Anti-Violence Activist Joy Powell's Message to the Grassroots:

I've been railroaded, raped, and bamboozled. Which is a sham conception of my self being respected as an American citizen. This is what they call the American dream; this is an American nightmare. The City of Rochester is, as well as our society at large is overrun, with corruption, where wicked and powerful people are destroying our City and State for their own personal interests. Anyone who stands up and calls out the spreading cancer for what it is will be struck down and arrested for a crime you did not commit and slander your good name. I was set up, falsely arrested and viciously smeared because of who I am, not what I did, which is nothing by a self-admitted crack addict who's been convicted of fraud, forgery and petite larceny. Which shows she's accustomed to lying. Not to forget the publicity stunt she used purging herself to the police and media claiming to be my cousin. The Rochester Police Department has smeared and assassinated my character due to my stance decrying police brutality against mentally ill people and standing up for equality and justice for all. But I guess that's why God made highlighters, so we can highlight the parts of the Bible that are convenient and ignore the rest. I feel that my integrity is in question due to the outright and blatant slanderous fabrications.

Any grassroots organizations and activists who go to the center of the real underlying issues automatically become a threat. I have confronted abuses of power of people in high places and has committed the unthinkable and the unforgiveable; being an effective social activist while working for free. In this age of cut-throat competition for state funding, the activist and/or social worker proves what the "Unlevel Playing Field" the federal study documented: the million dollar bureaucracy model is like a broken pitcher, you can pour more and more funding into the broken bureaucracy, but what we really need is more funding at the grassroots level and more grassroots activists stopping the leaks in our broken society. Instead of funding "dinosaur" bureaucracies sucking up tax dollars like bloated leaches, we need more people of conscience to help society heal itself. I'm guilty of being an effective grassroots activist that has motivated the City of Rochester to organize against violence, call upon the police to be as effective as possible and hold all people accountable for their actions. Instead of relying on the billion dollar bureaucracies to fix the systemic problems of our society, let's follow my example through fixing society itself one heart and one mind at a time.