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Dewey Square Dispatches • Editorial: Occupy the Next Step, Page 2 • Tea for Occupiers, Page 7 • Occupoetry, Page 10 HA CRAIG HA S PHOTO: TRI PHOTO Helping People Help Themselves November 4 - November 17, 2011 $1 PARE HANGE S C NEWS DEWEY SQUARE DISPATCHES • Editorial: Occupy The Next Step, page 2 • Tea for Occupiers, page 7 • OccuPoetry, page 10 HA CRAIG HA S PHOTO: TRI PHOTO: Food Stamps Higher Ed For Fast Food Budget Cuts in Rhode Island Take Toll - page 6 - page 8 Your vendor buys this paper for 25¢ and keeps all the proceeds. Please purchase from vendors with fuchsia badges only. 2 Spare Change News editorial November 4 - November 17, 2011 Spare Change News is published by the HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT (HEP) Spare Change News Editor in Chief 1151 Massachusetts Ave. Tom Benner Cambridge, MA 02138 Poetry Editor Phone: 617-497-1595 Marc D. Goldfinger Fax: 617-868-0767 Graphic Designer E-mail: Brendan Bernard [email protected] [email protected] Puzzle Editor Samuel Weems Website: www.sparechangenews.net Editorial Assistants Alison Clark HEP ADMINISTRATION Chalkey Horenstein Mark Addesa Board President Lara Butrimowicz James Shearer Colleen Gorman Zachary Montalto Vice President Contributing Writers Michelle Ronayne Beatrice Bell Treasurer Jacques Fleury Chris McKnett Joel Foster Marc D. Goldfinger Co-Clerks Sarah Hannah Erik Paulson Aaron James Kathrine Waite Julie Monrad Alexander Moore Board Members Jeremy “Jay Jay” Parks Cheryl Jordan Adam Sennott Samuel Weems James Shearer Kristen Caretta Robert Sondak Michael Morisy Bob Woodbury Vendor Supervisors Joseph MacDonald Gary Gilreath Christopher Mesfin Bookkeeper Charles Stallings Lisa Adams Reggie Wynn Contributing Photographer Adam Sennott Trisha Craig Editorial: Occupy The Next Step DER Y N Vision & Mission S rian Spare Change News was founded in 1992 by a group of homeless people and a member of Boston Jobs with Peace. Spare Change is published REUTERS/B / by the nonprofit organization The Homeless hoto Empowerment Project (HEP). P Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick visits the Occupy Boston encampment in Boston on October 15, 2011. SPARE CHANGE’S GOAL: A hand-made sign at the Occupy Boston nomic concerns and anxieties of average voters. “To present, by our own example, that homeless encampment in Dewey Square asks: “Cardinal The Occupy movement is remarkable by many and economically disadvantaged people, with the proper resources, empowerment, opportunity, and O’Malley, Where Are You?” measures, including the racial and social diver- encouragement are capable of creating change for The same might be asked of our leaders on sity of its open and expanding membership, and ourselves in society.” Beacon Hill and Capitol Hill, whose timidity has prompts obvious comparisons to the Tea Party so far led them to keep a safe distance between movement that has dominated American political HEP’S OBJECTIVES: their carefully manicured political images and the discourse in variously loud, simplistic and mis- To empower the economically disadvantaged grungy, Woodstock-era look of Occupy Boston, leading ways. in Greater Boston through self-employment, which embraces a populism, spontaneity and The long list of injustices wrought by a govern- skill development and self-expression. To create political theater they likely fear will not play well ment beholden to corporate and special interests. forums, including those of independent media in with middle America. The ever- increasing inequality gap between the order to reshape public perception of poverty and But those same elected representatives cannot rich and the poor, the haves and the have nots. homelessness. afford to be indifferent about the movement’s Growing unemployment, poverty and economic message, which very much has to do with the eco- continued on next page November 4 - November 17, 2011 op / ed Spare Change News 3 Editorial: Marjorie Decker, A Record of Helping Others Last spring, the Homeless by a sense of social and economic justice and then led the Equal Justice Coalition, Empowerment Project held a silent auc- strongly influenced by her upbringing. a statewide advocacy program for civil tion to raise money for Spare Change Her mother worked with the elderly, legal aid for low-income people. News. We had invited Cambridge City and now works with homeless families Marjorie served on the board of Councilor Marjorie Decker as our speak- and helps substance abusers find detox the Cambridge Anti-Poverty Agency er for the evening, but we were still look- programs. Marjorie was the first in her (CEOC) just before winning a Cambridge ing for someone to auction off a few family to graduate from high school, City Council seat. The Boston YWCA has valuable lots. Marjorie came through for Cambridge Rindge and Latin, and she recognized Marjorie for her work on us, as a speaker, MC and auctioneer. She went on to earn Bachelor and Masters affordable housing and her advocacy for entertained us all and got top dollar for degrees. racial and economic justice. Marjorie is the auction items with her enthusiasm After college, Marjorie taught first now in her sixth term on the Cambridge and easy rapport with those in atten- grade and special education for Teach City Council and running for re-elec- dance. For America in Shreveport, Louisiana. tion. The Spare Change News community Marjorie grew up in public housing Returning home to Cambridge, she wishes her many more years of service in Cambridgeport, and she’s motivated worked in state and local government, to Cambridge and Massachusetts. Letter: Smokers Have No Say and No Political Power To the Editor: pect a neighbor of smoking to report the ments, but there is little evidence such ondhand smoke, but in reality it is part infraction to authorities. slight exposure poses any risk, especially of the overall program to alienate and While I wish James Shearer was cor- Although the majority of tenants, compared to the problems of mold, pest ostracize smokers. rect when he wrote that Boston had who spoke at public hearings the BHA droppings, and chemical contamination Government and private reformers, decided not to prohibit smoking in pub- held last year, expressed anger that which have plagued Boston public hous- in their effort to achieve a society where lic housing, such is not the case (James the authority was forbidding them to ing for decades. tobacco is outlawed and smokers are Shearer, “Observations,” Oct. 21-Nov. set the smoking policy in their own In order to pressure private landlords designated criminals, see no tactic as too 3). The Boston Housing Authority is, homes, officials celebrated the measure to ban smoking, the Boston Public Health coercive or intrusive. Reformers use the in fact, currently notifying its 25,000 as a way of “incentivizing” smokers to Commission is using federal stimulus power and money of federal and state public housing residents that as of next quit. Interestingly, most of the tenants money to reward those landlords who government, as well as that of wealthy September, they will be forbidden to who expressed opposition were non- do, and is giving them free advertising organizations like the Robert Wood smoke in their apartments and violators smokers. on a health commission website. Health Johnson Foundation, to promote hous- will be evicted. Residents also voiced concern that officials are also running frightening TV ing, workplace, and social discrimina- This no-smoking policy was prompt- women going out to smoke at night in ads, again using federal money, depict- tion against those 20 percent of American ed by Obama appointee, Sean Donovan, high crime areas would be in danger of ing tobacco smoke sinisterly seeping in adults who smoke, the majority of whom secretary of the Department of Housing assault or rape. Officials dismissed such from a neighbor’s apartment and envel- are poor or lower middle-class and have and Urban Development, having sent a danger as inconsequential compared to oping a sleeping infant. little political power. a memo to public housing authorities the effect the ban would have on reduc- City councilors in both Boston and nationwide “strongly encouraging” ing smoking rates. Officials also say Cambridge, have proposed banning Stephen Helfer them to prohibit smoking. The BHA is they want to reduce exposure to second- smoking in public parks. As always the 3 Crawford St. #8 also encouraging residents who sus- hand smoke drifting from other apart- justification is to protect people from sec- Cambridge, MA continued from previous page for liberal lion Teddy Kennedy, and to see the Occupy encampment for encouraging the kind of social divi- himself. That was brave compared to insecurity. The class warfare being siveness that demonizes the afflicted other Democratic leaders who have waged in our political discourse. and comforts the comfortable. stayed away and kept silent about a These are among the reasons so many Compared to the agenda-driven remarkably organized, articulate and are camping out in tents in Boston Tea Party, the Occupy movement so growing political force to be reckoned and so many other cities around the far has no political program, no clear with. With the “Make Out Not War” world. political aspirations. There is no mod- signs and anti-Wall Street rhetoric, the Give the Occupy movement credit ern-day equivalent of a Port Huron Occupy backdrop may seem an incon- for helping to steer American politi- statement, no Student Non-Violent venient photo-op to the John Kerry- cal discourse back toward the mid- Coordinating Committee. No inter- style status quo Democrats, who pre- dle. For too long, angry voices on the est in engaging in the electoral pro- fer the safe and the predictable. right have been setting an agenda that cess, no agenda for affecting public But however unappealing the seeks to rip the social safety net into policy or electing effective leaders. images of disheveled tent dwellers tatters while it props up tax cuts for camping out across from the Federal the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans, Nor is there the equivalent of right- Reserve building, the Occupy demon- corporate personhood and financial wing politicians pandering to the Tea strators have a message that matters to elitism.
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