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Community Art Center Inc.
119 Windsor Street
Cambridge, MA 02139	 [P] (617) 868-7100 x 11
www.communityartcenter.org
info@communityartcenter.org
Eryn Johnson
Founded in 1932, the Community Art Center is a neighborhood institution committed to our mission: to cultivate an engaged community of youth whose powerful artistic voices transform their lives, their neighborhoods, and their worlds.
July	01, 2017	to June	30, 2018
School Age Child Care Program (SACC)
Teen Media Program
Since 1932, the Community Art Center has provided a second home for children through culturally relevant after school arts and media programs. Our programs capture the creative spirit of children who without us would be "at home bored, doing nothing" or "on the streets." Now, we are boosting traditional art forms with 21stcentury technology in our computer lab and design studios.
In its first years, the Community Art Center offered informal arts classes to a handful of children in the low-income Area 4 neighborhood to supplement the arts education they were lacking in school. In 1972, the agency incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and for the next two decades, the Art Center provided arts classes to thousands of children from the Washington Elms/Newtowne Court public housing complexes.
In the early 1990s, a philosophical shift at the agency resulted in new hiring strategies that emphasized finding staff who were trained artists as well as cultural role models for the children. At present, our staff is 70% people of color and staff linguistic capabilities are English, Haitian Creole and Spanish. We also have two program alumni working in the Center.
In recent years, the Community Art Center has received broad recognition for its high quality programs. In 2006, our Teen Media Program was honored with a Coming Up Taller award from the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. The Art Center was one of five programs in Massachusetts selected as a finalist for the Social Innovation Forum youth arts track in 2008 and for the STEM education track in 2011. The Art Center also received a capital improvements grant in 2007 through the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. We used this funding to update our Media Lab and leveraged the remaining funds to launch a Capital Campaign to complete a full renovation of our facility. With grants from the Children's Investment Fund, the Cambridge Housing Authority and the City of Cambridge, among others, the Community Art Center Facility Renovation was complete in April 2011. In order to fully leverage the impact of our facility renovation, the Art Center also launched a strategic planning process in September of 2010, which the organization is currently implementing.
Since we opened our doors, the Community Art Center has served over 8000 youth with approximately 3000 program hours per year. In the past few years, we have built new key partnerships, grown our community programs, as well as the leadership and presentation opportunities for youth, and doubled our audience and event attendance.
· 2014: Enhanced programs sustained and grow
o Creative Approaches to Therapeutic Support initiative is funded by C.F. Adams Trust and implements teacher training in Art Therapy techniques and builds an arts therapy based behavioral response plan.
o Community Programs has a dedicated staff person and kicks of the Port Stories Public Art Project with the Change for Peace Art and Music Series presented by teens in Kendall Square and Newtowne Court Housing Development.
o TMP teens present art exhibits in Kendall Square, MIT Museum, Cambridge City Hall and VMWare.
o SACC youth create a mural installed in Tech Square and perform an interdisciplinary original play, REBEL, about the Haitian Revolution, at the Cambridge YMCA.
· 2013: Partnerships strengthened and awarded
o Alexandria Real Estate commissions a 160 foot mural on their East Cambridge construction site, which will be created by Teen Media Program Digital Arts Studio
o Boston Properties invites Teen Media Program students to curate a 130-foot digital screen mounted on the ceiling of the lobby space between Google's new office spaces in Kendall Square.
o Executive Director, Eryn Johnson works with a group of ten social justice focused Cambridge-based non-profit leaders to form the new Cambridge Non-profit Coalition.
o The Community Art Center and Novartis are awarded the "Central in Motion Award" from the Central Square Business Association for "exemplifying community collaboration that adds to our culture, landscapes, enhances our neighborhoods, and makes Central Square unique."
· 2012: New Community Programs launched :
o Executive Director Eryn Johnson receives Creative Activist Award from ArtCorps
o This is Where We Live, Work and Create Public Art Initiative is launched through a block long mural and gallery commissioned by Novartis Pharmaceuticals which will be on view for through 2016.
o One9TEEN After Dark offers first evening programs for teens in collaboration with Cambridge Boys and Girls Club and Tutoring Plus
· 2011: Organizational structure strengthened
o Comprehensive Strategic Plan is completed. Implementation of newly evolved program structure begins.
o 2011: Capital campaign a success, resulting in complete facility renovation.
Our strategic plan has established four programmatic strategic goals to guide our work over the next three years. Each goal is connected to a set of core strategies and measures of success.
1. Youth are powerful expressive artists and media users.
2. Youth are part of a creative network and value the arts and media as a viable profession.
3. Youth are leaders who make safe and healthy choices.
4. Youth have an expansive world-view and are an integral part of transforming communities across classes, cultures and professional sectors.
1. Additional Funding for Mental Health Consultant: $15,000
Financial support is needed to increase the hours for the Youth Advocate. This position is a crucial part of our Circle of Support: a set of comprehensive wrap-around services that helps to ensure that youth in crisis have their basic needs met, and are able to thrive. With funding, we can increase our Youth Advocate's hours to support more children and families in obtaining much needed referrals and mental health support.
2. Funding for part-time staff member to assist our Community Programs Coordinator FY15: $5,000
More than 1700 audience members take part in the Community Art Center's year-round, youth-led arts events. Current events and activities in the program include our public art initiative and the National Youth Film Festival. Additional funds would allow us to hire a part-time program assistant to support the program coordinator allowing us to reach more constituents.
3. Kitchen Renovation: $10,000.00
When our facility was renovated in 2011, the kitchen was not included in the renovation. The School Age Child Care program provides dinner daily during the school year and three meals a day during the summer. All appliances, cabinets, walls, floor, and ceiling are in need of repair or replacement.
In April 2011 we completed a renovation our facility for the first time in 14 years – allowing us to expand our reach and improve our current programs. Our facility is fully renovated, equipped with the most up to date technology and attracting more attention from new youth and families than ever before.
At the end of March 2011, we completed our strategic planning process funded by the Boston Foundation. Our new strategic plan has given us a road map to success that is directly connected to the needs of our youth and our community. We are well poised to achieve our vision of "well-rounded artists and media users with healthy relationships and the ability to make safe choices" and "a Cambridge community that is welcoming to all youth and connected across classes, cultures and professional sectors." Our biggest challenge is attracting attention and support to our cause. We need to tell the story of our transformation while also continuing to maintain the attention to quality and commitment to each individual youth that has made the Community Art Center a trusted neighborhood institution.
Statement Dan Anderson, Former Board President
I've been a member of the board of directors for the Community Art Center for coming up on seven years. I was recruited to the board through my professional organization the Boston Society of Architects. The Art Center had recently received a HUD grant and was reaching out to the design community for volunteers in anticipation of a capital improvement project for its facilities. I had also moved my firm back to Cambridge and was looking for opportunities to connect with the community. From my first visit to the Art Center and meeting the staff and students, I was struck by the energy and enthusiasm I found there. Although the spaces and equipment were worse for wear you could immediately sense the passion and impact the programs and activities had on kids and their families. I was inspired to give my time and energy to the Art Center and found myself increasingly involved in fundraising and work related to a capital project. We have now successfully completed a renovation project and have spaces that reflect the creative potential of our kids and community. We successfully faced fundraising challenges, the difficulties of operating a program off-site during construction, and the logistics and unforeseen obstacles of every construction project. I feel extraordinarily fortunate to be part of this organization, its mission and the everyday work it does. I'm reminded of this every time I walk through the door and see the same vitality I recall from my first visit.
In a specific U.S. city, cities, state(s) and/or region.
GREATER BOSTON REGION, MA
Community Art Center participants live primarily in the Newtowne Court and Washington Elms public housing developments and the surrounding 'Area IV' neighborhood in Cambridge. 30% of total households in Area IV are occupied by single women with children . Approximately 80% percent of housing development families live below the poverty level, with many receiving public assistance. The majority of youth served low-income, high needs and are of African-American, Puerto Rican and Haitian descent.
Arts,Culture & Humanities - Arts Education
Youth Development - Youth Development Programs
Community members of all ages participate in the Art Center's year-round Community Programs. The Art Center's Community Programs use arts based activities to connect divided spaces and a divided community and grow the level of civic engagement of Cambridge's most isolated residents. All Community Programs either provide a platform for the stories and artwork of our youth, are organized by our youth, and/or work to strengthen the communities and families our youth are a part of. Current Community Programs include: year-round art events for community members to come together, explore, learn and celebrate and include the outdoor summer events, our public art initiative, This Is Where We Live, Work and Create, as well as family engagement activities that include Art Therapy based classes for families and cultural outings.
Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other Cultural & Ethnic Awareness
Families Adults Children and Youth (0 - 19 years)
Art Events – Our year-round arts events for community members to come together, explore, learn and celebrate and include the outdoor summer events Arts Interactive and Hear/Hear Art and Music Series, SACC Family Night, TMP Teen Night, and our Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival.
Public Art - The centerpiece of our public art work is the This Is Where We Live, Work and Create Public Art Initiative. We will combine neighborhood history with current stories to create three large scale murals in Area Four and Kendall Square. This year we will develop a business plan that will help us manage current corporate requests for murals and build public art as an earned revenue stream.
Family Engagement –We will combine our current family engagement work into one cohesive effort that will include Art Therapy based classes for families, Family Art Outings and family participation in the Port Arts Council.
All of these activities will further reach more constituents.
o SACC youth create a mural installed in Tech Square
Youth are powerful expressive artists and media users.
% of youth who identify as artists in end of year evaluations
% of youth who create art/media projects with an intended community impact
% of youth who have access to advancement in their art form
% of youth who feel connected to arts/technology resources in end of year evaluation
% of youth interested in pursuing art or media as adults
# of youth who participate in leadership opportunities (ongoing & one-time)
% of youth who identify as successful and healthy
4. Youth have an expansive world-view and help to transform their communities across classes, cultures and professional sectors.
% of youth who can identify with at least 3 communities
% of youth who participate in actions with an intended community impact
% of youth who feel connected across class, culture, sector
1. This is Where we Live Work and Create Public Art Initiative helped youth to create two murals installed in Kendall Square and presented four mural opening and unveiling events in connection to those murals. The new Port Stories Public Art Project was launched during the summer of 2014.
2. One9TEEN After Dark, a drop-in evening program for teens, was presented in collaboration with the Cambridge Boys and Girls Club.
3. Events and classes were offered for the general public including the Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival, the Central Squared Technology Design Challenge, the Kids Saturday Art Studios and the Arts Interactive.
Youth ages 5-12 participate in The School Age Child Care (SACC) Program where they become creative problem solvers through a hands-on arts curriculum. SACC uses an arts based approach to address the difficulties our youth face that are brought on by trauma, special needs, poverty, immigration, racism and lack of access to key resources. Each activity that the students are involved in allows them time for self-exploration through the arts and the ability to work towards leadership roles. Our youth are inspired artistically in Focus classes and Choice classes covering disciplines including the visual arts, dance, theater and media arts. Junior Leadership Groups and intermediate level arts classes prepare pre-teens for success in high school and beyond. SACC activities sequence up to a final, interdisciplinary performance at the end of the school year, and an outdoor community event during the summer.
Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other General Arts Education
Children Only (5 - 14 years)
1. Creative Approaches to Therapeutic Supports Initiative with support from the C.F. Adams Trust
a. A new behavior management system is now aligned with our community agreements
b. All staff and interns have received training in art therapy techniques
c. A new pedagogy has been created to implement an art therapy approach in our age-specific and boys and girls groups.
2. SACC Youth Advisory Board became artistic leaders
a. Youth Advisory Board members were commissioned by Boston Properties to create a mural about their community that was installed in Kendall Square.
3. Our program increased exposure for youth to local resources
a. SACC youth participated in classes led by the BOSTnet Literacy initiative, Jean Appolon Expressions and the Citi Performing Arts Center.
b. The 1st off-site spring performance of an original play about the Haitian Revolution. All classes were involved in the production for 300+ audience members from the digital set designs, props, acting and dancing.
1. Y1. Youth are powerful expressive artists and media users.
The Community Art Center has a documented history of encouraging artistic and academic excellence in youth. In bi-annual student satisfaction surveys administered by the City of Cambridge 21st Century Learning Partnership, the Community Art Center regularly scored higher than the 5 other Cambridge after school programs surveyed. Students who attend the Art Center say that they feel challenged and believe that they have supportive relationships with staff members. The survey indicates that students at the Art Center are more likely to feel that going to their afterschool program helps them get along better with their friends and make new friends and that the program helps them to find out what they are good at doing and what they enjoy doing.
In the past few years, we have built new key partnerships, grown our community programs, as well as the leadership and presentation opportunities for youth, and doubled our audience and event attendance.
o The Community Art Center and Novartis are awarded the "Central in Motion Award" from the Central Square Business Association.
Youth ages 13-19 enter the Teen Media Program (TMP) and become creative technology users by participating in media arts and literacy activities. TMP offers a sequenced, multi-year curriculum that uses artistic expression to develop new technology and creativity. Artistic Growth is fostered through facilitating the creation, presentation and critique of media arts work. Personal Development is rooted in celebrating the inherent strengths of teens while filling gaps in their experience and knowledge. Community Engagement is encouraged through exposure to community resources, the invitation to work towards social change, and leadership opportunities. Media Foundations classes introduce youth to the digital arts and media literacy. They hone their creative voice in Video, Photo or Digital Arts Studio. Concrete professional skills are built in advanced Leadership Groups including Youth Council and DIYDS!! Crew - which curates, coordinates and leads our national film festival.
Arts, Culture & Humanities, General/Other
Adolescents Only (13-19 years)
1. TMP creates art that addresses community issues and promotes social justice
a. Our TMP Summer Media Institute incorporated weekly sessions starting last summer that examined key social issues affecting the lives of our youth such as stereotypes, types of oppression and gender equality.
b. Teens explored local and global issues through their curation of our DIYDS!! film festival, their creation of a mural based on community stories.
2. Meaningful youth leadership roles have been built into programming and organizational leadership.
a. Youth have genuine decision making roles within TMP through the establishment of the Youth Council and attended community meetings around development in Cambridge and issues that have come up in the Area Four neighborhood.
b. DIYDS!! Crew, members take on additional leadership of our national film festival through participating in our Festival Advisory Committee. -made up of adult leaders this committee is a key networking opportunity for TMP youth.
Last year, using the Boston Youth Arts Evaluation Project Workbook as a guide, we adapted our Teen Media Program evaluation forms so that they directly correlate to our strategic goals and measures of success. An online survey has been created in Survey Monkey to administer this evaluation. In our School Age Child Care program we work with the City of Cambridge's Agenda for Children to implement their Integrated Self Assessment and Support (ISAS) evaluation system. Based on the National In School and Out of School Time APT evaluation tool, ISAS helps staff and youth to observe program and make key changes to our program culture. SACC teachers also do progress reports on all SACC youth and evaluate them based on our three program elements: Artistic Growth, Personal Development and Community Engagement.
Ms. Eryn Johnson
eryn@communityartcenter.org
The Community Art Center's Executive Director, Eryn Johnson has a BA in Theater, a Masters in Performance Studies and close to fifteen years management experience at non-profit, youth-serving arts organizations. Before coming to the Community Art Center, Eryn served as the Director of Education at the Citi Performing Arts Center.
Ms. Marsha Stewart	 Jan 2004	 Jan 2006
Mr. Marlon Orozco	 Media Program Director
Marlon has worked in youth programs focusing on multimedia design and technology for nearly 20 years. He was previously the Media Program Manager at the United Teen Equity Center in Lowell, MA, and before that, the Program Director at the Computer Clubhouse at the Museum of Science, Boston, MA.
Central in Motion Award (With Novartis)	 Central Square Business Association	 2013
Creative Activist Award - Eryn Johnson, Executive Director	 ArtCorps	 2012
Finalist Social Innovation Forum	 Root Cause	 2011
Coming Up Taller Award	 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards	 2006
The Community Art Center collaborates with many local arts organizations, technology institutions, youth agencies and schools, especially those that can bring additional resources to our youth. The following is an abbreviated list:
· The Port Stories Public Art Project features new partnerships with the City of Cambridge Department of Human Services, Cambridge Historical Commission, Cambridge Housing Authority and a MIT.
· Community Art Center staff participate in the Cambridge OST STEAM Committee and continues as active members of the Middle School Network, Reaching All Youth and the Cambridge Nonprofit Coalition.
· In the past two years, we have built ongoing partnerships with: area real estate companies Alexandria Real Estate and Boston Properties, bio tech company Novartis, robotics company Vecna and non-profit organizations Margaret Fuller House, Tutoring Plus and Boys and Girls Clubs of Middlesex County.
· The 2014 Do It Your Damn Self!! Youth Film Festival Premiere Screening was held for the third year at the Microsoft NERD Center. M.I.T's Bartos Theater and for the first time, at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Fletcher Maynard Academy hosted our DIYDS!! Jr. screening and this year's DIYDS!! teen reel featured work by youth from Cambridge Community Television, Madison Park High School and Raw Artworks.
· The Agenda for Children is a city-wide effort that supports our program evaluation and provides professional development to our staff.
In 2009, the Community Art Center started the Youth Development in the Arts Youth Worker Training curriculum development process in collaboration with Massachusetts Cultural Council YouthReach Program, Lesley University Division of Creative Arts and Learning and Health Resources in Action. The collaborative has created a four module curriculum that teaches best practices in the field of youth development in the arts. In 2010, modules 1 and 2 were piloted at Lesley University Artist and Activist Conference and at the Great Barrington Stage Company. In 2012 the training was run at Lesley University and in 2013, 12 youth workers from around the Greater Boston area took the training held at the Microsoft NERD Center.
Ms. Susan Richards
City of Cambridge Agenda for Children
July 2015 -
Ms. Ana Mojica-Boyd
Cambridge Trust Company
Kini Griffin	 Cambridge Public Schools	 Voting
Nancy Angoff	 Community Volunteer	 Voting
Dennis Benzan	 Altman & Altman LLP Senior Associate	 Voting
Selvin Chambers	 The Food Project	 NonVoting
Ernise Destin	 Cambridge Housing Authority	 Voting
Sejal Patel	 The Photographic Resource Center	 Voting
Susan Richards	 City of Cambridge Agenda for Children Voting
Sarah Rustan	 DecisionQuest	 Voting
Telma Salvador	 Cambridge Trust Company	 Voting
Priscilla Sanville	 Lesley University	 Voting
Alan Schwartz	 No Affiliation	 Voting
Stephen Sillari	 Sillari Enterprise	 Voting
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Strategic Planning / Strategic Direction
2016 Audit
Total Revenue $950,003 $766,398 $686,494
Total Expenses $971,066 $747,669 $687,670
Government Contributions $447,548 $394,867 $322,867
Unspecified $447,548 $394,867 $322,867
Individual Contributions $388,614 $319,019 $235,121
Indirect Public Support $0 $0 $32,849
Earned Revenue $113,841 $52,500 $95,545
Investment Income, Net of Losses $0 $12 $112
Membership Dues $0 $0 $0
Special Events $0 $0 $0
Other $0 $0 $0
Program Expense $753,692 $563,200 $488,490
Administration Expense $132,573 $109,302 $113,477
Fundraising Expense $84,801 $75,167 $85,703
Fundraising Expense/Contributed Revenue 10% 11% 15%
Total Assets $423,911 $400,581 $385,856
Current Assets $189,720 $140,567 $100,019
Long-Term Liabilities $110,136 $90,136 $106,441
Current Liabilities $75,564 $51,171 $38,870
Total Net Assets $238,211 $259,274 $240,545
Current Ratio: Current Assets/Current Liabilities 2.51 2.75 2.57
Long-term Liabilities/Total Assets 26% 23% 28%
The Community Art Center received a capital improvements grant in 2007 through the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. We used this funding to update our media lab and leveraged the remaining funds to launch a Capital Campaign to complete a full renovation of our facility. With grants from the Children's Investment Fund, the Cambridge Housing Authority and the City of Cambridge, among others, The Community Art Center Facility Renovation was completed in April 2011,
Financial summary data in charts and graphs are per the organization's IRS Form 990s. Contributions from foundations and corporations are listed under individuals when the breakout was not available.

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Tree Fu Tom is one of few kids TV shows I don't mind as a parent as it promotes the child actually removing themselves from the sofa and moving around, or doing Tree Fu as Tom calls it, to help their hero out when he and his pals are in trouble.
The show itself is bright and colourful, and likewise the pyjamas Littlest was sent are bright and colourful too. They have a big picture of Tom on the front, meaning the moment Littlest took them from their packaging, he knew straight away what the pyjamas were (and immediately wanted to put them despite it being a mere 1pm on a Saturday afternoon).
They are lovely pyjamas, in washable cotton fabric, and after wearing them on and off as soon as they have come from the line, they are standing up to it well, we washed them at 30 as a guide, and I did accidentally stick them in the dryer once or twice too, which they managed to get away with it unscathed.
What I like about these is that whilst they have the full length bottoms to them, the top is a t-shirt. It's important to Littlest's condition that he doesn't get over heated, so this would usually mean wearing an old short sleeve top with the pyjama bottoms. I've not seen many pairs with the short sleeve top, he complains that his legs get chilly, so we all have the best of both now.
They also stay up too- I find the sizing's of kids clothes are getting more and more approximate, and also find that whilst an item will fit his waist but be too long in the leg or vice versa, as these have an elasticated waist and ankle, I can pull them up and they don't dig in to his tummy, yet he doesn't trip over the bottoms as I can pull these up too and they stay put. May not seem that major an issue with baggy bottoms covering feet, but if you're child is like mine- eg eager to have breakfast and make noise like most 4 year old- then having something which could trip them over as they rush down stairs is just not an option safety wise.
There are a range of different styles of these too, either with t-shirt and shorts or long sleeved top and bottoms, so whatever you are looking for, if your child love Tom, they'll be covered.
At the moment, the style we tried is on special in Tesco stores for a very reasonable £5.50, so they make a great gift for a loved one or perhaps as a present for a classmate.
All in all, Littlest is in love with his Tree Fu jamas!


The Vista Triplex in Sylvan Lake!
In February, the cold set back the build timeline a few weeks but we were glad to power through as quickly as we could! The exterior of The Vista is up with the two floors receiving framing and the trusses up and roof set to reach completion. We've had the generous donation of a trailer for site staff and volunteers as well as lunches and are ready for volunteers to help out on site come late March. Thank you Hopkins Trucking, FCSS Sylvan Lake and Summer Villages, Havco Construction, Zytech, and Pass Electric for the donation of materials and services to support this build.
Excavation and foundation pouring took place over the winter holidays to begin to prepare for framing. Thank you to Carbon Earthworks, Bildex Construction, Cobijar, and Lafarge for their contribution in materials and labour at this stage of the process. Services have been installed by Atco Gas and Pass Electric with framing underway by Havco Construction.
The families for The Vista are chosen and begin to work towards completing 500 volunteer hours each before they can move into the completed homes in fall 2019. Congratulations to the Dodd family, the Redford family, and the Schatz family! Habitat Red Deer also participated in its first-ever parade with the help of the Dodd and Redford family to decorate and attend the Sylvan Lake Santa Claus Parade.
Habitat Red Deer hosts the official Groundbreaking Ceremony to mark the commencement of the project! Thank you to the Town of Sylvan Lake Staff and Council as well as Melcor Developments in helping to secure land for the build. The Vista triplex is not only the first-ever Habitat build in the community of Sylvan Lake, but also will be a 2019 legacy build marking the 25th year anniversary of Habitat for Humanity Red Deer, making this build a truly special one.


ACTORS KONKONA Sen Sharma and Tilotama Shome have shared screen space in Jaydeep Sarkar's short film Nayantara's Necklace. The drama-thriller, which has a cameo by Gulshan Devaiah of Hunterrr fame, is about the accidental friendship between two completely opposite characters. The film is backed by Royal Stag Barrel Select Large Short Films, which has become one of the most respected destinations for short films in India. Its last outing was Sujoy Ghosh's Bengali short Ahalya, with Radhika Apte and Soumitra Chatterjee in the lead.


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The Ferguson Grand Jury Was Set Up To Fail and So It Did
But even if you're somebody willing to keep an open mind and consider the possibility that no matter how clear-cut things may have seemed we weren't on Canfield Avenue in Ferguson on August 9th, this whole process should leave a terrible taste in your mouth.
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So, that's it. As far as the possibility of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson being tried in criminal court for the killing of Mike Brown, there is none. A grand jury has decided there isn't enough evidence to move forward with an indictment against Wilson, which means that he may still face a civil wrongful death suit and there's still the Justice Department investigation to consider, but there's no risk of prison time on a state murder or manslaughter charge.
A lot of people will find this an unconscionable miscarriage of justice, the antithesis of justice, in fact. While none of us was a part of the grand jury that reviewed the evidence, it's difficult to argue against this viewpoint. This isn't a single decision but the latest in a long line of indignities and affronts the black community has suffered through in this country and it just adds more kindling to the fires of rage that have burned for so long as well as the belief that a black life is meaningless, particularly when he or she is in the sights of a law enforcement official.
But even if you're somebody willing to keep an open mind and consider the possibility that no matter how clear-cut things may have seemed we weren't on Canfield Avenue in Ferguson on August 9th, this whole process should leave a terrible taste in your mouth. Whether by malice, incompetence or simply a lack of eagerness to prosecute a cop, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch thoroughly mishandled this case.
It's said that a grand jury can indict a ham sandwich, but that's only true if there's a dedicated, ferocious officer of the court doing his job and actually prosecuting that ham sandwich. McCulloch punted, dumping an almost incomprehensible amount of information on his jury and leaving them to sift through and try to make sense of it rather than leading them through it with the goal of winning a trial. He didn't ask the jury to indict, so, surprise, it didn't.
McCulloch's absurd and offensive moralizing in the moments leading up to officially dropping the boom -- blaming the media, witnesses, basically everyone other than the person he was supposed to be prosecuting -- spoke volumes about where his head was. It's surreal to watch a man whose job it was to push for the indictment of Darren Wilson actually explaining in great detail all the reasons why he wasn't indicted. McCulloch's news conference was, as CNN's Jeffrey Toobin put it, "an extended whine," and the shots he took at social media were "entirely inappropriate and embarrassing." That's putting it mildly.
McCulloch wasn't supposed to be some objective party in all of this. There's such a low standard for issuing an indictment you have to imagine that a little guidance from McCulloch would have gone a long way. Yes, the forensic evidence needed to take precedence over everything else, but if McCulloch is to be believed, there were enough conflicting accounts of what happened that it all, at the very least, could have been presented during an actual trial. It could be argued that while the black community has faced so much injustice for so long, any debt to it shouldn't have entered into these proceedings. But didn't the case itself, on its own merits, at least deserve to be heard in court?
Now this whole thing moves to the feds and the civil courts, while the reaction to it moves into the streets. It's ugly, as expected, and it'll probably get a whole lot worse. But none of it brings justice for a dead 18-year-old kid.
RELATED: We were live in Ferguson back in August. Here's our encounter with police. And here's the story of some of the real people of Ferguson.
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Inquest jury finds neglect by NHS trust contributed to death of 24-year-old mother from Folkestone
Today, at an inquest into the death of Natalie Gray, a 24-year-old mother from Folkestone in Kent, a jury found that neglect by Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust contributed to her death.
Natalie died on 21st April 2015 after jumping in front of a train at Barming station. She had a long history of mental health difficulties and was under the care of mental health services after attempting to take her own life on a number of occasions.
The jury at Kent and Medway Coroner's Court concluded that there were a number of gross failings by the NHS Trust which amounted to neglect and contributed to Natalie's death. These included making insufficient risk assessments, inadequate handovers between staff, failures to convey and enforce the correct procedures for informal patient leave to occupational therapists and failure of occupational therapists to follow those procedures.
The jury also found that the following failings may have possibly contributed to her death:
Delays in confirming it was Natalie who had left Priority House and commencing a search
Unnecessary delay in reporting to Kent Police that she was missing
Failure to provide Kent Police with relevant information
Failure to follow Trust Policy by not contacting next of kin
The jury noted that it was relevant to the circumstances of Natalie's death that the Trust failed to record information provided to them by third parties, namely a concerned chaplain and Natalie's aunt.
They also noted by a majority of 9:2 that the 999 call taker and the back-up police dispatch officer at Kent Police had failed to elicit the relevant information from the Trust.
Deborah Coles, Director of INQUEST said:
"The failure of Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust to protect Natalie is truly shocking, especially given her well-documented vulnerability. Staff should have been aware of her repeated attempts to end her own life and vigilant to the possibility that she might cause herself harm. Instead, there was an utter failure to communicate the risk she posed to her own life.
Natalie's death is another tragic reminder of the systemic failure to protect and support women in mental health crisis. Sadly, this is not an isolated case and points to the urgent need for government to invest in specialist, quality mental health services for vulnerable women."
Roselin Sayer, Natalie's aunt said:
"Natalie was a wonderful mother who loved her daughter and wanted the best for her. Losing her has left an enormous hole in our family. It has been a fight every step of the way to get to the truth of what happened to Natalie. We were still receiving new information half way through the inquest that shed light on the quality of her care at Priority House. We hope that lessons will be learned from Natalie's case and that Priority House will take steps to prevent future deaths by conducting proper risk assessments and improving procedures for allowing patients off the wards to ensure that no other family has to go through this. I would like to add that throughout Natalie's illness the police have been supportive and helpful in the family's dealings with them."
Alice Hardy, Hodge Jones & Allen solicitors said:
"Natalie had a troubled upbringing and had been suffering from mental health issues and self-harming since she was a teenager. Her family are devastated by her loss and are shocked by the failings of those responsible for her care. They believe she should not have been assessed as low risk given her escalating suicidal behaviour and loss of the protective factors in her life. The jury's conclusion that Natalie's death was the result of neglect by Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust as a result of a catalogue of gross failings by Priority House in the days and hours before she died signals the need for significant changes in how the hospital cares for its vulnerable patients."
INQUEST has been working with the family of Natalie Gray since April 2016. The family is represented by INQUEST Lawyers Group member Heather Williams QC, Doughty Street Chambers and Alice Hardy, a human rights lawyer at Hodge Jones & Allen.
Case history:
Natalie, who had experienced abuse as a child, had been having suicidal thoughts since 2012 and had subsequently split up with her partner. Shortly after this her father died. This combination of events left her feeling suicidal. By March 2015, she had attempted to kill herself several times.
On 8 April 2015, Natalie was admitted to Priority House, Maidstone Hospital.
On 17 April, 20 April and 21 April, Natalie was assessed as low risk despite having expressed clear intent to take her own life. Staff were not informed at handovers that Natalie should be reassessed if she became agitated and tried to leave the ward.
At approximately 3pm on 21 April 2015, Natalie became very distressed and expressed a wish to end it all. Shortly afterwards she was allowed to leave the ward by a member of occupational therapy staff without any risk assessment being conducted. On realising that Natalie had left the ward, staff delayed looking for her and contacting the police.
At approximately 6pm on 21 April 2015 Natalie was found dead at Barming train station.
For further information, please contact Anita Sharma (caseworker) or Gill Goodby (media) at INQUEST on 0207 263 1111.
INQUEST provides specialist advice on deaths in custody or detention or involving state failures in England and Wales. This includes a death in prison, in police custody or following police contact, in immigration detention or psychiatric care. INQUEST's policy and parliamentary work is informed by its casework and we work to ensure that the collective experiences of bereaved people underpin that work. Its overall aim is to secure an investigative process that treats bereaved families with dignity and respect; ensures accountability and disseminates the lessons learned from the investigation process in order to prevent further deaths.
Please refer to INQUEST the organisation in all capital letters in order to distinguish it from the legal hearing.
Published: 22nd November, 2016
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Main Gadgets A moment before the exposure: The details indicate that the iPhone 7 will be a big improvement
A moment before the exposure: The details indicate that the iPhone 7 will be a big improvement
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Apple's new smartphones will provide protection from water, chip With extremely high operating frequency and surprises
In two days you will be exposed Dark The pair of its new iPhone devices for 2016, in the shadow of sales that have slowed down recently and far-reaching statements that the climax of the maker of Coppertino is already behind it. What exactly would be there? We now get from KGI the broadest technical detail to date, which paints a rather optimistic picture.
An "Apple expert" on behalf of the market analysis company Agrees with the latest reports that the company will only show a pair of new smartphones at the upcoming event, the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, chip God-Apple The new A10 with an ultra-high-frequency 2.4GHz or 2.45GHz processing cores, which could provide performance improvement of at least 30 to the present generation of A9, and at least 10 per cent compared to the A9X of the iPad models. No details were provided about the chip's graphics core, but it seems that there is also a decent improvement of several dozen percent in capabilities, as in previous years, which will provide real competition for Adreno 530's Qualcomm.
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God-iPhone 7 will include a main camera with a resolution of 12 megapixels,iPhone 7 Plus will go on top with a set of 12 megapixel camera pairs, one with a wider array of lenses than the other. Combining them together will create an effect that resembles an optical zoom and can create an image with a focus that can be changed dynamically. , As we have already seen in some duplicate photo sets in the past. In addition, the device will have an optical image stabilization system similar to that of theiPhone 6S Plus - and apparently an array of four LEDs to be used as a more powerful flash.
Double cameras are gaining momentum
God-iPhone 7 andiPhone 7 Plus will also make an important step forward in its built-in storage space - with all existing levels actually multiplied, and the base volume will eventually be 32GB, the 128GB version will be 256GB, and the most expensive model will have an impressive XNUMXGB. The Plus model will also benefit from an upgrade of theRAM From 2GB to 3GB (ostensibly to support the new set of cameras), while the standard model will work with the same volume of the current generation. A small upgrade of approximately 10 per cent is also expected for battery capacity in both models.
Another 'bonus' that should offer the new pair of devices is IPx7 water protection (ie full water immersion protection, but no dust penetration protection)Apple Watch. The source claims that Dark May decide not to publish this feature publicly and officially, perhaps to avoid the wave of negative complaints from consumers who have not read the "fine print" of the protection standard - but in practice the iPhone 7 and its brother should be more resilient than ever before the accidental fall to the sink or bathroom.
The new devices may be available in no less than six different shades - including a new Black Black color
Dessert, Dark The 3.5 connector should, in fact, permanently and officially eliminate the analog millimeters of the headset - using the headphones EarPods are up-to-date with the Lightning connector, which will come with the models, plus a lightning adapter for 3.5 millimeters that will provide support (not really comfortable, probably) for those who will take a bit longer to get used to the gradual digitization of audio.
After all these details, do we still have any surprises awaiting us at the upcoming event? We'll live and see-and we'll have our fingers crossed.
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Trump Didn't Win In Spite Of The Access Hollywood Tape. He Won Because Of It.
This week marks the two year anniversary of the Access Hollywood tape, in which Donald Trump bragged about how he can walk up to women and just grab them by the pussy. At the time, a lot of people thought this was going to hurt him -- and, to be sure, lots and lots of people, including many Republicans, immediately denounced him, pulled their support, and publicly admonished him for the tape.
My reaction was different. It was at that moment that I said to myself, "He just won the election." It is not a thing I am happy to have been right about. Even after he won, his supporters were given the benefit of the doubt that they had voted for him in spite of him saying that -- that his appeal was so great to them otherwise that they were willing to overlook this transgression. But they didn't overlook it. They heard it and they liked it. They liked the idea of this rich white man being able to put women in their place. They voted for him because of this.
At the time, people thought I was being a pessimist, and even a tad ridiculous. But the reason I believed that was because I had spent the past few years writing about misogyny -- from PUAs to Elliot Rodger, from Gamergate to the men's rights movement -- and I saw the anger, I saw all that fury bubbling under the surface and I knew it was coming to a head. I knew it was far more widespread than anyone wanted to believe it was.
It was five words that sealed the deal. "And they just let you." That was key. If he had said that he grabbed women by the pussy and they told him to fuck off and then sued him for sexual harassment, it would have been something different altogether. He might not have won, and not because people sided with the women, but because he would have been perceived as weak. When he said, "And they just let you," it gave these people a glimmer of hope for a power they felt they once had and have since lost. That's what "putting someone in their place" means. It means that you have the power "and they just let you."
Trumpists like to blame Obama for the social strife in this country. In their collective imaginations, everything was fine before he was elected, everyone got along and life was a 1990s Sunny D commercial. They never heard about racism, they never heard about sexual assault, they never heard about police brutality, they never heard about trans rights, they never heard about half of the problems in this country -- and it's not that those issues didn't exist, it's just that they never really had to hear about them. For as much as the Left is accused of living in a bubble, these people had been in a bubble for much longer. Their bubbles popped -- and, in truth, that had less to do with Obama than it did with social media.
Prior to social media exploding, many conservatives were largely sheltered from what people on the Left actually thought -- of them and in general. Many of them lived in small towns or in rural areas where, should they encounter someone too different from them, they mostly had the ability to torment them until they either conformed or moved away. While their media complained about us, while Rush Limbaugh screamed about "feminazis," while they said all manner of racist and homophobic things, it never really touched their lives. They had control and, they felt, they had social power.
Then, quite suddenly, because of social media, millions of people were privy to concepts and conversations that had been going on for years that they had never been exposed to. I think the first time I heard the term "white privilege" was in the '90s, but to many of these people, they believed they were being smacked in the face all of a sudden with new terms and new social norms that they didn't understand. It was a kind of future shock. But worst of all was that these new social norms were being dictated by the very people who were supposed to "just let them."
Let me tell you a story. When I was in sixth grade, this girl who spent an absurd amount of her time trying to bully me pulled me aside in the girl's room and, practically pleading with me, said, "You're pretty. Your parents are rich. We would leave you alone, you could be popular, if you just stopped dressing like that and stopped acting weird." Of course, being as obstinate then as I am now, I continued to do as I pleased because I genuinely did not give a flying fuck what she thought of me. And even then, I understood that this was what she was mad about and that this is what had made me a target. Not that my clothes were "weird" or that I was otherwise "different," but that I didn't care and it seemed stupid to me that anyone would care. This tendency was interpreted by not only my classmates, but by teachers and administrators, as me thinking I was "better" than everyone else, and it positively enraged them.
More importantly, however, is that when I left that school, I left with yearbook pages full of people telling me that me being myself made them feel like it was OK to be themselves. This is what they fear most of all -- the domino effect. The slippery slope. If one person defects and the discovers the world doesn't end, they lose control of everyone. They lose their power. This is why they fight us every step of the way, on everything, no matter how silly a thing it is to fight.
The Right values social hierarchy in a way that I suspect the majority of the Left does not truly comprehend. We understand it cognitively, but we don't understand it emotionally, because it seems stupid to us. In their minds, they go along with it when it negatively affects them, so if someone else doesn't go along with it, it's like that person thinks they're "better" than everyone else -- and to them, that is insulting and rude. This is why there were Women for Kavanaugh rallying in Washington this weekend, why those women were carrying "Frat Lives Matter" signs and worrying about how holding men accountable for sexual assault might hurt their sons, and not really caring about how things might affect their daughters. If they've put up with it, they figure, then what makes other women -- even their own daughters -- think that they shouldn't have to? What, do they think they're better than us? Those women enjoy seeing other women put in their place just as much as their male counterparts do.
I think a lot about how very angry so many men were a few years ago when women started loudly criticizing the practice of catcalling. Because once upon a time, if you were a man yelling "Hey, nice ass!" at a woman as she walked down the street, you could reasonably count on being shielded from her reaction to that. She might not tell you to fuck off, because she feared for her safety. She feared that you might call her a lesbian or a feminist or worse. There is power in that. There is power in telling women, "Hey, well if you don't want to be catcalled, don't wear a short skirt in public!" -- in putting the onus for change on us, and treating male behavior as a given, as an inevitability. Their anger wasn't just about being denied the fabulous time they had calling us "sweet tits" or whatever, it was about power. It was always about power.
There is so much power in the "And they just let you." Because if you're in a situation where you "just let" someone violate you or make you feel like shit or make you feel small or discriminate against you, it's not because you're OK with it -- it's because the alternative is worse. Because that person can make life bad for you, because you're afraid everyone will side with the person who hurt you. There is power in being that person. There is power in people being afraid to tell you that you are being a creep or an asshole. There is power in being able to be shitty to someone and have the crowd cheer you on.
The things the Right truly wants cannot be achieved legislatively. This is why they are still so angry -- because Donald Trump was supposed to bring about social change, he was supposed to give them cultural capital, he was supposed to give them their social power back. They were supposed to be "tired of winning." He was supposed to change the narrative around to make them the heroes instead of the villains. He was supposed to make it so that we cared what they thought of us and then adjusted our behavior accordingly. They will not stop being angry until they finally feel as if we don't think we are better than they are. They will not stop being angry until they can figuratively (and perhaps literally) go around grabbing anyone they imagine ought to be beneath them on the social totem pole by the pussy, and have those people "just let them."
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