January 2011 Vol.19 No.1 OSARC newsletter In This Issue Practicing Safe Computing our computer is vulnerable to attack by un- Ywanted programs called malware. Malware - In Memoriam includes viruses, worms, spyware, and adware. 2 They can slow down or destroy your computer and - Drug Rider Premiums Up enable criminals to access your private information, rob your assets, or steal your identity. Gone are the days when it was sufficient to back up your computer so that you could restoreit to an uninfected state. Now 3 - Fire Safety for Seniors it is essential to protect your data from intruders whenever you're connected to the Internet. At OSARC’sJanuary meeting, MaryGinsburg of theNY - OSARC Celebrates Personal Computer User Group will provide an overview of threats to your 7 computer. She will describe how these programs gain access and outline ways to protect your machine and data. She will discuss anti-malware software, the relative merits of paid versus free software and security suites versus individual programs, 8 - Volunteers Needed as well as the settings necessary to keep your security measures protecting you. She will also describe some symptoms of a malware infection and give some advice on its eradication. However, the emphasis is on prevention! 9 - Kathryn’s Election TIME TO RENEW YOUR DUES FOR 2011 Adventures - 2010 Edition ith the arrival of 2011, the Newsletterreminds you that your OSARC duesfor Wthe new year are due. The membership committee is standing by (well, sitting by, truth be told), awaiting your payments. So, don’t disappoint them. A small 15 -DeficitCommissionReleases number of OSARCers have already paid their dues for 2011 – Marsha Ambrose, Saul Bick, Marcia Brown, Maria Crisci, John Dellecave, Don Delorenzo, Jack Recommendations Dobrow, Lorraine Hickey, Amy Kahn, Lillie Lockhart, Charles Reiche, Bernard Tuchman, Joy Walton, Kay Wilson, Shirley Wilson, and Geraldine Wooden. Thanks! Everyone else, it’s time to break out that checkbook. 16 - OSARC Visits the King A dues payment form is enclosed with this Newsletter, along with a pre-addressed return envelope for your convenience. As always, this edition of the Newsletter is going out to all OSA retirees, not just OSARC members. So, please renew your OSARC membership, consider joining for the first time, or rejoin, if you let your membership lapse sometime in the past. Dues area modest $18 a year and arepaid on a calendar year (Jan.-Dec.) basis, regardless of when you paid your dues last year. You receive 10 issues of this Newsletter, invitations to monthly OSARC meetings featuring guest speakers on issues of retiree concern, and the chance to  stay in touch with your fellow retirees. Take a moment now to make your payment to OSARC. And best wishes for a healthy 2011 to you and your family! OSARC 220 East 23rd Street Next Organization of Staff Analysts’ Suite 707 New York NY 10010 Retirees Club Meeting (212) 686-1229 (212) 686-1231 Fax Wednesday • January 12, 2011 • 12:30–2:30pm (212) 330-8833 Hotline Keeping Your Computer & Data Safe www.osaunion.org Guest Speaker: Mary Ginsburg, New York Personal Computer User Group OSA Union Office • 220 E. 23rd Street • Ste 707 (Between 2nd & 3rd Aves) OSARC Officers 2010-2011 In Memoriam The union has been informed recently of the deaths of Co-Chairs...... Regina Berry, Fred four retirees. Carl Gadson retired in 2006 as an Associate Ranzoni Supervisor of School Security with the NYPD. MEBAretiree Co-Vice-Chairs...... Fred Lieber, Saul John Auffreddou retired from the Department of Trans- Weber portation as an Engineer. Robert McCallum retired in 1992 Treasurer...... Dan as a Staff Analyst at the Off-Track Betting Corporation. Lois Morgan Sims retired in 1997 as an Associate Staff Analyst at the Secretary...... Joyce Human Resources Administration. Cleveland The Newsletter extends its sincere condolences to the families and friends of our brothers and sister. We’ll Be Seeing You in All the Old Familiar ••••• Places Thirty-nine (39)members and friends attended the Remembering Mollie November OSARC meeting: by JoAnn Ambrogi Hakimah al-Zahra, JoAnn Ambrogi, Gilberte Ambroise, MolliePisciotta died recently at the age of 92. She retired Regina Berry, Elizabeth Borden, Lois Chaffee, Joyce from the Human Resources Administration, working well into Cleveland, Gloria D’Jaha, Joan Doheny, Manny Friedman, her “golden years,” after raising two fine sons with a loving Tom Gorse, Josefino Gumpeng, Al Gundersheimer, Betty Henderson, Paul Henry, Mary Hillman, Roslyn Jones, husband. Although Mollie was not employed in the analyst Elisabeth Karetzky, Kaye Lee, Joel Leichter, Rosanne Levitt, title, she worked with many who were, including several Fred Lieber, Marvin Lutenberg, Hank Mandel, John OSARCers. Mazzarella, Jim McKeon, Dan Morgan, Eileen Pentel, Fred OSARCer Jim McQuade was Mollie's office mate and Ranzoni, Jeff Robinson, Nancy Russell, Michael Schady, Louis friendfor many years. Mollie was a role model, especially for Starkey, Sallie Stroman, Jean Taylor, Edward Tennant,Hattie younger professional women She had a keen intellect and wit Thomas, Saul Weber, Margaret Williams. andwas generous in her spirit and in her time with you. Those New faces at the meeting included Lois Chaffee, who who had the privilege of knowing her admired, respected and retired from the Department of Small Business Services and loved her. Elisabeth Karetzky, formerly of HRA. Welcome to both! So, we toast Mollie and her life well led. Rest-in-peace, Forty-one (41) members and friends attended the dear friend and cherished colleague. Our condolences go out December OSARC meeting: to your family. JoAnn Ambrogi, Gilberte Ambroise, Jean Anmuth, Renee ••••• Bash, Regina Berry, Elizabeth Borden, Renee Boyce, Michella Brown, Lois Chaffee, Joyce Cleveland, Joan Doheny, Manny Friedman, TomGorse, Irma Grossman, Josefino Gumpeng, Al Retiree Drug Rider Rates Go Up January 1st Gundersheimer, ElizabethHenderson, Mary Hillman, Barbara Expect to see an increase in the drug rider premium Hunt, Kaye Lee, Rosanne Levitt, Mark Lewis, Fred Lieber, deduction from your pension checks come January. Marvin Lutenberg, Hank Mandel, John Mazzarella, Dan The two most widely used basic health plans for Medi- Morgan, Eileen Pentel, Fred Ranzoni, Edna Riley, Nilsa care-eligibleretirees will seethe following premium in-creases Mangual Rios, Nancy Russell, Waguih Sabongui, Michael – HIP VIP will rise to $116.28 from $115.88 monthly and Schady, Michael Schlesinger, Tomi Smith, Joe Sperling, Louis GHI CBP Senior Care goes from $108.75 to $119.87 a month Starkey, Madeline Taylor, Mary Taylor, Willie Mae Timothy. (including prescription drugs and 365 day hospitalization). Mark Lewis joined us for the first time. He retired from HIP Prime HMO for non-Medicare retirees will rise from the NYC Department of Health. $107.35 for individuals and $263.13 for a family to $111.29 We look forward to seeing you at our next OSARC and $272.63, respectively. Other plans will alsosee increases. meet ing. Information on all of the new rates can be obtained from the Health Benefits Program at 40 Rector Street or can be downloaded in PDF format from the Health Benefits Program’s website at www.nyc.gov/olr. Medicare-eligible retirees on GHI Senior Care will continue to see the drug rider premium reduced by the OSA Welfare Fund’s contribution of $50/month per member or covered spouse/domestic partner. In other words, you should see a deduction of $69.87 per covered person. For HIP VIP enrollees and those in other Medicare-enhanced health plans, the Welfare Fund will continue to reimburse you in a lump sum for $50/covered person/month. The reimbursement takes place in the first quarter of each year for the previous year. A festive cake completed the feast at OSARC’s December luncheon.

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 2 dropand roll onthe floor tosmother OSARCers Get Briefing On the flames, or grab a blanket to smother them. He said you can use Fire Safety For Seniors water if there is a source nearby, By Joyce Cleveland but recommended that you don't waste time searching for water if it isn’t close at hand. Clothingis not fire resistant, he reminded OSARCers, and hair pieces or hair spray can be quite flammable. There is not much of a time lag between ignition and serious injury. Jones reminded OSARCers of the infamous videotapes of Michael Jackson’s rehearsal accident in which Josefino Gumpeng Jackson’s hair caught on fire. Within seconds of ignition, Jackson had sustained third degree burns to his scalp. So, smother the fire as quickly as possible. Another frequent source of fires in the home is leaving pots on the stoveunattended whilecooking. Distractions, such as listening to music, watching television, speaking on the phone or even leaving the home while cooking can easily lead OSARC Co-Chair Fred to disaster. Ranzoni welcomed Fire- Jones suggested that one should stay in the kitchen when fighter Mike Jones of the cooking, but if you have to leave, find a way to remain New York City FireDepart- attentive. For example: ment’s Bureau of Training, • Set the stove's timer, since many new stoves can be set to Fire Safety Education to shut off automatically when the timer goes off. OSARC's November lunch- • If your stove does not have a timer, use a portable timer eon. Firefighter Jones deliv- (available even from 99¢ stores) and place it next to you ered an informative (and at- or, if you believe a timer is too expensive, take something times memorably humor- with you when you leave the kitchen as a reminder that ous) lecture on fire safety, you have left food cooking on the stove, such as a big with an emphasis on the oven mitt or two large spoons. concerns of seniors andtheir caregivers. GREASE FIRES As a practical adjunct to Grease fires are another major cause of injury said Jones. his talk, Jones provided each Grease fires can occur in a pan and the goal is to be able to attendee with a fresh 9-volt contain it before it spreads beyond the pan. battery to replace the one in In discussing how to handlea grease fire, Jones recounted current use in their smoke severalanecdotes. He said, “I was at a meeting similar to this Firefighter Mike Jones of the alarms and CO (carbon NYC Fire Department’s Bureau one at a senior center. I asked, ‘what do you do when you have of Training addressed OSARC- monoxide) detec-tors, along a grease fire?’ ‘I know what you ers in November. with a copy of the newly do,’ eagerly vol-unteered one revised FDNY pamphlet woman. ‘What's that?’ Jones asked. “Fire Safety for Seniors.” ‘Eat out more often,’she said.” Jones saidtwo areasareespecially problematicfor seniors “‘That's why I go to the senior – cooking and grease fires. center,’ she added. ‘They do the cooking and I do the eating, so COOKING FIRES when I go home I don't have to Looking at cooking fires first, he said many seniors wear cook.’” robes with long, loosesleeves that can easily catch fire as they Another time, Jones said, he prepare foodon top of their stoves. Jones suggests that seniors was at a different senior center and consider using robes with tight-fitting sleeves in cold weather, asked the audience, ‘what do you sleeveless robes or robes with short sleeves in warmer do about grease fires?’ One lady weather, or tie up their sleeves to reduce the hazards of fire said, ‘I know what to do. I had one injury from loose sleeves. at my house.’ ‘What happened?’ If, despite your precautions, your clothing catches fire, asked Jones. ‘I was frying chicken Gilberte Ambroise

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 3 and the grease caught on fire,’ the woman answered. ‘What There are three things you can do, Jones said. One is to use an did you do?’‘I took that pan and threw it right out the ABC or dry chemical fire extinguisher. However, there are window.’ ‘Why did you do that?’ Jones asked. ‘I wanted that effective and ineffective ways to use a fire extinguisher and fire out of my house,’ she said. these should be remembered: According to Firefighter Jones, • The size of fire extinguishers is not regulated. You don't the woman lived in senior housing need a very large one. and these sites usually have many • Be sure and mount the extinguisher on or near a door, but benches on the grounds where awayfrom the stove. Otherwise, you'll never getto it if the people sit. So, Jones continued, ‘I stove is on fire. Mount it where it is easily accessible. asked her, before you threw outthat • Be sure to read and master the instructions for the pan, did you think that someone extinguisher in advance of any need to make use of it. may have been sitting on one of Jones explained what can happen when you don't prepare those benches?’ She said, ‘Well, let properly: ‘A fire starts and you're trying to read the me tell you. I'll bet they won't sit instructions. The fire gets bigger. You panic, give up and take there no more.’ the fire extinguisher and literallythrow it into the burningpan. While there was When it gets hot enough, the device explodes and the fire laughter-out-loud among spreads. So, you should read the instructions ahead of time.’ OSARCers in the room, the goal Don't shoot the extinguisher's was to get OSARCers to think stream directly into the flames. carefully about how we act when Lois Chaffee The pressure will simply spread circumstances become suddenly the flames. Instead, usea layering threatening and dangerous, so that wedo not put ourselves or approach to spreadthe mixture in others in danger. We do not need to act, said Jones, out of a film across the top of the ignorance, myth or incorrect reasoning. flaming grease. So, here are some do’s and don'ts about grease fires from The second method of Firefighter Jones: extinguishing a grease fire in a • A grease fire can get out-of-control within 30 seconds. If pan is to put a lid on the pan The you enter your kitchen and the fire has spread to the lid should be appropriate in size cabinets and/or walls, the fire is out-of-control and you and type. Some pans have glass should close the kitchen door and immediately call 911. lids, but if the glass is thin the lid • Know what to do in case of a fire and have what you may shatter and break. So, you might use to extinguish the flames at the ready. You shoulduse a lid where the glass is should never place extinguisher materials in cabinets very thick or keep an appropriate above the stove where you could catch fire getting to solid metal cover nearby so you them. can use it. In any case, turn off Jim McKeon • Leave a flaming pan where it is; the fire can spread easily the burner. or it can land on you. The third method is to use baking soda to put out the • Dirt does not put out grease fires. Jones noted that many flames but, again, it has to be used properly. Also, observed women tell him, ‘I have plants in my kitchen, If I have a Jones, it must be baking soda and not baking powder. Do not fire, I'll throw the plants right in it. Jones said, don’t do it. confuse the two. You're just killing the plant.’ Jones described a woman who kept saying ‘it doesn't • Water will intensify a grease fire’s flames and spread work, it doesn't work,’ when he discussed using baking soda them. Do not use wet or dry towels. as a fire extinguisher. She told him‘I was at my homecooking • Another common belief is something and the grease caught on fire. I took that box of that salt will put out the baking soda and I threw it right in the pan and I waited. It flames of a grease fire. You didn't do anything.’ Observed Jones, ‘the only way baking would literally need boxes of soda works is if you pour it from the box onto the flaming salt for such a strategy to be grease.’ effective. So, salt is not One OSARCer asked about the expiration date of fire recommended, because most extinguishers. Jones said that, normally, ABC extinguishers people will not have enough are good for 5 years. Some of the newer ones have the of it on hand. Using a salt expiration date on them. ABC extinguishers are one-time use shaker simply won’t work, he only. If you discharge the extinguisher, regardless of the said. expiration date, it has been used. If it is rechargeable, it can be • Don't put flour on a grease used again after recharging. If it’s a disposable model, you fire. The small granules of have to get rid of it. flour hitting the grease can If you have an old extinguisher at home, put it in a cause a dust explosion. garbage bag, pull the pin, press it and drain all the liquid out. Joel Leichter When that’s complete, the arrow should be all the way on the

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 4 recharge side. Then you can put the empty extinguisher outfor sound during ignition. If you recycling. continue to smell gas, please call If it is not fully drained and has some pressure left, the 911. The Fire Department will Department of Sanitation will not take it from you for come and shut your stove down, disposal, because even a little pressure left in one of these allowing you time to have some one extinguishers is enough to blow up a Sanitation truck, Jones come and fix it. said. If you return home to a strong Another problem with old extinguishers is that the agent odor of gas, Firefighter Jones in the extinguisher, baking soda, maycake up after a time and, advises that you immediately get if you try to use it, air but not the agent may emerge. out of the house and call 911. Get out first and then call 911, because HEATING INCIDENTS under these conditions, one spark could cause an explosion, whether Heating incidents area leading sourceof injuryand death, it is from turning on a light, a static especially among seniors. According to the pamphlet “Fire electric spark from your hair or Safety for Seniors,” this is mainly because of misuse of clothing, or from a cell phone when Jean Taylor heating equipment. you press the send button. The main cause of problems among seniors is use of the stove for home heating. That can SMOKE AND CO DETECTORS give rise to carbon monoxide poisoning. ‘Don't do that,’ said Detectors are used to warn us of the presence of Firefighter Jones. dangerous smoke and carbon monoxide(CO) before it is too When people use their gas late to escape. However, they must be properly placed and stoves to heat their homes, said maintained. Firefighter Jones gave these tips: Jones, they often have strangeideas Most smoke detectorsand CO monitors work onbatteries, of how to prevent harm to which must be in working order and should be replaced themselves. They will often say regularly. Make sure you test the detector or monitor when they ‘get a big pot of water and put you replace the battery. it on top of your stove or in your By law, smoke detectors must be placed at least 4–12" oven.' I ask ‘what does that do?’ below the ceiling and should never be placed in a corner (the and they’ll say ‘that will get rid of room can fill with smoke before it gets to the corners). It the carbon monoxide (CO).” Of should never be placed in the kitchen. It should be placed course it won’t. Jones said he’s had within 15 feet of where you sleep, sincemost house fires occur people tell him they leave their Louis Starkey at night. It should not be placed in a bathroom – smoke stoves on for 20 hours or more a detectors can not tell the difference between steam and smoke. day or for days at a time. This is extremely dangerous, he They should be placed away from heating and cooling vents said, because it is the build-up of the level of CO over time where the smoke may well be blown away and prevent you that leads to deaths by CO poisoning. from getting an early warning. They should never be painted. Your stove gives off CO normally. It comes from the Smoke and CO monitors are always white. burning of any fossil fuel, in this case, natural gas. The issue Dedicatedsmoke and CO detectors have a life span of ten is not that the CO is produced, but the level of CO produced. years, while dual smoke and CO monitors are good for 6 to 7 When you use a properly maintained stove for cooking, the years before replacement. level is low enough that it doesn't affect you, but when you're using a stove to heat your house, the level can get EXTENSION CORD SAFETY tremendously high and cause death.’ ‘CO is odorless, colorless and tasteless, said Jones. Most Misuse of electrical extension people who are killed by CO don't even know they are being cords can also yield tragic results affected by it. Unless your house has a CO monitor, you won't when: even know. So do not use your stove for heating. If you need • The appropriate size cord additional heat, use an electric space heater,’ he said. required for the equipment is not Another concern is a gas leak from your stove. Because used; natural gas is colorless and odorless, the gas company adds a • Cords are run under rugs or rotten egg smell so that it is detectable if there is a leak. through doors and become Leaks most often occur when the stove's pilot light is off frayedand cracked from traffic or when there is a defective hose connecting the stove to the on them; gas pipe coming into the home. If there is even a hint of gas, • Cords are used as substitutes you need to take a look. If the pilot light is out, you need to relight it. On newer stoves, there is no pilot light, but electric sparks are used to ignite the gas. The stove makes a clicking Hakimah al-Zahra

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 5 for additional electrical your door to keep the smoke outlets. out. Jones said that • Keep a window open at the top, extension cords are for so any heat and smoke can temporary use. They escape; keep the bottom half of should be in the open the window open and breathe and never run under from there; rugs or through doors. • Use a sheet hung out the Once frayed, they can window to signal to firefighters cause fires. To make that someone is trapped inside; sure that your cord is and the right sizefor the job • Yell fire! If you yell “help,” or equipment,take note there probably won't be a of the equipment's response. voltage and amperage Your plans should also include and ask a knowledgeable salesperson at a hardware store. getting apartment insurance. The Rosanne Levitt landlord is covered for the building, FIRE ESCAPE PLANS but you are not covered for the contents unless you buy If, in spiteof precautions, you find yourself in a fire, how insurance. Be sure to inquire about “umbrella coverage” for do you escape? According to Firefighter Jones, smoke temporary housing in the event you cannot return to your detectors are a good first line of defense, but having an apartment immediately. emergency plan is very important. Take pictures as proof of what you have when adjusters How many OSARCers have such a plan? Jones asked. come from your insurance company. Take photographs of Only one person said they had a fire escape plan. your damaged property as well. Jones recommended creating a diagram of the plan and Have a fireproof safe or box where you can keep then practiceit, especially how toescape from yourapartment important papers, including photo ID. Without proper ID you or house. On your diagram, identify and labelall exits, interior maynot be able to get access to your funds. Under the Patriot stairs and fire escapes. Act, financial institutions do not have to release funds to you Firefighter Jones gave this advice: without appropriate ID, so contact your institution to find out • Don't jump out of the window. Rescuers from the FDNY what documents they will accept as ID. will come for you from the roof on a rope, through the fire Finally, get out quickly. Don't look for animals – they live or by ladder to a window. by instinct and unless confined will get out before you do. • A bed sheet is not meant tosupport your body weightand Firefighter Jones should not be used to exit in a fire. You may keep an concluded his remarks emergency ladder near a window if you could reach the by reminding us not to ground using it. Everything else that you may have seen forget to change the about rescues, said Jones, ‘is strictly Hollywood.’ batteries in our smoke • If attempting an exit from inside, stay low to the floor to and CO detectors reg- avoid poison gases from smoke and superheated gas that ularly, pointing out may be 800F or more. If you are in bed, don’t stand up; that we shouldread the roll out of bed information in “Fire Safety for Seniors” .• If you exit a room, andthanking us for the close the door behind you invitation to our so the room won't fill with meeting. The pam- heat and smoke. You may phlet urges seniors to find you have to return immediately correct there as a place of refuge. problems or hazards • Before grabbing a that are within their door handle, test it for heat control or responsi- with the backof your hand bility and to promptly to prevent injury to your notify the building palm, since a palm injury owner of all other may prevent you from problems. If neces- using your entire hand. sary, you may file a If you take more than Sallie Stroman complaint by calling the New York City Fire Department at 90 seconds to get out of 718-999-2541 or 311. your apartment, you aretrapped. If you find yourself trapped: • Keep the door closed and stuff a sheet at the bottom of •••••

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 6 EileenPenteldelivered a Jewish OSARCians Make Merry For the Holidays versionofClement Moore’s famous By JoAnn M. Ambrogi “Twas The Night Before December 8th marked OSARC’s holiday party, coupled Christmas.” After a prologue with the club’sthirdannual “OSARC'sGot Talent”showcase. offering a translation of some of the The food table was festively decorated and the menu of meat Yiddish words, Eileen began the and vegetarian lasagna, baked chicken and salad with side recitation. There were visions of treats more than satisfied our highly developed palates. “Kosher sugarplums” (bragging A decorated party cakecompleted the food menu. Thanks rights to the person who can tell us to food committee chair Mary Hillman and newly designated exactly what a sugarplum is, aide-de-cuisine Lois Chaffee for the Kosher or otherwise, at the next planning, preparation, set-up and meeting), the jolly old man was clean-up duties for the feast. “delivering latkes and cakes” and OSARC officers were the libation- the ending of the poem “And to all bearers, bringing red and white a good light.” Kaye Lee wines to the table, making the Rosanne Levitt gave us an merriment that much merrier. Edward Gorey vision of the holiday with “Christmas Carols Once the feasting was almost For The Disturbed.” The schizophrenics were singing “Do over, the meeting started, with You Hear What I Hear?” The dementia patients chimed in OSARC Co-Chair Fred Ranzoni with “I Think I'm Home For Christmas.” The paranoids welcoming us and kicking off the chorused with“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town To Get Me.” talent show. The attention deficit disorder claque was attempting to sing Fred recited a “nature” poem “Silent Night, Holy.....Oh Look At The Frogs,” and the made up of film titles with nature obsessivecompulsives weresinging “Jingle Bells,Jingle Bells, themes (at least in the title). The Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells…” Try thinking some up for poem ended with “Gone With The yourselves. The psychopaths were probably singing “You Wind.” Perhaps, you can think of Michael Schlesinger Better Watch Out.” a favorite film and whether the title Rosanne also recited “Ode To American English” by fits the bill. Barbara Hamby out of “Good Poems For Hard Times,”edited OSARC Treasurer Dan Morgan reminiscedabout a short by Garrison Keillor. So, if you want to know how words and story he had heard on WNYC radio some years ago. It had to phraseslike“Tricky Dick,”“hotdog” and“Dagwood” evolved, do with “rent parties” to which artists were invited. A woman this is a good place to start. The poem is a love letter to the was speaking of her first husband, James Johnson, who was mixturethat is the American spoken killed in a motorcycle accident. Johnson was an artist who had language. Concludes Hamby “I just sold his first painting. He used the proceeds to buy a miss them all, sitting here on my motorcycle, only to be killed shortly after. This was in the sidewalk throne, sipping days before helmets. Dan knew Jim Johnson. This appeared champagne, verses lined up like to be a macabre twist on the ironic “The Gift of the Magi.” Be hearses, metaphors juking, nouns careful what you wish for! zipping in my head like Corvettes To lighten the mood, Fred told a joke about a parrot with on Dexadrine, French verbs slitting a foul mouth. Nothing the owner did could stop the cursing. mythroat, yearningfor James Dean The owner played classical music to jump my curb.” Yep, that about and tried different birdseed, but the sums it up. bird kept getting worse. Finally, in Josefino Gumpeng served desperation, the owner threw the double duty as a wag and singer. parrot in the freezer. After a few His joke had to do with Viagra, hours, he took the bird out. The with the doctor warning about side parrot was very contrite. “I'm effects and the patient bragging Renée Bash sorry, I'm so sorry, I won’t curse about great front effects. This was again. But I have to ask you one another cautionary tale of taking care about what you wish question: ‘What did the turkey for. He then sang a rousing version of “Born Free.” By way do?’" of introduction, Josefino told us that he was not born in Jean Anmuth recited “Goin’To America. When he came to this country, he discovered Be A Bear.” in which Jean democracyand he truly understands the meaningof the words. contrasted life as a bear with life as SoJosefino, as the lyrics say – live free and stay free. Thanks a human female. As Jean notedyou for the great interpretation of this song originally written to can hibernate, eat yourself silly, Elizabeth Borden salute the magnificent lions of Africa but adaptable to many have excess body fat and hairy situations – as we saw. legs. This was followed by “I can deal with that.” Mary Taylor was next up with a bluesy rendition of

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 7 life. Make some New Year's resolutions and keep them. Withwishes of good cheer for all – peace, prosperity, joy and happiness in 2011. ••••• Commit Yourself OSARC Co-Chairs Regina Berry and Fred Ranzoni are seeking volunteers to serve on the numerous committees that make your retiree organization hum likea well-oiledmachine.

Without volunteer help, OSARC wouldnotbe able tohold monthly meetings, serve lunch, arrange trips and organize mailings. OSARCers in red join in song: (left to right) Regina Berry, Therecent loss of membership committeestalwart Richard Mary Taylor, Rosanne Levitt, Eileen Pentel, Josefino Gumpeng and Richard Fink. Walters has left that committeein needof somenew members. The membership committee processes OSARC dues, entering “Summertime” from the opera “Porgy and Bess.” It was informationinto a computer database, preparing bank deposit beautifully sung. This intrepid reporter notes that fellow slips andmaking thosedeposits. If you have modestcomputer, OSARCian Yvonne Broughton also has sung this selection organizational and/or math skills, this may be the committee recently at a meeting. It would be for you. The committee plays its greatest role at the start of great if Mary and Yvonne could each calendar year. give us a duet one of these days. Thefoodcommitteealso needsvolunteers. Thecommit-tee Co-Chair Regina Berry was determines the menu, purchases the food and helps set up the next up with a self-described “very monthly luncheon. Even if you can only come to a few bad joke.” A guy at a revival meetings a year an hour early, your help will be greatly meeting told the congregation that appreciated with set-up. he had a problem with his hearing. The mailing committee meets After they prayed on it, the group monthly, usually on the first asked how his hearing was now? Wednesday or Thursday of the The scamp replied “I won't know. month. This is a convivial group My hearing is next week.” A pretty which gets your Newsletter andany funny joke, Madam Co-Chair. other information out to you. We then began our annual Thetravel committee plans and sing-along of holiday songs. executes the annual April trip plus such other adventures during the Joyce Cleveland Co-Chair Fred cededthis portion of the program to Regina – the Co- year as OSARCers can agree to. Chair with the voice. Regina, Rosanne Levitt, Eileen Pentel, Edna Riley is looking for and Mary Taylor, and Richard Fink, all dressed in red, were another representative from joined by Josefino Gumpeng, in a red and white striped shirt, OSARC to the Council of to lead us in such favorites as: “God Rest Ye Merry Municipal Retiree Organizations Gentlemen,” “Jingle Bells,” “Go Tell It On The Mountain,” (COMRO)which meetsmonthly on “Mi Y’maleil – Who Can Retell The Things That Befell Us,” the second Wednesday at 10am, Mary Taylor “Frosty The Snowman,” “The immediately prior to the OSARC Twelve Days Of Christmas,” and meeting. Representatives attend the COMRO meeting and “We Wish You A Merry report to the OSARC meeting on the issues raised and Christmas.” discussed. Edna will personally train you. It is never too early to begin So, seewhich committee matches your present talents and practicing for next year's talent interests or those you wish to develop. showcase. Remember that Susan OSARC is flexible and takes into consideration Boyle was living a quiet life in volunteers’ schedules. Scotland when she took the leap. Talk to Co-Chairs Regina Berry or Fred Ranzoni at the Although Ms. Boyle did not win next meeting or call them at (212) 807-9488 and (718) 965- the top prize on “Britain's Got 3129, respectively. Talent,” she captured hearts There are no Harry Potter “House Elves” to do this work around the world. She now has – it’s all done by OSARCians. If your organization is two chart topping CD albums. So, important to you, please volunteer. – JoAnn Ambrogi take a leap yourself whether in this arena or in other aspects of your Mark Lewis

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 8 Councilmember Rosie My 2010 Election Adventures Mendez and the American Federation by Kathryn Nocerino of Teachers. I had I had a funny feeling about this election, beginning last been concerned about summer. In the midst of ordinary activities, I would get this the safety aspects of hallucinatory vision of an army of zombies with eyes like hanging out in the burning coals, drooling green fluid all over their “USA” East Village before t-shirts, lurching into voting booths all across the land-mass dawn, but when I hit we call “America” and, with mottled hands, pulling the lever St. Mark's Place and (or hanging the chad) for Tea Party candidates. There went all continued east, I hope for ending our two wars, the preservation of Social encountered a cheer- Security, reproductive choice for women, health care reform, ful throng of hipsters. workplace safety and democracy, the environment, a shot at a All the bars and fair system of taxation (I could go on…). These visions restaurantswere doing became so frequent and so robust that I considered entering a brisk busi-ness. In psychoanalysis. Instead, I went on with my errands. fact, it felt safer than So, a few weeks before the November election, hoisting my own rather my miner's lamp, compass, and pith helmet, I plunged into the deserted east Chelsea. thick underbrush of the American political system. I stood around in The author at the One Nation Work- After many days and hours of phone banking for front of a deli on the ing Together rally on the mall near Democratic candidates, one ear to the phone and myfree hand the Washington Monument in Wash- westside ofTompkins ington, DC on October 2, 2010. clamped over the other ear to screen out the earnest voices of Square Park. No bus my fellow phone-bankers, I needed a vacation. in sight; no evidence of any crowd waiting for the bus. I kept ducking in and out of the deli, chatting intermittently with the A MARCH ON WASHINGTON - ROUND ONE friendly, toothless counterman. I suddenly spotted a likely prospect – middle-aged with Air America Radio (WWRL, 1600 on the AM dial) had nondescript clothing, wearinga slightly addled but,at the same been urging listeners to join the October 2 One Nation march time, hopeful expression. In short, someone who looked a lot in Washington D.C. Errol Louis and Ed Schultz listed the like me. Yes, a fellow old Leftie! I went up to the woman and, growingranks of march sponsors:the NAACP, CodePink, the sure enough, she was bound for the rally. Others soon National Council of La Raza, virtually every union from the followed – a diverse group from Bushwick, St. Albans, and Teachers to the Teamsters; and everyone in religion from the the Upper West Side. We ranged in age from six to 78 and Quakers to Al Sharpton. included an extended family with members in both Brooklyn The sponsors hoped the turnout would massively overtop and Florida. Everyone was absolutely sweet. the numbers drawn to Fox fanatic Glenn Beck’s August rally The trip organizers had advised us to bring our own food in Washington DC. Beck, it should be noted, has urged the and I noticed one rather large man reeling under the weight of abolition of public schools as socialistic. a beach-party-sized hard cooler. Then my friend “S” (name Prior to the target date, I talked up the rally with peopleI obscured for reasons which will becomeclear later) showedup knew. The response invariably went, “Oh, is that the Jon and we all piled onto the bus. Stewart rally?” I began to get that familiar sinking feeling. Each of us paid $10 in cash, representing our full cost for I connected with a bus co-sponsored by Lower East Side City the round trip, including a Washington subway (Metro) pass and a handsome blue and orange “One Nation Working Together/American Federation of Teachers” t-shirt. Several hours, several rest stops, and several traffic jams later, the bus pulled into a berth in an immense parking lot within view of Robert F. Kennedy stadium in DC. All around us, other buses unloaded, and an army of folks began the trek up a hill to the local Washington Metro station. So many peoplehad shownup that Metrostaffers hadtoperform crowd control, keeping groups waiting until the station platforms cleared. All of us got off at the Smithsonian stop and moved toward the rally's staging point at the Lincoln Memorial. The mood throughout was upbeat. One group we spoke to had traveled 32 hours cross-country to attend the event. The signs people carried ran the gamut from “Get AmericaWorking”(Union of the Unemployed)to “9/11Truth: the Elephant in the Room” (with a cute inflatable elephant

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 9 standing next to it and posing for many pictures); There was “Stop Middle East Genocide,” “DON'T DRINK THE TEA!!!” and, among my favorites, “GOP Speak With Forked Tongue” (American Indian Movement) and “Wall Street Has Two Parties. We Need One of Our Own.” (Socialist Alternative). But, as far as I was concerned, the ultimate sign (around a roped-off tree on the way to the Lincoln Memorial) read, “DANGER! BEE NEST! AREA CLOSED.” Since the Parks Service no longer publishes Washington crowd rally estimates, we were trying to do our own calculation. The problem with this was the lack of coordination – as groups arrived at the rally, others seemed to be leaving. Also, the rally seemed to be spread out. A local friend of “S” – a Washington-based comic – miraculously found us through a process of yelling back and forth over the cell phone. Since I have, over time, developed a pronounced allergy to crowds, I urged “S” and friend to remain on the periphery. We sat down on some wet grass to eat lunch. I brought out my WASA crispbread and a can of Trader Joe's was virtually nothing. None of the major networks seemed to salmon. “S,” a restauranteur, offered everyone a choice of a have covered it. I saw a brief mention (not, of course, front peanut butter, banana and strawberry jam sandwich on page) in the Times. Democracy Now reproduced, in its artisanalbread; or a chicken,sun-dried tomato, oliveandroast entirety, the superb speech given by Harry Belafonte. He pepper salad. urgedan end toUS sponsored wars, stating that the funds now As we ate, we traded our worries about the election and spent on these devastating conflicts could underwrite health various Tea Party horror stories. I related my experience at reform, improve education, and create American jobs. last summer's Town Hall on health care reform hosted by WhenI later discussed the rally with people I knew, they said, Congressman Tim Bishop, where the storm troopersof the far “Oh, was that the Jon Stewart thing?” right booed the late Ted Kennedy. Allof us agreedthat today's So, Iresumed myphone-banking, culminating in a session turnout, though large and enthusiastic, probably didn't equal in a pristine 19th century cottage in Bellport, where Glenn Beck's. Organizing for America was contacting Democratic and After we got back to the City, I skipped around through Independent voters and urging them to come out on Election various TV and radio stations for any mention of the rally. Day for the First District incumbent, Congressman Tim With the exception of Air America, WBAI, and CNN, there Bishop. Bishop was fighting an uphill battle against a political newcomer and Tea Party favorite, Randy Altschuler. I would reach individuals, ask them if they intended to vote, then poll them as to their choice of candidate. Bishop voters answered right away in the affirmative. With the rest, a charged silence followed, a held breath crackling with psychic energy. I'd say almost half refused to state their choice. When I spoke to OFA's regional director about this, she said, “Oh, lots of people want to keep the nature of their vote confidential.” Although this seemed like a plausible explanation, I didn't entirely buy it. I remembered my experience phone banking during the second Bush election, where I got what seemed to me to be an identical silence from lots of voters. Driving homethat evening, Istarted tosee zombies again, zombies clutching ballots, lurking in the underbrush. A MARCH ON WASHINGTON – REDUX Back home in the City, a friend of mine told me that “Arianna Huffington is offering free bus rides to the October 30 Jon Stewart rally.” I rapidly confirmed that, but I sort of wondered what the Stewart rally was actually about and if, in fact, it would be of any use. Stewart seemed to want to play his moderation against Beck's stridency and let the winner emerge. But none of it, to

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 10 One Nation Working Together: Singer-Activist Harry Belafonte Speaks At the October 2nd Rally (as transcribed by Democracy Now)

In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. really think that sending 100,000 young and the systematic attack against the stood on the steps of this memorial and American men and women to kill inalienable rights of the citizens of this declared that this nation should come innocent civilians, women andchildren, nation,rights that areguaranteedby our together and embrace its greater ideals. and antagonizing the tens of millions of Constitution. At the vanguard of this He said that we should rally together people in the whole region somehow insidious attack is the tea party. This and overcome injustice and racism, and makes us secure? Does this make any band of misguided citizens is moving that all citizens shouldnot onlyhave the sense? perilously close to achieving villainous right to vote, but that we should The President’s decision to escalate ends. exercise that right and make America the war in that region alone costs the This gathering here today is whole. nation $33 billion. That sum of money America’s wake-up call. The giant That is part of why we arehere today. could notonly create 600,000 jobs here called democracy is at last stirring But we’re also here to tend to other in America, but would even leave us a again. Citizens are coming together to grievances. Martin Luther King, Jr., in few billion to start rebuilding our sayfreedom does not sleep. It may have his “I Have a Dream” speech schools, our roads, our hospitals and been fueled and lulled for the moment forty-seven years ago, said that affordable housing. It couldalso help to into a lethargy, but it’s fully awake America would soon come to realize rebuild the lives of the thousands of our now. And we the people are its engine. that the war that we were in at that returning wounded veterans. We must awaken the apathetic, the time, that this nation waged in Vietnam Dr. King loved this nation. He saw,as cynical, the many angry doubters, who was not only unconscionable, but all of us here today see, that this great see their future as perpetual unwinnable. Fifty-eight thousand nation should not be allowed to perish. hopelessness, and show them that our Americans died in that cruel adventure, Martin’s vision was also the vision of greatest weapon is the vote. And it is and over two million Vietnamese and Abraham Lincoln, who understood the the answer to much that nags in us. Cambodians perished. Now today, evil of slavery and, in abolishing that On November 2nd, in the millions, we almost a half-a-century later, as we evil, saved America. Although slavery must overburden our voting booths by gather at this place where Dr. King may have been abolished, the crippling voting against those who would see the prayed for the soul of this great nation, poison of racism still persists, and the nation become a totalitarian state. tens of thousands of citizens from all struggle still continues. We have the Americans know that Dr. King’s dream walks of life have come here today to largest prison population in the world. is not dead. Let us vote on November rekindle his dream and once again hope And as we industrialize these prison 2nd for jobs...for jobs...for jobs... for that all America will soon come to the systems, we rob hundreds of thousands peace... for justice...for human rights... realization that the wars that we wage of workers of the jobs that they need for our children and the future of today in far away lands are immoral, and the wages that are rightfully theirs. America. And let us put an end to war. unconscionable and unwinnable. The plight of women bears no better. Peace is necessary for justice, it is TheCentral IntelligenceAgency, in its Their oppression refuses to yield, as necessary for hope, it is necessary for official report, tells us that the enemy rape and domestic violence and sex our future. I love you all, and Godbless we pursue in Afghanistan and in slaves and teenagepregnancy abounds. America. Pakistan, the al-Qaeda, number less But perhaps the greatest threat of all than 50 — I say 50 — people. Do we is the undermining of our Constitution me, seemed to constitute anything resembling a call to action. were going to the rally. I came up with zero. But I left the However, my curiosity won out and I registered for the house anyway. Huffington Post bus. My friend “S” planned to attend; I found the trains packed, mostly with people going to, or however, she and some former college friends were going to coming back from, early Halloween parties: naughty nurses, drive up a week ahead of time and stay in a hotel in the basketball players, vampires, Lady Gagas. Then I got off at Washington suburbs. Willets Point and virtually the entire train followed me. The I thought the buses were going to leave from Soho. median age of the crowd was, I'd say, 24. Instead, at the last minute, I gotan emailtelling me toshow up It was 4:20am, freezing cold with a stiff wind, and there at Citi Field in Flushing for a 5am roll call. Not relishing the were no buses anywhere to be seen. The media, which had prospect of taking the 7 train to the end of the line before lovingly followed every ramification of this planned rally, put dawn, Ibegan frantically looking around for other peoplewho the total number of Huffington buses at 200, and claimed that

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 11 The crowd was so huge that I had no hope of getting anywhere near the stage area in front of the Capitol steps. I could hear music playing, but couldn't make out what it was. (A day later, trawling the internet, I found out that this was a historic medley of Yusuf Islam (AKA Cat Stevens) singing “Peace Train,” followed by Ozzy Osbourne (“Crazy Train”), followed by the fabulous O'Jays with “Love Train.”) So I ate lunch and visited the Native American branch of the Smithsonian Museum. Then I made my way to the stadium and boarded a different bus for the trip home. ON THE BUS, YET AGAIN I gave myself two days to rest before making the decision whether to volunteer on ElectionDay itself. I had already cast my vote on Varick Street to free up the day, and had Huffington had spent at least a quarter of a million dollars to confirmed a seat on an Act Now bus. The only problem: rent them. extreme fatigue. I had slogged my way through the October I considered threading my way through the crowd and 2 rally, kept my voice going with hot drinks and cough drops taking the train back toManhattan. But my curiosity kept me at the phone bank gigs, and ran entirely on automatic through rooted to the spot. At around 5:30, staff began checking our the Stewart rally. bus passes. Huffington herself greeted us until she was But,early in the morning ofNovember 2, having glommed engulfed by media. At 6, the buses started to arrive. These a cup of coffee and a banana (Act Now's email cautioned us vehicles wereritzier than theOctober 2 rally buses, right down not to bring food because our hosts would provide it), I found to on-board movie hardware. About a half hour into the trip, myself leaving Union Square East with a group of about 25 our driver started showing a film. Incredibly, the movie he people, only 2/3 of a busload. chose was “Sniper” (1993, Tom Berenger) which was, I remembered that, during the last election, Act Now's basically, about a Marine sniper who goes around knocking volunteers filled two buses, and the Village Independent off South American revolutionaries on orders from his boss. Democratsfilled two more, The remarkably exotic Billy Zane, an actor seemingly born to all leaving from this same play villains, co-starred. I spent a lot of time staring at the location. Now, we were very young Zane and wondering if he was using eyeshadow. the only show in town. Many of those on the bus chose sleep over this masterpiece. When I mentioned this to Looking outside my window, our bus was now situated one of the organizers, he smack in the middle of the Mother of All Traffic Jams. So said that it was nothing many vehicles were headed the same way, combined with more than the “off-year extensive road work, that nothing was moving. election phenom- We finally hit DC at noon and piled onto the Metro. enon.”Again, a plausible Scrambling out of the darktunnels, weemerged into the most explanation, but one which enormous crowd I, for one, have seen in Washington since failed to completely satisfy Viet Nam war protests. A kind of goofy, relaxed vibe me. predominated. Quite a fewarrived in costume, or what Ihoped I got to chatting with a was costume: Martians, giant teddy bears, Bozo the Clown. guy called Joel: vocal, The signs reflected the mood: “I have an opinionbut I'd rather witty, about my age, with a not say,”“I'm scared of everything and I vote,” “Legalize gay long grey ponytail, who pot,” and “I like to hold up signs!” reminded me of the Hippie Only a fewactually madeany political sense: “If you don't Princes I used to hang out believe in government, you shouldn't run for it.”On redposter with in my youth. Like me, board: “As an actual Communist, I can tell you that Obama turned out Joel sells isn't one.”And my all-time favorite, greenwith white lettering: antiques, specializing in “Republicans for Voldemort”(For those of you unfamiliar – American cast iron Harry Potter’s nemesis.) cookware whereas I deal in A handful of Tea Partiers stood on the sidelines (literally, paintings, jewelry, anddecorative items. Hesupported himself so few you could counthem on the fingers of one hand), ona pair of steel crutches, the kind where you sendyour arms looking as if someone had hit them upside the head with a throughcuffs, because he was missing his left leg. I never got plank. They held signs like “It's Freedom, not Free-DUMB!” up the nerve to ask him about it. People just shook their heads and passed by. I thought to We were bound for a canvassing gig in Allentown, PA to myself, if all these happy rally-goers vote, we've gotthis thing help candidate Joe Sestak. Allentown, in Lehigh County near sewn up! Bethlehem, is Pennsylvania's third-largest city, now 106,000

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 12 people and steadily shrinking. When Big Steel left the area, which housed little garages, one for each home, for storage of the local economy tanked. Mack trucks used to be the horse and rig or, later, the Model T Ford. Many of the manufactured here until three years ago, when that company streets were only one and a half car widths in size, making for deserted town for North Carolina. interesting traffic patterns. Electric wiring – basic power, We passed through a landscape of rolling hills, with trees TV, cable, hung over the narrow streets at weird angles, like in autumncolors, every sooften a farm complete with siloand festival decorations left up much too long. barn, and then the hulks of deserted factories. In Allentown Nearly every fifth building bore a sign on its front door: proper, wecameto a stop in front of a three-story QueenAnne "Condemned, Unfit for Human Habitation" or "Condemned, house. After a brief, unfed rest during which we admired the Structurally Unsound". Obviously, large numbers of people had walked away from, or had been ushered out of, their homes. We encountered more dogs than people, and the average family pet was either a pit bull or a Rottweiler. The lists we carried contained names of Democrats who voted in the last Presidential election. We were supposed to knock on the door and ask the occupant if he or she voted today and, if not, get them to the polls. Before we started off, Joel drew a strange object from his backpack: made of buff-colored nylon with a slight sheen. It resembled a folded tortilla. Setting it on his head, he told me it was the best outdoor hat he'd ever found. He mentioned the manufacturer, but I was too busy adjusting to the look of the thing that I forgot it. I doubted Joel's ability to negotiate the territory but Ishouldn't have; he movedfaster than I did. Working opposite sides of a street, in sight of each other for safety, we began. Very few people were home; more often than not we had to leave literature. We couldn't find some of the buildings at all, either because they weren't labeled or because, when we got to what was supposed to be the house number, we encountered an emptylot. Often, the person who answered the door of an occupied building never heard of the individual we were looking for (we made our voting pitch anyway). Several times, and always involving young people, we heard statements to the effect that “I don't vote” or “I have better things to do today.” I also encountered a few geniuses who, when told that it was Election Day, were absolutely Pennsylvania Senate Candidate Joe Sestak dumbfounded. “Really?” they said, “I thought it was next week!” I wondered what sort of broadcasts were coming details of this noble home, now filled with sleeping bags, through the neighborhood's Sargasso Sea of wiring. Did they empty Dunkin' Donuts coffee canisters, and garbage bags just watch cartoons? I had to conceal the attitude, put on a overflowing with the remains of pizzas and chips, we broke cheerful face, and deliver my voting pitch. into two-person teams. Joel piped up and asked for me. The At around 2:30, after many, many blocks of this, and Mayor of Allentown gave us a pep talk to the effect that all having eaten nothing more than a banana all day, I suggested signs were pointing to a tight electionin which we were going toJoel that wereturn to headquarters for lunch. He protested to make the difference. He thanked us for beefing up a that we were less than thinner-than-usual quota of local volunteers. halfway through our As we all boarded cars and vans for the trip to our territories, area, and should do a I joked that they probably gave us the hilliest nabe. I hadn't little more before suspected how true this would be. After getting lost a few quitting. Bythen, I was times (many of the streets seemednot to be labeled), the driver so hungry that I was left us at the bottom of a steep hill. Next to us was a 19th beginning to pose a century red brick structure whose sign told us it housed a risk to smaller, weaker fabric jobber. While we studied our map, trying to orient life-forms. Joel said he ourselves, no one entered or left this building. was going to buy The neighborhood they assigned to us was composed something at a local mainly of three-story buildings, workmen's cottages put up at deli; did I want to or near the turn of the 20th century when the steel mills ran at order? Having been full capacity. Here and there you would see a five-story told we would get fed, tenement, but in this setting, such structures loomed like I left my lunch bucks giants. Each block was shadowed by a parallel lane to its rear at home and brought

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 13 only enough for the returns viewing party. While my head TV viewing showed that 7 million spun, I watched Joel eat a gyro and fries. watchedreturns onFox News while We didn't get back to the house until around 4pm. The only 2 million tuned in to MSNBC. remains of what had been a generous lunch spread - made Questions? available to volunteers who returned at the hour when most While a Democrat won the humans eattheir midday meal -were strewn about the kitchen. New Yorkgubernatorial electionby I managed to find warm soda and the last half sandwich, and awide margin, third parties also did barely had time to consume it when wewere ordered back out well. Jimmy McMillan (The Rent into the field. is Too Damn High Party) got More condemned buildings, 41,000 votes. My friend “S” voted more “What, it's Election Day?” for him. Elliott Spitzer's madam One elderly woman proudly told got 22,000 votes. me she didn't vote because “all of Meanwhile, Joe Sestak had them are crooks.” Two people been the Congressional whom we met lugging Representative for Pennsylvania's floor-cleaning equipment into a 7th District since 2007. A former Josefino Gumpeng residence told us they were too Vice Admiral, he saw combat in the Persian Gulf, had served busy to vote today, and could they as Director for Defense Policy on the National Security please do it tomorrow? A very Council and also was the first director of “Deep Blue,” the polite young guy with gold caps on Navy's internal think tank. Had he won his election, he would his front teeth told us he wouldlove have been the highest-ranking former military officer in the to vote but “I have felonies.” U.S. Senate. Instead, he lost to Pat Toomey, a Republican Dusk was beginning to fall, activist andWall Streeter whose specialtywas currencyswaps and I reminded Joel that we had to and derivatives – the very instruments which destroyed our Madeline Taylor get back to the bus no later than economy. Toomey left Deutsche Bank in 1992 and now 5:30. Turning to me, he snapped, “I came here to do co-owns Rookies' Restaurant in Allentown. canvassing, and I intend to make optimal use of my time!” I Tim Bishop, the four-term Democratic Congressional decided to call for pickup anyway and this turned out to be a incumbent in Long Island'sFirst District, was caught for quite smart move. The first driver they sent out broke an axle and a while in a tight race, with didn't moveanyfurther, and thesecond made threetries before absentee ballots tallied and a locating us. On our bus trip back, I didn't say a word to Joel. full-scale manual recount pending. His opponent, Randy Altschuler, PARTY LIKE IT’S 2010 also worked at Deutsche Bank (a pattern here?) and, in 1999, left to A bar in the Flatiron District hosted the returns party, co-found Office Tiger, an co-hosted byAct Now and Organizingfor America. When we outsourcing company. Randy has arrived, at around 10:30, very few people were there. The shipped 4,000 American jobs to youngest of our organizers, listening to the returns, was India, another 4,000 to Europe, ashen-faced. As I left, Joel asked 1,000 to Sri Lanka, and 300 to the me if I was skipping out because Philippines. The company has 27 he was “too hard on me.” overseas branches and is still Truthfully, I said I was bone-tired. growing. Altschuler (or, as some We all know what happened local wags spell it, “Outsourcer”) nationally. The post-mortems was endorsed by Newt Gingrich. continue. Only about 40 percent of InDecember, Altschuler finally Waguih Sabongui eligiblevoters gotup off their asses conceded the race to Bishop. After to cast a ballot. The youth vote the counting of absentee ballots, Bishop ended up with a lead dropped to 9% of total votes cast. of500 plus votes. Ironically, the bulk of this lead derivedfrom ACORN, which in the last election theabsentee ballots. Given the fact that Bishop’s opponenthas bolstered the Democratic vote made his considerable fortune by shipping American jobs through local organizing and voter overseas, the closeness of this vote becomes nearly registration, had been hounded out unbelievable! of existence by a Republican Fred Ranzoni disinformation campaign and was out of the picture this time. The Supreme Court, in its Citizens United decision, opened the floodgatesand allowedanonymous donors tomake limitless gifts to the candidates of their choice - and they obviously chose Republicans. The statistics on election night

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 14 commission's proposed changes in The Deficit Commission: Social Security. In an article titled “Deficit Com-mission cum Hatchet Bipartisan — or Biased? By Gail Weiss Job on the Middle Class,” Leo On November 10, with the midterm elections safely in the Hindery, Jr., U.S. Economy/Smart past, President Obama's commission on reducing the deficit Globalization Initiative at the New released its preliminary proposals. These included: America Foundation, wrote: “The • Reduce cost-of-living increases for all federal programs, recom-mendation to increase the including Social Security. The retirement age for full Social Security retirement age from benefits would be slowly raised to 69 from 67 by 2075, 65 to 69 may also sound OK, with a “hardship exemption” for people who physically provided you sit at a desk on Wall cannot work past 62. Street, but it's blatantly insensitive to • Trim the federal workforce by 10 percent during the next those women and men working in five years. factories, doing physical labor, • Eliminate some tax breaks and deductions, including the standing on their feet in service Jean Anmuth interest deduction on homemortgages over $500,000, the industries, or toiling in agriculture. The premise behind this child tax credit, and the earned income tax credit. proposed change – namely, that average life expectancy is • Add 15 cents per gallon to the gasoline tax. rising– is flawed. While life expectancy is rising, it's doing so • Lower the corporate tax rate from 35 to 26 percent. mainly for high earners who need Social Security least – for • Lower individual income tax rates (by 9, 15, or 23 the bottom halfof the income distribution, it hasn't budged for percent, depending on income). 30 years. • Repeal the alternative minimum tax (a tax intended to In Hindery's view, a better course would be “means prevent corporations, wealthy individuals, andothers with testing” Social Security, so that only those individuals who very high incomes from using tax loopholes topay littleor need it get it, and eliminating—or considerably raising— the no taxes). cap on taxable wages, which is now just $113,700. • Raise taxes on capital gains and dividends to the higher Further casting doubt on the commission's claims to rates now levied on wage income. independence and evenhandedness are reports that several of • Cut $100 billion in defense spending. its “employees” were in fact employed by partisan outside Will anything comeof theseproposals? No oneknows just entities. For example, two senior commission staffers, Marc yet. The only certainty is years of fierce debate — which the Goldwein and Ed Lorenzen, were paid by private groups that president kick-started on November 29 when he announced a have advocated cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and other two-year pay freeze for civilian federal workers. That social welfare programs. Lorenzen works for the Peter G. proposal added fuel to progressive critics' complaints that the Peterson Foundation, while Goldwein is paid by the commission, far from being a bipartisan grouping, was going Committee for a Responsible Government, which is partly to preserve fiscal breaks for the wealthy while chipping away funded by the Peterson group. Peterson, a billionaire former at middle-class benefits and earnings. investment banker, recently invested $6 million in a campaign As NY Times columnist Paul Krugman put it, the urging lawmakers to cut the national debt, and is a staunch Commission's “alleged bipartisanship” (it is chaired by Alan advocate of slashing Social Security and Medicare while K. Simpson, a former Senate Republican leader, and Erskine retaining the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. B. Bowles, a chief of staffto President BillClinton) represents According to Barbara B. Kennelly, who heads the a “compromise between the center-right and the hard-right.” National Committee toPreserve Social Security & Medicare, Many critics aimed their sharpest salvos at the the commission's staffing structure is unprecedented. “Taxpayers fundthe commission andits members shouldwork independently of Washington lobbyists and power brokers,” Kennelly said in mid-November. “This is the type of shenanigans that average Americans are so upset about right now—that money talks and everyone else is left out.” [Ed. Note: After this article was completed, therewere a couple of importantdevelopments. First, the Commission needed 14 of 18 members to vote for its plan to make it the official recommendation to Congress, but only 11 of 18 voted for it. Alliance for Retired Americans head Barbara Easterling observed, “Retirees temporarily dodged a bullet today when Commission members rejected their co-chairs’ proposal to balance the budget on the backs of retirees.” And, Congress approved and President Obama signedinto lawcontinuation of Bush-era tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans, which will have a negative effect on the deficit.]

Food Committee Chair Mary Hillman (l) & OSARCerManny Friedman (r) sample some of the goodies Mary helped secure for OSARC.

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 15 It Was Good To See The King On Friday, November 5, 2010, in the first trip of the OSARC season, a large number of Club members gathered for a visit to the King Tut exhibit at the Times Square Discovery Center. The exhibit was more than twice the size of the one that visited the City in the 1970's. Objects on display included 130 treasures belonging to Tut and other significant rulers of ancient Egypt. On this page, photos taken by Betty Henderson of some of the folks who went on the tour.

OSARC Newsletter • January 2011 • Page 16  Happy Birthday to OSA Retirees Born in January! Leslie Allen, Adrianne Diane Alpert, Christopher Amalfitano, MichaelAmbrosini, BosahAzikiwe, Steven Balicer, Moradeyo Bamigbade, Theodore Barbal, Jo Ann Basham-Germain, Joanna Belt, Barbara Berg, Regina Berry, Earlene Bethel, Michael Bharose, Andrea Bloom, CarmineBorzelli, Paul Bowen, MarleneA. Bowen, Gwendolyn Bright, Carolyn Brooks, Michella Brown, Linda Brown, Rosemary O. Brown, Gloria Brown, Shirley Brugman, Frederick Burrell, Luigi Calafato, Velma Callender, Barbara Canning, Sanford Carbonelli, Burton Carlin, Maxine Carter, Arthur Cash, Johnsie Cheatham, Himangshu Chowdhury, Clifford Clark, Margaret Clay, George Cohen, Sheldon Cohn, Rosalee Coleman, Othon R. Collado, Gloria Colon,Maria L.Crisci, Daniel TCruz,Sadie Culler,Marilyn Daitsman, MarieDavis, EdwardDavis, John Dellecave, Daniel DeRosso, Sybil DeVeaux, William A. 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LaNeve Runie Mensche Earlene Bethel Rosalee Coleman Betty Figueroa Stanley Hauptman George Lang Margarita Mercado Vidyadhar Bhide Judith Collazzi Joan Fillot Chandra Hauptman Dolores Lapin-Curley Samuel Merson Edward Bianchi Gloria Colon Georgia Finch Mildred Hawkins Norman Larsen John Mertz Saul Bick Marlene Connor Richard Fink Charles Healy Edward Lavin James Meyer Haripal Bisnath James Conolly Joel Fishelson Iris Hecht Victor Lee Michael Meyer Helen Blecher William Considine Mary Flannelly Annette Heim Betty K Lee Thomas Mezzatesta Robert Bleiberg Anthony M Cook Philip Flaum Nancy Hellman Jeannette Lee Carol Michaels Phyllis Blonder Mildred Cordero David Fleischmann Marjorie Helms Kaye Lee Joseph Mickens Timothy Bohen James Corleto Linnette Flowers-Cephus Jacquelyn Henderson Barbara LeGoff Renato Milani Shirley Bonadie Hannibal Coscia Gerald Flynn Elizabeth Henderson Stu Leibowitz John Milat Elizabeth Borden Peter J Costa Daniel Flynn Saundra Henry Joel Leichter Angelina Miller William Borock Henrietta Council Judy Flynn Paul Henry Robert Lenney Joseph Miller Carmine Borzelli Charles Covella William Foote Barbara Herman Nicholas Lesanti Natalie Millner Carol Bowers Andrew Covella Constance Ford Lisa Hernandez Gloria Levan Ruth Mingoia Renee Boyce Ted L. Cox Allen Foster Cynthia Harris Hernandez Howard Levin Alice Mitchell Earlene Toni Brabham William Cregan Flora Foster John Heron, Jr. Stephen Levine Richard Mitchell Helen Brandt Maria L. Crisci Henry Foster Francis Hillis Morton Levine Edward Braverman Robert Croghan Harold Fowler Mary Hillman Yury Levit CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 Carmen Bray Richard J. Crowe Allan W. Fraser Isalyn Hinds Rosanne Levitt