Fwd: PR: AARP Offers Free Tax Help For All

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February 28, 2014

CONTACT:
Romanita Matta-Barrera
AARP Foundation
RMattabarrera@aarp.org
202-550-6862

AARP FOUNDATION TAX-AIDE PROVIDES FREE TAX ASSISTANCE AND PREPARATION

-- Available to everyone even if you are not an AARP member or senior citizen. --

Washington, DC (BlackNews.com) -- This year, AARP Foundation is again providing free tax assistance and preparation for taxpayers with low to moderate income through the AARP Foundation Tax-Aide program. AARP Foundation Tax-Aide, in its 45th year, is the nation’s largest free tax assistance and preparation service, giving special attention to those 60 and older. You do not need to be a member of AARP or a retiree to use this service.

In 2013, AARP Foundation Tax-Aide’s 35,000 volunteers at nearly 6,000 sites provided 2.6 million people with free tax help. Taxpayers who used AARP Foundation Tax-Aide received $1.4 billion in income tax refunds and more than $244 million in Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs).

For more information on locating aan AARP Foundation Tax-Aide site near you, visit us at www.aarp.org/findtaxhelp or call 1-888-AARPNOW (1-888-227-7669). AARP Foundation Tax-Aide is offered in cooperation with the IRS.

About AARP Foundation
AARP Foundation is working to win back opportunity for struggling Americans 50+ by being a force for change on the most serious issues they face today: housing, hunger, income and isolation. By coordinating responses to these issues on all four fronts at once, and supporting them with vigorous legal advocacy, the Foundation serves the unique needs of those 50+ while working with local organizations nationwide to reach more people and make resources go further. AARP Foundation is a charitable affiliate of AARP. Learn more at www.aarpfoundation.org.

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Come to the first-ever Bronx Charter School Fair!

Come to the first-ever Bronx Charter School Fair! Saturday, March 15, 10am – 3pm at Family Life Academy Charter School, 14 West 170th St., Bronx, NY. Free and open to the public, parents are invited to learn about their public school options and meet with school representatives. The Charter Center will have a computer station set up where parents can access our Common Online Application and apply on the spot. Over 40 Bronx charter schools will be represented; parents are invited to come and learn about their public school choices! QUESTIONS? Call 212-437-8300

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Fwd: MTA: Fix the 149th Street-Grand Concourse elevator

Dear The Bronx MoveOn member,

I'm Enrique, a MoveOn member, and I started a petition to MTA Chairman Thomas F. Prendergast, which says:

We, the concerned citizens of New York state, want to ensure that senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and mothers with small children have vital elevator service provided again at the E. 149th St. & Grand Concourse train station hub in the Bronx, New York.

We are starting this petition to continue to push the MTA to restore elevator service for our senior citizens, disabled persons, and mothers with baby strollers at the E. 149th St. & Grand Concourse train station hub (2, 4, and 5 lines). 

This South Bronx community has suffered over 30 years without having this vital elevator service repaired. There are also several institutions in this community that are directly affected, including Michelangelo Apartments, Hostos Community College, Lincoln Hospital, the 149th Street General Post Office, and Pregones Theatre. Please sign the petition to tell MTA to restore elevator service at our train hub.

Click here to add your name to this petition, and then pass it along to your friends.

Thanks!

–Enrique

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Fwd: PR: Help Lines For Black Families With Money Troubles

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February 21, 2014

CONTACT:
David Moakler
800-291-1068
info@careconnectusa.org

7 FREE HELP LINES AVAILABLE TO HELP AFRICAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES WITH MONEY TROUBLES

– As a public benefit, CareConnect USA has published several toll-free help lines for families seeking financial assistance. --

Waxhaw, NC (BlackNews.com) – When a household relies on two paychecks, budgets are strained if one job is lost. In cases like this, a family can tread water for a time. But as they struggle to find work, many will fall into troubling debt. Fortunately, more households are finding lifelines for help.

Since 2009, phone calls to financial help lines have risen 10% per year. As a public benefit, CareConnect USA publishes help lines for families seeking financial assistance. According to national director David Moakler, awareness is the key. “Although we are pleased that more people have learned about programs to ease their money troubles, the sad news is that the need for such help continues to grow.” The national rise in calls to the help lines has been especially strong from African-American regions.

Government agencies and non-profit outreach centers provide free advice and numerous services within the CareConnect USA network. In their effort to increase awareness, the group distributes free help line posters to 150,000 workplaces, 3200 job centers, and reference tools for social workers annually. They authorize the information below to be published on websites and resource pages where appropriate.

Families facing financial difficulty can call the help lines below for programs for relief:

Child Support Enforcement Help line: (888) 369-0323
Mortgage Payment Assistance Help Line: (800) 750-8956
Free Bankruptcy Advice: (800) 379-0985
Collector Complaint Help line: (800) 379-0688
Student Loan Relief Help Line: (866) 836-9168
Debt Relief Help Line: (888) 913-7294
Credit Score Improvement Help: (888) 814-9342

For more information, visit www.CareConnectUSA.org, call 800-291-1068, or email info@careconnectusa.org.

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Fwd: This week from BCA: This week from BCA: One-time Bronx performance of 13 Moons on Feb 25; Craft workshop on Feb 22

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ccc BCA's Community Arts Tuesday presents The one-time Bronx performance of "Thirteen Moons" February 25, 2014 | 6:00-8:00pm BCA @ 2700 East Tremont Avenue Join us for “Thirteen Moons,” an original musical collaboration with New Orleans musician GrayHawk Perkins and France’s Mezcal Jazz Unit. ccc In one of the most fascinating collaborations to come out of New Orleans, Mezcal Jazz Unit, a quartet from southern France, has teamed up with Native American musician and educator Grayhawk Perkins to present a performance of Grayhawk’s original composition called “Thirteen Moons.” ccc Researched and composed by Perkins, “Thirteen Moons” represents the diverse cultures and musical orientations of these five musicians and celebrates the thirteen Moons of the Native American Calendar. He has written a series of musical chants honoring each of the moons and done so in the Mobilian trade language dialect. ccc “Thirteen Moons” will only be performed at five New York locations and we’ve got them in Westchester Square! Admission is free and all are welcome. ccc Read press release for more. Flyer. Reserve your seat here ccc ccc BCA's Familt Craft Workshop Making Headdresses with Lucrecia Novoa Saturday | February 22, 2014 | 12:30-3:00pm Huntington Free Library in Westchester Square 9 Westchester Square (next to Apple Bank) ccc Master mask-maker Lucrecia Novoa shares her techniques on how to build headdresses, choose a simple character, create it and develop a feeling over the head, and leave with a beautiful and unique piece. ccc Admission is free, but seats are limited! Reserve your seat here Flyer ccc Lucrecia Novoa is an artist and cultural educator who uses a combination of masks, costumes, storytelling and dance to interpret the folk traditions of many cultures. She believes that art education must be strong component of our children's lives, feeling that they need to be motivated not only at an intellectual level but should also receive tools that enhance their creative minds and personal talents. Lucrecia studied Fine Arts in University of Chile and the Massachusetts College of Arts. The turning point of her career was when she attended the Art of the Mask course offered by Eric Bornstein in 1996. Under Eric's patient guidance, she learned not only techniques of mask masking, but also how to mold gestures and expressions into the masks. She began producing fantasy creatures using large masks and sophisticated costumes and soon sought her own characters, based preferentially on dark figures representing witches, monsters and ghosts. Over the years, Lucrecia has been involved in several workshops, shows and theater. She has organized her own workshops and exhibits over the last few years. Of particular significance were the exhibits in the Waltham Public Library which displayed my drawings, paintings, and masks in three consecutive years. ccc El Museo’s Artist Residency: BACK IN FIVE MINUTES Calling all artists of Puerto Rican, Latin American, Latin@, or Caribbean descent living in New York City’s metropolitan area! Become part of El Museo’s Artist Residency: BACK IN FIVE MINUTES, a program aimed at providing artists’ studio space within our galleries. Selected participants, one per session, will need to generate a new body of work within an area customarily known for the installation of finished works of art. ccc The artist will work in one of El Museo’s public gallery spaces; interaction between the public and the artist will be a key component of this residency. Artist Residency: BACK IN FIVE MINUTES, is a part of Office Hours (OH), a multi-dimensional project by artist Nicolas Dumit Estevez in collaboration with El Museo del Barrio’s staff, artists and audiences. ccc Deadline: February 21, 2014. Notification: early March 2014. Six artists will be interviewed and three will be selected to participate in the residency. Click here for more.   This e-mail was sent from Bronx Council on the Arts Immediate removal with PatronMail® SecureUnsubscribe.

Fwd: A win in the fight against Stop-and-Frisk

We just won a big victory in New York against Stop-and-Frisk Chip in $5 today to support the movement to hold police accountable.

Dear Cinquez,

We're writing to share some good news — New York City will finally begin reforming its stop-and-frisk program.

Newly-elected Mayor Bill de Blasio has announced that he has reached an agreement with our friends at the Center for Constitutional Rights to appoint a monitor to oversee reforms to the NYPD's program of aggressive, baseless stops of Black and brown New Yorkers.

We fought hard for this. Together with our partners across New York City, thousands of us signed petitions, made phone calls, and rallied at the steps of City Hall to call for an overhaul of stop-and-frisk.

This is a big step forward. But we can't stop now — we have to keep organizing to hold the police accountable in New York City and across the country.

Can you chip in $5 to sustain our work to challenge stop-and-frisk and other discriminatory policing practices?

It's taken years of tireless organizing to win these reforms of the NYPD, and we will continue to work with partners to monitor progress. It demonstrates that when we come together as a community to speak out against injustices like stop-and-frisk, we can win.

Police departments across the country have relied on violence and racial profiling to target and harass our communities for far too long.

That's why we have to use every means possible to challenge police abuse.

From rallying around individuals like Darrin Manning, a 16-year-old in Philadelphia who was stopped and frisked by the police so aggressively that his genitals were injured; to advocating for legislative change; to developing innovative new tools like CopWatchNYC.org to help New Yorkers safely and lawfully observe, record and report police officers, we will keep fighting — but we need your support.

Please chip in $5 to support the movement to hold the police accountable.

Thanks and Peace,

--Rashad, Matt, Arisha, Aimée, Johnny and the rest of the ColorOfChange team.
February 18th, 2014

PS-Your support helps make this possible. Please contribute now.

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Fwd: AlertID My Neighborhood News - USPS delivery halted to Bronx apartment for week after thief runs amok on lobby post boxes

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H&M to open Bronx store in 2014

H&M to open Bronx store in 2014

H&M, a Swedish clothing retailer known for trendy threads at competitive prices, will be opening a store in Baychester. The global retailer will be setting up shop in a 28,000-square-foot space at The Mall at Bay Plaza.

H&M to open Bronx store in 2014
Joey Scarborough
Fri, 14 Feb 2014 19:00:00 GMT

Mom of girl in window fall arrested for endangerment

Mom of girl in window fall arrested for endangerment

The mother of a 5-year-old Bronx girl who tumbled out of a third-floor window has been hit with child endangerment charges, officials said Friday.

Mom of girl in window fall arrested for endangerment
THOMAS TRACY
Sat, 15 Feb 2014 06:24:57 GMT

Puerto Rican Day Parade In NYC May Be Cancelled

Puerto Rican Day Parade In NYC May Be Cancelled

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is in preparation to release a report regarding an investigation into the financial dealings of the popular Puerto Rican Day Parade. After the chairwoman of the Parade was asked to step down, a state senator says the celebrated event is in hot water…. Continue

Puerto Rican Day Parade In NYC May Be Cancelled
deolacola
Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:18:32 GMT

Fw: Tell DMX: don't let Zimmerman keep victimizing Trayvon

ednesday — had his life not been violently cut short by George Zimmerman — Trayvon Martin would have celebrated his 19th birthday. On what would have been Trayvon's 19th birthday, George Zimmerman inked a deal to profit from his murder. Demand cancellation of Zimmerman's "celebrity" boxing match now: Dear Friend, On Wednesday — had his life not been violently cut short by George Zimmerman — Trayvon Martin would have celebrated his 19th birthday. Instead, the day was marked by a grotesque new low in the killer's continuing efforts to capitalize on his infamy: the announcement that Zimmerman will face rapper DMX in a pay-per-view, "celebrity" boxing match to be broadcast online.1 Fight promoter and professional con man Damon Feldman is enabling Zimmerman to further victimize a dead young Black man for personal gain, cynically declaring that this exploitative commercial spectacle will substitute as "justice" for Trayvon.2 Real justice was denied by Florida's gun-lobby-written "Shoot First" law and broken court system3 — and we do not honor Trayvon's memory with more violence. We certainly don't honor his memory by feeding into the stereotype of Black men as violent and belligerent that empowered George Zimmerman to take Trayvon's life without consequence. The fight's details are set to be announced at a press conference this coming Wednesday, but DMX hasn't finalized his contract and corporate sponsors have yet to sign on. Please join us in urging DMX to do the right thing and pull out of this shameful stunt now. Feldman, who lost his promoter's license — and was banned from promoting fights in his native Pennsylvania after admitting to court investigators that 95 percent of his matches were rigged4,5 — stands to profit handsomely from a fake fight designed to make money off anti-Black sentiment as much as from those of us outraged by Zimmerman's murder acquittal. And Zimmerman's bizarre eagerness to fight a Black man, the more high-profile the better — in a fit of dissociation, Zimmerman announced on Monday he'd like to fight Kanye West because he "attack[s] defenseless people"6 — makes a mockery of his criminal defense claim that he feared for his life in a struggle with an unarmed 17-year-old boy. Indulging Zimmerman in his monstrous fantasy recreation of that night — at 5'11", DMX is ironically Trayvon's exact height, of which Zimmerman's defense team made significant issue at trial7 — serves no actual purpose beyond driving money and attention to a violent sociopath and his bottom-feeder promoter. Rather than giving Zimmerman and his legions of racist supporters what they want, let's honor Trayvon's memory — and prevent future tragedies like his — by demanding a justice system that values and protects Black lives. Let's rid this nation of anti-Black policies like Shoot First and Stop-and-Frisk, and demand better of a media industry that demonizes Black men and boys, perpetuating the dangerous perception by people like George Zimmerman that violence against us is acceptable and necessary.8 Please take a moment to let DMX — and anyone else who might consider stepping in to fill his shoes — know that we're looking to him to do the right thing for all the other Trayvons in our lives that we can't bear to lose. Urge DMX to cancel the fight now. Thanks and Peace, --Rashad, Arisha, Matt, Kim, Aimée, Dallas and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team   February 8th, 2014 Help support our work. ColorOfChange.org is powered by YOU—your energy and dollars. We take no money from lobbyists or large corporations that don't share our values, and our tiny staff ensures your contributions go a long way. References 1. "Damon Feldman Picks DMX To Fight George Zimmerman In Boxing Match," CBS Philly, 02-05-2013 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3266?t=9&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le 2. "Damon Feldman Apologizes for George Zimmerman Fight Announcement," Philadelphia Magazine, 02-05-2014 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3257?t=11&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le 3. "Medical Examiner In Zimmerman Trial Sues For $100M, Claims Prosecution Threw Case," NewsOne, 09-11-13 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3259?t=13&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le 4. "Boxing promoter Damon Feldman pleads no contest to fixing fights," Delaware County Daily Times, 03-08-11 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3260?t=15&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le 5. "Damon Feldman Returns to the Sweet Science," Philly Boxing History, 06-24-13 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3261?t=17&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le 6. "Only in America: Zimmerman Outraged Over Kanye West's Attack on 'Defenseless People'," Atlanta Black Star, 02-03-2014 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3262?t=19&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le 7. "Zimmerman Defense Displays Life-Size Cutouts of Trayvon, Zimmerman," Breitbart, 07-12-2013 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3264?t=21&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le 8. "Defendant tells police he had spat over loud music, opened fire, ordered pizza," CNN, 02-06-2014 http://act.colorofchange.org/go/3271?t=23&akid=3279.129851.KzQ4Le

Fw: Notify NYC - Notification

Notification issued 2/4/14 at 2:15 PM. The New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has issued a Hazardous Travel Advisory for Wednesday, February 5. The National Weather Service has forecast 2 to 4 inches of snow and accumulation through Wednesday afternoon; Northern Manhattan and the Bronx will see accumulations of 4 to 8 inches. Moderate to heavy snow is expected late Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning before changing to a wintry mix of sleet and freezing rain during the day. Up to 1/4 inch of ice may accumulate before the sleet and freezing rain converts to all rain late Wednesday afternoon. Temperatures will be in the 30s. The plow tracker will be available tomorrow at 6:00 AM at nyc.gov/severeweather. Alternate Side Parking Regulations will also be suspended citywide on Wednesday, February 5, to facilitate winter weather preparations and snow removal. Parking meters will remain in effect throughout the City. For more information, please see the attached advisory.   The sender included the following attachment: https://phx-attachments.sendwordnow.com/Attachments.aspx?token=795d62cd-4a04-4845-af50-2653229349f4   The sender provided the following contact information.    Sender's Name: Notify NYC    Sender's Email: notifynyc@oem.nyc.gov    Sender's Contact Phone: 212-639-9675

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Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 11:10 AM

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Subject: Notify NYC - Notification

Notification issued 2/3/14 at 11:10AM. Due to inclement weather conditions, after-school programs and PSAL activities are cancelled today, Monday, February 3, 2014. Since snow is expected to make roads slippery, we urge New Yorkers to exercise caution when traveling to and from schools. Safety is a top priority for the Department.

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