Boston Workers Alliance Thanks Chuck Turner
Over 5 years ago, Councilor Turner and the D7 Roundtable had the idea to support the formation of a new organization to fight under- and unemployment in the community. After listening to the residents of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, we heard loud and clear that a new organization was necessary to challenge the economic crisis we faced.
Our founding members established 2 goals:
In the last week of July, 2010, BWA has been able to accomplish both of these goals.
On Monday, July 26, BWA's temp agency, the "Boston Staffing Alliance" opened its doors in a grand opening at our Grove Hall Office. We were pleased to have Mayor Menino, Councilor Turner, Councilor Arroyo, and Senator Chang-Diaz join us for the ribbon cutting.
Then on Saturday, July 31, we successfully passed CORI reform through the legislature, representing a historic victory for our communities and the Commonwealth. Part of the CORI legislation was to make Massachusetts the first state in the country to "ban the box" from ALL initial job applications in the state. Councilor Turner first pioneered this policy in the City of Boston with support from Mayor Menino and Councilor Murphy. BWA is proud to have taken it statewide with our partners in the Commonwealth CORI Coalition.
As a small grassroots organization, BWA benefited from in-kind office space and a phone line in Chuck's District Office for the first 3.5 years of our existence. Chuck, his staff, and D7 members have remained invaluable advisers throughout the development of our organization.
We're proud of our victory, and while we have dozens if not hundreds of different supporters to thank, its safe to say that without Chuck Turner's vision and commitment to grassroots organizing, the BWA in its form would not have existed.
So thank you Chuck for your radical leadership in the name of community self determination and power! We are proud to be standing as an independent organization, and will always be grateful for your belief in our ability to grow.
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Aaron Tanaka
Boston Workers' Alliance
411 Blue Hill Ave.
Dorchester, MA 02121
p. 617.606.3580
c. 617.359.0336
f. 617. 606.3582
atanaka@bostonworkersalliance.org
www.BostonWorkersAlliance.org
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Final Playhouse in the Park Concert - Back to the usual place!
Franklin Park Coalition Summer Youth Crew
A Wild Night in Franklin Park!
In partnership with
PRESENTS
A community conversation and screening of
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Roxbury Action Program
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This seasons 2nd
Free Summer Jazz Concert
Makanda Jazz Project
Playing the music of
Makanda Ken McIntyre
With
Trumpets: Jerry Sabatini
Josiah Woodson
Trombone Bill Lowe
Saxophones: Kurtis Rivers Lance Bryant
Sean Berry Charlie Kholhase
Voice: Diane Richardson
Piano: John Kordalewski
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By Kevin Sieff
Sunday, August 8, 2010; C01
Carol Brantley moved quietly around a re-created slave cabin on the Mount Vernon estate, trying to imagine how eight people could share a single bed and a closet-size living space.
About two centuries and twelve generations ago, Brantley's relatives lived in a dank cabin like this one, working the fields of George Washington's pristine 8,000-acre residence.
On Saturday, for the first time, her family returned en masse to the Northern Virginia landmark as the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association hosted a reunion for 120 of Brantley's relatives, all descendants of slaves owned by the first U.S. president.
"For us, this isn't just American history," Brantley said. "This is family history." As well as having ties to the estate's slaves, Brantley's extended family members, the Quanders, are also related by blood to one of George Washington's nephews, experts say.
For the Quanders, their connection to Washington is at the heart of familial lore. It's a history they celebrate and lament but continue to pass on.
Quanders from all over the East Coast toured the estate, gathering around a memorial to the hundreds of slaves who lived and died here in the 1700s. Somewhere nearby, the Quander matriarch and field laborer Suckey Bay is buried in an unmarked grave.
Two hundred years after her death, judges, doctors, professors and their children placed boxwood twigs on the memorial, murmuring the names of the deceased.
"Look how far we've come," said Gloria Tancil Holmes. "It brings tears to my eyes."
That distance, traversed over generations, isn't just about the family's financial or professional successes, Tancil Holmes said. It's about a willingness to recognize the ugly truth about American slavery. "For years, it was something that people didn't really want to talk about, even our own family."
Then Mount Vernon officials began making an effort to document the estate's ties to slavery. They erected a permanent memorial to the first president's 316 slaves. They built a cabin that would tell the story of a typical slave family. Tancil Holmes's mother started giving tours that detailed the role of slaves on the estate.
"Things just started evolving," she said. Saturday marked another chapter in that evolution: For the second time in Mount Vernon's history, an African American family held a reunion on the grounds.
"The time has finally come. The day is finally here," Rohulamin Quander, the founder of the Quander Historical Society, told his extended family. "None of us should be embarrassed about our history that includes enslavement."
This weekend's reunion is the Quander family's 85th. Previous gatherings have taken the group to Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey but never Mount Vernon, a place of weighty symbolism.
"I grew up hearing so much about Mount Vernon, about our family's connection to this place," said Larry Mitchell of Chesapeake, Va. "And now I'm finally here. It's frightening and it's magnificent."
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