A. Bellevue Street Empowerment

1. People living ordinary existence
   • Drug dealing and feeling helpless
   • Drugs, crime, assaults,
2. Defining Moment
   • Latina sexually assaulted. Existential moment-one person intervened the community was rallied and empowered discussion, tactics, perseverance, threats. VICTORY 8 WEEKS LATER.

B. Community Empowerment

1. Organized to run the drug dealers out of Hartford Northend
   • Coaltion of activists black, white, LGBTQ, Puerto Rican Nationalists, Christian, Muslim, Mormons.
2. Suburban /Urban Dialogue
   • Went to suburbs with a message (“you buy drugs in Hartford”)
   • Went to suburbs with arrest records of people caught buying narcotics
   • Woke up white drug buyers on Saturday 10am..megaphones “Don’t buy drugs in Hartford.”
3. We held discussion and forums in Avon, etc-well received.
   • This helped people to see how complicit suburban people were in drug trade. Hosted to speak in homes, churches, political forums.

C. Empowerment Against Racism During Protests

• • Training activists against Neo-Nazis, White Supremacy, and Being attacked.

1. Strategy while protesting situational/ environmental awareness
   • Strategy “all warfare is based on deception” Sun Tzu The Art of War
   • Hand to hand combat training on Saturdays of protestors.
   • Security people are legally armed and disciplined at rallies.

THE RESULTS OF THIS EMPOWERMENT SERIES.

* * * * *

BIOGRAPHY

Name: Cornell Lewis

Born: Detroit, Michigan

Lives in Connecticut

Degrees: Lincoln Christian College in Lincoln, Illinois

•   BA Urban Evangelism.. New Testament translation and study in Greek
•   Studies in Philosophy at LCC and Lincoln College

Master of Education Degree: from Springfield College in Massachusetts

•  Higher degree in rehabilitation study and therapy (counseling, addiction,group counseling, family therapy, holistic therapy etc).
•  In home family counseling, shelter liaison, street counseling of Axis I people.

Social justice activists, organizer, teacher of hand to hand combat and protest tactics.