This is a college-level anthropology class where you will get credit (3 college credits) for the work.

Students will learn the history of environmental (in) justice in Curtis Bay, history of development in the city of Baltimore, interrogate government policy and urban planning that have not worked for the majority of the people. We transition into movement work and the important journey of Free Your Voice (a youth movement that was born in the halls of Benjamin Franklin Highschool in 2011). Free Your Voice transitioned in 2015 from stopping one proposed massive incinerator which would have been built a mile from Ben Franklin (BFHS) to defining and doing “Fair Development.”

Fair Development is a new model of housing and community development where outside real estate developers and speculators are not in control but where a vibrant and non-speculative housing sector exists that consists of public housing, land trusts, and non-for-profit housing shared by residents and the communities in which they reside. Beyond housing, Fair Development envisions building green and sustainable jobs tied to zero waste. Zero waste is focused on. Waste prevention that encourages the redesign of resource life cycles so that all products are reused. The goal is that no resources or trash will be sent to landfills, incinerators or the oceans.