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Welcome to The District 7 Daylight Network:

( Formerly known As The Chuck Turner Daylight Network )

 

'The Antidote For The Politically Apathetic'

 

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DEAR MEMBERS:

Sorry, but due to circumstances beyond our control

the D7DN will temporarily discontinue.

This may be one of the last messages you will receive.

 

 

 

 

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1.   JOIN THE NEW AND IMPROVED NAACP BOSTON CHAPTER

 

GENERAL MEETINGS

EVERY LAST MONDAY OF THE MONTH

6:00pm @ The RCC Media Arts Bldg

 

 

 

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2.  HEADS UP: Minority/Women Owned Businesses...SDP Intermediate Vendor Training Seminar (4/26--8:45am-2:00pm)

Don't miss out on this training, which will not be offered again until the Fall of 2011!

SDP Intermediate Vendor Training Seminar

Tuesday, April 26, 2011 - 8:45 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

The Commonwealth's Supplier Diversity Program (SDP) Invites Minority and Women-Owned Vendors to attend this Intermediate Vendor Training. The session will focus on procurement/bidding processes and the tools you need to do business with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

All certified businesses in all business fields are welcome to join us. 

Presentations will focus on:

• Supplier Diversity Program (SDP) Overview
• Navigating the Online State Procurement System (Comm-Pass)
• Bidding on Commodities & Services Contracts
• Bidding on Construction & Design Contracts (Horizontal & Vertical)
• Bidding on Purchase of Service for Health and Human Services
• Subcontracting in Goods, Services, Construction & Design Contracts

The training will take place in the 29th floor Conference Rooms of the MassHousing Offices, One Beacon Street, Boston, MA

Sign up early, once filled we will not be offering this training again until October!

To attend please register* here
 
Questions?  Please email the SDP Help Desk:  sdp@state.ma.us.

*There is a $25.00 offset fee to attend this seminar.  Please make checks payable to SDP/STAR and mail them to the attention of Donna Fleser, SDP, One Ashburton Place, Floor 13, Boston, MA 02108.  We are sorry but we are unable to accept credit or debit cards.

Registration will not be completed until your checks are received.

SDP, One Ashburton Place, Floor 13, Boston, MA 02108. We are sorry but we are unable to accept credit or debit cards. Registration will not be completed until your checks are received.

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.    Two new reports examine data on public employee compensation, pension costs

It is important to note that public employees in MA are NOT eligible for Social Security. Even if someone worked in the private sector before becoming a teacher or after leaving teaching or worked summers and has paid into Social Security s/he can not collect Social Security if receiving a State pension.

 

This also means that if the spouse of a retired teacher dies s/he does not receive survivor benefits.

 

Marilyn Segal

Explore our online budget database Is our research helpful to you? Support our work Contact Info   Noah Berger   President   nberger@massbudget.org   (617) 426-1228 x102   Tom Benner   Communications Director   tbenner@massbudget.org   (617) 426-1228 x100 Two new reports examine data on public employee compensation, pension costs   March 7, 2011   Across the country there has recently been extensive attention focused on issues relating to public employee compensation.  Two new reports from MassBudget examine the available data on public employee compensation and state pension costs in Massachusetts.  In looking at compensation the reports also consider the broader context: across the country, inequality has been increasing with wages for less-educated workers stagnating.   The first paper, Workforce Characteristics and Wages in the Public and Private Sectors, finds that wage outcomes differ across sectors by education level.  Workers with at least a four-year college degree (60 percent of the public sector workforce) earn less in the public sector than in the private sector in Massachusetts -- even after accounting for benefits.  For those workers without a college degree, overall compensation appears to be higher in the public sector, as the wage gap between more and less educated workers is not as great as in the private sector.   A companion report, Demystifying the State Pension System, explains how the Massachusetts public employee pension system works and what the state costs are.  It finds that while public employees have good pensions, those pensions are financed primarily by contributions made by public employees to the pension fund (and by the investment earnings of the fund).  The amount the state pays towards the pensions of current employees is less than the amount paid in most states -- and less than the amount paid by most private employers.  This is partly because state employees are not eligible for Social Security -- which means that the state saves the 6.2 percent (of the first $106,800 of salary) that private sector employers pay towards Social Security.  The amount the state pays into the pension fund for current employees is significantly less than 6 percent. "Workforce Characteristics and Wages in the Public and Private Sectors" is available at www.massbudget.org or by clicking here. "Demystifying the State Pension System" is available by clicking here. See MassBudget's Budget Browser to explore Massachusetts state budgets from Fiscal Year 2001 to the present, as well as budget proposals for the next fiscal year as they are offered by the Governor and the Legislature.     MassBudget provides independent research and analysis of state budget and tax policies, as well as economic issues, with particular attention to the effects on low- and moderate-income people. Marilyn J. Segal, Executive Director Citizens For Public Schools 18 Tremont Street, Suite 320 617-227-3000 x16 fax: 617-227-3453 marilyn@citizensforpublicschools.org

 

 

 

 

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.    "The New Jim Crow" (Once you are labled as a felon...)

      From: Marian Wright Edelman [mailto:mwe@childrensdefense.org]

Problem seeing this message? View this email online “The New Jim Crow”   “Jarvious Cotton cannot vote. Like his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather, he has been denied the right to participate in our electoral democracy... Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation. His father was barred from voting by poll taxes and literacy tests. Today, Jarvious Cotton cannot vote because he, like many black men in the United States, has been labeled a felon and is currently on parole.” “Cotton’s story illustrates, in many respects, the old adage ‘The more things change, the more they remain the same’... In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color ‘criminals’ and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind... Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination—employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial of food stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury service—are suddenly legal. As a criminal, you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim Crow. We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” So begins the introduction to legal scholar and former litigator Michelle Alexander’s extraordinary book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. The New Jim Crow has been praised for documenting in compelling detail how the current historic levels of incarceration in the United States have disproportionately targeted communities of color and function as a means of controlling people of color, just as slavery and Jim Crow did in their time. Alexander acknowledges that many people find this argument hard to believe in the “age of colorblindness.” Many Americans wanted to see President Obama’s historic election as the final hopeful sign our nation has moved “past race,” and many believe the millions of other Black Americans who are imprisoned and disenfranchised are in that condition only because of individual bad choices. When we are confronted with the facts that our nation’s incarceration rates have quintupled over the last several decades and the United States has the largest prison population and imprisons the highest numbers of its minority population in the world, Alexander says many Americans simply accept the prevailing myth that “there is, of course, a colorblind explanation for all this: crime rates. Our prison population has exploded from about 300,000 to more than 2 million in a few short decades, it is said, because of rampant crime. We’re told that the reason so many black and brown men find themselves behind bars and ushered into a permanent, second-class status is because they happen to be the bad guys.” But as The New Jim Crow argues, the data show this is simply not true. While incarceration may be rooted for some in poor individual choices, the glaring racial disparities in searches, arrests, convictions, and sentencing for the same crimes suggest our nation doesn’t treat everyone’s poor choices equally. What has skyrocketed over the years are not our nation’s crime rates—which have actually fallen below the international norm—but the number of drug convictions in the U.S. as a result of our declared “War on Drugs.” Many people assume next that of course Black criminals are being incarcerated for drug crimes at record rates because they are the ones committing them. In some states, Blacks comprise 80%-90% of all drug offenders sent to prison. But The New Jim Crow painstakingly outlines how media and political strategies manufactured the popular images of the War on Drugs as an assault on scary, violent Black male drug dealers, when in fact “[s]tudies show that people of all colors use and sell illegal drugs at remarkably similar rates. If there are significant differences in the surveys to be found, they frequently suggest that whites, particularly white youth, are more likely to engage in drug crime than people of color.” Meanwhile, as The New Jim Crow clearly shows, the dramatic increases in mandatory sentence lengths even for nonviolent offenses and the far-reaching consequences that come with being classified as a felon even after a sentence is completed have made incarceration today a historically punitive form of social control and social death—at exactly the same time as record numbers of African Americans are being confined. This is how mass incarceration functions as the new Jim Crow, with predictably destructive results for Black communities and families. For those of us concerned about our nation’s Cradle to Prison Pipeline® crisis, this latest danger threatens to overwhelm and destroy millions of our children’s futures. By identifying it and giving it a name, Michelle Alexander has placed a critical spotlight on a reality our nation can’t afford to deny. We ignore her careful research and stay silent about mass incarceration’s devastating effects at our own and our nation’s peril. Click here to share your comments and find out what others are saying. Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children's Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org. Mrs. Edelman's Child Watch Column also appears each week on The Huffington Post and Change.org.         Forward to a Friend | Unsubscribe | Update Your Account Copyright © 2011, Children's Defense Fund. 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.   JOB OPPORTUNITIES

             Development Manager

 

The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA) is the largest organization in New England promoting the rights and integration of immigrants and refugees. We serve the commonwealth’s one million foreign-born residents with policy analysis and advocacy, institutional organizing, training and leadership development, and strategic communications MIRA has a membership of 140 organizations across Massachusetts, and works with hundreds of partners and allies across the state.

 

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Development Manager will work with the Development Committee of the Board of Directors to design and implement strategies to successfully increase charitable support from foundations, individuals and corporations.

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

 

·        Implement comprehensive fundraising strategies that have been developed through a strategic plan to meet the needs of the organization including core operating expenses, current programs, and special projects.

·        Develop plan and strategies for renewing and increasing revenue from local and national foundations, individual donors, and family foundations.

·        Research funding prospects and collaborate with grant writing consultant in writing and editing grant proposals.

·        Manage the grants/foundation calendar and put together grant materials for proposals, interim reports and final reports as required by the funder.

·        Coordinate and oversee MIRA’s fundraising events.

·        Supervise development associates, consultants and volunteers

·        In collaboration with the Executive Director, provide leadership to staff and Board Development Committee by taking responsibility for opening new doors to prospective donors, and for bringing in new and increased funding from current donors

·        Organize and staff the Board of Directors’ Development Committee

·        Maintain accurate records of donor and membership information.

 

Qualifications:

·        Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.

·         Three-to-five years experience in development, fundraising, and event planning.

·        Strong interpersonal skills, a collaborative working style, and an enthusiasm for building bridges between and among key stakeholders.

·        Excellent organizational skills;

·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills;

·        Familiarity with databases, MS Office Suite

 

Salary based on experience

 

To apply, please email resume and cover letter including salary requirements to Angela Amell, Office Manager, 105 Chauncy Street, Suite 901, Boston, MA  02111, aamell@miracoalition.org, or fax 617-350-5499.

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 Summer jobs at the zoo  (DEADLINE 3/18 - see attached application for guidelines) 

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN A SUMMER JOB? 

 

* Between 15-17 years old? 

* Full time Boston resident and registered with the HOPELINE?

* Interested in animals and conservation?

* Interested in community service and developing leadership skills?

* Interested in building relationships and having fun?

* Make sure applications are received in the Youth Programs Office by March 18, 2011

CONTACT INFORMATION BELOW...

Youth Program Office

One Franklin Park Road

Boston, MA 02121

youthprogram@zoonewengland.com

617-989-3746

 

 

Zoo New England manages the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham.  Both zoos are accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).  Zoo New England's mission is to inspire people to protect and sustain the natural world for future generations by creating fun and engaging experiences that integrate wildlife and conservation programs, research, and education.

 

 

 

 

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THIS  ISN'T  THE  END, 

IT'S  JUST  THE  BEGINNING?

OUR struggles continue!!!!

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Occasionally we receive information from people regarding organizations and businesses. 

While we share this information with you, it should not be seen as an endorsement of their services.

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 District 7 Boston City Council Office

One City Hall Square

Boston, MA 02201

Phone (617) 635-3510    /     Fax  (617) 635-3734 

 

                                                   ChuckTurner --->  cturner694@comcast.net                     Lorraine.Fowlkes   @cityofboston.gov

 

                                                   Paulette.Tillery                          @cityofboston.gov             Darrin.Howell        @cityofboston.gov

 

                                                   Edith.Monroe                            @cityofboston.gov             Angela.Yarde        @cityofboston.gov

 

ROXBURY:                              WARD 8, Pcts 3-4, 7;                 WARD 9, Pcts 3-5;             WARD 11, Pcts 1-3, 5;                 WARD  12, Pcts 1-9

DORCHESTER:                       Ward 7, Pct 10;                         Ward 8, Pcts 5-6;              Ward 13, Pcts 1-2, 4-5

SOUTH END:                           Ward 4, Pct 4;                           Ward 9, Pct 2

FENWAY:                                 Ward 4, Pcts 5, 8-9  

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