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Calling for More Youth Jobs in Boston

Since 2001, the city of Bosotn has cut its spending on youth jobs by more than half. Anyone who reads the Boston papers knows that youth violence, particularly among Blacks and Latinos in Roxbury and Dorchester, has been skyrocketing.

The graphic above is from the United Youth and Youth Workers of Boston website. Please sign their petition urging Boston city officials to allocate $5 Million from the FY07 City Operating Budget for summer and year-round youth jobs.

Youth jobs are crucial to stopping violence. In the short term, they provide a positive alternative to young people of all types -- helping those who have already made negative choices, turn their lives around; and helping other young people who are on the fence, stay positive.

In the long term, jobs build the skills and futures of young people, giving them the tools and relationships to stay positive long after a summer job has finished. Indeed, youth jobs do far more than prevent violence: they invest in young people, giving them the resources to thrive as they become adults and community leaders.

Katrina Solidarity Vigil

[Just got this from one of the organizers. Why not have a vigil in your community? --BG]

United, we, the community stand
"No one is expendable!"

With over a thousand counted dead and hundreds (especially children) still listed as missing,

We call for Candle Light Vigils -
Sunday, October 30 at 6pm
in every local community that can.

Two months to the day after the flooding of New Orleans - we gather to share our grief, our ongoing commitment to each other (no one of any race or class is expendable!) and to a healthy environment and a just and therefore, peaceful society for all!

In this we stand united.

Where is our national government's call to stand united in the face of this tragedy? This unnatural disaster?

After 9/11, they called for us to come together as a country, to stand in vigil together, to rebuild together - is it that they do not need to drum up nationalism to get us into a war, that they have forgotten our need to come together as a country to support the survivors of this disaster?

Since the US Government is already returning to business as usual (big "rebuilding" contracts for their friends, tax breaks for the wealthy, cuts in services for and rolling back the rights of the rest of us), we call for unity. We call out to our sisters and brothers, who are low-income, who are people of color - You are not expendable - you will never be expendable to the rest of the community, the moral community, the community of compassion and concern - which is most of us in this country!

Candlelight Vigils:
Boston - Dudley Square,
Sunday, October 30th, 6pm

United we stand - in our grief, our commitment to each other and in our call for justice!

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The New Abolitionists/March to Abolish Poverty www.abolishpoverty.net
Economic Human Rights Project
Michigan Welfare Right Union
National Welfare Rights Union
Reply to: Econhmnrts AT aol DOT com
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Add the place of your organization's vigil/event