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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 7h

STOP BLAMING VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS! If two people are impaired (drunk or high) and one rapes the other, then IT'S THE RAPIST'S FAULT AND NOT THE FAULT OF THE VICTIM even if both were using substances! NOTHING EVER EXCUSES RAPE! Nothing excuses the aggression of rapists!

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

NO ONE IMPAIRED DESERVES TO BE RAPED!

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Every 1st Sunday, I talked on the phone with Mr. Greg Turnipseed (1954-2025), one of Wisdom Projects' deepest supporters who helped create our Safe Passage service (wisdomprojects.org/safe-passage...). We were friends since 1985. He was killed last year. I miss him so much. --tree (Cleis)

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Borneo is turning poachers into wildlife photographers by paying them for pictures of wildlife. The rarer the animal, the higher the pay-off. Here #peace provides an ecological, environmental, and economic solution that prevents violence. --Laura Orem

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is un-American bigoted violence occurs daily across the U.S. Yesterday, 4 armed, masked men with no badges, IDs, or uniforms (and refusing to ID themselves except as #ICE) assault, chain, and literally kidnap an Asian woman into an unmarked govt. van at LAX airport. --tree

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you've come a long way, made it through adversity, and overcame even a little bit of pain, harm, hurt, or suffering, take a moment a put your hands to your heart in #gratitude. We're gonna be okay! --tree (Cleis)

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In a virulently bigoted white supremacist scourge, since 2025, the U.S. has violently deported over 605,000 Brown, Black, Asian, and Indigenous people, often to countries they do not know. Most are NOT active criminals. Many were legal U.S. residents. --Berenice Richland-Howard

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

WEALTH, prosperity, peace, and, most of all, safety and protection will keep us for 50 years starting this moment, and as the years progress, our wealth and safety and peace will increase and increase and increase.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday many of our Peace Cubs, Peace Buds, and Youth Peacemakers took a mini-field trip to the yard of St. Vincent de Paul Church at East Fayette and President Streets to do their #ArtTherapy lesson. Thank you to the wonderful church for their kindness!

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let it be known for all time that our Executive Director's gender is BLACK. Or, as she puts it...

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When I studied Yoga for Children at Thailand's Suai School 30 years ago, I learned Trataka, or eye yoga. I love teaching Trataka and other mindful movement to our Youth Peacemakers to help them de-escalate. Today Jimmy and Jordan teach us how to do this meditation. Try it! --tree

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

D.C., city, and state politicians get free healthcare, transit subsidies equaling free transportation, reimbursement for lodging equaling free housing and they're lavished by lobbyists. But we struggle with expensive utilities, rent, groceries, healthcare. Why keep them in power?

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Start the week with #BlackJoy and learn about African textiles from Kesaruva, one of the world's go-to shopping apps for sustainable African and Black-owned fashion, art, and beauty founded and led by Sarah Ibewuike. shop.kesaruva.com/all-products

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is happening right now this weekend. New York City and cities across the region struggle with massive flooding and infrastructural devastation. This is the result of decades of climate change denial and environmental injustice. We have crossed the tipping point. --Berenice Richland-Howard

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An unseasonably early September 2026 nor'easter #storm batters the U.S. East Coast, making severe coastal erosion and collapsing localized infrastructure. Climate-driven disasters are increasing. Decades of corporate and government denial is killing us. --Berenice Richland-Howard

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For the first time in 100 years, a new wild cat species has been discovered in Bolivia. The Tilcayo cat shows us the wonderful uncovered biodiversity of our planet if we stop to look. There can be no #peace without STEM and #EnvironmentalJustice. --Laura Orem

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Baltimore in the U.S. is not the only city struggling with unforgivably high costs for rent, homes, energy, water, and groceries. In Madrid, Spain, a real estate company raised the rent on an 87-year-old woman's apartment by 275% and had the police evict her on a stretcher.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Be like Keith and you'll have a lot less #stress.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We teach children, youth, and families to de-escalate with mindfulness and meditation. The inner peace they find is profound. Take a moment and let Majesty and Chip, two of our Youth Peacemakers, teach you BODY SCANNING and BREATH SCANNING meditation to start your week well.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Get rid of everything weighing you down. 🙏🏾☮️✊🏾🤎🪷

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Did you know our Executive Director spent most of her childhood in foster facilities separated from her siblings? That's why this project for foster siblings with housing, green spaces, play areas, and much-needed support by the actor #ChristianBale inspires us. --Laura Orem

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

7 people were shot last night near one of the East Baltimore housing communities that we serve, including a 3-year-old. None of our enrollees were involved. Today we gave Safe Passage funds to our Douglass Homes enrollees so they get in and out of the area safely.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cities getting rid of Flock are allegedly replacing it with another unconstitutional and invasive form of surveillance by Axon Enterprise that gives law enforcement hardware, software, and real-time data-aggregation tools to spy on us without warrants. Axon also makes tasers.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

In today's distorted realities, big is not always better. Influencer and businessman Igho "Tiny" Ubiribo died tragically in Thailand after a cosmetic procedure to enlarge his maleness. We urge our youth to hear the ding ding of recognition calling for phallocentrism to end as we accept our selves.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It's been 2 years since CHIP, one of our Youth Peacemakers, made a Public Service Announcement video. Today he's back with one directed to middle and high school students especially that he calls, "Don't Be A Follower!" Chip writes and reads from his own scripts. Thank you Chip!

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Feel good #Sunday! On Oct. 28, 1995, Doc Franklin and his pitbull Threat made their debut on "It's Showtime at the Apollo" winning over the crowd. While the TV show ended in 2008, Amateur Night at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC began in 1934 and it's still held on Wednesdays.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

(1) Meet #LatarshaSanders. William Sullivan, the same judge in Lindsay Clancy case, dismissed medical evidence of her schizophrenia as inadmissible in a case in which Sanders killed her sons during psychosis. Since the founding of this country, Black mothers have been vilified.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This Saturday we highlight The Shame Free Collective, by Alicia Curtis, which provides Michigan citizens with food and personal care items. The pantries allow folks to take what they need and others to donate what they can. linktr.ee/mommasbackk --Laura Orem, Wisdom Projects Board Secretary

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Peace feels better. Nonviolence brings prosperity. Uplifting everyone, and not just a few, improves the entire world's quality of life. On this solemn day of remembrance, we wish these notions to become deeply rooted and branched in the United States until everyone is free.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

3. Truly, $3 a month is not so much to support youth like Majesty. Best of all, for over 15 years, before it was somewhat popular, we have led the way in helping our Peacemakers overcome their trauma, manage conflicts peacefully, and de-escalate. Join our movement! @antoniamarrero.bsky.social

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

1. Happy Friday! This is Miss tree turtle (Cleis Abeni), the Executive Director of Wisdom Projects. We are deeply grateful to 17-year-old Majesty for his incisive guest posts this week. Check out his and other video campaigns by our amazing Peacemakers at wisdomprojects.org/video

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hey. This is Majesty, 17 year old Youth Peacemaker here. For my last guest-post this week, I want to talk about #bullying. A lot of people don't know that bullying is violence and peer pressure. When kids act out it's sometimes because they're being bullied like I was. 1/2

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This is Majesty guest-posting this week. Ms. Toni, @antoniamarrero.bsky.social, a Baltimore teacher and tenant organizer asked me, a 17 year old, what my biggest challenges are, what community means to me, what are my goals as I get to adulthood, and who I admire. Here are my answers.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm Majesty. I'm guest posting. I write my own scripts. When my 13 yo sister was killed by gun violence in 2022, the hospital made the impact worse. They waited to tell us what happened. To me we are still not doing enough about the violence. 5 in my family died by shootings.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I'm Majesty. I am guest posting. At my high school my English teacher used an #AI detector and then falsely accused me of not writing my work. I can write. AI is a problem for students. It is bad for our environment and water. It gets things wrong. My teacher never apologized.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello Internet. My name is Majesty. I am 17. I am a Youth Peacemaker. I work for Wisdom Projects at the McKim Center. I will be guest posting this week. Let me know if you have any questions or anything. We need youth like me to get our voices out here.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

It's hard to find places where we fit and are consistently loved and supported. Some non-white communities struggle for centuries to find this belonging as we struggle now. So we just go into survival mode. We squat. We fight. We flop. When you're dying of thirst you drink from a mud hole. --tree

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#Frederick and #Hagerstown here in Maryland near Baltimore are under cruel, unconstitutional attacks by #ICE in residential areas, driving on sidewalks or into yards of homes, warrantless searches, abuse to protestors, and making life hell at night for ordinary people just living in their homes.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Citizens across America are rallying against Flock surveillance cameras over privacy, abuse, and data-gathering concerns. Over 93 municipalities across the country banned them in August, and more are following. Flock cameras are intrusive, inaccurate, and clearly unConstitutional. #GetTheFlockOut

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Never let clout change you. We need humility and empathy in a dog-eats-dog kinda world. --tree

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Here a rightwing old gentleman openly admits his wife's student loan debt was forgiven by President Joe Biden. But, when Congressman Maxwell Frost presses him, this rightwinger insists no one else should receive the same benefit. This is America in a nutsell. Me, me, me! Not for the good of all.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's been cool guest-posting as a teen Youth Peacemaker at Wisdom Projects this week. For today's posts, I wanna feature my co-worker, another black teen who we call MAJESTY. We filmed him yesterday talking about finding #peace while working at Wisdom Projects & the McKim Center.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wow. The federal government just said they will strip private colleges of their tax-exempt status if they try to do anything that explicitly welcomes non-white students. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yesterday something horrific happened. A federal judge ruled images of ch*ld s*x abuse are okay if they're #AI. Representing a 3-judge appellate panel, Judge John Z. Lee said a predator named Steven Anderegg had 1st amendment rights. This ruling is EVIL!

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hello. I'm one of the Youth Peacemakers at Wisdom Projects. I also just happen to be trans. I'm an athlete and my idol is Patricio Manuel. You don't know this, but the posts on WP's social media this week are by me! The Executive Director oversees my work. I 💙WP's support of me!

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Our hearts go out to the #Congo in #CentralAfrica. In addition to contending with a decades-long #genocide and complex civil #war that has killed millions of children and families due to colonial theft of resources, the Congo now faces over 3,000+ deaths from #Ebola.

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our hearts go to a Baltimorean named #NoraRowland. Nora recently learned that, after her 75-year-old dad with Parkinson's in South Carolina died, the nurse Nora hired to care for her father placed the deed to Nora's dad's house in the nurse's name in truly evil fraud. Did the nurse kill her dad too?

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Wisdom Projects @wisdomprojects.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We live in perilous times. Tell the truth. When people with great power--especially those in government--go out of their way to harm others and create suffering through fraud, violence, and corruption, they are #evil. We must NOT excuse evil. Fight for accountability and justice.

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