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reggie harris

About Me

I am an African American cultural worker... poet, community organizer, teaching artist, youth worker, and prison abolitionist...I am Executive Director of rTransitions Inc, a 501c3, non profit organization providing support services for communities at-risk of generational poverty, chemical dependency, illiteracy and criminality...I am a Co-founder and Artistic Director of the "in the belly..." Collective, a group of collaborating artists and activits who conduct arts-based critical literacy workshops and residencies for public, private and alternative schools; youth & adult shelters, drop-in centers and transitional living programs; chemical dependency treatment centers and recovery programs; domestic violence groups and behavior modification programs; correctional facilities and re-entry programs..."There is no pain or passion that does not radiate to the ends of the Earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world." -Antoine de Saint Exupery (from "Wind, Sand and Stars")... Myspace Backgrounds

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other." - Angela Y. DavisI would like to meet the cultural workers (artists, activists, teachers, social workers, mental health professionals, etc) who are interested in collaborating for the critcal empowerment and liberation of the oppressed and incarcerated...

Music:

Immortal Technique - The Point Of No Return

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Movies:


My Blog

the C.I.A. and the crack cocaine epidemic...DARK ALLIANCE

the C.I.A. and the crack cocaine epidemic...DARK ALLIANCE DARK ALLIANCE is Gary Webb's investigation of the evolution of an international drug ring with ties to the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras. A...
Posted by reggie on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:13:00 PST

reggies bio

reginald harris executive & artistic director rTransitions, Inc Abbreviated Biography: For over 17 years I have served various communities as a Cultural Worker for at-risk populations. I have pe...
Posted by reggie on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:00:00 PST

father & son

"i need you to care for me, now, boy..."                   "what? ... what!?"   he had the hands of a sharecropper's...
Posted by reggie on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:19:00 PST

"A Critical Media List..."

"STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO YOUR ANCESTORS&" Critical Media List For Black Consciousness In America:   BOOKS 1.)    "Before the Mayflower" by Lerone Bennet 2.) ...
Posted by reggie on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:11:00 PST

the problem...

everyone says he looks just like me but it's the me in him that everyone's missing   and i'm trying to stop with every fibre of my being  hands way too familiar i know would seek to hurt hi...
Posted by reggie on Tue, 29 May 2007 06:38:00 PST

"illegality of income taxes!"

America: Freedom to Fascism Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by reggie on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:05:00 PST

"how schools feed prisons!"

Angela Davis Prison Industrial Complex Talk Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by reggie on Tue, 22 May 2007 11:00:00 PST

"bush blew up the towers!"

9/11 Conspiracy Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by reggie on Tue, 22 May 2007 10:48:00 PST

"it's bigger than hip hop!"

Dead Prez - Hip Hop Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by reggie on Tue, 22 May 2007 10:25:00 PST

Sacred Place

this is a sacred space I walk delicately on the edges of this life this is a sacred place I whispered into these microphones and sometimes I was not heard and sometimes the feedback was fierce I stret...
Posted by reggie on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:45:00 PST