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Groups seek signatures for earned sick time and higher minimum wage Martin Desmarais

John Barros (R) joined hundreds of Bostonians on Sept. 15, to celebrate his 40th birthday, where jazz artist Bill Banfield played.

Danny Glover (L) and former Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport (middle) joined Barros in support of his candidacy. (Travis Watson photo)

Candidates hit the streets in close, crowded mayoral race

With no clear winner, many voters are still undecided Howard Manly With six days remaining in the hotly contested mayoral race, most of the 12 candidates are touting their abilities to get out the vote on Sept. 24.

At stake is the corner office held

by Mayor Thomas M. Menino, an office that he molded over six terms and 20 years to fit his personality as a man of the neighborhoods. Replacing him in a crowded field in an election-fatigued city will require a ground game unseen in recent city elections.

That partly explains why city Councilor Felix Arroyo informed potential voters that he and his

campaign volunteers knocked on 4,512 doors over the last weekend, made 5,553 phone calls and, on Sunday alone, attended about a dozen events in Jamaica Plain, East Boston, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Brighton, Roslindale and Chinatown.

“We know we have the best grassroots campaign, the best message and the best candidate,” said Doug Rubin, a political strategist for Arroyo who successfully helped Deval Patrick and Elizabeth Warren win their improbable campaigns. “With your active support, we can and we will win.”

The need for a ground game, even in cyberspace, also explains

why former health executive Bill Walczak said his campaign ads have been viewed over 115,000 times by online viewers.

“This is a tremendous development for the campaign,” said Darek Barcikowski, Walczak’s campaign manager. “This shows that Bill’s message is resonating and spreading and we definitely feel the momentum.”

Apocryphal or not, what is true is that the 12 candidates are finding themselves scrambling for last-minute endorsements, attending different events across the city and touting their visions for Boston’s future. continued to page 27

Finfer points out that this is exactly what happened when MassaMore than 50 Massachusetts chusetts passed its health-care law organizations launched a signa- in 2008. ture-raising drive last week to Legislators took note of the push the state legislature to raise signatures collected for a petition the minimum wage and ensure and the public demand for a state that all workers earn sick time if health-care law and passed a law they or family members are ill. before it even got to a vote.

On Friday, Raise Up Massa“We feel like we [would] have a chusetts, a group of community, really good chance to win if it was faith and labor organizations, on the ballot next year,” Finfer began its campaign to collect sig- said. “But the most important part natures on petitions to have ques- of the campaign really might be tions about minimum wage and the signature gathering. If you get sick time on the November 2014 the signatures it sets up a different election ballot. dynamic in that Each pethe people who tition needs organized the about 100,000 effort have a lot signatures to more chance to get a question get what they or proposed want.” measure on Raise Up the ballot. The Massachusetts deadline is already has some Nov. 20. high-profile If enough support from signatures are U.S. Sens. Elizcollected — — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth abeth Warren and then certi(D-Mass.) and Warren (D-Mass.) Ed Markey (Dfied — by the deadline MasMa s s .) B o t h sachusetts leghave lent their islators would have until May 2014 signatures to the effort already. to pass their own laws on the mini“Our workers are some of the mum wage and sick time issues. most productive in the world, but The petition questions would no matter how hard they work, then never go to ballot. the minimum wage leaves them Lew Finfer is director of the further and further behind,” Massachusetts Communities Sen. Warren said in a statement.

Action Network and a steering “Hard-working men and women committee member of Raise Up who are busting their tails in fullMassachusetts. He said the sig- time jobs shouldn’t be left in povnatures are crucial because of the erty. It’s long past time to raise the potential ballot questions as well minimum wage, which will help as the message these questions Massachusetts’ working families would send to state legislators and strengthen our economy.” now deliberating on several bills What Raise Up Massachuto raise the minimum wage and setts wants, Finfer says, is a “living Petition, continued to page 28 guarantee earned sick time.

“Hard-working men and women who are busting their tails in fulltime jobs shouldn’t be left in poverty.”

Birmingham church bombing still haunting America 50 years later Earl Ofari Hutchinson The Birmingham church bombing that killed four African American girls 50 years ago was no isolated racial horror.

At the time, the 16th Street Baptist church bombing was just another in the decade-long train of racist terror attacks that included beatings, shootings, mob attacks, ambushes and of course, bombings.

Dozens were killed in the attacks.

The victims had two things in common. The first was that

hey were either targeted for their civil rights work, or targeted solely out of racial hate and revenge. The other was that in nearly every case their killers were never prosecuted, and in more cases they were not even arrested, though their identities were often well-known. In several cases, they were known because the FBI had fingered them.

The Birmingham bombing was a near textbook example of how officials turned a blind eye Birmingham, continued to page 26

On Sept. 16, Governor Deval Patrick took the subway to the State House from the Fields Corner Station in Dorchester as part of Car Free Week. (Photo courtesy of the Govenor’s Office)

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CampaignNotes Attorney General Martha Coakley joins crowded governor’s race Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley, undaunted by her lackluster campaign against Scott Brown in 2010, launched her bid to become the next governor.

In a campaign video posted on YouTube, Coakley cited her loss in the race for the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).

“I know what it’s like to lose a race, I know how hard it is,” Coakley says in the video, released Monday.

Coakley also made a formal announcement on Monday in her hometown of Medford.

“I think that I am ready to both lead and listen to people in Massachusetts about what they want.

I know they want to continue moving the economy forward, giving people economic opportunity, improving our educational system,” Coakley said in published reports.“I’m going to do that as governor.”

Coakley, a Democrat, has reportedly been weighing a 2014 gubernatorial bid for months.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) has said he will not seek a third term in the statehouse.

Coakley has served as the state’s attorney general since 2007. Several Democrats have already jumped into the race, including State Treasurer Steven Grossman and former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs Juliette Kayyem. Rep. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) is also expected to make a decision soon on whether he will run. Former Obama administration health-care official Donald M. Berwick and biotechnology executive Joseph Avellone have also announced their plans to run. Mass. Sen. Dan Wolf has suspended his campaign while dealing with conflict-of-interest questions stemming from his ownership stake in Cape Air. On the Republican side, Charles Baker announced his candidacy earlier this month. Baker previously ran for the office in 2010. Independent candidate Evan Falchuk is also pursuing the office.

“I know it’s going to be a long hard, primary. I welcome that,” Coakley said of the governor’s race.

Schools Committee member Alfeda Harrison.

“Charlotte appreciates our potential and she will keep the promise and make our communities better places and ensure a brighter future for our children,” said Ambassador Stith.

Richie is the former chief of housing and director of neighborhood development for the City of Boston. A former state representative, Richie served as an advisor to Gov. Deval Patrick.

Among the prominent ministers were Eugene Rivers, A. Livingston Foxworth, Frank Kelly, Gideon Thompson, Othon O. Noel, Chris Sumner, Gerald Bell, Matthew Thompson, Wesley Roberts, Willie James, Ego Ezedi, Chris Womack, Ellis Washington, Evan Hines, Frank Murray, Jeffrey Brown, Liz Walker and Miniard Culpepper.

Election Commissioner warns residents of fraudulent phone polling claiming to be from the Boston Election Department Geraldine Cuddyer, chair of Boston’s Board of Election Commissioners, reminds all voters that the Election Department does not conduct any kind of telephone polling or surveys of voters.

“It has been brought to my attention over the weekend that voters are receiving telephone calls regarding voter preferences.

The callers are identifying themselves as being from the Boston Election Department,” Cuddyer said. “Voters should be aware that any caller conducting a survey and claiming to be Election Department personnel is engaging in fraudulent behavior.”

Cuddyer said the Election Department staff is getting ready for the historic Sept. 24 Preliminary Election in which 12 candiates are running to fill the seat held

by Mayor Thomas Menino. In addition, 61 candidates are vying for open seats on the Boston City Council.

“The Election Department prides itself on conducting fair and impartial elections,” Cuddyer said, “and I take great offense at anyone misusing the department’s name.”

Charlotte Golar Richie receives key Mayoral candidates tussle over moving endorsements A group of highly regarded City Hall dignitaries, preachers and civic, community and business leaders endorsed Charlotte Golar Richie for mayor, citing her ability to lead an administration that will focus on preparing residents for job opportunities in the 21st-century economy.

Among them were former U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania Charles Stith, former Transportation Secretary Richard Taylor, Judge Joyce Alexander London, former WBZ-TV reporter Sarah Ann Shaw, Ward 12 Democratic Committee Chair Victoria Williams, University of Massachusetts Boston senior lecturer Tony Van der Meer, community activist Horace Small and Boston Public

Standing in front of the rundown Leon building, former City Councilor Mike Ross blasted State Rep. Marty Walsh’s proposal to bulldoze City Hall and City Hall Plaza, saying it represented a fundamentally flawed vision.

“The citizens of Boston are hungry for bold new ideas, not just another conversation about moving City Hall,” Ross said in a release. “The next mayor can’t just be focused on building big buildings and downtown development. The next mayor needs to be focused on growing our neighborhoods and building more transit-oriented development and affordable housing.”

Community and civic leaders endorsed Charlotte Golar Richie for Mayor. (L-R) former Transportation Secretary Richard Taylor, Judge Joyce Alexander London, former Ambassador to Tanzania Charles Stith, Ward 12 Democratic Committee Chair Victoria Williams, University of Massachusetts Boston senior lecturer Tony Van der Meer, CEO of Roxbury Technology Corporation Beth Williams and Louis Elician. (Don West photo) Ross’ criticisms came after Walsh announced his proposal for developing downtown Boston.

He called for the sale of City Hall Plaza to a private developer and suggested moving City Hall to a new private development in the areas near Downtown Crossing, the Financial District and Government Center.

Walsh said the sale of City Hall Plaza is expected to generate $125150 million in one-time revenue.

That 4.5 acre parcel would also be added to the tax rolls, generating an additional $10-12 million annually.

“By creating this one-time large infusion of revenue,and returning one — if not two — large public parcels of land to the tax rolls, the city will be positioned to pay for many of the services citizens have told me they want,” Walsh said in a release.

But Ross said that instead focusing on City Hall, the should be talking about places like the Leon building, which he called an “eyesore and a drain on this community for years.”

The Leon Electric Building, a 50,000-square-foot underutilized

warehouse complex, sits next to the Uphams Corner station on the Fairmount line of the MBTA Commuter Rail. The building is considered a prime candidate for development into a mix of offices, retail space and housing — with some even proposing connecting it directly with the Commuter Rail station.

“Boston is booming, but not all of our neighborhoods are sharing in that boom,” Ross said. “For Boston to truly take the next step forward we need to bring economic opportunity into the neighborhoods that haven’t seen it.

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Breach of the social contract The recession and its straggling aftermath are over for the affluent. According to an analysis of Internal Revenue Service data, incomes of the richest 1 percent of Americans increased by almost 20 percent in 2012. That left little of the reported household income growth in America for others. The remaining 99 percent had only a 1 percent increase in income.

The wealthy lost more than 36 percent of their income during the Great Recession of 2007-2009. Since the recession ended in June 2009 the top 1 percent have earned 95 percent of the income gains. The top 1 percent of American households have income before taxes of $394,000 or more.

Americans do not resent the financial success of their fellow citizens. Everyone tends to believe in the American Dream that with sustained effort and compliance with the rules, anyone can achieve great success. That is the social contract the country has with all its citizens.

However, there is an aspect to their agreement that is sometimes ignored by the conservatives. The rules must be fair, and there must be a reasonable safety net for those who try hard but miss the brass ring. Unfortunately, radical conservatives seem to believe that the government should provide little relief for citizens suffering hard times.

Conservatives generally support government policies to help business expand but they are critical of programs to help individuals thrive and assume the risk of entrepreneurship. The fundamental reasons for this state of mind are an understandable aversion to taxes and an excessive belief in the ability of the free market to correct all economic problems.

The conservative concept of rugged individualism also suggests that people should succeed or fail depending upon their own talents and energy. Indeed it is counterproductive to establish policies that discourage effort, but why should there be an aversion in the U.S. against affordable health care? Even with socalled Obamacare, it is projected that 1.7 million American households will be pushed into bankruptcy this year because of medical bills. Is health care an unreasonable entitlement?

A quality education is a requirement for financial success in today’s high technology world. Before there were public schools only the wealthy could afford an education. Now there is a continuing problem of developing public schools that are effective, and it appears that as once before, quality education is more readily available to the wealthy. College graduates from less affluent families are saddled with enormous debt from college expenses, and they often cannot afford the more prestigious colleges.

Conservatives are reluctant to adjust the minimum wage to keep pace with inflation.

Hard-working Americans at that pay scale are forced to live in poverty. Yet there seems to be limited concern with the problems of the working poor. There are some who would even begrudge those who are qualified the food stamps to enable them to feed their families.

While there is a general opportunity for affluence for all Americans, it is now clear to everyone that only 1 percent of the population makes it to the upper income levels. Those who are 99 percenters, especially in the lower levels, should not be left destitute if they reach for the elusive American Dream and fall short.

I guess if you don’t make good money when you’re young, you are out-of-luck when old age hits.

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Child poverty remains at record high levels

U.S. Census Bureau data released this week reveals 46.5 million poor people in America in 2012, including 16.1 million children, essentially unchanged from 2011.

Children remain the poorest age group in the country, with a poverty rate 21 percent higher than before the Great Recession. There are 2.75 million more children living in poverty today than there were in 2007.

At a time when large corporations are experiencing record high profits and the wealthiest Americans’ net worth has increased, poor children have not had any relief.

The Children’s Defense Fund is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year and I had hoped we would have put ourselves out of business by now.

Although critical gains have been made in building a safety net for children, our challenge to ensure every child a level playing field is greater than ever, with more than 16 million children, nearly five million under age five, living in poverty and families still struggling to recover from the recession.

Research shows children growing up poor are less likely to succeed in

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school, to grow up healthy and more likely to be poor as adults.

With record numbers of families living in poverty, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is a lifeline for millions of children and families. Almost half of SNAP recipients are children.

Census Bureau data show SNAP lifted 4 million Americans out of poverty in 2012.

Despite its proven success, SNAP remains a consistent target at budget-cutting time. It is incomprehensible and morally indefensible that this week the House of Representatives will vote on a bill that would seriously harm many receiving SNAP while

they protect subsides for rich farmers.

This is just one of a recent series of efforts on Capitol Hill to shred the safety net poor children and families desperately need to survive and thrive. 57,000 children have been cut from Head Start and Early Head Start from the mindless sequester.

Ensuring children’s health and wellbeing is a test not only of our morality but of our common and economic sense. We need to create jobs that pay enough to lift people from poverty. When will enough of our leaders get it?

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Opinion Obama: ‘No one disputes that chemical weapons were used in Syria’ Over the past two years, what began as a series of peaceful protests against the repressive regime of Bashar al-Assad has turned into a brutal civil war. Over 100,000 people have been killed. Millions have fled the country.

In that time, America has worked with allies to provide humanitarian support, to help the moderate opposition and to shape a political settlement. But I have resisted calls for military action because we cannot resolve someone else’s civil war through force, particularly after a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The situation profoundly changed though on Aug. 21, when Assad’s government gassed to death over a thousand people, including hundreds of children. The images from this massacre are sickening: men, women, children lying in rows, killed by poison gas. Others foaming at the mouth, gasping for breath. A father clutching his dead children, imploring them to get up and walk. On that terrible night, the world saw in gruesome detail the terrible nature of chemical weapons, and why the overwhelming majority of humanity has declared them off-limits — a crime against humanity and a violation of the laws of war.

No one disputes that chemical weapons were used in Syria. The world saw thousands of videos, cell phone pictures and social media accounts from the attack, and humanitarian organizations told stories of hospitals packed with people who had symptoms of poison gas.

Moreover, we know the Assad regime was responsible. In the days leading up to Aug. 21, we know that Assad’s chemical weapons personnel prepared for an attack near an area where they mix sarin gas. They distributed gasmasks to their troops. Then they fired rockets from a regime-controlled area into 11 neighborhoods that the regime has been trying to wipe clear of opposition forces. Shortly after those rockets landed, the gas spread, and hospitals filled with the dying and the wounded.

The question now is what the United States of America and the international community is prepared to do about it. Because what happened to those people — to those children — is not only a violation of international law, it’s also a danger to our security.

Let me explain why. If we fail to act, the Assad regime will see no reason to stop using chemical weapons.

If fighting spills beyond Syria’s borders, these weapons could threaten allies like Turkey, Jordan and Israel. And a failure to stand against the use of chemical weapons would weaken prohibitions against other weapons of mass destruction.

This is not a world we should accept. This is what’s at stake. And that is why, after careful deliberation, I determined that it is in the national security interests of the United States to respond to the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons through a targeted military strike.

The purpose of this strike would be to deter Assad from using chemical weapons, to degrade his regime’s ability to use them and to make clear to the world that we will not tolerate their use.

That’s my judgment as Commander-in-Chief. But I’m also the President of the world’s oldest constitutional democracy. So even though I possess the authority to order military strikes, I believed it was right, in the absence of a direct or imminent threat to our security, to take this debate to Congress. I believe our democracy is stronger when the President acts with the support of Congress. And I believe that America acts more effectively abroad when we stand together.

Over the last few days, we’ve seen some encouraging signs. In part because of the credible threat of U.S. military action, as well as constructive talks that I had with President Vladimir Putin, the Russian government has indicated a willingness to join with the international community in pushing Assad to give up his chemical weapons.

It’s too early to tell whether this offer will succeed, and any agreement must verify that the Assad regime keeps its commitments. But this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force, particularly because Russia is one of Assad’s strongest allies.

I have, therefore, asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path. Meanwhile, I’ve ordered our military to maintain their current posture to keep the pressure on Assad, and to be in a position to respond if diplomacy fails.

“I have asked the leaders of Congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path.”

— President Barack Obama

Excerpted from President Barack Obama’s speech on Syria delivered last week.

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What do you think the government should do to prevent mass shootings from happening?

The whole country already spoke.

Ninety percent of the American people want a ban on assault weapons and here we go again. These weapons don’t belong in the hands of regular people. Too many people have mental issues.

People have behavioral issues that need to be addressed through counseling. People who need help should get help — especially veterans.

If someone goes on a rampage and kills people, they have issues.

The government should do more to intervene before people go to extremes. Mental health services should be more readily available and less stigmatized.

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People coming out of the military have post-traumatic stress disorders. It’s not their fault, but they shouldn’t be able to have guns.

More metal detectors in public places and more law enforcement on duty.

I believe that all guns should be banned in this country except for those needed by law enforcement officials.

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Lawrence J. Simpson The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) recently announced the appointment of Lawrence J. Simpson as chair of the board of directors.

A member of NEFA’s board since 2006, Simpson is senior vice president for academic affairs and provost at Berklee College of Music in Boston and serves as the executive producer for the Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival. In addition to his board service at NEFA, Larry is on the board of JazzBoston, and he is a former chair of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

Simpson has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Heinz Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, Arts Midwest, the State of Michigan’s Council for Arts and Culture, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and Arts International, among others.

A graduate of Kent State Uni-

versity, Simpson received his doctorate in social psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.

Simpson lives in Brookline, with his wife Ann. They have two grown children.

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Protesters speak out against U.S. military action in Syria

About 100 people gathered outside of Park Street station on the Boston Common in a candlelight vigil last week protesting possible U.S. military action against Syria.

Syrian supporters of American involvement in the Syrian crisis were among the minority at a recent event on the Boston Common protesting American military involvement in the war-torn Middle Eastern country. (Bobby Shakes photos) Shanice Maxwell Brisk fall winds blew through the Boston Common but that didn’t stop nearly 100 people from protesting the American military intervention in Syria.

Those gathered huddled close to each other in a tight circle with hands hovering over their candles to preserve their light next to Park Street station; some holding

signs while others shared carefully chosen words.

Coming from class with a bookbag hanging from his shoulder, 22-year-old Nersis Jamsakiam refused to pass up the opportunity to partake in the vigil.

“I’m really sad and heartbroken,” he said. “You see all those pictures and videos but I know this place, I know those are places I used to go. I’m from Aleppo so

I know many places that are destroyed completely. It’s unbelievable and really, really sad.”

After getting choked up talking about his remaining family there he continued.

“America shouldn’t get involved,” he said. “We’re helping the rebels [if we do] and I think they’ve done enough damage.”

This peaceful candlelight vigil was just one of more than 160 similar vigils that took place across the country last week as part of a National Day of Action hosted by MoveOn.org, CREDO, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Win Without War. The goal was for people to urge their state representatives to take a stand against military intervention in Syria.

Lara Jirmanus, 34, of Boston did not need much prompting.

“I’m actually Lebanese-American and I just returned from Lebanon where I’m seeing that the atmosphere is becoming really tense because people realize that the repercussions of a potential U.S. military attack on Syria could have very serious implications throughout the entire region,” she said.

“I’m personally very concerned that this could spiral out of control into a larger regional war or potentially even World War III.”

Jaime Aponte, 22, of Brockton, was equally adamant. “Honestly the United States needs to mind its own business,” Aponte said.

“That’s my personal opinion.”

Vigil participants remained mostly silent as lead organizers shared poignant words. But Syrian supporters of American military action emerged from the dim shadows chanting, “We want the war!

Assad is a criminal!” repeatedly.

A group of men waved posters with pictures of slain Syrians.

“None of the people here are from there,” one man exclaimed. “We need to be defended by America.

You [all] have no idea what’s going on [there],” with undeniable passion in his tone and eyes.

This ignited a dialogue about why America should get involved with Syria and within moments, what had been mostly silent voices were now buzzing throughout the crowd.

Exchanges between members of the crowd continued as some left to join a separate, silent vigil that had been taking place a few feet away. Here, far fewer in

number, were another group of people advocating for the United States to get involved with the tragedy taking place in Syria.

Some were Syrians, some Syrian-Americans and others were Americans all united for the same cause and all trying to have their voices heard, but with a different strategy.

All were members of NuDay Syria, an organization focused on providing humanitarian aid to displaced Syrians, though they stood that night as individuals.

Outlined with candles in front of their feet were words etched in chalk that read “Support the Children of Syria.”

They too, held posters with pictures of children, some of whom were family, to advocate their cause. One woman covered in traditional Islamic garb held the American flag.

At the end, Syrians and supporters from both demonstrations were able to talk and shake hands, showing firsthand how unified people can be despite differing opinions and views.

Protesters spoke out against U.S. military action in Syria at a candlelight vigil organized on the Boston Common last week. Though some demonstrators supported U.S. intervention most stood against any military strikes.

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Cancelled hearing on rental inspections draws harsh criticism Howard Manly A City Council hearing on Boston’s new rental registration and inspection program scheduled this week was cancelled and is now being held on Sept. 26 at 2 p.m. at Boston City Hall – much to the chagrin of City Councilor Charles Yancey.

According to Yancey, Boston City Councilor Sal LaMattina, chair of the Committee of City, Neighborhood Services and Veterans Affairs, cancelled the hearing, originally scheduled for Sept.

16, because Brian Swett, chief of the city’s Environmental and Energy Services Cabinet, would not be able to attend the hearing.

Yancey said he was extremely displeased when he was told of the meeting’s cancellation. “I am

they need from the officials who will be enforcing this order,” he said.

The new rental registration and inspection program requires all property owners of private rental units to register their properties at an initial registration fee of $25 per unit. The cost for registration after the first year will be $15 per unit annually. In addition to the registration fee, the ordinance also requires private nonexempt rental units to be inspected on a five-year cycle starting January 2014.

Yancey asked Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino to immediately suspend the program until a public hearing could be held.

“It’s a shame that residents are expected to comply with an ordinance they don’t fully understand,” Yancey said. “The ordinance shouldn’t move forward

“We need to have a public dialogue for all of Boston to attend so they can get the answers they need from the officials who will be enforcing this order.”

— Boston City Councilor Charles Yancey profoundly disappointed with Councilor LaMattina’s decision to cancel the hearing that he had originally agreed to hold.”

Yancey pointed out that Bryan Glascock, commissioner of the city’s Inspectional Services Department, could have represented Swett at the hearing. “I find it somewhat disturbing that the reason he gave for canceling the hearing is that one member of the administrative staff could not attend,” Yancey said in a statement.

Yancey said the cancellation represents another example of a bureaucracy disrupting the lives of members of the public who only want to abide by the law, earn an honest living and provide decent housing for tenants.

Yancey originally ordered the public hearing in August following a closed meeting with representatives of Boston’s Inspectional Services Department in which he was dissatisfied with the administration’s responses to questions regarding the new ordinance.

“There are many lingering and unanswered questions that need to be answered. We need to have a public dialogue for all of Boston to attend so they can get the answers

until there is absolute clarity and transparency concerning all aspects of this ordinance. It’s not fair to the citizens of Boston and they deserve better.”

Over the past six weeks, city officlas said they have seen a dramatic increase in rental registration with more than 80,000 units registered from more than 14,000 different landlords.

Almost 60 percent of the covered units under the Rental Inspection Ordinance, which passed the City Council in December 2012, are now registered.

Over Labor Day weekend, city officials said inspectors fanned out over Boston’s student neighborhoods providing rental inspections and uncovering numerous violations of building and sanitary codes.

In one instance, a large apartment building was found to have an asbestos release and to be leaking raw sewage adjacent to an illegal basement unit where an immigrant family had been living for years.

“This measure is essential to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of all Bostonians, but especially low-income populations, elderly residents, recent immigrants and college students,” Menino said.

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New $16M Learning Center to open in Jamaica Plain A photo at the Learning Center construction site (L-R): Jonathan Lavash, project manager of San Miguel Project Management; Cynthia Murchison, CWC Builder’s community compliance and outreach coordinator; Wayne Ysaguirre, president and CEO of Associated Early Care and Education. (Peter Goldberg photo)

A rendering of the new Learning Center by studioMLA Architects. The center will provide early education for young children as well as after-school, health-and-wellness and adult-education programs for low-income families.

Banner Staff The new $16 million Learning Center under construction in the Bromley-Heath public housing development in Jamaica Plain has attained great success in diversity hiring for the project. The contractor, CWC Builders, reports that it has hired an impressive local population on the construction project: 75 percent are minorities, 16 percent

are women, 61 percent are Boston residents and 71 percent are Section Three residents. These numbers far exceed the goals for the construction project: 50 percent minority employment, 50 percent Boston residents and 10 percent women.

Associated Early Care and Education is a nonprofit institution that provides high-quality early learning and nurturing for over 1,500 low-income children in Greater Boston.

“We were committed to employing an unusually high number of minorities, women, Boston residents and low-income residents in constructing the building,” says Associated CEO, Wayne Ysaguirre.

Project Manager Jonathan Lavash explains, “Most owners are not as committed to doing this. And it’s through the commitment of Associated that it percolates into all the contracts, all the ways we do busi-

ness in everything. We don’t want to just hit 50 percent, we want to blow it out of the water — and we are.”

Lavash also attributes hiring successes to foresight and on-theground effort on the part of the CWC Builders’ Community Compliance and Outreach coordinator, Cynthia Murchison.

“Pre-planning is the hallmark of a successful project, and Cynthia is pre-planning with the subcontractors to make sure that there are no excuses, but more so to make sure that the community is benefitting from the project,” Lavash continues.

About 90 percent of the families served by Associated are racial minorities according to Ysaguirre.

“It makes sense,” he asserts, “that people from the community should participate in the construction of our new facility.” In addition to managing several daycare centers, Associated serves about 140 home care providers with training and expert guidance on child care.

The innovative Learning Center in Bromley-Heath will be the first-of-its-kind center to provide high-quality early education

for young children as well as after-school, health-and-wellness and adult-education programming for more than 1,000 low-income families. “This facility will enable Associated to implement its strategy of enrolling families and not just children,” says Ysaguirre. “Parents are their children’s first educators, they are their children’s advocates, and they are the breadwinners. The development of parents’ skills in any of these areas benefits the children.”

Associated is so committed to that philosophy that they will enroll families in their program, not just children. Every teacher in the program must have at least a bachelor’s degree in child development.

The Learning Center is funded by a wide variety of sources, both private and public, including a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The center is leased to Associated for $1 per year by the Boston Housing Authority. Studio MLA Architects is designing the Learning Center.

The Learning Center will open in spring of 2014.

Join us for an Open House Roxbury Multi-Service Center & Facing Cancer Together announce the start up of a new

Multicultural Cancer Support Group

for women and men living in Boston who have been recently diagnosed or are actively in treatment.

Please join us to learn more about this new collaboration and cancer support group.

This event will feature a showing of the exhibition “Faces of Faith” courtesy of Faith-Based Cancer Disparities Network.

This exhibit helps to demystify cancer survivorship and the stigma that is often attached to a cancer diagnosis in communities of color.

Wednesday, September 25th 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm 321 Blue Hill Avenue, Dorchester, MA The goal of this Open House is to provide community clinicians an opportunity to meet with representatives of the new collaboration and with one another.

RSVP by Monday September 23, 2013 or contact us at 617-989-0292 ext. 205 for more information

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Boston protestors speak out against no-fault evictions

On Sept. 13, Bostonians gathered to protest no-fault evictions and demand that U.S. Rep. Mel Watt be confirmed as the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. (Photos courtesy of City Life/Vida Urbana) Banner Staff About 75 community activists marched to the Edward Brooke Courthouse last week to protest no-fault evictions and demand a speedy confirmation of U.S. Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to head the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA).

Created by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, the FHFA oversees the nation’s secondary mortgage markets: 12 Federal Home Loan Banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. FHFA is also empowered to make policy, implement rules and regularly report to Congress.

In 2010, the combined debt and obligations of these 14 government-sponsored enterprises to-

taled $6.7 trillion.

When President Barack Obama nominated Watt, a longtime North Carolina Congressman, to direct FHFA, he declared at a news conference, “Mel understands as well as anybody what caused the housing crisis.

He knows what it’s going to take to help responsible homeowners fully recover. And he’s committed to helping folks just like his mom — Americans who work really hard, play by the rules day in and day out to provide for their families.”

Watt’s confirmation has been stalled in Congress by Republicans — and also some Democrats.

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which helped organize last week’s protest at the Courthouse.

“The foreclosure crisis is not over,” said City Life/Vida Urbana organizer Maria Christiana Blanco. “So we are working on both the national level and the local levels.”

While the fight to confirm

Watt is in Washington, D.C., the fight to save foreclosed homeowners still rages in Boston. Earlier this month, City Life/Vida Urbana activists staged a blockade around the Roslindale home of Oliver Hendricks, a union ironworker who lost his job and fell behind on his monthly payments.

According to Blanco, Hendricks eventually got back to work and tried unsuccessfully to work out a deal with his mortgage company, Fannie Mae, to prevent his eviction.

Hendricks made “a series of offers including paying rent, offering to buy back above the current market value or reinstating his previous home loan,” City Life stated in a release. “But Fannie Mae refused all solutions.”

Hendricks was evicted despite

his efforts to retain his house and the efforts of the protest blockade earlier this month.

Blanco said the real culprit here is the no-fault eviction, in which mortgage companies can reclaim foreclosed properties.

According to City Life/Vida Urbana, Ed DeMarco, the current head of FHFA, has refused most solutions in which the previous owner would be allowed to remain in his or her home while negotiating with mortgage companies.

“Watt’s confirmation would likely put an end to this practice and allow communities to remain intact — and allow the taxpayer-owned banks to begin working in public interest again,” City Life argued.

Five people were arrested at last week’s protest.

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FALL HEALTH Partners in Service a special advertorial section

This fall, 18 individuals are beginning their journeys into the field of health care as Community HealthCorps members.

The group took their pledge of service this month and will volunteer for a year at community health centers located in Boston, Brockton, Somerville and Quincy. The new recruits will assist clinicians and other health center staff in their ongoing work to provide their patients with strategies for achieving good health and wellbeing.

Taking on a range of initiatives identified by the health centers, Community HealthCorps members will support efforts to address obesity by helping families learn how to cook healthy meals on a budget, raise awareness about the availability of behavioral health services, develop tools for helping patients increase their financial literacy and promote health education for patients with chronic illnesses such as asthma diabetes and hypertension.

“For us, the Community HealthCorps program directly connects with two of our priorities in our efforts to improve community health: access to care and enhancing education and economic opportunities,” said Matt Fishman, vice president for Commu-

nity Health at Partners HealthCare. “The program provides one more link in the chain of coordinated care for health center patients by making an additional person available to connect patients with a community-based service, or to provide transportation to a medical appointment, or to offer helpful hints about healthy meals and cooking. The program

provides opportunities for a diverse group of young people to explore their goals about building careers in health care.”

The Community HealthCorps program is an extension of AmeriCorps, a federal program that engages young adults in volunteer opportunities at nonprofit and public service agencies across the country. The National Associa-

tion of Community Health Centers has participated in the program since 1995; locally, the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (the League) has been recruiting service members since 2004. Over the last two years, Partners has had the opportunity to collaborate with the League in expanding the program to more health centers in need.

Ronnie Sanders, executive director of Partners Community Health (far left), and Janice Brathwaite, workforce program manager at the League (far right), welcome a new class of Community HealthCorps members.

“This program opens doors for everyone involved, “said Janice Brathwaite, workforce program manager at the League. “Patients and families can be guided along pathways to better health by the members and their mentors, and the members are able to get a better sense of what health care career options best fit their interests and strengths.”

What’s more, the Community HealthCorps program offers participants the opportunity to become part of a network of individuals they will likely stayed connected to throughout their lives.

“Learning from staff, building trust with patients, and gaining insight about the role of community-based care in our health system all provide members with invaluable life and career experiences,” said James W. Hunt, Jr., president and CEO of the League.

Since 2007, 52 individuals have participated in the League’s Community HealthCorps program and explored health care as a possible career field. Of those 52 members, 19 went on to enroll in medical school and another eight are currently working in healthcare related fields. If you’d like to learn more about this program go to: http://bit.ly/180scTM.

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FALL HEALTH a special advertorial section

Community-Oriented Pediatric Medical Homes Dr. Genevieve Daftary, Pediatrics Department What does a patient centered medical home (PCMH) look like within primary care pediatrics?

What is needed from a pediatriccentered medical home within the context of an urban community health center like Codman Square?

Our health center achieved the highest tier of recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance in 2012, reflecting our commitment and organizational capacity to provide care that is coordinated, patient centered and responsive to health of the population.

The process of achieving PCMH recognition was a reminder that

children are not little adults. Our pediatric population struggles with the affects of asthma, obesity, sickle cell disease and attention deficit disorders, all considered chronic medical conditions within children.

However, the management of these conditions and the more common issues affecting children and young adults of language delay, school and learning problems, high risk sexual behaviors, drug use and mood disorders do not typically fit well in the model of chronic disease management and episodic health care encounters that has been used in adult settings. If our aim is to be patient centered, how do we design a medical home that addresses these very important needs of the youngest

A pediatric patient and his mother talk with a medical assistant at Codman Square Health Center. (Photo courtesy of the Codman Square Health Center)

members of our community?

It is interesting to revisit this question when one considers that the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released one of the earliest concepts of patient centered medical home in its 1992 policy report on Medical Home. “The AAP believes that the medical care of infants, children and adolescents ideally should be accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family-centered, coordinated and compassionate.”

This initial policy statement grew out of almost 30 years of work by the AAP on addressing the care of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) and went on to inform more contemporary versions of this concept. This concept of the medical home was revised and expanded on by a coalition of the AAP, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Physicians and the American Osteopathic Association in 2007 and released as the Joint Principles of the Patient Centered Medical Home. Ultimately the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality definition emerged and has largely been used to make decisions about accreditation.

While PCMH emerged from pediatrics and the care of CSHCN, the large majority of pediatric patients, both in our population and more broadly, do not have complex medical needs but do have com-

plex social, developmental and psychological needs that have a large impact on their overall wellness now and in the future.

At Codman Square Health Center we have begun to structure a broader community-oriented perspective on patient-centered medical homes for children. We have done this internally using group visit models for children between birth and one year that emphasize shared community and parenting experiences and allow more time with providers to focus on anticipatory guidance. Additionally, we have incorporated the Project LAUNCH program into our support services for families most in need.

This federal grant has allowed us to have a family resource specialist and an early childhood development specialist available within the health center to support those families and children we identify as being most in need of parenting support, behavior coaching, child care resources and developmental assessments and support. These specialists have performed home and school visits, coordinated resources for families whose children are being evaluated for autism and helped coach young families struggling with homelessness, unemployment and single parenthood.

Externally, we have cultivated strong relationships with schools,

recognizing that after early childhood, schools become not just the places where children spend most of their waking hours but also micro-communities that serve as a way to engage with students and parents around a variety of health and wellness topics. We enjoy being a resource for consultation on school health policies and programs, a referral resource for health services and an on-site provider of care.

Our longest and strongest partnerships have been with Tech Boston Academy, where one of our nurse practitioners runs a schoolbased health center, and Codman Academy Charter Public School, the first and only co-located school within a health center in the country. These relationships with schools fit into a belief that integrating education and health care can achieve real community wellness through the reversal of the effects of systemic poverty. As we work with these and other school partners, we are looking to build systems to promote the growth of healthy children who will go on to be leaders of healthy communities. It is a vision for a new patient-centered approach that we are excited to be a part of building.

Codman Square Health Center 637 Washington St, Dorchester, MA 02124 617-825-9660 | codman.org

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FALL HEALTH a special advertorial section

Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) obstetrician Audra Robertson thinks that birth outcomes in our community could be much better. That’s why she spends much of her time advising women on optimizing their health

before, during and after pregnancy to prevent low birth weight and other problems.

Here are some tips from Dr. Robertson to help women improve their chances of having a healthy baby.

Eat right

Eating right is particularly important for pregnant women.

Your baby needs healthy food, not sugar and fat. Eat plenty of colorful fruits and vegetables, whole grains, calcium-rich foods and foods low in saturated fat.

Get your vitamins

Get plenty of folic acid and calcium. You can get these and other necessary vitamins and minerals from food and a standard multivitamin. Spinach, collard greens, oranges, broccoli and kidney beans are rich in folic acid. Milk, yogurt and spinach are packed with calcium. A daily prenatal multivitamin can help ensure you get the right amount. Ask your doctor about taking a daily prenatal vitamin.

Stay hydrated

A pregnant woman’s body needs more water. Aim for eight or more cups (64 ounces or more) per day.

Proper prenatal care

Brigham and Women’s Hospital obstetrician Dr. Audra D. Robertson.

Women should get regular prenatal care from a health-care professional. Mothers who do not get regular prenatal care are much more likely to have a child with low birth weight. If available, consider group prenatal care.

Don’t eat certain foods

There are certain foods that women should avoid eating while pregnant. Do not eat: raw or rare meats, liver, sushi, raw eggs (also in mayonnaise), soft cheeses (feta, brie) and unpasteurized milk. Raw and unpasteurized animal products can cause food poisoning. Some fish, even when cooked, can be high in mercury.

Don’t drink alcohol

Women should not drink alcohol before or during their pregnancy or while breastfeeding.

Drinking alcohol increases the risk of having a baby with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD).

FASD can cause abnormal facial features, severe learning disabilities and behavioral issues.

Alcohol can impact a baby’s health in the earliest stages of pregnancy, before a woman may be aware she is pregnant. This is why women who may become pregnant also should not drink alcohol.

Don’t smoke

Smoking is bad for you. Smoking is also bad for your unborn child. It increases the risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), premature births, miscarriages and several other unhealthy outcomes.

Get moving

Daily exercise is good for most pregnant women. Check with your doctor to find out how much physical activity would be right for you.

Get a flu shot

The flu can make a pregnant woman very sick. Ask your doctor about getting a flu shot.

Get plenty of sleep

Ample sleep (7-9 hours) is good for you and your baby. Try to sleep on your left side to improve blood flow to you and your child.

Reduce your stress

Dr. Robertson says that reducing stress is crucial for improving birth outcomes. Pregnant women should avoid, as much as they can, stressful situations. Recruit your loved ones to help you with this.

Choosing the right time to become pregnant

“If women are choosing to become pregnant at a time when they know that they’re at their healthiest, that increases their chances of having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy birth,” explains Dr. Robertson.

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FALL HEALTH a special advertorial section

The Dimock Center Leads the way in the integration of mental health care with obstetric care

(L-R): Dr. Nandini Sengupta, medical director, and Dr. Holly Oh, The Dimock Center’s chief medical officer.

Over the past two years, The Dimock Center in Roxbury has been one of the leading community centers in the country in efforts to integrate behavioral health with pediatrics. Spearheading this effort is Dr. Nandini Sengupta, Dimock’s medical director of Health Services, who also serves as the director of the Behavioral Health Pediatrics Integration Program. Of the program, she says, “We’re really one of the few practices doing it right now. We have a team of primary care staff and mental health clinicians plus a psychiatrist sitting in the same space, co-managing the patient at the same time. We’re bringing that model into OB-GYN.” Beginning this fall, The Dimock Center is expanding the integration of mental health care and obstetric care for all women who receive prenatal services at Dimock. The focus is on early detection and treatment of depression in pregnancy.

Sengupta, who has been prac-

(L-R): A Dimock Center patient with Dr. Nandini Sengupta, The Dimock Center’s medical director. (Photos courtesy of The Dimock Center) ticing at Dimock for almost 20 years, says this program came about when “one of our social workers gave a general talk to a group of pregnant women in our Centering Pregnancy program (group prenatal visits for women who are at the same gestational age), about signs and symptoms of depression and was overwhelmed by their response.” She added, “That’s when we realized the huge unmet need.”

The Dimock Center was recently awarded a grant in

the amount of $10,000 by the Community Partnership Fund through Children’s Hospital.

The funding will pay for a Licensed Social Worker (LICSW) to be on site four days a week, adjacent to the clinic at all initial obstetric appointments.

Typically, all women at their initial prenatal care appointment are required to fill out a Patient Health Questionnaire Nine (PHQ9) form. The form contains

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FALL HEALTH a special advertorial section

Want to Fight Cancer with Your Fork?

Now, there’s a new Android & iPhone app for that

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute announced that its popular, free nutrition app, Ask the Nutritionist: Recipes for Fighting Cancer, is now available for the Android platform, in addition to the iPhone and other Apple devices. The easy-to-use nutrition app provides recipes and nutrition information that can be searched by cancer patients in accordance with their needs. The recipes are also helpful to anyone who wants to have a healthy diet.

The nutrition app contains more than a hundred easy-to-prepare recipes, ranging from nutritious snacks to good-for-you main dishes to delicious desserts.

Users can access a list of ingredients, directions on how to prepare the dish, a shopping list to use at the grocery store, nutrition tips and nutritional analysis information in a standard USDA label format. New recipes are added each month.

“We developed Ask the Nutritionist: Recipes for Fighting Cancer to encourage and empower cancer patients and others to explore and enjoy healthy eating habits,” said Steven R.

Singer, senior vice president for communications at Dana-Farber. “Studies have long shown that good nutrition is tied to good health, and for those with cancer, treatment side effects can make eating well a real challenge.”

In addition to developing the Android version, Dana-Farber has made upgrades to the app to bring easy-to-operate functionality to users. There is a new search function that allows for faster and more intuitive searching of frequently asked questions answered by Dana-Farber nutritionists and other topics in the “Ask the Nutritionists” section.

Another new feature highlights search terms for easier retrieval of nutrition information.

“Nutrition information is one of the most popular sections of the Dana-Farber website, and we wanted to share the expertise of our terrific nutritionists with a wider, mobile audience,” Singer said. “Making it available on the Android platform will allow wider access to this valuable and useful information.”

The app, developed with Dana-Farber’s staff of registered and

board-certified dieticians, is designed to help find the optimal diet for any type of cancer. The app curates many of the frequent questions and responses to Dana-Farber’s nutrition staff, and allows users to ask a direct question. It also offers users the ability to search by common symptoms (such as nausea or mouth sores), helping to customize dietary needs while going through treatment.

There also are recipes and healthy eating tips for cancer survivors.

“Eating a well-balanced diet is one of the best ways to lower the risk of cancer,” said Stacy Kennedy, a nutritionist at Dana-Farber. “Our hope is that this app will not only be a useful tool for cancer patients and their families but will also make choosing the healthiest foods easier and more fun for everyone.”

Some unique features of Ask the Nutritionist include: • On-the-go access to over a hundred healthy recipes with an evidence-based approach • Nutrition tips and information on cancer-fighting nutrients • Innovative option to search by symptom management

• Specialized diet section for those who require foods that are gluten-free or high-fiber, provide immune support, etc.

• The ability to create a shopping list to take to the grocery store so the patient never forgets a key ingredient • A searchable “Ask the Nutritionist” function that enables Dana-Farber’s nutrition department to respond to questions from the app’s users • An extensive searchable database of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and archived questions and responses about nutrition

The app is now available for all Android users with OS version 4 or higher as well as Apple iPhone users with IOS 5 or higher. It is free and can be downloaded by going to the Google Play store or the Apple iTunes store.

Ask The Nutritionist: Recipes for Fighting Cancer was designed and developed in partnership with iFactory, a Boston-based interactive agency.

More information about nutrition and cancer can be found on Dana-Farber’s www.dana-farber.org/ nutrition.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (www.dana-farber.org)

is a principal teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research and care centers in the United States. It is a founding member of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC), designated a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute.

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FALL HEALTH a special advertorial section

Brigham

continued from page 15

This not only means that women should make sure that they are healthy before they become pregnant, but they also should consider their age before getting pregnant.

Mothers who have children early in life (less than 16) or late in life (older than 40) are naturally at greater risk for having a preterm birth. Also, women who become pregnant again too soon (less than 18 months in between births) are even more likely to have a preterm child.

Learn more

To learn more about having a healthy pregnancy, visit www. womenshealth.gov/pregnancy.

Birth Equity Initiative

Dr. Robertson leads the Birth Equity Initiative (BEI) at BWH. The program addresses inequities

in infant mortality and birth weight in the Boston area, particularly among African American women.

The BEI brings together clinical care, community outreach and research to educate and empower women, their families and their communities to do the things that help improve birth outcomes.

The Centering Pregnancy Program, a cornerstone of the BEI, caters primarily to teens. It helps young women achieve good health before, during, and between pregnancies.

To learn more about the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Birth Equity Initiative and the Centering Pregnancy Program, please visit www.brighamandwomens. org/birthequity or www.facebook.com/ bwhbirthequity.initiative, or call (617) 582-0187.

Dimock

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nine questions to screen for depression, and if a patient screens positive, she often has to go elsewhere for treatment due to limited resources. With this recent funding, women who score positive on the PHQ9 will have the support of the LICSW on site for focused individual counseling in tandem with prenatal care visits.

Offering this service in a familiar setting not only improves access to behavioral health care but also helps to reduce the stigma associated with mental health visits.

Projecting based on previous years’ data, about 160 pregnant women ages 16-43 will receive prenatal care at Dimock between September 2013 and October 2014. One hundred and thirty of them will deliver while in the Center’s OB-GYN practice and

120 of them will bring their infants to Dimock for pediatric care.

The goals of the program are to increase early detection of depression in pregnancy, to improve pregnancy and infant health outcomes as a result of identifying and treating depression in pregnancy and to improve staff and patient satisfaction with an integrated mental health and obstetric care model.

Additional mental health and psychiatrist appointments will be offered as needed. Those who need case management around mental health care, support with obtaining pharmacy benefits and transportation to appointments will be assisted by case managers co-located in the OB-GYN clinic and funded partially through the Boston Healthy Start Initiative (BHSI).

Dr. Holly Oh, chief medical officer of The Dimock Center and a practicing pediatrician, be-

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lieves that the holistic approach to pediatrics and mental health “is about taking care of the whole patient.” She adds, “We believe it is therapeutically better care for the patient, and the convenience is significant. In the integrated pediatric program, we have seen improved access to behavioral health care, reduction in no-show rates, and improved satisfaction with care, both from the patient and staff perspectives. With this new program, we anticipate similar outcomes in our OB clinic.”

Recognized nationally as a model for the delivery of comprehensive health and human services in an urban community, The Dimock Center provides the residents of Boston with convenient access to high quality health care and human services.

For more information on The Dimock Center and its programs,

visit www.dimock.org.

NSA spying raises questions about domestic surveillance Joseph Torres and Malkia Cyril Our nation’s Internet freedom is under attack — and the consequences for communities of color couldn’t be greater.

The revelation that the NSA is spying on Americans — with the help of tech and broadband companies — should frighten anyone fighting for racial justice. After all, our nation has a long and shameful history of using surveillance to disrupt racial- and social-justice movements.

Just as scary are the moves from profit-hungry broadband providers to interfere with and censor our Web traffic. This behavior is even more disturbing when you consider how critical the open Internet is for mobilizing dissent, closing the racial wealth gap and providing a platform for our stories that can counter the racial stereotypes found in so much mainstream media.

A federal court heard oral arguments last week in a lawsuit brought by Verizon that seeks to overturn the open Internet order the Federal Communications Commission passed in 2010.

Open Internet advocates had challenged the FCC to pass strong Net neutrality protections that barred Internet service providers from blocking or discriminating against any online content. The commission, however, attempted

to placate the industry by approving watered-down rules. But Verizon wasn’t satisfied and wants to gut the Net neutrality protections altogether.

In court filings, Verizon argued it has the right to edit our online free speech and compared the function of broadband providers to the role of newspaper publishers. “Just as a newspaper is entitled to decide which content to publish and where,” Verizon wrote, “broadband providers may feature some content over others.”

What will happen if Verizon prevails in overturning the Net neutrality rules? Internet service providers — including those that have colluded with the government to spy on us — will have the power to silence dissident voices fighting injustice and inequality.

To protect the digital rights of communities of color, Free Press and the Center for Media Justice, along with ColorOfChange and the National Hispanic Media Coalition, recently launched Voices for Internet Freedom.

Voices is a network of organizations advocating for communities of color in the fight to protect Internet freedom from corporate and government discrimination.

We’re fighting to ensure the Internet remains an open and nondiscriminatory platform for free speech and assembly.

Protecting the open Internet is essential to the struggle for racial

justice. It allows us to tell our own stories and counter racist stereotypes promulgated in the media.

It gives us the opportunity to educate, defend and represent ourselves — in our own voices.

An open Internet is also essential to building wealth in our communities — rather than having our labor exploited to create wealth for others.

Millions of small businesses owned by people of color use the open Internet to compete against large corporations. But broadband companies want to implement a pay-for-play system that would give preferential treatment to those who can pay big bucks for speedy access to their websites and online services.

Meanwhile, sites for small businesses — including those owned by people of color — would be stuck in the slow lane, unable to compete.

These predatory practices are great for big companies — but create serious obstacles for everyone else. Our communities can’t afford another obstacle to opportunity.

And when there’s no longer a level playing field online, it’s harder for dissident voices fighting for social justice to be heard.

Dissident voices revealed that the NSA was spying on us with the help of telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon, and tech companies like Facebook and Google. These revelations should

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alarm racial justice activists given how government surveillance has historically targeted communities of color.

The FBI’s counterintelligence program, created in the 1950s, often wiretapped phones to discredit the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. And these strategies aren’t relics of the past: After the Sept. 11 attacks, the New York City Police Department created a secret surveillance program that targets the local Muslim community.

Our government’s decision to work closely with ISPs to spy on U.S. residents is troubling, and underscores the need for rules that protect free speech online.

If Verizon wins in court, one

has to wonder how hard the government will fight to protect free speech online, given that the same companies lobbying to gut open Internet protections are essential to our nation’s domestic spying apparatus.

We launched Voices for Internet Freedom to protect the digital rights of communities of color.

We’re fighting to ensure the Internet remains an open and nondiscriminatory platform for free speech and assembly.

There’s simply too much at stake for our communities.

Joseph Torres is the senior external affairs director for Free Press.

Malkia Cyril is the executive director of the Center for Media Justice.

On Sept. 11, Governor Deval Patrick honored the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, by participating in a flag-lowering ceremony and reading the names of Massachusetts victims on the State House steps. (Photo courtesy of the Govenor’s Office)

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NewsNotes Mayor Menino, Millennium Partners celebrate groundbreaking of $630 million Millennium Tower Roche Brothers announced as retail partner – first large-scale grocery store in Downtown Crossing Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Millennium Partners celebrated the commencement of construction this week of the Millennium Tower.

Located in the city’s Downtown Crossing area at the site of the former Filene’s Department Store, the $630 million project consists of the landmark 1912 Burnham Building and a new, mixed-use tower that will rise 625 feet into the Boston skyline.

“The Filene’s site is synonymous with downtown Boston,” Menino said. “The start of construction celebrates the beginning of a new chapter in the history of this historic

Advertising, the world’s sixth-largest communications group. Arnold’s is slated to move into the Burnham Building in 2014.

In addition, Millennium Partners announced this week that it has reached an agreement with Roche Brothers Supermarkets to bring the retail grocery store chain to downtown Boston. This new store is the first large-scale grocery store to be built in Downtown Crossing and will serve the growing residential neighborhood first initiated by Millennium Partners.

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Colette Greenstein Houston native and actor Brandon J. Dirden returns to Boston in the much-talked about drama All the Way, from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan, which chronicles President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s tumultuous first year in office in 1964. The production stars Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) as LBJ, Michael McKean (A Mighty Wind) as J. Edgar Hoover, Reed Birney (House of Cards) as Hubert Humphrey and Dirden (The Piano Lesson) as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Houston native has appeared on Showtime’s The Big C and TBS’ Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, and in several Broadway and Off-Broadway productions such as Clybourne Park and The Piano Lesson. Dirden’s passion for acting also extends to his family, which includes his father Willie, younger brother Jason and his wife of 12 years, Crystal Dickinson, who appears opposite Bran-

don as Coretta Scott King in All the Way. The very talented Dirden earned a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and drama from Morehouse College and an Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign.

Prior to flying to Boston, Dirden spoke to the Banner about his upcoming role.

You’re portraying such an iconic figure as Martin Luther King Jr. What kind of research did you have to do for the role?

As an actor, I like to start with the script, with what the playwright has given me. Sometimes you can overprepare. With a well written play it’s not necessary. I have to be careful not to do an imitation of Dr. King. I’m trying to portray the essence of Dr. King and try to operate from that play first, as opposed to studying the cadence of his speech and his facial expressions. How he was driven to respond to the times.

One thing I’m learning about

Dr. King as I’m combing through the videos, his public appearances show only one side of Dr. King.

How were his interactions with Coretta Scott King? I have to do more of my detective work and use my imagination. I have to be more creative in trying to get the essence of the man. He had a different relationship with LBJ and Ralph Abernathy than he did with Coretta and [I] try to piece together the type of relationship he had with Coretta.

Are you excited to work with Bryan Cranston?

I’m a long-time admirer of his work. I highly, highly respect Mr. Cranston as an actor and this work will showcase him in a way that we haven’t seen him in his other roles. He’s defined himself as a serious artist, one with great depth and humor.

Are you going to see where the director takes you?

We do know for sure about Martin Luther King Jr. We’re able to pull up speeches on YouTube.

It’s daunting because the rest of world has the same resources and

The drama All the Way from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan features an impressive ensemble cast with Brandon J. Dirden as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston as President Lyndon Baines Johnson. (Yevgenia Eliseeva photos) they’re like, “We know the man too.” We have to consider those images; the sound bites, clips of Dr. King are some of the greatest speeches in history. What this play is going to do is really show how Dr. King was and that that he was a real man. That he was human.

It’s daunting. Our playwright has given us an incredible script.

Is there anything you learn about yourself from each character that you play?

Dirden, continued to page 24

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‘Sleepy Hollow’: A new day for race on network TV?

The cast of Sleepy Hollow features Nicole Beharie, center, in a starring role. (Photos courtesy of Fox) Teresa Wiltz Back in 1820, when Washington Irving penned The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, most black folks were in chains, women were little more than decorative chattel and a headless horseman turned out to be a practical joke formed out of a pumpkin.

Clearly, a black detective — free and female — would never have factored into Irving’s worldview.

And that’s the fun of Sleepy Hollow, Fox TV’s enthusiastic mashup of Irving’s classic tale. Part time-traveling sci-fi, part police procedural, part apocalyptic ghost story, it delights in the extravagant liberties it takes, most notably in the character of Lt. Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie of American Violet and 42).

Mills is smart, soft-spoken and stubborn, a gifted small-town cop who’s been fast-tracked to the FBI. Those career plans soon change after she goes on a routine call to a local farm with her mentor, Sheriff August Corbin (Clancy Brown).

There, they run into the Headless Horseman; after a brief skirmish, the sheriff is missing his head too.

Back at the station, a grieving Abbie interrogates a strange eyewitness

found near the scene: Ichabod Crane, who insists that he’s a spy for General Washington — as in the founding father.

As Irving imagined him, Ichabod was a lanky American schoolteacher, bumblingly neurotic and more than a little obsessed with the supernatural. Here, he’s morphed into a dashing British soldier (Tom Mison of Salmon Fishing in Yemen) who was so inspired by all the revolutionary fervor of the War of Independence that he’s switched sides — a made-for-Fox TV hero.

All Ichabod remembers prior to his own 1781 battlefield encounter with the headless one is a redcoated Hessian soldier. He was injured in battle, he says, and suddenly, he woke in an underground cave. After he crawled out, he was shocked to find himself zapped into a strange new world.

“The good news is you won the war,” a cop tells him, sarcastically.

“The bad news is it was 250 years ago. Welcome to the 21st century.”

The other bad news? The decapitated horseman has also discovered 2013 — and he wants his crown back. In the process of looking for his severed dome, he tears through

Sleepy Hollow, wielding a mean blade. Heads do roll. Where the horror in the original was all in Ichabod’s mind, here, it’s very real — and very graphic.

As the bodies pile up, the viewer’s credulity is rapidly strained.

I found myself picking out the

Horseman’s next victims a good scene or two before they actually met their maker. This is a conspiracy story on steroids, with Abbie and Ichabod joining forces to fight evil and ward off Armageddon.

It’s rife with biblical references to Revelations and the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse and filled with spectacular CGI effects.

There are witches’ covens (good and evil), Freemasons, haunted forests and magic mirrors sending the viewer to the netherworld. None of this makes much sense, so it’s better to just go with it.

Somehow this all works, largely because the show’s creators, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Transformers and Fringe), don’t seem to be taking any of this too seriously. Only time — and subsequent episodes — will determine if the series can sustain the breathless pace of its pilot.

Sleepy Hollow is also greatly grounded by Beharie’s performance. In her competent hands, Abbie is a fully formed person with her own complicated backstory.

Together, she and Ichabod form a modern-day salt-and-pepper pairing, good-naturedly debating the merits of the Revolutionary War era versus the ubiquity of Starbucks in 21st century living.

Sleepy Hollow does what I wish more television would do: Like Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal, it’s matter of fact in the way it treats race, acknowledging it without belaboring the point. “You’ve been emancipated, I take it,” Ichabod says when he first meets Abbie.

Her response? “OK. I’ll play along. I am a black female lieu-

Nicole Beharie stars in a retelling of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. tenant with the Westchester County Police Department. Do you see this gun? I’m authorized to use it. On you. … Slavery was abolished 150 years ago. It’s a whole new day in America.”

In lesser hands — Meagan Good’s undercover cop in NBC TV’s now defunct Deception comes to mind — this could be a real scenery-chewer of a line. But Beharie keeps it understated, ironic, light: Yeah, I’m African American, she seems to be saying, and the sky is also blue. She keeps it moving, unhampered by the constraints of identity politics. Her Abbie is a nofuss, no-muss everywoman, attractive, but decidedly unglamorous, a woman who’s got a job to do and does it — well.

Here’s hoping television, currently enjoying a renaissance, will bring us many more similarly emancipated black women characters.

Teresa Wiltz is a former deputy editor at Essence.

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I learn something about a different side of myself with every story I play. I won’t know until I get in the role. I love to enlarge a sense of myself. My instrument is myself.

What would be your ideal role?

That’s a tough question. I have to come up with a new dream. I recently played Boy Willie in August Wilson’s The Piano Lessons. I’m a huge August Wilson fan and to be in the first revival of The Piano Lessons in 20 years, I was so honored

that they trusted me with the role.

I think every role that I approach it gives me an opportunity to explore.

I’m grateful that the dream role is every role that I work on. I know it may sound like a copout but I’m drawn to fighters, the way Dr. King fought for a group of people. He fought for those standing outside the lines of justice.

You move between television and theatre. Do you have a preference for one or the other and why?

I don’t. There are certain advantages to both. The instant feedback of the audience is an adrenaline rush. There are no do-overs. It’s

kind of like bungee jumping or free falling but you don’t know how it’s going to go. On camera work for television or film, it’s much more of an intimate process. It’s much more of a selfish way. That’s also a rush. I love storytelling.

so complex. Idris Elba is one of the best actors in the game today and doesn’t limit himself. There are no cheap tricks. The vulnerability aspect is what I most intrigued by. We don’t get to see a black man like that in the States.

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I noticed on your website that Luther is one of your favorite TV shows. What is it about the show that appeals to you?

I’ve never seen that type of character, a black man who explores the psychological depth that he’s able to in Luther. He’s a unique individual. It’s exciting to see that this gun-wielding man is

Brandon J. Dirden stars as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the upcoming play All the Way, about President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s first year in office in 1964. The play also stars Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame. (Yevgenia Eliseeva photo)

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“I’m so happy this organization has embraced diversity,” 24-year-old Nina Davuluri said

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But within minutes of winning the title, Davuluri, whose talent routine was a Bollywood fusion dance, became the target of racist social media comments.

“If you’re #Miss America you should have to be American,” said one on Twitter.

“WHEN WILL A WHITE WOMAN WIN #MISSAMERICA? Ever??!!” asked another.

Davuluri, however, brushed aside the negative comments.

“I have to rise above that,” she said. “I always viewed myself as first and foremost American.”

Her grandmother told the Associated Press that she cried when she saw the news on television.

“I am very, very, happy for the girl.

It was her dream and it was fulfilled,” 89-year-old V. Koteshwaramma said by phone from her home in the city of Vijaywada, in southern India.

In the run-up to the pageant, much attention was given to Miss Kansas, Theresa Vail, an army sergeant believed to have been the first contestant ever to openly display tattoos. She has the Serenity Prayer on her rib cage, and a smaller military insignia on the back of one shoulder.

Vail won a nationwide “America’s choice” vote to advance as a semi-finalist, but failed to make it into the top 10.

In a Twitter message on Sunday before the finals began, Vail wrote: “Win or not tonight, I

Davuluri performed a Bollywood fusion dance for the talent contest. have accomplished what I set out to do. I have empowered women.

I have opened eyes.”

The pageant pitted 53 contestants — one from each state, plus Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands — in swimming wear, evening gown, talent and interview competitions.

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toward murder. The man who actually planted the bomb, Robert Chambliss, was quickly identified. He was arrested, but not on murder charges — simply for illegal possession of dynamite. He got a paltry fine and a hand-slap six-month sentence. His other three accomplices, Herman Cash, Thomas Blanton and Bobby Cherry were also soon identified.

They were not arrested.

It would take nearly two decades before Chambliss was finally tried and convicted and got a life sentence for the bombing, and more than two decades after before Blanton and Cherry (Cash had died) were convicted and got life sentences.

This closed the legal book on this horror. In a few other cases federal prosecutors and district attorneys in the South were determined to nail the perpetrators of old racial crimes. They scored some notable victories. State prosecutors in Mississippi convicted Byron De La Beckwith in 1994 for the 1963 murder of Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers.

Former Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers was convicted in 1998 for the 1965 firebomb murder of Mississippi NAACP official Vernon Dahmer.

While their prosecution and jailing is commendable, the racial atrocity book still remains wide open in many other cases. Some of them are well known and shocking.

rights protest march and rally in Marion, Ala. Eyewitnesses insisted that Jackson was unarmed and did not threaten the officer.

No state or federal charges were ever brought.

• According to FBI reports, the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a paramilitary terror squad in Mississippi, committed nine murders between 1960 and 1965.

In nearly all cases, FBI agents quickly learned the identities of the suspected killers through Klan informants, or the men’s own boasts of the killings. There was only a token effort made to bring them to justice.

Federal prosecutors have, and in fact always have had, the legal weapons to indict the suspected killers. Two federal statutes have long been on the books that give the Justice Department the power to prosecute public officials and law enforcement officers who committed or conspired with others to commit acts of racial violence.

The four children massacred in the 16th Street Baptist church on that nightmarish Sept.

15 day a half-century ago and the other cold case victims were not solely victims of Klan terrorists, hostile local sheriffs and state officials, but at times of a racially indifferent federal government.

Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson cautiously and reluctantly pushed the FBI to make arrests and the Justice Department to bring indictments in the murders of the three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, Army Major Lemuel Penn in Georgia in 1964 and civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo in Alabama in 1965. Even then it took mass outrage and pressure to get legal action against them.

The 50th anniversary of the Birmingham church bombing is a reminder of how far the nation has come from its ugly and violent racial past. But at the same time, it also tosses another terrible glare on the period in the South when blacks were murdered with the tacit approval of Southern state officials, and the cold shoulder indifference of the federal government.

The commemoration of the bombing presents yet another chance for federal and state prosecutors to permanently close the book on all the nation’s old unsolved racial murders. Without that, the ghosts of that atrocious past will continue to haunt America.

BlackHistory BlackHistory

• In 1959, Mack Charles Parker was seized from a Mississippi jail by a group of armed white men.

Parker was accused of raping a white woman. Ten days later Parker’s mutilated body was fished out of a river in Louisiana.

Within three weeks of the killing, FBI agents identified his killers.

They had solid evidence that the murderers had crossed state lines, and that law enforcement officers had conspired with the killers.

No state or federal charges were ever brought.

• In 1961, a white Mississippi state representative murdered Herbert Lee, a NAACP worker, on an open highway during a traffic dispute. He was unarmed. No state or federal charges were ever brought.

• In 1965, Jimmy Lee Jackson, a black church deacon, was gunned down by an Alabama state trooper following a voting

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State Rep. Marty Walsh went so far as to get out the vote with a “Women for Marty Walsh” kickoff.

Held at Dorchester’s Florian Hall, “Women for Marty Walsh” collected school supplies for local nonprofit Cradles to Crayons and asked kids to make their own Marty Walsh t-shirts and signs, which have been placed on display at Walsh’s Dorchester headquarters.

By all accounts, the mayor’s race is too close to call. According to a recent poll in the Boston Globe, City Councilor John Connolly held a slight edge with 13 percent. A few points behind were former chief of Housing and director of the Department of Neighborhood Development Charlotte Golar Richie, Mass.

State Rep. Martin J. Walsh and Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley — in that order.

The poll also reported that nine candidates fell within the

accumulated valuable experience as the President of the African American Society and as a member of the Casque and Gauntlet Senior Society, an organization that “unites those who have strong character and high ideals, encourages members in worthy activities, promotes their mutual welfare and happiness and renders loyal service to Dartmouth College.”

Upon graduation, Barros landed a position at the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies before assuming an even larger role at DSNI, becoming its vice president while simultaneously serving as the vice president of the community land trust Dudley Neighbors, Inc., an organization committed to the development of permanent affordable housing.

Ultimately, Barros would be asked to lead the organization that he first served as a 14-yearold volunteer, becoming DSNI’s executive director following a three-month stint as interim executive director. It is a position that he has held since the 2000, and it

The Globe survey found that only onefourth of likely voters had definitely settled on a candidate. Connolly was the most recognizable candidate in the field and yet still was unknown to 32 percent of respondents. poll’s margin of error plus, about 4.8 percentage points, giving many — at least in theory — a shot at becoming one of the two top vote-getters who advance to the decisive final election. These include political newcomers John F. Barros, Bill Walczak and City Councilors Arroyo, Rob Consalvo and Michael P. Ross.

The Globe survey found that only one-fourth of likely voters had definitely settled on a candidate. Connolly was the most recognizable candidate in the field and yet still was unknown to 32 percent of respondents.

Given the crowded field and the lack of a stand-out candidate, political observers have suggested that between 20,000 to 25,000 votes will boost a candidate into the final race.

Those numbers are a far cry from Menino’s last election in 2009, in which he earned 63,123 votes to beat challenger Michael Flaherty by about 17,000 votes.

But then again, Menino is the only Boston politician who can claim to have met more than half of Boston’s 625,000 residents Of the 12 candidates, John Barros has quietly emerged as a person to watch. His story has received a fair amount of attention but it merits closer scrutiny.

While no one is predicting a Barros victory this time around, some political observers suggest that he has a bright future.

At 17, Barros was the firstever youth elected to the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) Board of Directors. Even as a freshman at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Barros continued to speak up for the needs of young people in Roxbury and Dorchester.

While at Dartmouth, Barros

ranks highly among the many experiences that he believes will be invaluable should he be elected as the City of Boston’s next mayor.

“I was born and raised in Roxbury,” Barros said during a recent interview with The Banner.

“During the height of gang activity back in the 1990’s, I was introduced to DSNI and it was really an eye-opening experience. It showed me how much of a contribution I could make to my neighborhood and to society in general. I think we all have a role to play in improving the communities — the city — that we live in and love.”

Drawing on this multitude of experiences, which also include more than three years on the Boston School Committee, Barros believes that he is a uniquely qualified candidate.

“No other candidate has worked on the breadth of services that I have,” said Barros. “I have deep experience in affordable housing, youth empowerment programming, small business development, education. I’ve managed complex community-revitalization organizations. As mayor, I would take the work that I’ve done and expand it to scale in the neighborhoods of Boston.”

Though well aware of the lower name recognition that he carried into the race against some of the more high-profile mayoral hopefuls, Barros is confident that quality can trump name recognition if given a chance.

“There’s no question that the early polls showed that I didn’t have the name recognition and that Boston voters didn’t know me,” admitted Barros. “What they also showed, however, is that voters haven’t really committed, in many ways, to the candidates who are already holding political office.”

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At a demonstration in downtown Boston, Raise Up Massachusetts kicked off its campaign to put questions on the November 2014 ballot to raise the minimum wage and require companies to provide earned sick time to employees. Now the organization is collecting the signatures necessary to ensure these questions make the ballot. (Photos courtesy of Raise Up Massachusetts)

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wage” for about 650,000 workers in the state who make the minimum of $8 an hour and about 1 million workers who don’t have earned sick time. Those without earned sick time are almost onethird of the state’s workers and are at risk of losing their jobs if they stay home to care for themselves or for a sick child.

“It is a really big number of people who are affected and who would benefit if this would pass,” Finfer said.

The campaign is pushing to raise the minimum wage to $10.50 an hour and raise the tipped-employee wage to $6.60 an hour by 2016.

Raise Up Massachusetts is also looking to enact an earned sick time benefit that would give those who work for companies of 11 or more employees the ability to get five paid sick days a year and five unpaid sick days for those work-

ing for smaller companies.

Earned sick time gives workers the time to get preventative care such as doctor’s appointments, eye exams and yearly physicals. States and municipalities that have implemented earned sick time have seen job growth, and most employers report no negative impact on their profitability.

Raise Up Massachusetts has an office on Mount Vernon St. in Dorchester and is pushing its drive to collect signatures out into the community.

Finfer emphasizes that it will take help from many volunteers in order to get the signatures needed.

Officially, the petitions need 68,000 signatures of registered voters each to go to ballot, but because the signatures have to be checked and validated the standard is to get to 100,000 to ensure the minimum is met.

Finfer says that Raise Up Massachusetts is asking organizations to set a goal to collect a specific number

of signatures before Nov. 20, with efforts kicking off all over Boston this past weekend.

Religious organizations and places of worship will play a big part, as will volunteers at stores and other high traffic destinations. Signatures will also be collected at the election polls on

Sept. 24 and Nov. 5.

“There is a big effort to be made to get people to work on this,” said Finfer. “It will just keep growing and a lot of people are making commitments.

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DESCRIPTION

TIME

WRA-2432

Furnish Two (2) Chesterton 3/14/05 11:00 a.m.

Mechanical Split Seals or EqualReplacement with Two (2) Enviro cost coverage, Spiral Trac Seals for North which is more expensive to purchase, Main Pump Station, Deer reimburses full cost of replacing Island Treatmentthe Plant

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All bids for this project are subject to applicable bidding laws of Massachusetts, including General Laws Chapter 30, Section 39M as amended. Attention of bidders is particularly called to the requirements as to conditions of employment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid under the contract as determined by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development under the provisions of the Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 149, Section 26-27D, inclusive, as amended.

renter’s insurance will reimburse your losses if your computer, television, smartphone, bicycle or furThe Bidder agrees that this bid shall be good and may not be withdrawn for niture is stolen or damaged by fire the property, without depreciation.

Sealed bids will be received at the offices of the Massachusetts Water a period of thirty (30) working days, Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays or other catastrophe. cost of rental insurance Resources Authority,The Charlestown Navy Yard, Document Distribution Office, excluded after the opening of bids.

Avenue, First Floor,between Boston, Massachusetts For an additional cost100 youFirst may averages $15 and 02129, $30 up to the time listed above at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

The Owner reserves the right to waive any informality in bids or to reject any even purchase coverageand fordate furper month; premiums can vary or all bids if deemed in the best interest of the Town of Blackstone. niture and leisure items kept on dependingSECTION on the 00020 location of the OF BLACKSTONE, a deck, patio or terrace. Renter’s rental property as well as the value On Sept. 13, Project Place honored MayorTOWN Thomas M. Menino andMASSACHUSETTS Mrs. Angela INVITATION TO BID DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Menino for all of their work for the homeless population in the city of Boston. insurance also protects you in the of the possessions being insured.

Sealed Bids for the construction of the Elm Street Sewer Improvements for BSC Group, Inc. event someone is injured the while It may be possible to received purchase Townon of Blackstone, Massachusetts, will be by the Department Boston, Massachusetts of Public Works insurance at the office of the Department of Public Works, 15 St. Paul your property. collectively with roomStreet, Blackstone, Massachusetts until 10:30 a.m. prevailing time, on Personal property policies, mates; talk to your insurance carrier numbers and serial numbers. iTunes or the AppStore or visit inMarch 29, 2005 and at which time and place said bids will be publicly BOSTON WATER AND SEWER COMMISSION which pay to repair oropened replace about The National Association of In-INVITATION sureonline.org. and read aloud.that option. Also talk to your FOR BIDS belongings if they are damaged, landlord about installing anti-theft surance Commissioners has deFor more information on rentThe scope of work includes furnishing and installing approximately 3,065 linThe Boston Water and Sewer Commission by its Executive Director invites destroyed or stolen, can ear either safety devices locks on veloped smartphone app, #er’s insurance or any other insurfeet be of 8-inch gravity sanitarylike sewersafety main with all appurtenances; fur-a free sealed bids for CONTRACT 04-308-001, WATER MAIN RELAY AND nishing and installing approximately 8,135 linear feet of 10-inch myHome gravity san- Scr.APP.book, SEWER/DRAIN REHABILITATION IN ALLSTON/BRIGHTON, PROPER, “actual cash value” or “replacewindows and deadbolts on doors, that can ance question, visit theCITY Massachuitary sewer main with all appurtenances; furnishing and installing approxiHYDE PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids must be accompanied by a bid ment cost” coverage. and make it a habit to lock your help simplifydeposit, your certified inventory.

You setts Division of Insurance webmately 4,100 linear feet of 6-inch PVC gravity sanitary sewer service concheck, treasurer’s or cashier’s check, or in the form of a Actual cash value coverage will and windows you are can also your www.mass.gov/doi call nections and alldoors appurtenances, furnishingwhen and installing approximately 315usebid bondown in thecamera amount ofor 5% OFsite BID at payable to and to become theor properfeet of 4-inch and 3,475 linearwould-be feet of 6-inch sanitary smartphone sewer force ty to of the Commission if the acceptance, is not carried out. The bid reimburse the cost of the linear property not home to deter thieves. photograph orbid, after (877) 563-4467. main with all appurtenances, furnishing and installing fully functional sanideposit is to be returned only when all stated conditions of the Contract docat the time of the claim, considerTo getlocated started, a list of Facility video your ument premises andout. attach tary sewer pump stations at themake Corrosion Control (CCF), are carried In addition, a performance bond and also a labor and Quickstream Fire Station, and Mill crossing all appurtematerialsto payment bond, each of a surety company is qualified to do business ing any depreciation because of crossing, all items you want toRiver insure, in-with item descriptions the images.

Joe Murphy the Massachusetts nances, standby generator housed within a prefabricated building at the under the laws of the Commonwealth and satisfactory to the Executive age or use. cluding the purchase price, model Find myHome Scr.APP.book on Commissioner of Insurance.

Quickstream and Mill River pump stations; furnishing and installing bitumiDirector, and each in the sum of 100 % OF THE CONTRACT PRICE, must be

Commonwealth of Massachusetts The Trial Court Probate and Family Court Department SUFFOLK Division

DATE

Docket No. SU13P2139EA

Citation on Petition for Formal Adjudication Estate of Ana Teixeira Date of Death: 08/17/1969 To all interested persons:

nous concrete trench pavement (permanent); water system reconstruction (Add Alternate 1); miscellaneous drainage improvements (Add Alternate 3); furnishing and installing associated manholes, paving, project wide maintenance of traffic and other appurtenances required to complete the Work as specified in the Contract Documents. Work must be substantially complete within 1153 days of the Notice to Proceed. The estimated cost of the project is $4,500,000.00.

The estate is being administered under formal procedure by the Personal Representative under Uniform TREASURER’S, Probate CodeOR without Bid Security in the formthe of aMassachusetts BID BOND, CASHIER’S, CERsupervision by the Court. and bank accounts are company not required to be filed TIFIED CHECK issued by aInventory responsible or trust is required in with Court, entitled notice regarding the administhe the amount of but fiverecipients percent are of the bid to price payable to the Town of tration from the Personal Representative and can petition the Court in any Blackstone. matter relating to the estate, including distribution of assets and expenses of administration.

Contract Documents may be examined at the following locations: WITNESS, HON. Joan Armstrong, Justice Massachusetts of this Court. 01608 BSC Group, 33P.Waldo Street,First Worcester, Date: September 2013 McGraw-Hill Information Services Co., Boston, F.W. Dodge06, Division, Patricia M. Campatelli Massachusetts of Probate Town of Blackstone, Department of Public Works,Register 15 St. Paul Street

Blackstone, Massachusetts

A petition has been filed by Guilhermina Santos Montrond of Atalaia, CV requesting that the Court enter a formal Decree and Order of testacy and for such other relief as requested in the Petition. And also requesting that Joaquin Silveira of Roxbury, MA be appointed as Personal Representative(s) of said estate to serve Without Surety on the bond.

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 10/10/2013. 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 date, action may be taken without further notice to you.

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Massachusetts Contract Documents Commonwealth may be obtainedofat the office of the BSC Group locatThe Massachusetts, Trial Court ed at 33 Waldo Street, Worcester, 01608, from 9 a.m. to 12 Probate and Family Court Department noon and 1 to 4 p.m., upon payment of a deposit of $100.00 in the form of a check payable to the Town of Blackstone. Any unsuccessful bidder or nonSUFFOLK Division Docket No. SU13P2162GD bidder, upon returning such set within the time specified in the Instructions to Bidders and in good condition, will be refunded his payment. Contract the interests of to Na’Kayla Lillianbidders Harris upon request and Documents will beInmailed via USPS prospective of Mattapan, receipt of a separate non-refundable check MA payable to BSC Group, Inc. in the Minor amount of $25.00 to cover handling and mailing fees.

NOTICE ORDER: The selected contractor shall furnishAND a performance bond and payment bond Petition fortoAppointment Guardian of a of Minor in amount at least equal one hundredof percent (100%) the contract price as stipulated in Section 00700 GENERAL CONDITIONS of these specificaNOTICE TO ALL INTERESTED PARTIES tions. Anticipated funding for this project will be from the Unite States

submitted within the time specified in the Contract document. Bids must be submitted on the forms obtained from the Purchasing Manager, Boston Water and Sewer Commission, 980 Harrison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02119, and must be submitted in sealed envelopes to the Purchasing Manager clearly marked BIDS FOR CONTRACT # 04-308-001, WATER MAIN RELAY AND SEWER/DRAIN REHABILITATION IN ALLSTON/BRIGHTON, CITY PROPER, HYDE PARK AND JAMAICA PLAIN. Bids will be publicly opened and 1.

Date/Time: A hearingManager on a Petition for Appointment of read atHearing the office of the Purchasing on THURSDAY, MARCH 24, Guardian of aThere Minorwillfiled 09/09/2013 charge

by Manan Harris for of 2005 AT 10:00 A.M. be aonnon-refundable of $25.00 Dorchester Center, MA will be held 09/30/2013 09:00 AM each set of contract documents taken out. If the bidder neglects to Motion bid on Located 24 New Chardon 3rd floor, each and everyatitem, it may lead toStreet, the rejection of Boston, the bid. MA The02114 rate of– Family Service Office. wages paid to mechanics, teamsters, chauffeurs, and laborers in the work to

be performed under the contract shall not be less than the rate of wages in 2. schedule Response to Petition: may respondofbyLabor filing and a written response to the determined

by You the Commission Industries of the the Petition or byofappearing in person at the hearing.

If youofchoose to Commonwealth, a copy which schedule is annexed to the form contract writtenCopies response, you schedule need to: may be obtained, without cost, referredfile toaherein. of said upon application therefore at the office of the Executive Director. Before File theperformance original withon thethis Court; and the contractor shall provide by commencing contract, Mailfor a the copypayment to all interested parties at (5) business days insurance of compensation andleast the five furnishing of all other before the Chapter hearing. 152 of the General Laws (The Workmen’s benefits under Compensation Law, so called) to all persons to be employed under this conCounsel for the Minor: minor (or an adult behalf of during the minor) 3. tract and shall continue such The insurance in full force on and effect the right toAttention request is that counsel be appointed minor. term ofhas thisthe contract. called to Chapter 370 of for thethe Acts of 1963, which must be strictly complied with. No bid for the award of this project will Presence of the Minor at Hearing: A minoragrees over age 14 has fully the right 4. considered be acceptable unless the Contractor to comply with to be present at any hearing, unless Utilization the Court finds that it isas notset in the requirement of the Minority Employee Requirement minor’s best forth inthe Article VIII of theinterests.

Contract and the Utilization of Minority and Women

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Owned Business Enterprises as set forth in Article X of the Contract. Included THIS IS NOTICE: An important court of proceeding that may affect with theA LEGAL Contract documents are copies the Bidder’s Certification your rights and has Weekly been scheduled. you do not understand notice or Statement UtilizationIf Report.

Each Contractorthis must complete, otherand court contact an Certification attorney for Statement. legal advice.Failure to do sign filepapers, with hisplease bid the Bidder’s

so will result in rejection of the bid. The Weekly Utilization Reports shall be Date: September 9, 2013with section 8.2 (ii) and (iii) ofPatricia M. Campatelli submitted in accordance the Contract.

Failure Register ofresult Probate to comply with the Minority Employee Utilization Requirement may in imposition of the sanctions set forth in section 8.2 (f) and (g) of the Contract.

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Solicitantes tendran que tener ingresos anuales documentables y que sean menor del 60% de Ingresos Promedios del Area (AMI) o sea: Para 2 personas, ingresos anuales hasta $45,360, para 3 personas, hasta $51,000, para 4 personas hasta $56,640

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Hanson AUTORIDAD DE LA VIVIENDA, Hanson, MA

Hanson HOUSING AUTHORITY

ANUNCIO de apertura de la Vivienda Pública LISTA Federal ESPERA

ANNOUNCEMENT OF OPENING OF the Federal Public Housing WAITING LIST

Si usted o alguien en su familia es una persona con una discapacidad y necesita un alojamiento específico para solicitar o presentar cualquiera de las aplicaciones de Hanson Autoridad de Vivienda , por favor póngase en contacto con la HHA al 781-293-7474 para hacer los arreglos necesarios y una persona de contacto usted

Financed by the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency.

Fecha limite para la loteria es Jueves, Octubre 10, 2013 Loteria sera llevada a cabo el Lunes, 8 de Noviembre, 2013 $1,100.00/mes – Inquilino(s) paga(n) los servicio Ni Mascotas – Ni Fumadores

Call 978-922-1305 x202 Fax 978-922-2874

Usted puede obtener una solicitud federal para la vivienda pública en la Oficina Administrativa HHA, 80 Meeting House Lane, Hanson , MA en o después del 16 de septiembre 2013. O Lunes – Jueves 9:30 am – 16:00, o llamando al 781-293-7474 para solicitar que una solicitud sea enviada directamente a usted.

One Person = $47,150 Two Persons = $53,900 and must meet HUD eligibility criteria.

Estamos aceptando AHORA solicitudes para una

For information or to request an application, please email applications@harborlightcp.org or call or visit the Management Office (Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-4:00 PM) at 283 Elliott St., Beverly, MA 01915

Para ser elegible para asistencia federal para vivienda pública, los solicitantes deben tener un ingreso de $47,150 o menos para la familia de uno , $53,900 o menos para una familia de dos, $60.650 o menos para una familia de tres, $67.350 o menos para una familia de cuatro, 72.750 dólares o menos para una familia de cinco, $78.150 o menos para una familia de seis personas.

Applicants must be at least 62 years of age, with annual income not to exceed:

loteria para alquilar un apartamento (de alcanze a aquellos con recursos limitados) de 2 cuartos de dormir. Apartamento esta ubicado en Wenham, MA

Applicants must have documented income below 60% of area median income.

(For 2 persons: $45,360, 3 persons: $51,000, 4 persons: $56,640)

La lista para la lista de espera de Vivienda Pública Federal para 2,3 y 4 unidades de un dormitorio se abrirá 16 de septiembre 2013, y seguirá abierto durante un período de 1 semana hasta septiembre 23, 2013. Todas las solicitudes presentadas durante este período de 1 semana se colocarán en una lotería. La lista de espera se cerrará el 23 de septiembre de 2013. Después de la asignación de la lotería todos los solicitantes serán notificados por correo de su colocación en la lista de espera. La lista se divide en sub-listas por tamaño dormitorio basado en la composición de la familia. Los solicitantes serán seleccionados de la lista de espera basado en la asignación de lotería y la elegibilidad para el tamaño de la habitación correcta ( basado en la composición de la familia). Los solicitantes interesados también pueden solicitar cualquier otra lista de espera abierta para asistencia de vivienda administrados por la HHA.

Ocean Shores Apartments in Lynn, Massachusetts is actively seeking applications for our wait list.

Please call 781-598-5564 TDD 800-439-2370

Lottery for a 2 Bedroom Affordable Rental Unit in Wenham, MA

La Autoridad de Vivienda de Hanson ( HHA ) hará que las aplicaciones estén disponibles con el fin de ampliar su lista de espera para la asistencia bajo el Programa de Propiedad de Vivienda Pública Federal de la HHA.

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The Hanson Housing Authority (HHA) will make applications available for the purpose of expanding its waiting list for property assisted under the HHA’s Federal Public Housing Program.

The list for Federal Public Housing wait list for 2,3, and 4 bedroom units will open September 16, 2013, and remain open for a 1 week period until September 23, 2013. All applications submitted during this 1 week period will be placed in a lottery. The waiting list will close on September 23, 2013.

Following the lottery assignment all applicants will be notified by mail of their placement on the waiting list. The list will be organized into sub-lists by bedroom size based on family composition. Applicants will be selected from the Wait List based on lottery assignment and eligibility for the correct bedroom size (based on family composition. Interested Applicants may also apply for any other open waiting list for housing assistance administered by the HHA. To be eligible for Federal Public Housing Assistance, applicants must have an income of $47,150 or less for family of one; $53,900 or less for family of two; $60,650 or less for family of three ; $67,350 or less for family of four; $72,750 or less for family of five; $78,150 or less for a family of six.

You may obtain a Federal public housing application at the HHA Administrative Office , 80 Meeting House Lane, Hanson, MA on or after September 16, 2013. Or Monday – Thursday 9:30 am – 4 pm, or by calling 781-293-7474 to request that an application be mailed directly to you.

If you or anyone in your family is a person with a disability and you require a specific accommodation in order to request or submit any of Hanson Housing Authority’s applications, please contact the HHA at 781-293-7474 to make any necessary arrangements and someone will contact you.

The Hanson Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Housing Provider and a Drug-Free Workplace

La Autoridad de Vivienda de Hanson es un proveedor de Igualdad de Oportunidades y un lugar de trabajo libre de drogas

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Para informacion o para pedir una solicitud, por favor mande correo electronico al applications@harborlightcp.org o llame o visite la Oficina de Administracion (Lunes a Viernes de 9:00 AM-4:00 PM) al 283 Elliott St., Beverly, MA 01915 Call 978-922-1305 x202

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Harborlight Community Partners es una organizacion de igual oportunidad a vivienda que no discrimina basado en raza, color, origen nacional, edad, discapacidades, genero, religion, orientacion sexual o estado familiar.

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Zena’s Hair Salon is Hiring

at a very busy salon Starting Sept 15th!!!!

Looking to Hire: • Barber • Nail Technician • Hair Stylist (Booth rental is available also) Please Email or drop off any of the following: • Resume or Portfolio • Copy of your professional License

Teacher Wanted I am looking for a teacher to teach my sons in the homeschool I setup for them in Milton, MA. I would welcome a true christian to work with my sons so that they can also teach my sons about God which is not allowed in public school setting. The candidate must be teacher certified, honest, patient and really love teaching. Will discuss terms of employment with the right candidate.

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Email: zenashairsalon@gmail.com Salon Address: 394 Warrent St. Roxbury, MA Call: 617-980-7061 Applications are available online www.zenashairsalon.com

I can be reached via email at pwin1073@live.com.

The grades I am looking for are 1st - 8th.

Site Developer City Life/Vida Urbana Seeks Site Developer.

Responsibilities: Assist 4 grassroots groups plan future direction/work in fighting housing displacement.

Requirements: Experienced organizational development professional; Skilled facilitator; Track record in helping groups clarify their direction and goals; Experience working with boards to develop strategic, business or other long-term plans; Superb active listening skills; Strong collaborative and interpersonal skills; Strong attention to detail and synthesis skills; and Excellent writing skills To Apply: Email cover letter and resume to jobs@clvu.org.

CLVU is committed to hiring staff that reflect the diverse communities we serve. Visit clvu.org for full job description.

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