Acorn Email

Boston Supporters....ACORN and community families have been working to get a high school in Mattapan. We need phone calls, emails and letters to go out to The Mayor of Boston and our new Governor to help push them to see the importance on this issue.

MATTAPAN DESERVES A HIGH SCHOOL.

1. Every other neighborhood in Boston has a high school except Mattapan

2. The high schools are overcrowded so opening up a new school will help our students and teachers

3. Over 3,000 families signed up to support this issue

Check out the Blog that our Dorchester ACORN Members Hassan Thomas created and help us win this issue!

http://mattapanhighschool.blogspot.com/

Contact Mimi Ramos Head Organizer Boston ACORN or Jurett Weathers our Schools Organizer

617-436-7100 and see how you can make a difference in our neighborhoods.

ACORN Thanks Our City Councilor Charles Yancey for ALL his work on this issue

"The People United Will Never Be Defeated"

PLEASE SEND THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FOLKS it takes a few minutes to make a call or email please take the time to support Boston Families in the fight for a High School!

City Council Meeting Minutes

0855Councilors Yancey offered the following:Order that having convened in an open meeting on June 27, 2007, the City Council, in accordance with its charter, by-laws, and ordinances, has voted to authorize the Superintendent to submit to the Massachusetts School Building Authority the Statement of Interest for the Mattapan High School (new), Old State Hospital. The order was not passed; yeas 4, (Arroyo, Turner, Yancey, Yoon), nays 8. Absent or not voting 1 (Ross).

http://www.cityofboston.gov/cityclerk/hearing/see.asp?type=mn

Suggested phone message:

Hello, My name is_____. I live at_____. I am a resident of Boston______, a voter and a concerned parent/_____. I want Governor (Senator; Representative; Mayor; Councilor) _____to support the construction of a new high school in Mattapan at the old State Hospital grounds. Is the _____ willing to support this? I require a response. Please send it to me. Thank you.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

List of Senate Members of the 185th General Court
(2006-2007)
Accurate as of 07/05/07

	EMAIL	ROOM	PHONE
Robert A. Antonioni	Robert.Antonioni@state.ma.us	109-E	722-1230
Edward M. Augustus Jr.	Edward.Augustus@state.ma.us	218	722-1485
Steven A. Baddour	Steven.Baddour@state.ma.us	513	722-1604
Frederick E. Berry	Frederick.Berry@state.ma.us	333	722-1410
Stephen M. Brewer	Stephen.Brewer@state.ma.us	109-B	722-1540
Scott P. Brown	Scott.P.Brown@state.ma.us	520	722-1555
Stephen J. Buoniconti	Stephen.Buoniconti@state.ma.us	206	722-1660
Gale D. Candaras	Gale.Candaras@state.ma.us	213-B	722-1291
Harriette L. Chandler	Harriette.Chandler@state.ma.us	312-D	722-1544
Robert S. Creedon, Jr.	Robert.Creedon@state.ma.us	413-C	722-1200
Cynthia Stone Creem	Cynthia.Creem@state.ma.us	416-B	722-1639
Benjamin B. Downing	Benjamin.Downing@state.ma.us	413-F	722-1625
Susan C. Fargo	Susan.Fargo@state.ma.us	504	722-1572
Jack Hart	John.Hart@state.ma.us	109-C	722-1150
Robert A. Havern	Robert.Havern@state.ma.us	109-D	722-1432
Robert L. Hedlund	Robert.Hedlund@state.ma.us	313-C	722-1646
Patricia D. Jehlen	Patricia.Jehlen@state.ma.us	213	722-1578
Brian A. Joyce	Brian.A.Joyce@state.ma.us	413-A	722-1643
Michael R. Knapik	Michael.Knapik@state.ma.us	421	722-1415
Thomas M. McGee	Thomas.McGee@state.ma.us	112	722-1350
Joan M. Menard	Joan.Menard@state.ma.us	215	722-1114
Mark C. Montigny	Mark.Montigny@state.ma.us	511-A	722-1440
Richard T. Moore	Richard.Moore@state.ma.us	111	722-1420
Michael W. Morrissey	Michael.W.Morrissey@state.ma.us	413-D	722-1494
Senate President Therese Murray	Therese.Murray@state.ma.us	332	722-1500
Robert A. O'Leary	Robert.O'Leary@state.ma.us	416-A	722-1570
Marc R. Pacheco	Marc.Pacheco@state.ma.us	312-B	722-1551
Steven C. Panagiotakos	Steven.Panagiotakos@state.ma.us	212	722-1630
Anthony Petruccelli	Anthony.Petrucelli@state.ma.us	413-B	722-1634
Pamela P. Resor	Pamela.Resor@state.ma.us	410	722-1120
Stanley C. Rosenberg	Stan.Rosenberg@state.ma.us	320	722-1532
Karen E. Spilka	Karen.E.Spilka@state.ma.us	511-C	722-1640
Bruce E. Tarr	Bruce.Tarr@state.ma.us	313-A	722-1600
James E. Timilty	James.Timilty@state.ma.us	518	722-1222
Richard R. Tisei	Richard.Tisei@state.ma.us	308	722-1206
Steven A. Tolman	Steven.Tolman@state.ma.us	511-B	722-1280
Susan C. Tucker	Susan.Tucker@state.ma.us	424	722-1612
Marian Walsh	Marian.Walsh@state.ma.us	405	722-1348
Dianne Wilkerson	Dianne.Wilkerson@state.ma.us	312-C	722-1673

Call and Email!!

Suggested phone message:

Hello, My name is_____. I live at_____. I am a resident of Boston______, a voter and a concerned parent/_____. I want Governor (Senator; Representative; Mayor; Councilor) _____to support the construction of a new high school in Mattapan at the old State Hospital grounds. Is the _____ willing to support this? I require a response. Please send it to me. Thank you.

Governor Deval Patrick: (617) 722-4000

Sate Senators (617) 722-1276

State Representatives (617) 722-2000

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (617) 635-4500

Boston School Committee (617) 635-9014

Looked at a preliminary version of the site this morning; Its happening!

We Need Buttons, Banners And Desktop Images!

Contact Acorn for more information on how to get involved!

http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=7912

Current Craigslist posting below._________________________________________

Get A High School For Mattapan!

---

Reply to: https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=gigs-381465017@craigslist.org&su=Get%20High%20School%20For%20Mattapan%21
Date: 2007-07-25, 11:13AM EDT


Due to CL sever errors I cant seem to repost this the way it should be.

Please see the original at http://mattapanhighschool.blogspot.com/

This time the request is for button, banners, wallpapers, e-cards and anything else artistic based on the theme of getting a much deserved, long overdue (10 years!) high school built in Mattapan.

The art will be uploaded to flickr and the best of it will be used on the website. You will receive credit and acknowledgment for your hard work!


There is a blog explaining the issue now.

Hopefully we'll get more added to it and document the campaign there as well.
Check out;
http://mattapanhighschool.blogspot.com/

Please link to it, and email if you have any questions.

Thanks for helping!

Posting Problems at Craiglist.

My Posts aren't showing up in the categories where I post them; no one can see them.

Craigslist is aware of the error (and I guess, content to wait forever to get it fixed).


http://www.craigslist.org/about/help/system-status.html

206: eff fieve - Brief posting outages
Updated Sat, Jun 16 - 11:11 PDT We've had some intermittent problems with our load balancers that prevent any new ads from being posted. We are waiting for a fix from the vendor who makes the hardware. Hopefully we'll have a solution soon so that our pagers will stop going off. Uff.


This cannot be allowed to stop the juggernaut that is the Mattapan High School!


Therefore; http://www.google.com/search?q=craigslist+alternative&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS221US221&aq=t&aq=t

As you can see, the new posting is a hybrid of the first two; probably what is should have been anyway.

For many years Mattapan has sorely been in need of a high school. A parcel of land has been donated but, for lack of political will, no action has been taken to develop this parcel and build this high school.

A conservative estimate of how long this issue has been stalled would be 10 years.

I am currently gathering all the data that I can in an effort to create a comprehensive website on the Mattapan high school issue and those community groups and activists working to build it.

I hope this site will create awareness, and that it will also be a source of funding for those groups and for this project.

Part of our site will involve banner ads and clip art based around the theme of Mattapan needing a high school.

We are requesting buttons, banners, wallpapers, e-cards and anything else artistic based on the theme of getting a high school built in Mattapan.

The art will be uploaded to flickr and the best of it will be used on the website. You will receive credit and acknowledgment for your hard work!


There is a blog explaining the issue now.

Hopefully we'll get more added to it and document the campaign there as well.
Check out;
http://mattapanhighschool.blogspot.com/

Please link to it, and email if you have any questions.

Thanks for helping!

Henry H Thomas.

http://www.freeified.com/index.php/499/19/0/1408?k=9404fd18c594640900fbd4ef2823cdd2

http://blurbpage.com/usa/Boston/Mattapan/posts/2/19/9629.html

Blue Ribbon Reports - and some press articles

Blue ribbon reports- http://www.scribd.com/search?query=mattapan&commit=search


News articles

http://www.dotnews.com/advocatespushfornewschool.html

http://www.dotnews.com/yanceymattapanhspush.html

http://bostondevelopment.bloggles.info/2007/07/19/mattapan-high-school-receives-final-push/

http://www.themoneyblogs.com/bostonrealestate/my.blog/councilor-wants-new-high-school-in-mattapan.html

http://www.btu.org/leftnavbar/bulletincurrent.html

http://bulletinnewspapers.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=182&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=2234&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1725&hn=bulletinnewspapers&he=.com

Mattapan STILL Needs A High School!- Craigslist posting

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/cpg/380702419.html

I Think we'll leave this ad up for the full thirty days CL allows, but just in case, its archived here as of now.

We had a great response from designers for our Mattapan High School Website posting.

Thanks everyone who read the posting and offered to help!


Part of our site will involve banner ads and clip art based around the theme of Mattapan needing a high school.

So, we're reaching out to the craiglsist community once more.

This time the request is for button, banners, wallpapers, e-cards and anything else artistic based on the theme of getting a high school built in Mattapan.

The art will be uploaded to flickr and the best of it will be used on the website. You will receive credit and acknowledgment for your hard work!


There is a blog explaining the issue now.

Hopefully we'll get more added to it and document the campaign there as well.
Check out;
http://mattapanhighschool.blogspot.com/

Please link to it, and email if you have any questions.

Thanks for helping!

Craigslist posting.

In future I will archive the craigslist postings here. What is below is similar to my original request for assistance on craigslist.

For many years Mattapan has sorely been in need of a high school. A parcel of land has been donated but, for lack of political will, no action has been taken to develop this parcel and build this high school.

A conservative estimate of how long this issue has been stalled would be 10 years.

I am currently gathering all the data that I can in an effort to create a comprehensive website on the Mattapan high school issue and those community groups and activists working to build it.

I hope this site will create awareness, and that it will also be a source of funding for those groups and for this project.

If you are interested please contact me below.


__________________________End Posting________________________________



Having gotten a great response, I'm going to put up postings for a flash documentary and for original art.

Mattapan Needs A High School!

Busy day of research and discussion with web designers. The Mattapan High School website should be going live withing the next 14 days, hopefully a lot sooner.


These are some of the questions I'm looking to get answered for the site:


Councilor Yancey recently sent a letter to Governor Patrick on the issue of a high school for Mattapan. I would like a copy if possible. I would also like to know what response, if any,
has been given and who else signed this letter.


Who keeps the relevant statistics on education infrastructure needs for Boston, the state and the federal government?

Councilor Yancey has arrived at a figure of $105 million for the construction of Mattapan's high school; how does he arrive at this sum?

Is there any corresponding or supporting data for this figure?

Can private funds be raised/used?

Who would the contact person be for arranging private donations?

What local groups are involved?

Who are the strongest allies of this project?

What is the next action that needs to be taken?

Who are the strongest opponents, if any?

Why do they oppose a high school for Mattapan?


Ive discovered a couple of great grassroots sites that I'm hoping our site will take after:

http://www.greenmyapple.org/

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

I've Also begun reading "A Legal Guide To Starting And Managing A Non Profit Organization"

Pretty good so far. Tip; buy a used copy!