Category: Akron Politics
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Why Can’t People Be Warm Every Night?
For my wife: Akron’s emergency shelter system is failing its most vulnerable residents, with inconsistent communication and limited low-barrier options—only one exists, and it’s illegal. In response, I’ve opened a mobile community center, providing warmth and dignity to those in need. Despite the minimal cost and overwhelming success of this grassroots effort, local bureaucracies remain…
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I Just Sold 15 Broad Street
December 19, 2024 For my wife… I just sold 15 Broad Street in Akron after owning it for 14 years. While it started as the home for my marketing company SageRock, its most meaningful chapter was hosting The Homeless Charity and Second Chance Village – a homeless-run day center and tent city that the city…
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Dear White Moderate: Your ‘Order’ Is Killing Us
MLK’s Warning to Today’s Liberal Elite I am going to begin my articles from now on with a new section called: “For my wife…” She gets the fire hydrant of me all the time and reading an overly wordy essay is not what she calls a good time. Consider it a tl;dr. For my wife…I…
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Why I Think It’s Important We Support The Brian Thompson Assassin
First, let me say that I don’t come to a state of radical love and acceptance naturally. I am not some aberration of humanity. I am not a natural-born saint. My blood thirst is as alive and well as the rest of humanity. I love vengeance and cold, hard, righteous justice as much as the…
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Finding Light in the Shadows: My Journey Through a Protest Camp
In a world that often feels dark, the smallest kindnesses reveal the light we carry within. As a person who experiences the suffering, hopelessness, and meaninglessness of life VERY deeply, it is absolutely critical for my mental well-being to acknowledge the WHOLE truth. I spent 2 nights living in this tent during my one-person protest…
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The Well of Sadness
Finding Light in the Depths of Loss and Displacement (This was written the day after the November 5, 2024 presidential election where Donald Trump won his second term as president. Many Democrats had been told that he is a fascist and he is going to steal Democracy and go after “the enemy within” which are…
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The Last Tent Standing: A Protest, a Privilege, and a Nation’s Divide
Reflections on class, privilege, and the hidden biases that shape our society. It’s 6:50am on Friday, November 1, 2024. It’s 45 degrees. I’m the last tent standing. I’m the last anything standing, really. They brought trucks and bobcats and cleaned everything that wasn’t bolted down on 4 separate properties. That was surprising. All I ever…
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PRESS RELEASE: Winter Safe Sleeping Space Protest
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Sage Lewis Phone: 330-416-7519 Email: [email protected] Advocate Begins Indefinite Camp-Out Protest Against Homeless Displacement in Akron AKRON, OH 10/30/2024 — Starting tonight, Sage Lewis, founder of Houseless Movement Charity, will begin an indefinite camp-out protest next to 85 Kent Place, Akron, in direct response to the City of Akron’s notice to…
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When the World Turns Away: Choosing to Stand in a Society that Won’t
A personal reflection on rage, humanity, and the cost of caring I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to overcome my rage. The world is just so wrong sometimes. Did I tell you that my friend Hurricane got hit by a school bus? It destroyed his cart, his front bicycle wheel and his guitar.…
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The Art of Staying Alive in a World That Makes No Sense
A personal journey through despair, anger, and meaning in the face of life’s absurdities I think about killing myself all the time. Albert Camus writes: “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” I…
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Starbucks Lines and Silent Screams: America’s Invisible Addictions
Coffee, Trauma, and the Quest for Self-Acceptance in Modern America I laugh at myself often, listening to the petty bullshit that goes on in my head. I’m still stewing over losing that city council election seat. Yesterday, I was yelling at people in my head who voted against me because they thought that I was…
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SATM Podcast 121: I Lost My Election Biggly
Sage Against The Machine Podcast Episode 121 We’re going to look at my election for Akron city council and why I lost so spectacularly. We’ll also look at who won and who else lost. I’d like to talk a little about where I’m thinking about going from here.
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I Lost
I’m sorry. I tried really hard. And I know that there are some people that wanted to see me win. But clearly, most of Ward 8 did not see it that way. That’s fine. I absolutely respect their decision. This is not the first time I’ve lost. Far from it. I’ve lost more times than…
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A Freighter Full Of Hope
Something I don’t currently talk much about (because there is so much else to discuss) is my deep love of technology. I am currently obsessed with AI and what it means for the future of humanity. Here is an image I created with an AI image creator called Midjourney. The prompt I gave it was:…
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Akron: You are radicalizing your Black community.
Here’s a picture of me and Imokhai Okolo. It was taken in mid-March of this year. Imokhai has been betrayed by his city. Jayland Walker was murdered in extreme cold blood with 94 bullets all meant for his unarmed body. The city of Akron did something similar to Imokhai. They looked to destroy his character.…
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SATM Podcast 119: April 20 2023 – where we are with Jayland Walker today
Sage Against The Machine Podcast Episode 119.I tried to be understanding and empathetic of the police. They chose to makes us hate them. Here are the links I referenced in this show: If you have missed any shows they are now archived in a podcast. You can check them out on my blog. Or you…
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We Must Love Our Police Officers
The more radical I become in my activism the more extreme my positions of love become. I often like to tell you to love pedophiles. I do that because I know it’s the hardest challenge of love for many of you (unless of course you have a loved one that is a pedophile, like I…
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Who Cares?
This is the memorial that was created near where Jayland Walker was shot and killed. It’s at East Wilbeth and South Main. I took this picture at a very peaceful protest last night. I kept coming back to this little tree. I’d take pictures from different angles. Like in hopes that it would tell me…
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Tara Mosely is exactly what Akron needs right now.
Look, if you know, you know. Tara Mosely is exactly what Akron needs right now. We are entering a time of sadness, desperation, isolation and hopelessness. I’m telling you, Jayland Walker’s murderers will not be indicted We will, yet again, learn that the laws of the system are only here for one thing: To protect…
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Will You Play Well With Others?
I was out talking to voters yesterday and a woman asked me this question: “Will you play well with others?” That’s a really good question. It represents a deep understanding of who I am. I really appreciated the question. She is wondering if I will be able to work with other members of city council…