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Artist Michael Dowling presents the 18th annual Medicine Wheel Installation at the Cyclorama in the Boston Center for the Arts. Medicine Wheel, a public art installation and vigil held annually at the BCA is the longest running Boston area World AIDS Day/A Day Without Art event. Medicine Wheel provides a safe place to gather and reflect on the impact of the epidemic, while artists from all over Boston offer their gifts of music, dance and poetry.
Medicine Wheel is open to the public Mon. Nov. 23 to Dec. 2 from 9am to 5pm. Public is encouraged to attend the processional starting Nov 30 at 11:30pm from Eliot Norton Park and ending at Cyclorama with a 24-hour vigil that runs from midnight to midnight on Dec 1. (Nov. 25, 9am-12pm, closed Thanksgiving. Re-opens Fri. Nov. 27, 9am.
Volunteers Needed on Wednesday, December 2 from 5pm-9pm for strike and Thursday, December 3 from 9am-5pm for load out.
For questions call: 617-268-6700 or email Michael at mdowling {at} mwproductions.org or just come and lend a hand!
For more information on the Medicine Wheel installation visit www.mwproductions.org or call 617-268-6700.
The AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts (AAC) has once again collaborated to support the Medicine Wheel installation. www.aac.org
The Medicine Wheel installation is a residency at the Boston Center for the Arts, Cyclorama. 539 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02116. 617-426-5000. www.bcaonline.org
Yesterday, my friend Aaron Renn, an opinion-leading urban success strategist and the author of The Urbanophile wrote about Neighbors for Neighbors – Thanks Aaron!
The Urbanophile is about helping America’s cities thrive in the 21st century global economy by discarding old stereotypes and adopting new strategies based in progressive planning, economic, and branding principles aimed at creating sustainable, everyday places for the majority of Americans to live, work, and visit on an ongoing basis.
Check out his blog, I think you’ll find it very interesting.
Tomorrow, many of us will gather around the table with family and friends to give thanks over a feast of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy — and let’s not forget pumpkin pie!
But for some in this country, the feast will not be as bountiful. In fact, it won’t be much of a feast at all. Hunger is on the rise in America — hitting its highest levels in nearly 15 years. A recent report released by the USDA reveals that in 2008 an estimated 1.1 million children were living in households that experienced hunger multiple times over the past year.
To combat hunger this winter, we’re launching, in coordination with the Corporation for National and Community Service and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the United We Serve: Feed a Neighbor initiative — a program that empowers you with all the resources you need to mobilize against the hunger crisis in your community. Learn how you can get started today:
Barack and I are committed to doing all we can to end hunger by making food programs more accessible to eligible families. But government can only do so much — it will take all of us working together to put an end to hunger in America.
That’s why we’ve made it easy for you to get involved at Serve.gov. Find local volunteer opportunities like delivering meals to homebound seniors, offering your professional skills at a food pantry, or planting a community garden and sharing produce with your neighbors. You can also create your own volunteer opportunity using our anti-hunger toolkit.
This holiday season let’s recommit to serving our communities and working together to feed American families. Get started giving back today.
Thank you,
Michelle
First Lady Michelle Obama
The White House
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Violent crime has dipped dramatically in Boston, with homicides on a pace to decrease by 20 percent by year’s end – an encouraging trend that law enforcement officials and community activists are working to preserve during the often volatile holiday season.
The drop – 44 homicides through Sunday compared with 56 by the same date last year – is a continuation of the steady decline that began after 2006, when the number of killings reached 75.
There have been some incidents on and around T stations and Jamaica Plain over the last couple of months. Please watch the video Sgt. Krause from the Jamaica Plain District Police Station and Lt. Shea from the MBTA Transit Police posted to help keep us safe!
Way to be proactive and take advantage of the Neighbors for Neighbors platform Sgt. Krause!
Captain JohnGreland and Sgt. Eric Krause from Boston Police Jamaica Plain’s district station made this cool video about crime prevention and holiday safety tips.
Do you care about basic services in your DCR parks in Boston? Go to the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ FY 2011’s budget hearing with Secretary Ian Bowles on Monday, November 23, 2009, from 3:30 to 5:00 pm at 100 Cambridge Street, 2nd floor, Conference Room B. Submit written comments prior to the hearing, or up until November 30, 2009. Bring a picture I.D. for security.
Over 2,500 acres of the parks in Boston are owned and managed by MA DCR. That is over one half of the city’s parks including the Southwest Corridor Parkland, Castle Island, the South Boston, Dorchester and East Boston Beaches, the Esplanade and so much more. The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs. In FY09, the DCR statewide budget was $102million ; this year (FY10) it is 78 million, a 23% cut! Additional mid year cuts are coming. In FY 11, DCR is proposing to cut another 10-15% more.
Boston residents, who use and care for their DCR parks, must let their elected officials know that the levels ofservices in our state parks and open spaces must not fall to unacceptable levels. The budget of the Environmental Secretariat is only 0.8% of the entire state budget, and Department of Conservation’s budget is 39 % of EEA’s budget. Cuts to DCR have very little to do with solving the state’s overall budget crisis, but will have tremendous impacts for urban residents who depend on the parks to be clean, safe and accessible. If the basic level of services delivered falls, there will be serious impacts to the quality of life in urban neighborhoods.
Let Secretary Bowles know how important your urban state parks are to you, and tell him what worries you most about the proposed additional cuts.
Tonight, Wednesday, November 18, from 11:00 pm to about 2:00 am we are going to be taking all Neighbors for Neighbors offline to do some domain mapping maintenance. All networks will show a maintenance screen for the duration.
