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Common Ground celebrates 1 year as a cooperative business, WMAR2 ABC Baltimore
The Baristas Who Took Over Their Cafe, In These Times
Workers Refuse to Give Up: Forming the Common Ground Cafe Cooperative, Liberation News
Cooperative Ways to Weather The Silver Tsunami, Yes! Magazine
Common Ground Bakery Cafe abruptly closes in hampden after 25 years leaving employees stunned, Capital Gazette
Saving Common Ground Bakery Cafe, EO+WD
Common Ground coffee shop's worker-owner model is uncommonly grounded, Baltimore Fishbowl
Hampden's Common Ground coffee shop and cafe to reopen as worker-owned co-op in September, Baltimore Sun
Hampden's Common Ground to reopen as worker-owned cooperative, Baltimore Banner
Hampden's Common Ground Bakery Cafe is reopening as a worker-owned co-op, Baltimore Magazine
After beloved Baltimore coffee shop abruptly closed, workers reopen as co-op, The Real News Network

Wednesday Sept. 18th, 6-8pm

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Join us on Wednesday Sept. 18th, 6-8pm, for our Common Ground Victory Day After Party! We'll have games, snacks, and raffles!

Wednesday Sept. 18, 7am-3pm

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Join us on Wednesday Sept. 18th from 7am-3pm as we celebrate our one year anniversary as a worker-owned cooperative! We'll have 50% off discounts on our muffins and coffee. We'll also be giving out 10 free travel mugs to our first 10 customers of the day! Stop in and enjoy coffee, pastries, breakfast, or lunch with us as we reflect on our past year of achievements together and our continued future progress to come.

Tuesday Aug. 13th, 6-8pm

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Join us for a night of board games, tea, and pastries! This Tuesday Aug. 13th from 6-8pm we will be hanging out the cafe with our growing collection of games to choose from, or bring your own from home!

Tuesday July 30th, 12-3pm

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Our featured artist of the month, Matt Muirhead, will be hanging out in the cafe this Tuesday from 12-3 to talk about the beautiful art on display! Come by to enjoy some hot coffee and meet the artist!

Tuesday April 23rd, 6-8pm

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Join us on Tuesday April 23rd for a panel discussion featuring labor organizers from UFCW, ROC United, UE, IUPAT, Baltimore PSL, SEIU, and SBWU. Panelists will be discussing what labor organizing looks like here in Baltimore and how our struggle connects to other struggles for liberation!

Sunday March 3rd, 12-3pm

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Our featured artist of the month, Collin Cessna, will be hanging out in the cafe this Sunday from 12-3 to talk about the beautiful art on display! Come by to enjoy some hot coffee and meet the artist!

Saturday Feb. 3rd, 12-3pm

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This Saturday come by the cafe to meet our featured artist of the month: Frankie Simone!

Tuesday, Jan. 30th, 10:30am-12:30pm

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This coming Tuesday, 1/30, we have a representative of the One Fair Wage campaign who will be hanging out at Common Ground to talk with baristas and other restaurant workers about how we can push our elected officials to give us a fair wage!

Jan. 14th, 9am

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This Sunday, January 14th, the #Miles4Palestine walk will be in solidarity with runners around the world calling for a permanent ceasefire and an end to the genocide in Gaza. Join Runners for Justice at Common Ground, 9am for a run/walk solidarity event!

Jan. 3rd, 12-3pm

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Come meet our featured artist of the month, Larry Schlechter, Jan. 3rd from 12-3pm in the cafe!

Tuesday Dec. 19th, 6-8pm

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Join us this coming Tuesday, Dec. 19th from 6-8pm for a chill board game night at Common Ground!

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For the month of December we have art up on our walls by local surrealist painter, Larry Schleshter! Check out these amazing works on your next visit to Common Ground!

Saturday Nov. 25th, 6-8pm

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Join us Saturday Nov. 25th from 6-8pm for a fun kid-friendly movie night featuring the animated film Ponyo!

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For the first half of the month of November, we will be featuring a piece by local artist, Daisy Stoner! Come by the cafe to see this beautiful piece and enter the raffle to win it!

Friday Nov. 3rd, 6:30pm

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Join Common Ground and the Baltimore Coffee Collective for a first Friday latte art throwdown! Proceeds from the event will benefit the Baltimore Harm Reduction Coalition

Tuesday Oct. 31st, 5-6pm

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Stop by Common Ground on Halloween for candy and a spooky Spider's Lair attraction out on the patio!

Friday Oct. 13th, 6:30-10:30pm

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Join us for a double feature movie night this Friday the 13th! We will be providing several specials including hot apple cider and pumpkin lentil coconut curry!

Saturday Sept. 30th, 6-9pm

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Join us on Saturday Sept. 30th from 6-9pm out on the patio for a screening of The Take (2004), a documentary about Argentinian auto factory workers who occupy their abandoned factories and reclaim them as worker-owned cooperatives, followed by a panel discussion featuring Common Ground Workers United, Thread Cooperative, and Metta Cooperative.

Sunday Sept. 24th, 6-9pm

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Come join us for a night of celebration Sunday Sept. 24th from 6-9pm! We will be celebrating our grand reopening with music, games, raffles, and more! Light refreshments will be provided.

Monday Sept. 18th

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We are overjoyed to announce that we will be re-opening Common Ground this September as a worker-owned cooperative in partnership with the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy (BRED) and Seed Commons.

It’s been a lengthy and stressful process, but we are so happy to finally be able to tell you, our customers, the exciting news. We can’t thank you guys more for the help we have received throughout the process of becoming a worker cooperative. From helping our coworkers pay rent and buy food, we truly don’t know what we would’ve done without you all.

Seed Commons and BRED, who were both co-founded by our friends at Red Emma’s Bookstore Coffeehouse, helped us forge this path toward worker-ownership. They’ve helped us so much, and we are so happy to have them not only as a resource but as companions and confidants.

We thank everyone in as many ways as we can say thank you. We look forward to seeing all your wonderful faces and continuing the legacy that has been Common Ground. We’re excited to be further into solidarity with our neighbors while remaining a staple of the Hampden community. Get ready to not only come back to your favorite gathering place but to finally gorge yourselves on coffee and baked goods once again. We’ll be slowly getting everything back to normal with a soft opening to start, but we are doing everything we can to perfect an even better place that you know and love. Love you all.