This coming week's Peace Vigils are on:
Wednesday in Mastic-Shirley: 4:30 pm - Montauk Highway and William Floyd Parkway
contact: Susan at SMc1270236@msn.com
Friday in Sayville: 4pm at Railroad Ave and Main St
Saturday in Bellport: 11am at Station and South Country Roads
Saturday in Setauket: 11:00 am - Route 25A and Bennets Road
Sunday in Bridgehampton: 3pm at the Monument - Route 27 & Ocean Road
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East End Women in Black vigil for peace in the middle east and an end to the occupations of Palestine and Iraq on the first and third Sundays in Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor. The vigil started in August of 2002.
The next vigil is on Sunday April 1 at the Monument in Bridghampton - Ocean Road and Rte 27
at 3pm.
For the winter months, vigils are held on the first Sunday each month in Bridgehampton and the third Sunday each month at the Sag Harbor Wharf starting at 3pm
More info at East End Women in Black web site or call 631-259-2482
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South Country Peace Group, South Country Women in Black and Pax Christi Sponsor a vigil in Patchogue on the last Sunday of each month.
The next memorial candlelight vigil will be on Sunday, April 29 at the Four Corners in Patchogue—where Ocean Avenue crosses Main St/Rte 27A at sundown.
There will be a reading of the names of those killed in Iraq .
Organized by the South Country Peace Group, Bellport Women In Black and St Joseph the Worker Pax Christi. This event takes place on the last Sunday of each month at or right after sundown.
For update on time contact Dennis Urlaub at dmu7@optonline.net
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Veterans For Peace and Code Pink will vigil for peace on the second Saturday each month at the Armed Forces Plaza in Hauppauge in front of the Dennison State Office Building on Route 347. The next vigil will be Saturday, April 14 between 4:00 & 6:00 pm.
More info: email to ltbrin@earthlink.net
Urban League: Senior Community Service Employment Program
The Urban League of Long Island, Inc. is delighted to introduce you to our newest initiative, the Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP).
SCSEP is a partnership between the Urban League of Long Island, the National Urban League and the United States Department of Labor that provides "Community Service Employment Training" to unemployed, low-income individuals 55 years of age and older who are interested in re-entering the workforce. Community Service Employment Training is defined as part-time, temporary employment through which participants are engaged in community service and receive valuable on-the-job training and skill development that can lead to unsubsidized employment. Under the SCSEP project design, local community-based, public, and/or government agencies serve as the partnering host agencies providing up to 20 hours per week of Community Service Employment Training. SCSEP participants are paid minimum wage (via the Urban League of Long Island) for time spent in on-the-job training at the host agency. Again with the goal being training that leads to employment.
Please join us in spreading the word about this wonderful program. Should you know of any seniors, community based organizations, or employers interested in participation please feel free to pass along the attached flyers and/or my contact information provided below.
Thank you in advance for your support and assistance!
Keisha Walker
Suffolk contact #: 631.232.2482 ext. 19
Email : kwalker@urbanleaguelongisland.org
or, kjwalkerULLI@yahoo.com
Note: We have and office in Riverhead
Urban League of Long Island, Inc.
Empowering Communities.
Changing Lives.
SCSEP is a partnership between the Urban League of Long Island, the National Urban League and the United States Department of Labor that provides "Community Service Employment Training" to unemployed, low-income individuals 55 years of age and older who are interested in re-entering the workforce. Community Service Employment Training is defined as part-time, temporary employment through which participants are engaged in community service and receive valuable on-the-job training and skill development that can lead to unsubsidized employment. Under the SCSEP project design, local community-based, public, and/or government agencies serve as the partnering host agencies providing up to 20 hours per week of Community Service Employment Training. SCSEP participants are paid minimum wage (via the Urban League of Long Island) for time spent in on-the-job training at the host agency. Again with the goal being training that leads to employment.
Please join us in spreading the word about this wonderful program. Should you know of any seniors, community based organizations, or employers interested in participation please feel free to pass along the attached flyers and/or my contact information provided below.
Thank you in advance for your support and assistance!
Keisha Walker
Suffolk contact #: 631.232.2482 ext. 19
Email : kwalker@urbanleaguelongisland.org
or, kjwalkerULLI@yahoo.com
Note: We have and office in Riverhead
Urban League of Long Island, Inc.
Empowering Communities.
Changing Lives.
Week of March 22, 2007
For a complete and updated East End Report click here ,
then click on your browser's RELOAD button!
AOLers: go to www(.)eastendrep(.)blogspot(.)com - replace "(.)" with "."
In this week's report: [ click on any of the bold headers below or scroll down]
Get It Off the Streets
A Trip to the Dump
Sag Harbor Vigil Draws Crowd
Congressman John Lewis on the Pelosi Plan
From Cynthia McKinney
WPKN Presents Rev. Holly Haile Davis and Thunder Bird Sisters
Facing War in Brooklyn
Peace & Justice Calendar
Suffolk Peace Vigils
Long Island Climate Crisis Network - Calendar
Counter Recruiting Schedule
Alternative Media for Eastern LI
Democracy Now!
Non-corporate news hour with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:
on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold Channel 20:
Monday 10 pm - Tuesday 9 pm - Wednesday 9 pm - Thursday 9 pm -
Friday - 6:30 am- Saturday - 6:30 am
Also on WUSB 90.1 FM 5pm Mon-Friday and East Hampton LTV Ch 20
See WPKN Today for program details on WPKM heard at 88.7 Montauk to Water Mill and WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport to Southampton and Southold.
Note: WPKM 88.7 Montauk returned to the air Monday March 12.
WPKN/M Local News at 6:30 pm (Mon-Fri) has occasional reports from the East End.
For more Information on Peace Activism on LI
see North Fork People of Conscience at www(.)nfpofc(.)blogspot(.)com
see Suffolk Progressive Vision at www(.)spv(.)active(.)ws
then click on your browser's RELOAD button!
AOLers: go to www(.)eastendrep(.)blogspot(.)com - replace "(.)" with "."
In this week's report: [ click on any of the bold headers below or scroll down]
Get It Off the Streets
A Trip to the Dump
Sag Harbor Vigil Draws Crowd
Congressman John Lewis on the Pelosi Plan
From Cynthia McKinney
WPKN Presents Rev. Holly Haile Davis and Thunder Bird Sisters
Facing War in Brooklyn
Peace & Justice Calendar
Suffolk Peace Vigils
Long Island Climate Crisis Network - Calendar
Counter Recruiting Schedule
Alternative Media for Eastern LI
Democracy Now!
Non-corporate news hour with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:
on Riverhead/Southampton/Southold Channel 20:
Monday 10 pm - Tuesday 9 pm - Wednesday 9 pm - Thursday 9 pm -
Friday - 6:30 am- Saturday - 6:30 am
Also on WUSB 90.1 FM 5pm Mon-Friday and East Hampton LTV Ch 20
See WPKN Today for program details on WPKM heard at 88.7 Montauk to Water Mill and WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport to Southampton and Southold.
Note: WPKM 88.7 Montauk returned to the air Monday March 12.
WPKN/M Local News at 6:30 pm (Mon-Fri) has occasional reports from the East End.
For more Information on Peace Activism on LI
see North Fork People of Conscience at www(.)nfpofc(.)blogspot(.)com
see Suffolk Progressive Vision at www(.)spv(.)active(.)ws
Get It Off the Streets
At 10:15 pm Tuesday night the Suffolk County legislature voted down a resolution which would make it a crime to stand looking for work or to stop to pick up day laborers on the County's roads.
The vote was 10 against and 6 for the bill with East End Legislator Jay Schneiderman of Montauk abstaining.
Oponents of the bill rallied outside the Legislature building voicing disproval and calling for a more humane way of treating immigrant workers.
The proposed law was offered by Legislators in reaction to the situation in villages such as Farmingville and Southampton where workers stand on street corners seeking work. The workers have attracted anti-immigrant protesters who congregate nearby. Proponents of the bill claimed they create a serious traffic safety issue.
Immigrant supporters say the solution is a formal off street hiring facility.
Jim Clafey of the Long Island Community Fund told Michael O'Neill:
"I've been involved in immigration work for a dozen years now. We have been coming back again and again to this legislature to try to forestall these negative proposals they keep coming up with and to try to offer something positive.
Something we have been proposing for 8 years without sucess is to put together a worker's center. The men are already here. The opponents say if you build it they will come .... but the point is the men are already here.
If indeed there is a traffic issue then get it off the streets. Get a safe worker center where we can get some order out of the chaos that exists. This is the only possible solution that will really address the problem. This legislature consistently refuses to marshall the courage that will solve the problem."
In Southampton a group attempting to establish a hiring center has been frustrated by on-again off-again support by local officials. At a meeting last month the Coalition for a Work Link center in Southampton unveiled a plan for site at the Railroad station parking lot. Support from Mayor Mark Epley evaporated after residents and parents of a nearby school objected.
Proponents of the Hiring center are looking to the Mayor to find an alternative solution.
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This report was prepared for WPKN news. (WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport / WPKM 88.7 Montauk)
Thanks to Michael O'Neill for the on the scene reporting.
The vote was 10 against and 6 for the bill with East End Legislator Jay Schneiderman of Montauk abstaining.
Oponents of the bill rallied outside the Legislature building voicing disproval and calling for a more humane way of treating immigrant workers.
The proposed law was offered by Legislators in reaction to the situation in villages such as Farmingville and Southampton where workers stand on street corners seeking work. The workers have attracted anti-immigrant protesters who congregate nearby. Proponents of the bill claimed they create a serious traffic safety issue.
Immigrant supporters say the solution is a formal off street hiring facility.
Jim Clafey of the Long Island Community Fund told Michael O'Neill:
"I've been involved in immigration work for a dozen years now. We have been coming back again and again to this legislature to try to forestall these negative proposals they keep coming up with and to try to offer something positive.
Something we have been proposing for 8 years without sucess is to put together a worker's center. The men are already here. The opponents say if you build it they will come .... but the point is the men are already here.
If indeed there is a traffic issue then get it off the streets. Get a safe worker center where we can get some order out of the chaos that exists. This is the only possible solution that will really address the problem. This legislature consistently refuses to marshall the courage that will solve the problem."
In Southampton a group attempting to establish a hiring center has been frustrated by on-again off-again support by local officials. At a meeting last month the Coalition for a Work Link center in Southampton unveiled a plan for site at the Railroad station parking lot. Support from Mayor Mark Epley evaporated after residents and parents of a nearby school objected.
Proponents of the Hiring center are looking to the Mayor to find an alternative solution.
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This report was prepared for WPKN news. (WPKN 89.5 Bridgeport / WPKM 88.7 Montauk)
Thanks to Michael O'Neill for the on the scene reporting.
Eleanor Oakley: A Trip to the Dump
This week (Cablevision) Channel 12 is featuring a trip made by local students to a DUMP in Nicaragua where the poor rely on the garbage to meet their families needs. The response of the viewers and presenters appears to be one of compassion and near disbelief and yet many of these same people including six of our legislators would prevent immigrants from looking for work that would prevent their families from this horrendous daily experience. Though Nicargua is featured it should be mentioned that it is only one of many countries where this is repeated every single day. I think the irony of this situation needs to be called to the attention of Channel 12 and the larger community. Who knows maybe just a peek into the life of the poor might lead to dialogue for a productive solution to what is called The Immigrant Problem.
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