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NYCHA residents tired of being treated as ‘second-class citizens,’ demand money for repairs
“We had trash and roaches and mice for weeks. Birds have made their home in our home. Every morning, it’s like a journey through a wild kingdom,” Pia Horton, resident of Breukelen Houses in Canarsie, Brooklyn, said. She outlined problems within her home that scores of NYCHA tenants have complained of for years — water leaks leading to puddles in hallways, power outages, mold, lead paint, etc. Newsday story here.
Durham CAN/IAF Big push for affordable housing
Who's the Citizen?
170 SPANISH-SPEAKING CATHOLICS TRAIN FOR LEADERSHIP IN NEVADA, LAY FOUNDATION FOR HOUSE MEETING CAMPAIGN
Dallas Area Interfaith ID Strategy Is In Full Swing: protecting families and rebuilding churches
Building on a groundbreaking accord between Dallas Area Interfaith (DAI) and the Police Departments of Dallas, Carrollton and Farmers Branch -- in which the police agreed to accept parish identification cards as alternative ID -- upwards of 800 parish ID cards have been issued since the campaign was launched four weeks ago. With some parishes requiring active membership from applicants for at least six months before issuing the card, the waiting list of submitted applications has, so far, exceeded 2,000 applicants and is expected to grow. Full story here.
Rev. H. Lionel Edmonds
Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church and WIN Leader
Congratulations!
January 28, 2018
Reverend H. Lionel Edmonds
Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church
1219 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Dear Reverend Edmonds,
The Washington DC Hall of Fame Society takes great pleasure in congratulating you on your selection for induction into the Washington DC Hall of Fame for the year 2018. You were chosen to receive the Legacy Award in the area of Religion. This award honors persons and/or establishments in Washington who have contributed immensely to its growth and development. The Hall of Fame judges were unanimous in selecting you, based on your accomplishments and your commitment to the District of Columbia. We would appreciate your response to this high honor by Monday, February 5th.
We request you be present in order to be inducted in The Washington, DC Hall of Fame Society. The Black Tie Program and Gala will be held on Sunday, April 15th in the Grand Ballroom at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel, 415 New Jersey Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC 20001. We have reserved you two complimentary tickets. As an honoree, you will be seated on the dais and your guest will sit at a prominent table. Invitations will be forthcoming in February.
If you accept this prestigious honor, we are requesting a one page biographical summary and an official black and white photograph by Wednesday, February 7th. Please email your information to: jhharrisassoc@aol.com. I can be contacted on my cell phone at 202-744-4098.
Again Congratulations,
Sincerely,
Janette Hoston Harris, Ph.D.
President and Founder
Reverend H. Lionel Edmonds
Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church
1219 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Dear Reverend Edmonds,
The Washington DC Hall of Fame Society takes great pleasure in congratulating you on your selection for induction into the Washington DC Hall of Fame for the year 2018. You were chosen to receive the Legacy Award in the area of Religion. This award honors persons and/or establishments in Washington who have contributed immensely to its growth and development. The Hall of Fame judges were unanimous in selecting you, based on your accomplishments and your commitment to the District of Columbia. We would appreciate your response to this high honor by Monday, February 5th.
We request you be present in order to be inducted in The Washington, DC Hall of Fame Society. The Black Tie Program and Gala will be held on Sunday, April 15th in the Grand Ballroom at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel, 415 New Jersey Avenue, Northwest, Washington, DC 20001. We have reserved you two complimentary tickets. As an honoree, you will be seated on the dais and your guest will sit at a prominent table. Invitations will be forthcoming in February.
If you accept this prestigious honor, we are requesting a one page biographical summary and an official black and white photograph by Wednesday, February 7th. Please email your information to: jhharrisassoc@aol.com. I can be contacted on my cell phone at 202-744-4098.
Again Congratulations,
Sincerely,
Janette Hoston Harris, Ph.D.
President and Founder
COPA/IAF: Business and religious leaders meet in Salinas to talk about immigration reform.
IAF's Brawley blasts NYcha Systemic rot
Resignation of Chairwoman Olatoye won't fix problems. Only Mayor de Blasio can do that.
A leading community organizing group also blasted Olatoye on Monday — but said de Blasio is also to blame for the “rot at NYCHA.”
“Chairwoman Olatoye might be gone, but the systemic rot at NYCHA won’t end with her,” said the Rev. David K. Brawley, leader of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation.
“She may have failed, but she’s not the failure. Mayor de Blasio has talked big about making NYCHA fixes, but over the last four years the mayor has continued to treat hundreds of thousands of black and Latino New Yorkers like second-class citizens.” Full story here.
“Chairwoman Olatoye might be gone, but the systemic rot at NYCHA won’t end with her,” said the Rev. David K. Brawley, leader of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation.
“She may have failed, but she’s not the failure. Mayor de Blasio has talked big about making NYCHA fixes, but over the last four years the mayor has continued to treat hundreds of thousands of black and Latino New Yorkers like second-class citizens.” Full story here.
IAF Organizer Josephine Lopez Paul on Job Training that Works; Success stories put naysayers to shame
Skill Quest and its sister job training programs across Texas such as Quest in San Antonio, Capital IDEA in Austin, Project ARRIBA in El Paso, Capital IDEA in Houston, andProject Vida in the Rio Grande Valley have been developing a skilled workforce for more than 40 years. We have a proven track record of developing middle-skilled workers.
Mark Elliott, president of the Economic Mobility Corp. and co-author of the gold-standard study on this topic said: "This model not only increased participants' earnings, it enabled graduates to reach the middle class. Few workforce development models anywhere have had as powerful as an impact. This is a stunning achievement." Story here: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/06/success-stories-like-one-show-dallas-can-help-residents-pull-poverty
Mark Elliott, president of the Economic Mobility Corp. and co-author of the gold-standard study on this topic said: "This model not only increased participants' earnings, it enabled graduates to reach the middle class. Few workforce development models anywhere have had as powerful as an impact. This is a stunning achievement." Story here: https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/04/06/success-stories-like-one-show-dallas-can-help-residents-pull-poverty
NYCHA agrees to appoint independent ombudsman to push repairs, impose fines
Metro IAF Strengthens Prior agreement to remediate dreadful conditions
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"This is a positive step for NYCHA and our residents. We appreciate the parties coming together to agree on real goals and science-based solutions that will help public housing residents," said NYCHA General Manager Vito Mustaciuolo. "Mold is a serious issue and we are committed to resolving it, not only on the surface, but also to uncovering and resolving root causes and educating tenants on how to work with us to prevent mold."
“We have been completely disappointed by NYCHA’s performance over the past four years,” said Metro IAF member Maria Nieves, a leader with St. Cecilia’s Holy Agony Roman Catholic Church. “With the kind of independent supervision NYCHA has agreed to, there is now a much greater chance that residents will see real relief soon.”
Full story here.
“We have been completely disappointed by NYCHA’s performance over the past four years,” said Metro IAF member Maria Nieves, a leader with St. Cecilia’s Holy Agony Roman Catholic Church. “With the kind of independent supervision NYCHA has agreed to, there is now a much greater chance that residents will see real relief soon.”
Full story here.
The Ugly Truth of Deportation Schemes And How Families, Church and DAI/IAF Are Fighting Back
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/immigration/2018/04/05/deported-us-citizen-kids-face-loss-immigrant-parents
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After a decade 220-unit “abandominium”, Parkway Overlook, gets redeveloped. Listen in to all those who helped make this possible!
Determined, decisive, relentless: New Life Ministries and Washington Interfaith Network/IAF
Providers raise the bar for opioid treatment on Long Island; IAF Organization in the lead
MARCH 20, 2018
Often when doctors are called upon to help curb the opioid epidemic, they're told simply to prescribe fewer opioids. In fact, that's a key component of the plan President Donald Trump announced Monday. But a group of medical professionals and advocates on Long Island, which accounts for a disproportionate share of the state's overdose deaths, are pushing for clinicians from all disciplines to also take on a greater role in treating opioid-use disorder and advocating for evidence-based solutions.
At an event in Cold Spring Harbor hosted by Long Island Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods, or LI-CAN, Saturday, attendees were particularly critical of the shortage of doctors with waivers to prescribe buprenorphine and the fact that only a few emergency departments offer the medication. Story here: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180320/PULSE/180329997/providers-raise-the-bar-for-opioid-treatment-on-long-island
Often when doctors are called upon to help curb the opioid epidemic, they're told simply to prescribe fewer opioids. In fact, that's a key component of the plan President Donald Trump announced Monday. But a group of medical professionals and advocates on Long Island, which accounts for a disproportionate share of the state's overdose deaths, are pushing for clinicians from all disciplines to also take on a greater role in treating opioid-use disorder and advocating for evidence-based solutions.
At an event in Cold Spring Harbor hosted by Long Island Congregations, Associations and Neighborhoods, or LI-CAN, Saturday, attendees were particularly critical of the shortage of doctors with waivers to prescribe buprenorphine and the fact that only a few emergency departments offer the medication. Story here: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20180320/PULSE/180329997/providers-raise-the-bar-for-opioid-treatment-on-long-island
Very Good News on IAF Job Training: Vida in South Texas praised for top ranked retention, graduation, employment
VIDA Training Effectiveness Recognized by National StudyOne of nine workforce development programs evaluated under the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE), the Valley Initiative for Development and Advancement (VIDA) was selected as one of the most effective programs as measured by retention, graduation and employment. Findings from the study were revealed at South Texas College’s Pecan Campus and celebrated by Senator John “Chuy” Hinojosa and leaders from VIDA and Valley Interfaith. The study was a blind study — essentially comparing what happened to 500 students who enrolled in VIDA and 500 students who enrolled in other programs.
VIDA is a long-term workforce development program established by Valley Interfaithand modeled after the nationally renowned Project QUEST in San Antonio. In video above, San Juanita Sanchez describes how VIDA helped her return to college after 20 years to finish her degree in social work.
National Study Shows Impact of VIDA, Valley Central [pdf]
Editorial: RGV Education Program for Low-Income Gets Worthy National Praise, The Monitor [pdf]
VIDA is a long-term workforce development program established by Valley Interfaithand modeled after the nationally renowned Project QUEST in San Antonio. In video above, San Juanita Sanchez describes how VIDA helped her return to college after 20 years to finish her degree in social work.
National Study Shows Impact of VIDA, Valley Central [pdf]
Editorial: RGV Education Program for Low-Income Gets Worthy National Praise, The Monitor [pdf]
Really Big Senior Housing Win For Metro IAF
CITY COUNCIL SPEAKER COREY JOHNSON IS PROPOSING SPENDING $2 BILLION TO BUILD 15,000 NEW AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS FOR SENIORS ON NYCHA LAND. THE COUNCIL WILL INCLUDE $500 MILLION IN ITS BUDGET RESPONSE FOR THE COMING FISCAL YEAR, JOHNSON SAID MONDAY NIGHT. "I'VE MADE MY COMMITMENT AND MY COMMITMENT IS REAL," HE SAID AT A RALLY HOSTED BY THE METRO INDUSTRIAL AREAS FOUNDATION AT OUR LADY OF MERCY CATHOLIC CHURCH IN BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN.
Read The Story In The New York DAily News
Seniors push for affordable housing in NYC, say they shouldn’t have to pick between food or homes | WPIX 11 New York
http://pix11.com/2018/03/12/seniors-push-for-affordable-housing-in-nyc-say-they-shouldnt-have-to-pick-between-food-or-homes/
http://pix11.com/2018/03/12/seniors-push-for-affordable-housing-in-nyc-say-they-shouldnt-have-to-pick-between-food-or-homes/
civic and religious leaders from four counties in Illinois, organized by local affiliates of the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, met with all ten candidates for Illinois Attorney General in primary election
Key Questions: “Will you agree to meet with our organizations within 30 days of your election to address issues of fundamental importance to our families and institutions?” (Citizen leaders from 85 churches, synagogues, mosques, and civic agencies presented strategies pursued locally in Cook, DuPage, Kane, and Lake counties.) Each candidate then had three minutes to respond.
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IAF in Northern Illinois gathers 1300 strong to back locally developed agenda. Broadbased leadership steps forward in powerful action.
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“This is the first time in fifteen years that the office of Attorney General is truly up for grabs in the state of Illinois,” said Rev. Jay Risk, a leader from St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Park Ridge, a member of United Power for Action and Justice. “As the top law enforcement official in the state, the next Attorney General can have significant impact on the four matters we have been working on for several years: reducing incarceration of people with addiction and/or mental illness; affordable and accessible housing; protecting immigrants, refugees and vulnerable groups; and accountability from gun manufacturers.”
In the New York Times:
When the Dollar Is Mightier Than the Gun
Rabbi Joel Mosbacher, of Temple Shaaray Tefila on the Upper East Side, is co-chairman of a national campaign to get law enforcement and investors to use their purchasing power to nudge gunmakers to take steps to curb violence. Photo by David Gonzalez, New York Times
Metro IAF Strategy To Address Gun Violence Combines An Acute Understanding Of Firearm Markets With Public Political Pressure For Change:
Framed Inside “The Do Not Stand Idly By” Campaign, Citizen Leaders Of IAF Are Fleshing Out A Multi-Dimensional Initiative That Bypasses The NRA In Favor Of Market Leverage
Photo by David Choy curtesy of Washington Interfaith Network/IAF
BlackRock, the world's largest asset / fund manager and owner of 17% of Sturm Ruger shares and owner of 11% of American Outdoor Brands Co (Smith & Wesson) shares, used questions from Metro IAF's Do Not Stand Idly By request for information in their announcement of what information they would request from gun manufacturers.
This is primarily due to work by IAF leader Rabbi Joel Mosbacher. It establishes a standard that IAF organizations and allies can now press Vanguard and other majors shareholders to also adopt.
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/newsroom/press-releases/article/corporate-one/press-releases/blackrock-approach-to-companies-manufacturing-distributing-firearms
Got connections with other major shareholders? Contact the DNSIB Campaign.
This is primarily due to work by IAF leader Rabbi Joel Mosbacher. It establishes a standard that IAF organizations and allies can now press Vanguard and other majors shareholders to also adopt.
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/newsroom/press-releases/article/corporate-one/press-releases/blackrock-approach-to-companies-manufacturing-distributing-firearms
Got connections with other major shareholders? Contact the DNSIB Campaign.
Rev. Jeff Krehbiel
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IN MEMORIAM: A REMEMBRANCE OF IAF LEADER JEFF KREHBIEL BY MARTIN TRIMBLE |
Smart Gun Battle Heats up
National Shooting SPorts Foundation peddles bad information; blocks negotiations With Conect/iaf
"So our Do Not Stand Idly By campaign has pursued a market approach to smart guns and curbing illegal guns with zero help from the NSSF. It was our fellow leaders in New Jersey who persuaded state legislators to initiate repeal of that state’s mandate law. We want market forces to work: to deliver badly needed capital to innovators with promising smart-gun designs and other safety technologies so these products can get to market and succeed or fail on their merits." Read the rest.
Radical intervention!
iaf proposes:
"superfund" to address opioid crisis
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"The polluter, in this case, is the opioid industry. Let the manufacturers of addictive pain pills like Purdue Pharma pay for the opioid cleanup they made necessary by falsely marketing their products. Let the distributors and retailers — which reaped enormous opioid profits and then successfully lobbied to undermine government’s authority to regulate their operations — put some of those profits toward a solution." Read it all in the NY Daily News.
Neto's Tucson: Ana Chavarin is a single mom, an immigrant and a success...and a PCIC/IAF organizer
Ana Chavarin
Her Story in the arizona daily star.
IAF Going Local In Northern and Central Louisiana:
Challenge tax give aways that sell out community needs for insider deals
Shreveport-Caddo Has New Power Over Tax Program Which Gave Away Over $680 Million, Shreveport Heliopolis
Advocacy Groups Seek Answers Regarding Costly ITEP Discrepancies from Two Local Companies, Shreveport Sun
Caddo Interfaith Coalition Expresses Concerns on Industrial Tax Exemption Programs, Red River Radio [pdf]
Letter from Caddo Parish Sheriff Regarding Tax Exemptions for Inferno Manufacturing
Advocacy Groups Seek Answers Regarding Costly ITEP Discrepancies from Two Local Companies, Shreveport Sun
Caddo Interfaith Coalition Expresses Concerns on Industrial Tax Exemption Programs, Red River Radio [pdf]
Letter from Caddo Parish Sheriff Regarding Tax Exemptions for Inferno Manufacturing
Better Call Saul: The U.S. Needs Radicalism, Not Extremism
Alinsky is one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th century. Let’s set the record straight. Michael Gecan in the Wall Street journal.
"IF YOU DON’T STAND FOR SOMETHING, YOU’LL FALL FOR ANYTHING"
Blog post by Ramon Duran
Growing power in Louisiana
Together Baton Rouge and Together Louisiana
A force to be reckoned with
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"But perhaps the biggest reason a lot of people don’t like TBR is because it has become so effective in fighting back against big business and industry. Not since Victor Bussie’s AFO-CIO of the 1970s and 1980s has business and industry in Louisiana had to deal with such an organized opposition. Though TBR’s activism springs from different roots and impulses than did the union’s, it speaks for those who don’t feel as though they have a voice against the powers that be, and it has demonstrated that it, too, has the ability to become a powerful force."
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"It’s been a long time since big industry has faced credible opposition in Louisiana. TBR and the IAF didn’t set out to take the place of unions, but there was a void and the role the community organizing groups are now playing effectively fill that void—and with an added advantage. Unlike the unions, TBR is neither tainted by scandal nor corrupted by politics."
The rest of the story from Business Report.
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"It’s been a long time since big industry has faced credible opposition in Louisiana. TBR and the IAF didn’t set out to take the place of unions, but there was a void and the role the community organizing groups are now playing effectively fill that void—and with an added advantage. Unlike the unions, TBR is neither tainted by scandal nor corrupted by politics."
The rest of the story from Business Report.
james e coleman decisive on nunes memo
Nicholas Von Hoffman
Died 2/1/18
Worked ten years with Saul Alinsky
Saul Alinsky and Nicholas Von Hoffman
"Von Hoffman got his start as an activist, not a journalist, and in the '50s he was a lieutenant of sorts to the Chicago-based organizer Saul Alinsky. (My review of Radical, von Hoffman's memoir of his Alinsky days, is here.) From there he drifted into reporting, filing lively dispatches for the Chicago Daily News and then The Washington Post. He wrote sympathetically about the counterculture and the civil rights movement, unsympathetically about Nixon and the Vietnam War; he developed a reputation as the Post's in-house New Leftist. And that he was, more or less. But like the more anarchistic New Left types—and like his old boss Alinsky—von Hoffman didn't have much faith in big government." Read the rest from Reason.
Dallas Area Interfaith Drives BiG Push for Citizenship
“The reasons so many don’t take the final step [to citizenship] is they feel disenfranchised,” Lopez-Paul said. “But they can make democracy work for them.”
Lopez-Paul and Perales have worked in the churches, grooming leaders and forming groups that tackle everything from citizenship issues to lobbying for better housing. Citizenship and greater political participation rose to the top last year.
The rest of the story in the Dallas Morning News.
Lopez-Paul and Perales have worked in the churches, grooming leaders and forming groups that tackle everything from citizenship issues to lobbying for better housing. Citizenship and greater political participation rose to the top last year.
The rest of the story in the Dallas Morning News.
CONECT and Metro IAF drive Smart gun technology
Smart guns offer hope of reduced fatalities
WASHINGTON — Connecticut has become ground zero of sorts for spurring development of smart guns that use technology to prevent accidental or unauthorized discharge of firearms, particularly by children.
The state government is one of 122 jurisdictions in the nation to join in a “request for information” to gun manufacturers on what steps they are taking to develop smart-gun technology. The RFI has been orchestrated by an ad hoc group, Do Not Stand Idly By, made up primarily of religious leaders. Read the rest of the story here: http://www.newcanaannewsonline.com/local/article/In-Washington-state-advocates-push-for-smart-guns-12525863.php
The state government is one of 122 jurisdictions in the nation to join in a “request for information” to gun manufacturers on what steps they are taking to develop smart-gun technology. The RFI has been orchestrated by an ad hoc group, Do Not Stand Idly By, made up primarily of religious leaders. Read the rest of the story here: http://www.newcanaannewsonline.com/local/article/In-Washington-state-advocates-push-for-smart-guns-12525863.php
Business Group targets Together Louisiana with attack vid; Eddie Rispone seeks to bring IAF organization down as citizen leaders shrug
Eddie Rispone
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Louisiana powerhouse
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Eddie Rispone gets one and only one thing right: Together Louisiana is a power to be reckoned with in Louisiana. Business Report story here
The biggest big Mistake in US politics:
Underestimating the scale, scope and emerging power of the resistance
Near Central Park before the launch of the Women's March (Getty images)
Indivisible Copper Corridor team, Casa Grande, AZ
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Park City Utah
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VP Pence pierced by the arrow of truth
Courageous Rev Maurice Watson delivers the message at MLK service
Pastor denounces President Trump's 's--thole' comments with red-faced Vice President Pence in pews |
“I stand today as your pastor to vehemently denounce and reject any such characterizations of the nations of Africa and of our brothers and sisters in Haiti,” Watson said at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Largo.
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