( Formerly known As The Chuck Turner Daylight Network )
1. MAMLEO Presents: Parents/Students Community Forums to Address Bullying Issues (3/19, 4/23, 5/23 + 6/6)
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3. Licensing Hearing (THE BREEZEWAY) (Monday 3/21--
4. Foreclosure Letter from the City Life
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PARENT~ STUDENT COMMUNITY FORUM
TO ADDRESS BULLYING ISSUES
FAMILY FORUM
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“Do I have to go to school today? My stomach hurts.”
A focus on YOUR CHILD and
your household and your neighborhood
FACILITATOR: Marilyn “Fulani” Haynes, RN
Director, Village FEAT
PANELISTS: -Sgt. Joseph Britt, BPD and Community Advocate for Life
Skills Training
-Mrs. Michelle Flowers, Parent
-Denisha Flowers, Student @ Beacon Academy
-Angelica Murphy, Student @West Roxbury High School
LOCATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL Ms. Burke at
M.A.M.L.E.O. INC.
Presents
2011 Community anti-bullying forums
Saturday,
THE END”
A focus on middle school youth and the issues of school,
neighborhood, culture differences, peer pressure, family
relationships, health issues and after-school activities
Saturday,
A discussion with high school youth and the issues of
relationships, culture clashes, respect, social positioning,
life skills, parent support and reaching out
Saturday,
Youth will discuss being different and the affect it has on their
daily lives
Saturday,
A discussion of the Boston School Plan and how you and
your child will benefit. Parents are encouraged to attend with
your children who attend Boston schools
LOCATION: Dudley Street Library – 65 Warren Street - Roxbury, MA
TIME:
If you are a student in a Boston Public School or the Parent of a student and have an interest in being a Panel Member at a workshop, call Ms. Burke at
March 2011
Dear Parents and Students:
Our organization has been focusing on issues of bullying and anti-bullying solutions over the past couple of years. During that time, we have heard terrifying stories from youth regarding how they have been bullied both in school and in their neighborhood. More disturbing was the fact that they felt they could not talk to a parent, a teacher or a peer. Those that did speak with a school official regarding an in-school bullying incident, found no solution and in many cases things got worse. Many of our youth are afraid to go to school, suffer from depression because of bullying and some harbor thoughts of suicide. It is time for all of us to STAND UP FOR OURSELVES AND SUPPORT OUR CHILDREN~
M.A.M.L.E.O. has partnered with Dudley Branch Library, thanks to support from the Fellowes Trust Fund of the Boston Public Library, to present a series of Parent and Student Community Forums that will address bullying issues. Panels will consist of parents, students, professional workers, etc. who will discuss actual incidents of bullying, how to increase awareness of this issue, how the State Anti-Bullying Law and the pending Boston Public School Anti-Bullying Plan can assist students and families. There will be an Open Discussion Session after each panel presentation and all sessions are open and free to the public.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THESE SESSIONS AND BRING A FRIEND
Saturday, March 19 “Do I have to go to school today? My stomach hurts”
Saturday, April 23 “Your Child has the Right to be Safe at School”
Monday, May 23 “Born This Way”
Monday, June 6 “Love the Way U Lie”
ALL SESSIONS HELD AT
If you are a student in a
PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY!
(and with apologies for duplicate postings. . .)
DORCHESTER PEOPLE for PEACE invites you to participate in two upcoming events:
Sunday, March 20: St. Patrick's Day Peace Parade
Tuesday, March 22: Boston Budget SpeakOut "Fund Our Future!"
Details below
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Feds Cut Low-Income Heating Aid. . .
Boston Cuts School Budget $63 million. . .
State Will Cut Local Aid 10%. . .
Military/War Spending $1.2 trillion this year. . .
Join your neighbors and tell our elected officials:
Fund Our Future!
Tuesday March 22,
6-8pm, Hibernian Hall
182-184 Dudley Street, Roxbury
Includes a DPP presentation on military spending and the Budget Crisis. . .
Meanwhile, call your State Rep and Senator today.
Ask them to support “An Act to Invest in Our Communities.”
This bill will help plug the state budget gap and make taxes fairer.
It is being introduced by Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz (Senate Docket 1012) and
Rep. Jim O’Day (House Docket 2261).
For more info or to help, contact 617-282-3783 or mikeprokosch@verizon.net.
Sponsored by New England United for Justice, One Massachusetts, Dorchester People for Peace, the
Boston Coalition to Fund Our Communities-Cut Military Spending 25%, and Madison Park Development Corporation
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| Sunday, March 20: 2pm St. Patrick's Day Peace Parade The assembly for the Saint Patrick's Peace Parade is the corner of Greenbaum St. and Foundry St. at 2 pm on March 20. This is just two block west of the Broadway T stop. (From the T stop walk west on West Broadway across Dorchester Ave. Greenbaum Street is straight ahead, go one block to Foundry St.) There will be guides with flags to direct you to the location THEMES FOR THE DAY: · How is the War Economy Working for You? |
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Please join Veterans For Peace and other peace and social justice organizations for this historic alternative “people’s parade” following the official Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. For more information please go to: Smedleyvfp.org or email ujpcoalition@gmail.com. For information on how your group can participate, contact: Pat Scanlon, Veterans For Peace: 978-475-1776
Even The Globe noticed. . .
Activists add second St. Patrick parade
South Boston will play host to two St. Patrick’s Day parades this year — the traditional one and, right behind it, an alternative parade that is billing itself as the St. Patrick’s Peace Parade. The second parade, which will be required to remain one mile behind the main parade, is being organized by an antiwar group, Veterans for Peace. More
Dear Mayor Menino, Boston City Councilor, State Representative, State Senator
As you know, City Life has been organizing the Bank Tenants Association. Over 100 people are now meeting every Tuesday evening and more on Wednesdays in East Boston. Hundreds of families have become involved. The combination of vigorous legal defense and public protest has successfully stopped the overwhelming majority of evictions of those people who reach us or Legal Services. Those people who don't get help are evicted.
After we stop or slow down the evictions, banks and mortgage companies begin to negotiate in ways they refused to do before foreclosure or in other parts of the country. For instance, they have sold properties to occupants, including former owners, at the real value (sometimes half or less than loan value). Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have agreed to take rent and stop post-foreclosure evictions of tenants of foreclosed buildings, although this has been applied unevenly. We are asking other banks, such as Bank of America, to do the same. Editorials in the nation's leading newspapers have called for an end to eviction and resale at real value. The success of the City of Boston in getting 3 banks to sell some properties while still occupied is also a sign of this trend. In March, 2010, President Obama recognized the critical importance of principal reduction to the success of the HAMP program, although the major Banks rejected this appeal. On Aug. 7, Gov. Patrick signed into law new protections for tenants against bank evictions after foreclosure. Revelations about robo-signing reinforces the just demand to sell back to occupants at real value. In response in 2011, the Attorneys General from all 50 states have asked banks to do exactly that, although again, major banks have rejected this appeal.
We always encourage our members to communicate "public letters" to the bank as eviction cases are processed. These public letters tell the story of the occupants and express what they want to see happen. When our members choose to do these public letters, we will send copies via email to you. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Sincerely, Steve Meacham
Attached to this email: Letter from Lynam and Svetlana Hennessey, 41 Neponset Ave., Hyde Park, MA
(sent by fax to the lawyer for the bank 3-16-11)
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Dear Supporters,
One aspect of my writings over the next three years will focus on District 7 as well as
Since one of the roles I played as a Councilor was to give strategic advice and perspective, I will continue to do that from wherever I’m sent. My writings can be accessed not only through SupportChuckTurner.com but also through BlackCommentator.com
Menino’s Commitment to Ferdinand Development:
I thought it appropriate to start Volume 1, issue 1 with a focus on Mayor Menino’s announcement that the City will proceed with the development of the Ferdinand building. I certainly was pleased to hear the announcement and that the administrative offices of the School Department as well as other city agencies are to be located there.
It was strange, however, that none of the stories referenced the fact that Kairos Shen, the City’s chief planner had come to a hearing of the City Council’s Economic Development Committee in September 2010 at the Dudley Library based on a hearing order I had filed to discuss the community’s concern that the police station was proceeding and yet the Ferdinand building was languishing.
Mr. Shen explained that the Mayor was looking at the possibility of having a private developer selected to move the project forward. The reason given at the September hearing was that by using a private developer, the city could perhaps get more space for less money. However, he did not explain the logic of the idea. Now they are saying that the reason to have a private developer is to develop retail space on the first floor.
At the end of the hearing, Mr. Shen agreed to come back in December 2010 to review before moving forward the direction selected by the Mayor. After my conviction, I called Mr. Shen to discuss how to move forward with the process. However, despite my attempts to talk he did not get back to me. I had to wonder when the Mayor was the only elected official to call for my removal, whether he was acting from political self interest rather than principal.
In other words, while we all should be please that the Mayor is moving forward with the project, we also need to be vigilant about the details of the economic sharing that results from the development. This is particularly true regarding the issue of who is selected as the developer. There needs to be a committee with a majority from D7 to make the recommendation. Clear criteria, approved by the Roxbury Master Plan Oversight Committee (Oversight Committee), should guide the process.
We can not forget the storm of controversy that swept over the P3 project twice. The first time, the rumor was that forces were lining up to assure that the Kraft family could get the site for a soccer field. The second fire storm occurred when Mr. Palmieri, the new BRA director, announced through an aide that he was going to pull the plug on the Elma Lewis Associates as the developer of the P3 Project because they weren’t capable.
Despite a hearing that I called in December 2008 (a month after my arrest) to provide a public discussion of the dispute and despite the negotiations in early 2009, Mr. Palmieri did not move until the Herald revealed that a developer friend of Mayor Menino wanted the project. A week later Mayor Menino announced that he would support Elma Lewis Associates having more time to put together the development package for P3.
Given the alleged wheeling and dealing around the developer for P3, we need to be very careful that this process isn’t being structured to bring in an administration friend as the developer. Ken Guscott, dean of the Black developers in
Also, there needs to be established a process that assures at least 50% Boston workers, 50% workers of color, and 15% women are working on the project. These Oversight Committee objectives are higher than the Boston Job Residency Policy minimums in the area of workers of color and women which means that as a community we need to exercise our will if we are to accomplish our objectives.
The construction monitoring committee of the Oversight Committee, which I initiated in January of 2010, has shown that higher standards can be met even with the framework of City policy by meeting at least twice a month with the contractors, by aggressively pushing for community standards, and by working closely with the compliance office leadership and staff.
Dorothea Jones of the Oversight Committee has led the effort as chair of the monitoring committee assisted by other members of the RSMPOC, the Roxbury Builders Guild, Dorchester Labor Committee, and myself. This committee needs to be given the responsibility of monitoring the Ferdinand project when construction begins as slated in 2012. The new Councilor needs to take a hands on approach and become an active part of the committee as soon as elected so that by the time of the Ferdinand project he is up to speed.
The issue of securing a share of the work for contractors from the community is even more complicated than the issue of community worker participation. The state has a file sub bid law that requires that the contractor and subcontractors are determined by the lowest bid numbers. This makes it very difficult for contractors of color, particularly when work is tight, to bring their prices as low as the larger white contractors.
Officials at the Public Facilities Commission which oversees the construction of public buildings have indicated that there is another process that can be used. I would suggest that representatives of the Oversight Committee and the new D 7 Councilor need to review these issues with PFC. Let me close this part of the Dudley discussion with the thought that the opportunities presented by the Ferdinand project are great but we will have to work hard as a community to assure that we will get our fair share of the economic benefits.
Need for a Hearing on City’s Investment in Dudley as well as the Issues Re Ferdinand Development:
Based on accusations raised at the September hearing that the City was not investing in
Night Life in
One of the key concerns raised by residents at the September hearing was that the Ferdinand building be the site of a supper club or some type of evening entertainment so that a night life could return to
I suggested that the need for night life infrastructure in
Upcoming Articles:
Date t/b/a, I will give an overview of the challenges facing the new D7 Councilor as he tries to meet the needs of the community. In addition, I will explore what the community needs to do to be sure the person will be accountable.
Date t/b/a, I will focus on three BRA issues effecting Dudley as well as Roxbury and District 7 development that having been flying beneath the radar: The RNC; Community Share of Lease Fees, and Parcel 8.
Date t/b/a, I will begin a three part article on our situation as African-Americans, particularly our young men and women. I am entitling the piece, “I CALL IT GENOCIDE”.
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