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Collaborating for change


Collaborating for change
The debut concert of the Racial Justice Concert Series brings together Baltimore Ceasefire 365 and the Baltimore Boom Bap Society
By
Bret McCabe
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Published
March 10, 2021
About every three months since August 2017, the Baltimore Ceasefire 365 movement has asked city residents to go 72 hours without any murders or acts of violence. These weekends are emotionally potent calls to action, and they work. A 2020 study published in the
American Journal of Public Health showed an average 52% drop in shootings over Ceasefire weekends. Those quarterly Ceasefires are the result of grassroot organizers consistently knocking on doors and collaborating with community members year-round the kinds of face-to-face interactions that the coronavirus pandemic has prevented. COVID-19, unfortunately, has not lessened our experience with murder but what it has done is exposed the root causes of murder, ....

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