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Charter school question suffers defeat at polls All but wealthiest Boston precincts reject measure By YAWU MILLER
As Massachusetts Democrats gathered at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel to watch a nailbiter of a presidential race, staring anxiously at large monitors showing a growing lead for GOP candidate Donald Trump, that showdown took a backseat to what for Massachusetts was the most hotly-contested campaign. Students, parent activists and teachers took the stage to celebrate
the defeat of Ballot Question 2, which called for a lift to the statewide cap on charter school expansion — a victory that Massachusetts Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni said quashed efforts to privatize public education. “We did it,” she said, speaking from the stage in the hotel’s function hall. “We beat back the privateers.” Voters rejected the measure, which would have permitted 12 new charter schools a year in Massachusetts, 62 percent to
38 percent. That’s a turnaround from March of this year, when the “yes” vote polled at 57 percent and the “no” at 34 percent. That split was reflected in the Boston, where voters rejected the ballot measure 62 percent to 38 percent. While Question 2 supporters cited polling showing strong support in black and Latino communities, the predominantly black and Latino voters in Roxbury’s Ward 12
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Donald Trump is president-elect. The news left many reeling and bracing themselves for Trump’s America. “We’ve woken up to a reality where the most blatantly racist, misogynist xenophobe has won the presidency,” said Elena Letona, executive director of Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts, a minority, women and working class activist group. “I stayed up to the very end unable to move. But we have to. We have to pick up the pieces.” Trump’s policies — many of which are restrictive to the rights of women, Muslims, immigrants and non-whites — may face few barriers, with the White House turned red. Last Tuesday, Republicans secured a continued majority in federal House and Senate. With the Republican Congress resisting President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court justice nomination, Trump also now is positioned to fill that vacancy, ensuring a five conservative jurist majority. Trump
has promised that his selection — and his selections for any further justice vacancies during his term — will be “ultra conservative.” “Many are very concerned about justices that may be appointed that take a very restrictive approach to reproductive rights, freedom of speech, due process and equal protection rights,” said Rahsaan Hall, director of the Racial Justice Program for the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, speaking on Wednesday. Hillary Clinton beat Trump in the popular vote. But Trump secured 290 electoral votes to Clinton’s 232, according to the most recent numbers reported by the Associated Press. Trump’s pull was especially strong among white men without college educations, were he took 70 percent of their vote, reported the BBC. Meanwhile Clinton took 88 percent of the black vote.
Political shift
Several said that Trump’s victory reveals a new political climate.
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Pioneering journalist Gwen Ifill dies at 61 Career began with gig at Banner in ’70s By YAWU MILLER
From humble beginnings as the daughter of Caribbean immigrant parents and a graduate of Springfield High School, Gwen Ifill soared to the top of her profession as a political journalist, moderating political debates and hosting “Washington Week in Review” on PBS — the first black woman to host a national weekly news program. Ifill died Monday in hospice care after a struggle with
endometrial cancer. Her professional career, which began in Boston, served as an inspiration to many in the field. “Ifill was a Banner and Herald alum, went on to the top of the profession and did it with grace and professionalism,” said journalist and former Banner managing editor Robin Washington. A 1977 graduate of Simmons College, Ifill got her start in journalism at the Banner, before moving on to the Boston Herald and the Baltimore Evening Sun,
where she covered the 1988 presidential bids of Jesse Jackson and televangelist Pat Robertson.
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In 1992, Ifill moved to the New York Times, covering then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton’s bid for the presidency. After Clinton’s election, she became a Washington correspondent covering the White House. In 1994, she then moved to broadcast journalism, covering Washington for NBC. That move led in 1999 to a position as moderator of “Washington Week in Review,” where Ifill had served frequently as a panelist. At the same time, she served as a
correspondent for The News Hour With Jim Lehrer. While the PBS show did not have the wide following NBC had, Ifill enjoyed the greater depth of coverage she was afforded in public television. She also gained the respect of her fellow journalists and was tapped to moderate two vice presidential debates — the 2004 vice presidential debate between incumbent Dick Cheney and Sen. John Edwards and the 2008 debate between Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Sen. Joseph Biden. When in 2013, Ifill and journalist
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State ballot brings Community Preservation Act and legal pot By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
City officials, community development corporation representatives and others gathered outside the Owen Nawn Factory in Roxbury last Thursday to celebrate one of the few bright spots to emerge from this divisive campaign season: local passage of the Community Preservation Act. With the prospect of Donald Trump’s White House posing an unknown and troubling image to many, Mayor Martin Walsh called upon residents to focus on one area where they can make a difference: local politics. “Regardless of what’s going on nationally and around the globe, we in Boston have the power to shape our own destiny,” he told the gathering. Along with ushering in the CPA in Boston, voters acted to shape their futures by approving recreational marijuana legalization statewide, preventing greater charter school expansion, prohibiting sale of meat and eggs from tightly confined farm animals and rejecting an additional slots parlor.
Community Preservation Act comes to Boston
The CPA is one way Boston is taking action to improve its future, Walsh said. It aims to help sustain and grow communities through new funding for affordable housing, historic preservation and
greenspace. The funding is generated via a 1 percent surcharge on property tax, supplemented by an annual grant from the statewide Community Preservation Act Trust Fund. “We can make our city more inclusive, more beautiful and a better place to live and work,” the mayor said. Joe Kriesberg, president of Yes For a Better Boston, the ballot committee that advocated for the CPA, said this local funding mechanism may prove especially valuable should Trump slash federal housing funding. The state established the Community Preservation Act mechanism in 2000, and with last week’s vote, Boston became one of 172 municipalities opting to implement it in their communities. The city expects to generate $16 million in additional revenue via the property tax surcharge, with additional revenue from state matching funds. A to-be-established committee will recommend initiatives advancing local priorities within the three categories and direct CPA monies to support them. A minimum of ten percent of funds will go to each category. Walsh promised that the city will use this new revenue to supplement — not replace — affordable housing, greenspace and historic preservation support in the overall city budget, while seeking to coordinate both CPA and
non-CPA forms of investment. Low-income homeowners, low- and moderate-income senior homeowners, along with the first $100,000 of assessed property value will be exempted from the CPA surcharge. The average homeowner is expected to pay an additional $24 per year.
Broad support
Many praised the broad coalition of volunteers and organizations that rallied behind the CPA. Its members included representatives of affected policy areas, as well as labor organizations, religious groups, large and small businesses and cultural and arts communities, Kriesberg said. On Election Day, more than 400 volunteers turned out to educate voters en route to the ballot box. “The people of Boston are willing to give time and some of their hard-earned money to make a better city,” Kriesberg said. Seventy-four percent of Boston voters supported implementing the CPA. Among supporters were Yes for A Better Boston treasurer Thadian Brown, who said that when she was a 29-year-old single mother, she had the rare good fortune to purchase a home and wished to extend that opportunity to others. City Councilor Michael Flaherty, for whom the a Boston CPA has been 15 years in the making, also spoke. His original ballot proposal was defeated in 2001.
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ON THE WEB For more information on Community Preservation Act implementation, go to the Community Preservation Coalition’s website: http://www.communitypreservation.org/ See also Yes for a Better Boston: http://www.yesbetterboston.com/ Information on CPA Trust Fund distribution can be viewed at: http://www.communitypreservation.org/ content/trustfund Ten other municipalities adopted the CPA last week, extending its coverage to 49 percent of cities and towns statewide, according to the Community Preservation Act Coalition. They include Billerica; Chelsea; Holyoke; Hull; Norwood; Pittsfield; Rockland; Springfield; Watertown and Wrentham. Meanwhile, voters rejected it in five municipalities, including Amesbury; Danvers; East Bridgewater; Palmer and South Hadley.
Next steps
The surcharge can be collected effective July 1, 2017. Municipalities adopting CPA will set up both a Community Preservation Fund and a Community Preservation Committee. The municipalities’ Community Preservation Funds will receive revenues flowing from both their local surcharge as well as the statewide Community Preservation Trust Fund, established by the 2000 law and managed by the Department of Revenue. In Boston, a Community Preservation Committee comprising nine members will help guide equitable, transparent and accountable implementation. Five members will be appointed by the mayor and the city council will establish a process for nominating and selecting the remaining four, Yes for a Better Boston members said. The Yes for a Better Boston Coalition will continue to work to educate the public on the benefits and best practices learned by other cities, and to ensure the public is able to advocate for projects they wish to see funded, Brown and Kriesberg said. Another interest: seeking greater levels of matching funds from the state.
Prepping for pot
November 8 also ushered in a new legalized recreational marijuana, with the passage of Question 4 in a narrow 53-46 percent vote. Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley said now is the time to intervene to ensure licenses for the sale of recreational marijuana
are issued equitably. Liquor and medical marijuana licensing have demonstrated that some policy barriers exist for people of color. It is better to learn from those examples and act now, rather than try to enact racial equity reforms later, Pressley told the Banner. While responsibility for implementation lies with the state, the city can make clear what it wants to see. On December 6, Pressley will convene a working session with national experts, then develop and submit policy recommendations to the state. At the moment, she has some preliminary suggestions. One hurdle in securing medical marijuana licensing: the eligibility requirement that applicants have a high degree of liquid financial capital, thus demonstrating an ability to stay afloat and keep the license. But this liquid asset provision also blocks many less-moneyed business owners from one path to wealth generation. Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensary applicants must hold $500,000 in liquid assets, Matt Allen, field director with the ACLU-Massachusetts and former executive director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, said at an October hearing. Application costs are hefty, including a $1,500 filing fee, followed by a $30,000 fee for those making it into second-round consideration. And that does not include legal fees that also may be incurred. Another idea Pressley advanced: Ensure least one person of color is among the three-member Cannabis Control Commission appointed by the state and charged with marijuana regulation. Pressley also offered for consideration raising the sales tax on pot and directing revenue toward specific policy priorities.
The rest of the ballot
On Question 2, Massachusetts voters also settled the highly controversial and emotional ballot battle over charter school enrollment, with a 62-38 percent vote in favor of maintaining the cap, according to Thursday afternoon’s numbers. Residents sweepingly supported Question 3, with a 78 to 22 percent vote in favor of prohibiting tight physical confinement of certain farm animals as well as sale of meat or eggs from animals so constrained. The proposal to allow an additional slot parlor — largely seen as targeted at Revere, where local opposition was strong — was defeated in a 61 to 39 percent vote.
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Local activists seek support for anti-violence work By YAWU MILLER
When a 41-year-old man was shot and fatally wounded on Dorchester Avenue Oct. 18, the news of his killing was eclipsed by that of the shooting five days earlier of two Boston police officers in East Boston. The officers survived, the Prudential building was lit blue in homage and the city took note. Meanwhile, the family of the Dorchester shooting victim worried about eviction. “The Section 8 voucher was in his name,” said youth worker Monica Cannon. Cannon and other anti-violence activists are seeking more resources to deal with what they see as a dangerous increase in the rate of violent crimes in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. Monday, the activists gathered in Grove Hall in front of Muhammad’s Mosque No 11 to discuss the need for more services and greater community involvement in violence prevention. “When a sister calls me, it is my job to stand with her,” said former state Rep. Carlos Henriquez, who thanked Cannon for convening the group. Henriquez told the Banner that the city has an urgent need for better trauma response services in schools, where children who are affected by violence and murder are often in need. “We need better trauma response, particularly in the wake of a shooting,” he said. Henrquez said he and other
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Carlos Henriquez addresses a gathering in Grove Hall Monday evening as Nation of Islam Minister Randy Muhammad and youth worker Monica Cannon look on. organizers will also seek continued funding for the city’s street workers program, through which adults help de-escalate violence and find help for youths who commit violence or are victims of violence.
Meetings planned
Cannon said the activists are calling on city councilors to meet with community residents to discuss ways to stem the increase in violent crime. She said the group would first seek a meeting with District 4 Councilor Andrea Campbell, who
heads the Criminal Justice Committee, then seek a broader meeting with citywide councilors and councilors whose districts include areas affected by violence. At-large Councilor Ayanna Pressley, who attended the Monday night meeting, said she is working with her colleagues in City Hall on strategies to reduce violence and provide services for those affected by it. “Violence is a threat to our public health,” she said. “Because the impact is collective, the
response has to be collective. Everyone has to be held accountable. Everyone has a role to play.” Pressley said she and her colleague, At-large Councilor Anissa Essaibi George, are working to get social workers and nurses placed in every Boston public school. She also said the Boston Police Department could use more trained social workers to help de-escalate situations with people who have mental disabilities. “I’m here in solidarity,” she said. “My job is to thoughtfully
respond with policy.” Nation of Islam Minister Randy Muhammad said his mosque meets with community members weekly at the Massachusetts Association of Minority Law Enforcement Officers office to strategize on issues including violence prevention. On Saturdays, NOI members and community members conduct outreach to youths. “We pick a particular neighborhood and occupy it and reach out to people to be peace keepers,” he said.
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Stormy days ahead Political pundits will undoubtedly develop various explanations about why Trump was elected president. However, since their predictions about the final outcome were so flawed, many people have lost confidence in their assessment. The final popular vote was so close that the motivations of various groups will be difficult to evaluate. The rational decision making process is to weigh the pros and cons of a situation. It seems impossible that anyone determining the suitability of Donald Trump to serve as president would conclude that this is a good idea. He has openly expressed bias against Latinos, Muslims and blacks. He has ridiculed the physically handicapped. He has insulted war heroes. He holds misogynous attitudes toward woman. He has been harshly critical of a sitting U.S. president while he expressed approval of a Russian dictator. And that’s not all. He lied when he promised to disclose his tax returns, a normal practice of presidential candidates requiring that they reveal their business connections. His conduct during the campaign lacked the dignity expected of a president. Even Trump’s own staff at times expressed concern about his lack of presidential temperament.
Nonetheless, the majority of white Americans are willing to entrust such a man with the keys to the nation’s atomic arsenal that can destroy the world. The pain over their circumstance must be extraordinary for whites to accept such risk. Indeed, the rate of life expectancy for whites has been declining in recent years. Analysts attribute this to the growth of drug and alcohol addiction as well as suicide. Surprisingly, the rate of life expectancy among blacks has actually been rising during this same period. Blacks have always lived in the shadow of success. African Americans have said about the economy, “When whites sneeze blacks come down with pneumonia.” The Great Recession has eroded the middle class and induced whites without a college education and with little future to vote for Trump, 67-28 percent. They wanted to “Make America Great Again,” as Trump implored with his slogan. That alone was enough to tilt the final result. Even though they were the primary victims of government inaction, blacks could not support someone like Trump, who got only 8 percent of the vote compared with 88 percent for Hillary Clinton. Now the whole nation faces a problem created by white fecklessness.
A missed opportunity The right to expand charter schools in Massachusetts has been defeated at the polls. Black residents in Boston have been deceived when considering Question 2 into believing that although charter schools have elevated the level of academic achievement of black students, it would be harmful to continue this strategy for success. The public school system’s primary objection is that it will lose the funds that follow students to their charter schools. Most affluent parents in Boston send their children to parochial or private schools if they are not admitted to Boston Latin or other exam schools. Charter schools provide the only alternative choice for families with more modest incomes. An estimated 84 percent of the public
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Something less than a democracy
What do you think America will be like with Trump as president?
By LEE A. DANIELS Now I feel I more completely understand the sense black Americans must have felt when the Supreme Court handed up Plessy in 1896. And what Japanese-Americans and Japanese nationals must have felt when the orders came that those on the West Coast were to be imprisoned in concentration camps. We live in a different country now — one in which the claim of “American exceptionalism” is no longer valid; one in which the white majority has repudiated the idea of democratic pluralism in favor of re-establishing a pecking order of citizenship by race, color, sexual orientation, religion and political belief. The white majority has voted for a return to the principles of the Plessy era. We now live in a country where repression will be the rule, and where those of us who are now “outsiders” should have no expectation that our rights will be protected by the government. Yes, there are some obvious differences between then and now. But this vote was about establishing a rule of white male conservative dominion and moving blacks, Latinos, Muslim Americans, Asian Americans, gays and lesbians, uppity white women, Jewish Americans, and Democrats of every background down to second-class status. It was about not only choking off undocumented immigration and driving those here into the shadows; one can expect to see restrictions imposed on legal immigration from Asia, Africa and Latin America as well — both because these are colored peoples, and because all the Americans-of-color groups vote majority Democratic. This white-supremacist victory was about smashing the notion that equality that goes beyond white Christian conservatives has a place in America. And, needless to say, freedom of the press and of the entertainment industry and of the book publishing industry and of liberal-leaning foundations will now come under severe threat from a Trump administration. And so will support for public schools. And a ratcheting up of attempts to impose a conservative slant on what’s taught in schools. And to tie federal aid to higher education to ideological tests. And the end of all investigations into the impact of climate change. And .... on and on. I saw the Trump candidacy for what it was from the beginning with the overt anti-Jewish pitch, cloaked in Trump’s tirades against the media and his mob’s threats of physical harm to journalists there, that became a fundamental part of the rallies from late August onward. To me, that such profound anti-Semitism became an overt, prominent feature of Trump’s campaign is a devastating measure of how deeply an all-encompassing bigotry is the driving force of the “movement” now in charge of the White House, the Congress and the Supreme Court. This election was about indecency, anti-democracy, and the re-establishment of white racist power above all else. It has nothing to do with a commitment to the standards of the old Republican Party – which, having made room for it to grow into a monster, has been subsumed by it — or postwar conservative ideology, which is now an archaic historical artifact. The new reality is embodied in the very personages and career records of the three principals themselves — Obama and Clinton, on the one hand: cool, superbly trained and competent, measured in their approach, with a proven record of leading talented people and solving problems; Trump, on the other: wildly undisciplined, predatory in business and toward other people, uninterested, and probably incapable of learning in any true sense, with a rotten business record, and a completely amoral character. You see the title of this note. That’s what the USA is now as a result of this terrible, historic moment. The prospect of a more expansive, democratic America has been lost for the immediate future. There’s no reason at all to expect that victory will “change” Trump, or that his aides and the “weight” of office will improve his instincts or his character. We are in for very tough times across the entire range of issues one can think of. Of course, the use of the FBI as the instrument of the Trump October Surprise does not bode well as all for its integrity and that of the Justice Department now. For example, expect no more Justice protection against voter-suppression tactics and of civil rights, or oversight of questionable police shootings and oversight of corrupt police departments to effectively cease. Barack Obama’s political achievements will fall now. But his legacy will shine all the more brightly in historical terms by comparison with what’s now coming. America’s stature in the world and in history has been, at least for the moment, ruined. Its new nightmare period has begun.
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Totally a different place. I see what’s going on now with the hate. Looks like there will be more segregation.
I think it’s going to be kind of sad. With the Klan’s endorsement and all his racial slurs, we’ll have to wait and see.
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Scarier. He says one thing, then five minutes later does something else. The only thing we have to look forward to is impeachment.
I don’t think there’s going to be an America. Everything he’s said doesn’t sound like America. It will be very hard for everybody. It’s going to be high income or no income.
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VANESSA CALDERON ROSADO Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción Executive Director Vanessa Calderon Rosado was at the White House Tuesday to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award for the programming the community development corporation provides for young people in the South End. The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities presents the award to outstanding after-school and out-of-school programs that are transforming the lives of young people. Programs that receive the award exemplify how arts and humanities programs outside of the regular school day enrich the lives of young people throughout the country by teaching new skills, nurturing creativity and building self-confidence. These programs offer high-quality and intensive instruction on weekends, afternoons and summer vacations, providing a safe and productive
space for young people in the hours when they are often the most vulnerable. Their carefully focused projects supplement in-school curricula with exposure to a wide variety of artistic and scholastic pursuits. Arts and humanities education remains a priority for the President’s Committee and is a major focus of the Committee’s ongoing efforts. The National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award has a long record of success in acknowledging and supporting inspiring programs. IBA’s Youth Development Program fosters socio-emotional, intellectual and artistic growth in young people between 13 and 19 years old, while helping them develop 21st century skills to be successful in life. The program provides academic support, job readiness, arts education, leadership training, civic engagement and advocacy opportunities.
As racist as it ever was. He’ll be taking us back to the Jim Crow era.
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I don’t think it will be good. The things he stands for don’t work for us.
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continued from page 1 Sheriff Steve Tompkins said it indicates a major shift from traditional politics and a need to redefine it. “We as a nation really need to look at our political process and try to understand — particularly elected officials — what people that they govern really want. Are we really listening to what the people are saying or is it just business as usual?” he told the Banner on Wednesday. “This isn’t a big Republican win,” Mayor Martin Walsh said, noting that many Republicans stood against Trump. “This is a win for people who feel disenfranchised in politics.” The election indicated voter frustration with both main political parties, Walsh said.
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Fear is rippling through a broad swath of the body politic as many anticipate how Trump will act on his explosive comments. Oren Sellstrom, litigation director for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, said many in the civil rights community are worried that Trump’s policies will reflect the xenophobia and racism woven through his campaign. “The question now is how much Trump is going to govern in that spirit. It remains to be seen what his actual policy and practices are going to be,” Sellstrom said last week. Thus far, those fears have not been assuaged: Several days after Sellstrom’s comments, Trump
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[Trump’s] campaign was a frontal attack to communities of color, to women, to immigrants, Muslims, and et cetera. We have got to really come together and talk to each other and organize across all of that.” — Elena Letona, executive director, Neighbor to Neighbor Massachusetts
drew fire from civil rights groups, Democratic leaders and some Republican strategists across the country when he appointed Stephen Bannon as senior counsel and chief strategist. Bannon, until recently the executive chairman of Breitbart news, has been widely accused of being racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and misogynistic. In July 2016, Bannon wrote an article on Breitbart in which he suggested that police shootings of blacks have been justified: “Here’s a thought: What if the people getting shot by the cops did things to deserve it? There are, after all, in this world, some people who are naturally aggressive and violent.” In July 2015, Bannon encouraged display of the Confederate flag two weeks after nine black church attendees were murdered in Charleston, South Carolina in 2015. Speaking separately to the Banner last week, Hall and Sellstrom underlined another troubling prospect: Trump’s advocacy for stop-and-frisk, an approach that results in blacks and Hispanics being stopped disproportionately. “One of the things that a lot of
people are really concerned about are some of his comments around being a law and order candidate and what that means, especially for communities of color as related to stop-and- frisk — a practice that several courts have determined to be unconstitutional,” Hall said. The civil rights community also is concerned about Trump’s selection of Supreme Court justices, including the possibility that he may choose supporter Rudy Guiliani, the former-New York mayor who championed stop-and-frisk, Sellstrom said. At risk could be advances made in protections against racial profiling and discrimination and voting rights, he said. “The concern, particularly with the judicial, is this that this could mean the rollback of advancements,” Sellstrom said. “Those kinds of civil rights issues had been on a good trajectory, and it is up to all of us to ensure that those rights continue and are not stopped in their tracks.” While Trump will be reassessed by voters in four years, Supreme Court justices can serve for life.
Women and immigrants
During his campaign, Trump
made statements widely regarded as objectifying and belittling to women, and bragged of sexual assault. A 2005 video that spread across the internet captured Trump saying that he kissed women and grabbed their genitals without consent, relying on his celebrity to silence objections. Trump has promised to punish women who get abortions and to appoint a Supreme Court justice who would overturn Roe v. Wade. Also troubling, Hall said, is Trump’s call for deportation squads and mass deportations. Many expect Trump may reverse current policies that focus deportations on immigrants with criminal conviction and protect immigrants who grew up in America after being brought in illegally as children. Trump also has called for banning all Muslims from entering the country and requiring all Muslims in the U.S. to register with a national database. Mayor Walsh and Michael Kane, executive director of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants and Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants, last Thursday pointed to another risk: that children growing up under the new federal administration may absorb Trump’s prejudiced rhetoric. “Another generation of kids growing up are going to see this misogynistic racist behavior legitimized,” Kane said.
Working class
Kane said the right wing’s new hold on both federal executive and legislative branches may usher in severe economic policy changes. This presidential and Congressional alignment drops the barriers to conservative budget policies touted by both Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan that would cut taxes for the wealthiest and absorb the ensuing revenue reduction by slashing support programs for the poor and middle class, Kane said. He anticipated reduced federal backing for Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security in order to balance the proposed high level of tax
cuts on the rich. “There’s nothing now to stand in the way of doing that except Senate filibuster by Democrats,” Kane said. “Trump is simply a clever con artist who persuaded working class people to vote against their own interests economically.”
Response and action
Walsh told reporters that it is too early to panic with so much unknown, and promised that Boston will protect its gay and immigrant communities. He offered a ray of hope, saying that while Boston needs to work with the federal government to achieve some policy goals, the city also carries a strong reputation nationally that may give its opinions traction with the president. In the days after the election, protests and rallies occured across the nation. For some, this election is a call for uniting and organizing, and for focusing on local level impact. “[Trump’s] campaign was a frontal attack to communities of color, to women, to immigrants, Muslims, and et cetera,” Letona said. “We have got to really come together and talk to each other and organize across all of that.” The 2018 Congressional elections will be a critical chance to bring change in federal government, Kane advised. Sellstrom said many in the civil rights world are prepared to take a stand as the Trump presidency unfolds. “I think people are ready to roll up their sleeves and defend civil rights,” Sellstrom said. City Councilor Ayanna Pressley called on residents to channel the same vigorous engagement of time, money and effort that they leveled at the ballot questions this year into city and state politics year round. Pressley served as Clinton’s surrogate in several states. “I worked as hard as I did because I believed everything I care about stood to be imperiled and threatened if Trump won,” she told the Banner last Thursday. “I still feel that way.”
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Local clergy join Standing Rock protest By JULE PATTISON-GORDON
When the call came for help, Rev. Mariama White-Hammond answered. The associate minister of Boston’s Bethel AME Church was one of about a dozen local faith leaders who traveled to North Dakota earlier this month. Their aim: to support the Standing Rock Sioux tribe members’ protest against construction of an oil pipeline many in the tribe say endangers their safety and culture and infringes on their rights. A North Dakotan church leader issued the call to clergy, hoping 100 would arrive and bring strength and greater public attention to the Sioux protest, in the wake of increasingly violent responses from state troopers, White-Hammond said. Police have been documented using tear gas, tasers, guns that fire bean bags and sound cannons at what are reported to be largely peaceful protests. Five hundred clergy, including White-Hammond’s delegation, mobilized. White-Hammond says the cause gripped her personally as a black woman, Bostonian and member of the faith community. The Bethel reverend has been fighting locally against a similar pipeline that cuts through West Roxbury, Dedham and Westwood. Federal law enforcement’s aggressive treatment of Standing Rock protestors evinces the same philosophy underlying police brutality toward black citizens, she said. “Particularly in this post-election
moment, it is hard not to see the connection between the history of race and what we are seeing now happen to black people in cities and to indigenous people in reservations in rural areas,” she told the Banner. As a member of the clergy, she also wanted to openly disavow a Christian doctrine that has served an excuse for abuses against Native Americans, she said. White-Hammond participated in the protests for three days, and joined clergy who spoke out at the State House — a number of whom were arrested.
North Dakota Access Pipeline
Thousands of Native American protestors and allies from throughout the world have been gathering near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota to oppose construction of the pipeline, which is already underway. The planned project would convey approximately 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day in a route that, for a stretch, underlies the Missouri River. Should a leak occur, it would imperil the 10,000 people living in the Standing Rock Sioux reservation who rely on the river for drinking water. Energy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based company behind the $3.7 billion project, says they are protecting against such an eventuality by using safety measures that exceed federal standards. But protestors contend that there is no way to guarantee against a leak, and that any risk of water contamination is too much. Opponents further argue that
another portion of the North Dakota Access Pipeline cuts through sacred tribal burial grounds. The pipeline traverses land that activists say belongs to the Sioux under an 1851 treaty with the federal government. Protestors add that the Sioux were not adequately engaged during the permitting process and that the pipeline promotes fossil fuel usage at a time when the government should be striving to limit the ravages of climate change. Energy Transfer Partners states on its website that the project will reduce dependence on foreign oil and that pipelines are safer than other oil transportation methods, such as truck or rail. The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has filed suit against the Army Corps of Engineers for allowing the project, which they say violates legal requirements that federally-permitted sites consider waterway impact and cultural significance.
Race and religion
White-Hammond said what she witnessed in North Dakota resonated deeply with her as a black person living in American. The federal government’s violation of its treaty with Native Americans echoes broken promises to African Americans, and law enforcement’s violent reaction to protestors parallels police brutality toward black civilians, she said. “I met young man who was 15 and was shot off his horse with a bullet and has a bootprint bruise on his chest from where was kicked,” White-Hammond
PHOTO: COURTESY OF MARIAMA WHITE-MAMMOND
Rev. Mariama White-Hammond protested the North Dakota Access Pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation and, this Tuesday, at demonstrations in San Francisco. recounted. “I’m not sure if it was by a state trooper or a national guard — both were there. Then I thought about my own people, and how they’re treated by police.” It was especially important for faith leaders to take a stand because the American government has used an 1800’s Christian edict, known as the Doctrine of Discovery, to justify seizing land from Native Americans as well as bringing enslaved Africans to the country to work that land, White-Hammond said. This doctrine holds that land can be seized from non-Christians and that those who do not convert can be killed or subjugated. “We as people of clergy need to stand and say we take responsibility for the fact that the thinking that allows this pipeline is based on a Christina doctrine that we know is wrong, and we’re going to stand up and say it is wrong,” she said. The religious activists who flocked to North Dakota in early
November officially repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery.
Boston connection
Public clashes against corporations to get safety concerns acknowledged and answered is not a fight unique to Standing Rock, White-Hammond noted. A similar protest has been happening locally, as citizens resist the West Roxbury Lateral gas pipeline. Opponents fear the project will endanger their neighborhoods through its proximity to an active quarry, thus risking an explosion. The pipeline runs near schools, residences and a nursing home. The two pipeline projects also have corporate ties to Enbridge Energy Partners. Energy Transfer Partners is poised to sell a minority interest in the Dakota Access Pipeline to a joint venture partnership that includes Enbridge Energy Partners. The plans were announced in August, and while as of Oct. 31, the deal had not yet closed, it was expected to proceed. In September, Enbridge also announced a merger with Spectra Energy, the company behind the West Roxbury pipeline. Boston filed an appeal on the West Roxbury pipeline project in federal court in February and oral arguments are scheduled for spring 2017, according to the Dedham Transcript.
Connection in a time of strife
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A #NoDAPL solidarity lockdown happened at TD Bank in Downtown Boston, one of several banks financing the construction of the pipeline. Four people used bike locks and lock boxes to lock themselves to the main entrance of the bank. Firefighters, police used saws and other equipment to cut them out and then arrest them.
Even as the presidential election reveals a yawning divide in the country, people also increasingly are coming together from across the nation and connecting around causes, White-Hammond said. “There were people from all over the country there [in North Dakota,]” she recalled. “People felt very connected. People got very clearly the connection between this moment and our historical past, and the need to right this wrong and turn away from the past that continues to oppress some for the benefit of others.”
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Question 2
Obama’s support for charters. Countering Great Schools Massachusetts, SOS spent $14 million, much of it from the American Federation of Teachers and the MTA. While that coalition spent far less on advertising, it did hire field directors and paid canvassers who worked alongside volunteers like the BPS school children to knock on doors and speak directly to voters. In the end, MTA President Madeloni said, direct voter contact won. “We beat their money with democracy,” she said to the crowd at the Fairmont Copley Plaza. “Two million doors. That’s what democracy looks like.”
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rejected the measure 68 percent to 32 percent. The measure won in 14 majority white precincts in the Back Bay and Beacon Hill neighborhoods and lost in the city’s other 240 precincts.
Ground game
Activists at the Fairmont Copley Plaza attributed the stunning reversal to their campaign’s ground game, which some estimated reached out to nearly 2 million voters in their homes. Save Our Schools statewide field director Marisol Santiago said the campaign stuck with a strategy of direct voter contact. “We knew we had to keep our campaign grassroots and go oneon-one with people to talk to them about how this ballot question would devastate our communities,” she said. “We were up against a great big machine. The only way to beat it was with people power.” The Great Schools Massachusetts campaign, which raised $24.8 million for their campaign — most of it from out of state — seemed to rely more heavily on advertising and media outreach, although a spokeswoman told the Boston Globe the campaign had knocked on 150,000 doors in the Boston area. The day before the election, as Save Our Schools volunteers and staff gathered at the Boston Branch of the NAACP, then dispersed throughout Boston neighborhoods to door knock, the pro-charter Great Schools Massachusetts held a pre-election rally on the basketball courts behind the Roxbury Boys and Girls Club. There, Governor Charlie Baker, state Sen. Michael Rodriques of Fall River and state Rep. Alice Peisch of Wellesley were among those onstage before a battery of network news cameras. “Tomorrow voters will decide whether they’re satisfied with our state’s public schools,” Peisch said. “I am not.”
Student support
While Great Schools Massachusetts used volunteers and paid campaigners to cover polling locations on Election Day, Save Our Schools appeared to overwhelm the pro-charter group with volunteers at the polls and robust getout-the-vote activities. Among the SOS volunteers were Boston high school students who pivoted from walkouts in protest of BPS budget cuts to fighting
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continued from page 1 Judy Woodruff became co-anchors of “PBS Newshour,” it was the first time a national news program was hosted by two women. Ifill launched that gig with an interview with President Obama. For many black journalists, seeing Ifill at the top of the profession was a matter of pride. “It’s obvious to anyone who ever watched The News Hour or her other national broadcasts that she was an icon and an exemplar of journalism the way it should be practiced,” said Washington, a former board member of the National Association of Black Journalists. “I couldn’t watch her without feeling pride.” Ifill was born in 1955 to a Panamanian father and Bajan mother.
Aftermath
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Question 2 supporters including Dawn Foye (at lectern) state Rep. Alice Peisch, state Sen. Michael Rodrigues, and Gov. Charlie Baker, rallied behind the Boys and Girl’s Club building on Warren Street on the eve of last Tuesday’s election. to defeat Question 2 this summer. “If the cap were lifted, it would cause schools to close,” said South Boston High School junior Gabby Periera. “It would push the system over the edge.” Pereira cited the $175 million charter school assessments taken from the Boston Public Schools budget. Because school districts are required to reimburse charters with the average, per-pupil cost of each student attending charter schools, many see charters as a drain on public schools’ funding. On Election Day, Luis Navarro, a student at Boston Day and Evening Academy, went to work at the Holgate Apartments polling station on Elm Hill Avenue after class. There, he says, he found a receptive audience for his message on the need to support traditional public schools. “There was a lot of positive energy,” he said. “A lot of people were supporting ‘no on 2,’” he said. “People said they understood our point.” Navarro, who works with the Boston Youth Organizing project and began youth organizing while still in middle school, said his work on the ballot question is an extension of the student walkouts in protest of budget cuts. “I’m a public school student,” he said. “I have a little sister who’s entering the system. I don’t want to leave the system the way it is. I Her father, an itinerant preacher, became pastor of one of the largest churches in Springfield. She began working at the Banner during school desegregation, writing about Boston during one of its more turbulent times. Banner Publisher Melvin B. Miller was not surprised that the young graduate was up to the task. “Years ago, major newspapers were not excited about hiring black reporters,” Miller said. “As a consequence of this discrimination, small papers like the Bay State Banner had the privilege of being the employer of many highly talented journalists. Reporters like Gwen Ifill were able to launch their journalistic careers without being assigned to writing obituaries. We were pleased to have her at the Banner, but we were aware that we couldn’t retain such a talent for too long.”
believe it’s our duty as a youth organizer to improve the system.”
Run-up to the vote
As Election Day drew near, the SOS activists were bolstered by support from elected officials, including Boston Mayor Martin Walsh, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Reps. Michael Capuano and Catherine Clark. At a rally in Grove Hall last week, Clark, Walsh and city councilors Ayanna Pressley and Tito
Jackson fired up a crowd of campaign volunteers. Also last week, the Great Schools Massachusetts campaign stirred controversy with a flyer urging voters to “Join President Obama and support public charter schools.” While the White House issued a press statement noting that the president had not endorsed Ballot Question 2, that didn’t stop the campaign from sending out a second mailer and at least two text messages citing
Last week former state Rep. Marty Walz, who campaigned for Great Schools Massachusetts, suggested that if the ballot question failed, the group would push in the Legislature to lift the cap on charter schools in districts where the measure passed. But as the results rolled in, the measure won just 16 towns out of the state’s 350 cities and towns. Under Massachusetts law, charter proponents are barred from bringing the same question before voters for another five years. State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, who opposed the measure, said legislators will likely sit down with both sides of the ballot fight to discuss how to move forward. Last night, she took an initial step in that direction, visiting the Great Schools Massachusetts campaign party at J.J. Foley’s in the South End. “We all live in Massachusetts,” she said. “In the end, everyone is fighting for education. We have to come to the table and discuss how we move forward.”
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Chores earn high marks as financial teaching tools, parents agree When you pay your child $5 to clean the garage or $6 to mow the lawn, you’re accomplishing far more than just getting the tasks done. A majority of parents use chores to teach their kids that money should be earned, a new study reveals. “Sixty-eight percent of parents believe kids should get an allowance for doing chores,” says Troy Frerichs, director of wealth management at Country Financial, which sponsored the survey. “Assigning kids chores and paying them for accomplishing their tasks is one way parents can teach their children about finances and the value of money, in a way that they can easily understand. Paid chores also instill work ethic, impart an understanding of the value of money, and inspire financial independence.” In teaching kids about the value of money, today’s parents appear to be trying to spare their children some of their own pitfalls when it comes to learning about finances. The survey found that nearly half of parents learned about money on their own, and only 39 percent were taught by parents or family members. Among millennials, 48 percent learned from their parents. Chores are a powerful way to help children learn money management skills that will be valuable throughout their lives. USING CHORES TO TEACH Country Financial, which recently launched the free ChorePal app to help parents teach children the basics of money, asked a panel of family bloggers how they use chores to help teach financial lessons to their children. n Ari Adams, who blogs at www.lovepeaceandtinyfeet.com, suggests playing a grocery-themed game with children. Gather grocery items from home and put price tags on everything. Give children play money to shop with, making sure you have more groceries than they have money. The “shortfall” teaches children the importance of planning and making careful selections. Older children can use coupons to make their money go farther. n Turn “no” into a teachable moment. “When a child asks for something in a store, instead of just saying no, take the opportunity to teach a financial lesson,” suggests Paula Rollo of www.beautythroughimperfection.com. “Show your child something you want to purchase in another area of the store, and explain why that item, along with the toy he or she wants, is staying at the store. This helps children understand budgeting and smart spending.” n Establish a time for chores. Just as you have set hours for work, set kids up with a time of day for doing chores. “This will teach them how to plan ahead to get their responsibilities done,” Rollo says. “It will also help them to start creating their own daily schedules so they have time to do everything they want to get done each day.” n Introduce spending, saving and giving concepts. “Giving teaches them to be generous first,” Kristen Chidsey of amindfulmom.com says. “And saving teaches money management skills at an early age. If children can master these lifelong skills at an early age, they will have a better chance of being financially responsible adults.” n Teach children how fortunate they are by serving with them See BIZ BITS, page 11
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Gregory Minott and Troy Depeiza are co-founders of DREAM Collaborative, an architectural firm that works on residential and institutional design.
Dreaming up success
Architects rely on local connections to build practice By KAREN MORALES
A 120,000 square foot, multiuse building with certified LEED features and various community amenities will open in Dorchester’s Four Corners neighborhood, if all goes as planned for DREAM Collaborative, a minority-owned architectural firm. The project, still in its design development phase, is one of many DREAM Collaborative’s urban development designs intended to revitalize neighborhoods. While the term “revitalization” can carry loaded connotations, Gregory Minott and Troy Depeiza, co-founders of the firm, strive to bring something of value to surrounding communities with every project. Whether it’s their interior fit-out for the Whittier Street Health Center that contains a fitness facility and medical lab in Roxbury, or their very first client, a renovation of a church in Rhode Island, their work is mission-driven. “We wanted to have a transformative impact on the neighborhoods we work in,” said Minott. In 2008, Minott and Depeiza worked at Boston-based firm Elkus Manfredi Architects and entered a design competition together to re-imagine and redevelop Dudley Square. The competition was hosted by the Boston Society of Architects as part of that year’s public programming for the American Institute of Architects national convention in
Boston. The program invited architects to create a design strategy to fill in a newly vacant space in the Roxbury area. Minott and Depeiza submitted a winning design, recognized by the City of Boston and the Boston Planning and Development Agency. “That really thrust us into the spotlight and gave us the confidence to move forward,” said Minott. “A lot of people knew our names in that neighborhood.”
Working well
Minott and Depeiza worked well together and decided to keep the momentum going by starting their own business. “Meeting Greg was complete like-mindedness, and it was the right time,” said Depeiza. “Most people who come to this country are entrepreneurial-minded,” said Depeiza. “You need to start somewhere but you’re always looking to establish your own business.” Minott is originally from Jamaica and Depeiza from Barbados. The duo started DREAM Collaborative from home, building a client list using connections from the competition. “We began targeting nonprofits and private developers in that [Roxbury] area who knew we had credibility in the city,” said Minott. Minott and Depeiza have eight employees, including interns. As a certified Minority and Disadvantaged Business Enterprise,”we’re very focused on hiring minorities and women and ensuring that
they have prominent positions within the firm,” said Minott. “Not only are we innovative with our building designs, but the way we work too.” The firm has worked with 19 clients so far, according to a list on their website. Their portfolio includes a wide range of clients and projects from Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation to Northeastern University, and “from a 13 unit building to a 300 unit building,” said Depeiza. When designing a project, the firm engages with the needs and concerns of the surrounding neighborhood. “It’s our priority to go to community members to learn what their goals are for their community,” said Minott. “And make sure that the development is good for not only new residents but the existing residents,” said Depeiza.
A dream project
The proposed 120,000 square foot building on 260 Washington St., in Dorchester is expected to impact the neighborhood in a number of ways. DREAM Collaborative describes the building as a, “low operating cost, energy-positive, and environmentally sustainable business incubator coworking and event space with a restaurant, cafe, ground floor food co-op and plans for an urban garden.” The performance space is expected to seat 300 - 500 people and will feature a flexible design to accommodate a wide range of events. The project is designed for
LEED Platinum with renewable energy features. Just as important as sustainable energy is resiliency planning, in light of predicted rise of sea levels in Boston. “It will be a place in case of emergency, that will be a haven for the neighborhood,” said Minott. Backup systems for water and electricity will be placed on top of building, as opposed to the basement, and storm water management will be included in the plans. The firm is working with Dorchester-based Sustainability Guild International to implement these innovative green strategies. “It’s more than just a LEED project,” said Minott. “It’s really going to be a catalyst in that neighborhood for that to be the new normal.” In terms of exterior design, “The whole image of the building is innovative,” said Minott. “There can sometimes be a stigma of what a building in a neighborhood should look like.” “This is not that,” said Depeiza. Other projects in the works for DREAM Collaborative is an affordable senior housing building with Hearth Inc., and the renovation of the Grove Hall Library into the new Freedom House headquarters, a college preparatory program. Currently, the firm is located on Huntington Avenue, across from the Christian Science Plaza. Minott and Depeiza said they are looking for more staff to join their team, as they are growing and taking on more and bigger clients.
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Sometimes going to work or school can be overwhelming due to stress and the deadlines you have to meet. This is usually the perfect opportunity to grab your partner in crime and hit the city for some muchneeded fun and relaxation. If your favorite performer is in town and you can’t see him or her live in concert, the next best thing is to party with him. What’s better than catching up with your friends on a dance floor in a night club you all can agree on? Last Friday, Fabolous, a well-known Hip Hop artist, hosted Hip Hop and Latin night at Cure Lounge in downtown Boston. Everyone had their phones out during the event to snap, tweet, and Instagram their experience. Fabolous’s aura was infectious and had the entire club in a great mood. As expected, the VIP area was packed with beautiful women with drinks in hand posing for pictures and looking for potential suitors. What made Fabolous more likable was the fact that he was humble and kept thanking the crowd for coming and having fun, which made us feel like family rather than fans. DJ Pup Dawg of Jamn 94.5 had the dance floor rocking as the ladies mingled and danced with the men of their choosing while others tried to gain the attention of the rap star. The energy was through the roof and the DJ had the entire crowd on its feet, singing along every word to some classic Hip Hop records. Fabolous is a lyricist known for putting together tough punch lines through clever word play. He just might be the artist you need to put on when you are cruising around the city and you need some music to help you think. His star is rising, and his fans look forward to what’s next. Cure Lounge has brought some of the most sought-after entertainers and models to Boston to host their club nights, with sets by wellknown Boston DJs. For more information on Cure Lounge events, visit www.curelounge.com.
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Well, we are co-hosting a body painting event called “A Live Arts Event: BODY DÉCOR.” The night will be filled with body art, live art and music, poetry and networking. All art is presented by talented artists and writers living in Massachusetts. Come out to network, get your body painted, watch live art and enjoy poetry and music. Body painting artists will design any image(s) on guests starting at $15. Support artists. Our performances will start at 7:30 p.m.: visual art talks, poetry, music and raffle prizes. Liquid Art House will provide food and a full bar per their menu prices. When: 5 p.m. Where: Liquid Art House, 100 Arlington St., Boston For more information, please visit: www.intoyourart.org/copyof-events
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cause of working together and making the arts known in the cities of Boston and Cambridge. We will have four major guest appearances from Boston’s rising and talented artists. The lineup includes luxurytakz, Treva Holmes, Prophet aka Percussion, and Cash! We will also have open mic slots available to anyone who purchases a ticket. This is on a first-come, first-served basis. For the open mic, you have the options of acapella slam poetry, spoken word, singing, rapping, etc. The money from this and all our events is used to further the cultural movement in Boston. All the money made goes back into funding our future events, such as showcases, fashion shows, networking events, open mics, artist galleries, concerts, community outreach and more. Please support, as we hope to create an open space for all creative souls in the Greater Boston Community. When: 10 p.m. Where: ZuZu, 474 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge For more information and to get tickets, go to: www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDe-
tail?eventId=6992545&pl=mideastnew&dispatch=loadSelectionData MONDAY 11.21 From Community Outage to Action: Beyond The Ballot II Hosted by: Hewan Aberra & Make Shift Boston On November 5, community members gathered to discuss the fight for black liberation beyond the ballot box. It was nothing short of fire with many ideas on the failures of capitalism, the limitations of voting and the necessity of organization and building from the ground up. With the confirmation of Trump’s presidency the time to organize is now. His ascendency to power will no doubt embolden the far right, leaving marginalized people in crippling fear of what is to come. The only answer to Trump’s win is to organize. We must come together as oppressed people to take action and begin building a radical militant movement. When: 6 p.m. Where: Make Shift Boston,
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www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-art-for-cultural-inclusion-tickets-28561250469 WEDNESDAY 11.23.16 Words Of Fire: Women Loving Women in Latin America Hosted by: Words Of Fire Join us for a reading, signing and Q&A of “Words of Fire! Women Loving Women in Latin America” with author Antonia Amprino and translator Katie Gray. The book is a work of investigation based on interviews of numerous lesbian and bisexual women in Argentina and other Latin American countries. The book contains 17 interviews sewn together by the commentary of the author, who tests her hypothesis that only when we name ourselves do we free
ourselves from the abyss of fear and hiding from who we are. Her voice is ever present in the book, and in the translation it is keep as alive as possible. The book discusses many themes that women experience in different areas of their lives as queer women in Latin America. When: 6 p.m. Where: Bagly, 565 Boylston St., 2nd Floor, Boston For more information, visit: www.facebook.com/ events/294391947621575/ THURSDAY 11.24.16 2016 Franklin Park Turkey Trot! Hosted by: Franklin Park Coalition Last year’s Turkey Trot was a huge success, but let’s make this year even better! Join us on Thursday, Nov. 24 for Bos-
ton’s most beautiful 5k! Enjoy Boston’s most scenic 5k on the beautiful historic paths of Franklin Park. Run or walk the “jewel” of the Emerald Necklace to start your Thanksgiving Day! Bring everyone and make it a family event — all ages and paces welcome. This event supports the Franklin Park Coalition’s seasonal programs: Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park concerts, year-round volunteer days, woodlands restoration, line dancing and fitness activities. Run to support your park! When: 9 a.m. Where: Franklin Park Golf Clubhouse, One Circuit Dr., Boston For more information, visit: www.franklinparkcoalition.org/ turkey-trot-5k/
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Forest Whitaker stars in ‘Arrival’ By KAM WILLIAMS
Forest Whitaker was born in Longview, Texas on July 15, 1961, but raised in Carson, California from the age of 4. He earned an athletic scholarship to Cal Poly Pomona where he switched his major to music after a back injury prematurely ended his football career. Whitaker made his big screen debut in 1982 in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” en route to delivering memorable performances in “Platoon” and “Good Morning Vietnam.” In 1988, he landed his breakout role as saxophonist “Charlie Parker” in Bird, before subsequently starring in such critically-acclaimed pictures as “The Crying Game,” “Smoke” and “Ghost Dog.” In 2007, Whitaker won an Academy Award for his chilling depiction of Idi Amin in “The Last King of Scotland.” Since then, he’s starred in such box-office hits as “The Great Debaters,” “The Butler,” “Southpaw” and “Taken 3.” And later this year, he’ll play Saw Gerrera in “Rogue One,” the upcoming episode in the “Star Wars” series. Here, Whitaker talks about his latest outing as Colonel Weber opposite Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner in “Arrival,” an alien invasion adventure directed by Denis Villeneuve. He was in London on his way to South Africa after wrapping up his latest film.
Which movie are you working on next, “Burden”? FW: No, I already finished “Burden.” That’s another interesting film, actually. We just wrapped that up about a week ago. I liked the way they did it and I felt that the story was really powerful, so I’m hopeful.
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The QUESTION of CITIZENSHIP ‘Top Eye Open’ on stage at Hibernian Hall through Nov. 19
Kinson Theodoris (right) portraying Shadrach Minkins, facing arrest under the Fugitive Slave Law, with Montez Cardwell (left) portraying Leonard Grimes, founding minister of 12th Baptist Church. The setting is a public meeting at the Smith School on Beacon Hill, October 1850. PHOTO: COURTESY PHOTO BY ALBAN MAINO
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istory is alive and well in the city of Boston, and this month hits the stage in the form of “Top Eye Open”, a play exploring the Fugitive Slave Law. Scripted and composed by Dillon Bustin, artistic director of Hibernian Hall, and directed by Jacqui Parker, artistic director of Our Place Theatre, the show tells the story of Shadrach Minkins, the first man in Boston to be arrested under the slave law. Playing through November 19 at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, the show uses rich narrative and curated musical selections to bring history to life.
In 1851, Minkins was arrested as an escapee in the coffee shop where he worked. He was promptly taken to the courthouse for trial. When the League of Freedom, an abolitionist group based on Beacon Hill, got wind of his arrest, they went down to the courthouse and rescued him. Minkins then was hidden in Beacon Hill, then helped through Massachusetts and eventually made it up to Canada. Bustin explains that this was a remarkable story for a number of reasons, the first being the abolitionist nature of the city. “This [Fugitive Slave] law was met with great resistance in Boston,” he says. “It
raises the issue of what it means to be a sanctuary city.” Additionally, the boost of Minkins from jail was accomplished completely by African Americans, and executed in just a few short hours. This kind of active, organized resistance is especially relevant in our current political climate. Bustin draws parallels between the Fugitive Slave Law and contemporary immigration policies. Issues of full citizenship that were the foundation of 1850s turmoil are very much at play, with questions regarding United States borders. Hibernian Hall itself has a history with the immigrant community. It was established in
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www.madison-park.org/event/top-eye-openescape-shadrach 1960 as a dance hall and entertainment haven for Irish immigrants. After a period of disrepair, it was purchased by the Madison Park Development Corporation in 2000 and restored to its original purpose. Now it serves as the ideal setting for a show about community and belonging. Though the core of the show is centered on Minkins, it also tells the story of three couples who find and navigate romance on the path to justice. “Top Eye Open” incorporates popular music from the 1850s such as “Jump, Jim Crow,” a song later adopted by minstrel shows. Bustin also composed original music for the production. The show is family friendly and welcomes all ages, despite the heavy themes. Bustin says, “I think it raises the question, what does it mean to be an American, and what does it mean to be free?”
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‘All art is political’ Works of Doris Salcedo on view at Harvard Art Museums By SUSAN SACCOCCIA
When politicians fail, sometimes artists succeed. Last month, when Colombians by a narrow margin vetoed a peace agreement to end their country’s 52-year civil war, artist Doris Salcedo drew thousands of citizens to a square in the center of the nation’s capital, Bogotá. Together, they wrote the names of war victims on acres of white fabric in a vigil that gave voice to the healing yet to come. Salcedo’s sculptures, installations and public interventions give voice to victims of violence, from the tortured and slain in her own country to mothers in Chicago housing projects whose children were killed in gun violence. “All art is political,” Salcedo, 58, said while in Cambridge to open an exhibition of her works at the Harvard Art Museums. “The expression ‘political art’ is redundant.” In the wake of our own bruising election, it seems worth noting that the word “political” means power in a public sphere. In her works, Salcedo counters the annihilating force of political violence, which often mutes its victims, by making loss visible and evoking empathy across time and place.
Suffering presence
As a sculptor, Salcedo transforms matter into something beyond itself. With an alchemist’s drive, Salcedo pushes her chosen material to achieve what she describes as “the impossible:” an encounter with what has been lost and a requiem that the victim was denied by his or her assailant. Instead of depicting individuals or events, her semi-abstract sculptures engage the viewer in reflection and remembrance. With poetic power, they conjure associations and memories in the viewer, who becomes an active participant in her work. The strenuousness of Salcedo’s process, itself a ritual of mourning, begins with interviewing survivors and extends to exhaustive research into materials, often in collaboration with scientists. An artist of international renown, Salcedo was awarded the Nasher Sculpture Center’s inaugural Nasher Prize in 2016 and also received the 2014 Hiroshima Art Prize. Her influences include Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), a Luftwaffe pilot in World War II who after being shot down reinvented himself. As a sculptor, performer and teacher he probed the soul of post-war Germany and influenced many younger artists to do the same on their own turf. Here at Harvard (and formerly MIT), Salcedo’s fellow Hiroshima Art Prize recipient, Krzysztof Wodiczko, expresses the suffering of marginalized communities through video projections on civic buildings. His 1998 installation commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary
Art Boston screened videos on the Bunker Hill Monument of grieving parents as they broke their silence about gun violence in Charlestown.
Loss and change
On view through April 9, 2017, the spare and intense exhibition entitled “The Materiality of Mourning” and its catalog by the same name culminate a decade of research by the curator, Mary Schneider Enriquez, the museum’s Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. Her catalog explores Salcedo’s work from the 1980s to the present, and includes essays by the artist and the museum’s conservation scientist, Narayan Khandekar, who writes about Salcedo’s use of fragile organic materials and the challenges of conserving her works. The four galleries show nine works from 2001 to 2016 that progress from sculptures of great size and weight to ephemeral objects that appear as light as air. In the first gallery, two hulking rectangular structures are on display. Viewed from the entrance, they interlock into an abstract composition that is a visualization of silence. The chalky white surface of one reflects the gallery’s pale grey light. Yet close up, the structures show signs of a history. Panels of fine burled wood in a warm, burnished tone and here and there, crown molding, reveal parts of an armoire and a slab that once topped a dining table. Yet this furniture has been rendered dysfunctional — taken apart, reassembled at jarring angles and sealed with concrete, a touch that adds a devastating note of permanence. They can never be restored to their former use, just as the life of their original owner is changed forever. A sense of gravity and dignity prevails as well as loss.
Terrible beauty
In the next gallery is an assembly of backless, skeletal chairs arranged in several loosely linear groups. Salcedo made a wax model of a wooden chair and fashioned these replicas in stainless steel, which she then hand-carved with cracks, dents and tears to evoke absence and violence. This stark metallic installation remains partly visible as a viewer contemplates the works in two adjoining galleries, which in contrast, appear to be objects of fluid delicacy. In one gallery, a tapestry is spread across the floor. Arranged at an angle, its puckered folds suggest a wave washing up on sand. Its burgundy and brown surface has a sheen, and close up, brims with organic life. The source of its rich earth tones is its material: thousands of red rose petals, hand-sutured to a fabric backing. Although Salcedo treated the petals to prevent withering, their slightly blackened imprints suggest a touch of decay. This effect increases the poignancy of
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“A Flor de Piel” (detail), 2013, by Doris Salcedo. Rose petals and thread. the work, entitled “A flor de Piel” (2013). Striving to render the paradox of irretrievable loss and remembrance within the very fabric of her sculpture, Salcedo imagines her tapestry as a shroud for a nurse tortured to death in the Colombian war. Four shimmering blouses
hover like wraiths along the walls of the next gallery. Attached by hidden supports, they appear to float and cast diaphanous shadows. On close inspection, the material that glistens in these hand-woven pieces becomes visible: thousands of tiny needles. Salcedo composed these
sculptures, part of a series she entitled “Disremembered” (201416), after visiting mothers in Chicago housing projects who had lost children to gun violence. Seen from a distance, they are objects of beauty. But they can inflict pain, like a penitent’s hair shirt— or a mother’s grief.
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Play examines relationship of Mary Todd Lincoln, dressmaker By CELINA COLBY
In Bad Habit Productions’ “How Soft the Lining,” a small but powerful cast explores the relationship between Mary Todd Lincoln and Elizabeth Keckley, her dressmaker. In performance through November 20 at Calderwood Pavilion, Boston Center for the Arts, the show is both a celebration of feminine strength and friendship, and an examination of race relations during the time of slavery. The timeline of the story begins after President Lincoln’s assassination and reveals flashbacks of Mary and Elizabeth’s childhoods and journeys to the White House. The women’s formative years are presented in tandem to show both the similarities and the differences between them. Though both women experienced loss and pain in childhood, Elizabeth was put to work as a slave from age 4, a much darker fate than Mary’s quarrels
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continued from page 16 Then what movie are you shooting in South Africa? FW: One about Archbishop Desmond Tutu called “The Forgiven.” It’s about the Truth and Reconciliation Trials he conducted after the fall of apartheid.
It was a remarkable way to resolve a civil conflict, to let perpetrators of war crimes off the hook, provided they confessed publicly. FW: Yes, I think that was the interesting thing about what happened in South Africa. It enabled them to change regimes peacefully, and not leave all the pain underneath the surface. It brought a little bit of it out, so they could address what really happened. It was a very powerful solution.
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FW: I thought it was really an interesting story, first of all, the whole notion of people coming to the planet and trying to find ways of communicating with them. But I thought the understory of time, and of how time exists in our lives. I also found my character, the cast and the director very interesting. So, it all made sense to give it a try.
with her vindictive stepmother. Elle Borders shines as Elizabeth Keckley, perfectly portraying her internal struggle between a desire for friendship and a history of oppression. Jade Guerra makes her Bad Habit Productions debut, appearing in a number of roles. She brings exceptional comic relief as Elizabeth’s well meaning but naïve shop assistant. The primary conflict in the narrative is Elizabeth’s difficulty seeing Mary as a friend, after a lifetime of interacting with white people only in a master and slave capacity. Her heart wants to open up to the first lady, but her pride fears mistreatment. In one scene she says, “You shouldn’t owe your friend your supper.” Gender identity is another key theme. Early on, Mary laments how much pressure is put on her appearance rather than her education, which she fought hard to acquire. She says, “Mr. Lincoln can wear the same black suit every
day, but if I don’t look the part of a Washington hostess, they’ll be writing about it for weeks to come.” There are a handful of male roles in the show, portrayed as husbands and sons, but they serve only to support the women’s stories, a pleasant change from traditional media. Sound plays an important role in “How Soft the Lining,” which includes sound effects such as the cracking of a whip and the tick of a typewriter to represent historical events and the passage of time. Contemporary Hip Hop beats and remixes of traditional songs like “Follow the Drinking Gourd” were played between scenes, linking the play’s material to the modern world, where race relations remain a hotly contested subject. “How Soft the Lining” champions the ideas of perseverance in the face of oppression and the value of friendship on the long road of life. As Mary Todd Lincoln says, “Forward. That’s what women do best.”
Did Denis suggest anything?
we read people and how we read circumstances. Meaning, are these people coming to create war or not? Are they our friends? How are we interpreting their actions? We look at people differently culturally, in this case, as different galactically, or however way you’d say it. How do we engage them? How do we judge them? I think another issue explored in the film is time. From a scientific point of view, it raises the question of whether it exists at all. And secondly, if it doesn’t exist, it asks are we nevertheless on this plane of a loop that still holds the universe up? [Laughs] I think it poses that question, too.
FW: Wow! [Pauses] I’m trying to remember what he might have suggested. We had some meetings and stuff where we talked about the character and worked on it. I think, first, I was trying to figure out where Weber was from. That sort of involved locking in his speech patterns and creating that back history. You know what I mean?
Yeah. FW: I’d played military men before, but this felt a little different, maybe because of my task. So, I was trying to understand that, as well as this notion of running a team the way Denis wanted me to do it, by splitting powers. And then it all started falling into place and taking on a reality as I began to embrace the idea that I was trying to save the world. [Chuckles]
I know that you worked with Jeremy Renner a decade ago in “A Little Trip to Heaven.” How was it reuniting with him again? FW: Yeah, Jeremy’s a great guy. That was a little independent film directed by Baltasar Kormakur. It was fun working with him then, and fun working with him now. He’s a really generous, good person who’s there, committed to having everything work out, and who you like being around.
I loved both “Prisoners” and “Sicario” by this director.
Was this your first time working with Amy Adams? How was that?
FW: Yeah, Denis is a really good filmmaker.
FW: It was. I enjoyed it. The movie was so much from her mind. She was very focused in on it. And when we tried to get the different scenes we shared to work, there was something happening inside of them every time. So, she’s a really talented actress. Really strong!
Here, he’s made a very sophisticated contribution to the alien invasion genre. How would you describe your approach to playing Colonel Weber?
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What would you say was the movie’s message? FW: I think it has several messages. One is about communication, because the film does deal with trying to communicate with these beings. Another message is about how communication can bring us together. And a third is about misconceptions in terms of how
How do you feel about aliens? Do think that life exists on other planets? FW: I think it must, when they talk about how many other galaxies there are. Even scientifically, they’re acknowledging that there are places where life could exist. And we’ve already discovered that there’s been life on certain planets that we’ve explored. That may just be algae or whatever, but life on Earth began a certain way, too. So, yeah, I do believe there’s life other than on our planet. [Chuckles]
What do you care to share about playing Saw Gerrera in “Rogue One,” the next episode in the “Star Wars” series. FW: I’m excited about it. I think he’s a really interesting character. It was a very exciting project to work on. He walks in the middle ground of trying to save the universe by any means necessary. He’s a freedom fighter and a rebel. The whole piece, which deals with those kinds of concepts, is really strong.
What’s it like to join that franchise? FW: I’m still discovering it. I’m looking at the toys and other releases that are coming out. It’s a big universe that I’m still learning to walk inside of. But I really enjoyed it when I walked out on the set for the first time. And I’ve remained excited during the entire process. just trying on my uniform was itself an exciting process.
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1. Preheat oven to 375 F. 2. To prepare crumble, combine flour and sugars in a large bowl. Cut in butter with two knives or your fingers until crumbly. Stir in walnuts. 3. To prepare filling, combine pears, cider, lemon juice and flour in a large bowl. Spoon into an 8-inch square baking dish. Dot with marmalade. Sprinkle with crumble mixture. 4. Bake 40 minutes or until fruit is bubbling at edges and top is golden brown. Serves 8. — Recipe by Jean Kressy
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Heat oven to 350 F. In large skillet, heat butter over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms; cook 8-10 minutes, or until deep golden brown, stirring frequently. Season with salt and pepper; remove from heat. Place Brie on parchment paperlined rimmed baking pan; drizzle with honey. Transfer to oven and bake 5-7 minutes, or until inside of cheese is softened, but outside remains intact. Transfer Brie to serving platter; top with pomegranate arils, pistachios and mushrooms. Serve immediately with crackers or bread. — Family Features
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THURSDAY WIT Hub Theatre Company of Boston presents Wit by Tony nominated and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margaret Edson through November 19 at First Church Boston, 66 Marlborough Street in Boston’s Back Bay. In the show The New York Times calls “wise, witty and wrenching,” Edson questions what we value most when our days are numbered. This forceful and funny piece examines relationships, compassion and finding the essential balance between science and art, head and heart. With no right or wrong answers, this provocative and profoundly moving play allows each of us to consider how to live, who to live for, and what we value most when there is little time left. Wit asks us all the question: What do you do when you learn you are about to die? Performances are Thursdays at 7:30pm, Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, and Sundays at 5pm. All performances are “Pay-What-You-Can.” For this production, donations of children’s books will be collected at each performance and distributed to local charities. For tickets and information visit, www.hubtheatre boston.org.
FRIDAY FILM SCREENING AN EVENING WITH EDGAR ARCENEAUX Edgar Arceneaux presents a screening and discussion of Until, Until, Until…, a short feature film which originated as a theatrical play. In this work, Arceneaux examines Broadway legend Ben Vereen’s controversial blackface performance at Ronald Reagan’s 1981 inaugural celebration. Vereen’s musical number, an homage to trailblazing black vaudeville performer Bert Williams, delivered a provocative critique to the Republican audience. Shown on television a day later in a truncated version that omitted the last five minutes and subverted his critical intentions, the broadcast triggered a heated backlash and derailed Vereen’s career for decades. Arceneaux’s film restages the entire performance and restores Vereen’s original ending, reflecting on the power of media (mis)representation as well as on what can happen when an artist is completely misunderstood. This program is co-presented by the Ruth Carl J. Shapiro Film Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University in conjunction with the List Center’s exhibition Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke and Fire. The screening takes place at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Remis Auditorium, November 18, at 6pm. Free tickets will be available at any MFA ticket desk starting at 10am on the day of the screening. Seating is limited; admission is not guaranteed.
THROUGH BARBED WIRE PRESENTS 4TH FRIDAY SERIES 7-8:30pm: Monthly prose/poetry participatory event focused on the voices of
prisoners, through their writings, speaking to family, friends, youth, allies in the community about prison reality and their lives in it. Special signing of holiday cards to prisoners. Families, friends, former prisoners welcome; bring names/addresses of loved ones. Pot Luck. Created/directed by Arnie King. Friday November 18 at the City School, 614R Columbia Rd/enter at rear on Ramsey St, Boston MA 02125. For more info: throughbarbedwire@yahoo. com or visit www.arnoldking.org; tel. 857492-4858. Cost: Donation.
SATURDAY THIRTEENTH ANNUAL DOG SLED FUN RUN Meet a furry sled dog up close and personal! The Yankee Siberian Husky Club with the Boston Snow Dogs will host an educational presentation on dog sledding in New England. See these canine athletes in training before the busy winter season. Demonstrations with wheeled rigs, if weather permits. Bring cameras for a great photo opportunity. 2 hours. Please note: This is a demonstration only. No rides given. Also please do not bring your dog to this event…it distracts the sled dogs. Saturday, November 19, 1-3pm. Meet at Houghton’s Pond main parking lot at 840 Hillside Street in the Blue Hills Reservation in Milton. Call 617-698-1802 X 3 for more information. This is a free program sponsored by the DCR Blue Hills Reservation.
UPCOMING BLUE HILLS RESERVATION Go Green on Black Friday! Moderate walk. Green dot trail. Meet at the Trailside Museum north parking lot at 1904 Canton Avenue in Milton on Friday, November 25 at 10am. The Southeastern Massachusetts Adult Walking Club meets each weekend on either a Saturday or Sunday at 10am or 1pm for recreational walks. This club is open to people of 16 years of age and older, and there is no fee to join. Walks average 2 to 5 miles. New walkers are encouraged to participate. The terrain can vary: EASY (mostly level terrain), MODERATE (hilly terrain), DIFFICULT (strenuous & steep). Walks will be led by a park ranger or a Walking Club volunteer leader. The DCR Southeast Mass. Walking Club meets at a variety of state parks. Note some DCR sites charge a parking fee. The rangers recommend wearing hiking boots and bringing drinking water on all hikes.
LEARN AND BURN The National Park Service and Friends of Jamaica Pond Invite You to “Learn and Burn” on a Ranger-Led Walk at Jamaica Pond Saturday Morning, November 26. This “Learn and Burn” walk at Jamaica Pond, presented by the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and Friends of Jamaica Pond, provides an opportunity to learn about Frederick Law Olmsted and this Emerald Necklace landscape while burning off calories from Thanksgiving dinner. This walk is free and open to the public, though
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FILM SCREENING Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, Film Screening of “Body and Soul” and “Within Our Gates” from the Pioneers of African American Cinema Collection, presented by DJ Spooky. In 2016, Kino Lorber launched a crowd-funding campaign to restore a sampling of early “race movies” produced independently of Hollywood and intended for screening before African-American audiences. The campaign was a success and the project exploded into an ambitious five-disc collection of feature films, fragments, and shorts, presented in cooperation with the major American film archives, illuminating one of the most neglected chapters of film history. In his New York Times review, J. Hoberman wrote, “From the perspective of cinema history — and American history, for that matter — there has never been a more significant video release.” Thursday, November 17th, 6pm, Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street – Broadway Street Entrance, Cambridge. Free and open to the public. Screening will be followed by Q&A with DJ Spooky. advance registration is requested. Rain or icy conditions will cancel the walk. To reserve a space, please email Mark_Swartz@nps.gov by Wednesday, November 23. The walk includes two 1.5 mile loops around the Pond, the first being faster-paced (after a short introduction) and the second a slower “cool-down” with more frequent stops to discuss and view the history and features of this Emerald Necklace landscape. In 2016 Olmsted NHS joins the rest of the National Park Service in celebrating the agency’s centennial and inviting the public to find their parks (www.findyourpark.com). For further information, please contact Olmsted NHS Monday through Saturday at 617566-1689 x216 or visit www.nps.gov/ frla. This program is co-sponsored by Friends of Jamaica Pond, www.friends ofjamaicapond.org/.
COPLEY SQUARE TREE LIGHTING Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, and The Friends of Copley Square welcome the holidays with the annual Copley Square Tree Lighting on Monday, November 28, from 5-6pm. The free event will feature appearances by Mayor Walsh, NECN’s Jenny Johnson, Santa Claus, and Rudolph along with musical performances by the Boston Children’s Chorus, vocalist Marchelle Jacques-Yarde, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Berklee College of Music student Mahamma Germain of Hyde Park. In addition, the US Postal Service will unveil its new holiday stamp. The Old South Church bell will toll when the tree is illuminated. Light refreshments will be provided by local businesses New England Coffee and HP Hood LLC. The Fairmont Copley Plaza will host a family reception immediately following for all in attendance. The reception will include cookie decorating, photos with Santa and treats from the Fairmont Copley Plaza. Even more festivities will take place in and around Copley Square on November 28. The Boston Public Library and The Catered Affair will host a Storytime and Candy Cane Tea at the library from 3:30-5pm. The tea is free but reservations are required by calling 617-859-2282. For additional information please call the Boston Parks and Recreation Department at 617-635-
4505. To learn more about The Friends of Copley Square, please visit www. friendsofcopleysquare.org.
FAMILY HANUKKAH CELEBRATION Families are invited to a free Hanukkah celebration on Sunday, December 18, 10am - 4pm at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts. At 11am, visitors can learn Yiddish holiday songs at a sing-along workshop led by Paula Parsky and musician Brian Bender. At 1pm, families can hear readings of holiday-themed books and work on holiday crafts in our kinder vinkl (children’s corner). Throughout the day, young detektivn (detectives) can take part in scavenger hunts throughout the Yiddish Book Center. Guided public tours of the Center will be offered at 11am and 1pm. More information can be found at yiddishbookcenter.org/calendar.
ONGOING TAI CHI: MOVING FOR BETTER BALANCE This FREE evidence-based workshop focuses on preventing falls and improving balance through the regular practice of Tai Chi. Participants will learn 8 single forms, derived from the traditional, well known, 24-form Yang Style Tai Chi. The forms are tailored to older adults who wish to improve balance and mobility, and consequently, reduce the risk of falling. Classes meet twice a week for 12 weeks and is designed for beginners. Location: Curtis Hall Community Center, 20 South St. in Jamaica Plain. Day and Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1-2pm. Through December 1. For more information or to register for this workshop contact Ann Glora at 617477-6616 or aglora@ethocare.org.
MORE THAN MY RELIGION The power of art transcends the boundaries of language, culture, nationality and faith. “More Than My Religion” is an art exhibition of diverse subject matter and a community outreach effort. Named and local Muslim artists from the Boston and Providence areas are contributing their work to illustrate their values using art as a medium. It is meant to separate the media image of Muslims being defined by acts of violence around the world from
the reality of Muslims as peace-loving and forward-looking citizens and contributing members of society, in most cases no different from people of other faiths. Although media-portrayed stereotypes are quickly formed in the mind, the creative energy of visual art can help us unlearn those stereotypes and present a properly painted reality. More Than My Religion presents an enlightening perspective on shared values for community, life and coexistence across people of different backgrounds. Participating Artists: Noureen Sultana, Farah Hussain, Mehrjabeen Iftihkar, Poonam Javaid, Haroon Khimani, Sehr Jalal, Sana N. Mirza, Irum Haque, Muti Siddiqui, Niha Ahmed, Zainab-Ale-Rasool, Uzma Wahid, Sana Qureshi, Rozina Siddiqui, Rohma Shirwani, Malika MacDonald, Elena Fakhr, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Ehsun Mirza, Zahra Bhaiwala. Through December 2 at the Multicultural Arts Center, 41 Second St., East Cambridge. Gallery website: www.multiculturalartscenter. org/galleries/. Galleries are FREE and open to the public. Regular Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 6pm.
FREE PIANO CLASSES Free Piano Classes and singing are available on Saturday mornings, through May at the Dudley Branch of the Boston Public Library for children ages 6-18. The classes are taught by Carlos Vargas, a pianist and faculty member at the Boston Conservatory. If interested, please contact: carlosmvar gas.pianist@gmail.com. The program is funded by the Fellowes Athenaeum Trust Fund of the Boston Public Library (fellowestrust@yahoo.com).
STAR GAZING AT THE OBSERVATORY The Public Open Night at the Observatory is a chance for people to observe the night sky through telescopes and binoculars and see things they otherwise might not get to see, and learn some astronomy as well. Wednesday nights from 8:30-9:30pm, weather permitting, Coit Observatory at Boston University, located at 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, right above the Astronomy Department. The stairwell to the Observatory is on the fifth floor right next to room 520. More Info: Call (617) 353-2630 for any questions.
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An Automatic Restraining Order has been entered in this matter preventing you from taking any action which would negatively impact the current financial status of either party. SEE Supplemental Probate Court Rule 411.
Brian Shortsleeve Acting General Manager of the MBTA November 10, 2016 Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division
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MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date. Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. J75CN03, MANSFIELD STATION – ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, MANSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS (Class 1, GENERAL TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION – PROJECT VALUE $7, 771,132), can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on December 15, 2016. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly. Work consists of the construction of two new pedestrian stairs and ramps with canopies, demolition and reconstruction of two mini-high platforms with canopies, reconstruction of platform including new tactile edge, lighting, and guardrails, and parking lot improvements including regrading, restriping, and drainage improvements. Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of ten percent (10%). Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/cur rent_solicitations/ On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Brian Shortsleeve Chief Administrator and Acting General Manager of the MBTA November 10, 2016 MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY 100 SUMMER ST., SUITE 1200 BOSTON, MA 02110 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic proposals for the following project will be received through the internet using Bid Express until the date and time stated below, and will be posted on www.bidx.com forthwith after the bid submission deadline. No paper copies of bids will be accepted. Bidders must have a valid digital ID issued by the Authority in order to bid on projects. Bidders need to apply for a digital ID with Bid Express at least 14 days prior to a scheduled bid opening date. Electronic bids for MBTA Contract No. J62CN01, ROCKPORT LAYOVER FACILITY POWER UPGRADES, ROCKPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, (CLASS 1, GENERAL TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION AND PROJECT VALUE - $ 4,992,600.00) can be submitted at www.bidx.com until two o’clock (2:00 p.m.) on December 15, 2016. Immediately thereafter, in a designated room, the Bids will be opened and read publicly. The Work consists of furnishing and installing a new 3,500 kVA single ended, fully enclosed power substation with four (4) auxiliary power units, one at each layover train set, and the associated underground concrete encased distribution ductbanks and hot mix asphalt paving at the Rockport Commuter Rail Station. Work also includes the installation of under drain system, catch basins, water quality structures, a fire alarm system for the power substation, and the installation of security cameras for the Rockport Commuter Rail Station. Americans with Disabilities Act upgrades include the installation of a 24 inch wide tactile edge strip along the platform and reconstruction of accessible parking spaces. The work also includes the installation of a casing pipe beneath the layover storage tracks to carry the ductbank as well as construction of new information signage for the regional bus authority. Bidders’ attention is directed to Appendix 1, Notice of Requirement for Affirmative Action to Insure Equal Employment Opportunity; and to Appendix 2, Supplemental Equal Employment Opportunity, Anti-Discrimination, and Affirmative Action Program in the specifications. In addition, pursuant to the requirements of Appendix 3, Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) Participation Provision, Bidders must submit an assurance with their Bids that they will make sufficient and reasonable efforts to meet the stated DBE goal of 3.47 percent.
Witness, Hon. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 13, 2016
Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS PROBATE COURT CASE NO. SU13P0226
To all persons interested in a petition described:
SUFFOLK ss.
A petition has been presented by Jesse A. Ritson requesting that Jesse Austin Ritson be allowed to change his/her/their name as follows:
To all persons interested in the estate of Willie J. Gooding late of Boston, in said County, deceased Intestate.
Jesse Alexander Ritson
A petition has been presented to said Court for license to sell - private sale private - certain real estate of said deceased.
IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 12/08/2016. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: November 4, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
If you desire to object thereto you or your attorney should file a written appearance in said Court at Boston before ten o’clock in the forenoon on the 15th day of December, 2016, the return day of this citation. Witness, the Honorable Joan P. Armstrong, Esquire, First Judge of said Court, this 9th day of November, 2016. Felix D. Arroyo, Register.
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Citation Giving Notice of Petition for Termination of a Guardian of an Incapacitated Person
To the named Respondent and all other interested persons, a petition has been filed by Department of Mental Health of Boston, MA in the above captioned matter requesting that the court: Terminate the Guardianship The petition asks the court to make a determination that the Guardian and/ or Conservator should be allowed to resign; or should be removed for good cause; or that the Guardianship and/or Conservatorship is no longer necessary and therefore should be terminated. The original petition is on file with the court. You have the right to object to this proceeding. If you wish to do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court on or before 10:00 A.M. on the return date of 12/15/2016. This day is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline date by which you have to file the written appearance if you object to the petition. If you fail to file the written appearance by the return date, action may be taken in this matter without further notice to you. In addition to filing the written appearance, you or your attorney must file a written affidavit stating the specific facts and grounds of your objection within 30 days after the return date. IMPORTANT NOTICE The outcome of this proceeding may limit or completely take away the above-named person’s right to make decisions about personal affairs or financial affairs or both. The above-named person has the right to ask for a lawyer. Anyone may make this request on behalf of the above-named person. If the above-named person cannot cannot afford a lawyer, one may be appointed at State expense. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: November 02, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Isabelle V. Terrell Date of Death: 07/04/2016 To all interested persons: A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Sheila Y. Larkins of Richmond, VA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Sheila Y. Larkins of Richmond, VA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 12/08/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: November 01, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. SU16C0467CA
SUFFOLK Division
In the matter of Atline Stalling of Boston, MA NOTICE OF PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME
A petition has been presented by Adline Stallings requesting that Atline Stalling be allowed to change his/her/their name as follows: Adline Stallings IF YOU DESIRE TO OBJECT THERETO, YOU OR YOUR ATTORNEY MUST FILE A WRITTEN APPEARANCE IN SAID COURT AT BOSTON ON OR BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING (10:00 AM) ON 12/08/2016. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: November 8, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
Additional information and instructions on how to submit a bid are available at http://www.mbta.com/business_center/bidding_solicitations/cur rent_solicitations/
To the Defendant:
Docket No. SU15D2639DR
Divorce Summons by Publication and Mailing Ruth B. Carter
vs.
Michael Carter
The Plaintiff has filed a Complaint for Divorce requesting that the Court grant a divorce for IRRETRIEVABLE BREAKDOWN. The Complaint is on file at the Court.
SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16P2422EA
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Arthur Gerard Ryan Date of Death: 05/30/2016 To all interested persons:
To all persons interested in a petition described:
SUFFOLK Division
Docket No. SU16P2427EA
SUFFOLK Division
In the Interests of Joel Stockdale Of Boston, MA RESPONDENT Incapacitated Person/Protected Person
Bidders will affirmatively ensure that in regard to any contract entered into pursuant to this solicitation, minority and female construction contractors will be afforded full opportunity to submit Bids and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, age, or national origin in consideration for an award.
On behalf of the MBTA, thank you for your time and interest in responding to this Notice to Bidders.
Docket No. SU16C0466CA
You are hereby summoned and required to serve upon: Douglas Martin, Esq., Law Offices of Douglas Martin, Attorney at Law, 15 Court Square, Suite 500, Boston, MA 02108 your answer, if any, on or before 12/29/2016. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to the hearing and adjudication of this action. You are also required to file a copy of your answer, if any, in the office of the Register of this Court.
In the matter of Jesse Austin Ritson of Boston, MA
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A Petition for Formal Adjudication of Intestacy and Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Eileen K. Majewski of Bourne, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Eileen K. Majewski of Bourne, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 12/08/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration. WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: October 28, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department
REAL ESTATE
The Elm at Island Creek Village located in Duxbury, MA
Docket No. SU16P2419EA
SUFFOLK Division
REAL ESTATE
Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Patricia M. Hecker Date of Death: 08/27/2016
New 1,2 & 3 Bedroom Affordable Apartments and Townhomes- Fall 2016
Accepting applications for 3 housing lotteries for 49 apartments for the following affordable programs: Low Income Housing Tax Credit Program (LIHTC), Project Based Voucher (PBV) and MRVP Project Based Voucher (MRVP) Programs Income Guidelines
To all interested persons:
Household Size (HH)
A Petition for Formal Probate of Will with Appointment of Personal Representative has been filed by Theresa Underwood of Harwich, MA requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. The Petitioner requests that Theresa Underwood of Harwich, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond in an unsupervised administration. IMPORTANT NOTICE You have the right to obtain a copy of the Petition from the Petitioner or at the Court. You have a right to object to this proceeding. To do so, you or your attorney must file a written appearance and objection at this Court before 10:00 a.m. on the return day of 12/08/2016. This is NOT a hearing date, but a deadline by which you must file a written appearance and objection if you object to this proceeding. If you fail to file a timely written appearance and objection followed by an Affidavit of Objections within thirty (30) days of the return day, action may be taken without further notice to you. UNSUPERVISED ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE (MUPC) A Personal Representative appointed under the MUPC in an unsupervised administration is not required to file an inventory or annual accounts with the Court. Persons interested in the estate are entitled to notice regarding the administration directly from the Personal Representative and may petition the Court in any matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.
PBV/MRVP (30% AMI) Maximum Income
LIHTC (30% AMI) Maximum Income
MRVP (50% AMI) Maximum Income
LIHTC (60% AMI) Maximum Income
1 Person HH
$20,650
$20,610
$34,350
$41,220
2 Person HH
$23,600
$23,550
$39,250
$47,100
3 Person HH
$26,550
$26,490
$44,150
$52,980
4 Person HH
$29,450
$29,430
$49,050
$58,860
5 Person HH
$31,850
$31,800
$53,000
$63,600
6 Person HH
$34,200
$34,140
$56,900
$68,280
Minimum income guidlines apply for the LIHTC Program only. For the PBV and MRVP programs rents are based on household income. LIHTC rents range from $552 up to $1530 based upon bedroom size less applicable utility allowance. Residents are responsible to pay electricity only. How to Get an Application: The Application intake period will begin on Monday September 26, 2016. Hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday from 10 am to 4 pm; Wednesdays from 10 am to 7 pm; and Saturdays from 10 am - 2 pm Applications can be picked up in person, emailed, faxed or mailed from the Island Creek Village Leasing Office: 42 Tremont Street, Duxbury, MA Applications MUST BE POST MARKED, EMAILED, FAXED OR DELIVERED IN PERSON BY 5:00 pm November 30, 2016 The placement of your application will be decided by a lottery held at 2:00 pm December 13, 2016 at the Duxbury Council On Aging
WITNESS, HON. Joan P. Armstrong, First Justice of this Court. Date: November 01, 2016 Felix D. Arroyo Register of Probate
Parker Hill Apartments Brand New Renovated Apartment Homes
For more info or to request a reasonable accommodation, call 781-934-6714, TTY 711 or email islandcreekinfo@beaconcommunitiesllc.com Language assistance available This is a Smoke Free Community
REAL ESTATE
Affordable Housing Opportunity Dorchester, Massachusetts
Property Manager
#888-691-4301
Program Restrictions Apply.
Will be accepting applications for its 1-2-3 BR waiting lists. To qualify for these waitlists, income limits apply All applicants will be screened for eligibility. Use & Occupancy restrictions apply.
RENT
$1108 - $1536
Maximum Income Per Household Size HH Size
60%
1
41,400
2
47,280
3
53,220
4
59,100
5
63,840
6
68,580
Applications may be picked up from the Management Office located at 147 Moreland Street, Roxbury, MA 02119 On Tuesdays from 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 noon and on Thursdays from 1:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.. Any questions, please call United Housing Management At (617) 208-4933 TTY/TDD: (800) 439-0183
AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES 52 Montebello Road
52 Montebello Road Jamaica Plain, MA Affordable Units
The Leasing Center for The Treadmark Apartments is located in the Carruth Building located at 1916 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester, MA 02124. Applications can be picked up at the Leasing Center, Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. With extended office hours on Saturday, January 7th 2017 from 10am until 1:00 pm (see location below) and Saturday, January 21st, 2017 from 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, in the Management Office. Please call the Leasing Center at (617) 265-5800 if an alternate application delivery method is required. (TDD #: 800-545-1833, ext. 945) Informational meetings will be held on Saturday, January 7th, 2017 from 10am - 1pm and Tuesday, January 10, 2016 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at the All Saints Church located at 209 Ashmont Street, Dorchester, MA 02124. Applications will be available. Please note that the last day to pick up an application is Tuesday, February 7th, 2017 at 5pm in the Leasing Center. To be eligible to participate in the affordable unit lottery, completed applications must be either received in the Leasing Center before 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 14th, 2017, or be postmarked by Tuesday, February 14th, 2017.
Type
2-BR
Income limit
60% AMI
Rent
$1,330
Unit totals
6
Maximum Income Per Household Size (HUD 2016 limits) HH Size
60%
HH Size
60%
1
41,220
4
58,860
2
47,100
5
63,600
3
52,980
6
68,280
Applications are available 11/7/16 through 11/21/16 Applications may be picked up in person from the Management Office at 1542 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury, MA 02119 Weekdays: Monday-Friday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Evening hours Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. Saturday, 11/19/16 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Reasonable Accommodations will be made upon request.
You may also request an application by contacting the management office at Montebello@winnco.com
Unit sizes range from: Studio, 1BR & 2BR. There are 5 Accessible Units: 1 - Studio, 2 - 1BR & 2 - 2BR. Additionally, the are 2 Hearing and visually Impaired units: 1 - 1BR & 1 - 2BR.
Informational Meeting: Monday, November 7, 2016, 6:00 PM Urban Edge, 1542 Columbus Avenue, Roxbury, MA Deadline for completed applications to be in lottery: Monday, November 28, 2016 by 4:00 p.m. In person at the above address or mailed and postmarked by that day. Reasonable accommodations made.
Amenities: • Spacious Apartments • A Variety of Floor Plans • Outdoor Community area • Central Air Conditioning
• On-Site Laundry • Across from Ashmont Station • Heat and Hot water included • City Conveniences within walking distance
35 of the affordable units will have a Boston residence preference for the lottery & initial rent up and six units with have a Homeless preference (2-Studio , 3-1BR & 1-2 BR) Rent Limits
Income Restrictions Apply
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DUDLEY TERRACE APARTMENTS
Trinity Management will begin accepting applications for affordable rentals (30% & 60% of AMI) for the Treadmark Apartments beginning on December 14th, 2016 and ending on February 14, 2017 for occupancy beginning in June of 2017. Due to the anticipated demand for the affordable rentals, a lottery will be held.
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0 BR units = $1,027/mo 1 BR units = $1,101/mo All utilities included.
888-842-7945
All information sessions will be held at the Duxbury Council On Aging located at 10 Mayflower Street,Duxbury, MA 02332
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A senior/disabled/ handicapped community
Two Bedrooms Starting at $2200
Information Sessions: October 3, 2016 at 2:00 pm October 21, 2016 at 2:00 pm November 18, 2016 at 2:00 pm
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91 Clay Street Quincy, MA 02170
Senior Living At It’s Best
Stainless Steel Appliances New Kitchen Cabinets Hardwood Floors Updated Bathroom Custom Accent Wall Painting Free Parking Free Wi-Fi in lobby Modern Laundry Facilities
Attendance is not required for the lottery
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Wollaston Manor
HH Size
30%
60%
1
$20,610
$41,220
2
$23,550
$47,100
3
$26,490
$52,980
4
$29,430
$58,860
5
$31,800
$63,600
6
$34,140
$68,280
Unit Size
30% Rent
60% Rent
Fair Market Rent
Studio
$515
$1,030
$1,056
One Bedroom
$552
$1,104
$1,261
Two Bedroom
$662
$1,324
$1,567
SELECTION BY LOTTERY Use and Occupancy Restrictions Apply Preferences Apply including the new City of Boston Diversity Preservation Preference Pilot For more information call Winn Management (617) 989-1052 TTY/TDD: (800) 439-2370 Equal Housing Opportunity
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Home Care Needed Looking for a compassionate person to cook and care give on Sundays for a mobile but fragile senior with back problems. Has to be a dog lover.
617-522-5488
HELP WANTED
Compliance Coordinator/ Administrative Assistant The Compliance Coordinator is responsible for ensuring Bilt-Rite’s subcontractor workforce comply with the specified Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) goals of our projects. The position also serves as a liaison to the community, including outreach to individuals seeking employment from our subcontractors. Additional duties include handling front office reception and various administrative functions. Please forward your resume to jcullati@biltriteconstruction.com or fax (617) 541-0895.
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Have a high school diploma or equivalent Have a verifiable reference of 1 year from a former employer Pass assessments in reading, language, and computer skills Have CORI clearance Be legally authorized to work in the United States
ABCD Inc., New England’s largest private community action/human service agency for over 50 years, has the following opportunity for someone to flex his/her managerial/leadership skills.
Office Services Manager
For more information and to register for the next Open House please visit our website at www.prohope.org/openhouse.htm or call 617-442-1880 ext. 234.
Responsible for providing management leadership for all activities necessary for the efficient operation of the Office Services Department at ABCD including copy, supply and mail center, leased vehicles, and parking. Supervise staff to ensure the efficient operation of services. Negotiate and maintain records of all copier lease agreements and maintenance contracts. Initiate and renew Purchase Orders for office supplies, duplicating paper, stationary, etc. Oversee leased vehicles, which includes negotiation, research, analysis, and evaluation of vehicle model options, monitoring and approving invoices, and reporting accidents. Research, analyze, and evaluate vendor office equipment proposals and provide advice/recommendations regarding lease/purchase decisions. Monitor Office Services budget and establish and maintain pricing structure to reasonably cover department goods and services.
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Ideal candidate will have a degree in Management/Administration and bilingual skills in English/Spanish, with 3-5 years of management/supervisory experience with office systems, equipment and procedures. Excellent verbal and written communication and must be able to work sensitively and effectively with individuals of diverse educational, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. ABCD has an excellent compensation / benefits package which offers, health, dental and life insurance plans, a 403(b) retirement plan and more! All applications and inquiries may be directed to the Human Resources Department, 178 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02111, Fax: (617) 423-7693, or email banner@bostonabcd.org Please visit our website at www.bostonabcd.org for additional employment listings. ABCD Inc. is an equal opportunity employer actively seeking applications under its affirmative action program.
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Career Collaborative is a FREE program that helps you: • Find full-time employment with benefits such as vacation days, paid holidays and tuition reimbursement • Create résumés, references and cover letters • Interview with Boston’s leading employers
You may qualify if you: • Want a full-time job • Are between 25 and 55 • Are legal to work in the U.S. Information Sessions every Thursday at 1:00 PM. Career Collaborative 77 Summer Street, 11th Floor Downtown Crossing, between Macy’s and South Station (617) 424-6616 www.facebook.com/career collaborative We look forward to working with you!
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR The Lenox Housing Authority is seeking qualified applicants for an Executive Director to oversee the daily management and operation of 102 units of State Elderly housing, 8 units of State Family housing, 12 units of State 689 housing, and 3 commercial spaces with executed leases. The Executive Director reports to a five member Board of Directors. The successful candidate must have a minimum of two years experience in housing, community development, public administration, or a closely related field and knowledge of the principles and practices of housing management, finances, and maintenance systems in public or private housing. Strong written and verbal communication skills required, along with willingness and ability to work with people of various socio-economic backgrounds. Certification as a Public Housing Manager or Massachusetts Public Housing Administrator through a DHCD approved Massachusetts Public Housing Administrator Certification Program preferred but must be obtained within twelve months. Two years full time post secondary education in a related field may substitute for up to one year experience. Applicant subject to CORI verification and must possess a valid driver’s license. The position is a minimum of 32 hours per week. Salary will be determined by the DHCD Executive Director Salary guidelines commensurate with experience based qualifications. The cover letter and resume must be received no later than Dec. 1, 2016 at 4:30 pm. Mail cover letter and resume marked RESUME to: Catherine May, Chairman Lenox Housing Authority, 6 Main St. Ste. 1, Lenox, MA 01240 The Lenox Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer
Join our dedicated healthcare team, make a difference in the lives of your patients, and work close to your home! We have exceptional opportunities available for compassionate healthcare professionals in Greater Boston and South of Boston.
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