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· FW: SCC Part-time Dispatcher Posting
· (July 8) FW: benefit concert to help women who are homeless
· (July 9) FW: [DaytoniansAgainstWarNow] Demo and billboard
· (July 10 and more dates) FW: Bike with a Ranger
· (July 13 & 14) FW: Dayton Unit NAACP Press Release - Judicial Reform
· FW: [HB 410 Survey: Please Share To Those That Support School Discipline Reform]
· FW: Eight Important Questions
· FW: Let This Inform What To Expect In Dayton
· FW: [Daytonians Against War Now] A Dark Day for the People of Puerto Rico
Save the Dates:
· (July 25-29) FW: Police and Youth Together Camp
· (July 27) FW: Prevent Blindness free adult vision screener training
· (Oct. 28) FW: Dayton Unit NAACP 65th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet
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From: John Huber
Subject: Part-time Dispatcher Posting
July 5, 2016
Sinclair Community College
Department of Public Safety
Part-time Emergency Dispatcher
Sinclair Community College is now accepting applications for a part-time Public Safety Dispatcher. The applications must be completed on-line. Qualified applicants will be contacted after registration closes on Sunday, July 17, 2016.
Interested applicants will find the on-line registration information at:
https://jobs.sinclair.edu/
Any other questions, please contact Mr. Nathaniel Newman from Sinclair Community College
Human Resources at (937) 512-2946 or Captain John Huber at (937) 512-2174.
From: Joy Schwab; Dayton Women's Rights Alliance
Subject: benefit concert to help women who are homeless
IT'S THAT TIME OF THE MONTH AGAIN!
HELP PROVIDE TAMPONS AND PADS FOR WOMEN WHO ARE HOMELESS
FRIDAY, JULY 8
FROM 5:00 PM TO 11:00 PM
DAYTON YELLOW CAB BUILDING
700 EAST FOURTH STREET, DAYTON OHIO
ENJOY LIVE MUSIC BY SHARON LANE, MIRANDA PENNINGTON,
AUDREY ISABEL, SKRT, LUNG & OTHERS,
SMOKIN' BEE-BEE-Q FOOD TRUCK,
RAFFLES, JEWELRY SALE, CASH BAR, & MORE
REPRESENTATIVE EMILIA STRONG SYKES WILL SPEAK ABOUT
HER BILL TO REPEAL THE OHIO TAX ON TAMPONS @ 6:30
· ADMISSION: $5.00 MINIMUM AND/OR EQUIVALENT TAMPONS AND SANITARY PADS DONATION
· PROCEEDS TO: ST VINCENT DE PAUL GATEWAY SHELTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES
SPONSORS: DAYTON WOMEN'S RIGHTS ALLIANCE, DAYTON CIRCUS & LADYFEST Dayton
CONTACT: DAYTONWOMEN@YAHOO.COM
It's That Time of the Month Again
From: Daytonians Against War Now (DAWN) On Behalf Of Hilary Lerman
Subject: [DAWN] Demo and billboard
Dawn! is calling for a demo this Saturday, July 9 at the corner of Strop and Far Hills at 1pm.
This is to counter the war and interventionist fever that is pervading the country. While groups like ISIS do plan various attacks, these are grossly exaggerated by our national security apparatus.
As we have shown, war and military assaults are not the path towards peace. The only way is lessen the inequality between the countries of the first and third worlds.
DAWN! is moving ahead with erecting a billboard which will say "No War on Islam" with a misty scene of the cemetery. And our website at the bottom.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!!
These billboards are very expensive and we would like to put up one in September and one in October. Please help!
From: Dayton's National Park
Subject: Bike with a Ranger
Find Your Park on a ranger guided bicycle tour. Visit the historic places Orville Wright and Paul Laurence Dunbar called home and learn a thing or two about how the Wright brothers' knowledge of bicycles helped them to develop the world's first practical flying machine. Discover the Miami Valley's scenic trail system and experience aviation history, all from the comfort of a bicycle. To register for a tour ryan_qualls@nps.gov or call 937-225-7705 for more information.
Paul Laurence Dunbar Tour - 4 miles (10:00 a.m. - noon)
September 4
Ride the Wolf Creek Trail to the final home of poet and author Paul Laurence Dunbar. See exhibits on Paul's life and works, and tour the home where Paul lived with his mother Matilda until his death in 1906. This ride is a great way to get comfortable with cycling.
Hawthorn Hill Tour - 8 miles (10:00 a.m. - noon)
July 10, August 21
Visit the post-1914 home of Orville, Milton, and Katharine Wright. Learn about life with the Wright family, and Orville's experiences in this historic home. This ride features some moderate hills so make sure your bicycle can shift gears.
Wright State Archive Tour - 6 miles (6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.)
July 27
Bike the Huffman Prairie Trail and take a behind the scenes tour of Wright State University's Special Collections and Archives Center. See artifacts from the Wright Brothers Collection and explore exhibits relating to their lives.
Bike the Aviation Trail Tour - 14 miles (10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
August 7
Ride the Aviation Trail and learn about some of the sites that make up Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park. Earn stamps towards an Aviation Trail water bottle and get a introduction to sites along the trail.
Founders' Day Ride - 2 miles (11:00 a.m.)
August 25
The National Park Service is celebrating its birthday and EVERYONE is invited to join the party! Take a family-friendly bike tour of neighborhood gardens and pollination zones. Learn about what you can do to help pollinators and receive free wildflower seeds.
- To register for a tour email ryan_qualls@nps.gov or call 937-225-7705 for more information and starting location.
- Plan on arriving twenty minutes before each tour start for sign-in and orientation. Be sure to bring plenty of water.
- All participants must register prior to the start of each tour. Inclement weather may cause tour cancellation.
- Participants are required to bring their own bicycles in good operating condition and are required to wear helmets.
Riders should be in good physical condition and feel comfortable shifting gears.
From: Derrick L. Forward; President, Dayton Unit NAACP
Subject: Dayton Unit NAACP Press Release - Judicial Reform
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE on July 5, 2016
CONTACT: Derrick L. Foward, M.C.E., (937) 222-2172
Dayton Unit NAACP Town Hall
"Community Dialogue on Judicial Reform"
DAYTON, OHIO - JULY 5, 2016 - The Dayton Unit of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will host 2 Town Halls titled, "Community Dialogue on Judicial Reform." The first listening session will be held on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. at Greater Allen A.M.E. Church located at 1620 W. Fifth St in Dayton, Ohio. The second listening session will be held on Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. at Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church located at 4475 Old Troy Pike in Huber Heights, Ohio. The distinguished guest speakers will be Citizens of Montgomery County, Ohio who has been personally involved with or has keen knowledge of the Judicial System. The moderator will be Tom Roberts, 3rd Vice President and Chair of the Dayton Unit NAACP Political Action Committee.
Are the scales of justice equal for ALL Americans? Does sentencing disparities still exist in today's society? If you were not able to afford a lawyer, did a public defender ask you to take a plea deal for a crime that you did not commit? Do you personally know someone serving time that is innocent? "These are just a few questions that have surfaced during our preparations for these listening forums," said Derrick L. Foward, President of the Dayton Unit NAACP. As of July 5, 2016, there were 894 inmates in the Montgomery County Jail of which 347 or 38.81% were African Americans. This percentage equates to nearly a 17% point increase versus the population of African Americans (22.3%) living in Montgomery County, Ohio," said Foward. During this same time period, there were 48 youth detained in the Montgomery County Juvenile Detention Center of which 34 or 70.83% were African Americans. "The comments we hear at these community forums will help in our future Judicial Reform efforts," said Roberts.
From: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
Subject: [HB 410 Survey: Please Share To Those That Support School Discipline Reform]
FYI: Below is a survey of a bill that Racial Justice NOW! and others around the
state have been working on. Please take the survey, pay close attention to
the prohibition on preschool - 3rd grade suspensions & expulsions.
That part of the bill comes specifically RJN! parents. Please support that!
You are invited to provide Senator Lehner (6th Senate District) with feedback regarding the provisions of H.B. 410.
H.B. 410 recognizes the critical importance of connecting Ohio's students to educational opportunities and tackles three of the major reasons students miss school: suspensions, expulsions, and truancy. Research shows that poor school attendance is associated with a host of devastating consequences for youth and their communities. Further, research suggests that truancy and exclusionary school discipline policies disproportionately impact certain students, particularly students of color, students with disabilities, and students who live in low-income families.
In December 2015, Representatives Hayes and Rezebek introduced H.B. 410, which addresses Ohio's school discipline and truancy laws. In April 2016, the House Education Committee voted to pass an amended bill with a strong bipartisan vote of 15-1. In May, H.B. 410 passed the House 95-1. H.B. 410 adopts nationally accepted best practices to support students and families and keep students engaged in school and on a path to success.
The purpose of this survey is to collect and analyze feedback on the provisions of H.B. 410 as well as on the possible additions to H.B. 410 that will come before the Senate. Possible Senate additions will be indicated in italics throughout the survey. The survey will ask for your position ("support as is," "supportive of the concept with additional changes," or "do not support") on a total of six provisions. At the end of the survey, you will have an opportunity to provide any additional comments or concerns regarding the provisions of H.B. 410. If you represent an organization, you are encouraged to share this survey link with your members so that they may provide us with additional feedback. Please submit your survey responses (including any additional comments or concerns you may have) by July 13 at 5:00 p.m.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PQ93HNM
Thanks,
David Cordonnier; Senior Legislative Aide, State Senator Peggy Lehner, 6th Senate District, 614.466.4538
From: Fairchild for Dayton
Subject: Eight Important Questions
FAIRCHILD FOR DAYTON
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=3e8f1aee63d3c18aa6a51a1a0&id=19d11401c6&e=68e67d6cbb
June 30
Eight Important Question about Proposed Tax Increase
Many in the community were surprised by the announcement that the Dayton City Commission is planning to submit a .25% increase in the fall. Given the lack of any open process to shape this proposal, we are left with more questions than answers. Here are eight important ones.
How many residents pay the income tax and how many non-residents pay it? The Dayton Daily News unfortunately makes a misleading statement - "While Dayton voters will decide if the increase takes place, the tax is paid by people who work in the city." Dayton voters with wages will pay this tax too.
Whis the City Commission prioritizing the Arcade Development, the acquisition of property, non-essential travel and golf courses above adding 22 police officers, repairing our roads, and pre-school for our children? The City Commission has tried to flip their responsibility for prioritizing the city's budget onto voters. They create a false choice between voting for the levy and not funding important items, like road repairs. It is the City Commission's responsibility to prioritize the $161 million budget. They have the money to fund additional police, road repairs and pre-K. If they choose not to, that is their decision.
Given the City Commission was so critical of the process Dan Foley used to develop his merger plan, why did the City Commission use a similar closed process to develop their plan to increase taxes?
How will the City Commission provide kindergarten education for our children?
Given the minimal investment the City Commission currently makes in our children, why should we believe that pre-K education will not be cut when a tight budget arises in the future?
Wouldn't it be more prudent to create a financial mechanism to fund pre-K education that would keep those funds segregated from the General Fund?
Why isn't the City Commission working cooperatively with the Dayton Public Schools? According to the news, DPS is considering putting forth a levy to fund after school programming. It seems the practical path would be for the City Commission and DPS to put forth one levy that would fund both pre-K education and after school programming.
Finally, given the fact that our population has declined by 16% since 1998, shouldn't the amount of services that the city provides have declined by 16%? Shouldn't the budget now be less than the budget in 1998?
From: Zakiya Sankara-Jabar
Subject: FYI: Let This Inform What To Expect In Dayton
Do not allow this to happen in Dayton. Human Needs. Human Dignity. Racial Justice.
CHICAGO 06/25/2016, 11:59pm
The CHA's great upheaval — a Sun-Times/BGA special report
The demolition of high-rise projects like the Cabrini-Green Homes, seen here in May 1997, cleared the way for rapid gentrification. Brian Jackson / Sun-Times file photo
Mick Dumke, Brett Chase, Tim Novak and Chris Fusco
In 1999, Mayor Richard M. Daley boldly promised to transform public housing in Chicago — in part by tearing down the high-rise housing projects that lined the city's expressways and surrounded the Loop.
Today, nearly every Chicago neighborhood — and almost every suburb — has felt the impact of the Chicago Housing Authority's "Plan for Transformation," a Chicago Sun-Times and Better Government Association analysis has found.
In the city, areas surrounding the Loop still have hundreds of subsidized-housing tenants, but demolition of high-rise projects like Cabrini-Green has cleared the way for rapid gentrification by wealthy whites and businesses.
South Shore is the new subsidized-housing capital of Chicago.
Of 245 suburbs in the six-county metropolitan area, 193 — almost four of five — have seen an increase in the number of subsidized-housing households. As in the city, the overwhelming majority of those families are living in apartments, townhouses or single-family homes they rent with the aid of government subsidies known as Section 8 vouchers.
"This has been a game-changer in different ways for neighborhoods," says Andrew Greenlee, an assistant professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The plan was not only about transforming public housing but also fundamentally changing the neighborhoods across the entire city of Chicago."
While the Plan for Transformation aimed to break up heavy pockets of poverty created by expansive public housing projects, "in some ways, [it] reinforced historical divisions," Greenlee says, displacing families and continuing racial and class segregation.
"What we have here is a story of noble intentions but also unintended consequences."
A 'Plan' to fight 'worst housing'
At the time the Plan for Transformation was presented, concentrated poverty, high crime, decrepit building conditions and a long history of mismanagement had turned many of the CHA's developments into what officials acknowledged was "some of the worst housing in America."
For massive housing projects such as Cabrini-Green on the Near North Side and the Robert Taylor Homes along South State Street, federal and city officials — including Rahm Emanuel, then the vice chairman of the CHA board — decided the solution was demolition. A total of 18,000 apartments would see the wrecking ball, to be replaced by mixed-income developments. Other CHA properties would be extensively rehabilitated. In all, Daley and the CHA promised to build or rehab 25,000 units.
Most of the CHA's 16,800 families would have to move, at least temporarily. Those deemed by the CHA to have followed agency rules would get a "right of return" — the opportunity to go back to the rebuilt units or to move, with the aid of a Section 8 voucher, to privately owned housing.
Experts predicted most displaced CHA residents would move to other African-American neighborhoods where they could find apartments cheaply and quickly.
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Lee Lee Henderson, a former Robert Taylor Homes resident, has moved repeatedly since leaving the housing project. | Jared Rutecki /Better Government Association |
That's what Lee Lee Henderson did. Using a Section 8 voucher to rent it, her first house was on a rundown block in Englewood — next to a vacant lot infested with cat-sized rats, she says.
Henderson, 41, a former Robert Taylor Homes resident, can still rattle off the addresses of the homes she's rented since then — 11 of them — as she tried to find a safe and well-maintained place for herself and her two children. They're now living on the first floor of a two-flat in West Garfield Park on the West Side. It's not far from where she works at a YMCA.
Still, she wishes some things had been different. She doesn't think the CHA gave tenants enough time or help to adjust. "They should have thought this process through before they took our homes away."
What happened to those whose lives were disrupted by the upheaval? Examining a wide range of data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, CHA, U.S. Census Bureau and elsewhere, the Sun-Times and BGA found:
• Of the approximately 16,800 families living in CHA buildings at the end of 1999, 4,100 of them — 24 percent — were in mixed-income or traditional public housing in Chicago at the end of 2015.
• Another 3,500 — 21 percent — moved into privately owned housing with the help of housing vouchers from the CHA. Though they moved to areas across the city, most of these former CHA tenants now live in just 10 neighborhoods on the South Side and the West Side: South Shore, Grand Boulevard, Auburn-Gresham, Washington Park, West Englewood, Austin, Roseland, Woodlawn, Greater Grand Crossing and Englewood.
• About 6,100 former CHA families — 36 percent — have died or violated their lease terms.
• The CHA doesn't know where thousands of others ended up. Officials say about 3,100 families didn't respond to inquiries. And the whereabouts of those who'd been staying in CHA apartments under leases in someone else's name — estimated to be thousands more — also are unknown.
"A relatively small number were able to move back to these mixed-income developments," says Paul B. Fischer, a retired Lake Forest College urban affairs professor who has been studying public housing in the Chicago area for decades. "Many of them probably feel that's an improvement. The families that chose a voucher, how they ended up, it's very hard to say."
CHA officials say thousands of former public housing tenants now live in areas that are safer and more racially and economically integrated.
Also, Molly Sullivan, a CHA spokeswoman, says, "Chicago has been the testing ground for new ideas and strategies — many of which are working and some which have provided lessons learned."
METROPOLITAN CHICAGO'S SUBSIDIZED HOUSING: Click on interactive maps below.
Beyond the projects
The demolition of the high-rise projects represents just a part of the shift in the region's approach to housing for the poor since 2000. As the six-county Chicago area has grown more racially and economically diverse overall, the CHA, 13 suburban housing authorities and HUD all have increased the use of Section 8 vouchers — either with "housing choice" vouchers, which cover all or part of the rent for apartments or houses leased from private landlords, or project-based vouchers allotted to specific apartment complexes.
As a result, the number of households getting some kind of public housing aid in the six-county Chicago area rose by about 30,000, from 100,696 in 2000 to 131,011 last year, according to HUD data.
Most of that rise — 20,000 households — was in Chicago. After the CHA razed its high-rise developments, it nearly doubled the number of housing choice vouchers it issues.
As of the end of last year, Chicago had 89,500 subsidized-housing households with a total of 187,600 residents — 7 percent of the city's total population.
About three-quarters of those people were getting housing assistance through programs administered by the CHA, with the rest living in developments overseen by HUD.
The spike in vouchers, combined with the demolition of the high-rises, has had a dramatic effect on Chicago neighborhoods:
• South Shore — a predominantly African-American lakefront neighborhood with a mix of $500,000 homes, high-rise condos and multi-unit rental buildings — now has the most households receiving vouchers or living in public-housing properties: 5,096. It's followed by the Near West Side (4,386), Austin (4,203), Uptown (4,164) and Grand Boulevard (3,767), according to CHA and HUD data.
• Seven of the 10 city neighborhoods with the most subsidized housing units are predominantly African-American. So are all 13 neighborhoods with the biggest gains in CHA vouchers.
• The neighborhoods with the fewest households getting a housing subsidy are all on the Northwest Side or the Southwest Side: Edison Park (7), Mount Greenwood (10), Norwood Park (25) and Archer Heights (32). All are majority-white but Archer Heights, which went from majority-white to Hispanic between 2000 and 2010.
• Nearly 1,200 subsidized families have left the Near North Side and Near West Side since the high-rises of the Cabrini-Green and Henry Horner Homes developments were torn down. Both projects have been replaced by mixed-income developments that include hundreds of public housing and voucher households mixed among market-rate units. High-income residents and businesses have flocked to both areas.
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Ald. Le slie Hairston. | Sun-Times |
Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), whose South Side ward includes a large swath of South Shore, says the CHA either steered families to the neighborhood or did nothing to prepare for them moving there.
"I doubt that everybody who was in a housing project woke up one day, stretched their arms and said, 'I want to move to South Shore,' " Hairston
That neighborhood doesn't have the resources to help everyone in need of social services, according to Hairston, who says, "I am still working with the CHA and encouraging them to put resources in communities to help people lead healthy lives."
CHA officials say they provided social services to former public housing residents from the start of the Plan for Transformation and continue to offer counseling and other support to families with vouchers.
Eugene Jones Jr., tapped by Mayor Rahm Emanuel last year to head the CHA, says the agency has nearly delivered the 25,000 units it promised — though it initially pledged to do so by 2010, before repeated extensions.
The agency's job, Jones says, is to provide affordable housing. Many people getting housing assistance end up in segregated areas, but Jones says that's their choice, often to stay close to their families, friends, jobs and schools.
"I can't fix the segregation problem," Jones says. "If we help desegregation, that's great. But it's not the mission."
A suburban shift
Some of the former city-dwellers appear to have ended up in the suburbs, which census data show gained 105,500 black residents between 2000 and 2014 — a 22 percent increase — while Chicago's black population dropped by more than 200,500 people — roughly 19 percent.
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William Sampson. DePaul University |
That doesn't surprise DePaul University sociologist William Sampson, who says he thinks the Daley administration and the CHA always intended to displace African-Americans.
CHA high-rise tenants should have gotten more relocation assistance, Sampson says, but "the politicians don't have to worry much about the response from the public about how poor non-whites are treated. Those folks don't vote a lot."
The growing racial and economic diversity in the six-county area outside Chicago has been accompanied by an increase in subsidized housing:
• Between 2000 and 2015, the number of subsidized households in the suburbs went up from about 32,300 to 41,500 — a 28 percent rise, with more than 84,000 people living in those households.
• The rise in subsidized units outside the city has been clustered in several south suburbs, including Park Forest, Calumet City, Dolton and Lansing; the far north suburbs around Waukegan and Zion; and the southwest corner of DuPage County.
Lillie Martin never lived in public housing, but she used a housing voucher to move from Chicago to Calumet City nearly 20 years ago. At the time, Martin, who's African American, was adopting a son out of foster care and wanted to raise him in a safe, racially mixed community. She ended up in a two-story apartment building on a quiet street up the block from her son's neighborhood elementary school, where she volunteered.
Her son's now in college, and Martin, 77, is no longer as enamored as she once was with her neighborhood. People are moving away. Homes are sometimes left vacant — including one next door to hers. Sometimes, she doesn't feel safe.
"It has changed," she says.
From: Daytonians Against War Now (DAWN) On Behalf Of Dwight Sutton
Subject: Re: [DaytoniansAgainstWarNow] Digest Number 3223
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A Dark Day for the People of Puerto Rico
Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:03 pm (PDT) . Posted by: "Logan Martinez"
"A Dark Day for the People of Puerto Rico": U.S. Senate Moves to OK "Colonial Control Board"
The U.S. Senate is expected to vote as soon as today to set up a federally appointed control board with sweeping powers to run Puerto Rico's economy to help the island cope with its crippling debt crisis. The bill, known as PROMESA, passed the House by a bipartisan vote of 297 to 127. In the Senate, Robert Menendez has led the opposition to the bill. On Tuesday, he waged a four-hour filibuster to protest the bill. DEMOCRACY NOW!TRANSCRIPTThis is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Juan, before we move on with the rest of the show, there is a major vote on Puerto Rico in the U.S. Senate today.JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Yes, there is. The Senate will—looks like, will finally vote on what to do on the so-called PROMESA bill. This is the bill that both the Obama administration and Republicans in the House passed, you know, got through the House, initially, a couple of weeks ago, which would establish a means for Puerto Rico to restructure its $72 billion in debt, but would also impose a financial control board—what I and other people call a colonial control board—over the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved this week to have a cloture vote, which will occur today, because McConnell wants to prevent any amendments on the Senate floor from those who might have problems with the current bill. So he wants to—he's going to go for a 60-vote cloture vote and then proceed to have a vote on the full bill, because they're trying to rush to get this bill through before the July 1 deadline, in a few days, when Puerto Rico is sure to default on a huge portion of its debt. It has to pay about $2 billion on July 1.So, yesterday, Senator Bob Menendez did a filibuster. For four hours, he grabbed the Senate floor and continued to condemn the bill, to condemn the efforts to prevent the Senate from having any kind of amendments. But in the process, he also really—for anybody who watched it on C-SPAN, you got a real lesson on what is the problem and why people are calling this a colonial control bill. For instance, Menendez said that, contrary to what the Obama administration has been saying and what many Republicans in Congress have been saying, the people of Puerto Rico are completely opposed to this bill. There was a recent poll, showed that 69 percent of Puerto Rican voters on the island are opposed to the PROMESA bill, the very bill that the Senate is about to pass, and 54 percent are opposed to any kind of outside control board running the affairs of Puerto Rico for the next five to 10 years there. And so, there's huge opposition on the island to the bill, and yet the Congress is moving forward.Unfortunately, there's a lot of liberal Democrats that are supporting this bill; some liberal organizations, like Jubilee USA, astonishingly, has come out in favor of the bill, because they're all insisting that this is the only way, as bad as the bill is and the problems that it has, it's the only way for Puerto Rico to be able to restructure its debts and to avoid a rush to the courthouse by bondholders. But what Menendez made clear is that there's going to be a rush to the courthouse anyway, because as the bill passes, the bondholders, many of them, are going to go to court to challenge the constitutionality of the bill. So it's not as if there's not going to be legal challenges on July 1. But Menendez went on for four hours. Bernie Sanders participated for a short time in the filibuster. So did Maria Cantwell. But for the most part, it seems that there's a sufficient number of Democrats and Republicans that will vote to approve this bill today.AMY GOODMAN: Where did a key player, a key progressive in the Democratic Party, come down? And that is Elizabeth Warren, who was out on the campaign trail this week.JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Well, Elizabeth Warren has not said anything. She was critical, initially, of the bill. Elizabeth Warren has not said anything about this. My sense is that she's going to vote for it, as well, unfortunately. There's still a possibility that Bernie Sanders or Menendez could launch another filibuster today in the debate over the cloture vote, the final debate, or the bill itself. But it seems unlikely at this point. And it's astonishing to me how so many liberals in this country, who rail about American aggression abroad, are being so silent over this absolute imposition of colonial control by the United States government over the affairs of Puerto Rico. And Jack Lew, the secretary of treasury, spent almost all day yesterday basically meeting with Democratic senators to convince them, to pressure them to support this bill. So it's going to be a really dark day for the people of Puerto Rico, who are completely opposed to this bill, if the Senate votes today to approve it.AMY GOODMAN: Well, we'll of course continue to follow this, the issue of Puerto Rico so key.© 2016 MicrosoftTermsPrivacy & cookiesDevelopersEnglish (United States)
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From: Nextdoor Shortwest
Subject: Police and Youth Together Camp
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From: Katie Neubert; Dayton Area Manager, Prevent Blindness I Dayton Area Office
Subject: Prevent Blindness free adult vision screener training
The Ohio Affiliate of Prevent Blindness invites you to attend a free training program! Become a Certified Adult Vision Screener at our the Eye Watch Program Wednesday July 27th¬ 9:30 am to 1:30 pm Wallace Mtg. Room 165 Edwin C Moses Blvd, Dayton, OH 45402. Space is limited so please RSVP ASAP! |
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From: Derrick L. Forward; President, Dayton Unit NAACP
Subject: "Save The Date" - Dayton Unit NAACP 65th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet
Dayton Unit NACP Celebrates 101st Anniversary
May 10, 1915 – May 10, 2016
This is the official "SAVE THE DATE" notice regarding the Dayton Unit NAACP 65th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet to be held on Friday, October 28, 2016 at 6:30 PM at the Dayton Convention Center. Please note that the ads are due by September 23, 2016.
It's because of loyal supporters like you that we are able to provide Civil and Human Rights Services to everyday Citizens throughout the Greater Dayton Metropolitan Area who are in need of assistance. See attached Dayton Unit NAACP 2015 Annual Report for documentation purposes. Also, due to your unwavering support of our work, we are able to send 8 Adult Delegates to VOTE on policy changes; 4 ACT-SO Local Gold Medalist to compete at the National ACT-SO Competition; and ensured that 3 Littlejohn Junior Youth Council Members (Ages 1-13) and 2 Dayton Youth Council Members (Ages 14-20) as well as both Youth Council Advisors and Co-Advisor received proper training and development at the NAACP 106th Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Dayton Unit NAACP Delegates represented the Dayton community very well at the NAACP 106th Annual Convention and were elected to serve in the following leadership positions:
- President Derrick L. Foward, M.C.E. – Chairman of the Credentials Committee for the NAACP 106th Annual Convention
- Littlejohn Junior Youth Council President Te'Nayia A. Bailey – Member of the Credentials Committee for the NAACP 106th Annual Convention
- Scholarship Committee Chair Willie A. Terrell, Jr. – Sergeant-At-Arms For Region III
The awards that the Dayton Unit NAACP/ Delegates received during the convention are as follows:
- Dayton Unit NAACP – 1st Place Thalheimer Award for Programming (Highest Award Any Local Unit Can Receive From The NAACP Nationally)
- Dayton Unit NAACP – 1st Place Thalheimer Award for Publications (Highest Award Any Local Unit Can Receive From The NAACP Nationally)
- President Derrick L. Foward – Club 100 & Million Dollar Club Membership Awards
- President Derrick L. Foward – Liberty Bell Membership Laydown Report
- President Derrick L. Foward, Freedom Fund Chair Lu Dale, Scholarship Chair Willie A. Terrell, Jr., GOTV Chair Demetrius H. Rush, Assistant Secretary Lauretta Williams, Executive Committee Member Stacey D. Benson-Taylor and Summit Christian Church – Million Dollar Club Membership Awards
We look forward to seeing all of you on Friday, October 28, 2016 as we will celebrate the Dayton Unit NAACP 101st Anniversary during the 65th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet at the Dayton Convention Center at 6:30 p.m. Please share this date with your network of friends.
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