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Baltimore Allies
  • Baltimore Free Store
    Collects and redistributes goods out of their new storefront on W. Baltimore Street. Helps change the way people view the relationship between their goods, their community, and their earth.
  • Baltimore Independent Media Center
    Don't like spoon-fed news from the corporate media? Be the media! Self-publish your Baltimore news and stories.
  • Alternative Press Center
    Founded in 1969, it remains one of the oldest self-sustaining alternative media institutions in the United States. (The APC is no longer in Baltimore but remains in our hearts).
  • Social Anarchism
    A journal of theory and practice.
  • United Workers Association
    Low-wage workers leading the way to poverty's end. Perhaps the most exciting labor organizing currently taking place in Baltimore.
  • Everyone's Place
    No website, but an amazing selection of books and an African cultural center at 1356 West North Ave.
  • Lambda Rising
    Now-closed (in 2008) LGBT bookstore.
  • Charm City Art Space
    Collectively managed DIY art, performance, and music space. Don't just observe...create.
  • The Jonah House
    Faith-based community founded in 1973 that tends a 22 acre cemetery. Dedicated to nonviolence, resistance, and community.
  • Camp Baltimore
  • Generations for Peace and Democracy
  • Velocipede Bike Project
    Provides access to second hand bicycles and hands-on education in a shared work space. Serving Baltimore by empowering people of all backgrounds to take their transportation into their own hands.
  • Aware and Outraged
    An Artist, Activist, Radical resource provided and hosted by Local Activist Ron Kipling Williams.
  • Maryland Citizens Against State Executions
    A coalition of groups and individuals united to end the death penalty in Maryland through education, grassroots action, and public demonstration.
  • mnemosyne: rants & musings of an uppity woman of color
  • Black Classic Press
    Best press in Baltimore since 1978. Devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent.
  • Son of Nun
    Political hip hop artist, former Baltimore City high school teacher, activist/organizer/survivor. Did we mention he makes great music?
  • UMBC Solidarity Coalition
    The Solidarity Coalition is a non-partisan, non-ideological, non-hierarchical organization of UMBC student activists. An umbrella organization for activists of all kinds who want to fight for the rights, welfare, and dignity of all members of the UMBC community. As UMBC students, we are dedicated to striving to make UMBC a university we are proud of and one that reflects our strongest ideals.
  • Collective Action Notes

    Collective Action Notes documents and discusses different struggles (strikes, occupations, etc.) world-wide. We are interested in understanding class struggle and the different forms it takes in the present period, forms ranging from overt and highly visible struggles such as the French public sector strike wave in the winter of 1995 to more 'hidden ' forms of class struggle such as absenteeism. sabotage (broadly defined ), etc.

    Loosely, it could be said CAN is sympathetic to issues of worker's autonomy and self-activity. Although no formally agreed upon political perspective exists at the present point, probably most participants would define themselves in one way or another as being critical of the traditional left, and close to class struggle anarchist/council communist views, again without being obsessed by old ideologies or labels (such as the historical divide between anarchism and marxism), which in most cases have been superceded by capitalist development itself.

     Since geocities is now kaput, and CAN doesn't have a new home yet, we're hosting a mirror of the Collective Action Notes site here.  

  • Baltimore Bicycle Works

    Worker-owned and IWW organized retail and repair bicycle shop. Putting more people on bikes here in Baltimore because they’re practical, sustainable, beautiful, and fun!

  • Baltimore Free School
    The Baltimore Free School is a new project started by Red Emma's along with a growing group of radical educators and volunteers to develop a 100% free educational institution here in Baltimore.  We're (at the moment) entirely funded by donations from our very generous sustainers. Inspired by a growing network of similar projects in other cities, as well as the long tradition of anti-authoritarian education, we believe in creating a noncapitalist, cooperative, and horizontal infrastructure for teaching and learning from each other. Providing a space for classes, reading groups, workshops, and seminars by and for the Baltimore community. Everyone has something to share and learn!
     
  • STEW
    STEW is a  joint project spearheaded by the Baltimore Development Cooperative and Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse. The basic idea is simple: once a month, we'll be hosting a dinner at 2640, featuring high-end, locally-sourced, maximally organic and expertely prepared food (including a vegan option). The price for the multi-course dinner will be $10-$25 on a sliding scale, less than you'd pay for a dinner out elsewhere. Interspersed with the food courses will be presentations of projects and ongoing social justice struggles—over dessert, diners vote on how the proceeds from the event will go towards funding these initiatives.
  • Baltimore Development Cooperative
    The Baltimore Development Cooperative (BDC) is an artist collective with an interdisciplinary practice that uses the strategies of art, research and activism to critically engage with urban spatial politics. Co-founded in 2007, the group has produced tours, exhibitions, workshops and site-specific projects in public space. The BDC is dedicated to the analysis of neoliberal urbanism and the invention of alternatives based on social, economic and ecological justice in the city.
  • The Indypendent Reader
    Baltimore's free quarterly newspaper highlighting social issues affecting our communities and local organzing efforts.
  • Research Associates Foundation
    Founded in 1982, past projects include the Progressive Action Center (PAC) where numerous progressive groups, such as the Workers Action Press, the Alternative Press Center, and the Central America Solidarity Committee were headquarted. Now dedicated to providing small grants to support the projects of local progressives to continue the ever necessary tasks of building a peaceful and just society.
  • Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle

    Revolutionary Afrocentric thinktank

Other Baltimore Projects We Like
  • Atomic Books
    Fun fun fun stuff!
  • Liam Flynn's Ale House
    New incarnation of everyone's favorite watering hole, Liam's Pint Size Pub. Opening soon in the North Avenue Market. Owned by a Red Emma's collective member!
  • Normal's Books and Records
    Another collectively run bookstore!
  • Baltimore Book Thing
    Free used books!! Seriously awesome selection. Make sure you have your own bags and lots of time for browsing.
  • The True Vine
    So many records....so little time...
  • Sugar
    Lesbian owned, women and trans-operated one stop shopping for all you sex toy needs. Check out their educational workshops.
  • Hamilton Arts Collective
  • Beatbots
    One stop online destination for the best of the Baltimore scene (and beyond), including a webzine, A/V club, and message boards.
  • CATATAC Magazine
  • Wham City
    Music and art collective and organizers of the annual Whartscape Festival.
  • Holla Back Baltimore
    This blog is for womyn and transfolks in Baltimore. Catcalling and public sexual harassment is rampant, and we rarely have the power in our society to fight back with words or fists without inciting anger or more harassment. So "If you can't slap 'em, snap 'em!" Use your camera phone to snap pictures of street harassers or just post what was said or your comments on street harassment.
  • The Red Room
    Run by the folks at Normal's and dedicated of radically experimental music and culture, including the annual High Zero Festival .
Other Infoshops and Radical Bookstores
Links to other nodes in the infoshop network


800 St. Paul St. * Baltimore, MD 21202 * (410) 230-0450 * info@redemmas.org
Red Emma's is open Thursday through Friday from 10AM-10PM, Saturday from 10AM-8PM, and Sunday from 10AM-6PM. Our weekly collective meetings are Sunday at 7PM, and are open to anyone interested in the project, except for the first Sunday of every month, which is closed to everyone except collective members.
Red Emma's is part of IU 660 of the Industrial Workers of the World, one of the only unions to recognize that worker collectives can stand in solidarity with those fighting the bosses as part of one big union.