The Antidote For The Apathetic
4. Free Concert: The Makanda Project featuring Odean Pope (11/13--7:00pm-9:30pm)
10. Community Change Leadership Awards: Challenging Structural Racism (11/20--6:00--8:30pm)
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four-hour sessions on 3 consecutive Saturdays in November (11/6, 11/13 & 11/20)
Online Presence for Employment (OPE)
Online Resources & Technology Skills for Adults Seeking Employment
through the Timothy Smith Network Program
made possible thorough a grant from Microsoft Corporation
Register Now for free upcoming classes on 3 Consecutive Saturdays:
Saturday November 6th, 13th, and 20th 10AM-2PM
Classes will be held in the computer lab at Fenway CDC, at 73 Hemenway Street Boston, MA 02115
For more information & to RSVP contact Margarita at 617-267-4637 ext. 10 or cmargarita@fenwaycdc.org
Participants are expected to: bring a resume in electronic format, be able to format text using Microsoft Word, have an email account, know how to search the Internet, and be able to read English language newspapers.
2. CMS Benefits from Great American Book Drive (11/6/10)
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THE MAKANDA PROJECT
FREE CONCERT
Saturday, November 13, 7:00 to 9:30 pm
with special guest
ODEAN POPE
Odean Pope, Sean Berry, Lance Bryant - tenor saxophone
Charlie Kohlhase - baritone saxophone
Josiah Woodson, Jerry Sabatini - trumpet
Robert Stringer - trombone
Bill Lowe - bass trombone, tuba
Diane Richardson - voice
John Kordalewski - piano
John Lockwood - bass
Yoron
Supported by the Fellowes Fund of the
Also check out the Makanda Project on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Gr4s5JH6s& ("You Know What")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSk1uSAA8Zo ("Caribe")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC_il0v2IvU& ("Seeing Autumn")
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TO: ALL CIVIC LEADERS, RESIDENTS, GUESTS AND INTERESTED PERSONS
RE: MEETING NOTICE
THE MONTHLY MEETING OF THE HANCOCK STREET CIVIC ASSOCIATION
WILL BE HELD ON (Third Thursday of Each Month):
THURSDAY, November 18, 2010 AT 6:30-8:00 PM
AT: SECOND (2ND) FLOOR
BIRD STREET COMMUNITY CENTER BUILDING
500 COLUMBIA ROAD,
DORCHESTER, MA. 02125
Meet With Areas B & C Police, State & City Representatives, Discuss Issues. Find Out What's Really Going On In The Neighborhood!
If You Or Your Organization Wish To Make An Announcement Or Presentation,
Please Contact Us In Advance To Be Placed On The Agenda.
7 WHITTEMORE TERRACE, DORCHESTER, MA. 02125-2119
YOUR ATTENDANCE IS WELCOME AND ENCOURAGED!
OUR NEXT MEETINGS WILL BE HELD ON:
NOVEMBER 18, 2010
DECEMBER 16, 2010
JANUARY 20, 2011
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
MARCH 17, 2011
APRIL 21, 2011
MAY 19, 2011
c/o: Robert Mickiewicz, President
7 Whittemore Terrace
Dorchester, Ma. 02125
Fax:(617) 436-6438
8. MBTA Public Meeting ' Talbot Avenue Commuter Rail Station' (11/18--6:00-7:30pm)
MBTA PUBLIC MEETING
TALBOT AVENUE COMMUTER RAIL STATION
MBTA Project No.: H74CNO7
November 18, 2010
6:00 pm TO 7:30 pm
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is pleased to announce a community meeting to introduce the Contractor for the Talbot Avenue Commuter Rail Station and Talbot & Woodrow Avenue Bridge Replacement Project, Barletta Heavy Division.
At the meeting Barletta Heavy Division will provide an overview of the project and schedule.
A question and answer period will follow.
Meeting Location: Talbot Bernard Homes
193 Talbot Avenue
Dorchester, MA
The MBTA urges all interested parties to attend. The meeting location is accessible to persons with disabilities. If assistive listening devices and/ or interpreters are needed, please call Massachusetts Relay Service (617) 222-3752.
For more information, please call (617)222-6757.
9. The Deadliest Disease In America (11/20--9:00am-3:15pm)
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Take Community Action
The Deadliest
Disease In
November 2o, 2010 ·
Raytheon Amphitheater · Egan · Northeastern University
The Deadliest Disease in
by facilitated discussions in workshops that highlight the
themes of inequity and racism that individuals experience in our healthcare system.
Lets mobilize our communities and organizations for change by:
Reducing racially and culturally insensitive barriers to health care access.
Initiating policy changes to the health care system to provide equal quality care to all regardless
of race and ethnicity.
Learning about campaigns to engage our health centers that will benefit our neighborhoods
and promote research that can make a difference in our community's health.
Promoting public responsibility at the individual level, organizational level, and institutional
level of society for systematic change to overcome racism.
Register for this free event at
http://cm-cchersdeadliestdisease.eventbrite.com
For more Information
or to register by phone,
Contact: Kerone Anderson
Email: ke.anderson@neu.edu
Phone:
DEADLIEST DISEASE IN AMERICA SPONSORSHIP
The Deadliest Disease in America is a documentary film that includes comprehensive workshops that specifically highlights the inequity that individuals receive in our healthcare system. This program will help individuals, health professionals, and organizations to identify unequal treatment in their health care delivery.
Morning & Afternoon Workshops include:
A. Empowering community based organizations to work with legislators for change
B. What does unequal treatment look like in health care delivery and why you should report it
C. Hospital Community Benefits
D. Incorporating Policy Advocacy into Program Development
This event will be held on November 20, 2010, from 9:00am to 3:15pm at Northeastern University. We are inviting our partners to become sponsors for this great event. Your generous sponsorship will provide up to 300 hundred community residents, community based organizations and health professionals the opportunity to learn how to engage and build solution-oriented initiatives with healthcare providers and organizations to address the unequal treatment that patients receive in our healthcare system.
Sponsor Opportunities
$2,000
An afternoon Workshop designed by and for your organization
Company logo on our website/program materials
Your generous sponsorship highlighted in the Introduction
Your organization listed as a sponsor
Guaranteed slots for Staff
$1,000
Company logo on our website/program materials
Your organization listed as a sponsor
Guaranteed slots for Staff
$500
Company logo on our website/program materials
Your organization listed as a sponsor
Exhibitor Table
$250
Your organization listed as a sponsor
Exhibitor Table
Individual Sponsors: $25, $50, $75, & $100
Your name listed in the program
For more information regarding sponsorship opportunities, please contact Kerone Anderson at ke.anderson@neu.edu/61-373-8597.
10. Community Change Leadership Awards: Challenging Structural Racism (11/20--6:00--8:30pm)
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Please join Community Change for the presentation of the 2010 Community Change Leadership Awards hosted by Simmons College Institute for Leadership and Change in the |
| LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD RECIPIENTS Jean Hardisty, Researcher Theresa Perry, Professor of Africana Studies and Education, Sarah-Ann Shaw, Retired Journalist & Community Activist HORACE SELDON EMERGING LEADER AWARD RECIPIENTS Alexia Loman Arroyo, Lead Organizer, Reflect and Strengthen Voices of Liberation DRYLONGSO AWARD RECIPIENTS Berta Rose Berriz, Ed.D, Co-Lead Teacher/Lower School, Laurie Holmes, Organizer for Economic and Social Justice and Community Solutions to End Violence Against Women Maya Honda, Associate Professor of Human Development, Lynette Jones-Carradine, Educator Ron Marlow, Assistant Secretary of Access and Cash bar and dinner buffet Community Change, Inc. works tirelessly to challenge structural racism. The Community Change Leadership Awards provide a unique opportunity for our community to come together to celebrate the work we all do. This year's Leadership Awards are dedicated to the life and work of our dear friend Howard Zinn. The Drylongso Awards, begun in 1987, honor ordinary people doing extraordinary work. The Horace Seldon Emerging Leader Awards recognize the work of young activists who are living the commitment and demonstrating the energy and passion of
Margaret A. Burnham; Peggy McIntosh; Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. PLANNING COMMITTEE Mary Antes; Loretta Dixon; Trudy Glidden; Antonieta Gimeno; Mark Gray; Audley Green; Diane Hammer; Pearl Hines; Tom Louie; Paul Marcus; Bunny Meyer; Myrna Morales; Alexi Paraschos Directions and Parking Information: |
The Boston Housing Authority hereby announces a
public hearing
to review and comment upon the
BHA FY2011 Agency Plan.
You are invited to attend at either time or location:
Monday, December 6, 2010
9:30 AM at 125 Amory St. Community Room Roxbury, MA 02119
or
6:00 PM at Roxbury Community College, Media Arts Building
1234 Columbus Avenue Roxbury, MA 02120
The Annual Plan provides details about the Authority's operations in the upcoming fiscal year (April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012). A draft of the FY 2011 Annual Plan is available for public review and comment from November 1 through December 15. The Plan will be available in the Planning Dept. 11th floor, 52 Chauncy Street, on the BHA website at www.bostonhousing.org and in the Copley Square branch of the Boston Public Library. If you have a reasonable accommodation request relative to either reviewing the Plan or attending the Hearing, please call 617-988-4107 or TDD 800-545-1833 x420. Interpreters can be made available at the Hearing upon request. Comments can be sent to 52 Chauncy St. attn: John Kane, Boston, MA 02111; or e-mail at john.kane@bostonhousing.org.
The Mission Main Concerned Residents Committee
presents its'
2nd Annual Holiday Craft/Vendors FairCome out and support local vendors
&
get some holiday bargains!!
Thursday, December 9
th 5-8 PM 43 Smith Street(Mission Main Community Room)
~~~Vendors keep 100% of all profits made~~~
There will be lots of jewelry, clothes, bags, books one-of-a-kind knitted items, crafts & more!!!
As always, a FREE dinner will be served to attendees!!
Call Gloria for more information at 617 785-4646
Tell your friends & neighbors!!!
13. The Wedding Experience (Postponement of the Community Ceremony for Latifa Ziyad and Wali Ali)
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| Now that's what I'm talking about! This is a keeper. Very clear. Men….man UP. Women always act like a LADY. The Bridge: Book of Real Man By Darryl James September 27, 2010 Darryl James *One of the most frustrating things to deal with as a Black man is listening to Black women talk about what a "real man" is supposed to be or do. | ||
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OR, IS IT JUST THE BEGINNING? YOU DECIDE!
( Stay tuned, as the struggle continues. )
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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
SOUTH END: Ward 4, Pct 4; Ward 9, Pct 2
FENWAY: Ward 4, Pcts 5, 8-9