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NAACP New Bedford Branch Stands in Solidarity With The Asian-American Community

NAACP New Bedford Branch Statement on the March 17th shootings in Atlanta On behalf of the Executive Board: The NAACP New Bedford Branch joins with others throughout the country in mourning victims of the March 17th killing rampage in Atlanta and in condemning discrimination, racism, sexism, misogyny and violence against the Asian and Pacific Islander community. We reach out in solidarity with our Asian-American brothers and sisters. It is clear to this branch that the recent attacks were motivated by racial hatred and gender hatred; we must name these acts for what they are. Of the victims murdered in a...

General Body Meeting March 18th at 7PM

General Body Meeting March 18th at 7PM https://umassd.zoom.us/j/99120335283?pwd=YTdlWUZpc0l5WTcvZytDTkVZSmEwQT09 Meeting ID: 991 2033 5283 Passcode: 1909 One tap mobile +13017158592,,99120335283#,,,,*1909# US (Washington DC) +13126266799,,99120335283#,,,,*1909# US (Chicago) Dial by your location +1 301 715 8592 US (Washington DC) +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago) +1 646 876 9923 US (New York) +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma) +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston) +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 991 2033 5283 Passcode: 1909 Find your local number: https://umassd.zoom.us/u/abkphno4uw

Get more vaccines into the Greater New Bedford area, prioritize underserved populations

Petition to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker We are concerned that vaccination access and allocation is not meeting the needs or even getting to the most underserved area residents. We appreciate the outstanding work of the South Coast COVID vaccination partners (Southcoast Health, GNB Community Health Center, Seven Hills, Community Health Departments, and others) in our region, but it is clear to us that the effort is insufficient to meet the needs of the most underserved people. We applaud the work that has been done and want to support and enhance that existing infrastructure with a more targeted outreach effort. To Bring...

Wakefield School Committee to host tribal leaders to discuss their mascot

[caption id="attachment_1586" align="aligncenter" width="800"] "Protest against Washington football team name”, by Fibonacci Blue, licensed under CC by 2.0[/caption] The Wakefield School Committee and district administrators will host a panel made up of tribal leaders and representatives from around the state. The public panel will be held virtually on Wednesday, March 17, 2021. https://patch.com/massachusetts/wakefield/wakefield-invites-tribal-leaders-discuss-school-logo Participants will discuss the use of Native American imagery in school logos and related visual materials. The panel comes as Wakefield reconsiders the "Warriors" name and logo for the high school. Over 3,000 people have signed a petition to change the school mascot, calling it "a harmful...

COVID-19 eviction assistance

Ayuda con el Desalojo - Ajuda com Despejo The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has resources available for individuals and families struggling to make rent or mortgage payments or facing eviction due to COVID-19. Financial assistance, legal help, and mediation may be available to help you stay in your home. Resources are also available for low-income owner-occupants. For rent help / ayuda con la renta / ajuda com aluguel Call 800-244-9023 or 2-1-1 Mon-Thu 9am-1:30pm Get the answers you need. It's free, confidential, and multilingual.

Biden signs voting rights order on 56th anniversary of “Bloody Sunday”

[caption id="attachment_1780" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Two Minute Warning (1965) by Spider Martin. National Archives (CC BY-NC 2.0)[/caption] Sunday was the 56th anniversary of the first Selma to Montgomery civil rights march, which is indelibly associated with the late Georgia Representative John Lewis. The date is better known as "Bloody Sunday" for the violent attack on marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge by Alabama State Troopers and a white mob recruited by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark. Lewis, who was then an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), was beaten so badly that he suffered a skull fracture. Scenes from...

DESE data shows New Bedford Schools over-disciplining children of color

We know that in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts neither the schools nor the police are collecting adequate data on school-based offenses. This is not to single-out New Bedford. It reflects a state-wide, if not a national, lack of interest in tracking at-risk youth. Many types of data describing the process of a child moving through the juvenile justice system — from schools, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), police, district attorneys, courts, probation, the Department of Youth Services, federal DOE and DOJ mandated data — must be analyzed in order to answer two critical questions about School Resource...

A Week of Forums on Opting Out of MCAS

Education advocates, including the New Bedford Coalition to Save Our Schools (NBCSOS), have scheduled a week of forums on opting out of the MCAS test. Sunday, March 14th at 1:00 PM Tuesday, March 16th at 7:00 PM Wednesday, March 17th at 6:00 PM (en español) While COVID-19 has disrupted education and students need social and emotional support as never before, schools are still fixated on test prep. Register here These forums are for parents and guardians across Massachusetts to learn how to opt out student from MCAS this year and to learn more about this problematic examination and high-stakes testing...

Vaccine Equity Now!

[caption id="attachment_1755" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] COVID-19 vaccination (2020) by U.S. Secretary of Defense, CC by 2.0 [/caption] The Vaccine Equity Now! Coalition — a newly formed coalition of 11 civil rights, immigrant justice, and public health organizations — is sounding the alarm to call attention to the dramatic racial inequities in the vaccine rollout in Massachusetts and to advocate for real solutions. Now, we need your help! We will need a tidal wave of support to convince Governor Baker and his administration to change course and put equity at the center of the roll-out. Please help us reach 10,000 signatures in...

Citizens for Public Schools calls on Legislators to cancel MCAS testing

[caption id="attachment_1741" align="alignleft" width="2048"] Testing Times Ahead by Pete (2009) in the Public Domain[/caption] On February 17th Citizens for Public Schools published the following letter to Massachusetts legislators calling for a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education in order to cancel this year’s MCAS tests.   Dear Senators and Representatives, In light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on our schools and students, we, the undersigned groups representing parents, educators, students and advocates for education justice, call on Massachusetts officials to seek and obtain a testing waiver from the U.S. Department of Education and cancel this year’s MCAS...
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