War, but Lewis said the NAACP chapter has already been engaged in projects to do both.

She said the chapter has been involved with rededications at Ellsworth Cemetery in Westminster, where Black veterans are buried. And she said the chapter is involved with the Carroll County Coalition of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, which began meeting in February to discuss ways to bring awareness and improved understanding of lynching history.

According to Wantz, after Lewis spoke with him, the board took a step back.

Wantz said, “We’re pulling back the reins to allow for the groups that have been putting the sweat and tears into doing all this research and let them do their job.”

Lewis said she was speaking as an individual, but discussed it with the rest of the NAACP board members.

“We met [Thursday] night, and there was total agreement that we do not do this diversity thing that Commissioner Bouchat introduced,” Lewis said.

“What was going to be the end result? Was this going to be a group that was founded and it would be dropped after an election cycle? Your support would not be there after that? I don’t think it was necessarily heartfelt,” Lewis said.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll/news/cc-diversity-commission-opposition-20200629-qly35tzhlrbkvolsl6xm66wjay-story.html

https://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff/posts/10220004403153983

https://dayhoffwestminster.blogspot.com/2020/06/naacp-opposes-commissioner-diversity.html 

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