[UC] Traumatic stress of poverty, Inq
I guess it's easy to ignore the traumatic stresses of millions of people in far away, war torn lands. But this study addresses lifelong damage to children of our neighbors and community. People who understand the crushing damage of chronic poverty know that privatized schools and special service districts are manipulations of a selfish and ignorant middle class, wishing to ignore real problems in their society. This article describes a study published in the latest issue of Pediatrics. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20100429_Poor_childhood_takes_lifelong_toll__study_shows.html A lot of people talk about post-traumatic stress after a difficult event, Taylor said. But these babies and young children see continuous traumatic stress. There is no 'post.' You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
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FROM Philadelphia Police Department: On Sat, 05-01-10,The University City 5-K Run will take place. The race will cause the closure of 32nd 33rd Sts above Market Street north to Baring Street. Motorists should use alternate routes. Sent through Philadelphia ReadyNotifyPA. ... powered by RSAN dba Cooper Notification. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
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I wish that I had heard about this before. I will be busy. Jim On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Frank Carroll fcarr...@pobox.com wrote: FROM Philadelphia Police Department: On Sat, 05-01-10,The University City 5-K Run will take place. The race will cause the closure of 32nd 33rd Sts above Market Street north to Baring Street. Motorists should use alternate routes. Sent through Philadelphia ReadyNotifyPA. ... powered by RSAN dba Cooper Notification. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the UCNeighbors group. To post to this group, send email to u...@ucneighbors.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ucneighbors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comucneighbors%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ucneighbors?hl=en -- Jim Cummings
[UC-Announce] May Day concert with Anne Feeney, Evan Greer, and Roy Zimmerman at Crossroads
Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm Generations of Resistance, featuring: Anne Feeney - Union maid, hell raiser, labor singer Evan Greer -Songs to inspire hope, build community and incite resistance Roy Zimmerman - Funny songs about ignorance, war, and greed Crossroads Music 48th and Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia - in Calvary United Methodist Church Tickets ($10-30) and more information at: http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=1973 In honor of International Workers Day, Crossroads presents veteran labor singer Anne Feeney and rising young songwriter Evan Greer of the Riot-Folk! Collective – joined by special guest Roy Zimmerman – celebrating multiple generations of community resistance through high-energy radical folk music on their fourth tour together. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Anne Feeney, whom Utah Phillips called the best labor singer in America, is the granddaughter of an intrepid mineworkers' organizer who also used music to carry the message of solidarity to working people. After two decades of community activism and regional performances at rallies, Anne took her message on the road. Since 1991 she has traveled to the frontlines in 42 states and six countries. Her anthem Have You Been to Jail for Justice? is being performed by activists everywhere, including Peter, Paul and Mary. In 2005, Anne received the Joe Hill Award from the Labor Heritage Foundation in Washington, DC. Past recipients include Cesar Chavez, Pete Seeger, Faith Petric and Hazel Dickens. Her critically acclaimed recordings are widely available. Evan Greer is a radical queer singer/songwriter, community organizer and popular educator based in Boston. His high energy acoustic songs that inspire hope, build community, and incite resistance have received high praise from the radical historian Howard Zinn and Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, who predicts that his songs will be sung on the barricades for years to come. At 24 years old, he tours internationally as a musician and facilitates interactive workshops to support movements for justice and liberation. With his fiercely radical songs that vary in style from punk-folk to foot-stompin' bluegrass, Evan has shared stages with artists as diverse as folk legend Pete Seeger, underground hip-hop star Boots Riley, Tom Morello, and rapper Immortal Technique. Roy Zimmerman has been writing and performing satirical songs with a decidedly Lefty slant for twenty years. Lacerating wit keen awareness of society's foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer, says the Los Angeles Times. Reintroducing literacy to comedy songs, says Tom Lehrer. Roy has played clubs across the country, sharing the stage with George Carlin, Bill Maher, Kate Clinton, Dennis Miller, Sandra Tsing Loh, kd lang, Andy Borowitz and Paul Krassner. He's done several shows with The Pixies' Frank Black, swapping songs in a solo acoustic setting. His up-to-the-moment topical songs are featured on American Public Media's syndicated broadcast Weekend America and Sirius Radio's West Coast Live. -- See more upcoming events at http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the Samuel S. Fels Fund. This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.
RE: [UC] Traumatic stress of poverty, Inq
Glenn, maybe its just me, but this was one of the most disappointing posts I have read here in awhile. The issues raised in the Inquirer article are serious and they raise significant public policy concerns. I thank you for alerting us to the article because I missed it during my first reading of the paper. What disappoints me is your myopism that leads you to so quickly link the childhood health problem to privatized schools and special service districts instead of rallying your neighbors to address the problem head-on. If you read the Pediatrics article, here is what the authors say about the problem and the policy solutions: Food insecurity, housing insecurity, and energy insecurity, which are potentially remediable, adverse material conditions that are pervasive among low-income families in the United States, are in concert associated negatively with wellness among infants and toddlers. . . . However, we and others have shown that there are largescale, public programs that can either decrease the components of the cumulative hardship index or mitigate their impact on children. For example, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (previously the Food Stamp Program) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children enhance the health and growth of young children. We also have shown that housing subsidies and the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program decrease the risk of young children being underweight, even in food-insecure households. I don't see any mention in the article of privatized schools and neighborhood improvement districts associated with health problems of poor children. If you want to make the case that the selfish and ignorant middle class are privatizing their civic lives while ignoring the plight of their poor neighbors, go ahead, but I would suggest you use the same rigorous fact-checking that you apply to the FOCP. Here is a fact you can easily check: Philadelphians who live in business improvement districts and neighborhood improvement districts vote overwhelmingly for local, state and federal candidates who favor the expansion of each of the public programs cited in the Pediatrics article. Here is another fact that will entail more research: Philadelphians who send their children to private schools vote for those same candidates. The above is not a statement of support for private schools or neighborhood improvement districts. Rather, I would argue that an attack on these institutions is mostly a red herring when confronting childhood health and poverty, especially when the most important childhood health years are the pre-school years. Your neighbor. Andy Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:08:01 -0400 From: glen...@earthlink.net To: univcity@list.purple.com Subject: [UC] Traumatic stress of poverty, Inq I guess it's easy to ignore the traumatic stresses of millions of people in far away, war torn lands. But this study addresses lifelong damage to children of our neighbors and community. People who understand the crushing damage of chronic poverty know that privatized schools and special service districts are manipulations of a selfish and ignorant middle class, wishing to ignore real problems in their society. This article describes a study published in the latest issue of Pediatrics. http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_region/20100429_Poor_childhood_takes_lifelong_toll__study_shows.html A lot of people talk about post-traumatic stress after a difficult event, Taylor said. But these babies and young children see continuous traumatic stress. There is no 'post.' You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html. _ Hotmail is redefining busy with tools for the New Busy. Get more from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_2
[UC] Fwd: Sale of Inquirer, Daily News
Sent by a friend. This is floating around the newsroom down @ the Inky http://www.viddler.com/explore/mediacomedians/videos/1/195.15/ -cm You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
Re: [UC] Fwd: Sale of Inquirer, Daily News
In a message dated 4/29/2010 18:31:51 Eastern Daylight Time, c...@earthlink.net writes: Sent by a friend. This is floating around the newsroom down @ the Inky http://www.viddler.com/explore/mediacomedians/videos/1/195.15/ _ Thanks, bitterly amusing, but Tierny totally screwed the pooch on this one. So often that's all the journalistic content of the papers was worth -cleaning up after the pooch. Hard to believe Tierny started out as an attorney specializing in client damage control. His partner Toll got out of home building, and diversified into the triumvirate of commercial real estate development, auto sales, and newspaper publishing all at the wrong time. I would say thank God for the Internet but today it came out Junta Obama is trying to regulate the Internet through an FTC act, after the Supremes kicked him to the curb. Craig
[UC] Demetris Is Dead
As of early this week, Demetris Restaurant at the corner of 45th Chestnut had both For Sale and For Rent signs in the front and side windows. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
