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		<title>4/9: HRC Agenda, 6:30pm @ TAB</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/04/06/events/49-hrc-agenda-630pm-tab/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/04/06/events/49-hrc-agenda-630pm-tab/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 02:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>@BarryRafkind</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ April 9, 2012; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The monthly public meeting of the Human Rights Commission will be at 6:30pm on 4/9 at SCALE
in the TAB at 167 Holland Street (2nd floor, top of stair, straight ahead, small conference room). This is an accessible location.

The agenda is:


	Director’s Report on Cases and Incidents

	Handout is the monthly Office of Somerville Commissions report

	Immigrant Police Dialogue Session Updates

	Meeting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>@SomervilleCity&#8217;s Retaliation Against Accessibility Whistleblower Casts Chilling Effect</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/04/06/arts-and-culture/somervillecitys-retaliation-against-accessibility-whistleblower-casts-chilling-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/04/06/arts-and-culture/somervillecitys-retaliation-against-accessibility-whistleblower-casts-chilling-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 01:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>@BarryRafkind</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=11558</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Mayor @JoeCurtatone retaliated against Somerville accessibility rights advocate Eileen Feldman after she blew the whistle on the City’s attempt to have the U.S. Surgeon General’s March 23rd health grant event held at the then-inaccessible Armory on Highland Ave. The mayor’s reprisal took the form of an op-ed by his Health Dept. Director, Paulette [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>False information posted at Ward 5 Online</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/04/02/accessibility/false-information-posted-at-ward-5-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/04/02/accessibility/false-information-posted-at-ward-5-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eila</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=11501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been alerted to a new posting of inaccuracies regarding my architectural access facility complaint about the Armory.
On Wednesday, March 28, 2012, Courtney O&#8217;Keefe posted &#8220;Armory Gets New Entrance, Support!&#8221; on the Ward 5 online blog.  This post sounds like it rejoices in the malicious attack against myself, Eileen Feldman, and the Community Access [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somerville, MA: Civil Rights Discrimination in Motion, circa 2012</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/29/accessibility/somerville-ma-civil-rights-discrimination-in-motion-circa-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/29/accessibility/somerville-ma-civil-rights-discrimination-in-motion-circa-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eila</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=11467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ms. Renault-Caragianes' letter is a cover-up on behalf of Mayor Curtatone and designed to distort the facts about why State officials had to quickly step in to relocate the U.S. Surgeon General's visit to the Ville last Friday, March 23, 2012, for the official launch event of the Middlesex County's health wellness and prevention initiative called “Mass in Motion."]]></description>
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		<title>Somerville&#8217;s Curtatone Prevented from Hosting U.S. Surgeon General at Inaccessible Armory</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/22/health-care/somervilles-curtatone-prevented-from-hosting-us-surgeon-general-at-inaccessible-armory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/22/health-care/somervilles-curtatone-prevented-from-hosting-us-surgeon-general-at-inaccessible-armory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eila</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=11421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somerville's Mayor Curtatone, who announced on WGBH this week (Boston’s Growing Income Gap, hosted 3/20/11 by Kara Miller) that he is "advising the First Lady on the Let's Move Initiative," attempted to get the US Surgeon General's  launch of a major Public Health initiative at the inaccessible Somerville Armory this Friday (March 23, 2012).]]></description>
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		<title>Are City&#8217;s Senior Centers Accessible?: RESISTAT Responds</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/10/housing/are-citys-senior-centers-accessible-resistat-responds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/10/housing/are-citys-senior-centers-accessible-resistat-responds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>intrepid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The letter to resistat previously posted on SV is copied below. The response (which follows)  was posted on the resistat blog within 72 hours of the letter&#8217;s submission.
Question: I read an announcement about the upcoming meeting &#8220;HUD Action Plan Public Hearing&#8221; on 3/22 at the Ralph &#38; Jenny Center. I scoured web pages and city [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are City&#8217;s Senior Centers Fully Accessible?</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/05/politics/are-citys-senior-centers-fully-accessible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/03/05/politics/are-citys-senior-centers-fully-accessible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>intrepid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=11255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following letter was submitted to the resistat blog on 3/5/2012 after its writer read David Dahlbacka&#8217;s announcement of upcoming HUD Plan hearing:
&#8220;I read an announcement about the upcoming meeting &#8220;HUD Action Plan Public Hearing&#8221; on 3/22 at the Ralph &#38; Jenny Center. I scoured web pages and city websites to learn accessibility information for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somerville Variance Hearing 2/27/12: Community Path Cedar to Lowell</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/02/24/transportation/occupy-somervilles-variance-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/02/24/transportation/occupy-somervilles-variance-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 18:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eila</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=11182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This Monday, the Architectural Access State Board will hear the City of Somerville's request to waive the necessity to place an accessible ramp adjacent to a proposed shortcut between the Lowell St. bridge and the future Community Path Extension.  Public transportation stewardship begins at home!  Let's encourage Somerville's deciders to sTop wasting local and sTate transportation resources on exclusive facilities- and instead, plan for the future by designing accessible multi-modal pedestrian routes at every step.]]></description>
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		<title>If Somerville&#8217;s Mayor stepped inside our shoes, would he be smiling&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/02/14/accessibility/if-somervilles-mayor-stepped-inside-our-shoes-would-he-be-smiling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/02/14/accessibility/if-somervilles-mayor-stepped-inside-our-shoes-would-he-be-smiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eila</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.somervillevoices.org/?p=11119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Community Access Project and other disability rights colleagues appeared at a Hearing to hear how the City rationalized deferring corrections of recent streetscape construction mistakes.  And we discovered that even the surveys are not being completed correctly.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Representative Provost&#8217;s Smart Framework For Sustainable Transportation</title>
		<link>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/02/05/politics/representative-provosts-smart-framework-for-sustainable-transportation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.somervillevoices.org/2012/02/05/politics/representative-provosts-smart-framework-for-sustainable-transportation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somerville Representative Provost has just published a piece at bostinno called:  MBTA Troubles Just a Symptom of Systemic Crisis.  
This Monday February 6, 2012 at 11:30 will be the Public Hearing on Rep. Provost 's House Bill 2659, a bill relative to transportation finance and equity. Location: State House, room A-1.
Rep. Provost article link: http://bostinno.com/2012/02/01/mbta-troubles-just-a-symptom-of-systemic-crisis/]]></description>
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