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WNY AREA BRIEFS High School Freshman Conducting Teddy Bear Drive for Sick Children

CARRYING ON ROSA’S TRADITION :

On Dec. 14th , Community Action Information Center Board Members Brenda Winston, Dorothy Johnson, Levern Morrow & James KapsiK, carried on Rosa Gibson ‘s commitment to the community with the annual Christmas gift give away.

In top photo, Santa James Kapsiak, Neva Lewis & little brother.

Pictured in photo above, Cynthia Canty, Hermen Thomas, Carolyn Lewis, Christina Ricks & Neve Lewis with Santa. Congratulations for continuing the custom! Submitted by Judge Jeannette Ogden

Glenwood Avenue Block Club/CAO Toy Drive The Glenwood Avenue Block Club along with the CAO and the Board of Block Clubs will host a toy giveaway and holiday celebration for the Martin Luther King Park area families on December 23 from 5-7 p.m. Toys will be distributed for children ages 2 to 12 at 1423 Fillmore Avenue. Fifty families will be selected in a drawing to participate (lottery style).

No Toy Guns! Please come in and sign up now! Donations may be dropped off at 1423 Fillmore or call for pick up: Irene @ 247-9681 or Larry @ 465-3513.

In memory of her late grandfather who died several years ago of cancer, Treneti, a freshman at Oracle Charter School, is conducting a stuffed animal toy drive for the Christmas holiday. New teddy bears of all shapes and sizes are welcome. Treneti plans to brighten up children’s lives by giving them bears ; first to those at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and if there are any remaining they will be distributed to Children’s Hospital and the Women and Children’s Shelter. The teddy bears can be dropped off at Jazzys Restaurant and Banquet Facility, 2227 Genesee Street.

For more information contact Treneti’s mom, Charis, at (716) 830-9096.

Families, Children Celebrate Adoption in Erie County Following National Adoption Awareness Month in November, the holiday season in December brings an opportunity to both celebrate families that have opened their homes and lives to children and raise community awareness about the need for more families to consider being foster adoptive parents. In Erie County there are currently approximately 780 children in foster care and 247 of those children available for adoption, with families committed to adopt nearly 80% of the youths available. In 2013 YTD, Erie County Department of Social Services’ staff has facilitated 77 adoption finalizations, with 60 additional children awaiting scheduling of their adoptions by Erie County Family Court.

Erie County currently has a need for supportive foster families to provide temporary stable, nurturing homes for hundreds of vulnerable children.

For more info:(716) 85872724 or at http://www2. erie.gov/socialservices/ .

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Grant's Local Law to Ban Fracking in Erie County is Approved Last summer, a group of individuals led by Rita Yelda, a member of the Food and Water Watch group approached Legislature's Chairwoman Betty Jean Grant to propose a local law for Erie County that would prohibit the transportation, storage or disposition of Hydraulic Fracturing or fracking waste on Erie County roads, land or sewer and water systems. The law would also put a ban on the procedure of Fracking on county owned property, including roads, parks and woodlands.

Legislator Grant, Ms. Yelda and the Legislature's Democratic Caucus attorney, Jerome Schad, worked all summer and late into the Fall to draft a local law that would protect the county's natural assets such as clean water and pristine parks that are used by humans as well as the animal population, from the devastation of pollution from the waste product of Fracking. Fracking's potential to contaminate drinking water, air and land could be a disaster for our families' health. After many false starts and revisions, Grant, Yelda and Schad finally had a law that presented to the full legislature for a vote. Several Republican members of the legislature tried to discourage Chairwoman Grant from bringing this item to the formal session for a vote.

They were not successful and lastThursday, December 12, Local Law no.4 (2013) was approved by a 9-2 vote margin.

Thanks to Chairwoman Grant and her colleagues, six Democrats and three Republicans, who voted in favor; Erie County now joins 15 other counties across New York State to either ban Fracking outright or prohibit the transportation, storage and/or disposition of Fracking Waste.

Erie County is now on par with the city of Buffalo, New York (the 2nd city in the nation to ban fracking) in sending a message to those who would corrupt our land and our water, that we are united, Democrats and Republicans, to ensure that our natural resources remain safe for future generations!

Prior to Thursday’s vote opponents of fracking, led by Yelda of of Food & Water Watch and Western NY Drilling Defense, presented nearly 4,000 petition signatures to the Legislature from county residents urging them to pass the proposed legislation.

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Chairman Zellne (center) r with Democratic Zone Chair supporters.

Zellner Wins Overwhelming Support of Democratic Zone Chairs’ Assn.

At a City of Buffalo Zone Chairs’ Association meeting held this morning, Saturday December 14, Chaired by Darien Pratchett, a resolution was introduced and passed unanimously in support of Chairman Jeremy Zellner’s reelection in 2014.

“It was a very positive meeting, and we are all gearing up for the 2014 races. We are all on the same page which is great for our party and our community,” said Chairman Zellner.

“In Chairman Zellner’s first term he has managed to bring in the staffing, volunteers, and new technology needed to advance the party. Chairman Zellner’s clean approach to party leadership has kept this party strong. I look forward to his leadership in the upcoming election cycles. Today’s meeting was a great opportunity to share ideas between city and county party leaders.” said Zone Chairman Darien Pratchett.

The overwhelming show of support follows a recent Erie County Democratic Town Chairs meeting where a similar resolution was passed unanimously in support of Chairman Zellner.

The two associations represent all of the Democratic Committee members in the county that elect the Chairman.

The Zone Chairs in attendance were: Megan E Corbett (Zone 1);Christopher Fahey (Zone 2); Greg Olma (Zone 4); Yuri Hreshchyshyn (Zone 5); Mary Cornelius (Zone 6); Karen Ellington (Zone 7); Arthur Eve Jr. (Zone 8); Curtis Jackson (Representing Leonard Williams (Zone 9); Betty Jean Grant (Zone 10); Lisa Saunders (Zone 11); Edward Bennett (Zone 12); Patrice Atwood (Zone 15); Lavonya Lester (Representing Tina Cortes) (Zone 16); Andre Payne (Zone 17); Darien Pratchett (Zone 18); John Licata (Zone 19); Jennifer Dunning (Zone 20); Bryan Ball (Zone 21); Marc Panepinto (Zone 22); Thomas Agostino (Zone 25); Michael Agostino (Zone 26) and Jason Hurley (Zone 27).

10th Annual Tree of Life “From Homicide to Healing” The National Action Network is sponsoring a “From HomiCeremony Set in Memory cide to Healing” event at True Bethel Baptist Church, 907 E. Street, Saturday, January 4 at 12 noon. of Those Whose Lives Were Ferry This event is open to family members and friends of those loved ones who have been Cut Short by Crime lost to homicide. ImmeThe 10th Annual Tree of Life ceremony will be held on Thursday, December 19 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at True Bethel Baptist Church, 907 E. Ferry St. Doors open at 5:15 p.m.

The Tree of Life event is for anyone who has ever lost a family member or friend to the crime of homicide. This is a place to come celebrate the memory of those whose lives were cut short by crime. Holidays are difficult times for those who have experienced loss. Come honor the life of your loved one by placing an ornament or a picture on the Tree of Life in their memory.

The program is hosted by Blackpearl 76, Legislator Betty Jean Grant, the Stop the Violence Coalition and We Are Women Warriors. For more information call 894-0914 or text 400-1817.

diate family members of homicide victims are especially being urged get in touch with the BuffaloNiagara Chapter so that they can be acknowledged and assisted in their healing process.

For more information, or to identify yourself as an immediate family member of a homicide victim, please contact the Buffalo-Niagara Chapter of the National Action Network at (716) 299-8299 or bflonan@gmail.com.

National/International NEWS The Face of the AIDS Epidemic: Poor Black and Hispanic Men 4

The AIDS epidemic in America is rapidly becoming concentrated among poor, young bBack and Hispanic men who have sex with men according to a startling report in a reent New York Times.

Despite years of progress in preventing and treating H.I.V. in the middle class, the number of new infections nationwide remains stubbornly stuck at 50,000 a year — more and more of them in these men, who make up less than 1 percent of the population.

Besides transgender people, the affected group includes men who are openly gay, secretly gay or bisexual, and those who consider themselves heterosexual but have had sex with men, willingly or unwillingly, in shelters or prison or for money.

Nationally, 25 percent of new infections are in Black and Hispanic men, and in New York City it is 45 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention and the city’s health department.

Nationally, when only men under 25 infected through gay sex are counted, 80 percent are Black or Hispanic — even though they engage in less high-risk behavior than their White peers.

The prospects for change look grim. Critics say little is being done to save this group, and none of it with any great urgency.

“There wasn’t even an ad campaign aimed at young Black men until last year — what’s that about?” said Krishna Stone, a spokeswoman for GMHC, which was founded in the 1980s as the Gay Men’s Health Crisis.

Reaching Out Gay Black youths are hard to reach, experts say. Few are out to their families. Many live in places where gays are stigmatized and cannot afford to move. When those who are poor and homeless go to traditional gay hangouts, they become prey.

According to a major C.D.C.-led study, a malemale sex act for a young Black American is eight times as likely to end in H.I.V. infection as it is for his White peers. That is true even though, on average, Black youths in the study took fewer risks than their white peers: they had fewer partners, engaged in fewer

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acts of sex while drunk or high, and used condoms more often.They had other risk factors. Lacking health insurance, they were less likely to have seen doctors regularly and more likely to have syphilis, which creates a path for H.I.V. But the crucial factor was that more of their partners were older Black men, who are much more likely to have untreated H.I.V. than older White men.

According to the C.D.C., 79 percent of H.I.V.-infected Black men who have sex with men and 74 percent of Hispanics are not “virally suppressed,” meaning they can transmit the infection, either because they are not yet on antiretroviral drugs or are not taking them daily.

Other risk factors include depression and fatalism. In a 2012 project by the National Youth Pride Services, an advocacy organization for gay Black youths, more than half of the young gay Black people questioned said they feared their friends or families would disown them if they came out as gay, and about 4 in 10 said they had contemplated suicide over being gay.

Few black political or religious leaders talk regularly about the problem — though there are exceptions, including Representative Barbara Lee, a Democrat from Oakland, Calif., and the Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. Dr. Butts has endorsed home H.I.V. tests from the pulpit and exhorted his congregants to accept gay relatives, but many Black clergy members are far less accepting.

Many programs have been proposed and tested, including financial incentives: paying parents who accept their gay sons to meet with parents who reject theirs; paying men who bring in friends for H.I.V. tests; and paying older Black men to give cooking lessons and safesex advice to younger ones.

But none have been widely adopted. At a recent GMHC forum on why its programs for young Black men were being cut, Janet Weinberg, the agency’s acting chief executive, said the epidemic was in some ways still where it was 30 years ago.

“We have the tools to end it,” she said, “except for the government’s indifference.”

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The Truth About the Deadly Drone Strikes in Yemen News that a US drone strike hit a wedding convoy in Yemen has been getting a lot of international press attention, mostly due to the fact that over a dozen people were reportedly killed.

But the New York Times’ writeup (12/13/13) was one of the most jarring: Most of the dead appeared to be people suspected of being militants linked to Al Qaeda, according to tribal leaders in the area, but there were also reports that several civilians had been killed.

So most of the dead appeared to be people suspected of being linked to Al Qaeda. That’s a whole lot of qualifiers to make the point that those who were killed were the intended targets.

But there’s a pattern of the Times doing this.

In August of this year there were several suspected US drone attacks. Strikes on August 1 and August 8 reportedly killed several civilians, including children, part of a series of drone strikes around that time.

The New York Times ran an AP dispatch on August 9, reporting this: Three American drone strikes in Yemen on Thursday killed a total of 12 people suspected of being members of Al Qaeda, a Yemeni military official said, raising to eight the number of attacks in less than two weeks.

A news analysis on August 10 reported, “Eight strikes have been carried out in Yemen in the past two weeks, a ferocious rate of drone attacks,” before adding, “It is yet unknown who exactly was killed in Yemen during the past two weeks.” One would hope that more journalistic energy would be devoted to figuring out who the United States was killing.

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Farmers, scientists, environmentalists, health professionals and consumers throughout the world are outraged by the growing number of genetically altered foods in our food supply and are very skeptical about the purported benefits of this technology. Since 1996, when the first largescale commercial harvest of genetically engineered crops occurred in the United States, the percentage of genetically engineered crops grown in the United States has increased to 25%, including 35% of all corn, 55% of all soybeans, and nearly half of all the cotton. In addition, much of the canola oil produced in Canada comes from genetically manipulated rape seed.

It has been estimated that as many as two-thirds of all food products in grocery stores contain genetically engineered ingredients. In fact, unless you buy exclusively organic, you will likely bring home foods that contain genetically modified ingredients, especially if you purchase foods that contain soybeans, corn, or their derivatives (soy oil, soy flour, soy protein isolates, corn oil, corn starch, corn flour, and high fructose corn syrup).

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Emmanuel Temple to Host Annual Christmas Choir Concert

The Emmanuel Temple Seventh-day Adventist church invites the community to its annual Christmas Choir Concert on Saturday, December 21, during the 11 AM worship service. The church is located at 300 Adams Street (corner of Peckham and Adams), Buffalo, NY 14212. All are welcome.

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Potters House Announces New Year’s Eve Worship Service On Tuesday, December 31, 2013, beginning at 9pm until 11pm the Potter’s House Ministerial Staff will offer one-on-one prayer for individuals desiring personal prayer. The New Years Eve Worship service will start at 11pm until Midnight. The Potter’s House is located at 723-7th Street, Niagara Falls, NY. For additional information please contact the church at 716-285-3445.

“I love the Lord because He hears my prayers and answers them. Because he bends down and listens.

I will pray as long as I breathe!

Psalm 116:1-2 TLB

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BUYING BLACK IN BUFFALO: FOR THE HOLIDAYS AND BEYOND!

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his is our fourth “Buying Black In Buffalo” feature, designed to promote Black business and encourage our readers to spend as much as they can with African American entrepreneurs – not only during the holiday season, but throughout the year.

We canvassed the community and found some really nice bu -many are repeats from last year - and we hope everyon who reads this week’s issue will check out some of the businesses in the city before heading for the mall. Our shoppers guide offers some really nice alternatives.

Happy shopping!

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Allen Street Connection LONNIE B. HARRELL Some of the finest handcrafted silver and African American Jewelry in the city. The hands on the cover page are those of master jewelry maker Harrell.

Afro-centric clothing and accessories also available.

Open: Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.; 884-9481 GIVE THE GIFT OF MUSIC /VIDEOS Doris Records 50 years serving all the community’s music needs! Lots of other great buys as well in clothing, caps, purses and more! 286 E. Ferry St. 883-2410 New Style Records & MoviesR&B to Gospel: Magazines and more 2995 Bailey Avenue 834-0710 BOOKS N’ THINGS Zawandi Books 2460 Main Street (Inside Fraternally Yours Card Shop); one of best selections of Afro-centric reading in Upstate New York; formerly Harambee Books, great gift ideas. Hours: wed, Fri 7 Sat. 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

903-6740

Fraternally Yours Gift and Card Shop 2460 Main Street. Open Tuesday – Sat. 11:30 a.m. – 4 :30 pm All occasion cards, gifts, ceramics, collectibles and special fraternity/ sorority , Mason and Eastern Star items as well.

DRESS TO IMPRESS J. Christian Fashion Boutique 617 Main St. Market Arcade Building Suits, dresses, jewelry, hats, “Church” Ensembles, career wear; really, really nice, classy styles for every occasion in sizes 2 to 30!! (Closed Mondays). 563-6410 Couture Boutique 3142 Main Street. Striker’s Ball? Urban League Gala?

Some of the most beautiful formal attire anywhere for all occasions from proms t0 weddings? . 605-8822 One of a Kind Fashion 3000 Bailey Avenue: Really hot stuff for men and ladies, shoes, boots, clothing. . 783-9796.

CLOTHING AND MORE Althea’s Second Time Around Consignment Shop: 661 Main St.; really nice items for men and women from shoes and suits to furs and furniture – Althea has it all. Check her out – you’ll be pleasantly surprised!

Hours: Tues.-Fri. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays for Drop Offs by Appointment only. 845-0000 Class Act Boutique 40 Allen Street. Hours Mon.Fri. 11a.m. – 7 p.m., Sat. Noon – 5 p.m., wholesale and retail body oils and incense; men and women’s clothes and even tropical fish (African Cichlids).

602-8128 Gloria’s No Limit 95 Allen St. Some consignment, mostly retail, oils, costume jewelry, all sizes! Hours Mon. – Fri. noon – 6 p.m.; Sat. noon – 5 p.m. 361-4916

BLACK GREETING CARDS AND LOTS OF UNIQUE GIFT IDEAS!

Pamela’s 3142 Main St. Nice variety of women’s clothing and accessories. Hours 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. daily Call for appointment. 7256215

Our World Boutique 863 E Ferry: this amazing shop goes way beyond cards.

Great gift ideas. Open daily 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. up until Christmas Day when its open till noon!

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African Market 224 Elmwood (in plaza next to Price Rite), Designs by Dovi and girls, African fabrics, basket, jewelry, Shea Butter, Gift items from Africa and more, plus food items. Hours: MonSat 11a.m. – 7 p.m. 882-1424

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Flight 104 104 Elwood at Allen; beautiful gift ideas from artifacts to clothing, oils and jewelry; real cool stuff. Hours: Tues.

– Sat. Noon – 6 p.m. 882-1925 Cindy’s Hats.

Beautiful selection, plus jewelry. 893-5613

Shoe Heaven 1455 Broadway St. (Cor. Swinburne St. near St. John Kanty Church) 818-6630 Simply Plus Boutique 943 Broadway (near Fillmore) Specializing in Plus Size Consignments, nice bags and unique footwear.

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Ansar Cellular Communications 1371 Fillmore Ave. (cor. Utica); specializing in cell phones but oils, soaps incense also on hand! Plus, a one stop center for phone and utility bill paying and other needed services!

Hours Mon. –Wed. 11a.m.- 7 p.m.; Thurs – Sat. 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.; Sun. 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.

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Mr. Johnson pictured above.

SPOTLIGHT: F&S TAILORS and FASHION Located at 2930 Genesee Street (past Harlem), F& S Tailors has some of the finest men’s and women’s dress clothing around, in addition to being expert tailors. Owner Eric Johnson offers great discounts on his quality merchandise as well! F&S carries men’s suits from size 38 to 70, women’s suits, dresses, pant suits and even beautiful furs and mink coats! Their selection is lovely and just in time for the holidays or that special occasion. Coming this Spring – ladies and men’s shoes! Check them out! They’re open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Wednesdays from 10:30 am.to 6 p.m.; Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Call 894-3742.

GRANT STREET Lots of unique ethnic shopping in the Grant-Ferry business district fro owners throughout the Diaspora; lots of really nice items!

NEW FINDS AT THE BROADWAY MARKET! Unique Boutique

Customized jewelry, gifts, hats, handcrafted items & more.

Ask for Ms. McGee-Dawson. 235-6020 Sand Art Décor Boutique Beautiful Unique Handcrafted Sand Art for home and office.

259-8246 Exotic Trendz Stylist Markeba Williams. Custom made designer flowers, feather combs, hair pieces, beauty supplies & more. 5109773 Everything Africa Boutique Afrocentric Clothing, casual wear, Shea Butter, Black oil, hats & more.713-0847 Buffalo Sambusa Pizza, Hot dogs, Gyros & Rice, & Sambusa!

McKenzie’s Soul Food Shack Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Menu. Fresh Fish, Homemade Deserts and more.897-4052

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Rochester Kwanzaa Celebration 2013 :”Black to the Future” The Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition invites the community to join us for Kwanzaa 2013. Our theme is Black to the Future and we mean to encourage the community to focus on our youth in 2014. The youth are our Black Future! We will be celebrating the Nguzo Saba or Seven Principles of Kwanzaa at these community locations. Please join us Kwanzaa Celebration 2013 Locations Umoja (Unity) December 26 Baobab Cultural Center 728 University Ave 6-9pm Movie and discussion African drumming Kujichagulia(Self determination) December 27 Wheatley Community Library 33 Mc Cree Way 2-5pm local authors share their memoirs drumming Ujima(Collective work and responsibility) December 28 Gannt Center 2-5pm 700 North Street 2-5pm Youth Day showcasing the talent of our youth featuring the Leading Ladies/Goodfellas Ujamaa( Co operative economics) December 29 Memorial Art Gallery 500 University Ave 12 -5pm art activities, music storytelling NIa(Purpose) December 30 Rochester Museum Science Center 2-5pm AAHeritage Committee of the City Rites of Passage Graduation Kuumba(Creativity) December 31 Memorial AME Zion Church 529 Clarissa St 6-9pm watch night reenactment music and dance Imani ( Faith) January 1 2014 Celebrate at home with family and friends The Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition invites everyone to share in Kwanzaa :the premier African American Cultural Holiday!

Contact: Delores Jackson Radney 355 8888

Kwanzaa Family Day at the Memorial Art Gallery

Sunday, December 29, 2013 • 12 - 5

Maulana Karenga, the Creator of Kwanzaa, Will Bring a Special Message to Buffalo & Rochester This Year Dr. Maulana Karenga will bring a special message to Buffalo and Rochester this year during the annual Kwanzaa cultural celebration on Sunday, December 29. At press time the location of his presentation in Buffalo had yet to be finalized.

The theme of this year’s event is “The Reawakening of Our People.”

Rochester’s theme, “Black to the Future,” will focus on the youth (see their schedule and the Buffalo schedule this page.)

Buffalo’s Kwanzaa celebration is the second largest in the country and organizers assure that we can expect another great coming together. Dr. Karenga, the creator of Kwanzaa, travels to the Queen City every year.

This year the children’s program has been expanded, and the celebrations will be held in the same location the first and second night and the 5th and 6th night.

An Afrikan Marketplace will be available every evening from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. and as usual, the speakers and entertainment lineup is great! (Our own Sister Sabirah Muhammad is the opening night speaker December 26th!)

Enjoy art activities, tours, storytelling, music & dance performances.

SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Maulana Karenga will present “Celebrating and Living Kwanzaa: Sowing and Harvesting Seeds of Good.”

Dr. Maulana Karenga is professor and chair of Africana Studies at California State University—Long Beach.

Suggested donation $5 per family 500 University Avenue • Rochester, NY 14607 • 585-276-8900 • mag.rochester.edu • Presented in cooperation with Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition Additional support provided by: Robert and Madeleine S. Heilbrunn Memorial Fund Photos of previous Kwanzaa above by: Brandon Vick

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ENTERTAINMENT

George Caldwell Quintet to Perform at Sportsman’s Tavern Line Dance Classes *Urban Line Dance classes by Cheri, 716-2009702 will be held: Monday’s at the 600 Club, North & Fox 7-9 p.m.

Tuesdays at New Humboldt Inn, 8-10 p.m.; the last Tuesday of each month Ballroom classes.

Wednesdays at St. Phillip’s, 15 Fernhill from 6 to 8 p.m. *Miss Barbara Tuesdays at St. John Baptist church Family Life Center,184 Goodell St. 6 pm: Instructor Barbara Glover *Willa J. Line Dance, Tuesdays & Wednesdays 10:30 a.m., Martha Mitchell Center, 175 Oakmont; Thursdays Schiller Park Center, 60 and Better!

10:30 a.m.; 444-2046

ON STAGE The Beautiful Music Band

featuring “Peaches,” December 21 (Christmas Party) & Dec. 28 at The New Humboldt Inn, E. Delavan & Humboldt Parkway.

Hustle For Health: Aerobic Line Dance Classes

“Caldwell is a fully tenured jazz piano legend...He’s one of the pre-eminent swing jazz players in modern jazz” - Jeff Miers, The Buffalo News Music Critic

Hustle For Health: Aerobic Line Dance Classes Thurs 7pm -8 pm, Studio J, 43 Kenmore Ave. (Near Main St.) Instructor Jayme Smith www.HustleForHealth.com $5 Starts Jan. 9, 2014

Buffalo, NY - The George Caldwell Quintet will feature the seasonal music of Vince Guaraldi with premier players: Tim Clarke (trumpet), Jeff Hackworth (saxophonist ), Danny Ziemann (contrabass), and Darryl Washington (drums) led by pianist George Caldwell at The Sportsmen’s Tavern, 326 Amherst Street, Friday, December 27 from 6– 8p.m. Admission is $5.

Among the play list of his familiar originals and interpretations of standards, Caldwell will also introduce a new original titled, “Mae.” About George Caldwell Described as “... a fabulous musician, quiet, humble, soft spoken, and deeply talented, with George Caldwell at the piano, The Count Basie Orchestra won a Grammy Award ("Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance" - 1996) for the CD ‘Live At Manchester Craftsmen's Guild’. An alumnus of both the Count Basie and Duke Ellington orchestras, Caldwell has made a name for himself throughout the jazz circuit as a hip, swinging pianist.

While his orchestral contribution has brought crowds to their feet all over the country, his gift to young students has garnered him a number of awards; including the W.C. Handy Blues

Girl Scouts Buffalo Service Center Walden Ave. Hustle For Health: Aerobic Line Dancing for Girl Scouts Only. Sundays 3:30 4:30pm Jan 12th - Feb 16th Register with Troop Leader.

Community Afriacab Drum and Dance Class A Community African Drum and Dance Class with Jama Jama African Drum and Dance is being held at the Gateway Longview Family Resource Center at Ferry near Jefferson on Mondays from 6:15 to 7:15 p.m. for all ages. For further information contact Anisha at 491-3311.

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in Education Award for a curriculum he designed using the blues idiom to teach music theory.

A veteran of Broadway, he has worked on Black and Blue and Play On!, as well as having served in orchestra pits for Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk, The Full Monty, etc He has performed with many artists, performers as diverse as George Benson, Savion Glover, Lou Rawls, Elvis Costello, Art Blakey, Shirley Bassey, Freda Payne, Wynton Marsalis, Lionel Hampton, the Manhattan Transfer, Bobby McFerrin, Al Jarreau, The Coasters, Cab Calloway, Quincy Jones, Gregory Hines, Dizzy Gillespie and Brenda Lee. Caldwell has played and conducted Ella since it’s inception in 2005.

AROUND TOWN Marnetta Malcolm Tuesday, December 31st, New Year’s Eve on The Lake…Templeton Landing 10pm – 3am...featuring 3 rooms….three levels of entertainment….DJ Iceberg, DJ Papa Trini….and live music from Trinity Band… tickets available at The Oakk Room, Doris Records and New Style Records…

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One Answer To The Perceived “Black Boy Problem”

Light up the

ilead’s “Young Masters”

New Year’s Eve Celebration Tuesday, December 31

7- 9:45 pm: Free DJ Dance Party & Family Fun Activities at Riverside Convention Center

6 -11 pm: Free Family & Adult Open Skate at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park

10 pm: Fireworks Finale on the Main Street Bridge!

Follow the fun @cityofrochesterny #RocHolidays Questions? Call 311 • www.cityofrochester.gov/NYE

Rochester, New York iLEAD Authors/Facilitators are pleased to announce the finale of the inaugural iLEAD experience on Saturday, December 21 from 2-4 p.m. at the The Charleston House, 1733 Norton Street. iLEAD – which stands for Institute for Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Academics and Development - is a curriculum birthed by Nancy Sung Shelton, a Mom of three young men of color.

Battling against adversities, seen and unseen, she strived to create and realize success for her sons in the midst of a world that didn’t love them, a society that was working against them, and the streets that were trying to claim them.

SOMETHING HAD TO GIVE! Ms. Shelton was compelled to move beyond frustration and complaining, to DO something. Reaching out to Nate Brown Jr., Amen Ptah and Demetrius Dukes to assist her, they all brought the iLEAD vision into reality by co-authoring iLEAD’s curriculum, and breathing life into the movement.

The conversations that were had at iLEAD with the young “Masters,” African American young men aged 15-20, have focused on reintroducing themselves to themselves as the powerful leaders and men that they are and will be.

For 12 weeks, every Saturday morning, iLEAD and the Masters have met since September, 2013. Some of the young Masters roll out of bed, school, church, jobs, tending to their child, or off of the Block. It doesn’t matter where they came from, it only matters where they are going, and iLEAD has been honored to contribute to each young man’s journey!

THE YOUNG MASTERS WILL BE FORMALLY INTRODUCED TO THE COMMUNITY AS “LEADERS”!!!!

There will be music, performances, speakers, food, and a DISPLAY OF PRIDE! The community is urged to attend!

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Rochester AROUND TOWN

FW: Do you know somebody who needs help with food this month?

The Foodlink Mobile Pantry is coming to the Rochester International Academy on the Jefferson Campus – 1 Edgerton Pk 14608 this Friday, December 20 from 3-5 p.m. at the Cafeteria On The Jefferson Campus (enter Exit 5).

Bags will be provided. OVER 5,000-plus POUNDS OF FREE FOOD!!!!

Everyone is welcome. Each family will go home with 5 bags of food!! No requirements necessary! No family should go without food over theWinter Break!!Volunteers are needed.

Contact Liz Vazquez at 324-5250.

ROCHESTER BOARD OF EDUCATION CALENDAR of EVENTS Please note that the calendar of events for the Rochester Board of Education has been updated for December and January. The calendar is posted on the home page of the District website at: www.rcsdk12.org/calendar.

Highlights: · Thursday, January 2nd, at 6:00PM: Annual Organizational Meeting of the Board to elect officers for 2014 ·Thursday, January 23rd, at 6:30PM: Board Business meeting *Thursday, January 30th at 6:00PM: Special meeting, expected to convene in Executive Session to discuss a personnel issue *The Housing Council Operating Rental Property Workshops, Sat. Dec. 14, The Housing Council, 75 College Ave., 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Sat. Jan. 25, East Rochester 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.; fee $35 per person; to register call 546370com

Baobab Cultural Center Events 728 University Ave., (585) 563-2145.

EDUCATIONAL SERIES African World History Class Tuesdays, 7:30-9 pm Hosted by Kiah Nyame The African World History class provides an ongoing experience of the contributions and achievements Africans and African-Americans have made throughout history. The class uses the historical experiences of African peoples to highlight the cultural values we share.Classes are open to the community - walk ins welcome. Donations are appreciated.

RSVP YOGA WITH JIM THOMPSON 'Easy' Yoga with Jim Thompson. Classes take place Tuesday evenings 5:45 - 7:15.

EDUCATIONAL SERIES West African Drumming and Dance Classes with Fana Bangoura *Drumming Classes: Saturdays, 10:30am-12:00pm at the Baobab *Dance: Sundays, from 2:00-3:30pm at Danc Encounters 215 Tremont St. Open to students of all levels.

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BILLS UPDATE

Residents Moving into New Bills Defeat Jaguars 27-20 Fruit Belt Townhomes The Buffalo Bills are now 5-9, the same record as last year at this time.

What’s going to change to improve this declining franchise? Coach Doug Marrone will have to revamp their offensive line with bigger guys like J.J. Unger and Antonio McClain (guys on inactive list). E.J. Manuel can be an excellent NFL quarterback with a good offensive line and better play calling by an experienced offensive

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RADNEY ”I’m proud of this team,” the Bills coach said. They came back from adversity and were able to get a positive response. The Bills still can’t close out a game, due to the fact that our offensive coordinator can’t come up with quality plays during crunch time.

Stevie Johnson showed a lot of courage by playing in a football game after learning that his 48 year old mother Rhonda had passed away in her sleep on Saturday. Said Stevie: “When I found out, I was already here…I talked to coach and coach gave me the option to play or not. I went all week with the boys, and whatever I can do to help out the team, I think I should give it my all no matter what.

It was tough, we got the win, and I’m sure she’s happy about that.”

Comments from Bills quarterback E.J. Manuel: ” C.J. Spiller came up to me after my fumble and said let’s be special today”. E.J. also said, “It’s the flow of the game, it happens in football. I think that’s part of our maturation as an offense, especially with young guys at the skill positions. It was huge to keep those drives going.”

Once E.J gets a competent offensive line in front of him he will mature as a player and be able to know when to run or stay in the pocket to complete a pass. You must remember E.J. is a rookie and will continue to make plays as well as mistakes. The Bills defense must do a better job of stopping the run; once again an opponent’s running back rushed for over 100 yards (25 carries for 109 yards).

They lead the league in sacks, but a run stuffing performance against Miami and New England can be huge factors in both games. Our special teams are horrible and a new coach should be hired during the off season. This coach was fired as special teams coach (in mid- season last year in Detroit), so why was he hired here? Of course the answer is that he is a personal friend of Head Coach Doug Maroni. It’s always who you know and not your true skill level!

It’s squish the fish week with Miami in Buffalo for a playoff type game for the Dolphins. I think the Bills will win 31-28 in a sunny but very cold Ralph Wilson Stadium.

The sacks will cause interceptions of (Miami quarterback) Ryan Tannehil.

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continued from page 5 genetically altered foods have not been clearly identified, since few studies have been conducted to evaluate impact of these foods on human health. However, many scientists have speculated that it is likely that these foods will trigger allergic reactions in some people, create new toxins that produce disease, and lead to antibiotic resistance and a subsequent resurgence of infectious disease.

Many proactive food producers have stopped using these ingredients and are now labeling their products as “GMOfree.” For more information about genetically modified foods, please visit the official website of The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods at www.thecampaign. org and Earthsave’s webpage at www.earthsave.org.

The first residents of Buffalo’s newest townhome development have moved into their new homes in the city’s historic Fruit Belt neighborhood.

Developed by the St. John Baptist Fruit Belt Community Development Corp., residents began moving into the two, three and four-bedroom townhomes in early December. Move-ins will continue through May and June of 2014.

The $16 million project includes 49 energy-efficient rental units, featuring historically-friendly designs, allowing them to blend in with existing properties in the area.

Each townhome features a front porch, with off-street parking provided in the rear of the property. Every unit is handicapped accessible, LEED certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), and includes energy efficient mechanical systems and landscaping.

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Saturday east of Sana.

But other accounts told a different story. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (5/15/12) reported that between 14 and 15 people have been killed in a double air strike on the southern city of Jaar. Of these, as many as a dozen are being reported as civilians. Up to 21 civilians have also been reported injured.

Witnesses said the first strike targeted alleged militants meeting in a house. Civilians who had flocked to the impact site were killed in a follow-up strike.

And CNN reported (5/15/12): Two suspected U.S. drone strikes killed seven al Qaeda militants and eight civilians in the southern part of Yemen on Tuesday, three Yemeni security officials said.

And one of the most infamous attacks in Yemen occurred on December 17, 2009, when the United States launched a cruise missile strike on al-Majala, in southern Yemen. That attack included cluster bombs. 41 civilians are believed to have been killed in the strike.

The headline in the December 18, 2009 edition of the New York Times?

“Yemen Says Strikes Against Qaeda Bases Killed 34” On December 19, it was becoming clear that the U.S. was actually involved in the attack, so the Times ran this headline: “U.S. Aids Yemeni Raids on Al Qaeda, Officials Say” The Times added: Yemeni officials said their security forces had killed at least 34 militants in the broadest attack on the terrorist group in years. A range of Pentagon, military and intelligence officials declined to provide details of the reported attacks, which, according to ABC News, included American missiles.

But officials in Washington offered words of support for the government of Yemen in tackling international terrorism.

“Yemen should be commended for actions against Al Qaeda,” said Bryan G. Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. “Al Qaeda poses a serious threat to Yemeni, U.S. and regional interests.”

It would be months before the real story of that cruise missile strike would be reported in US media–a story that obviously was very different from the account US and Yemeni government officials gave at the time.

Which raises the fundamental question: Is there any reason to trust the official denials in the first place? The New York Times still seems to think so.

(From FAIR Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting)

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Buffalo Parents Group Supports for Higher Standards For Our Children

White Suburban Moms Realizing Their Kids Aren’t Brilliant, Says Education Secretary

Calls For Meaningful Dialogue With All Stakeholders To Ensure Effective Implementation Of Common Core Learning Standards And Strict Accountability

Education Secretary Arne Duncan lashed out at those opposing his Common Core State Standards test, explaining that much of the opposition is coming from “White suburban” moms who are finally realizing that their kids aren’t as brilliant as they thought they were.

The Washington Post reports that Duncan made his controversial comments during a meeting of state school superintendents.

Discussing the new student standards, Duncan said “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were,” are most opposed to implementing new standards. Still many parents as well as teachers believe that testing hurts more than it helps.

The Buffalo District Parent Coordinating Council led by activist Sam Radford, has released the following statement in support of The Common Core Learning Radford Stadards.

The Buffalo District Parent Coordinating Council (DPCC) encourages meaningful dialogue between all stakeholders - students, parents, teachers, support staff, administrators (local, state, and federal), and community members/organizations - regarding ways of improving education for our children. There are serious issues in our schools, and they call for serious solutions.

DPCC parent leaders have been receiving training on the Common Core for past 2 years. We are concerned that the misinformation that is being circulated is creating confusion for parents. We are hopeful that Commissioner King will confirm what we have been told in previous trainings is in fact happening and gives us an update on the effectiveness of the implementation phase.

At the December 3, DPCC meeting, the Parent Leaders voted overwhelmingly to get more information regarding Common Core implementation and in discussion were in support of Commissioner King and the Common Core Learning Standards.

In a school district that has 45 of 57 failing schools we schools, we can not afford to continue to do what has gotten us here, we must have the courage and resolve to change. As Parents of students in a large urban school districts, there are URGENT challenges facing our students may be differ from those of Suburban Districts. We believe we need to implement Common Core and ensure we have an effective process to ensure Accountability.

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e, African American parents have got to do better. We need understanding about trauma for starters. Trauma can be defined as a sudden shock to your system. It may be a shock to our spiritual, physical or emotional side; however it affects every aspect of our life. Some of us are appalled and maybe afraid after watching the news lately. Others may have simply opted out of watching the news at all. It seems as if everyday another murder has taken place in our city, political corruption triumphs over integrity, someone is missing and the list only begins there. Meanwhile our children are watching.

No, they don’t watch the news per se’ however they get plenty of messages through each other, social media and tantalizing websites. Children are what they live.

It may seem to be cliché but it’s so true. If a child lives with violence, they learn to be violent. If a child lives with strife, they learn to stir up confusion and become instigators.

Children are like sponges. They soak up everything that we, adults, put in them. With all that being said, why are we so surprised that young people are running rampant in our neighborhoods, killing each other? Some parents allow their children to spend countless hours engaged in video games with graphic acts of violence. More and more they are conditioned to suppress compassion, mercy and humility. We are what we eat! If our diet includes junk food; why are we surprised when little Johnny, Ray-Ray or Shawn grows up to be a murderer? We have got to do better, plain and simple without excuses! Every seed that we sew eventually takes root and grows into something. A person does not have to be a horticulturalist to realize this clear-cut principle.

We, parents, are responsible and accountable for guarding their spirit, soul and body. Our children have grown so accustomed to trauma that it is common place to traumatize others.

We need to get back to old-school parenting in the black community, especially. There was a time when parents would look out for each other’s children. We did not have the luxuries of technology that we do today. Somehow we slipped away from values, morals and instilling character. We have got to do better!

I am a firm believer that it does take a community to raise a child but we must also be knowledgeable of the people we serve and reside around. Anyone that works with families needs to be well trained in the area of trauma. This should include ministers, teachers and counselors to name a few professions. This generational challenge of trauma has been passed down for hundreds of years within our African American community. Post Traumatic Stress is real and has been a part of the Black family since slavery. I am grateful for people like Dr. Joy DeGruy who have been bold enough to address this age old problem in our families. However, some may never come to knowledge of this condition. Why? African-Americans have been bred to suffer silently, take a licking and keep on ticking for years. It is extremely frowned upon to ask for help when needed. We have got to do better!

Lastly, affirmation can do so much more than criticism. Our children are crying out for help and have been for a long time. Our city is in a state of emergency and we have got to do better! Let me ask you, when was the last time you hugged your child? When was the last time they heard you say, “I love you?”

(Sharon Jones is a Rochester-based writer.)

EMPIRE STRIKES BACK continued from page 15 outside forces, and took charge of quality education for our children.

Whether the folks who attend the meetings of this new organization realize it or not, they are being used to co-sign the message that everything with education in Buffalo is fine. Their instructions include speaking positively about the district, and never, ever saying that we have failing schools, but that we have failing children!

Them’s fightin’ words. Those words insult the intelligence, by claiming that the failing status of 45 out of 58 schools is not systemic. Those words crush the heart, with the cruelty of blaming hapless children for their own victimization.

The Buffalo News, which only recently went from having a part time education reporter to hiring 3 full-time reporters has now recruited and hired the top “urban education” reporter in the country. Radio station WBFO has just hired a full-time education reporter. The national news media are on their way to Buffalo to settle down for the show down. Like a schoolyard miscreant yelling “baddest one hit my hand,” they’re lining up in position to see who’s gonna win this. We can tell them right now…we already have.

“Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal” “Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal,” a new film on Mumia AbuJamal’s thirty year battle with the American justice system from solitary confinement on death row will be shown at 7pm, Wednesday, December 18 at Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street.

The film tracks his early work for the Black Panther newspaper through his emerging career as a reporter for National Public Radio. The screening is presented by the Buffalo chapter of the Leonard Peltier Defense Offense Committee.

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South Africa, Through the Eyes of an Afrikaner

BY TED KIRKLAND (Author, activist,social commentator Ted Kirkland visited South Africa in 2007.

Following is Part I of a reprint of that journey.)

Part II Now 13 years later Apartheid laws have been abolished, Blacks no longer need passes to travel into cities; they can now travel freely throughout South Africa, providing they can afford it. They now take pride in having Blacks in charge of the country's governments, national and local throughout South Africa; yet, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, abject poverty and HIV/AIDS is decimating the indigenous, a condition brought about by the previous white controlled Afrikaner government. A condition that many believe was created by the white supremacy powers in an effort to decimate and control the indigenous. Our relief mission was there to witness, be messengers, and to help the indigenous. At least, this was my understanding.

From the moment Eddie picked us up at the airport, and loaded us on the bus, he had a captive audience.

He was imposing, assertive, and convincing for many on the bus that knew little about the political regime of South Africa. As one Black male in our group said "Eddie is very knowledgeable, he's got a lot of information!"

The Black male was wrong, it wasn't all valid information, it was mostly propaganda, and unfortunately he didn't know the difference.

Our day to day itinerary appeared interesting on paper, which began in Cape Town, the largest city in South Africa with a population of 2.4 million people.

It is a city as modern as or more so than New York City or Los Angeles. We toured areas outside of the city, boarding a cable car for a

“We wish to plead our own cause.

Too long have others spoken for us.”

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spectacular view of beautiful Cape Town from Table Mountain. For an extra thirty dollars we boarded the ferry to Robben Island where Nelson Mandela had spent his 27 plus years in prison. We toured Fish Hoek, Cape Peninsula and the Cape of Good Hope National Reserve and animal reserves where we rode around with cameras ready looking for animals to photograph.

As we traveled by air condition bus, Eddie stopped at pre-arranged vendors and restaurants, more than likely, places where he or his firm had a contract. When asked to stop at locations not on the itinerary, or not of his choosing, Eddie would give pat excuses such as "we are on a schedule, we are running late, there's no place to park, or its dangerous around here, tourists are often robbed and assaulted." Eddie controlled who we interacted with, where we spent our money, what we saw, and whose history we listened to.

After spending three days in Cape Town, we would leave without seeing Cape Town; mingling with that 90 percent nonwhite population; eating in a Black establishment; seeing Black officials, political or otherwise; entering any of the city's public buildings where the mayor of the city or any of the other officials conducted business; visiting its major museums, schools, colleges, churches, seeing downtown Cape Town, its shopping center and average citizen, with no mention of mission work.

Our accommodations at the Protea President Hotel in Cape Town were first rate.

Located on the periphery of

the city, we weren't afforded the opportunity to walk through its main streets.

During our three nights there, I saw other Blacks performing menial jobs as bellhops, maids, cooks, and clerks, but not as guests.

This was evident in all six of the Protea Hotels where we had accommodations, with the exception of one when a Black couple from Houston traveling with a white group, saw us, and it became old home week.

I challenged Eddie's propaganda on several occasions concerning the history of whites and Blacks in South Africa. He was good at romanticizing the role and accomplishment of whites in South Africa while vilifying Blacks. It was as if the indigenous had done nothing towards the evolution of the country. Eddie espoused statements like "the Dutch were the first people to set foot in this part of the country; that the Indians, Coloureds and Blacks were treated the same under Apartheid; Blacks walked away from good land and gave it to the whites; and Blacks were given farm machinery and let it rust in the fields." But challenging Eddie to bring out the truth, although I was right, had its downside.

Several Black members of the group became annoyed. I was told that I should "keep quiet because no-one was listening anyway." Apparently, this person didn't realize his contradiction. Another said that I should just leave it alone since it wasn't going to change Eddie. It wasn't Eddie that I was trying to change: it was his statements about history that I was correcting, "A lie told often enough, becomes thetruth truth," said Lenin.

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ince returning from the Million Family March in 2005, the Buffalo Local Action Committee for the Millions More Movement has been laboring in our city for an end to sub-standard education, and a good, quality education for all. We have held rallies and town hall meetings, frequented school board meetings, participated in school board elections, and solicited the aid of local, state, and federal education offices in our efforts. Along the way, we have been forced to fine tune our efforts in the face of an entrenched, recalcitrant bureaucracy that insulates and perpetuates itself well. District administrators have moved through a process of initial annoyed and rude dismissal of us, to mean-spirited sabotage. They progressed from there to giving us lip service in condescending, yet polite meetings, to even making minor Sabirah changes in minor ways in an effort to wait us out until we finally go away.

We have moved from pleading for our children at board meetings Muhammad while board members ignored us – to getting our hands on written education law and the contact numbers of higher education offices. This year alone our Title I committee has dissected the laws governing these funds, and initiated an audit to expose the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars from our children. The DPCC (District Parent Coordinating Council) has turned to a host of federal and state agencies to launch investigations into malfeasance, civil rights violations and criminal fraud in the district. We have sued to force the district to follow the law with regard to moving children from failing schools, and to invalidate the education plan submitted by the district without parent involvement. Now we’ve got their attention.

Of all f the efforts we’ve made thus far, however, none has been more significant, more consequential than our work to awaken parents to the reality of what’s happening in our schools. Those who have made an employment system out of what’s supposed to be an education system understand well that power lies with the parents. Now they understand that we’re not going away. As signs of awakening mount, and parents begin to wield the kind of power that urban districts have never seen, the panicked realization that we could actually free ourselves from educational colonization has set in, and the empire is striking back.

When school administrators submitted their education plan to the state without parent involvement, they did so with forged parent signatures. The DPCC sued, and several principals and administrators may soon be facing criminal charges. When a teacher at BUILD Academy sent a shameful, indiscreet letter home to parents about unclean children, the DPCC had a parent facilitator installed at the school – as we do at all schools. She engaged the teacher first at the building level, and finding her defiant, referred the matter to DPCC leadership. We took the matter to administrators, who, as usual, sought to cover it up. If not for the organizational structure set up by parents in our schools, they would have. There would have been no way to even know about this disrespectful episode, much less an opportunity for redress.

The Teachers Union understands what this means. In the BUILD episode, we moved swiftly, and they did too. We’re fairly certain that it was they who mounted a campaign to flood the Buffalo News with letters in defense of the teacher. While the average number of comments on a given issue is 30, this one received 626 – and was still getting responses when it was finally shut down. But because God is on our side, it backfired. The image of the letter went viral, sending a poorly written, hand-written, insulting and cruel representation of Buffalo Public School teachers all over the world.

The Teachers Union understands that the 2,219 requests for transfer from failing schools this year could easily top 4,000 next year. If that happens, it’s game over. It would tax the system to the breaking point, and the meal ticket for the suburbs would be gone. They have now mobilized themselves and their contacts in Albany to change the law that says we have the right to transfer our children from failing schools!

They have flung open the lid of their ample war chest, filled with the dues money gleaned right off the top of the $400 million that arrives in teacher salaries each year. It’s more than enough to buy some negroes to fight their fight, sparing them uncomfortable exposure.

A meeting was scheduled for Saturday, December 7th, at Friends To The Elderly on Utica to continue the formation of the Buffalo Parent Teacher Organization. The goal is to get teacher aides and assistants, principals, and all the Black faces they can who work in the district to form a group that will rival the DPCC. Their incentive, no doubt, is to preserve their jobs, which the Teachers’ Union is surely telling them are at risk because of the DPCC. Also, for the first time, substitute teachers are being invited to join the national teachers’ union. The attempt is amass an army right here, right now, because what happens here will surely not stay here. The intent is to keep Buffalo, NY from becoming a shining example of an inner city school district that shook the control of Continued Page 15

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On November 30 and December 7, 2013 members of the Social Justice and Human Rights Initiative from the Xi Epsilon Omega Chapter of Amherst New York, volunteered at the City Mission Thrift Store, located at 510 Dick Road, Depew, New York. The Thrift Store sells clothing, shoes, small appliances, knickknacks, linens, and much more. The City Mission is blessed to benefit from the proceeds of the store’s sales. The proceeds are used to provide meals, shelter, and life-changing recovery programs year round at the Mission.

Xi Epsilon Omega Chapter members spent their time wisely by helping to prepare for the needs of our community by sorting linens as well as hanging women and men clothing by sizes so each could be tagged with a price. Committee members in attendance included, Madrene Kemp (President), Constance Moss (Committee Chairperson), Rose Smith, Sonia Burgin and Kathy Bethel as pictured below.

The Committee also donated freshly baked bread, rolls, and Danishes.

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Karen’s Salon & Spa 413 Jefferson Ave. 812-9666

Cookieland Group Day Care 24 Barthel Miss Cookie*893-0590 Dean’s Day Care 61 Montana Ave. 716-896-1751 Debbie’s Little Scholars 484 Hickory St. (716) 304-6820 First Impressions Day Care 847 Walden Ave. 716-533-8075 Kim’s Building Blocks Day Care 1479 E. Delavan Ave. 895-8693

DELI / VARIETY Grant’s Variety Shop 1055 E. Ferry St. 893-0704

Miracle Tranition 2 3339 Genesee * 481-1321 Serenity Hair Boutique 221 Jefferson Ave. (716) 812-0663

HAIR SUPPLY Main Hair & Beauty Supply 3067 Main St. (716) 862-4247

INSURANCE Able Insurance Jeff Moore/Broker 1798 Main St. (716) 883-5212 Joseph Burch Insurance 4180 Bailey Avenue (716) 830-3417

PHONE SERVICE Boost Mobile 1286 E. Delavan (716) 551-0304 360 Eggert Rd. (716) 939-3900 Town Gardens Plaza (716) 768-3887

PHOTOGRAPHY Princess Photography (716) 563-0994 wagwill411@aol.com ICU Photography 716-578-3462 Garland Studios LLC 716-471-2476 www.fgarlandstudios.com

PROPERTY INSPECTION Majadi Enterprises, Inc. Willie A. Price CSI 716-316-7776

PRINTING Totem8 Design + Print (716) 404-9258

SHOES

Shoe Heaven 1455 Broadway St. Cor. of Swinburne St.) 716-818-6639

TAILORS Ann Rhod’s Tailoring 3185 Bailey Ave. (716) 838-5633

WINDOWS Priced Right Windows USA 710 Kensington Ave. (716) 833-2500 578-7873TAILOR

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Camellia Meats Opens New Store

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veryone at Camellia Meats would like to invite you to see our new store located at 1333 Genesee Street.

This is the same location we have been serving the community since 1935. Our goal with opening this new store is to better serve the community with all their shopping needs.

Our new store is five times larger than our previous store.

We are proud to offer fresh meats, poultry, fish, freezer foods, produce, groceries, baked goods and more. You will still find our money saving meat packages as well.

Our mission at Camellia Meats has always been to offer quality food products at wholesale prices.

Through 78 years, we have always tried to support the local communities and stay true to our mission.

As many businesses have decided to leave the East Side of Buffalo, we are here to stay. We would to thank all of our loyal shoppers and we look forward to continuing to serve the community, offering a one-stop-shop for you and your family. Happy Holidays from everyone at Camellia Meats!

BID ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority will receive sealed bids for BMHA Job #13-21CF Replacement of Boilers and Hot Water Heaters at Mullen Manor The Prebid Conference will be held on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 at 10:00 AM, local time, with all potential bidders assembled at the Capital Improvements & Development Office, 320 Perry Street, Buffalo, New York 14204; the project walk-through may be held/scheduled after the meeting.

Sealed bids will be received until 10:00 AM, local time, on Thursday, January 23, 2014 at the Capital Improvements Office, 320 Perry Street, Buffalo, New York 14204. Bids received after the stated time will not be accepted. Bids will be opened and publicly read aloud immediately after specified closing time. All bid forms must be filled out and returned.

Sets of contract documents may only be obtained at the Capital Improvements Office at 320 Perry Street, with a deposit of $100 per set. Only certified company checks, bank checks or money orders made payable to the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority will be accepted.

This deposit is refundable upon return of complete sets of documents within 14 calendar days after the bid opening. Failure to comply with this time limit will constitute forfeiture of the deposit.

The BMHA reserves the right to reject any bid, which fails to conform to the essential items, required by the contract documents and to reject any and/or all bids submitted.

Dated: December 18, 2013

LEGAL NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ERIE M&T Bank, Plaintiff, against John J. Jones, Heir to the Estate of Rosie B. Jones, Laquetta Jones, Heir to the Estate of Rosie B. Jones, Niles Jones, Heir to the Estate of Rosie B. Jones, Xavier Jones, Heir to the Estate of Rosie B. Jones, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 10/7/2013 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at Foreclosure Alcove, at Erie County Hall, State of New York on 01/07/2014 at 10:00AM, premises known as 212 Breckenridge Street, Buffalo, NY 14213 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Buffalo, County of Erie and State of New York, SECTION: 99.26, BLOCK: 6, LOT: 26. Approximate amount of judgment $25,682.06 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 3713/10. Sunil Bakshi, Esq., Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON, LLP Attorney for Plaintiff, 53 Gibson Street, Bay Shore, NY 11706 Dated: November 4, 2013 1069056 11/27, 12/4, 12/11, 12/18 /2013

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PUBLIC NOTICE ------------------------------RFQ: Real Estate Brokerage Services for the marketing of 3 single family homes to be located on Woodlawn Avenue & E. Ferry St. for a local nonprofit organization.

Bilingual Care Coordinator of Wraparound Services Gateway-Longview is currently hiring for a Bilingual (Spanish/English) Care Coordinator of Wraparound Services at its Family Resource Center located at 347 East Ferry St. Buffalo, NY. This position is responsible for coordinating services for families enrolled in the Erie County Wraparound Services Program. Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s degree in a human services related field plus 4 years experience providing direct care services or linkage services to at risk youth and families OR 2 years experience providing the same care with a Master’s degree.

Must have a valid NYS driver’s license and adequate auto insurance. Excellent Benefits & time off package! Send a cover letter & resume to 10 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY 14201. Attn: HR or forward to jobs@gateway-longview. org. EOE/AAP.

For more information please contact Janice White @ 716-895-7019 M-F 10:00 am-4:00 p.m.

Deadline 12/20/13 PUBLIC NOTICE -----------------------------RFQ: General Construction Services for the construction of 3 single family homes to be located on Woodlawn Avenue & E. Ferry St. for a local non- profit organization.

For more information please contact Janice White @ 716-895-7019 M-F 10:00 am-4:00 p.m.

Deadline 12/20/13 PUBLIC NOTICE -----------------------------RFQ: Environmental reports, surveys and Boring Services for the construction of 3 single family homes to be located on Woodlawn Avenue & E. Ferry St. for a local nonprofit organization.

For more information please contact Janice White @ 716-895-7019 M-F 10:00 am-4:00 p.m.

Deadline 12/20/13 RFQ: Architect Services for the construction of 3 single family homes to be located on Woodlawn Avenue & E. Ferry St. for a local non- profit organization.

For more information please contact Janice White @ 716-895-7019 M-F 10:00 am-4:00 p.m.

Deadline 12/20/13

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Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Serving the Buffalo Niagara Region

Chief Financial Officer Job # 174-13-N Responsible for the strategic financial plan, the administrative financial management work directing the financial activities and internal controls of the Authority. Plans, administers, manages, and coordinates the accounting services, financial planning and analysis, cash management, grants and governmental affairs, procurement and central services.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field and ten (10) years experience in financial administration, including four (4) years of high level supervision of financial activities, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. CPA and/or CGFM certification preferred.

Send application, resume and cover letter specifying the job number to:

NFTA Human Resources/ Job # 174-13-N

181 Ellicott Street

Buffalo, NY 14203 Please visit our website www.nfta.com for more information Application deadline: January 3, 2014 NFTA is an EOE

Say Yes Announces Expansion Of Free Tuition Opportunities For Buffalo Students At 10 Private Colleges & Universities Say Yes to Education, a national nonprofit organization with a chapter in Buffalo announced today that 10 more private colleges and universities have joined its Higher Education Compact with a pledge to offer substantial tuition assistance and other supports to eligible Buffalo public and charter school students.

The 10 institutions, which brings to 64 the total number in the Compact are: Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Mass.; Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.; Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri; Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island; Williams College, in Williamstown, Mass.; Smith College, in Northampton, Mass.; Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn.; Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, and Muhlenberg College, in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

For a full list of higher education partners and to learn more about Say Yes Buffalo please visit SayYesBuffalo.org/ scholarship.

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EVENTS CALENDAR

NEW YORK STATE LOTTERY NUMBERS

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Family Fun Bowling Day: Every Wed. Kerns Bowling, 163 Kerns, 5-8 p.m. Hosted by Buffalo United Front.

Durham’s Central City Baby Café: Every Wednesday & Thursday,

5:30-7:30 p.m., free supper; experienced moms and certified counselors available; bring the kids; for info call Doris @ 885-6348.

EVE-655 EVE-173 EVE-595 EVE-204 EVE-202 EVE-449 EVE-501

National Alliance on Mental Illness Family Support Group: 7 p.m., St. Pauls Lutheran Church 40007 Main St. near Eggert; 226-6264.

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Billy Bye Bye Sez: CHRISTMAS - 508-3824

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DECEMBER Vibrations JANUARY Vibrations quick money $$$$ 189-809-444 886-980-422 322-522-355 800-592-390 394-833-924 127-909-418 927-313-466 124-550-525 583-269-508

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HOLIDAY SPECIALS! 394-164-870 2291-0067-2309-7391-6073-1146

MID-2082 EVE-4538

New Film on Political Prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal: 7 p.m., Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St.

4-29-32-35-36

“A Tribute to Nelson Mandela”: 5:30-7:45 p.m., Merriweather Library, hosted by Legislator Betty Jean Grant and We Are Women Warriors; free & open to the pubic; 602-5877.

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Public Meeting Notice of the Board of the Westminister Community Charter School: 12 noon, M&T Bank, One M&T Plaza.

Thursday December 19 Grand Opening Mary Kay Studio: noon to 8 p.m., 4455 Transit Rd (rear Key Bank Bldg); RSVP , 541-7023.

10th Annual Tree of Life Event for Homicide Victims: 5:30 to 7 p.m. True Bethel Baptist Church, 907 E. Ferry; 894-0914 .

Friday December 20 “The Movement Party”: Hosted by The Partnership for the Pubic Good, The Foundry, 298 Northampton St.. $10 at door; 21 and over St. Sunday December 22 Chess Open House with Archangel 8 Chess Academy: pre-register at Knightsof64@yahoo.com Downtown Library.

Monday December 23 Toy Drive: For children 2 to 12 years of age, 1423 Fillmore Ave., hosted by Glenwood Ave. Block Club , CAO & the Board of Block Clubs; 247-9681, 465-3513.

Thursday December 26 KWANZAA OPENING CEREMONY: Buffalo Academy of Performing Arts, 450 Masten Ave. cor. E. Ferry. 7-9 p.m.

Friday December 27 KWANZAA: Buffalo Academy of Performing Arts, 450 Masten Ave. 7-9 p.m.

Saturday December 28 CHILDREN’S/YOUTH KWANZAA: 7-9 P.M., METROPOLITAN CHURCH, 657 BEST ST. 11 A.M. – 2 P.M. ALIVEntertainment Presents Life Issue, a Gospel Play by Mike Ware Jr.: Bishop Nathan S. Halton Family Life Center, 391Edison Ave. 2:30 & 7:30 p.m. $15 in advance, $17 @ door; 939-5561 for info.

Sunday December 29 KWANAA: DR. MAULANA KARENGAL KEYNOTE SPEAKER; LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED.

ALIVEntertainment Presents Life Issue, 5 p.m. ; 939-5561 for info. (see Dec. 29 Monday December 30 KWANZAA: Pratt Willert Center, 422 Pratt St., 7-9 p.m.: Tuesday December 31 KWANZAA: KARAMU FEAST & COMMUNITY OPEN MIC: 5-8 p.m.

Wednesday January 1 KWANZAA CULTURAL MOVIE & DISCUSSION: Alphonso Rafi Greene, Jr., Masten Resource Center, 1423 Fillmore; 1-3 p.m.

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Warmest Holiday Wishes!!! from

Erie County Legislator Timothy R. Hogues “Thank you for the opportunity to serve as 1st District Erie County Legislator.”

- Tim Hogues

Tim, his wife Melissa, their daughter Destiny, and sons Joseph and Christopher