VOLAR
Village of Love and Resistance
Our mission is to co-create a cooperative community in East Baltimore owned by residents impacted by racist systems of uneven development. We seek to build this cooperative community through the reclamation of land, healing, reconnecting and building a base of community power.
Our Mission Pillars include:
• Building power and leadership with poor and low-income residents and E. Baltimore Black residents that have been generationally impacted
• Healing together through organizing practices, development strategies, programming, and ways of being in community
• Co-owning land as a redistributive, cooperative, reparative/solidarity economic practice
Are you free enough to resist with love?
-Zenju Earthlyn Manuel
ABOUT US
The Village of Love and Resistance (VOLAR) is grassroots community organization based in East Baltimore. We are organizing for healing, community community control of housing, and community stewardship of land. We are currently developing 1025 and 1031 East Monument Street to be collectively owned by members and residents who live in the surrounding neighborhoods. VOLAR is a non-profit tax exempt 501(c)(3) corporation in Maryland.
