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Alders Appeal For Community’s Help To Deter Gun VIolence

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven I ndependent

West Hills Alder Honda Smith and other community leaders vowed to take back the streets in a press conference Monday night held in response to a recent uptick in gun violence.

The presser was held at the West Hills police substation on Valley Street, just up the street from where 19-year-old Kiana Brown was murdered in her sleep as an unintended target on June 17.

“It has touched home,” Smith said about losing Brown and other young people in her ward, as well as losing her own sister 20 years ago in a violent crime. “I want this type of violence to cease.”

In the 12 days leading up to the press conference, New Haven saw three homicides; seven people were shot within six days.

Smith invited leaders to “walk the ward” for a street campaign in order to prevent gun violence through community outreach. “I want to let the residents of this ward know that we’re going to fight against this type of gun violence by any means necessary — if it takes keeping these kids or keeping people off the

streets, we’re gonna do that.”

Smith and Beaver Hills/West Hills/Amity Alder Richard Furlow said they plan to march through the streets connecting both their wards, encourage more community outreach programs, and work closer with the police to combat gun violence.

“Everyone’s saying you need less police.

Really? Really?!” Furlow exclaimed.

The issue of gun violence in New Haven is quite personal for Furlow (at right in photo), who has lost two relatives to bullets. “We say publicly to those that are shooting and we say it boldly without fear: We’re coming at you. And we’re coming for you. Lay down your guns and stop the nonsense.”

To increase community outreach, the alders said, they plan to work with organizations such as Connecticut Violence Intervention Program (CVIP), a street outreach-worker crew CVIP chief Leonard Jahad encouraged members of the community, especially youth, to speak up and take action against violence: “If you like to shoot, become a cop. If you like to shoot, the police will give you a gun.

If you like to steal cars, they will give you a car — you can drive as fast as you

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SOPHIE SONNENFELD PHOTO Ward 30 Alder Honda Smith with New Haven Police Chief Otoniel

Reyes.

want around this community. If you want respect, they will give you a badge. If you want a nice income, I will affirm they will give you a nice income and a pension after 20 years.”

The alders at the presser were joined by New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes

and Westville district top cop Lt. Elliott Rosa, who said the police department stands with the alders in trying to increase community outreach to end the violence.

“As we went to [Brown’s] funeral today it was a somber reminder that life is precious, and we are reminded of the work

we need to do in coming together and working together to make sure our community stays safe,” Reyes said.

Rosa echoed Reyes’ message in calling on the community to unite and work with city leaders and police: “Someone out there knows who was shooting. Someone out there knows who committed murder.

It’s a call to action for everyone.”

According to Reyes, so far this year there have been 42 shootings and eight homicides whereas. By June 30 last year, the city was at 36 shootings and six homicides.

“It’s very difficult to pinpoint why exactly this is happening”, Reyes said.

Regarding the Kiana Brown murder, Reyes said police are following some leads, but are still looking for the community to step up with any information.

“Because of the nature of which it occurred, we’re going to really need people to come forward to identify who did this.

It’s a tough one,” he said.

Hours after the press conference, police announced that a 31-year-old man was shot on Huntington Street. His wounds were described as non-life-threatening.

Watch the entire press conference below:

Brothers Deliver Masks, Ricky D’s To Elderly

by SOPHIE SONNENFELD New Haven I ndependent

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would be displayed in the first floor windows around the Amistad Memorial (pictured).

The City of New Haven Department of Arts Culture and Town Green Special Services District are seeking a New Haven-based artist or artists to design temporary, two-dimensional artwork for display on windows of City Hall next to the Amistad Memorial at 165 Church St. Artwork should reflect the importance of black and brown lives, influences and culture on our New Haven communities.

Elders and staff at the Ella B. Scantlebury Senior Residence on Dixwell Avenue received essentials — including masks and Ricky D’s Rib Shack food — delivered Friday by the brothers of Chi Omicron Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. The New Haven brothers decided to donate the 200 masks they got from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc. to the elder care center when they heard the facility was having difficulties obtaining personal protective equipment (PPE).

“They’re the most vulnerable and so often overlooked,” said Chairman of the Board of Ella B Scantlebury Home James E. Rawlings.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Rawlings said, the facility has been closely monitoring how coronavirus impacts seniors of color. “Our commitment is to lose no one so we were really aggressive early on,” he said.

To reduce risks of residents contracting Covid-19, Rawlings said, the facility enforces strict social distancing amongst staff and residents in the 20 facility apartments.

Rawlings also said residents are encouraged to eat in their rooms rather than in the dining room where the brothers gathered to drop off the food and masks.

“The community really has total respect for the residents here. It’s not a typical facility where people come from different parts.

Here they’re from within- they’re the heart of the community.”

Chi Omicron Chapter Vice President Michael Fletcher, who has been a member of Omega Psi Phi for 43 years, said the broth-

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Chi Omicron Chapter Vice President Michael Fletcher lays out packages of masks. ers try to help out people in New Haven most susceptible to the coronavirus: “Black and brown communities are the highest affected by Covid-19 and we’re having issues with PPE. How do you fight it without the proper equipment?”

To help those in need during the pandemic, the brothers have volunteered at the Connecticut Food Bank in Wallingford and organized a blood drive. In May, they helped feed 75 homeless people on the green and are planning to do so again in July and August.

Chi Omicron Chapter President Marcellus Edwards said he was happy to deliver masks Friday to the seniors and staff. “We always try to be active and involved,” he said. Edwards, who grew up in New Haven, has

been in the organization for 32 years.

“It’s all about the community,” Edwards said.

Resident Annie Gallman came downstairs to the dining hall wearing a colorful knitted mask to meet the brothers. Gallman, who just turned 101 on May 30, was one of the first residents in the facility when it opened in 1994.

In addition to the masks, the brothers delivered lunch from Ricky-D’s for the eight staff members at the facility to thank them for their hard work serving seniors in the pandemic.

As the brothers left, the staff members broke open trays of chicken wings, mac and cheese and collard greens and began to dig in.

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18 Cop Recruits Sworn In

by KO LYN CHEANG

New Haven I ndependent

Eighteen New Haven police recruits were sworn in as cadets on Monday afternoon at the Police Training Academy at a time when the institution of policing is being scrutinized, criticized, and castigated.

During the short ceremony, Mayor Justin Elicker led the recruits in reciting the oath of office and spoke about how this will be the first class of police recruits to be sworn in since the “world changed.”

The swearing-in comes a month after 5,000 people marched in New Haven to protest racial injustice in policing, calling for, among other things, defunding the police. It was one of many protests in New Haven, and across the world, sparked by the killing of Goerge Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.

“It is very clear that we are in very difficult times to be a police officer, where we are talking about what defines the role of the police,” said Elicker during a press conference after the ceremony. “For the young people here today that are beginning their career as a police officer, it probably feels like their future is very uncertain.”

Police Chief Otoniel Reyes acknowledged that recruitment has been a challenge for policing in the past five to ten years.

“There’s no denying that this [climate] creates more challenges in order to attract people to the profession,” he said. “Because of all the negativity, the calls for change, it is difficult to find people who want to sign up for that. Let’s face it, it’s an enormous responsibility to wear the uniform and deal with these challenges day in and day out like our officers do.”

The recruits were selected from a pool of just under 500 applicants and subject to background checks, psychological tests, and checks on their financial records. They include a recruit whose uncle was a police officer and at least two who come from a family of officers.

Officials prevented the press from interviewing the recruits.

In a bid to increase recruitment of police officers from the New Haven community,

KO LYN CHEANG PHOTO Police recruits at ternoon. applicants were given additional points in their applications if they came from the city.

Of the 18 sworn in Monday, four live in New Haven. Six are African-American; two are Latino. Two are female (including one of the African-American cadets).

When asked how the recruits are screened for racial biases, Reyes said, “These are people that we pick from society. They’re going to come with their biases and preconceived notions — we vet that out. For us, it’s less about making sure people don’t have racial biases and it’s more making sure we have people who understand the standard here, who are good people, who want to do the service.”

In response to the nationwide reckoning with the purpose of policing, Chief Reyes said that police training will become more community-centric with a greater emphasis

the swearing-in ceremony on Monday afon deescalation training.

Monday was the first day of the six-monthlong training program, during which the cadets will learn defensive tactics, motor vehicle driving, and constitutional and civil law. They will undergo firearms training, community outreach training, and deescalation training. After the six months, the officers will patrol the streets with a field training officer for an additional three months, before entering a one-year probation period. “[I’m] trying to put in perspective what the world must look like for them,” said Reyes. “While we see and certainly understand from our vantage point the enormous opportunity we have for change, and to galvanise the community, it’s got to be pretty overwhelming for a group of young people.

They have the weight of the world on their shoulders on day one.”

Man Shot Dead As Gun Violence Continues

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New Haven I ndependent

New Haven’s heat wave of gun violence continued with a homicide on Long Wharf.

The latest victim, “an adult male,” was found shot to death Sunday “in a parking lot several hundred feet behind a business near 301 Sargent Drive,” the address of La Quinta Inn & Suites, according to a release issued Sunday afternoon by police spokesperson Capt. Anthony Duff.

Emergency responders arrived on the scene at 6:22 a.m. The victim, whose name and age were not immediately available, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Capt. Duff asked anyone with informa-

tion about the killing to contact police at 203-946-6304 or through the anonymous hotline, 1-866-888-TIPS (1-866-8888477). Or text “NHPD” and a message to short code 274637 (CRIMES).

It was the latest in an almost-daily parade of shootings.

Someone shot a 19-year-old man in the legs “as he sat on a three-wheel motorcycle” just before 9 p.m. Friday on Hallock Avenue in the Hill, according to Duff.

On Thursday night, a 25-year-old man and a 21-year-old woman were shot in the leg outside a Valley Street residence.

Wednesday night a 23-year-old man was shot in the legs while driving at Whalley Avenue and Winthrop Avenue.

Two men were shot at Winthrop and Cha-

pel on Tuesday night. One victim, 24, was hit in the ankle, the other, 22, in “the side of his torso,” accoridng to Duff. “Investigators believe the men were injured when a gunman fired multiple shots at a group of people on Winthrop Avenue near Chapel Street. The gunman fled on foot on Winthrop Avenue toward Edgewood Avenue.”

The previous Saturday, 27-year-old Luis Nelson Perez of Naugatuck was shot to death shortly before 3 a.m. on Elliott Street.

On Wednesday, June 17, a bullet apparently meant for someone else killed ex-Hillhouse hoopster Kiana Brown, 19, as she lay asleep inside a Valley Street residence.

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Kiana Rally Cry: Shooters “Stand Down”

by MAYA MCFADDEN

New Haven I ndependent

More than 100 New Haveners marched Sunday and released balloons in memory of murdered 19-year-old former Hillhouse basketball forward Kiana Brown and all other 2020 victims of gun violence.

The youth-led rally was organized by anti-violence group Ice the Beef. Family members of Kiana Brown were invited and marched with neighbors and the student-organizers.

“Please whatever information anybody, just come forward with anything please.

My baby was everything. She loved to sing, dance. She was lit,” said Kiana’s cousin Courtney Brown.

Police say Brown was asleep inside a Valley Street residence on the morning of June 17 when a bullet intended for someone else took her life.

Ice the Beef President Chaz Carmon said that a total of $2,000 has been anonymously donated for the New Haven Police Department to reward an individual who can offer a tip leading to an arrest to Brown’s killer.

The crowd chanted “S-T-O-P the violence” and “No justice no peace” while marching down Dixwell avenue to the New Haven Green.

The Board of Alders President Tyisha Walker-Myers encouraged neighbors to engage with the youth they may see out in the streets with “nothing to do.”

Walker-Myers shared condolences for the Brown family and spoke about grieving only some months ago for her sister’s son, Dashown Myers, 18, a Wilbur Cross High School football player who was fatally shot on Feb. 23 at 1435 Quinnipiac Ave. “We are at a war right now in our community. We’re trying to protect our babies. And all these people that are hurt, out there picking up these guns and taking a life. We need you to stand down,” said Walker-Myers.

Green and white balloons were donated from Party City in support of the memorialization for Kiana.

KIana’s parents marched alongside fourgenerations of the Brown family including, cousins, siblings, aunts, uncles, and great-grandparents.

“It’s all just so unfair, but this was comforting. It makes so an emotional wreck though,” said Kiana’s mother, Karen Brown.

Elaine Lester, 19, a friend of Kiana, read a poem on the Green before the balloon release. “Lord I ask that you pray for my nation, my country, but most of all my city…” she shared.

Many wore personalized T-shirts and mask with Kiana’s name and face on them.

Nyrobi Vargas, 15, an Ice the Beef member, read a poem she wrote about gun violence in 2017 after the death of 14-yearold Tyrick Keyes.

Tyrick’s mother, Demethra Telford, sent her condolences to the Sunday gathering

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from the hospital after unexpectedly being admitted for health issues. Carmon said that Telford hopes to connect with the Brown family to support them through their emotional journey of loss.

City Health Director Maritza Bond handed out masks and hand sanitizer amongst

the gathering crowd, which first met in the Stetson Branch Library rear parking lot. A dozen community activists, faith leaders, city officials, and alders marched alongside the Brown family and Dixwell neighbors to the Green for the rally.

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Kiana’s public funeral service will be on Monday at 9 a.m at the Trinity Temple Church of God in Christ.

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Lamont Offers Rental Assistance, Extends Eviction Moratorium Until Aug. 22

by Christine Stuart CT. News Junkie

HARTFORD, CT — Housing advocates stood on the steps of the state Capitol Monday and called for Gov. Ned Lamont to institute an eviction moratorium.

The current moratorium Lamont issued in April was supposed to end Tuesday, but he extended it to Aug. 22.

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There are about 170,000 renters in Connecticut who are at risk of eviction because of their inability to pay rent. That’s the number from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Part of the reason the group gathered on the steps of the Capitol was calling for a moratorium on evictions is because until Monday there had been no rental assistance available to Connecticut renters.

The housing advocates held their press conference an hour before Lamont announced $10 million in rental assistance for renters impacted by COVID-19. Priority will be on supporting lower-income households who have been denied unemployment insurance.

Another $5 million will help renters who were in the process of eviction before the declaration of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

That amount of financial aid alone is not enough for housing advocates who are calling for more — plus a moratorium on evictions.

The group called for $140 million in easyto-access rental assistance that meets the full needs of all of the state’s renters and

their landlords regardless of immigration status.

Constanza Segovia of the Hartford Deportation Defense said, “landlords have been chomping at the bit to evict our people from their homes in the middle of a pandemic.”

Selvil Alcerro lost his job due to a lack of available work during the pandemic.

He said his landlord just increased the rent that he already can’t pay because he doesn’t have a job.

“I’m without work and there’s nothing I can do,” Alcerro said through a translator.

John Souza, president of the Connecticut Coalition of Property Owners, said nobody wants to put another person on the street.

“Everyone wants to cancel rent but you can’t ask one person to take on the problems of society,” Souza said.

He said landlords are trying to work with their tenants and if government wants to do something they should offer rental assistance and open up the housing courts for speedy proceedings.

A spokeswoman for the Judicial Branch said “We are discussing various options to resolve eviction cases after the Governor’s Executive Order expires, including holding remote hearings.”

Segovia pointed out that the presence of an eviction on a person’s record will impact their ability to obtain safe housing in the future. She said people who have problems finding safe housing also usually have chronic health conditions the rest of their lives because of the unsafe spaces they have to live in.

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“The governor has to get real about the impact the eviction crisis is going to have on our communities,” Segovia said.

Melissa Marichal, an attorney with New Haven Legal Assistance, said even before COVID-19, Connecticut’s rental housing was among the least affordable in the nation.

She said working at minimum wage, a person would have to work 81 hours per week to afford a modest one-bedroom

apartment.

“Less than half of Connecticut renters have confidence they can pay July rent,” Marichal said, citing U.S. Census Bureau data.

She said the amount Lamont has promised for rental assistance will only provide help for one in 10 of the households in need.

“The state’s failure to make adequate rental assistance available particularly ignores

the scale of the need among undocumented families,” Marichal said.

She said by comparison, New Jersey has dedicated $100 million in rental assistance to its residents, Pennsylvania has designated $175 million, Illinois has earmarked $396 million, and even Vermont has committed $42 million to its renters in need.

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Lineage Group Reclaims "William Lanson Park” Lucy Gellman, Editor, The ARTS Paper www.newhavenarts.org

Dainty cups of tea were passed around in a mid-morning ritual. Ben E. King’s “Stand

By Me” floated through the air, more voices joining in at the chorus. Nearby, a granite base sat without feet on its head for the second day in 128 years.

It was a gathering fit for a New Haven king—in a park that advocates hope will one day bear his name.

Friday morning, friends and members of The Lineage Group joined each other for a sit-in and history lesson honoring William Lanson, the formerly enslaved, self-emancipated, self-taught Black engineer responsible for Long Wharf, the now-razed New Guinea neighborhood, and sections of the Farmington Canal. The event was part of the group’s RevA.A.R.T.lution (Altruistic, Ancestral, Renderings Of Truth) initiative, run by Lineage Group co-founders Malcolm Welfare and Faith Lorde, as well as Ricquel Pratt and Steve Nardini.

It doubled as a chance to honor Nate Blair and Los Fidel, both of whom were physically attacked by pro-Columbus protesters on Wednesday morning, as the statue of Christopher Columbus came down after 128 years.

Welfare organized the event after watching live streamed footage of the two being assaulted. He said he felt unease, and then deep fear and frustration, seeing raciallymotivated violence unfold in his home city. An educator and artist—in addition to the Lineage Group, he is a teacher at King Robinson School—he wanted to take the opportunity to set the historical record straight.

“I was just floored and jarred with energy that reminded me of Civil Rights-era, Jim Crow-era terror and fears,” he said. “I was inspired to do something. I wanted to do something for my community to show how we can create a space of equity.”

The proposal to rename the park joins inprogress efforts of New Haven’s Amistad Committee and City Plan Commission to complete a sculpture and William Lanson Memorial Plaza closer to the Farmington Canal. Onyeka Oboicha, who lives nearby on Chapel Street, has also drafted a resolution and co-written an op-ed in favor of renaming the park.

A little after 10 a.m., Welfare and Nardini set up a three-part timeline, panels fixed to a display that looked like a long line of miniature, brown-brick row homes. On the panels was a detailed history of Lanson’s life, work in engineering, and descent into poverty as white New Haven encroached on and bought his land. Welfare credited Stetson Branch Manager Diane Brown for loaning him the panels, which she uses as a teaching tool when the branch is open to the public (it has been closed due to COVID-19 since March).

“This is so that people can understand history,” Welfare said.

The history is one still not taught in New Haven classrooms. After escaping enslavement and arriving in New Haven, Lanson was hired as a project superintendent on the

city’s then-nascent Long Wharf, a position through which he extended the wharf by almost 1,500 feet and thus solidified the city’s ability to smoothly do trade. He also built part of the retaining wall on the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail, which is still used today.

Lanson believed in integrated neighborhoods, at a time when New Haven was actively contributing to chattel slavery through both the sale of humans (the city’s last documented sale of Black people into slavery took place in March 1825, according to records kept by the New Haven Museum) and inventions like Eli Whitney’s cotton gin.

He bought land that became the city’s New Guinea neighborhood (also called New Township, according to historian Peter Hinks), located just to the east of what is now Wooster Square around Franklin Street. He sold to free and formerly enslaved Black Americans as well as white people. He also owned stables, operated the Liberian Hotel, and co-founded the Temple Street Church, now recognized as the Dixwell United Church of Christ.

In the 1830s, new racial tensions took hold of the neighborhoods Lanson had come to call home. The area was purchased by white New Havener Matthew Elliott, who built homes over what had been New Guinea. The great engineer, responsible for parts of the city’s literal foundation, died in poverty in 1851.

“As educators, it’s our duty to keep the community knowledgeable about the different things that are going on,” said Pratt, who is a guidance counselor. “He [Lanson] started this. Why not educate the people that are around, and let them know that before it was Wooster Square, William Lanson was right there, building up this space.”

Around her, walkers, Wooster Square neighbors, and parents with young kids entered the park, spotted the display, and took a few minutes to read it. On a shaded patch nearby, Blair arrived, spread out a blanket and unpacked a tea set and several bags and containers of loose leaf tea. He began to steep and pour, talking about Wednesday’s events while performing alchemy.

After five years living in the neighborhood, he said he finally feels safe and welcome walking around the park. He joked that he’s long been advocating for a stately statue of Frank Pepe, leaning down just a little over a perfectly cooked New Haven pie, instead of someone who raped, murdered and enslaved millions of Indigenous people. As if on cue, a 204 bus trundled up Chapel Street and let out a stream of honks in support of the group.

“The fact that people are coming to defend Columbus in my neighborhood means that they’re defending white supremacy in my neighborhood,” he said of Wednesday.

“And like, this isn’t New Haven. These aren’t the people of New Haven. New Haven has its problems, but not like that. I felt pretty safe coming down here [Wednesday], honestly. I had faith that people would show up and I wouldn’t be the only one there.”

Fidel, who was punched twice on Wednes-

community.”

Back at the display, Brett Hoover leaned over the history, reading it paragraph by paragraph. A digital strategist for New Haven Promise, Hoover lives on one side of the park, and walks there multiple times a day for exercise. He said he doesn’t know much about Lanson—but would like to see him getting his due around town.

“I don’t want to see anything done that people would think is disrespectful or anything, but right now it’s just Wooster Square Park, in Wooster Square,” he said.

“Might as well be Lanson Park in Wooster Square, and let people know who he is.

That’d be wonderful.”

Further down the display, Winter Carson and her 4-year-old son Logan L. looked over the history. Welfare stepped in as their guide. He leaned down to Logan to talk about a picture of the Schooner Amistad, in which he had taken a particular interest.

On the timeline, it sat squarely in a small circle, bouncing on foamy blue waves.

“What’s the name again?” he asked. “Ami-stad. Say it one more time.”

day morning, arrived and took a seat next to Blair. He recalled that on Wednesday, he had joked with his dad that he might get jumped by a bunch of angry white people.

He had been kidding. Then it happened.

“I tried to converse with them and I tried to educate them on how this statue makes me feel,” he said. “Now, I’m not about erasing their history. If that means a lot to you, that’s what’s up. Put that shit in your house and praise it. Put that shit in a museum and praise it. But I don’t want to see it.”

As more attendees took a seat in the circle, they dipped into a discussion in reeducating New Haveners on the history of race and racism, undoing white supremacy, and weaving the history of Lanson into the park. On the far side of the group, lifelong New Haveners Brandon Lawrence and Celina F.A. (she asked that her full last name not be used) said they are in full support of renaming the park.

Neither of them were able to make it on Wednesday, and arrived Friday to reclaim the space with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and ziplock bags of pistachios and fresh strawberries. They said they wanted to get a crash course in Lanson, whose name had never come up in their time as students in the city’s public schools.

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“Rename it please,” Lawrence said. “I support the renaming wholeheartedly.”

F.A., who is preparing to start graduate courses in social work, said she also wanted to celebrate: she’d watched Wednesday’s events on WTNH’s website and still felt overcome by emotion two days later.

“I pass white, but I’m half Mexican on my dad’s side and Puerto Rican on my mom’s side,” she said. “I told Brandon, ‘get the tequila, get the rum.’ We took shots. It was honestly very joyous and honestly, for me, a very emotional moment.”

F.A. grew up in New Haven and attended Worthington Hooker School as a kid. When her dad saw how little of her own history she was getting, he gave her a copy of Carlos Fuentes’ The Buried Mirror, through which she learned about the rape and genocide that accompanied colonization. She later learned about the history of Italians too, including the fact that the Columbus mythology was part of their assimilation to whiteness in America.

“This is a way for us to really come together, and say, look: we’ve been oppressed not in the same ways but in different ways, and we can find these moments to grow together and heal together,” she said. “As a

Jensen Davila, who grew up in the Church Street South apartments, said he was excited at the prospect of Lanson Park. As both a dad and a Puerto Rican, he wants his kids to grow up knowing a complete history of New Haven and the United States, including the people of color who built its foundations and then were erased from the historical record.

“I always try to tell people, like, racism is something that, it’s kind of like anger toward somebody, or maybe you’re scared of that person,” he said. “But it’s not, something real. You’re just scared of somebody else.”

Nearby, educator Tai Olasanoye had taken out his guitar and started to play Green Day’s “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” and Ben E. King’s “Stand By Me.” Earlier in the day, he had joked that Rocky Balboa would make a more fitting presence than Christopher Columbus. Now, he strummed softly. When he realized he didn’t have the lyrics to the second tune, he asked other attendees to join in.

Phones came out. Voices rose, carrying the lyrics—So darlin’, darlin’, stand by me!— across the space. For Olasanoye, it was also a reclamation: he had come Wednesday after seeing Blair and Fidel get beaten up. Moments after he played for the group, Fidel climbed onto the statue’s base, which is now empty.

“I think the community can come up with something that’s a way better representative of what America should be,” Olasanoye said.

Back at the display, Welfare said that he plans to keep going with the proposal to rename the park. He said that he will be talking to both the Amistad Committee and Board of Alders in the weeks to come.

“That’s what I want to see,” he said.

“Conte School. Wooster Street. And Lanson Park.”

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Friday In The Park With Elicker

byTHOMAS BREEN & KO LYN CHEANG New Haven I ndependent

Two days after getting attacked at the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue, Los Fidel returned to Wooster Square Park — and ended up face to face with Mayor Justin Elicker for a heated two hour-long discussion.

That discussion, followed by an issuefocused exchange with Black Lives Matter leaders and other activists, took place in the park late Friday afternoon.

Two days earlier, hundreds of New Haveners and suburbanites on different sides of the issue watched, cheered, and at times clashed as the city removed the Columbus statue.

The park was relatively quieter Friday afternoon. A 29-year-old man named Carlos Burgos (pictured), who goes by Los Fidel, returned to the park with 30 supporters to protest what happened earlier this week: Amid racist epithets against Fidel and a fellow supporter of the statue’s removal, an anti-removal protester punched Fidel in the back of the head. Fidel hit the man back as the attacker’s colleagues began chasing and taunting him, until police separated them.

Fidel and his supporters argued that the attacker should have been arrested and a cop should have been fired for how he dealt with Fidel.

At around 5 p.m. Friday, Elicker showed up at the park, unannounced and unaccompanied, to talk with the protesters.

Fidel asked why Elicker hadn’t shown up at the park on Wednesday during the standoff and removal of the statue. “You should have been here,” he said. “Everyone makes mistakes, and I make mistakes,” Elicker responded. In retrospect, Elicker said, he should have been in Wooster Square rather than in his office at City Hall on Wednesday.

Sitting on the grass in a circle with the group, Elicker spent most of the first hour listening to Fidel tell his story, interspersed with critiques of the mayor. “Where’s your secret service?” Fidel asked at one point.

Elicker said he didn’t come with protection.

“I’m just out here with you all.”

Fidel spotted a police officer biking by.

He asked the officer if he was doing his job.

The officer kept biking.

“Fuck you!” Fidel told Elicker at one point when the mayor disagreed with him.

“That’s not respectful,” Elicker responded.

Fidel called it disrespectful to have police officers nearby. “Call Chief Perez to tell them to get the fuck out of here.” The police chief’s name is Otoniel Reyes.

“I’m looking at the fucking white devil,” Fidel said at another point. He then apologized for his manner, and wiped away tears as he recounted getting punched in the back of the head and having slurs shouted at him Wednesday.

Fidel spoke of many times he has been arrested over the years, for charges including felony possession of a deadly weapon and driving under the influence. He said his first arrest came at 13, and that the deadly weap-

Towards the end of Friday’s group conversation.

on charge had to do with fishing equipment and was exaggerated by police.

He expressed how he has felt traumatized by law enforcement growing up in Bridgeport and living in New Haven for over 15 years.

“I’m a felon. I’ve been arrested for things I didn’t do my whole life,” Fidel said. He said law enforcement has falsely targeted him. “I stabbed somebody in self-defense.”

He said he was charged with operating a “drug factory,” when in fact, he said, he had less than an ounce of marijuana at his place. (According to court records, he has been found guilty of second-degree assault, probation violation, larceny, and reckless endangerment, among other offenses.)

Fidel said he currently splits his time between New Haven and Hamden, and that he stopped going by Carlos Burgos several years ago after he had a child and decided to turn his life around.

He pointed to his shirt, showing a long list of names of Black and brown people who have been killed by police in recent years.

“I’m not anti-police,” he said. “I’m antipolice brutality. I want them to do their job the way they’re supposed to.”

After about an hour, other people present spoke with Elicker, asking him to support fundamental changes in the criminal justice system.

Juan Eastman began talking to the mayor about how police departments gain revenue by collecting fines.

“Disband police officers that have lost their legitimacy because they are working as an occupying force and stealing wealth from African-American communities,” Eastman said.

“New Haven voted for you. What difference are you going to make for us?” another member of the crowd asked.

Elicker said that he is prioritizing moving along appointments and seating the police

KO LYN CHEANG PHOTO Lillian Reyes shows the mayor the Facebook page of the man she believes attacked Fidel on Wednesday.

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Civilian Review Board. The mayor noted that the issue is “in the hands of the Board of Alders now and is going to take a couple of months.”

“I think there are opportunities to civilianize the police force,” Elicker said. He said he sees opportunities to have police officers show up to fewer calls, which can be diverted to other responders.

Elicker chatted with more of the people present, including some who weren’t with the original group. The discussion grew less heated. Some shook the mayor’s hand and thanked him for showing up.

Organizer Ala Ochumare of Black Lives Matter New Haven showed up at 6:20 p.m. and began speaking with the mayor. She spoke about how white people were “abusing black bodies” at the Wednesday event, and then were able to walk away.

“If we were pushing back, we would have been” arrested, she said about what happened Wednesday in the park.

“You have the power to make changes,” Ochumare told Elicker.

She said the police department’s no-chase policy needs to be enforced. “You chase us until we crash, or never come out alive again.”

Ochumare said the city does not need “community policing,” but instead needs to defund the police and redirect those public monies towards social services like education, housing, and health care.

“We all can name you two or three people who have been abused or harassed by the police,” she said. “We don’t want or need community policing. Those people abuse us.”

Ochumare called on the mayor to support the opening of new rooming houses as a way to provide affordable shelter for New Haven’s homeless youth. The mayor promised to meet with Ochumare and other Black Lives Matter activists to discuss their demands.

“I respect you for being here,” said another person present. “Being from Bridgeport, Mayor [Joe] Ganim would never be here.” The comment elicited applause from the crowd for Elicker showing up to talk.

“What is your plan for what happens next?”

Fidel asked.

Elicker spoke about addressing police accountability, use of force policies, public education, affordable housing — including suburban housing barriers. Fidel nodded.

“I hear over and over — people are tired of waiting. I get that. I can’t control what other politicians have done. I can control what I do. I’m going to work hard. I know you’re all saying, ‘Yeah right!’ So be it.

Some things I can accomplish. Some things I’ll need help with.”

“We’ll back you up,” said another member of the crowd named Raymond Smokes.

WTNH showed up and interviewed Fidel.

“I feel we won a tiny battle” today, Fidel said. “The war is not over.”

At 7:08, Elicker said he was taking off to spend some time with his kids, and he and Fidel shook hands.

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State Hands Down Advice For School Reopenings

by Christine Stuart CT. News Junkie

HARTFORD, CT — The state Department of Education released a 50-page document Monday detailing guidance for local school districts to use when schools reopen in the fall.

The document outlines how face coverings should be worn, how bathrooms should be cleaned and it begins to detail what will happen if families decided not to send their children to school.

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“We know that one approach is not always best in all communities so we are listening to how districts consider this and trying to share best practices there to mitigate not only the distance learning and not only making sure that children can learn remotely, but also balancing the responsibilities of teachers who will also have students in front of them,” Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona said Monday during a press briefing.

The state decided it was best to fully reopen school in the fall and the announcement has been controversial.

However, the document follows advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics which said it “strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school.”

“Lengthy time away from school and

associated interruption of supportive services often results in social isolation, making it difficult for schools to identify and address important learning deficits as well as child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation,” the AAP added.

Gov. Ned Lamont said they took that advice and those assumptions into consideration when drafting the document.

“Any parent or any child who doesn’t feel comfortable going back into the classroom, we’re going to make accommodations for them to stay at home,” Lamont said Monday.

The guidance says the requirements that must be usually be met for a student to not participate in learning on school premises are being lifted for now. Parents and guardians may choose for students to temporarily engage in learning from home for medical or a variety of other reasons.

Cardona said remote learning will be an option for parents, but if a parent decides to start the school year with remote learning, they may change their minds later.

“We’ll open our door to students when parents are comfortable sending them to our schools,” Cardona said.

He said there is no time period attached to that guidance.

How well did remote learning go?

The SDE released a survey earlier this month which found: “Over 74 percent of all students (approximately 391,000

Gov. Ned Lamont and Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona Monday on a conference call

students) are fully participating in the distance learning offerings of the district. Another 14 percent (approximately 76,000 students) are partially participating, 8 percent are minimally participating (approximately 40,000 students), and 4 percent have not participated (approximately 21,000 students).”

The document didn’t define “participation” or “engagement.”

The document released Monday said that “During the remote learning period, nearly 75 percent of students participated

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It’s unclear how that information was obtained, but the guidance asks teachers to do an assessment of the educational losses students may have experienced.

“There is no single, “magic-bullet” assessment — whether screening or diagnostic or summative — that can meet the needs of all stakeholders and satisfy all purposes,” the document states.

Students will also be returning in the fall with some social-emotional baggage.

“Over 17 percent of students across the state experienced family, health, and trauma barriers to greater participation in remote learning,” the document released Monday said.

Connecticut Education Association (CEA) President Jeff Leake and AFT Connecticut President Jan Hochadel said the document “at first glance it appears incomplete at best. We have yet to find any reference to empowering local or regional districts with the resources clearly needed to implement the sort of in-person learning plan outlined.”

The two largest teacher unions in the state said the document “appears to pass the proverbial ‘buck’ for reopening buildings to local school superintendents and board members who already face difficult budgetary choices.”

The document released Monday also laid out more specifics about transportation and mask-wearing that were mentioned last week.

The mask policy asks schools to set clear guidelines for when they should be worn and it also asks them to “develop a consistent policy to address mask breaks throughout the day.” It also suggested staff working with children who can’t wear masks to be provided with “increased protective equipment, including but not limited to medical-grade masks and disposable gowns.”

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Winfield, Murphy Press “Juneteenth” Agenda

by MALIYA ELLIS

A New Haven state senator joined with one of the state’s U.S. senators Monday to pump Connecticut’s “Juneteenth Agenda” to address police accountability and systemic racism.

State Sen. Gary Winfield and U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy did that in a conversation streamed via Facebook Live. They were joined by Hartford State Rep. Brandon McGee. The panelists discussed the Juneteenth Agenda — which Winfield, as Judiciary Committee co-chair, aims to shepherd through an upcoming special session of the state legislature — and barriers to change in Connecticut. They also fielded live questions from an audience of over 200 viewers.

The Juneteenth Agenda, named after the holiday that celebrates the freeing of the last slaves in the country on June 19th, 1865, is a far-reaching list of policy objectives that aim to address police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd and many others, as well as address underlying systemic issues that contribute to racist outcomes.

The list of proposed reforms is extensive, ranging from banning chokeholds, limiting officers’ immunity from misconduct suits, and requiring police body cameras; to changing school curricula to include African-American and Native-American histories, investing in affordable hous-

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by SEAN O’BRIEN

ing, and supporting minority-owned businesses. The agenda also seeks to address racial health inequities revealed and deepened by the Covid pandemic, as well as to declare Juneteenth a state holiday. Murphy, Winfield, and McGee all expressed their support for the wide-ranging scope of the agenda, and for its speedy implementation. McGee said police accountability reform is only part of addressing the “roots” of systemic racism: “We must also address the underlying inequities legitimized by many of the laws we have on the books.”

Murphy brought up further evidence of system-level racism across the state, referencing a CT Mirror article about exclusionary zoning and a lack of affordable housing in Weston. Murphy also mentioned a lack of minority representation among police officers statewide, as well as the assignment of officers in schools.

“It’s a no-brainer,” said Murphy, regarding removing school resource officers.

In response to audience questions, the panelists acknowledged the rise of highly segregated schools, in which student bodies are at least 80 percent white, as well as the unequal impact of the pandemic felt by minority communities, as other outcomes of systemic racism. According to Murphy, the number of highly segregated schools in the state have nearly doubled in the last 15 years.

McGee called for speedy and “robust”

change through state legislation, but acknowledged that not everyone is “kumbaya, let’s change the world” regarding structural change.

Winfield similarly referred to 2017 legislation regarding affordable housing reform and a 2018 bill regarding transparency and desegregation, both of which did not pass. “If people are serious about

this, it will be reflected in policy” this year, he said In response to viewers’ questions, the panelists clarified that the Juneteenth Agenda, a state-level reform plan, is different from the Justice in Policing Act, a federal bill. Murphy emphasized that though the federal bill can incentivize state and local governments to change,

the most concrete reforms happen in the state legislature.

The Juneteenth Agenda will inform State Democrats’ legislation proposals, to be addressed at a Special Session of the General Assembly in the month of July.

Said Murphy: “We’ve been talking about this for 20 years. It’s just a question of political will.”

As has been well documented, America’s leading universities profited from slavery and have deep roots in colonialism. Dozens of schools have acknowledged their roots in racism and slavery, long before the current wave of Black Lives Matter protests.

The awful murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and many others should not have been required to start an honest conversation about race in America. What will it take to galvanize the process at Yale?

Renaming Yale is a small but required step in the right direction and Yale University president Peter Salovey knows exactly why. As he states, “Mr. Floyd’s death follows a pattern of racial injustice that has become too familiar in our country and that amounts to a national emergency….

George Floyd’s horrifying death shocks our shared conscience and indicts our shared failure. It can and must remind us of other similar killings and of the racism, nativism, and bigotry too pervasive in society today and throughout our country’s history.”

Salovey goes on to acknowledge that “members of our community feel fear in their daily lives because of the injustices they have experienced and witnessed… fear so reliably leads to anxiety, depression, health deterioration, and anger, and also to

aggression and even violence.”

We’ve seen this anger bubble up at Yale before. It took bravery and action for Corey Menafee to remove the “racist, very degrading” imagery of slavery that flanked his working life at Yale.

It took student outrage and grassroots organizing to change the name of Calhoun College, with Yale fighting to preserve the namesake of slavery’s most ardent defender at every step.

Rather than leading by action, Salovey infamously stated “the name of Calhoun College will remain,” choosing to sit on the fence of the issue and be burned by both sides. Instead of standing on the right side of history as the ground obviously moved beneath its feet, Yale chose minor changes like removing the title of “master” in an effort to safeguard the cashflow from Calhoun alumni. When the writing was on the wall and and a new name became inescapable, the university predictably leaned into the change and promoted itself as a bastion of progress.

Yale continues to dance around the perimeter of the racial divide, quietly altering reminders of its legacy. The history of indigenous oppression and genocide is whitewashed by sheepishly deciding to alter and

then remove stone carvings.

Such actions are as inadequate as a salad on the McDonald’s menu and the purpose is just as transparent. Transformation at Yale is on the horizon, and I’m afraid that a few gutted gargoyles aren’t going to stop it.

This week’s removal of the Columbus statue in Wooster Square was inevitable and the conflict was predictably messy. Racism was not just present via echoes of the past, it was embodied in the ugly words and actions of the statue’s defenders.

As an Irish and Italian American who grew up in East Haven and now lives in Morris Cove, I know the pro-Columbus arguments. I understand the deep-seated feeling of connection with America’s founding myth, the desire of my ancestors to prove their whiteness, their “nativeness,” and their value in a country filled with hatred for the immigrants who arrived in the 19th Century.

There are two facts that supersede all of this. The first is that Columbus was a terrible colonizer and an awful human being, carrying out atrocities against indigenous people and enslaving them.

The second is that I myself am the product of white privilege, regardless of when my ancestors arrived in the U.S., benefiting

from the long history of genocide, racism, and colonization that began with Columbus.

Though nearly two centuries separate Elihu Yale and Christopher Columbus, the similarities between the two men attest to the unbroken thread of European colonialism in American history.

We can’t just dismiss these figures as “products of their time”, incapable of avoiding the brutality of their respective ages. Just as Columbus was investigated for his tyranny and torture during his lifetime, Yale was notorious for ruling with an iron fist, violently suppressing revolts as governor of Fort Saint George in India.

During a 2005 visit by then-president of Yale Richard Levin, the Indian press was quick to remind us that “[Elihu] Yale was also notorious for arresting and trying Indians on his own private authority, including the hanging of a stable boy who had absconded with a [British East India] Company horse.”

There is no ambiguity here. The records of Fort Saint George indicate that Yale sentenced “black Criminalls” accused of burglary to be branded, whipped, and enslaved.

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Yale Must Change Its Name

“Nothing is known about the boy on the right, who has just finished pouring Madeira (a sweet, fortified wine) into the glasses on the table… the silver collar and padlock around his neck indicate that he is enslaved.”

So begins the curator’s comment for a portrait of Elihu Yale, one of three paintings in Yale University’s collection that depicts a slave attending to Elihu the slavemaster.

Slavery is as inseparable from Elihu as these paintings depict. Such a namesake is a liability for Yale the institution. By that I mean a billion-dollar brand, one of the most prestigious universities in the world, an affiliated college in Singapore, and a huge healthcare network. This “open secret” is a ticking timebomb. It is about to go off. #CancelYale trended this past week on social media, having started as a trolling of liberal elites by conservative influencers.

One example: “For an institution that prides itself on its so called progressivism, why has Yale not yet distanced itself from its namesake - a notorious slave trader?!”

To Yale’s chagrin, they have a point. It must be difficult to take a cold, hard look in the mirror when your face is covered in blood.

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Until that year, day, hour, arrive, With head, and heart, and hand I’ll strive, To break the rod, and rend the gyve, The spoiler of his prey deprive- So witness Heaven! And never from my chosen post, Whate’er the peril or the cost, Be driven.

by Frederick Douglass July 5, 1852

Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day.

A feeling has crept over me, quite unfavorable to the exercise of my limited powers of speech. The task before me is one which requires much previous thought and study for its proper performance. I know that apologies of this sort are generally considered flat and unmeaning. I trust, however, that mine will not be so considered. Should I seem at ease, my appearance would much misrepresent me. The little experience I have had in addressing public meetings, in country schoolhouses, avails me nothing on the present occasion.

The papers and placards say, that I am to deliver a 4th [of] July oration. This certainly sounds large, and out of the common way, for it is true that I have often had the privilege to speak in this beautiful Hall, and to address many who now honor me with their presence. But neither their familiar faces, nor the perfect gage I think I have of Corinthian Hall, seems to free me from embarrassment.

The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to-day is, to me, a matter of astonishment as well as of gratitude. You will not, therefore, be surprised, if in what I have to say. I evince no elaborate preparation, nor grace my speech with any high sounding exordium. With little experience and with less learning, I have been able to throw my thoughts hastily and imperfectly together; and trusting to your patient and generous indulgence, I will proceed to lay them before you.

This, for the purpose of this celebration, is the 4th of July. It is the birthday of your National Independence, and of your political freedom. This, to you, is what the Passover was to the emancipated people of God. It carries your minds back to the day, and to the act of your great deliverance; and to the signs, and to the wonders, associated with that act, and that day. This celebration also marks the beginning of another year of your national life; and reminds you that the

Republic of America is now 76 years old. I am glad, fellow-citizens, that your nation is so young. Seventy-six years, though a good old age for a man, is but a mere speck in the life of a nation. Three score years and ten is the allotted time for individual men; but nations number their years by thousands. According to this fact, you are, even now, only in the beginning of your national career, still lingering in the period of childhood. I repeat, I am glad this is so. There is hope in the thought, and hope is much needed, under the dark clouds which lower above the horizon. The eye of the reformer is met with angry flashes, portending disastrous times; but his heart may well beat lighter at the thought that America is young, and that she is still in the impressible stage of her existence. May he not hope that high lessons of wisdom, of justice and of truth, will yet give direction to her destiny? Were the nation older, the patriot’s heart might be sadder, and the reformer’s brow heavier. Its future might be shrouded in gloom, and the hope of its prophets go out in sorrow. There is consolation in the thought that America is young. Great streams are not easily turned from channels, worn deep in the course of ages. They may sometimes rise in quiet and stately majesty, and inundate the land, refreshing and fertilizing the earth with their mysterious properties. They may also rise in wrath and fury, and bear away, on their angry waves, the accumulated wealth of years of toil and hardship. They, however, gradually flow back to the same old channel, and flow on as serenely as ever. But, while the river may not be turned aside, it may dry up, and leave nothing behind but the withered branch, and the unsightly rock, to howl in the abyss-sweeping wind, the sad tale of departed glory. As with rivers so with nations.

Fellow-citizens, I shall not presume to dwell at length on the associations that cluster about this day. The simple story of it is that, 76 years ago, the people of this country were British subjects. The style and title of your “sovereign people” (in which you now glory) was not then born.

You were under the British Crown. Your fathers esteemed the English Government as the home government; and England as the fatherland. This home government, you know, although a considerable distance from your home, did, in the exercise of its parental prerogatives, impose upon its colonial children, such restraints, burdens and limitations, as, in its mature judgment, it deemed wise, right and proper.

But, your fathers, who had not adopted

the fashionable idea of this day, of the infallibility of government, and the absolute character of its acts, presumed to differ from the home government in respect to the wisdom and the justice of some of those burdens and restraints. They went so far in their excitement as to pronounce the measures of government unjust, unreasonable, and oppressive, and altogether such as ought not to be quietly submitted to. I scarcely need say, fellow-citizens, that my opinion of those measures fully accords with that of your fathers. Such a declaration of agreement on my part would not be worth much to anybody. It would, certainly, prove nothing, as to what part I might have taken, had I lived during the great controversy of 1776. To say now that America was right, and England wrong, is exceedingly easy. Everybody can say it; the dastard, not less than the noble brave, can flippantly discant on the tyranny of England towards the American Colonies.

It is fashionable to do so; but there was a time when to pronounce against England, and in favor of the cause of the colonies, tried men’s souls. They who did so were accounted in their day, plotters of mischief, agitators and rebels, dangerous men. To side with the right, against the wrong, with

the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor! here lies the merit, and the one which, of all others, seems unfashionable in our day. The cause of liberty may be stabbed by the men who glory in the deeds of your fathers. But, to proceed.

Feeling themselves harshly and unjustly treated by the home government, your fathers, like men of honesty, and men of spirit, earnestly sought redress. They petitioned and remonstrated; they did so in a decorous, respectful, and loyal manner.

Their conduct was wholly unexceptionable. This, however, did not answer the purpose. They saw themselves treated with sovereign indifference, coldness and scorn.

Yet they persevered. They were not the men to look back.

As the sheet anchor takes a firmer hold, when the ship is tossed by the storm, so did the cause of your fathers grow stronger, as it breasted the chilling blasts of kingly displeasure. The greatest and best of British statesmen admitted its justice, and the loftiest eloquence of the British Senate came to its support. But, with that blindness which seems to be the unvarying characteristic of tyrants, since Pharaoh and his hosts were drowned in the Red Sea, the British Gov-

ernment persisted in the exactions complained of.

The madness of this course, we believe, is admitted now, even by England; but we fear the lesson is wholly lost on our present ruler.

Oppression makes a wise man mad. Your fathers were wise men, and if they did not go mad, they became restive under this treatment. They felt themselves the victims of grievous wrongs, wholly incurable in their colonial capacity. With brave men there is always a remedy for oppression.

Just here, the idea of a total separation of the colonies from the crown was born! It was a startling idea, much more so, than we, at this distance of time, regard it. The timid and the prudent (as has been intimated) of that day, were, of course, shocked and alarmed by it.

Such people lived then, had lived before, and will, probably, ever have a place on this planet; and their course, in respect to any great change, (no matter how great the good to be attained, or the wrong to be redressed by it), may be calculated with as much precision as can be the course of the stars. They hate all changes, but silver, gold and copper change! Of this sort of change they are always strongly in favor.

These people were called Tories in the days of your fathers; and the appellation, probably, conveyed the same idea that is meant by a more modern, though a somewhat less euphonious term, which we often find in our papers, applied to some of our old politicians.

Their opposition to the then dangerous thought was earnest and powerful; but, amid all their terror and affrighted vociferations against it, the alarming and revolutionary idea moved on, and the country with it.

On the 2d of July, 1776, the old Continental Congress, to the dismay of the lovers of ease, and the worshipers of property, clothed that dreadful idea with all the authority of national sanction. They did so in the form of a resolution; and as we seldom hit upon resolutions, drawn up in our day whose transparency is at all equal to this, it may refresh your minds and help my story if I read it. “Resolved, That these united colonies are, and of right, ought to be free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, dissolved.”

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God speed the year of jubilee The wide world o’er When from their galling chains set free, Th’ oppress’d shall vilely bend the knee, And wear the yoke of tyranny Like brutes no more. That year will come, and freedom’s reign, To man his plundered rights again Restore.

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God speed the day when human blood Shall cease to flow! In every clime be understood, The claims of human brotherhood, And each return for evil, good, Not blow for blow; That day will come all feuds to end. And change into a faithful friend Each foe.

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Citizens, your fathers made good that resolution. They succeeded; and to-day you reap the fruits of their success. The freedom gained is yours; and you, therefore, may properly celebrate this anniversary. The 4th of July is the first great fact in your nation’s history—the very ring-bolt in the chain of your yet undeveloped destiny.

Pride and patriotism, not less than gratitude, prompt you to celebrate and to hold it in perpetual remembrance. I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

From the round top of your ship of state, dark and threatening clouds may be seen.

Heavy billows, like mountains in the distance, disclose to the leeward huge forms of flinty rocks! That bolt drawn, that chain broken, and all is lost. Cling to this day— cling to it, and to its principles, with the grasp of a storm-tossed mariner to a spar at midnight.

The coming into being of a nation, in any circumstances, is an interesting event. But, besides general considerations, there were peculiar circumstances which make the advent of this republic an event of special attractiveness.

The whole scene, as I look back to it, was simple, dignified and sublime.

The population of the country, at the time, stood at the insignificant number of three millions. The country was poor in the munitions of war. The population was weak and scattered, and the country a wilderness unsubdued. There were then no means of concert and combination, such as exist now. Neither steam nor lightning had then been reduced to order and discipline. From the Potomac to the Delaware was a journey of many days. Under these, and innumerable other disadvantages, your fathers declared for liberty and independence and triumphed.

Fellow Citizens, I am not wanting in respect for the fathers of this republic. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men. They were great men too—great enough to give fame to a great age. It does not often happen to a nation to raise, at one time, such a number of truly great men. The point from which I am compelled to view them is not, certainly, the most favorable; and yet I cannot contemplate their great deeds with less than admi-

ration. They were statesmen, patriots and heroes, and for the good they did, and the principles they contended for, I will unite with you to honor their memory.

They loved their country better than their own private interests; and, though this is not the highest form of human excellence, all will concede that it is a rare virtue, and that when it is exhibited, it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country, is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise.

Your fathers staked their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, on the cause of their country. In their admiration of liberty, they lost sight of all other interests.

They were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression.

They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was “settled” that was not right.

With them, justice, liberty and humanity were “final”; not slavery and oppression.

You may well cherish the memory of such men. They were great in their day and generation. Their solid manhood stands out the more as we contrast it with these degenerate times.

How circumspect, exact and proportionate were all their movements! How unlike the politicians of an hour! Their statesmanship looked beyond the passing moment, and stretched away in strength into the distant future. They seized upon eternal principles, and set a glorious example in their defense.

Mark them!

Fully appreciating the hardship to be encountered, firmly believing in the right of their cause, honorably inviting the scrutiny of an on-looking world, reverently appealing to heaven to attest their sincerity, soundly comprehending the solemn responsibility they were about to assume, wisely measuring the terrible odds against them, your fathers, the fathers of this republic, did, most deliberately, under the inspiration of a glorious patriotism, and with a sublime faith in the great principles of justice and freedom, lay deep the cornerstone of the national superstructure, which has risen and still rises in grandeur around you.

Of this fundamental work, this day is the anniversary. Our eyes are met with demonstrations of joyous enthusiasm. Banners and pennants wave exultingly on the breeze. The din of business, too, is hushed.

Even Mammon seems to have quitted his

grasp on this day. The ear-piercing fife and the stirring drum unite their accents with the ascending peal of a thousand church bells. Prayers are made, hymns are sung, and sermons are preached in honor of this day; while the quick martial tramp of a great and multitudinous nation, echoed back by all the hills, valleys and mountains of a vast continent, bespeak the occasion one of thrilling and universal interests nation’s jubilee.

Friends and citizens, I need not enter further into the causes which led to this anniversary. Many of you understand them better than I do. You could instruct me in regard to them. That is a branch of knowledge in which you feel, perhaps, a much deeper interest than your speaker. The causes which led to the separation of the colonies from the British crown have never lacked for a tongue. They have all been taught in your common schools, narrated at your firesides, unfolded from your pulpits, and thundered from your legislative halls, and are as familiar to you as household words. They form the staple of your national poetry and eloquence.

I remember, also, that, as a people, Americans are remarkably familiar with all facts which make in their own favor. This is esteemed by some as a national trait—perhaps a national weakness. It is a fact, that whatever makes for the wealth or for the reputation of Americans, and can be had cheap! will be found by Americans. I shall not be charged with slandering Americans, if I say I think the American side of any question may be safely left in American hands.

I leave, therefore, the great deeds of your fathers to other gentlemen whose claim to have been regularly descended will be less likely to be disputed than mine!

THE PRESENT. My business, if I have any here to-day, is with the present. The accepted time with God and his cause is the ever-living now.

“Trust no future, however pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead; Act, act in the living present, Heart within, and God overhead.”

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future. To all inspiring motives, to noble deeds which can be gained from the past, we are welcome. But now is the time, the important time. Your fathers have lived, died, and have done their work, and have

done much of it well. You live and must die, and you must do your work. You have no right to enjoy a child’s share in the labor of your fathers, unless your children are to be blest by your labors. You have no right to wear out and waste the hardearned fame of your fathers to cover your indolence. Sydney Smith tells us that men seldom eulogize the wisdom and virtues of their fathers, but to excuse some folly or wickedness of their own. This truth is not a doubtful one. There are illustrations of it near and remote, ancient and modern.

It was fashionable, hundreds of years ago, for the children of Jacob to boast, we have “Abraham to our father,” when they had long lost Abraham’s faith and spirit. That people contented themselves under the shadow of Abraham’s great name, while they repudiated the deeds which made his name great. Need I remind you that a similar thing is being done all over this country to-day? Need I tell you that the Jews are not the only people who built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous? Washington could not die till he had broken the chains of his slaves.

Yet his monument is built up by the price of human blood, and the traders in the bodies and souls of men, shout—“We have Washington to our father.” Alas! that it should be so; yet so it is.

“The evil that men do, lives after them, The good is oft-interred with their bones.”

“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence?”

Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here today? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us?

Would to God, both for your sakes and ours, that an affirmative answer could be truthfully returned to these questions! Then would my task be light, and my burden easy and delightful. For who is there so cold, that a nation’s sympathy could not warm him? Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits?

Who so stolid and selfish, that would not give his voice to swell the hallelujahs of a nation’s jubilee, when the chains of servitude had been torn from his limbs? I am not that man. In a case like that, the dumb might eloquently speak, and the “lame man leap as an hart.”

But, such is not the state of the case. I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth [of] July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn.

To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony. Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak to-day? If so, there is a parallel to your conduct. And let me warn you that it is dangerous to copy the example of a nation whose crimes, lowering up to heaven, were thrown down by the breath of the Almighty, burying that nation in irrecoverable ruin! I can to-day take up the plaintive lament of a peeled and woe-smitten people!

“By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yea! we wept when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that carried us away captive, required of us a song; and they who wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How can we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.”

Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!” To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the Con’t on page14

God speed the hour, the glorious hour, When none on earth Shall exercise a lordly power, Nor in a tyrant’s presence cower; But all to manhood’s stature tower,By equal birth! THAT HOUR WILL, COME, to each, to all, And from his prison-house, the thrall Go forth.

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world. My subject, then fellow-citizens, is AMERICAN SLAVERY. I shall see, this day, and its popular characteristics, from the slave’s point of view. Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery—the great sin and shame of America!

“I will not equivocate; I will not excuse”; I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just.

But I fancy I hear some one of my audience say, it is just in this circumstance that you and your brother abolitionists fail to make a favorable impression on the public mind.

Would you argue more, and denounce less, would you persuade more, and rebuke less, your cause would be much more likely to succeed. But, I submit, where all is plain there is nothing to be argued. What point in the anti-slavery creed would you have me argue? On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light?

Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? That point is conceded already.

Nobody doubts it. The slaveholders themselves acknowledge it in the enactment of laws for their government. They acknowledge it when they punish disobedience on the part of the slave. There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be), subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment. What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded. It is admitted in the fact that Southern statute books are covered with enactments forbidding, under severe fines and penalties, the teaching of the slave to read or to write. When you can point to any such laws, in reference to the beasts of the field, then I may consent to argue the manhood of the slave. When the dogs in your streets, when the fowls of the air, when the cattle on your hills, when the

fish of the sea, and the reptiles that crawl, shall be unable to distinguish the slave from a brute, there will I argue with you that the slave is a man!

For the present, it is enough to affirm the equal manhood of the Negro race. Is it not astonishing that, while we are ploughing, planting and reaping, using all kinds of mechanical tools, erecting houses, constructing bridges, building ships, working in metals of brass, iron, copper, silver and gold; that, while we are reading, writing and cyphering, acting as clerks, merchants and secretaries, having among us lawyers, doctors, ministers, poets, authors, editors, orators and teachers; that, while we are engaged in all manner of enterprises common to other men, digging gold in California, capturing the whale in the Pacific, feeding sheep and cattle on the hill-side, living, moving, acting, thinking, planning, living in families as husbands, wives and children, and, above all, confessing and worshipping the Christian’s God, and looking hopefully for life and immortality beyond the grave, we are called upon to prove that we are men!

Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? that he is the rightful owner of his own body? You have already declared it. Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? Is that a question for Republicans?

Is it to be settled by the rules of logic and argumentation, as a matter beset with great difficulty, involving a doubtful application of the principle of justice, hard to be understood? How should I look to-day, in the presence of Americans, dividing, and subdividing a discourse, to show that men have a natural right to freedom? speaking of it relatively, and positively, negatively, and affirmatively. To do so, would be to make myself ridiculous, and to offer an insult to your understanding. There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

What, am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters? Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood, and stained with pollution, is wrong? No! I will not. I have better employments for my time and strength than such arguments would imply.

What, then, remains to be argued? Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? There is blasphemy in the thought. That which is inhuman, cannot be divine! Who can reason on such a proposition? They that can, may; I cannot. The time for such argument is past.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not

convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could I reach the nation’s ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.

What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.

INTERNAL SLAVE TRADE. Take the American slave-trade, which, we are told by the papers, is especially prosperous just now. Ex-Senator Benton tells us that the price of men was never higher than now. He mentions the fact to show that slavery is in no danger. This trade is one of the peculiarities of American institutions.

It is carried on in all the large towns and cities in one-half of this confederacy; and millions are pocketed every year, by dealers in this horrid traffic. In several states, this trade is a chief source of wealth. It is called (in contradistinction to the foreign slave-trade) “the internal slave trade.” It is, probably, called so, too, in order to divert from it the horror with which the foreign slave-trade is contemplated. That trade has long since been denounced by this government, as piracy. It has been denounced with burning words, from the high places of the nation, as an execrable traffic. To arrest it, to put an end to it, this nation keeps a squadron, at immense cost, on the coast

of Africa. Everywhere, in this country, it is safe to speak of this foreign slave-trade, as a most inhuman traffic, opposed alike to the laws of God and of man. The duty to extirpate and destroy it, is admitted even by our DOCTORS OF DIVINITY. In order to put an end to it, some of these last have consented that their colored brethren (nominally free) should leave this country, and establish themselves on the western coast of Africa! It is, however, a notable fact that, while so much execration is poured out by Americans upon those engaged in the foreign slave-trade, the men engaged in the slave-trade between the states pass without condemnation, and their business is deemed honorable.

Behold the practical operation of this internal slave-trade, the American slavetrade, sustained by American politics and American religion. Here you will see men and women reared like swine for the market. You know what is a swine-drover? I will show you a man-drover. They inhabit all our Southern States. They perambulate the country, and crowd the highways of the nation, with droves of human stock. You will see one of these human flesh-jobbers, armed with pistol, whip and bowie-knife, driving a company of a hundred men, women, and children, from the Potomac to the slave market at New Orleans. These wretched people are to be sold singly, or in lots, to suit purchasers. They are food for the cotton-field, and the deadly sugar-mill. Mark the sad procession, as it moves wearily along, and the inhuman wretch who drives them. Hear his savage yells and his bloodchilling oaths, as he hurries on his affrighted captives! There, see the old man, with locks thinned and gray. Cast one glance, if you please, upon that young mother, whose shoulders are bare to the scorching sun, her briny tears falling on the brow of the babe in her arms. See, too, that girl of thirteen, weeping, yes! weeping, as she thinks of the mother from whom she has been torn! The drove moves tardily. Heat and sorrow have nearly consumed their strength; suddenly you hear a quick snap, like the discharge of a rifle; the fetters clank, and the chain rattles simultaneously; your ears are saluted with a scream, that seems to have torn its way to the center of your soul! The crack you heard, was the sound of the slave-whip; the scream you heard, was from the woman you saw with the babe. Her speed had faltered under the weight of her child and her chains! that gash on her shoulder tells her to move on. Follow the drove to New Orleans.

Attend the auction; see men examined like horses; see the forms of women rudely and brutally exposed to the shocking gaze of American slave-buyers. See this drove sold and separated forever; and never forget the deep, sad sobs that arose from that scattered multitude. Tell me citizens, WHERE, under the sun, you can witness a spectacle more fiendish and shocking. Yet this is but a glance at the American slave-trade, as it exists, at this moment, in the ruling part of

the United States.

I was born amid such sights and scenes.

To me the American slave-trade is a terrible reality. When a child, my soul was often pierced with a sense of its horrors. I lived on Philpot Street, Fell’s Point, Baltimore, and have watched from the wharves, the slave ships in the Basin, anchored from the shore, with their cargoes of human flesh, waiting for favorable winds to waft them down the Chesapeake. There was, at that time, a grand slave mart kept at the head of Pratt Street, by Austin Woldfolk. His agents were sent into every town and county in Maryland, announcing their arrival, through the papers, and on flaming “handbills,” headed CASH FOR NEGROES. These men were generally well dressed men, and very captivating in their manners.

Ever ready to drink, to treat, and to gamble.

The fate of many a slave has depended upon the turn of a single card; and many a child has been snatched from the arms of its mother by bargains arranged in a state of brutal drunkenness.

The flesh-mongers gather up their victims by dozens, and drive them, chained, to the general depot at Baltimore. When a sufficient number have been collected here, a ship is chartered, for the purpose of conveying the forlorn crew to Mobile, or to New Orleans. From the slave prison to the ship, they are usually driven in the darkness of night; for since the antislavery agitation, a certain caution is observed.

In the deep still darkness of midnight, I have been often aroused by the dead heavy footsteps, and the piteous cries of the chained gangs that passed our door. The anguish of my boyish heart was intense; and I was often consoled, when speaking to my mistress in the morning, to hear her say that the custom was very wicked; that she hated to hear the rattle of the chains, and the heart-rending cries. I was glad to find one who sympathized with me in my horror.

Fellow-citizens, this murderous traffic is, to-day, in active operation in this boasted republic. In the solitude of my spirit, I see clouds of dust raised on the highways of the South; I see the bleeding footsteps; I hear the doleful wail of fettered humanity, on the way to the slave-markets, where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine, knocked off to the highest bidder. There I see the tenderest ties ruthlessly broken, to gratify the lust, caprice and rapacity of the buyers and sellers of men. My soul sickens at the sight.

“Is this the land your Fathers loved, The freedom which they toiled to win?

Is this the earth whereon they moved?

Are these the graves they slumber in?”

But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented.

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Until that year, day, hour, arrive, With head, and heart, and hand I’ll strive, To break the rod, and rend the gyve, The spoiler of his prey deprive- So witness Heaven! And never from my chosen post, Whate’er the peril or the cost, Be driven.

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By an act of the American Congress, not yet two years old, slavery has been nationalized in its most horrible and revolting form. By that act, Mason & Dixon’s line has been obliterated; New York has become as Virginia; and the power to hold, hunt, and sell men, women, and children as slaves remains no longer a mere state institution, but is now an institution of the whole United States. The power is co-extensive with the Star-Spangled Banner and American Christianity. Where these go, may also go the merciless slave-hunter. Where these are, man is not sacred. He is a bird for the sportsman’s gun. By that most foul and fiendish of all human decrees, the liberty and person of every man are put in peril. Your broad republican domain is hunting ground for men. Not for thieves and robbers, enemies of society, merely, but for men guilty of no crime. Your lawmakers have commanded all good citizens to engage in this hellish sport. Your President, your Secretary of State, your lords, nobles, and ecclesiastics, enforce, as a duty you owe to your free and glorious country, and to your God, that you do this accursed thing. Not fewer than forty Americans have, within the past two years, been hunted down and, without a moment’s warning, hurried away in chains, and consigned to slavery and excruciating torture.

Some of these have had wives and children, dependent on them for bread; but of this, no account was made. The right of the hunter to his prey stands superior to the right of

marriage, and to all rights in this republic, the rights of God included! For black men there are neither law, justice, humanity, nor religion. The Fugitive Slave Law makes MERCY TO THEM, A CRIME; and bribes the judge who tries them. An American JUDGE GETS TEN DOLLARS FOR EVERY VICTIM HE CONSIGNS to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so. The oath of any two villains is sufficient, under this hell-black enactment, to send the most pious and exemplary black man into the remorseless jaws of slavery! His own testimony is nothing. He can bring no witnesses for himself. The minister of American justice is bound by the law to hear but one side; and that side, is the side of the oppressor. Let this damning fact be perpetually told. Let it be thundered around the world, that, in tyrant-killing, king-hating, peopleloving, democratic, Christian America, the seats of justice are filled with judges, who hold their offices under an open and palpable bribe, and are bound, in deciding in the case of a man’s liberty, hear only his accusers!

In glaring violation of justice, in shameless disregard of the forms of administering law, in cunning arrangement to entrap the defenseless, and in diabolical intent, this Fugitive Slave Law stands alone in the annals of tyrannical legislation. I doubt if there be another nation on the globe, having the brass and the baseness to put such a law on the statute-book. If any man in this assembly thinks differently from me in this matter, and feels able to disprove my state-

ments, I will gladly confront him at any suitable time and place he may select.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. I take this law to be one of the grossest infringements of Christian Liberty, and, if the churches and ministers of our country were not stupidly blind, or most wickedly indifferent, they, too, would so regard it.

At the very moment that they are thanking God for the enjoyment of civil and religious liberty, and for the right to worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences, they are utterly silent in respect to a law which robs religion of its chief significance, and makes it utterly worthless to a world lying in wickedness. Did this law concern the “mint, anise and cummin”— abridge the right to sing psalms, to partake of the sacrament, or to engage in any of the ceremonies of religion, it would be smitten by the thunder of a thousand pulpits. A general shout would go up from the church, demanding repeal, repeal, instant repeal!

And it would go hard with that politician who presumed to solicit the votes of the people without inscribing this motto on his banner. Further, if this demand were not complied with, another Scotland would be added to the history of religious liberty, and the stern old Covenanters would be thrown into the shade. A John Knox would be seen at every church door, and heard from every pulpit, and Fillmore would have no more quarter than was shown by Knox, to the beautiful, but treacherous queen Mary of

Scotland. The fact that the church of our country, (with fractional exceptions), does not esteem “the Fugitive Slave Law” as a declaration of war against religious liberty, implies that that church regards religion simply as a form of worship, an empty ceremony, and not a vital principle, requiring active benevolence, justice, love and good will towards man. It esteems sacrifice above mercy; psalm-singing above right doing; solemn meetings above practical righteousness. A worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind. The Bible addresses all such persons as “scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy and faith.”

THE CHURCH RESPONSIBLE. But the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors.

It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters. Many of its most eloquent Divines. who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God;

that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity.

For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! welcome atheism! welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by those Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny, and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke, put together, have done! These ministers make religion a cold and flinty-hearted thing, having neither principles of right action, nor bowels of compassion. They strip the love of God of its beauty, and leave the throng of religion a huge, horrible, repulsive form. It is a religion for oppressors, tyrants, man-stealers, and thugs. It is not that “pure and undefiled religion” which is from above, and which is “first pure, then peaceable, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.”

But a religion which favors the rich against the poor; which exalts the proud above the humble; which divides mankind into two classes, tyrants and slaves; which says to the man in chains, stay there; and to the oppressor, oppress on; it is a religion which may be professed and enjoyed by all the robbers and enslavers of mankind; it makes God a respecter of persons, denies his fatherhood of the race, and tramples in the Con’t on page 16

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Beinecke Library Always open online, always open to all 9 Visit the Beinecke Library website for video of new readings of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Oration, in which he asked, “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?”

9 9 beinecke.library.yale.edu 9 Images from the library collections: portrait of Frederick Douglass, 1860, in the Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection (JWJ MSS 54), part of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection, Beinecke Library; first printing of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

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God speed the hour, the glorious hour, When none on earth Shall exercise a lordly power, Nor in a tyrant’s presence cower; But all to manhood’s stature tower,By equal birth! THAT HOUR WILL, COME, to each, to all, And from his prison-house, the thrall Go forth.

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dust the great truth of the brotherhood of man. All this we affirm to be true of the popular church, and the popular worship of our land and nation—a religion, a church, and a worship which, on the authority of inspired wisdom, we pronounce to be an abomination in the sight of God. In the language of Isaiah, the American church might be well addressed, “Bring no more vain ablations; incense is an abomination unto me: the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth. They are a trouble to me; I am weary to bear them; and when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you. Yea! when ye make many prayers, I will not hear. YOUR HANDS ARE FULL OF BLOOD; cease to do evil, learn to do well; seek judgment; relieve the oppressed; judge for the fatherless; plead for the widow.”

The American church is guilty, when viewed in connection with what it is doing to uphold slavery; but it is superlatively guilty when viewed in connection with its ability to abolish slavery. The sin of which it is guilty is one of omission as well as of commission. Albert Barnes but uttered what the common sense of every man at all observant of the actual state of the case will receive as truth, when he declared that “There is no power out of the church that could sustain slavery an hour, if it were not sustained in it.”

Let the religious press, the pulpit, the Sunday school, the conference meeting, the great ecclesiastical, missionary, Bible and tract associations of the land array their immense powers against slavery and slaveholding; and the whole system of crime and blood would be scattered to the winds; and that they do not do this involves them in the most awful responsibility of which the mind can conceive.

In prosecuting the anti-slavery enterprise, we have been asked to spare the church, to spare the ministry; but how, we ask, could such a thing be done? We are met on the threshold of our efforts for the redemption of the slave, by the church and ministry of the country, in battle arrayed against us; and we are compelled to fight or flee. From what quarter, I beg to know, has proceeded a fire so deadly upon our ranks, during the last two years, as from the Northern pulpit? As the champions of oppressors, the chosen men of American theology have appeared-men, honored for their so-called piety, and their real learning. The LORDS of Buffalo, the SPRINGS of New York, the LATHROPS of Auburn, the COXES and SPENCERS of Brooklyn, the GANNETS and SHARPS of Boston, the DEWEYS of Washington, and other great religious lights of the land, have, in utter denial of the authority of Him, by whom the professed to he called to the ministry, deliberately taught us, against the example or the Hebrews and against the remonstrance of the Apostles, they teach “that we ought to obey man’s law before the law of God.”

My spirit wearies of such blasphemy; and how such men can be supported, as the “standing types and representatives of Jesus Christ,” is a mystery which I leave others to penetrate. In speaking of the American church, however, let it be distinctly understood that I mean the great mass of the religious organizations of our land. There are exceptions, and I thank God that there are. Noble men may be found, scattered all over these Northern States, of whom Henry Ward Beecher of Brooklyn, Samuel J. May of Syracuse, and my esteemed friend on the platform, are shining examples; and let me say further, that upon these men lies the duty to inspire our ranks with high religious faith and zeal, and to cheer us on in the great mission of the slave’s redemption from his chains.

RELIGION IN ENGLAND AND RELIGION IN AMERICA. One is struck with the difference between the attitude of the American church towards the anti-slavery movement, and that occupied by the churches in England towards a similar movement in that country. There, the church, true to its mission of ameliorating, elevating, and improving the condition of mankind, came forward promptly, bound up the wounds of the West Indian slave, and restored him to his liberty. There, the question of emancipation was a high[ly] religious question. It was demanded, in the name of humanity, and according to the law of the living God. The Sharps, the Clarksons, the Wilberforces, the Buxtons, and Burchells and the Knibbs, were alike famous for their piety, and for their philanthropy. The anti-slavery movement there was not an anti-church movement, for the reason that the church took its full share in prosecuting that movement: and the anti-slavery movement in this country will cease to be an anti-church movement, when the church of this country shall assume a favorable, instead or a hostile position towards that movement. Americans! your republican politics, not less than your republican religion, are flagrantly inconsistent. You boast of your love of liberty, your superior civilization, and your pure Christianity, while the whole political power of the nation (as embodied in the two great political parties), is solemnly pledged to support and perpetuate the enslavement of three millions of your countrymen. You hurl your anathemas at the crowned headed tyrants of Russia and Austria, and pride yourselves on your Democratic institutions, while you yourselves consent to be the mere tools and bodyguards of the tyrants of Virginia and Carolina. You invite to your shores fugitives of oppression from abroad, honor them with banquets, greet them with ovations, cheer them, toast them, salute them, protect them, and pour out your money to them like water; but the fugitives from your own land you advertise, hunt, arrest, shoot and kill. You glory in your refinement and your universal education yet you maintain a system as barbarous and dreadful as ever stained the character of a nation—a system

begun in avarice, supported in pride, and perpetuated in cruelty. You shed tears over fallen Hungary, and make the sad story of her wrongs the theme of your poets, statesmen and orators, till your gallant sons are ready to fly to arms to vindicate her cause against her oppressors; but, in regard to the ten thousand wrongs of the American slave, you would enforce the strictest silence, and would hail him as an enemy of the nation who dares to make those wrongs the subject of public discourse! You are all on fire at the mention of liberty for France or for Ireland; but are as cold as an iceberg at the thought of liberty for the enslaved of America. You discourse eloquently on the dignity of labor; yet, you sustain a system which, in its very essence, casts a stigma upon labor. You can bare your bosom to the storm of British artillery to throw off a threepenny tax on tea; and yet wring the last hard-earned farthing from the grasp of the black laborers of your country. You profess to believe “that, of one blood, God made all nations of men to dwell on the face of all the earth,” and hath commanded all men, everywhere to love one another; yet you notoriously hate, (and glory in your hatred), all men whose skins are not colored like your own. You declare, before the world, and are understood by the world to declare, that you “hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that, among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”; and yet, you hold securely, in a bondage which, according to your own Thomas Jefferson, “is worse than ages of that which your fathers rose in rebellion to oppose,” a seventh part of the inhabitants of your country.

Fellow-citizens! I will not enlarge further on your national inconsistencies. The existence of slavery in this country brands your republicanism as a sham, your humanity as a base pretence, and your Christianity as a lie. It destroys your moral power abroad; it corrupts your politicians at home. It saps the foundation of religion; it makes your name a hissing, and a by word to a mocking earth. It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union.

It fetters your progress; it is the enemy of improvement, the deadly foe of education; it fosters pride; it breeds insolence; it promotes vice; it shelters crime; it is a curse to the earth that supports it; and yet, you cling to it, as if it were the sheet anchor of all your hopes. Oh! be warned! be warned! a horrible reptile is coiled up in your nation’s bosom; the venomous creature is nursing at the tender breast of your youthful republic; for the love of God, tear away, and fling from you the hideous monster, and let the weight of twenty millions crush and destroy it forever!

THE CONSTITUTION. But it is answered in reply to all this, that precisely what I have now denounced is, in fact, guaranteed and sanctioned by the

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Constitution of the United States; that the right to hold and to hunt slaves is a part of that Constitution framed by the illustrious Fathers of this Republic.

Then, I dare to affirm, notwithstanding all I have said before, your fathers stooped, basely stooped “To palter with us in a double sense: And keep the word of promise to the ear, But break it to the heart.”

And instead of being the honest men I have before declared them to be, they were the veriest imposters that ever practiced on mankind. This is the inevitable conclusion, and from it there is no escape. But I differ from those who charge this baseness on the framers of the Constitution of the United States. It is a slander upon their memory, at least, so I believe. There is not time now to argue the constitutional question at length—nor have I the ability to discuss it as it ought to be discussed. The subject has been handled with masterly power by Lysander Spooner, Esq., by William Goodell,

by Samuel E. Sewall, Esq., and last, though not least, by Gerritt Smith, Esq. These gentlemen have, as I think, fully and clearly vindicated the Constitution from any design to support slavery for an hour.

Fellow-citizens! there is no matter in respect to which, the people of the North have allowed themselves to be so ruinously imposed upon, as that of the pro-slavery character of the Constitution. In that instrument I hold there is neither warrant, license, nor sanction of the hateful thing; but, interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

While I do not intend to argue this question on the present occasion, let me ask, if it be not somewhat singular that, if the Constitution were intended to be, by its framers and adopters, a slave-holding instrument, why neither slavery, slaveholding, nor slave can anywhere be found in it. What would be thought of an instrument, drawn up, legally drawn up, for the purpose of entitling the city of Rochester to a track of land, in which no mention of land was made? Now, there are certain rules of interpretation, for the proper understanding of all legal instruments. These rules are well established.

They are plain, common-sense rules, such as you and I, and all of us, can understand and apply, without having passed years in the study of law. I scout the idea that the question of the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of slavery is not a question for the people. I hold that every American citizen has a right to form an opinion of the constitution, and to propagate that opinion, and to use all honorable means to make his opinion the prevailing one. Without this right, the liberty of an American citizen would be as insecure as that of a Frenchman. Ex-Vice-President Dallas tells us that the constitution is an object to which no American mind can be too attentive, and no American heart too devoted. He further says, the constitution, in its words, is plain and intelligible, and is meant for the homebred, unsophisticated understandings of our fellow-citizens. Senator Berrien tell us that

the Constitution is the fundamental law, that which controls all others. The charter of our liberties, which every citizen has a personal interest in understanding thoroughly. The testimony of Senator Breese, Lewis Cass, and many others that might be named, who are everywhere esteemed as sound lawyers, so regard the constitution. I take it, therefore, that it is not presumption in a private citizen to form an opinion of that instrument.

Now, take the constitution according to its plain reading, and I defy the presentation of a single pro-slavery clause in it. On the other hand it will be found to contain principles and purposes, entirely hostile to the existence of slavery.

I have detained my audience entirely too long already. At some future period I will gladly avail myself of an opportunity to give this subject a full and fair discussion.

Allow me to say, in conclusion, notwithstanding the dark picture I have this day presented of the state of the nation, I do not despair of this country. There are forces in operation, which must inevitably work The downfall of slavery. “The arm of the Lord is not shortened,” and the doom of slavery is certain. I, therefore, leave off where I began, with hope. While drawing encouragement from the Declaration of Independence, the great principles it contains, and the genius of American Institutions, my spirit is also cheered by the obvious tendencies of the age. Nations do not now stand in the same relation to each other that they did ages ago. No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. The arm of commerce has borne away the gates of the strong city. Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. It makes its pathway over and under the sea, as well as on the earth. Wind, steam, and lightning are its chartered agents. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. From Boston to London is now a holiday excursion. Space is comparatively annihilated.

Thoughts expressed on one side of the Atlantic are, distinctly heard on the other. The far off and almost fabulous Pacific rolls in grandeur at our feet. The Celestial Empire, the mystery of ages, is being solved. The fiat of the Almighty, “Let there be Light,” has not yet spent its force. No abuse, no outrage whether in taste, sport or avarice, can now hide itself from the all-pervading light. The iron shoe, and crippled foot of China must be seen, in contrast with nature.

Africa must rise and put on her yet unwoven garment. “Ethiopia shall stretch out her hand unto God.” In the fervent aspirations of William Lloyd Garrison, I say, and let every heart join in saying it:

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OP-ED:

Past Due Time for American Healthcare System to Protect Black Americans

By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEO, National Newspaper Publishers Association

Today, Americans are facing unprecedented times. We are in the midst of a global pandemic, our country has fallen into an economic recession, and hundreds of thousands are protesting police brutality and racial injustice. But there is another epidemic in this country that must be addressed, and it must be addressed now.

CNN’s Don Lemon said it best – “there are two deadly viruses killing Americans: COVID-19 and racism.”

Because of the systematic racism that is rooted in our nation, racial disparities in American healthcare have caused illness, injury, and death in minority communities across the country. Black Americans suffer the most at the hands of the American healthcare system. Now, we are seeing COVID-19 shine a much-needed light on the harsh reality that has been plaguing an entire race for centuries.

In my own home state of North Carolina, Black Americans make up 30 percent of COVID-19 cases and 34 percent of the COVID-19 deaths, even though they only make up 22 percent of the population. Really think about that math. How does it make sense?

That means, 162 Black North Carolinians will die due to COVID-19, which is 70 more than would be expected based on the demographic makeup of the state.

That is 70 more Americans who will die just because of the color of their skin.

Unfortunately, these healthcare dispari-

ties are nothing new. Black Americans have long suffered from a severe lack of access to quality, affordable care, which predisposes them to increased rates of underlying conditions and illnesses. Due to the lack of access, Black Americans are often forced to travel very far for care.

This usually means, if they have insurance, they must go to out-of-network facilities and often find themselves hit with exorbitant surprise medical bills.

Surprise medical bills are unanticipated costs related to out-of-network or emergency care a patient received. These bills can range from a $50 prescription drug to $30,000 in emergency transport. Not surprisingly, Black Americans suffer from a higher rate of surprise medical bills, at higher costs compared to White Americans.

Congress holds the pen when it comes to reforming surprise medical billing in this country, but they are falling far short of what needs to be done. There are multiple bills in the House and the Senate that claim to rectify this injustice, but all of them still leave the cost to patients or providers without holding insurance companies accountable.

While Congress is trying to figure it out, we are seeing the administration miss the mark as well. In a Twitter thread on June 22, CMS Administrator Seema Verma may have misdiagnosed the real root of the issue – insurers. Because of the blatant and intrinsic greed, these companies are starving patients of care and putting the financial burden on their shoulders.

In a recent Congressional hearing, Dr.

Rhea Boyd, a practicing physician and healthcare scholar said, “ensuring that insurance is not a barrier to healthcare is really critical, particularly for African Americans…”

Insurance companies make billions of dollars every year by using sly tactics like skinny networks to lure consumers in and then slap them with a surprise medical bill when they go out-of-network. It is time to put a stop to insurance companies making billions off the backs of hardworking Americans.

It is clear that Senator Lamar Alexander and Representatives Frank Pallone and Greg Walden, three of the members committed to eradicating surprise medical billing, are in the pockets of Big Insurance. The bills they are sponsoring do not even bring insurance companies to the negotiating table, let alone hold them responsible.

We are halfway through 2020, and we still do not have proposed legislation that gets at the root of the surprise medical billing problem. We must get rid of

skinny networks, improve access to care, and cover emergency services. It is time for insurance companies to pay, so we can save Black lives. Black Lives Matter.

Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. is President and CEO of the National Newspaper Publishers Association based in Washington, DC. and he regularly comments on public policy issues that impact the quality of life of Black America. Dr. Chavis was the first person to coin the term “environmental racism.”

(An Independence Day Reminder)

Communities that Work Together, Win Together

By Quint Studer

Freedom, independence, self-sufficiency: these are great and glorious concepts.

We celebrate them this time of year, whether we process it that way or not, because they’re so deeply engrained in our image of America. We see ourselves as a nation of rugged individualists: seizing the bull by the horns, charting our own course, walking alone into the forest with an axe slung over our shoulder.

Yes, it’s a romantic notion. But it’s not an accurate one. America is a nation of small, tight-knit communities and always has been. The more we cooperate, share, defer to others, and work together, the more successful we are. Today, as citizens, businesses, and civic leaders seek to come back from a public health and eco-

nomic crisis, that spirit of community is more important than ever. It holds the key to our survival.

I’ve spent much of my career traveling from one American community to another. Some are bustling larger cities.

Others are quiet small towns. What they all have in common is the burning desire to revitalize themselves: to become more vibrant, prosperous, livable, and loveable than they are right now. And as I’ve worked with these diverse groups of Americans, I’ve seen a theme emerge: Those communities that work together, win together.

When citizens and leaders come together, put their self-interest on the back burner and work as a team, things get done.

When they don’t, nothing gets done.

The more you think about the myth of the self-reliant early American, the less likely it seems. Our ancestors must have huddled together in small groups and worked to protect each other from a harsh and unforgiving environment. They must have joined forces, shared what they had, and leaned on each other when times

were tough.

And on the larger stage, our nation’s founders had to work together in a similar fashion to bring America into being. They were working toward independence as a new nation, but they had to rely on interdependence to get there. And as leaders of communities of all shapes and sizes and demographics and political persuasions, we can all learn a lot from them.

Here are four big “history lessons” we should all heed as we seek to reopen, recover, rebuild, and continue making our way on journey toward vibrancy: Set aside your self-interest and create something that works for everyone.

Lots of different professions, industries, and interests were present at the birth of America. Cabinet makers weren’t fixated only on the wood industry, nor silver smiths on the silver trade. Everyone was fired up to contribute to something bigger than themselves. They bought into the overarching mission, and weren’t bogged down by endless debate over the shortterm costs of their plan.

In other words, don’t be overly con-

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cerned with your own wellbeing. Setting aside your own short-term best interests may accomplish far more for everyone in the long run. Because a rising tide lifts all boats, this includes you.

Don’t let ideological differences stop you from achieving something tangible.

Despite bitter disputes and differences of opinion, a group of people with little in common other than their shared determination that change was needed were able to get mobilized and get something done.

While there was much to be decided about the way things would function in the new nation, they all recognized that there wouldn’t even BE a new nation if they didn’t set aside their disagreements and move the ball down the court.

It’s important to know what matters.

Don’t let petty disputes about how things should get done sabotage the greater task at hand.

Don’t be constantly trying to steal the spotlight from each other. It’s okay to let someone else be “the one in charge.” No one complained that John Hancock’s signature was bigger than theirs, or that so-

and-so got to sign the Declaration before they did. (Okay, it’s possible, but we can see by the document that resides in the National Archives that it got done anyway!) The founders kept their focus on the ambitious mission/vision of standing up to one of the most powerful authorities in the world: the King of England.

When we try to make it about ourselves, we can get off track and let our self-absorption derail the project or initiative.

Keep the greater goal in mind and stay focused on that.

Don’t wait on the government to “fix it.”

Instead, join together and take bold action at the local level. The changes desired by American colonists weren’t coming from Great Britain. And so, in the summer of 1776 delegates from each of the Thirteen Colonies took it upon themselves to challenge British authorities and make change happen—their way.

Citizen-powered change is the most powerful change. If it’s to be, it’s up to you and me, not government agencies.

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3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street,

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Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the Listing: Driver Smithfield Gardens Assisted Commercial Living Facility, 26 Smith Street Seymour.

A pre-bid need conference willtime be held at the Housing Office 28 Smith Immediate for a full Class A driver forAuthority petroleum deliveries for Street CT atPrevious 10:00 am,experience on Wednesday, July 20, 2016. days andSeymour, weekends. required.

Competitive wage, 401(k) and benefits. Send resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, GuilBidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority Offord, CT 06437. fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

********An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer**********

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

The Housing Authority of the City of New Haven d/b/a Elm City Communities is currently seeking Bids for tree maintenance services. A complete copy of the requirements may be obtained from Elm City’s Vendor Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing. cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on

Monday, June 29, 2020 at 3:00PM.

MIDDLETOWN HOUSING AUTHORITY 40 BROAD STREET MIDDLETOWN , C.T 06457 The Middletown Housing Authority seeks additional applicants for Monarca Place, a 16 unit elderly/disabled federal public housing development. All units are designed for the sensory impaired and a priority will be given to households with deaf and/or blind household members. Monarca Place is a public housing development funded by the U.S. Department of HUD.

Low Income Limits by number of Household Members is as follows: 1 persons $54,950 2 persons $ 62,800 3 persons $ 70,650 4 persons $ 78,500

Applications will be available at the Main office, 40 Broad St. Middletown, Ct. Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30.

Applications may be obtained by calling the Main office 860-346-8671, fax 860-347-0534, email lori@middletownha.org, or website www.middletownha.org.

The Authority administers its programs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status or national origin. If you require special assistance due to a disto Bid: please contact the Authority. ability to complete the application Invitation or need information nd

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Middletown Housing Authority is an Equal Opportunity Houser.

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

Old Saybrook, CT DOT Certifi ed Welder

(4 Buildings, Units)or equivalent experience Applicants must have a minimum of 317years Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Projectto lreopell@ as a CT DOT Certifi ed Welder.

Please Wage emailRate resumes cjfucci.com or fax #203-468-6256 attention Lee Reopell.

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, CastShingles,opportunity Vinyl Siding, employer. All C.J. Fucci, Inc. isin-place an affiConcrete, rmativeAsphalt action/equal Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, This contract is subjectveteran to state set-aside and contract or disability status.compliance requirements.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Listing: Commercial Driver Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016

Immediate need forProject a full time Class A available driver forvia petroleum deliveries for days and documents ftp link below: weekends.

Previous experience required.

Competitive wage, 401(k) and benefits. Send http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage resume to: HR Manager, P. O. Box 388, Guilford, CT 06437.

Fax or Email Questions & Bids to:Action/Equal Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com ********An Affirmative Opportunity Employer********** HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 AA/EEO EMPLOYER

LEGAL NOTICE of TOWN OF PORTLAND, CT

Town of Portland has amended its Citizen Participation Plan for the purpose of informing the public about its intent to apply for CDBG, Covid-19 funding. For a copy of the amended Plan go to www. portlandct.org.

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CITY OF MILFORD

Seeking qualified condidates to fill numerous vacancies to include,Publiac Health Nurse, Deputy Tax Collector, For information and detailed application instructions, visit WWW. ci.milford.ct.us Click on SERVICES, JOBS and JOB TITLE. State of Connecticut Office of Policy and Management The State of Connecticut, Office of Policy and Management is recruiting for a Lead Planning Analyst position.

Further information regarding the duties, eligibility requirements and application instructions for this position is available at: https://www.jobapscloud.com/ CT/sup/bulpreview.asp?R1= 200521&R2=0007AR&R3=001 The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

QSR STEEL CORPORATION

APPLY NOW!

Steel Fabricators, Erectors & Welders Top pay for top performers. Health Benefits, 401K, Vacation Pay. Email Resume: Rose@qsrsteel.com Hartford, CT AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

DELIVERY PERSON

NEEDED Part Time Delivery Needed

One/Two Day a Week,

Must Have your Own Vehicle

If Interested call

(203) 387-0354

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 01, 2020 - July 07, 2020 INNER-CITY NEWS July 27, 2016 - August 02, 2016

Assistant Mechanic / Maintainer 4 - DPW Highway Division

Heavy Equipment Mechanic

Applicants must have a minimum of 3 years or equivalent experience as a heavy equipment/truck mechanic repairing and maintaining Diesel and Hydraulic excavation equipment including hydraulic excavators, dozers, dump trucks, etc. Experience in welding and a CDL license are preferred but not required.

C.J. Fucci, Inc. is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employMACRI RENTAL PREAPPLICATIONS AVAILABLE ment VALENTINA without attention to race, color, HOUSING religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

NOTICE

HOME INC, on behalf of Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this development located at 108 Frank Street, New Haven. Maximum income limitations apSeeking to employ experienced individuals in the foreman, operator and teamster trades for a ply. Pre-applications will be available from 9AM TOlabor, 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y heavy outside work statewide.

Reliable personal transportation and a valid drivers 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) have license required. To apply please call at (860) 621-1720 or send resume to: Personnel P.O. Box 368, Cheshire, been received the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be Department, mailied upon re-

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quest by calling HOME INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preCT06410. applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V Floor, New Haven, CT 06510.

Drug Free Workforce

REQUEST FOR BIDSNOTICIA - NEW BID DUE DATE AND PROCEDURES

Town of Portland, CT (EOE) Deadline: July 6, 2020

Town accepting applications for full-time Assistant Mechanic in the Public Works Highway Division; works with lead mechanic in general repair/maintenance of all gas and diesel vehicles, trucks and heavy equipment, including brakes, exhausts, engine tuning, and related work. Applicant should have welding experience, perform diagnostic analysis, perform oil changes, lubricate equipment/vehicles, assist drivers with snow plow and sander installation. 40 hours weekly; starting hourly wage $27.30; AFSCME union with fringe benefits. Subject to pre-employment drug/alcohol testing, Clearinghouse and DMV background check. Qualifications: High school diploma or GED equivalent supplemented by training in automotive and equipment repair, minimum 2 years experience vehicle maintenance or equivalent combination of education & experience; must have valid CT Commercial Driver’s License. Send General Employment Application to: First Selectwoman’s Office, P.O. Box 71, Portland, CT 0648-0071

Building Superintendent

VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

Air Rights Garage Repairs

HOME INC, en nombre de la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está New Haven,deConnecticut aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en laNew calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven.

Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos Haven Parking Authority Project #20-002 máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 julio, 2016 hasta cuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes (aproximadamente 100) Bids due Julyde9,HOME 2020 at 3:00 P.M. en las oficinas INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas por correo a petición (Note: This is a new bid due date, with new bid opening procedure.) llamando a HOME INC al 203-562-4663 durante esasahoras.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 .

Bid Documents will be available beginning June 18, 2020 at no cost by downloading from the BuildingConnnected FTP system website. Contact Maryann Bigda of Turner Construction Company at 203-7126070 for BuildingConnnected FTP system access information. Note: there are new bid procedures using the BuildingConnected FTP system to submit bids, and a Zoom Link for the opening of the bids; see full Invitation for Bids - Revised per Addendum #2, which is available on the BuildingConnnected FTP system, for details.

NEW HAVEN

Property Management Company is seeking a hands-on individual who is capable of performing minor repairs and duties as well as supervising maintenance operations of the facilities. Must be computer literate and should communicate verbally and via email to coworkers, vendors and tenants. Works with co-workers to improve facilities. Operates and maintains sophisticated mechanical and electrical equipment, performs miscellaneous repair work as needed, performs cleaning and other related duties as required.

Qualifications:

A combination of experience, education, and/or training which substantially demonstrates the following knowledge, skills and abilities. Principles and practices of installing, operating, maintaining and repairing building equipment and systems. Operation maintenance and repair of various pumps, motors, air conditioning equipment, boilers, blowers, control valves and switches, and instruments related to HVAC, and to the digital control system. Ability to trouble shoot and repair lighting, plumbing, fire protection, security systems and energy management systems normally found in an office building environment. Identify Hazardous materials encountered in the work environment and knowledge of their treatment. Should be able to promote safety in the workplace and be vigilant concerning visitor safety.

Excellent benefits include medical, dental and 401k. Please send resume to openjobs.mgmt@fusco.com.

Phone calls will not be accepted. Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer.

Invitation to Bid:

SHORT 2AD nd Notice

The work mainly includes concrete repairs, waterproofing, 242-258 Fairmont Aveand plumbing/drainage system repairs.

Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. (FHI) is seeking a Senior Finance Manager to oversee and advance the financial division of the firm. This position is based out of our Corporate Headquarters in Hartford, CT. We are looking for a financial professional with strong analytical, communications, problem-solving, and leadership skills who Old Saybrook, CT can help transition through the approaching retirement of FHI’s Director of Finance and help guide our financial (4 17 Units) operations asBuildings, we continue to grow and evolve. Responsibilities include overseeing all aspects of our financial Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties contact Maria @ 860-985-8258 operations; documenting, forecasting, and driving financial performance; and decreasing our need for outside Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Rate Project New Haven Parking Authority is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

CPA consulting services. This position will also partner with the current Director of Finance in the development of a roadmap and implementation to manage data effectively and efficiently as well as design uniform processes, CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Cast-efficiencies across the organization and plan for enhance business controls, and other procedures to improve Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates succession. in-place Concrete, Asphalt Shingles, Vinyl Siding, in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. have a 10+ years of experience in business finance roles, with at least 5+ years in senior finanFlooring, Painting, Candidate Division 10should Specialties, Appliances, Residential Casework, (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster cial management role. An accounting or finance degree is preferred. MBA is a plus but not required. Women 241 Quinnipiac Avenue, New Haven Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing andtoFire Protection.

St. New Haven, CT and minorities are encouraged apply.

For more information about Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc., please visit our Spacious 2 bedroom townhouses with hardwood floors. 1.5 baths. Select with basements and washer/ website at www.fhiplan.com.

Send resume to financemanager@fhiplan.com, Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc., 416 This contract is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements. dryer hookups. On-site laundry facility. Off street parking. Close proximity to restaurants, shopping Asylum Street, Hartford, CT 06103. Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. is an EEO/AA /VEV/Disabled employer. Salary centers and on bus line. No pets. Security deposit varies. $1,425-$1,450 includes heat, hot water and commensurate with level of experience.

2BR Townhouse, BA, 3BR,a list 1 level 1BA Subcontractors, including the Bidders must submit with their Bid on1.5 forms provided of their,Intended All new apartments, new appliances, newOwned carpet,Business close toEnterprises I-91 & I-95as subcontractors for a goal use of Minority Business Enterprises and Women of at least 25% of thehighways, total valuenear of the Bidder’s bus stop &subcontracts. shopping center

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

APARTMENTS FOR RENT

SEYMOUR HOUSING AUTHORITY

cooking gas. Section 8 welcome. Call Christine 860-985-8258.

Bid Extended, Due Date: August 5, 2016 Anticipated Start: August 15, 2016 Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. (FHI) is seeking a Finance Administrator to provide support for Project documents availableservice via ftp areas link below: the finance and corporate of the firm. This position is based out of our Corporate Headquarters in Hartford, CT. We are looking for a financial professional with strong analytical, communications, and problemhttp://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage

Sealed bids are invited by the Housing Authority of the Town of Seymour APARTMENTS FOR RENT until 3:00 pm on Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483Avenue, for ConcreteNew Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the solving skills who can be a vital part of our finance team. Responsibilities will include reviewing and processing 258 Fairmont Haven accounts payable invoices and employee payroll and expenses and processing project invoicing and accounts Smithfield Gardenstownhouses.

Assisted Living Facility, 26 Smith Seymour.

Spacious 2 bedroom $1,225.00.

Tenant pays Street all utilities including gas for heat,hot water, Fax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com

receivable. Additionally, the Finance Administrator will assist with project and financial reporting, support emelec.stove, balcony and private entrance, off street parking. Close proximity to restaurants,HCC shopping encourages the participation of all Veteran, S/W/MBE & Section 3 Certified Businesses ployee benefit assessments, and other miscellaneous related duties.

Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 centers and on bus line. Section 8 welcome.

Call Christine 860-985-8258.

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Candidate should have a 3+ years of experience in business finance roles. Experience with Deltek/Ajera is

Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

254 Fairmont Avenue, New Haven

Spacious bedroom townhouses. $1,400.00 paysHousing all utilities including Bidding3 documents are available from theTenant Seymour Authority Of-gas for heat,hot water, elec.stove, balcony and private entrance, off street parking.

Close proximity to restaurants, shopping fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579. centers and on bus line. Section 8 welcome. Call Christine 860-985-8258.

The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any

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preferred, a AA/EEO generalEMPLOYER understanding of GAAP (General Accepted Accounting Principles) and bookkeeping procedures, as well as strong proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. An accounting or finance degree is preferred. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. For more information about Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc., please visit our website at www.fhiplan.com. Send resume to financeadmin@fhiplan.com, Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc., 416 Asylum Street, Hartford, CT 06103. Fitzgerald & Halliday, Inc. is an EEO/AA /VEV/Disabled employer. Salary commensurate with level of experience.

THE INNER-CITYNEWS NEWS July - July , 2020 - July 07, 2020 INNER-CITY 27,012016 - August 02, 2016

Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming, Inc seeks:

THE GLENDOWER GROUP

Construction Equipment Mechanic preferably experienced in Reclaiming and Road Milling Equipment. We offer factory Invitation for Bids training on equipment we operate. Location: Bloomfield CT We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits Charles T. McQueeney Towers VALENTINA MACRI RENTAL HOUSING PRE- APPLICATIONS AVAILABLE Contact: Tom Dunay

NOTICE

Commercial Floor Renovations

Phone: 243-2300 HOME INC, on behalf of860Columbus House and the New Haven Housing Authority, Email: tom.dunay@garrityasphalt.com is accepting pre-applications for studio and one-bedroom apartments at this develThe Glendower Group is currently seeking Bids Women Minority Applicants are New encouraged to apply income opment & located at 108 Frank Street, Haven. Maximum limitations apfor commercial fl oor renovations at Charles T. Mcrmative Action/ Opportunity Employer ply.Affi Pre-applications willEqual be available from 9AM TO 5PM beginning Monday Ju;y 25, 2016 and ending when sufficient pre-applications (approximately 100) Towesrs. have Queeney A complete copy of the requirebeen received at the offices of HOME INC. Applications will be ment mailiedmay upon be re- obtained from Glendower’s Vendor quest by calling HOME Reclaiming, INC at 203-562-4663 during those hours. Completed preGarrity Asphalt Inc seeks: Collaboration Portal https://newhavenhousing. applications must be returned to HOME INC’s offices at 171 Orange Street, Third Reclaimer Operators and Milling Operators with current licensing cobblestonesystems.com/gateway beginning on Haven, CTbe06510. andFloor, cleanNew driving record, willing to travel throughout the Northeast & NY. We offer excellent hourly rate & excellent benefits

NOTICIA

Contact: Rick Tousignant Phone: 860- 243-2300

Monday, June 8, 2020 at 3:00PM.

Commercial Property Accountant Property Management Company located in New Haven, CT is looking for a Commercial Property Accountant. The ideal candidate will be responsible for all accounting aspects for a portfolio of 13-15 commercial properties. Responsibilities include: • • • • • • • • • • • •

Town of Bloomfield

Job Requirements:

Email: rick.tousignant@garrityasphalt.com VALENTINA MACRI VIVIENDAS DE ALQUILER PRE-SOLICITUDES DISPONIBLES

Bachelor’s in accounting, finance or related discipline.

3-5 years accounting experience.

Accounting experience with property management is strongly preferred.

Experience with Sage Real Estate (Timberline) a plus.

Organized and able to handle multiple properties and deadlines in fast paced, timely, accurate manner.

Detailed oriented.

Strong Excel skills and software savvy.

Fast learner with excellent communication skills.

Team player with positive attitude.

Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/deEqual Opportunity Employer HOME INC, en nombre la Columbus House y de la New Haven Housing Authority, está

Finance Director Full Time - Benefited $96,755 to $149,345

aceptando pre-solicitudes para estudios y apartamentos de un dormitorio en este desarrollo ubicado en la calle 109 Frank Street, New Haven. Se aplican limitaciones de ingresos máximos. Las pre-solicitudes estarán disponibles 09 a.m.-5 p.m. comenzando Martes 25 Tractor Trailer Driver for Heavy & Highway Construction Equipjulio,Must 2016have hastaacuando se han recibido suficientes pre-solicitudes ment.

CDL License, clean driving record, capable of(aproximadamente 100) en las oficinas HOME INC. Las pre-solicitudes serán enviadas operating heavydeequipment; be willing to travel throughout the por correo a petición Pre-employment drug testing. For more details, llamando&a NY. HOME 203-562-4663 horas.Pre-solicitudes deberán remitirse Northeast We INC offeralexcellent hourlydurante rate &esas excellent benefits visit our a las oficinas de HOME INC en 171 Orange Street, tercer piso, New Haven , CT 06510 . website – www.bloomfieldct.org

Union Company seeks:

Contact Dana at 860-243-2300

Email: dana.briere@garrityasphalt.com Women & Minority Applicants are encouraged to apply Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

Prepare, maintain and distribute monthly financials statements.

Mortgage, taxes and insurance invoice processing.

Analyze data to prepare budget vs actual variance reports.

Compile monthly and yearly sales tax filings.

Assist with annual budget preparation.

Collect and post all tenant payments.

Prepare journal entries.

Reconcile all cash, escrow and investment accounts.

Maintain depreciation/amortization schedules.

Prepare annual escalation/recovery settlement invoices.

Annual income and expense and personal property filings.

Third party funding requisitions.

Excellent benefits include medical, dental and 401k.

Please send resume to openjobs.mgmt@fusco.com. Phone calls will not be accepted.

Affirmative Action/ Equal Opportunity Employer

STAIN/PAINT CREW:

Large CT fence contractor seeking experienced painters. Must have at least 5 years’ experience staining and/or Invitation to Bid: painting wood and cellular products. Work available 10-12nd 242-258 Fairmont Ave 2 Notice months per year. All necessary equipment provided. Mediholiday, sick and vacation pay provided. Must pass a Townhouse, BA, for 3BR, 1 level cal, , 1BA Large CT2BR guardrail company 1.5 looking Laborer/ INVITATION TO BID: LaRosa Building Group invites all trade contractors to bid 540 physical and drug test, have a valid CT driver’s license and All new apartments, new appliances, new carpet, close to I-91 & I-95 NewCT Park Avenue in West Hartford, CT consisting of the new construction of a 52 unit Driver with valid CT CDL Class A license and able to Old Saybrook, residential building and common spaces. Some bid packages have been set aside for highways, busto stop & shopping center be able to obtain a DOT medical card. Rates from $18.00 get a medical card.

Must near be able pass a drug test (4 Buildings, Small, 17 Units) $22.00 per hour plus benefits. OSHA 10 training required.

Minority, and Women owned business. Contact Vince Parete for details. This and physical.

Compensation based on contact experience.

Pet under 40lb allowed. Interested parties Maria @ 860-985-8258 Tax Exempt & Not Prevailing Wage Project Please email resume to gforshee@atlasoutdoor.com AA/ project is Rate subject to CHRO Set Aside requirements. All trade contractors are required to Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutdoor.com solicit from S/M/WBE’s and document efforts. Set Aside plans will be required. Trade EOE/M-F AA/EOE M-F contractor bids are due to LaRosa no later than 3PM on Thursday, July 2, 2020. Bids can

HELP WANTED:

NEW HAVEN

CT. Unified Deacon’s Association is pleased to offer a Deacon’s Certificate Program. This is a 10 month program designed to assist in the intellectual formation of Candidates in response to the Church’s Ministry needs. The cost is $125. Classes start Saturday, August 20, 2016 1:303:30 Contact: Chairman, Deacon Joe J. Davis, M.S., B.S. (203) 996-4517 Host, General Bishop Elijah Davis, D.D. Pastor of Pitts Chapel U.F.W.B. Church 64 Brewster

NOTICE OF INVITATION FOR BID HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF DANBURY St. New Haven, CT Plumbing Services IFB No. B20001

SEYMOUR HOUSING SCOPE: AUTHORITY

The Housing Authority of theby City Danbury and its affiliates hereby issue InvitaSealed bids are invited theofHousing Authority of the Town of this Seymour tion for until 3:00Bidpmfrom on professional, Tuesday, August 2, 2016 at its office at 28 Smith Street, qualified, licensed plumbing companies.

Seymour, CT 06483 for Concrete Sidewalk Repairs and Replacement at the PROPOSAL SUBMITTAL Smithfield Gardens Assisted Living Facility, 26RETURN: Smith Street Seymour.

Housing Authority of the City of Danbury, 2 Mill Ridge Rd, Danbury, CT 06811 Envelope Must be Marked: IFB No. B20001 Plumbing Services

A pre-bid conference will be held at the Housing Authority Office 28 Smith Street Seymour, CT at 10:00 am, on Wednesday,OPENING July 20, 2016.

SUBMITTAL DEADLINE/BID

July 9, 2020 at 10:00am (EST)

Bidding documents are available from the Seymour Housing Authority OfCONTACT PERSON FOR IFB DOCUMENT: fice, 28 Smith Street, Seymour, CT 06483 (203) 888-4579.

Ms. Devin Marra, Director of Procurement,Telephone: 203-744-2500 x141 E-Mail: dmarra@hacdct.org The Housing Authority reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to [Minority- and/or women-owned businesses are encouraged to respond]

reduce the scope of the project to reflect available funding, and to waive any informalities in the bidding, if such actions are in the best interest of the Housing Authority.

SAYEBROOKE VILLAGE

New Construction, Wood Framed, Housing, Selective Demolition, Site-work, Castbe emailed to Vincent Parete vparete@larosabg.com or faxed to 203-599-6210. Plans in-place Concrete, Asphalt and Shingles, Siding, specifiVinyl cations are available electronically by contacting Vince by email or phone Centrally Located Flooring, Painting, Division 10 Specialties,203-235-1770.

Appliances, Residential Casework, LaRosa Building Group is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Construction Company Employer.

Small, Minority, Women, Disabled, and Section 3 Businesses are strongly enMechanical, Electrical, Plumbing and Fire Protection. couraged to bid. in This Connecticut positions available contract has is subject to state set-aside and contract compliance requirements.

for experienced project managers, laborers and truck drivers.

Extended, Due This company is an AffiBid rmative Action / Date:

ROTHA Contracting Company August 5, 2016 Equal Opportunity Employer M/F.Anticipated Females and Start: August 15, 2016 ROTHA Contracting Company, Inc. is a Union contractor that has various job openings Minorities are encouraged apply.

Projecttodocuments available via ftpthe linkyear below: throughout for Bricklayers, Carpenters, Laborers, and Operating Engineers. We Please fax resume to ATTN: Mike to have contracts with the following Unions: http://ftp.cbtghosting.com/loginok.html?username=sayebrookevillage 860-669-7004.

· United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America, New England Regional CounFax or Email Questions & Bids to: Dawn Lang @ 203-881-8372 dawnlang@haynesconstruction.com of Carpenters 24,Businesses 43 and 210 HCC encourages the participation of all Veteran,cilS/W/MBE & SectionLocals 3 Certified Haynes Construction Company, 32 Progress Ave, Seymour, CT 06483 International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers AFL-CIO Local 1 AA/EEO EMPLOYER · Connecticut Laborers’ District Council of Laborers’ International Union of North America, AFL-CIO Large CT guardrail company looking for

HELP WANTED

Laborer/Driver with valid CT CDL Class A license and able to get a medical card. Must be able to pass a drug test and physical. Compensation based on experience. Email resume to dmastracchio@atlasoutdoor.com AA/EOE M-F

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International Union of Operating Engineers Local 478 and its Branches AFL-CIO

Please contact your Union Local to apply for open positions. ROTHA Contracting Company, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and welcome minorities, woman, and trainees in our workplace.

THE INNER-CITY NEWS - July 01, 2020 - July 07, 2020

Rashard Brooks and the Tale of Two Police Officers and Officer Discretion

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

In the wake of almost a month of national protests, another police shooting gained attention and national news coverage after several videos of an arrest turned violent were widely viewed.

The videos captured several scenes from the evening of June 13 in Atlanta, Georgia at a Wendy’s drive-thru restaurant. The encounter ended in the death of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks.

The encounter included many different moments over 40 minutes. The police were called when Brooks fell asleep in line in the drive thru lane. Brooks was intoxicated. Video shows Officer Devin Bronsan, who joined the Atlanta Police Department in 2018, driving first to wake up Brooks. Officer Bronsan asked Brooks to move his vehicle out of the drive-thru lane and Brooks politely complied.

Brooks offered to walk home but now former Officer Garrett Rolfe arrived and was against the idea. Video footage released by the Atlanta Police Department shows the officers talking to Brooks for nearly half an hour. When Rolfe told

COMMENTARY:

Brooks he was going to place him under arrest, Brooks resisted and was wrestled to the ground by both officers. He got away from both and ran with a taser in his hand, as Brooks turned back and pointed the taser at Rolfe, the officer opened fire.

Brooks is seen on video laying on his back moving. He later died at the hospital. Hours later, it was announced that Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields would resign her position. It was also announced that the officer who shot Brooks had been fired. Brooks’ family says he left behind four children, three daughters and a stepson.

Many argue that because Brooks resisted arrest, his shooting was justified. Many police jurisdictions maintain that use of force is decided on a “one up” continuum that dictates that Brooks aiming the officer’s taser at Rolfe justified his use of deadly force. Others argue that Brooks running away from the officers confirms that their lives were not in danger.

“That officer’s life has to be in imminent danger to use deadly force… If you look at the video you will see the officer is reaching for his gun before Brooks turns around and aims the taser at him,” said

Brooks family attorney Chris Stewart.

Stewart was also the attorney who handled the shooting death of Walter Scott in South Carolina. In 2015, Scott was shot in the back multiple times by former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager as he ran from Slager. The incident was filmed by a bystander. Slager was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Legislation, executive orders and other measures related to policing are being considered as a result of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on Memorial Day. Producer Tyler Perry is paying for the funeral expenses of Rashard Brooks.

Lauren Victoria Burke is an independent journalist for NNPA and the host of the podcast BURKEFILE. She is also a political strategist as Principal of Win Digital Media LLC. She may be contacted at LBurke007@gmail.com and on twitter at @LVBurke The videos captured several scenes from the evening of June 13 in Atlanta, Georgia at a Wendy’s drive-thru restaurant. The encounter ended in the death of 27-yearold Rayshard Brooks.

The annexation of Palestinian territory is illegal

By Bill Fletcher, Jr., NNPA Newswire Contributor Let’s be clear and not try to fool one another. There is no basis in international law for the planned Israeli annexation of Palestinian territory. None.

In some respects, this column could end right here. There is no further explanation necessary. Both the Israelis and the US political establishment know this. That the Israelis are copying the behavior of the US expansion west in the 18th and

19th centuries is more to the point. The US political establishment understands that the USA was constructed on the annexation of the land of the Native Americans, the Mexicans, and the blood of the Africans, all with the aim of establishing a White settler republic. That is something the US and Israeli experiences share in common.

The proposed annexation aims to drive the remaining Palestinians off their lands or place them in a Bantustan-like existence, just as the apartheid South Africans attempted in the 1970s/1980s. The Afrikaners attempted to deceive the world into believing that they were creating livable spaces for the African majority when they were creating nothing more than reservations for the relocation of the African majority. Israel aims to do much the same.

Many of Israel’s liberal supporters in the USA are tongue-tied. They cannot justify the annexation—knowing full well that it is illegal—but are terrified that there might be actions taken against the Israeli government by the USA and other governments. While they certainly have little to fear from Trump, who has gone out of his way to encourage the annexation, it is true that there is a growing awareness in Congress, and within the US public, that annexation is wrong.

The attitude of liberal supporters of Israel is akin to someone who knows that an individual embezzled money from a company, but they would rather not press charges because they believe that there is something about the person that is worthy of saving. The problem is simple: the law does not work that way, whether domestic

or international.

When Russia illegally seized Crimea, there were consequences. Why should there be no consequences for the Israeli government? Why should the people of the world continue to take a pass each and every time that Israel breaks international law?

The answer is that Israel must pay a price, which is why the global movement for Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions (BDS) is so critical. If governments lack the courage and vision to penalize another country for criminal activities, then it is up to the people of the planet to take the appropriate—and non-violent—steps.

This is not singling out Israel. This is identifying when activity is criminal and should be punished.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is the executive editor of

COMMENTARY: Newsom’s confusing COVID-19 decrees CalMatters Published by Black Voice News

Managing something as new and unpredictable as the COVID-19 pandemic is, by its nature, a difficult task.

That said, Californians are rightfully confused by the rapid, even erratic, changes of course that Gov. Gavin Newsom has steered in recent weeks after drawing praise for his early and straightforward actions in the first days of the public health crisis.

Newsom’s regular, although no longer weekly, webcasts on COVID-19 have evolved into repetitive talkathons resembling those annoying public television

fundraising breaks. At one he will boast of the state’s progress in slowing the infection rate, and at another chastise Californians for not wearing their masks and threaten a crackdown.

In March, Newson shut down large segments of the state’s previously booming economy and soon laid out seemingly firm markers that had to be met before reopening them. But as the economic toll mounted, with millions of suddenly jobless workers, he began to back off even as infections and deaths continued to mount. He gave counties the option to reopen their economies if they met certain criteria, saying “localism

is determinative” and seemingly shifting the political onus to local officials, By early June, many segments of the economy were opening, but within a couple of weeks, infections and deaths were spiking alarmingly and Newsom was becoming defensive about the wisdom of reopening.

“When you have people that are struggling and suffering with severe mental health and brain health issues, when people are not attending to their physical and emotional needs, those social determinants of health also must be considered,” Newsom said on June 15. “We have to recognize you can’t be in a permanent state where people

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are locked away — for months and months and months and months on end — to see lives and livelihoods completely destroyed, without considering the health impact of those decisions as well.”

However, from rationalizing the reopening, Newsom has shifted in recent days to admonishing Californians for not being diligent enough in wearing the masks he mandated and avoiding large, virus-spreading congregations. He has hinted that he might have to clamp down on the economy once again and threatened counties that ignore state guidelines with a loss of state aid.

“We give an enormous amount of power,

globalafricanworker.com and a past president of TransAfrica Forum.

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of BlackPressUSA.com or the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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budget to drive fundamental change, and due to election cycles, officials come and go. Many won’t be around to see long term projects through.)

Yes, early communities needed each other and that drove a lot of their interactions. We went through a period of time where we started to believe we didn’t need each other and that clearly isn’t true.

We now realize that working together is the only way we can make our cities and towns thrive.

No one is saying America’s founders were perfect. They were far from it, as we are. But one thing they got right was the knowledge that they needed to work together for a common cause. Teamwork is a powerful force. We couldn’t have built a nation without it, and we can’t build a better community without it either.

Quint Studer is the author of Building a Vibrant Community: How CitizenPowered Change Is Reshaping America and founder of Pensacola’s Studer Community Institute. For more information, visit www.vibrantcommunityblueprint. com and www.studeri.org.

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