Red Emma's @redemmas Twitter profile

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

1 year

When this sites shuts down, we have a building and you can just come visit us in person and hang out and read books.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Some dudes seriously came in and asked if they could rent our space for an event for the Bloomberg campaign. GTFO with that oligarch stop and frisk redline-loving trash.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Hello, we are professional anarchists. We sell books and vegan baked goods and organize cooperatives. We are very scary.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Happy Labor Day to the workers and only the workers ♥️🖤

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Good morning, we made a zine on police and prison abolition, featuring a very helpful conversation with @prisonculture . We're going to be printing out and giving it away in Baltimore but we made a pdf to share as well:

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

1 year

Shit we turned 18 on Tuesday and forgot to celebrate. Happy belated birthday to us 🎂

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Just sayin’ that if anybody wants to make a rad coop bookstore in DC, we’re down to help.

DCist

@DCist

2 years

Update: The owners of Politics and Prose hired Jones Day, a law firm known for its aggressive anti-union tactics, after declining to voluntarily recognize their workers’ union.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

IDK who needs to hear this, but tomorrow there will be 5 more minutes of daylight.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 months

Awful to hear @bluestockings in NYC is facing eviction for their work saving lives in their community from overdose. Total solidarity with our comrades in radical bookselling, and total contempt for landlords.

Bluestockings Is Facing Eviction for Handing Out Narcan

The bookstore’s harm-reduction program and free store have made enemies of its neighbors and its landlord.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Now in: Abolition for The People, edited by @Kaepernick7 , w/ Angela Davis, @tamaranopper , @stschrader1 , @KieseLaymon , @deanspade , @dereckapurnell , @ruha9 , @BreeNewsome , @prisonculture , @dnbrgr , @dreanyc123 , Robin DG Kelly, @MumiaAbuJamal , @dylanrodriguez , @kenyonfarrow + more

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

1 month

Support the families of the workers lost in the Key Bridge collapse here:

Support for families of Key bridge collapse, organized by Kate Jakuta

Update: WOW! We cannot believe the response we got today. Thank you to everyon… Kate Jakuta needs your support for Support for families of Key bridge collapse

www.gofundme.com

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

You may have heard a rumor that Red Emma’s is buying a building. That rumor is FALSE. We’re actually buying TWO buildings!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Michael Brooks was a true comrade; his steadfast support for Emma's these past few months has helped our bookstore survive during this crisis. He understood fundamentally the need for institutions to anchor movements. He fought with love and humor. We will miss him dearly.

Majority Report

@majorityfm

4 years

Rest in power, @_michaelbrooks .

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

🎉🎂Today our worker cooperative restaurant, bookstore, coffeeshop, bar, and events venue officially turns 15 years old! 🎂🎉

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Rude.

Baltimore Crime Museum

@museum_crime

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Baltimore does not appear to be an "anarchist city" despite the popularity of @redemmas .

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Happy Indigenous People’s Day, Baltimore

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

If these Fells Point businesses get away with their tax strike because they want more police and more policing, does that mean we get to stop paying city taxes until the police are defunded? Is that how this works?

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

You can make one book required reading for every high school in America. What do you choose?

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

If you are just finding out about Gloria Richardson, the incredible woman who fought for Black liberation on the Eastern Shore by any means necessary and who passed at 99 years old this week, and want to know more about her life, there's an excellent recent full length biography:

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

So we heard that the Baltimore Book Festival will be pushed even later into November in 2020, which seems suboptimal...it was cold enough on the harbor this year! Would people be excited if we just did our own radical bookfair next year, like outdoors in Mt. Vernon in Sept/Oct?

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Happy 4/20 ~ Nobody should be in prison for weed.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

6 years

We're moving! We promised you a big announcement & here it is: after 5 amazing years on North Ave, we’re expanding into the big beautiful building at 1225 Cathedral Street—next door to the Theatre Project—and creating a multi-story base of operations for our worker-cooperative!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

10 months

Ok, the rules: 1. Manipulation only. Drilling or other destructive stuff is not allowed. 2. You can only attempt to open it when the bookstore is open for business. 3. We split the mystery contents 50/50, unless it is gross or cursed, in which case you can have all of it.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

If you are not Michael Bloomberg and want to give us money you can do that here:

Become a member of Red Emma's

Support radical space and workplace democracy!

withfriends.co

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

5 months

So proud of everybody here on this special day

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@redemmas

2 years

Good morning, a world without police is possible - and necessary. @prisonculture & @dreanyc123 show us how.

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@redemmas

3 years

You probably shouldn't buy books from anywhere that forces their workers to pee in bottles.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Ppl who think dishwashing is “low-skill” should try working dish during the Sunday brunch rush

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

9 months

HEY GUESS WHAT

Red Emma's

@redemmas

10 months

Ok, the rules: 1. Manipulation only. Drilling or other destructive stuff is not allowed. 2. You can only attempt to open it when the bookstore is open for business. 3. We split the mystery contents 50/50, unless it is gross or cursed, in which case you can have all of it.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

These kinds of longtime businesses are ideal candidates for a transition to employee ownership. Is your boss looking to close or sell a successful business? Let’s talk about selling to the workers!

Odette Ramos

@odetteramos

3 years

Eddie’s Market in Charles Village is closing after 58 years. Jerry the owner is retiring. This store is a staple in our family and in our community. I have spoken with the new owner of the building. They are unsure of the plan at the moment but will be engaging community.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Bestseller #3 : We Do This ‘Til We Free Us, the abolitionist book we all needed to see us through this year by the ever-inspiring @prisonculture

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

5 years

If anyone wants to buy $500k, $114k, or even just $14.5k worth of kids books, we're at 1225 Cathedral and would be happy to help you out with that.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Good morning to everybody except the white lady who yelled at us about our “disgraceful” tote bag 🤗📚

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Made the tough decision to shift back to carry out only for the rest of the year 🤷🏽‍♀️😷

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Bestseller #5 : Against the Web by our dear @_michaelbrooks @tmbsfm on our bestseller list for the second year in a row. Rest in power, comrade 🖤

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

👀

Shane Bauer

@shane_bauer

4 years

Statue of Francis Scott Key, slave owner and author of the Star Spangled Banner, toppled in San Francisco.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 months

We need your help: buy some books. Everything is 20% off this week in our big end of year sale.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Attn Twitter: we will be open for IN STORE BROWSING for the first time in over a year TODAY from 12-4!! Happy Independent Bookstore Day!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

RT if you are the sort of person who browses radical bookstores in Baltimore ...

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

If you'd like to help get @nhannahjones ' new 1619 book into schools and libraries where it will no doubt freak out white supremacist parents worried it will corrupt their children's impressionable young minds, you can do that and support us here:

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Can’t wait for the workers of the Mount Vernon Starbucks to win their union election today!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

So, we’re in the dictionary now 🏴

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Good morning to everyone except this person who clearly has too much time on their hands 😷

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Surprise! We're selling books outdoors today til 2pm. Stop by and browse, bbs!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

6 months

Now available on our free zine rack—a short but comprehensive overview of the last hundred years of Palestinian history, underscoring the continuity of the settler-colonial project that is murdering the people of Gaza today with the full support of the US government.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Should we carry y/n

Tess Owen

@misstessowen

3 years

My fiancé got me this book

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Oat milk lattes! One sip and you'll say, "the police are an inherently racist institution designed to protect property, not people!"

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

1 year

Good morning!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

You guys, @TaharkaBros is officially converting to worker ownership TODAY!! Tune in to celebrate the new worker owners right now!!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Good morning! It’s a beautiful day to drink coffee and demand a living wage for all 💕

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

6 months

Free free Palestine! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

9 years

We are a #safespace for students today! #FreeLunch for city youth starting at 11am. Pls RT!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Abolish the police

Haymarket Books

@haymarketbooks

4 years

Abolish the police

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Red Emma's

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2 years

A little story about our new windows…

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Happy May Day to all the workers 🏴

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

8 months

Worker coops taking over Baltimore, you love to see it.

Maximillian Alvarez

@maximillian_alv

8 months

BREAKING: Last month, workers at Baltimore's beloved Common Ground cafe—who were exploring unionization—learned the store was abruptly closing. Now @SeedCommons / BRED w/ the workers are buying the store & reopening as a co-op @rebekahkirkman @TheRealNews

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

You have no idea.

Existential Comics (find me on bluesky)

@existentialcoms

4 years

my one hesitation about communism is that having the workers directly control the means of production sounds like it would involve a lot of meeting

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

When slavery ended, the project of Reconstruction, what Du Bois called abolition democracy, aimed to redistribute resources to create the material conditions for real freedom. But white supremacy crushed this vision with state & paramilitary violence to restore racial capitalism.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

7 years

Thanks to our fam & friends here and around the world for the love & support today:

Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse

Thanks to everyone for the love & support. Our workers are physically safe, but we're anxiously awaiting more news about our community member who remains in critical condition. Though today's...

www.facebook.com

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Good morning, abortion is healthcare, trans rights are human rights, and the supreme court should be abolished

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

1 year

Baltimore City: Sorry, no Book Festival this year. Waverly: We got this.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

162 years ago to the day, John Brown launched his abolitionist raid on Harpers Ferry, and the cost of liberty is still less than the price of repression.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

5 months

For 20 years (!!!), our worker cooperative has been a critical center for radical education in Baltimore.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

There's a lot to read and learn about a long and painful history, but ultimately there's nothing "complicated" about apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Free Palestine.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Omg they found the goat.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

1 year

Y’all, there are so many free books at the Book Swap today! Grab gifts for everyone on your list for free. Runs until 5!!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

6 years

Soon.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

We support these measures to control the spread of Covid, but damn y’all, it’s so hard to be a restaurant rn.

Brandon M. Scott

@MayorBMScott

3 years

Baltimore, please be aware that on Friday, December 11 at 5PM there will be updated COVID-19 restrictions. To read the executive order, visit

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

6 years

Theme for upcoming events: Black women organizing for liberation > cops

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

We're open today through Sun 11AM-5PM - we've got brunch, plus a new stock of tote bags, hoodies, shirts, posters, and of course books!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

1 year

As 2022 wraps up, let’s countdown our top ten books sold this year! #10 “Organize, Fight, Win: Three Decades of Black Communist Women’s Political Writing” edited by @blackleftaf and @Jodi7768

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1 year

Beyond excited to be welcoming @prisonculture back to Baltimore for a talk on her new book (coauthored with @MsKellyMHayes ) on 6/9

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

@trustpunch Honestly, speaking as restaurant workers, it’s too effing soon for this. We aren’t eligible for vaccines yet because the city is still RIGHTFULLY vaccinating healthcare workers. Nobody needs to eat inside a restaurant rn. Give us a subsidy to pay wages and keep ppl home.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

9 years

#FreeLunch for Baltimore students today, because the city shut down the schools and kids depend on…

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3 years

Good morning. Free Palestine.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

9 years

In case you're wondering, zero cops in Bolton Hill. Like, none. Folks out walking dogs, while sirens blare & copters hover just blocks away

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Please return the goat.

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@redemmas

4 years

Good morning.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

@_MooseMayhem @majorityfm @MattLech We will have more in by the end of the week; in the meantime you can order via our Bookshop portal and still support us:

Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right a book by Michael Brooks

"A brilliant critique of the Right with very sharp insight on some of the shortcomings of the Left, this book is a must-read for anyone looking to understand how dishonest actors spread their...

bookshop.org

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

if only all anarchists could dress well as @FINALLEVEL in Johnny Mnemonic

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

And our #1 bestselling title from 2019 was... .... drumroll .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... @DrIbram 's "How To Be An Antiracist"! 🏆🏆🏆

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Red Emma's

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3 years

Free Palestine.

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@redemmas

4 years

A running thread of cool / interesting / recent / relevant books we've got in stock and links to buy them from us!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Happy pub day @xychelsea 💕

10/21 - Chelsea Manning presents "README.txt: A Memoir" in conversation with Ryan Harvey by Red...

Get tickets and support Red Emma's by becoming a member

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

We’re extremely excited for worker-coop pizza. Congrats to our fellow cooperators @joesquared , this is big!! 💕

Christina Tkacik

@ChristinaTkacik

3 years

🚨 🍕 🚨 🍕 🚨 Joe Squared, the Station North pizza joint, is coming back from the dead and plans to reopen in December as a “worker-owned cooperative.”

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

In case you wanna have coffee outside in the beautiful weather & read a book for a minute, our patio is open 9am to 2pm Friday - Monday

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Sneak peek inside the new space!

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@redemmas

2 years

Good morning. Another world is possible even if they tell you it’s not. 🌱

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Happy Saturday. Land trusts are cool. Let’s make more of them.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

In a worker cooperative restaurant, we only go back to work when our workers decide together that it is safe to do so.

Christina Tkacik

@ChristinaTkacik

4 years

An industry source says some Atlas employees are quitting in light of what they call unsafe working conditions.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

Baltimore: are there actions this week we should let people know about? Trying to get an updated list together

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

Covid has caught up with us, y’all. A worker-owner got a positive test result early this morning - they are okay! - and we are closing down until we are sure we can serve you safely. Online book orders will still be processed!

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

5 years

Happy 150th Emma!

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@redemmas

4 years

Who is working to stop evictions in Baltimore that we should amplify?

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

2 years

Feels like home now.

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2 months

This one's a few months away but we're really excited.

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

3 years

One way to procure funds to pay restaurants and their workers to stay closed and keep everyone safe - just defund the BPD. Easy peasy. Whadayasay @MayorBMScott

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Red Emma's

@redemmas

4 years

One more time for the people in the back.

Joyce Carol Oates

@JoyceCarolOates

4 years

"anti-fa" means "anti-fascist." anyone can be "anti-fascist." there is no "antifa" movement unless there is "fascism" to oppose. remove fascism, "antifa" will disappear.

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3 years

Hell yeah

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"If you want to launch a co-op, Baltimore may be one of the best places in the U.S. to do it."

Businessweek

@BW

3 years

Employee-owned co-ops give workers power, but they may struggle to get conventional loans. Impact investors want to come through with financing

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