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Vision & MissionSpare Change News was founded in 1992 by a group of homelesspeople and a member of Boston Jobs with Peace. Spare Changeis published by the nonprofit organization The HomelessEmpowerment Project (HEP).

SPARE CHANGES GOAL:To present, by our own example, that homeless andeconomically disadvantaged people, with the proper resources,empowerment, opportunity, and encouragement are capable ofcreating change for ourselves in society.

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The Patrick administration and homeless advo-cates are at odds for the second consecutive yearover how scarce funds for homeless programs will

be spent in the next state budget.The administration wants to limit the amount of

money it spends on homeless shelters and motels,and move the savings into permanent housing andthe support services that help people to become sta-

ble and self-sufficient.The shift is in line with the Housing First

approach, which starts with the assumption thatfor the majority, homelessness is a housing prob-lem. Thats particularly true thanks to a shortage ofaffordable rental housing and an increase in pov-

erty. Put homeless individuals and families intopermanent housing first, then provide the supportservices they may need a case manager, mentalhealth or substance abuse counseling, food stamps,work supports to stay off the streets. Homelesscoordinators, transitional assistance workers andcommunity-based non-profits work together to helpfind long-term housing and employment solutions.

Thats the theory, and its a good one . The ideais a reverse of the traditional reliance on the shel-ter system, where homeless people showed up ata shelter to access the services they would need toget back on their feet and into permanent housingin the distant future.

Its a more humane approach a shelter or

motel room is no place to raise a family or achieve

stability. Putting the homeless into permaneing fosters a sense of home and responsibiliultimately cheaper on a per-night basis thater, jail, an emergency room or a psychiatrtal.

But getting there is proving difficult. Forbudget that begins July 1, the Patri ck admtion proposes to limit access to shelter toin emergency situations, and reinvest the esavings of $25 million into housing program

As they were last year, advocates for thless are skeptical. They think the plan woout too many people, denying shelter acces

ple who have no other place to go. A time lposed by the Patrick administration on hfamilies with children could stay in shellead to people sleeping in cars or on the strshowing up at emergency rooms, they fear.

Last year, homeless advocates were abproposed limits on shelter access. The figagain. As was demonstrated last year, theof money available to put and keep the hand near-homeless into housing fell far the demand. Until that changes, shelters wished away. Shelters are going to be neeshelter beds are going to be full until there iaffordable housing and housing support tthem empty.

VER:Noam Chomsky. Photo by Reuters/Majed Jaber Book cover: We Are All In Themps With Jack and Guy. Copyright 1993 by Maurice Sendak. Used with permission.

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Maurice Sendak was being driv- through Los Angeles in the early90s. It was the kind of journeyto darkness found in his childrensoks , only more real and scarier.The nat ion was s t rug g l ing to

merge from the recession that hadllowed a worldwide stock mar-t crash in 1987. Big banks reportedcord profits while major corpora-

ons announced massive layoffs.As Sendaks car pulled up to a

op sign, he looked out the win-ow and noticed a cardboard box one sidewalk. Soon, he saw wigglinget sticking out from under the box.ooking closer, he noticed the face ofchild.Arrested by the stark contrast ofvisible children living in boxes ate feet of excessive wealth, Sendakddenly found meaning in the linea nursery rhyme that he had beenappling with for years. And theuses are built without walls.The rest of that verse, coupled withother obscure rhyme from Mother

oose, became the cryptic scaffold-g for one of the first picture books

dressing child homelessness. Thusas born perhaps his darkest andost strangely hopeful book, We Arel in the Dumps with Jack and Guy.Famous for his depiction of a jour-y through the rage, fear, and lone-

ness of a childs tantrum in Wheree Wild Things Are, Sendak wasutely aware that not all children

ad such a cozy home in which tongle with the often overwhelming

motions of childhood.The dark and surreal plot of theok follows two stree t- tough kids,ck an d Guy, t hrough a cardboard

antytown filled with children ings. The pair of ruffians loses a lit-r of kittens and a bald little kidgiant, sinister rats in a card game.

he rats haul the kittens and the lit-e kid off to St. Pauls Bakery andrphanage.The moon takes pity and carries

ck and Guy to the fields of rye out -de St. Pauls where they find thetle boy. Guy stops Jack from hittinge little kid and suggests they feedm instead. The moon transformsto a cat and leads Jack and Guy into Pauls to rescue the kittens.

Jack and Guy return to the ir card-

board village where they vow to raisethe little boy, as other folk do.

The rich two-page illustrationsare layered with social commentary.Many of the street children are cladin newspapers, others uses them as

bl an ke ts . On on e pa ge of th e bo okthe papers advertise expensive realestate, and on the next, headlinesread, Chaos in Shelters, Faminein the World, and Leaner Times,Meaner Times.

While most of his b ooks werentovertly political, I think by the time hearrived at We Are All in the Dumpshe just let it go and said whatever hewanted to say, says longtime friend

John Cech, an Engli sh prof essor at theUniversity of Florida and the direc-tor of the Center for the Study ofChildrens Literature and Culture.

C e c h f i r s t m e t S e n d a k w h i l estudying childrens literature at theUniversity of Connecticut whenSendak came to speak to one of hismasters classes. The two becamefriends, keeping in touch over 40years.

Cech says that Sendak spoke ofthe period when he wrote We AreAll in the Dumps as a difficult time.Friends of his were dying all overthe place.

As a gay man active in the homo-sexual community, Sendak had manyfriends touched by the AIDS epi-demic. One of the newspaper head-

lines featured in the book reads, Jim

Goes Home, referring to theAIDS-related death of hisgood friend James Marshall,author of the award-winningGeorge and Martha books.

Some, inc luding C ech ,have speculated that the baldlittle boy in We Are All inthe Dumps is a child suffer-ing from AIDS-related com-plications.

W h i l e s o m e m a y b euncomfortable introducingsuch themes to young chil-dren, Sendak never shirkedan opportunity to show thegrittier side of life.

Tell them anything youw a n t , b u t t e l l t h e m t h etruth, Sendak once told anHBO film crew.

As a child, Sendak wasconfronted with many harshtruths. A gay, Jewish kidgrowing up in Brooklyn dur-

ing the Great Depression is bound tohit some bumps in the road.

Cech recalls Sendak telling him oftragic childhood memories that went

beyond the typical st ruggles for peck-ing order and penny candy.

A young Sendak was playing ball

with a friend, when he bounced thebal l ou t of th e f ri en d s re ac h. Hi sfriend chased after the ball and intothe street where he was struck by acar and killed.

Many of Sendaks family memberswere killed in the Holocaust whilehe was a young child. Tragedy was

jus t as much a f ace t o f l ife f or youngSendak as any adult.

Cech says that children see tragedyevery day.

Kids know that their classmatesare abused; they see the bruises. Theyknow who is on food stamps. Kids

know what happens to other kids.Kids see those things, they endurethose things, but they dont talk aboutthem because they are simply a partof life.

Books such as We Are All in theDumps give children the space andpermission to talk about such issues.

[We Are All in the Dumps] is acall to look around, to care, and tosee, says Daryl Mark, coordinator ofchildrens services at the CambridgePublic Library.

Despite the disturbing imagerydepicting hunger, poverty, and home-

lessness throughout the book, Mark

sees hope and kindness in theIn the end of the tale, Jack a

take in the little kid and care The final image of the three sleeping on the street, the lcurled up in Jacks arms, isheartwarming and heartbreak

To me, whats hopeful is tof kindness even though therresolution to the poverty, thethe homelessness, or the vulity, Mark says.

While We Are All in the Dis nearly twenty years old, thraised in the book persist toda

In Massachusetts, 20,000 clive in homeless shelters or st

sidized motel rooms, a numfails to include families livinor teens living on the street.

Perhaps we are all in thewith Jack and Guy, after all.

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He first came across the verswhile helping folklorist Ionaselect verses to convert into drens books. These two rhylingered in his mind for yea

before he decided to put thetogether into a picture book

We Are All in the DumWe are all in the dumps, for monds are trumps,And the kittens are gone to Pauls!The baby is bit, the moons iAnd the houses are built wi

walls.

Jack and GuyJack and Guy went out in thAnd they found a little boy wone black eye.Come, says Jack, lets knockon the head,No, says Guy, lets buy him

bread.You buy one loaf and Ill buyAnd well bring him up as ofolk do.

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akia Hill

re Change NewsDressed in a two-piece suit and

umps, Frederica M. Williams, Presidentnd CEO of Whittier Street Healthenter, is making her mark on healthre in Roxbury. Williams is contributinga legacy that her beloved father askedr to carry out before he passed away

om diabetes.My father instilled in me the belief

at I can do anything I put my mind to,id Williams.Frederica Williams has broken downrriers and dismissed stereotypes often

aced upon women in leadership posi-ons. Williams says that there wereoubts about her ability to construct aate-of-the-art health care facility frome ground up in the heart of Roxbury,

ut she did it.The challenge for me is, some of theople who said no were people in cor-

orations that were investing in theirrporations. I felt that because I was

ying to do something in a low-incomemmunity that people were not ascited as they would be if I was lookingbuild a project in a wealthy commu-

ty, said Williams.Over the years, there have been

enty of misconceptions thrown at hercause of her gender and role as CEO/esident. Whether it was the perceptionat women were more emotional thanen, or the notion that it is unladylikebe assertive, stereotypes threatened to

ear her down, but they didnt succeed.Every step of the way as a woman

ou have to be very careful becauseere are different labels for us. Im verysertive, but its not about my emo-

ons, its not about my mood swings, itesnt have anything to do with me. Its

out the task at hand, said Williams.e continued, I would not be humanI did not say it attempted to wear me

own, but I had my mother who wouldck me up. Im also a woman of faith. Irongly believe that Im here for a pur-se. I dont expect it to be easy. Matterfact, the challenges are what make mesciplined because when people are outere saying she cant do it or that thisnnot be done that for me helps build

umility.Williams has proven that she is the

oman for the job. Ten years havessed since Williams transitioned from

r position as Vice President at Dimock

Community Health Center to Presidentand CEO at Whittier Street. WSHC wasone of 49 health centers in the nation that

benef ited from the federal funds fromthe Obama administrations stimuluspackage, which created 450 construction

jobs and 50 permanent full -time jobs at

the clinic itself. Many people doubtedher ability to reconstruct a health centerin two years, but she accomplished it in18 months.

WSHC has gone from serving 5,000people to now serving almost 19,000

patients. Their budget has tripled and

theyve expanded their proWeve expanded our urgent caso people that are unnecessariemergency rooms can come timmediate access and we can lito primary care, said Williams.

At its new state-of-the-art heity, 47 percent of patients thaserves are men, which is the higcentage of male patients servecommunity health center in theWSHC also boasts a nationallnized program for asthma, diabesity, cardiovascular disease, anddeveloped a first-of-its-kind com

based cancer clinic in partnersDana Farber.

Behind the sophisticated extebusiness mindset is a woman relate to her patients more thcould ever fathom. When Willia freshman in college she becamnant with her first child. She wwith the hardships of being a tent, a role that many of her patitoday. She says, A role as a CEOdefine who I am. What defines wis [the role of being] a parent.

Three children and a difficullater, Williams has obtained h

holds two presidential positionresume, and stands a woman wcares for her community. She her patients are more than deof top quality, accessible and afhealth care.

I use my entrepreneurial smy social justice mission to bugrams that meet the needs of tmunity and to use my businessstrengthen the organization, s

become an investment in the coty, said Williams.

Its only the beginning for WSFrederica Williams says her wo

complete yet, but so far she is pthe work she has accomplishedpercent of her staff hails fRoxbury community and her staa combined 20 languages. Whittto expand the health centers from its current 60,000 patient103,000 patient visits by 2015.

To me, this is only the beof my legacy. The last 10 yearsa preparation for my legacy, notime to do some things in addwhat weve already done.

NAKIA HILL writes for Spare Ch

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N o a m C h o m s k y s n e w b o o k ,

Occupy, is printed as part of theccupied Media Pamphlet Series andys out many arguments first articu-ted at student meetings and in frontgatherings of Occupy Wall Street

OWS) activists. Professor Chomskysterest in Occupy is consistent withs support of previous grassrootsovements for change and can be seenstemming from certain of his more

ell-known views on American cul-re and politics. Elsewhere, Professorhomsky has said that its only whenople get together that they becomengerous, because then, they begin

enter that arena where they dont

be lo ng , na mely in fl ue nc in g pu bl icaffairs. Hence the usefulness of whatis known as the entertainment indus-try for those who dont wish to relin-

quish their hold on the levers of powerin society. Television (You are alonewatching the tube. That is very advan-tageous for the control of people) andsports (a way of building up irrationalattitudes of submission to authority)are both useful insofar as they succeedin keeping people isolated and outsideof the political arena. It is because theyovercome these strategies of alienationand estrangement that movementslike Occupy Wall Street will always

be opposed by police wielding pepperspray and teargas.

Together with his friend, the late

Howard Zinn, Professor Chomsky

was one of the first major support-ers of Spare Change News. Despite ahectic schedule and pressing demandson his time, he kindly agreed to an

interview with Spare Change Newsin order to discuss among otherthings Occupy Wall Street, the roleof elite universities, and his reputationas the most-cited living author in theworld.

Spare Change News: In reading thebiographical blurb to one of your morerecent articles TruthOuts adapta-tion of your Occupy Boston talk Iwas surprised to learn that yourelisted as a New York Times syndicatedcolumnist. Ironic, considering yourhistory of leveling criticism at the

Times ... How long have you held this

distinction?Noah Chomsky: I was inv

the editor, who seems to operaor less independently of the jo

dont know the details. The optributed by the syndicate, thotributed here, dont appear in York Time, or in the US press g(except for In These Times, oally some other small newspwebsites). The book Interveis a collection of them (updatanother collection is appearing

SCN: Weve all seen the vpolice pepper-spraying protesfew know that City of Londorecently listed the OWS aamong terrorist groups like

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of Pakistan in an advisory notice.c co rd in g to th e Ne w York Tim es ,e police operation to clear Zuccotti

ark was preceded by weeks of coun-rterrorism training. And Michael

reenberg writes in the New Yorkeview of Books about how a policetellite truck was for weeks parked in

ont of the apartment building wheree of the core organizers for OWS

ved; the police were apparentlyonitoring people who came in to seer.NC: It was never in doubt that thethorities would act to terminate thecupations. The only question washen and how. It appeared to be ationally coordinated effort, imple-ented in different ways through-

ut the country. As for the effect, it

pends how the OWS movements andeir supporters respond. Of course,e repression, however predictable,ould be protested, and the victimsfended. But we should all realize

at the best defense against repressionto carry the struggle forward. Thatse task in hand.

SCN: But what do you think is thest way to carry the struggle forward?me Occupy groups have hinted thatcome springtime theyll set up

w encampments in city centers andt back to doing the very visible kinds

actions that they began last October.re traditional community organizingforts (e.g., coalition-building withbor) not being fully exploited by theWS movement?NC: I dont regard my own tacticalvice as very significant. For exam-e, if asked I would have opposede Occupy tactic, assuming that itouldnt work, and Id have beenectacularly wrong.For what its worth, my guess is

at this particular tactic has probablyutlived its usefulness, at least as play-g a central role in the movement,

d that it is necessary to reach out togage much broader constituencies,

ith careful attention and sympatheticncern for their own priorities, andforts to integrate these into a broaderovement of mutual support. Like thends of efforts you mention.

SCN: Speaking of broader move-ents, Ive noted that in some of yours t tal ks you hav e been critical ofe overly narrow focus of social jus-ce organizing. I would imagine theoston area alone has dozens of littlecial justice organizations. It could

be, for example, housing justice ini-tiatives, promoting solidarity with

peo ple in Lat in Ame ric a, counteringthe influence of the military in pub-lic schools, or any number of issues.But how effective can they be on thei rown? Should they be forming allianceswith more broadly-based social changemovements like OWS?

NC: I dont recall being critical ofthe narrow focus in itself. It is often

well justified. But the atomization thatis so prevalent in the society as a wholeis harmful to individual movements,which could benefit greatly from par-ticipation in a common enterprise withmany complementary facets. That iswhy for many years many decadesin fact there have been efforts to cre-ate broader regional or even nationaland international coalitions. It hasnt

bee n easy, but it is cle arl y desi rab le.Theres a good reason, for example,why unions are called internationals,even though the term is much more ofan aspiration than a functioning reality,

as it should be, for the benefit of all.

SCN: Last month you went toHa rv ard to ad dres s a ga th er in g ofBoston-area OWS activists. Dont you

fin d it odd that the 99 percent move-ment gathered at the university of the1 percent?

NC: In most countries meetings canbe hel d at union hal ls l ike when Italked in London a few months ago.

Not here. The main functioning insti-tutions are churches and universities,so meetings are commonly held there.

I agree with you that there couldhave been a better venue. I supposethere were reasons for selecting thatone.

SCN: In the 1980s Harvard wasseen as a sort of scholarly refuge byIndonesian and Guatemalan generals.

More recently, Georgetown gave a fac-ulty position Distinguished Scholarin the Practice of Global Leadership to former Colombian president Alvaro

Uribe, despite his horrendourights record. What do univstand to gain or lose f ralliances?

NC: It was a refuge, as you that gave an opportunity to aI was involved in both the Ind

and Guatemalan cases (LumGramajo). Harvard was kesecret, but I learned about it froists on Indonesia and Guatemgroups here were able to organeffective protests that drove Luout of the country (one of mite ever Boston Globe headliIndonesian general flees Bostproperly shamed Harvard. Alaa wonderful person with a fladramatic, waited for the Harvamencement, and when Gramaup for his diploma, raced daisle in front of the TV came

handed him a subpoena tDepartment quickly got him ocountry. Was part of the Uribtoo, but that time the protesprevent the appointment, thhad its effects.

The US supported all of thesters, handsomely. So not suthat Harvard joins in to rewardits own way.

SCN: Lawrence Woods, acal scientist, conducted a s

few years ago to see how oftwritings are cited in underg

International Relations texFrom 1992 to 1999 only 8 percetexts contained citations of yo(and thats including one e

footn ote ). A f ol low-up studing at texts published betweand 2004 didnt turn up a singtion. How does this square wreputation as the most-citeauthor?

NC: Im amazed there it wapercent. And I suspect if youyoud find it was mostly contions. What else would youHow often do you think Howa

or other critics of US foreign pomentioned? Sometimes, its trudalous. Gabriel Kolkos piowork on the early Cold War inever cited in scholarly jothough plenty of scholars crib insights.

The reputation is based survey of social science literaout by the MIT PR office. Mayrate, maybe not, but not of the significance.

SETH KERSHNER writes for SpChange News.

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bert Sondakre Change News

On May 6, 41,000 walkers partici-ted in the 44th Walk for Hunger andlped to raise $3.6 million for a wide

nge of hunger relief organizations inassachusetts.The executive director of Projectead, Ellen Parker, addressed theowd of walkers: Were all heart-ed that our economy is showing

gns of recovery, Parker said, bute know that over 700,000 people inassachusetts struggle to put food one table. For families, its particularlyfficult. Thats why were providingmuch support as possible to com-

unity organizations that provideod for children. When a family getsedictable and good quality meals

r their children every school day,ey save money, which can then bet toward a healthy dinner at night.The funds donated by the walkersll provide support to over 450 emer-ncy food programs in communitiesross Massachusetts. The programspported by the Walk for Hungercompass a wide range of missionsat promote community food secu-y. Some of the solutions developedProject Bread to alleviate hunger in

assachusetts include improving theality of public school lunches, andpanding access to Supplemental

utrition Assistance Program (SNAP,rmerly known as food stamps) ben-ts. Project Bread also promotes agri-ltural initiatives such as communityd school gardens, mobile pantriesd farmers markets offering localoduce, co-ops, nutrition classes andmmunity suppers.

What the Walk for Hunger accomplishe

atrice Bellre Change News

Spring has sprungat Rosies Place and thePine Street Inn.

On May 2nd. TheB o s t o n M i n s t r e lC o m p a n y c a m e t oRosies Place to partywith the ladies. I sangAs Time Goes By. An

derly lady sang I Heard It Throughhe Grapevine. Two Spanish sis-rs and a French Creole woman sang

Happy Birthday to Tim McHale, the

leader of the Boston Minstrel Company.Several other ladies sang different songs

before and after I arrived. They rockedthe house like usual.

Pine Street Inn has announced theyregoing to have Spring Fling on May 30.Around town there are several othercelebrations going on too. The BostonMinstrel Company held a party and ahalf. They threw down like I grew upexperiencing block parties as a youngwoman. Tim McHale the leader hasa rule of thumb he follows when hecomes to Rosies Place and Pine Street

Inn. His rule of thumb is that everybody

gets involved and everybody has fun.No fighting just fun loving togethernesssinging and dancing or helping playmusic using their bongos, tamborine ormaracas. No hate just love and fun forthe night.

Ive had the pleasure of enjoying Timat both Rosies Place and Pine Street Innfor the last four years and everybodyalways has fun. I chose to sing As TimeGoes By because its a sentimental songthats dear to me just like when Ive sangSam Cookes song You Send Me and

Judy Garlands Somewhere Over The

Rainbow.

Everybody always has a gowhen they show up and thewhen they leave. The rest of thRosies Place has several trips as well as their Creative Writand their Arts & Craft classeare a homeless woman comeRosies Place or Pine Street Inn fun. During Spring Fling whitogether by Jennifer Payne is dancing, music, short skit and ashow. Come see whats going on

BEATRICE BELL is a Spare Chan

writer and vendor.

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Voices From The StreetsVoices from the Streets a forum for those whose voices are too often ignored. From narratives to opinion to advice, these writers portray a unique pe

spective on life that might otherwise go unnoticed. Below, find that turning an ear towards those normally silenced opens the door to understanding andrelating to those who have faced life on the street.

Marc D. GoldfingerSpare Change News

A chi l l ran throug h mybo dy as I read of th e murderof Barbara Coyne of Boston,67 years old, allegedly by ayoung heroin addict known asTimothy Kostka, only 27 years

old. Violence always did make me ill,especially violence that was irrational andhad no valid purpose.

I remembered the picture in the BostonGlobe, Timothy leaning over in conferencewith his lawyer, and I looked closely at

his face. Here was a man who was cursedwith the same affliction as myself, a crav-ing for heroin, driven by a demonic yearn-ing that brings out the worst in a human

being.I think of my lost years, over three

decades of chasing the drug, being impris-oned within myself, the police always onmy trail because of my desperate craving

just to kil l the feelings of despair that ateat my soul. I thank Gods I do not under-stand that violence was not a part of mylife.

So many opiate addicts , scatteredthroughout the world, just chasing releasefrom themselves. When I read of the hor-rid murder I felt a deep sorrow, not onlyfor Barbara Coyne, who died needlessly,

but for all the heroin addicts without anyviolence in their spirits, who would suf-fer for the terrible act of one man, proneto violence, and the knee-jerk reaction thatwould take place in the community.

Hunted, like vampires in a nightmarefantasy, all those heroin addicts whoseonly crime consists of the search for relieffrom their tortured realities. Why dosome of us become addicts, or alcohol-ics, which is addiction by another name?What causes this illness, nature or nur-ture, or both?

In my younger days, I saw people trythe opiates and then discard them, butmyself, I was gripped by a raging needfor the extreme liberation of the pain ofmyself, and only the opiates would grantthat state of being. Those of us who hada tendency towards violence were few.Addiction aggravates the worst in us ifa tendency towards violence exists in ourspirits, it will be brought forth in our des-perate search for relief.

However, if we were not prone to vio-lence, the need for opiates would not cre-

ate it. The true horror of this situation is

that the cries for the new Prohibibe lo ud er an d mo re ex ag ge ra tever.

According to the Boston Globeofficers will be knocking on the suspected dealers warning them tare being watched. People are ding to know why small-time streoffenders receive small sentencesquickly back out on the streets.

According to the Globe, CongStephen Lynch of South Boston aedges that the scourge of drugs ithe killing of Ms. Coyne. A commeeting was held in South Bostonter about the curse of addiction.

A curse it is, but let us have sompassion for those stricken with theof addiction, 95 percent of them jucriminals, either shoplifting, dea

begging to support thei r habits. Nam I a person afflicted with the iheroin addiction but I am also a cofor people like myself. I have wvarious agencies that help people sick with the disease of addictioCambridge Needle Exchange beinthe places I worked.

At no time was I frightened

behavior of the people I tre atedcontrary, I was filled with sadnour civilization has not come twith a sickness but chooses to cize it. Early this April, I read anin the Cambridge Chronicle thentitled Drugs Police: HeroInfiltrated.

The article talked about haulisuspects and making numerouswith a list of all the nefarious ch most of them homeless or couing. The biggest arrest was a 41-yman who was caught with 21 bagsize of postage stamps who wa

in a boarding house run by the noorganization called CASCAP. IrCASCAP formerly ran a small hfor the treatment of addiction anclosed due to budget cuts.

Not for one minute will thimake the drugs go away. Smalreceive small sentences paidtax dollars, more expensive than addicts in treatment centers whwould be better served. When the illness of addiction, one musthat just by keeping someone in thtal until the physical aspects of theare relieved, but then releasing th

James ShearerSpare Change News

Back in early March, local housing authoritiesin Massachusetts gathered with local lawmakers.The reason? Well, basically the greedy housing b ar-ons were crying in their overpriced beers that theGovernor was being unfair to them just because one

d apple did indeed try to steal the show.You may remember one Michael McLaughlin, who was once the

rector of the Chelsea Housing Authority.Yes, boys and girls, that Michael McLaughlin, who as director liedstate officials about how much money he was making, which was

cording to reports was far more than what the governor makes.There was also some talk of diverted funds, bogus contracts, etc.,nd things got quite ugly. Once Mr. Mac was out of the way theovernor appointed a task force to look into the housing authorityministration processes and see how they do business and come up

ith some recommendations.Those recommendations did not exactly favor or please housingthority heads, the major one being regionalization, meaning that

stead of authorities having individual control as they do now eachll 244 of them) would have to report to a regional director appoint- by the state.And of course the authority barons didnt want that because the

ate would not only curtail the underhanded ethics of some of theseaces, but also make them actually do their jobs.So while the housing barons saw that there was need for some

versight, they were hoping that a compromise could be reachedd business could pretty much continue as usual.Then came Medford. In late April, it seems another housing barond got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. I submit one Robert

ovelle, director, or should I say suspended director of the Medfordousing Authority.Seems our friend Robert hasnt been playing by the rules.legedly Covelle has been engaged in some shady hiring practicesd showing favoritism when it comes to handling contracts. Theree also accusations of theft as well as a HUD audit that raised con-rns, allegations from that audit include failing to inspect or rein-ect units in its Housing Voucher Programs, which costs the agencyousands of dollars.This should come as no surprise as there have been rumors and

legations from housing advocates for years about how housing

thorities ignore inspections, which forces tenants to live in sub-andard conditions and are afraid to speak out, fearing they couldse their housing.Also along with the non-inspections come more concerns over

ck of control of employee credit cards and a little something calledcessive allowances for employee travel.This all adds up to one stinking pile of goo. And the worst part is

at the Governor cant fire these clowns. They are subject to reviewa four-member state panel which the Governor has control over,d he has indeed fired one member of that panel who has support- the embattled Medford Housing Chief.Lets hope that is the first shot across the bow to let these agencies

now that their continued hijinks will not be tolerated.

MES SHEARER is a co-founder and board president of Spare Change

ews.

MORE HOUSING HIJINKS Heroin Addiction: An Illness

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to the world with their psychologi-l and spiritual aspects untreated, west create a revolving door situation.Addicts just dont get better becauseey go into treatment for two weeksless or because someone tells them

ey are sick. First of all, part of thisowerful illness is seated in the mind

the addict and it actually tells themey are okay despite all evidencethe contrary. Imagine an illnessat tells lies but that is exactlyhat we are dealing with here.Families torn apart by untreated

ddiction youngsters who find itsier to get opiates than marijuanaopiates are now considered to be antry-level drug. Many people start

ut by having one of their friends giveem some Oxycontin that they tookom their parents medicine chest oresser drawer and some go on tohooked and some don t succumb.

hy? If we knew that answer the dis-se might not exist.Treatment for the disease, however,

oes exist. Prison is not the answer.odern medicine has come up withme wonder drugs for opiate addic-

on but they need to be made avail-le along with continuous therapy

nd a complete safety net consistingsupport groups and both therapyd support groups are there.T h e m i r a c l e d r u g i s c a l l e d

uboxone. When people use opiatesr a lengthy period of time, the plea-re receptors of the body atrophy

nd die. This period of time variesom person to person but if some-ne has used for 1 to 5 years or more,

atrophy may have already taken placein the receptors.

I was addicted to heroin and otheropiates for over 30 years, duringwhich I made many attempts to over-come the horrors of my illness. I wastreated short-term and released, andused, to my dismay, even against myown unguarded will. After manytreatments, I found that I could stayabstinent for long periods of time afew years sometimes but then theimpulse would come and I would pickup the drug and once the fire was re-lit, it consumed me.

I got clean or abstinent, if you will,and started to rebuild my shatteredlife, and then I needed knee surgery.Immediately upon narcotics beingintroduced to my system, it was as ifI had never stopped but I had theknowledge that I was ill this time.Victims of this illness heal in incre-ments and that was what was happen-ing to me.

But there was one missing compo-nent. That component was Suboxone,a mixture of Buprenorphine andNaloxone. One drug to fool the atro-phied pleasure centers into thinkingthat they have opiates in them, and thesecond, the Naloxone, a blocker thatwould activate if the Buprenorphinew a s a d m i n i s t e r e d i m p r o p e r l y .Suboxone does not get one high but itis the ingredient that makes impulseusing impossible.

Picture the cell in the body thatreacts with heroin as a room that bids

heroin welcome. When one takesSuboxone, the room is filled to thebr im leav ing no room for heroin to

enter the cell. So even if the addict,like myself, takes heroin nothingwill happen. This drug blocks theaffect and fools the body into think-ing, as it were, that all is well.

And indeed, with Suboxone, all iswell. It must be taken daily, under thetongue, or as they say in medical jar-gon, sublingually. Of course, the psy-chological and mental aspects of theillness should be treated too, with thehelp of a knowledgeable therapist anda psycho-pharmacologist who is spe-cially trained to prescribe the drug.Treatment should also include sup-port groups.

This is a whole lot cheaper thanhaving a giant prison system andhighly paid police chasing after the 95percent of the harmless street addicts.It makes more sense too. I know fora fact, because with all these elementsmy entire life has turned a complete180.

So, if a society wants to focus oneradicating drug addiction, well, thetruth is it cant be done. However,drug addiction can be treated with amuch better result than what our soci-ety has done with alcohol addiction.Prohibition is Prohibition. We havereached a breaking point with drugslike the one we reached with alcoholin the years of Prohibition. Our streetsare flooded with drugs. Dealers fightfor turf with weapons and there arecasualties. Then there are the 5 per-cent of addicts, probably less, that areprone to violence.

The addict, already a violent indi-vidual even before drugs, breaks intoa house and kills someones mother

while looking for something tnot even be there. It wasnt htion that brought him to violewas his way of being. He just to be addicted.

If every addict was pronelence, our streets would be cwith gunfire throughout tMost addicts are not violent.a component of addiction. -- Ive hung out with these tindividuals, and worked witham one.

There is an answer to the daddiction. It must be acted uthoughtfully implemented, anness will abate. Addiction wcompletely go away, but the eit can be diminished with thetreatment.

So, as a community of peopfocus on the ailment and treahave nothing to gain but our sdaughters and thats worthyou think so? After all, hofamilies today are affected byness? If answers exist, and ttainly do, isnt it time to use th

I should know. Im not onlyber of the treatment team Iclient.

MARC D. GOLDFINGER is a homeless vendor who is now houcan be reached at junkietroll@yahcom and via his web page Marc DGoldfinger. Marc also has books smashwords.net that can be down

for $2.99.

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Project Breads annual Walk forunger is the largest and longest con-nually running one-day fundraiserfight hunger in the country. Over its-year histor y, the Walk for Hunger

as counted over one million partici-ants and raised over $85 million toght hunger in Massachusetts. The

alk was started in 1969 by a group oftivists led by Patrick Hughes of the

aulist Center, a Boston-based Romanatholic community center. The walk,iginally dubbed Feet for Wheat,ok participants on a 29-mile route inughess hometown of Quincy.In 1970 , Hug hes broug ht the

Greater Boston Walk for Hungerater re-named the Walk for Hunger)

Boston. The first Boston Walk for

Hunger was shortened to 25 miles,brought out 2,000 par tic ipants . Fouryears later the route was shortenedagain to its current 20 miles underthe direction of local activist LarryKessler.

Online fundrais ing tools haveallowed supporters from across thecountry, as well as a dozen foreigncountries, to contribute to the cause.

The Walk for Hungers Facebookapplication, which was created in2011, raised over $80,000 in pledgesthis year. This year the Virtual Walkerfeature al lowed fundraisers whowere unable to attend to donate to thecause.

We can say that weve kept upwith the technology, Parker told thecrowd at this years Walk for Hunger.The fact is that this Walk is a beloved

tradition, and if we didnt organize it,the walkers would come anyway.

As the states leading anti-hungerorganization, Project Bread has cre-ated a series of statewide programs tofight hunger, such as the Food SourceHotline, Status Reports on Hunger,and over-the-phone application assis-tance for people applying for SNAP

benef its.

Project Bread awards Walk forHunger grants to organizations basedupon four criteria, including the needof the community that will be served,the extent to which a targeted popu-lation benefits from the program, andthe programs accessibility and effi-ciency in providing food to people inneed.

I interviewed two Walk for Hungerpartic ipants . Janice, a walker in

Brookline, said that, Helpingfunds to fight hunger is a topWe all need to help people inwhatever way we can.

Arthur, another walk parremarked, The Walk is a veway to support the communhelp people. I have contributWalk on an ongoing basis.

ROBERT SONDAK is a SparN ews wr i t e r /ven dor . RobeBachelors Degree from the Uof Massachusetts Boston, CPublic & Community ServiceRobert also minored in Urban and Advocacy. Currently, RobExecutive Director of the NEducation Outreach Project,http://neopneopt.blogspot.com

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now e ge emergeson y t roug nvent onan re nvent on, t rougthe restless, impatient,c on t in u in g , hope fu linquiry human beings

pursue in the world, witht e wor , an w t eacot er.

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n t e world of academia, self-pro-a i me d C r i s t ia n so c i a li s t a n d

enowned Brazil ian aut or Paulore re s n uent a oo , e agogyf t e Oppressed, is recognized asis greatest literary ac ievement. Inedagogy of t e Oppressed, Freireakes deliberate assertions about t e

neffectiveness of teac er-centeredet ods of teac ing. Freires ultimate

oal was to bring a new approac toac ing and learning, taking into conderation the poor and marginalizedeople of society w o are often immi-ran s.

As an immigrant, I can identify witreires ideology. I spent t e formave yea rs o my e uca t on at a r g

at olic sc ool in Haiti, w ere teacrs dictated and t e students simplycorded. Brot ers and Priests ran t e

c ool, an exclusive, all-male acadey, called Frere Andre Brot er Andre

n Englis . T e brot ers met od of ac ing was t at of memorization and

recitation. At t is place, I was asked tostan n a corner on one eg, arms utting out like t e wings of an airplane fornot aving learned, or more accurately,memorized, w at ad been meticulously taug t to me. In Haiti, educationis an integral part of t e culture; fami-lies would rat er go wit out food t ansacrifice an education for t eir c ildren.T e ig value placed on ac ievingan e ucat on p aces more pressure onHaitian students to learn.

Since a familys class and socialstanding often inges upon t e educa-tion level of a son or daug ter, it wast e culturally and socially acceptednorm to mpose r g orous sc p ne

and expectations on young c ildren. Iremember cowering in fear at t e pros-pect of missing even one word dur-ing diction, w en we were required torecite our omework word for word.T e amount of words one missed during t is exercise equaled t e number oflas ings one would receive. I remem

ber one c ild w o urinated on imselfbefore going up to t e board to receivet irty-two las ings for making t irty-two mistakes during diction. T is punis ment was fitting, considering t at welived in a country t at was run by JeanBaby Doc Claude Duvalier, a dictator

w o often ad citizens severely beatenor killed for committing t e dreadful actof nonconformity. T e Haitian sc oolsystem s n uence on my eve opmentas a learner was to instill fear of punisment for failure to memorize text wit

out quest on.At t e sc ools I attended in Haiti it

was customary to ownp ay stu entsac ievements . Doing well in sc oolwas not overt y pra se , ut a ure tolearn was severely punis ed. Haitianteac ers believed t at too muc praisewould result in venomous self-complacency and alt any furt er learningor drive for excellence. T is is in starkcontrast to my ater exper ences nAmerican schools were my educationalac ievements were awarded w en Imade onor roll in ig sc ool and wasinducted into t e onor society in colege.

A s a sc oolboy dur ing t e great

ep ress on o , a u o re re sexposure to t e poor and marginal-ized s aped is perspective as a sc ol-ar and t eorist. Freire explains t eoften oppressively dull relations ip

between tea c er and stu den t as onet at involves a narrating Subject t eteac er and a patient listening objectt e student . His capitalization of t e

S in subject and non-capitalization oft e o in object suggests t at t e teacer is dominant and important, w ilet e student is submissive and trivial.In suc a relations ip, t e emp asis isplaced on the sonority and verbosity of

words rat er t an t eir transformingpower. T e teac er deliberately tries tosound impressive and imposing, w ilet e often-intimidated student simply

bows is ead and takes notes wit outquest on ng or attempt ng to engage

in discourse. Freire offers an eexample, Four time four is sixcapital of Para is Belem. In t itutelage, t e student takes notmits t em to memory and regt em wit out really grasping tmeaning, or W at four timreally means, or realizing t e nificance of capital...t at is wmeans for Para and w at Paror raz .

Freire conceptualized that, inreconcile t is pedagogical confdictating teac er and receptiveto ensure t at bot are simultteac ers and students. Freiret at t e teac er olding absolu

nation over t e s tudent negidea of education and knowprocesses of inquiry. Muc likw o learns about t e world aro

by unremittingly asking, Wand W y t at? as a society, also realize t at t e day we sing W y? is t e day we stop growing and transforming t e w ic we live.

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FoodAILY MEALS:

ead & Jams Self Advocacy Center 50 Quincy St.

mbridge 617-441-3831

cated in the basement of the Swedenborg Church at the

rner of Kirkland and Quincy. Serves adults only, no chil-

en.

eakfast 9:30 to 10 a.m; lunch at 12:00 noon. Other services

clude case management, housing assistance, clinical

sessment, and referrals for substance abuse and medical

atment.

ston Rescue Mission 39 Kingston St., Boston

mmunity meals: 3:00 p.m. weekdays, and 5:00 p.m.

ndays.

ne Street Inn 444 Harrison Ave., Boston, 617-482-4944

eakfast: 6:00 a.m.; brown bag lunches during the day;

nner: 5:00 p.m.; Chicken truck: 11:30 a.m. (Saturdays only)

ust be registered receive food.

sies Place 889 Harrison Ave., Boston, 617-442-9322

omen & children only, no boys over age 11

nch: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.; Dinner: 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Francis House 39 Boylston St., Boston, 617-542-4211

eakfast: 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.; Lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

mergency sandwiches: Weekdays 2:45 to 3:00 p.m.

lvation Army 402 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 617-547-3400

nch: 12:00 noon

omens Lunch Place 67 Newbury St., Boston., 617-267-0200omen & children only, no boys over 14

pen Mon. through Sat., 7:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

ffet breakfast 7:00 to 11:00am, restaurant-style lunch

00 noon to 2:00 p.m.

EEKLY MEALS

onday:

ston Rescue Mission 39 Kingston St., Boston

od pantry: 9:00 to11:00 a.m. (except holidays). Bring

oof of address.

oly Resurrection Orthodox Church 62 Harvard Ave.,

lston, 617-787-7625

0 to 7:00 p.m. dinner and take-out from Open Door Soup

tchen/St. Bridgets Food Pantry

ass. Ave. Baptist Church 146 Hampshire St., Cambridge,

7-868-4853.

nner 6 :00 to 7:30 p.m.

esday:

hurch of the Advent 30 Brimmer St., Boston, 617-523-2377

nner 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

rst Parish Unitarian Church 3 Church St., Cambridge,

7-876-7772

nner 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. (doors open at 5:30)

ith Lutheran Church 311 Broadway, Cambridge, 617-

4-0414

th Kitchen, second & last Tuesday of every month, 6:30 p.m.

ednesday:

IT/St. Barts

p.m. to 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomews Episcopal Church,

ntral Square, Cambridge

ope Fellowship Church 16 Beech Street, Cambridge, MA

reetlight Outreach Team - Wednesday nights at Harvard

uare in the pit 8:15 p.m. to 9:45 p.m.

lvation Army 402 Mass. Ave., Cambridge 617-547-3400

nner 5:00 to 6:00 p.m.Bartholomews Episcopal Church

9 Harvard Street, Central Square, Cambridge

nner 6:00 to 7:00 p.m.

ursday:

hrist Church Zero Garden St. Cambridge 617-876-0200

nner 6 :00 p.m.

e Womens Meal (Women and children welcome)

Jamess Episcopal Church

91 Mass Ave, Cambridge, 617-547-4070

0 to 7 p.m.

nion Baptist Church

4 Main St., Cambridge, 617-864-6885

0 p.m.

day:

lington St. Church

1 Boylston St., Boston, 617-536-7050

0 p.m.

Food Not Bombs

Boston Common (near Park Street T station), 617-787-3463

3:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Mass. Ave. Baptist Church

146 Hampshire St., Cambridge, 617-868-4853

6:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Saturday:

Hope Fellowship Church

16 Beech Street, Cambridge, MA

Hope Caf 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. last Saturday of the

month

Loaves and Fishes, First Korean Church, 35 Magazine

Street, Cambridge

5:30 p.m. buffet dinner, music, food pantry

Pilgrim Trinitarian Congregational Church

540 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, 617-282-0456

12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. community lunch, cafe style, and

we serve the guests, no standing in line.

Sunday:

Boston Rescue Mission 39 Kingston St., Boston

5:00 p.m. Sundays.

Food Not Bombs

955 Mass Ave (617) 787-3436

Central Square in Cambridge on Sundays from 3-5pm.

Food AssistanceGreater Boston Food Bank, 617-427-5200

Serves non-profit organizations such as agencies, shelters,

etc. Office hours: 8 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m.

Project Bread 617-723-5000; Hotline 1-800-645-8333

Referrals to food pantries throughout the city

Somerville Food Pantry 617-776-7687

Food pantry: Mon, Tue, Fri 10 a.m. -- 2 p.m.; Wed 12 p.m.

-- 4 p.m.; Thu 1 p.m. -- 4 p.m.; Sat 9 a.m.-- 12 p.m.

Somerville residents only. Those unable to use other pan-

tries due to disability may call and ask for the Project Soup

Delivery Coordinator.

Brookline Food Pantry

15 St. Paul St., Brookline, 617-566-4953

Tues. & Thurs. 10 a.m. -- 2 p.m., Wed 3 p.m. -- 6 p.m.; Sat.

1 p.m. -- 4 p.m.

Brookline residents only. Second-time visitors must present

a letter from an advocate confirming that they are in need

of food services.

CEOC (Cambridge Economic Opportunity Commission)11 Inman St. (basement), Cambridge, 617-868-2900

Food pantry: Mon, Wed 4 p.m. -- 6 p.m.; Tue 12 p.m. -- 2

p.m.; Thu 11 a.m. -- 1 p.m.; Closed Fri.

East End House

105 Spring St., Cambridge, 617-876-4444

Food pantry: Tue 12 p.m. -- 2 p.m.; Fri 10 a.m. 12:30 p.m.

Offers assistance in filling out food stamp applications (call

for appointment).

Margaret Fuller House

71 Cherry St., Cambridge, 617-547-4680

Food pantry: Wed. 5 :00 to 7:30 p.m.; Thurs. 1:00 to 4:00

p.m.; Fri & Sat 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

Salvation Army

402 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, 617-547-3400

Cambridge and Somerville residents only.

Food pantry: 9 a.m. -- 3 p.m. & by appointment

St. Francis House

39 Boylston St., Boston, 617-542-4211

Food pantry: Mon. through Wed. 10 a.m. -- 11 a.m.

Sign up at the Counseling Desk in the St. Francis House

Day Center

St. James Episcopal Church

Helping Hand Food Pantry, Fresh Pond Apartments, 362

Ringe Ave, Cambridge, 617-547-4070

Tues., 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., Thurs. 11 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.; Sat. 10:00

a.m. to 12:00 noon

St. Pauls AME Church 85 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge,

617-661-1110

Food pantry: Wed. 12p.m.--2 p.m.; Sat. 10a.m.--12 p.m.

Western Ave Baptist Church 299 Western Ave., Cambridge,

617-661-0433

Food pantry: Every second Wed., 10 a.m.

Zinberg Clinic Pantry Cambridge Hospital 617-665-1606

For clinic patients with HIV/AIDS only.

Food pantry: Mon. -- Fri. 9 a.m. -- 5 p.m.

Fair Foods $2 a bag

St. Pauls Church 29 Mt. Auburn St, Cambridge

Harvard Sq. Red Line, 617-491-8400

Saturdays 11:00- 11:30 a.m.

SOMERVILLE, Cobble Hill Apts

84 Washington St. Back parking lot (near Sullivan Sq.)

Every other Wed. 11:30-1

Mt. Pleasant Apts. 70 Perkins St. (off Broadway)

Every other Wed. 1:30 - 2:30

Hearty meals for all

Somerville Community Baptist Church

31 College Ave. Somerville, MA 02144, 617-625-6523

Free community meals the second Friday of every month

at 6:30pm

Homeless ConcernsThe Womens Center

46 Pleasant St., Cambridge, 617-354-8807

Computers, kitchen, space, childrens room, and more.

Walk-ins welcome.

Women & children only (no boys over age 12)

Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm.

Cambridge Multi-Service Center

19 Brookline St., Cambridge, 617-349-6340

City-run agency with additional community non-profit

partners. Works with Cambridge families in shelters,

provides shelter referrals and other housing assistance.

Employs housing specialists for elderly and disabled.

Office hours: Mon. 8:30 a.m. -- 8 p.m.; Tue., Wed., Thu. 8:30

a.m. -- 5 p.m.; Fri. 8:30 a.m. -- 12 p.m. Walk-ins accepted.

Cardinal Medeiros Center

27 Isabella St., Boston, 617-619-6960

Day center for homeless adults (50 years & older); mental

health & nursing staff; help with housing searches.

Lunch served at 11:45 a.m.

Office hours: Mon.-Thu. 9a.m.- 4p.m.; Fri. 9a.m.-3 p.m.

Caspar 240 Albany St., Cambridge, 617-661-0600

Open 24 hrs/day; emergency shelter open 4:30 p.m. -- 8

a.m.; Clients who leave in the morning may not return

until 3 p.m.; Clients staying multiple nights must prove

recent local residency.

CLASP (Community Legal Assistance Services Project)

19 Brookline St., Cambridge, 617-552-0623

Free legal clinic for Cambridge homeless at the Multi-

Service Center every Tuesday at 8:30 a.m.Ecclesia Ministries 67 Newbury Street, Boston.,

617-552-0623

Weekly Schedule for the Common Cathedral:

Sunday: Worship at Brewers Fountain on Boston

Common, 1 pm

Gospel Reflection at St. Pauls Cathedral, 138 Tremont St.,

2:30 p.m. -- 4 p.m.

Monday: Lunch at Sproat Hall (St. Pauls Cathedral) 11:30

a.m. --1 p.m.

-Eucharist & Healing (St. Pauls Cathedral) 1 p.m.

- Common Fellowship in Sproat Hall (St. Pauls Cathedral)

2 p.m. --3 p.m.

Wednesday: Common Art at the Emmanuel Church, 15

Newbury Street, 10 a.m. -- 3 p.m.

Friday: Common Cinema in Sproat Hall (St. Pauls

Cathedral) 2:30 p.m. -- 5 p.m.

Horizons for Homeless Children

617-445-1480; www.horizonsforhomelesschildren.org

Horizons for Homeless Children is seeking volunteers to

interact and play with children living in family, teen par-

ent, and domestic violence shelters in Greater Boston. We

offer daytime and evening shifts, so there is likely to be one

that fits your schedule. A commitment of 2 hours a week

for 6 months is required. The next training session will be

Sat., Sept. 27, 9:30 a.m. -- 4:30 p.m.

Medical Walk-in Unit at Mass General Hosp

617-726-2707

Provides minor medical care for adults. Patien

order of arrival. MGH accepts most insurances

copayments.

Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8:30 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sat., Sun., H

a.m.-4 p.m.; closed Thanksgiving & Christmas

Boston Rescue Mission 39 Kingston St., Bosto

Safe & healthy mens overnight shelter progra

Rosies Place 889 Harrison Ave., Boston, 617-4

Women and children only (no boys over age 1

Open 7 days a week; provides help with hous

care, job training, financial aid and education,

es, rape crisis counselors, health specialists, an

St. Francis House 39 Boylston Street, Boston, 6

Meals offered 365 days/yr.; food pantry ope

Offers a mailroom, open art studio, clothing l

puter library, support groups such as AA, sh

phones, toothbrushes & razors, medical clinic

and mental health services, housing counselin

zation services, and a womens center. For mo

these services and for their specific times visit

cishouse.org

Starlight Ministries 617-262-4567

Outreach Wed. 7 p.m. by Park Street T station

Streetlight Outreach Wednesdays at 8:00 PM

Harvard T-Station (The Pit); Porter Square T-

Volunteers work weekly to serve the homelesHarvard and Porter Squares. Volunteer team

warm food and beverages, clothing and couns

need. Streetlight volunteers also lead an outd

service for the entire community.

The Womens Center

46 Pleasant St., Cambridge, 617-354-8807

Computers, kitchen and rooms. Walk-ins welc

Women & children only (no boys over age 16).

Hours: Mon-Fri 10 a.m.-- 8 p.m., Sat 10 a.m. -- 3

On The Rise

341 Broadway, Cambridge, 617-497-7968

Women only. Home-base during the day and a

vices. Open six days/week. First-time visitor

or stop by Mon-Fri, 8-2pm.

The Outdoor Church of Cambridge

The Outdoor Church of Cambridge is an outd

to homeless men and women in Cambridge

vices and pastoral assistance outdoors in all sea

weather. Short prayer services in Porter Squar

mobile sculpture near the T station, at 9:00 a.m

Cambridge Common, near the tall Civil War

and directly across from Christ Church Ca

Garden Street, at 1:00 p.m. every Sunday, thr

year. Sandwiches, pastry, juice and clean white

able in Harvard Square and Central Square. (9

39 Brown Road, Harvard, Massachusetts 01

[email protected]; www.theoutdoorchurch.net.

Victory Programs, Inc.

www.vpi.org. Short and long-term residenti

use disorder treatment programs for individu

lies; affordable housing opportunities for eligib

als; HIV/AIDS case management. Sites throug

Please call for more information. (617) 541-022

Legal AidLawyers Clearinghouse, 617-723-0885Shelter Legal Services (Newton), 617-965-0449

The Homeless Eyecare Network of Boston (H

is a nonprofit organization dedicated to maint

stantly undated network of affordable and free

vices for the homeless. If you need an eye exam

Helping Hands Cambridge and Boston are teeming with organizations ready to provide food and services to the homeless aneedy. If youre in need, theyre there for you. If you can volunteer or donate, most of them could use your help.

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Grateful Dead backbeat Mickey Hart

s been studying the social and culturalpects of music for decades from hisrch inside the drum set. He came bys interest in instruments of percussionheritage: His father was a drummer

ho owned and ran a music store. But itas just after high school when Hart dis-vered the music of Nigerian drummer,ucator and social activist, Babatundeatunji, and it opened up the world ofssibilities. He would later study withatunji, bringing the unique rhythms oforld beat music to the both the Gratefulads music and his own.Harts 1991 album, Planet Drum, hitmber one on Billboards World Musicart that year, and won the first-everammy for Best World Music Album.

e is the author of four books, has testi-d before a congressional subcommit-

e on the healing power of music, ands worked with both the Library of

ongress and the Smithsonian to digi-e and preserve recordings of his ownd others.This month, the Rock and Roll Hall ofme features a Grateful Dead exhibi-n: The Long Strange Trip. And at 67ars old, Hart has set out on tour withs band this month promoting his new-t album, Mysterium Tremendum.art captured the sounds of the universed converted the raw data into samplesat he uses on stage every night as theckdrop for his latest musical explora-n.Im taking light waves from the uni-rse and transferring them into soundaves and using them as part of the com-sition on space as part of the music,

art said when we caught up with himtour. Its a rock-n-roll format with

autiful songs and these amazing spaceunds from 13 billion years ago. Its a

onderful adventure.

Explain, in your experience, the rela-nship between science and art.Art is conceptual. Science is absolute.hen we play music, we are postulat-g. Music is just a miniature of what ising on in the heavens. And thats why

e play music, every culture. Because itmulates what is going on vibrationally

eaking in the heavens. Music is justntrolled vibrations. We arent justumming. We are using computers one stage, were using sounds from bil-

future will be the musician scientist.The days of just being someone on yourinstrument are drawing to a close. Theidea of enhancing it and taking music toa new place with new colors and sounds,new feelings its all about science. I liketo play, so I use machines in my workand my art. Some people just press a but-ton. Its not like that here. Mine is morelike an improvisational performance asopposed to a beat box.

The musician of the future will be themusician scientist.

In 1991 you testified with OliverSacks (a British neurologist whose 1973book Awakenings was later made intothe film by the same name) before the

U.S. Senate about the healing power ofmusic on the aged. What, in your expe-rience, is the connection between music,healing and aging?

Its the vibrations. What happens iswhen you get older the connections, yourneural pathways, the way your brainfeels vibrations, those connections arelost sometimes like (people who have)dementia, Alzheimers, Parkinsons,theyre cut - broken. And vibration cre-ates a synthesis inside the cells and kindof reconnects them while the music andthe vibrations are playing, so it becomesmedicinal. It becomes life enhancing and

a remedy. At least for while the musicis playing. We dont know how to real-ly make it into a longer lasting experi-ence, but thats what science can tell us.Were about to break the rhythmic codeof DNA about which music does what towhich part of the brain. Thats just a fewyears away. So were learning more andmore about what part of the brain is acti-vated by what rhythms, what amplitude.Music is really becoming quite a sciencein the field of neuroimaging, neurologyand the motor diseases.

Many people who li ve on the street

are dealing with a mental health and/or addiction issues. Do you think thatmusic therapy could be successfullyapplied to addiction or harm reductiontherapy?

Of course. Music is a focus. Music isa tuning system, not just to bring peopletogether to dance and make love, whichare two of its functions as a ritual. It

brings the vibratory essence of the bodytogether and it tunes it, like a tuning fork.Thats what music does. It can make youhappy, it can make you melancholy, itcan energize you, it can put you to sleep.

only been recording music for a littleover a hundred years. Of course, wehave been playing music since the begin-ning of time. Our earliest records showthat as we became civilized, we usedmusic as a way of expanding and devel-oping our brains and coming together asa people. Every culture on the planet hasmusic. There is not one culture that doesnot have music. That should say some-thing to you.

You have said that music recon-nects the damaged mind. What then, isthe impact on a vibrant mind?

It enhances. It exhausts the conscious-ness. When everything is working rightand you add this to the mix, you have agreat time, right? Youre elated, you feelgood. Its a healthy experience, a life-giving thing. Thats what music is about.If you are doing great, music makes youeven more powerful.

Music prog rams in public sch oolscontinue to be on the chopping block in

many schools budgets across the nation.You have talked about music being a keycomponent to learning. What was yourexperience, in your youth, with music inthe educational system?

When you have a healthy organism,you learn. Music stimulates and focuses.Music also allows us to go into the spiri-tual domain where the important thingsare to us.

I had a great music teacher inhigh school, which saved my life andguided me to where I am now. Backth th l t f sic

am. Unfortunately now theyripped away from the schools Draconian. It is like a throwbackilization that has forgotten whdoes and is bankrupt basically

become morally and spiri tualrupt.

Take Einstein. He was reallmusician, you know. He said thawas really his first love. He wo

on his violin or piano and thenhis studio and write down a fewlas. Then back to the violin. He violin as a way into thinking atheories, the BIG ones. The bigrium tremendum: relativity, timand the matter that we are embeHe used music.

What did the 60s and early this generation in terms of speaand changing establishment?

You always learn somethisomething that came before. Thyou preserve music, thats why y

history books. When people speople doing what they mighempowers them. Wow! Theresus than I ever thought. Thats thwas for me in the 60s. Once I staing the crowds, I said, Wow itthe five of us.

There are a whole bunch oout there that are dancing to ouand believing in some of the thwere trying to say with our mits important for other people towhat happened before them atheir own conclusions on a persgroup level.

Tell us about the work you hfor the American Folklife CentLibrary of Congress and more with The Smithsonian Instinonprofit record label, SmitFolkways.

There are precious recordiare housed at the Library (of Cand the Smithsonian Folkwayrecordings are endangered. Tand different mediums we havrecord sounds since 1890 are deing. Theyre rotting. So its a ractime to get these collections and

them for the future, forever. This not just songs, theyre histthousands of years of cultures. generation needs some body ofstart their musical career. Ev

bases their music on somebodycome before them. In this casof work, whether it be the blueLed Zeppelin, Tibetan music, wit is. You base it on something th

before you and then eventualstay with it the rest for your lown skill becomes your own mu

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