Racial & Economic Justice
I wish there was more talk about the messed up fact that our town includes kids who think they have nothing to lose, so they may as well risk life in prison in exchange for... what? A car, a few bucks, gang membership??
I don't know much about sociology or the demographics of CH, but I'd love to hear from someone who does.
I do know that when I used to live in the Northside neighborhood, >50% of the people I saw walking down Broad St were visibly high/drunk. At a community watch meeting, the cop said that people would walk down our street to buy drugs in the park. Some people I know who lived by that park found syringes in their yard. The Carrboro cops do a great job in that neighborhood, yet it continues.
My inclination is to blame poverty. But these are people in the OC with OC schools! Maybe they didn't grow up here?
Could someone please tell me why these local kids don't get jobs and quit hanging out on Rosemary self-medicating and concocting brilliant plans involving hiding your hair while at the ATM??? Seriously. I'm not trying to be rude. I just want to know what the hell is going on.
Have y'all seen the web site that the County's consultant set up about the new site search process? At the Orange County Transfer Station Siting Website, visitors can find background, details on the siting criteria, and upcoming meetings.. This is a good start and represents an improvement on the amount of information previously available.
My wishes are that:
- They would provide a syndicated feed so that we can follow updates to the site without having to visit each page every day to see whether there's something new.
- The COUNTY ought to provide this kind of information on it's own website, since this is the people's information, and should do this for more projects. Of course, the Towns should do this as well.
North Carolina Environment Justice Network Quarterly Summit Meeting —
will be held at the Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love Church on Saturday,
March 1 from 9:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. with speakers discussing landfill
issues, water and sewage issues and the concerns of Smithfield Foods
workers.
Date:
Saturday, March 1, 2008 - 4:30am to 10:30am
Location:
Faith Tabernacle Oasis of Love Church
From a CHCCS press release:
CHCCS to host Black History Month event
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
will host a special Black History Month event for middle and high
school students, their families and members of the community.
The district encourages these groups to view the film, "The Great
Debaters." The district will then host a community dialogue on the
film on Sunday, February 24, from 2-4 pm in the Smith Middle School
Auditorium.
"The Great Debaters" recounts the true story of the debate team from
Wiley College in Marshall, TX. The debate team represented a
historically black college and was one of the first to break the color
barrier by debating teams from white colleges. The film stars Denzel
Washington and Forrest Whitaker. It was produced by Oprah Winfrey.
CHCCS reminds parents that the film is rated PG-13. Parents should
know that the film contains one graphic lynching scene and a romantic
scene. Parents should use their discretion and their knowledge of
their child to determine if the film is appropriate for him or her. To
learn more about the film, please visit www.thegreatdebaters.com.
A viewing and thinking guide for the film is posted on the district's
homepage under quick links. Light refreshments will be provided at
Smith for the event.
Date:
Sunday, February 24, 2008 - 9:00am to 11:00am
Location:
Smith Middle School Auditorium
I found this very disturbing because we are on one hand trying to help people who are homeless - who probably have mental health problems and don't have any health insurance and don't have a provider to give them help - and we are shutting down another health provider that was doing great work in all three counties. Here's the article:
Around 1500 mental health patients won’t get services this year because of cuts in state reimbursement rates [says] Doctor John Gilmore, a psychiatrist at UNC Hospitals. The funding cut
has caused mental health assistance group Caring Family Network to
cease offering services in Orange, Chatham and Person counties.
CFN
received around 12 million dollars from the federal and state budgets
this fiscal year, and has dealt with financial problems. Gilmore says mental health funding for the state doesn’t provide enough money to go around.
Gilmore
believes the problem centers around the privatization of local mental
health centers so that public mental health systems are now in the
hands of private companies.
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