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Today, Friday, 10/24/10
6:00 pm-7:00 pm (WAKE)
7:00 pm-9:00 pm (FUNERAL SERVICES)
Holy Tabernacle Church, Dorchester, MA
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6. PUBLIC HEARING re: The Ferdninand's Complex in Dudley Square Area. (9/27--6pm)
7. PUBLIC HEARING re: Public recommendations on next BPS/Boston Teachers Union contract (9/28--1:30pm)
8. Neighb'd Mtg re: SEAVER STREET--St. Lighting, Reconstruction, Pedestrian/Vehicle Safety (9/28--6:30pm)
Rally today at HUD called off
HUD is contacting lawyers representing foreclosing banks with federally-insured loans on four properties asking that any evictions be put on hold while HUD reviews the cases.
City Life, Harvard Legal Aid, and the Merrimack Valley Project participated in a conference call with HUD Sept. 8. They promised to review a policy whereby HUD requires banks to deliver insured buildings vacant – that is, where HUD requires evictions by foreclosing banks. HUD specifically was going to review four cases represented by our organizations. When we hadn't heard from HUD we decided to go forward with our rally scheduled for today at noon at the Tip O'Neill buildling.
This morning (Friday) we spoke to HUD officials. They sent us an email noting that they are contacting the attorneys for the foreclosing bank in each of four cases we highlighted. HUD is asking those attorneys to put a hold on any evictions while they further review the cases. We are urging that that review result in accepting conveyance of federally-insured foreclosed properties while still occupied. Boston Community Capital already has made offers to buy each of the foreclosed properties and resell to former owners at real current value. This is the process we are using successfully elsewhere. For it to work here requires that HUD stop its policy of mandating evictions.
Based on this information we have called off our rally. Of course, we remain committed to defending our members (these four and future cases) against any evictions by foreclosing banks, including those currently required by HUD. We remain committed to resale to former owners at real current value. HUD will get the same price.
Please forward to your networks.
Join the Green Neighbors
For the First
Codman Square
Energy Fair!
Sponsored by the Green Neighbors Education Committee.
Hosted at the Second Church in Dorchester ¨C Rev. Dr. Victor Price, Pastor,
600 Washington Street in the Codman Square section of Dorchester. (The big white church in Codman Square.)
Co-Sponsored by some of your favorite greater Codman Square area organizations:
The Second Church in Dorchester
The Community Improvement Association (CIA)
Unity Sports and Cultural Club
The B.O.L.D. Teens
The Codman Square Neighborhood Council
The Dorchester YMCA
The Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
The Greater Four Corners Action Coalition
The Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club
(more to come!)
Food! Fun! Music! Children¡¯s Activities! GREEN Workshops! Free Stuff!
Learn how you can
Save Money by Fighting Climate Change by Saving Energy at home and having FUN while you do it!Stay tuned for more information.
Do you have GREEN information, products or services? Then contact Owen at the Green Neighbors at 617-427-6293 or otoney@juno.com
Please forward to your networks.
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4. BWA--Boston Workers Alliance Announcements
1. Save the Date: BWA Annual Celebration and Fundraiser [10/22]
2. Join the Movement for Home Weatherization - http://tinyurl.com/weatherizationBWA
3. Green Justice Community Action Forum [9/22]
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1. *SAVE THE DATE*
BWA Annual Celebration and Fundraiser
Friday October, 22nd
6:30-11pm
SEIU 1199
150 Mt. Vernon St.
2 Blocks from JFK / U Mass T-Stop (Red Line)
Next to the Bayside Expo Center
Join the Boston Workers Alliance in celebrating our 5th year of successful grassroots organizing. We will be highlighting major victories, including the passage of CORI reform and the launching of the new CORI friendly temp agency, the Boston Staffing Alliance. Please join us for this exciting night of community, food, music and celebration!
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2. Join the Movement for Home Weatherization
BWA is launching a new initiative to weatherize hundreds of homes in the Boston area this year!
Weatherization means air sealing your homes and adding insulation to your walls. We are fighting for the triple bottom line: the people, the environment, the economy
1. People: weatherization will reduce your energy use, reduce your heating bills and make your homes more comfortable
2. Environment: weatherization will reduce energy use to help combat global warming
3. Economy: weatherization can help create new green jobs strong enough to lift our communities out of poverty
Sign up for an initial informational phone call by filling out your information at the following link: http://tinyurl.com/weatherizationBWA
Free Funds for Weatherization:
Did you know that there are funds available to get your home weatherized? If you are below 60% of medium income, you can access up to $10,000 of free work in your home. If you are between 60% and 120% of medium income, you can access up to $3,500 in free weatherization work. BWA can help you access these funds! Sign up today!
http://tinyurl.com/weatherizationBWA
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3. Green Justice Community Action Forum
Communities and Unions Say: We're Ready to Take Control of the Green Economy!
Tuesday, September 22, 2010
6:00pm to 8:00 pm
Our Lady of Lourdes, 45 Brookside Ave, Jamaica Plain (1 block from Stony Brook T-Stop)
Join BWA in promoting green solutions that can combat poverty and pollution at the same time. BWA is helping to provide free transportation from Grove Hall to Jamaica Plain.
Let us know that your coming:
http://tinyurl.com/greenjusticeRSVP
Green Justice:
• Because our homes are old and drafty
• Because we need healthy, safe jobs
• Because we want to fight global warming
• Because Winter's coming
• Because we are paying for others' prosperity with our dollars, health, and lives
• Because we are ready to weatherize our communities
Background
Utility companies administer MassSAVE, the state's energy efficiency program. According to Green Justice Coalition research, MassSAVE is underserving low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, and low- to moderate-income ratepayers are paying more into the system than they are getting out. As a result, neighborhoods like Roxbury and Dorchester are subsidizing wealthier suburbs' weatherization work.
The Green Justice Coalition has proposed three solutions to this problem:
1. Provide financial access for low- to moderate-income residents;
2. Mobilize low-income communities for climate action; and
3. Make sure "green" jobs are good jobs held by community residents.
Last October the utility companies promised to start implementing these solutions as part of their three-year, $1.4 billion energy efficiency plan. Progress has been very slow. The Green Justice Coalition is trying to strengthen the utilities' commitment when they file "midcourse corrections" to their three-year plan this October.
The Green Justice Coalition Steering Committee is:
Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), Alliance to Develop Power (ADP), Boston Climate Action Network (BCAN), Boston Workers' Alliance (BWA), Chelsea Collaborative, Chinese Progressive Association, Clean Water Action, Coalition Against Poverty/Coalition for Social Justice (CAP/CSJ), Community Labor United (CLU), Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI), Greater Four Corners Action Coalition, MassCOSH, Laborers' New England Regional Organizing Fund, Massachusetts Energy Consumers Alliance, Neighbor to Neighbor, New England Council of Carpenters, New England United for Justice, Painters & Allied Trades District Council 35, Project RIGHT
We Are Ready and We Are Willing: Join us to Stand for Green Jobs and Weatherization in our communities. September 22 - Stand Up for Green Jobs Now!
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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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PUBLIC HEARING
REGARDING
Docket #10-0761
DEVELOPMENT OF
THE FERDINAND'S COMPLEX
( LAND USE + DEVELOPMENT IN ROXBURY )
Please attend in order to become better informed of the decisions that are being made about the economy of our neighborhood.
Monday, September 27, 2010
AT
The
For more information please call:
Boston City Councillor Chuck Turner's Office
(617) 635 – 3510
Offered By Councillor Chuck Turner
Whereas, in the late 1990s, the Massachusetts State Legislature designated the former site of the
Ferdinand's furniture company and an adjoining building as the location of a state office building; and
Whereas, in 2003, Governor Mitt Romney announced that he was not moving forward with the project; and
Whereas, in 2006, Mayor Thomas Menino announced that the City would initiate a major development effort in Dudley Square
involving the building of a new police headquarters for Police District B2, the redevelopment of the former site of
Ferdinand's and the adjoining building, as well identify a developer to build a retail complex at the site of the former B2
Police Headquarters; and
Whereas, at the Ways and Means Committee hearing on
the City of Boston, and Joe Mulligan, Assistant Director of Property Management, stated that the financial pressure
may delay the development; and
Whereas, it is important that the community is kept informed of the progress or lack of progress on the development at the
Ferdinand's site. Therefore, Be It
Ordered, that the appropriate committee of the Boston City Council hold a hearing and invite the Director of Property
Management to report on progress on the development of the Ferdinand's site, the timetable for construction, and the
departments that are being considered for relocation to the Ferdinand's building.
7. PUBLIC HEARING re: Public recommendations on next BPS/Boston Teachers Union contract (9/28--1:30pm
8. Neighb'd Mtg re: SEAVER STREET--St. Lighting, Reconstruction, Pedestrian/Vehicle Safety (9/28--6:30pm)
| Put out the Call Come One, Come All Hopefully this is the last time we have to call for Arnie's release. Please join us to help make this historic event happen. He received a unanimous decision from the Parole Board last time but it appears the peoples voices did not reach the Governor's ears. We're asking for everyone who attended before, for those who know Arnie's case, who have come to his hearings in the past to please try and make it and to bring people with you. The Parole Board heard us but not the Governor so we have to make it bigger, so big they have to let him go. Let's get together on Friday, October 1st, to focus our thoughts and energy on Arnie's release, to plan coordination of speakers, rides, other last minute details and to schedule a meeting for after the 7th. If you cannot make it but you're planning on speaking or need a ride please make sure we know by Friday afternoon by email or phone at. If we need to get a bus we need to know. 857.204.0072 857.492.4858 Friday, Oct. 1, 2010 7:00 PM Community Church of Boston, Guatemala Room, 3rd Floor 565 Boylston St., Boston | ||||
| ===================================================================== 10. Are YOU at Risk from the BU Bio-lab? (10/5--6:30-10:00pm) ==================================================================== Attend the October 5th Community meeting NIH and BU will present the communities Risks associated with the BU Bio-Terror lab????? Be there to hear First hand Please post to everybody and their momma!!! Meeting of the National Institutes of Health WHAT: An opportunity for the public to engage in a dialogue about the draft supplementary risk assessment study being performed for the Boston University National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. WHEN: October 5, 2010; 6:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. WHERE: Mainstage at Roxbury Community College The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has assembled a Blue Ribbon Panel to advise the NIH Director on matters regarding the BUMC NEIDL and other NIH-funded Regional and National Biocontainment Laboratories. A key element of the Blue Ribbon Panel's charge is to provide advice on a draft supplementary risk assessment regarding the NEIDL. The Blue Ribbon Panel is holding a public meeting to inform the community on the status and proposed approach of the risk assessment for the BUMC NEIDL. The meeting program will include an update and review of the ongoing supplementary risk assessment study. The materials that will be presented at the meeting, as well as other pertinent meeting details, will be posted in advance on the Web site of the Blue Ribbon Panel at: http://nihblueribbonpanel-bumc-neidl.od.nih.gov/ Members of the public may, at any time, file written comments to the following address: NIH Blue Ribbon Panel, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-7985 or by sending an email to: nih_brp@od.nih.gov.
這是一則重要消息。 請要求某人翻譯它為您。 Ce message est très important. Veuillez demander à quelqu'un de le traduire pour vous. ============================================================================= ============================================================================= Hey everyone. Go to the website to sign on… http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/an-alternative-vision-for-the-bu-bio-terror-lab An Alternative Vision for the BU Bio-Terror Lab
"We the undersigned, " support the the Roxbury Safety Net, the Stop the BU Bio-Terror Lab Coalition and their scientist in their proposed Alternative "USE" "Vision" for the BU Bio-Terror lab housed in the Roxbury/S. End neighborhoods.
There's strength in numbers!! |
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12. Apartheid in our schools
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Apartheid in our schools
By Derrick Z. Jackson Globe Columnist
The Boston Globe
September 21, 2010
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/21/apartheid_in_our_schools/
WHEN PRESIDENT Obama took office in January 2009, the UCLA's Civil Rights Project reported that segregation patterns in public schools 'were far worse in 2006 than in 1988."
Eighteen months later, a new study has shown how much worse the patterns are. Diversitydata.org, supported by the Kellogg Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, has published figures compiled by Northeastern University researchers that found 'gross levels of disparity."
Mocking any rhetoric about democracy and equal opportunity, the new study says children of color 'continue to attend very different schools than white children." That is a polite way of saying we are reverting to what the Kerner Commission Report on urban unrest found: 'two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal."
In Chicago, the average black student goes to a public school that is 74 percent black while the average white student goes to a school that is 6 percent black. Boston was among the 10 worst major metropolitan areas in its ratios of segregation for African-American and Latino students, and third for white students having the lowest exposure to fellow students in poverty.
To read more, go to
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/09/21/apartheid_in_our_schools/
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ROXBURY: WARD 8, Pcts 3-4, 7; WARD 9, Pcts 3-5; WARD 11, Pcts 1-3, 5; WARD 12, Pcts 1-9
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FENWAY: Ward 4, Pcts 5, 8-9