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.
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Week of March 22, 2007
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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.
_________________________________________________________________
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.
Vigil Draws Crowd in Sag Harbor
At the Sag Harbor Wharf on Monday March 19, a large crowd estimated at 70 or more people gathered at 5:30pm in opposition of the continuation of the war in Iraq which started four years ago on that date. The national political lobbying organization Move On called the rally with the help of a local sponsor.
It is our estimation that those who gathered there were more in tune with the sentiments of former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (Dem.-Georgia, twice elected and then defeated by cross-over Republican votes) and Congressman John Lewis (Dem. Georgia) than with the recommendation of Move-On to support the Democratic majority's bill on Iraq now before Congress. They voted in a Democratic Congress because they believed the Party would act to end, not fund the killing in Iraq.
Move On says:
Democratic leadership's bill which will not "end the war now".
The Progressive Democrats of America ( http://pdamerica.org ) said on the weekend:
It is our estimation that those who gathered there were more in tune with the sentiments of former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (Dem.-Georgia, twice elected and then defeated by cross-over Republican votes) and Congressman John Lewis (Dem. Georgia) than with the recommendation of Move-On to support the Democratic majority's bill on Iraq now before Congress. They voted in a Democratic Congress because they believed the Party would act to end, not fund the killing in Iraq.
Move On says:
" Our vigils will respect and reflect the solemnity of this moment. But we will not forget that even as we look back on the losses of the past four years, tens of thousands more US soldiers have been sent to Iraq as a part of President Bush's disastrous escalation strategy. Not only are these troops being sent into the middle of a chaotic civil war -- but they are being deployed under-equipped and under-prepared. So while we honor our troops this March 19th, we will also call on President Bush to do the same. Honor their sacrifice. Stop the escalation. End the war now."But Move On is asking us to choose between doing nothing or supporting the
Democratic leadership's bill which will not "end the war now".
The Progressive Democrats of America ( http://pdamerica.org ) said on the weekend:
"MoveOn is polling its membership on whether to support or oppose the loophole-ridden Democratic leadership plan that prolongs the Iraq occupation on a slow timeline – slower than what most American voters want. Unfortunately, the MoveOn poll doesn’t explain the issues.
Please vote to “Oppose the Plan” in the MoveOn poll, and spread the word to others.
Especially to others who may not be aware that progressive Congressmembers who
have carried the antiwar banner on Capitol Hill for years do not approve of the Democratic leadership’s plan as currently written.
And please express yourselves to MoveOn – in the comments box --
that they should support Rep. Barbara Lee’s efforts to bring an amendment to the floor for a fully-funded, orderly withdrawal of all U.S. troops and military contractors by the end of 2007. "
Move On now estimates that about 85% of respondents to their on line poll voted for the Democrat majority bill. But Move On did not explain the issue fairly.
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