Our Mission Statement:
COMMUNITY ROOTS is fundamentally an activist based organization that works to unite the different ethnic communities at the University of Maryland to be heard as a united voice for change. Our goal is to motivate and inspire the ethnically diverse student body of the University of Maryland to take definitive action in the face of domestic and international social injustice.
Every year, C-Roots hosts their ANNUAL MOVE THE MOVEMENT CONCERT. The Move the Movement Concert is a concert that c-roots puts on to raise money for different charities each year by bringing some of your favorite performers to College Park. Last year, we brought LOGIC and PHIL ADE to campus, and in the past have brought the duo DEAD PREZ, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, and numerous other talented performers.
Every week Community Roots holds a general body meeting with a focus on topics that are affecting our community. General body meetings from this semester have covered the rise of the prison industrial complex, mass incarceration, fear of the police, homophobia, xenophobia, gender and race bias in the media, the recent election, and much more. Come join us at our meetins to discuss and understand these important topics.
Every week Community Roots holds a general body meeting with a focus on topics that are affecting our community. General body meetings from this semester have covered the rise of the prison industrial complex, mass incarceration, fear of the police, homophobia, xenophobia, gender and race bias in the media, the recent election, and much more. Come join us at our meetings to discuss and understand these important topics.
Every year, C-Roots hosts their ANNUAL MOVE THE MOVEMENT CONCERT. The Move the Movement Concert is a concert that c-roots puts on to raise money for different charities each year by bringing some of your favorite performers to College Park. Last year, we brought LOGIC and PHIL ADE to campus, and in the past have brought the duo DEAD PREZ, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, and numerous other talented performers.
A NEW KIND OF COMMUNITY
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"Never underestimate the power of a small group of people to change the world. In fact, it is the only way it ever has." -Margaret Mead
Know Your Roots:
In the fall semester of 2005, Daniel Espinoza and Daniel Lewkowicz founded the political action organization, Community Roots. On the University of Maryland campus, Community Roots is an activist based organization that attempts to unite the different ethnic and activist organizations on campus to be heard as one united student voice for change. Within the first semester, Community Roots membership jumped from an initial 5 members to 40 members with an additional 130 members on our email list serve. This organization has been responsible for leading the way in university and state divestment from the genocidal government of Sudan, creating a twenty-five group coalition of student organizations at the University of Maryland, and led a movement to defend two Students who were assaulted by police officers in the New Leonardtown housing co-op. We helped organize a 1000 person hip-hop concert with Immortal Technique as the headline artist, two protests dealing with immigrant rights, and we co-sponsored a panel discussion in the Nyumburu Cultural Center discussing Protest and Revolution in the Black community. We are currently organizing a prison project to help educate prison inmates, working with local community leaders to establish Community Service programs in local communities, and working to create a Progressive Student Union with the goal of further uniting the different student organizations on campus.
Community Roots 2006
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Thursdays 6-8 pm
ROOM 1101 TYDINGS HALL
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