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Dudley festival places focus on area's changes

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:09:57 -0400

"Activists working in this area believe the current movement to create more inclusive programs will have historic economic impact. The annual event highlights the services of Alternatives for Community & Environment (ACE), an organization committed to organizing local residents to address environmental and social justice issues. The small Roxbury-based nonprofit also used this year’s forum, which organizers say had been in the works for two months, to bring the community’s attention to the development going on right behind the festival. "This was all about how do we get people to have a good time in Dudley, but also to build a sense of community," said Lee Matsueda, a community organizer with ACE. "This is a beginning of a process." To read the whole article, click here.

Donning a green collar

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:16:38 -0400

"Activists working in this area believe the current movement to create more inclusive programs will have historic economic impact. 'We're going to need to see a lot more [green jobs] on a much larger scale than we have before,' says Penn Loh, executive director of Roxbury's Alternatives for Community & Environment, an organization focused on eradicating environmental racism that is also a member of Community Labor United. 'This could be as big as the New Deal and the restructuring of the economy after the stock market crash and the Great Depression. We're at a turning point in human history.' " To read the whole article, click here.

ACE Annual Report 2007

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:34:17 -0400

ACE Annual Report 2007

Community Works Spring 2008 Newsletter

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:26:17 -0400

Community Works Spring 2008 Newsletter

Diesel Legislation Factsheet

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:58:41 -0400

Diesel Legislation Factsheet

Frightened bus users make stand (March 2008)

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:42:21 -0500

Tiara Amarante's bus ride to school is a daily exercise in dodging danger. Last month, Amarante and nine other teenagers who take Bus 23 to school or to get around their neighborhood decided to do something about it. They would survey other passengers, document their stories, and try to persuade MBTA officials to take action.

Getting back to the garden in song (March 2008)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:48:47 -0500

"Environmental justice and speaking out is about standing up and expressing yourself," [Brandon] McDowell said. "Hip hop - it's a way to tell stories and pass on knowledge."

Groups urge cooperation for helping poor communities (Apr 2007)

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 14:16:02 -0400

The complaints and questions -- including crime, transportation, air quality and waste disposal in areas including Chelsea, Dorchester and Roxbury -- are interrelated, said ACE Youth Director Brandon McDowell. "A lot of the time, you take all these things separately," McDowell said. "If you're not looking, you can miss the underlying connections between the issues."

ACE and UEI: Thoughts for Patrick-Murray Administration (Jan 2007)

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:10:51 -0500

The incoming Patrick-Murray administration has the opportunity to address old problems in new ways. New approaches are desperately needed to address the growing disparities between the health and environmental conditions of communities in the Commonwealth.

T Rider’s Union: Beacon Hill should bail out MBTA (Oct 2006)

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:15:55 -0400

Officials from the T Riders Union, an advocacy group strongly against the proposed fare increase, believe the newly proposed fare increase will only put a Band-Aid on the T’s fiscal woes and in three years the T will be asking taxpayers for more cash. The last fare increase was in 2003. “We are looking to the MBTA to acknowledge there’s a larger problem,” said Lee Matsueda of the T Riders Union. “There’s been a cycle [of fare increases], and the service continues to be the same.”

New Report: Poorer Areas Have More Environmental Hazards (October 2005)

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 20:45:31 -0500

Hurricane Katrina may have put the spotlight on environmental injustice on the Gulf Coast, but a new report demonstrates that profound environmental injustices also exist in Massachusetts.