Public Health & Safety
The following e-mail was forwarded to me by a friend. El Futuro works to help Latinos with mental health issues, it seems like an important program deserving of our support. Please take a moment to contact your favorite commissioner and ask that they restore funding.
Last night, the Orange County commissioners tentatively nixed $60,000
that had been approved by their subcommittee for El Futuro ( http://elfuturo-nc.org
if you're not familiar with the organization).
Please please please send the commissioners an email TODAY --their
meeting is tonight-- protesting this decision. Based on a conversation
one of our board members had with an OC commissioner, there is still a chance to restore at
least part of this funding if we can get people to object.
El Futuro is an amazing non-profit organization that serves a
population that otherwise would be ignored.
From an e-mail:
THE WANDERLUST REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE STORY COLLECTIVE AND
BIKE CARAVAN IS COMING TO TOWN!
This summer, fifteen women are traveling from New Orleans to New York City with
the Wanderlust story collective and bicycle caravan. In solidarity with local
activists and rooted in the belief that sharing stories is a powerful way to
elevate awareness and create social change, we'll be pedaling from town to town
to listen to your stories and document how you and others are working to expand
access to reproductive health care, defend reproductive rights, and promote
reproductive justice.
The goals of the trip are to document the inspirational, groundbreaking work
happening across the country, expand the conversation about reproductive
justice, and build horizontal networks to strengthen our collective movement
for reproductive health, rights, and justice.
Join the Wanderlust bike riders for an evening of story sharing, delicious
barbeque, and good conversation!
WHEN: Saturday June 21st from 6 - 8 PM
WHERE: 117 W. Poplar Ave Carrboro, NC
No parking on the street—park at the Garret Building Co. at the corner of
W. Main and W. Poplar or University Methodist Church (if there's no event going
on) or Carrboro Elementary School—on Shelton Street.
At the gathering, you'll be able to:
* Meet the Wanderlust Reproductive Justice Bike Caravan riders
* Share your experiences and talk about what reproductive justice means to you
* Hear from others in your area about what they're excited about and the
projects
they're working on
Please RSVP to Kristen Anderson at andersonk@ipas.org
For more information about Wanderlust, please visit www.protectchoice.org
or wanderlustwithrhonda.com
WANDERLUST IS A PROGRAM OF THE PRO-CHOICE PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT
Date:
Saturday, June 21, 2008 - 2:00pm
Location:
117 W. Poplar Ave Carrboro,
From the N & O:
Help sought for Project Homeless
CHAPEL HILL -- Volunteers and donors are needed for the second annual
Project Homeless Connect to help people experiencing homelessness in
Orange County.
Project Homeless Connect 2008 will be held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept.
25, at the Hargraves Community Center, 216 N. Roberson St. The event is
a one-day, one-stop center to link people experiencing -- or at risk of
experiencing -- homelessness with a broad range of services.
Guests are offered assistance with such things as housing, employment,
health and dental care, foot care, mental health care, veterans'
benefits, social service benefits and legal services. They also receive
lunch and personal care gift bags, and are offered haircuts, showers,
coats and other clothing.
At the first Project Homeless Connect event held last October, 133
guests were served, nearly 40 agencies provided services, more than 20
businesses donated goods and services, and more than 200 volunteers
participated in a variety of ways including preparing and serving food,
assembling personal care gift bags and escorting guests through the
event.
Volunteers are needed to assemble personal care kits, prepare and serve
food, cut hair, photograph the event, wash feet, escort guests and to
help in many other ways. Monetary donations will be used to purchase
personal care items, water bottles, tote bags and portfolios for the
guests, and to pay for costs associated with services they receive at
the event, such as thrift shop vouchers and the cost of obtaining an
identification card. Donation needs include food, serving items, coats,
underwear, socks, diapers, baby wipes, knapsacks and umbrellas.
To see a complete list of the volunteer positions and donation needs
for Project Homeless Connect 2008, visit the Orange County Partnership
to End Homelessness site at
http://www.co.orange.nc.us/housing/endinghomelessness.asp.
For more information, contact Jamie Rohe at 969-5059 or jrohe@townofchapelhill.org.
Date:
Thursday, September 25, 2008 - 6:00am to 1:00pm
Location:
Hargraves Community Center, 216 N. Roberson St., Chapel Hill
Graham Allison, in his classic, Essence of Decision, perfectly characterized the Horace Williams Airport situation when he wrote about governmental behavior: "No decision is made just once or for good." He also argued that "where you stand depends on where you sit."
With this weekend's bad news, Chapel Hill's pedestrian death toll rises to THREE in the past month. May 17: Barbara Boone Sims was killed crossing Weaver Dairy Road at Perkins Drive, May 15: Lisa Carolyn Moran was fatally hit by a bus on Manning Drive near UNC Hospital, April 27: Clifton Walker Steed was killed crossing MLK Blvd at Hillsborough Street. All were killed within a block of the NC 86 corridor (South Columbia Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard).
I know the Town has studied the MLK portion of the corridor and proposed some pedestrian improvements (PDF report), but none have been implemented yet as far as I know. We also need to remember that crosswalks don't exist in a vacuum, we need safe sidewalks, well-lit bus shelters, adequate bike lanes, and much more.
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