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October 10

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Friday at 3:21pm

Opposition to Biolab grows; community forum next week

October 10, 2008
While plans for Boston University's (BU) Biolab won't be evaluated until 2010, opposition to this project remains strong. A recent letter to the editor published in the Herald draws attention to the many risks of the project.

October 8

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Wednesday at 7:09pm

Ballot questions 2 and 3 tackle marijuana possession, dog racing

October 8, 2008
This Election Day, there is more to be determined then the next President of the United States.

October 7

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Last Tuesday at 5:02pm

Boston's 'mini-Katrina' demands a government response

October 7, 2008
During heavy rains in June and July of this year, homes in Dorchester and South Boston were flooded with storm water and raw sewage that filled the streets, damaged parked cars and flowed into basements. Possessions were lost and heating systems ruined.

October 3

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Oct 3rd at 6:01pm

State budget crisis will hurt families, community groups

October 3, 2008
As the subprime mortgage crisis continues, newspapers and TV are flooded with stories of bail-outs of major banks, crashing stock markets and constant uncertainty. But how will this all affect smaller local businesses and non-profits? Who will bail them out of their financial woes?

October 2

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Oct 2nd at 5:14pm

City Council hearing to address local economic issues

October 2, 2008
In Washington, Congress and the Bush administration are scrambling to stop the downward spiral of our financial markets. The plans in discussion would require a large investment of taxpayer money to buy the assets of failing financial institutions and save them from collapse.

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Website:	http://www.ace-ej.org
Company Overview:	ACE was launched in 1993 by Charlie Lord and Bill Shutkin, two lawyers with a passion for social justice and environmental protection. Incorporated in 1994, ACE has pioneered an organic and powerful bottom-up model for environmental organizing and advocacy. Our early work supported community leadership on environmental justice issues and provided legal resources for community partners. Today, more than ten years later, ACE is becoming an organization composed of and led by the constituents we serve. ACE is anchored in our home neighborhood of Roxbury, and from these strong roots, organizes residents and builds coalitions to win significant concrete victories in Greater Boston and Massachusetts. Our Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Project has become a model for nurturing youth leadership in the environmental justice movement. ACE also mobilizes legal and scientific resources in support of organizing strategies. Our approach serves as a model for communities throughout the nation and for the broadening environmental movement. Since 1994, we have partnered with more than 40 neighborhood groups representing over 3,500 people throughout Greater Boston, Lowell, Lawrence, and New Bedford. We actively build coalitions and serve as a primary resource for the growing movement for environmental justice in Greater Boston and throughout New England. We have helped groups address persistent problems such as trash transfer stations, vacant lots, and dirty diesel exhaust. Our work has also prevented additional environmental insults such as asphalt plants and freeway offramps. But solving immediate environmental threats is not enough. Thus, many of our initiatives have grown from individual neighborhoods seeking relief from specific hazards to proactive system-wide efforts, such as converting the public bus fleet from diesel to cleaner alternative fuels, cleaning up and redeveloping "brownfields", and promoting a resident vision of sustainable communities. (read less) ACE was launched in 1993 by Charlie Lord and Bill Shutkin, two lawyers with a passion for social justice and environmental protection. Incorporated in 1994, ACE has pioneered an organic and powerful bottom-up model for environmental organizing and advocacy. Our early work supported community leadership on environmental justice issues and provided legal resources for community partners. Today, more than ten years later, ACE is becoming an organization composed of and led by the constituents we... (read more)
Mission:	ACE builds the power of communities of color and lower income communities in New England to eradicate environmental racism and classism and achieve environmental justice. We believe that everyone has the right to a healthy environment and to be decision-makers in issues affecting our communities. We believe in pursuing systemic change; moving beyond solving problems one by one to eliminating the root causes of environmental injustice. ACE is anchoring a movement of people who have been excluded from decision-making to confront power directly and demand fundamental changes in the rules of the game, so together we can achieve our right to a healthy environment.
Products:	Roxbury Environmental Empowerment Program (REEP): REEP develops and supports youth leadership in our home neighborhood through a school-based environmental justice curriculum, an after-school youth leadership program, and youth-led organizing projects. T Riders' Union (TRU): TRU organizes public transit riders to build a unified voice and movement for better public transportation in Greater Boston. TRU focuses our organizing on lower income riders and riders of color who must depend on public transit to reach their daily destinations. Services Program: Our Services Program provides legal and technical assistance and capacity building services to help strengthen and support grassroots groups working on environmental justice in our region.