May 2017. Can you make a meal on $1.47?

Can you make a meal on $1.47?

That is the challenge many families face every day. One in five DC residents receives just $4.40 per day to buy food. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides monthly benefits to low-income households to help them buy food. This is an essential program that helps millions of people keep food on the table, but the current benefit level is too low for many. As we highlight the importance of our work, during Community Action Month, we also want to raise awareness about the obstacles our customers face. We are hosting a week-long SNAP Challenge! We have asked staff and supporters to limit food and drink spending to $22 for the work-week. Throughout the week, we'll share their struggles, triumphs, and overall experience. Join in or follow along using#UPOSNAPChallenge to find out how SNAP benefits affect poverty levels and overall health. This is an opportunity to spread the message to family, friends, and coworkers, about why #SNAPMatters.

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May 2017. ImAfricanBornIn. In celebration of this third year of the International Decade for People of African Descent.

Join Us 

                          

on May 21-27, 2017,
                                                            

for                                                 

                              

The Global Online

African Diaspora Conversation

In celebration of this third year of the International Decade for People of African Descent.

WHY

To help unite the Diaspora and bring us closer to Africa. Because wherever we find ourselves, we, Black people, face similar and difficult challenges. It’s time for us to develop a common global response to our common global challenges.

WHERE AND WHEN

Online through your social networks, May 21-27, 2017

HOW

1) Mark your calendars now to participate in this campaign.

2) Share this information with as many of your family and friends as possible and urge them to join the conversation.

3) During the week of May 21-27:

a) use the #ImAfricanBornIn logo as your profile picture;

b) share the hashtag #ImAfricanBornIn as much as possible (leaving a space between the word “In” and your place of birth); and

c) share what it’s like to be African where you live and offer your suggestions for changing conditions for people of African ancestry all around the world.

Thank you.

                                      

A Campaign Toolkit with logos and flyers in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese will be available online the second week in May.

For more information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/chdays/

#ImAfricanBornIn is sponsored by the Valuing Black Lives Global Emotional Emancipation Summit, convened annually by Community Healing Network in collaboration with the Association of Black Psychologists. This initiative is a part of the broader global grassroots movement for emotional emancipation being led by Community Healing Network, Inc., to help change the trajectory of the African Diaspora by changing our narrative from a focus on the lies of White superiority and Black inferiority to a focus on the truth of Black humanity.

For more information on the movement for emotional emancipation, please visit www.CommunityHealingNet.org

May 8, 2017. Los Angeles, CA. The Vision Theatre at Leimert Park

Vision Theater Consortium 

Presents

Los Angeles, CA (April 28, 2017) Veteran of stage and screen, Ted Lange is directing a staged reading of Los Angeles Playwright Charles Sullivan’s new play Devil Works on May 8^th at 7 p.m. at The Vision Theatre at Leimert Park (3341 W 43^rd Place, Los Angeles,90008). The cast includes Cal Wilson, Tiffany Adams, Richard Caines, Andrew Walker, Bruce Cervi, Steve Ducey, and Donn Swaby.

Devil Works is a dark comedy that deals with the real or imaginary accounts of a writer’s close encounters with the devil; a devil who he, along with his brother created in a television series, and subsequently tried to kill off when the series ended.

What follows is a bizarre series of events that pits the Devil against his creators and his determination to get revenge, not because the series was cancelled, but because he was left disabled. You see he’s confined to a wheelchair, and it’s not the nature of the devil to be confined in any manner.

Tickets are $10 at the door with all proceeds going to support Vision Theatre at Leimert Park. The Vision Parking Lot on Degnan Boulevard at the rear of the Theater and surrounding Street Parking is available.

For information call (323) 290-2386

The Vision Theatre is operated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.

Vision Theatre

City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs

(323) 290-2386

May 2017. Dept. of State. Pathways Internship Experience Program

Pathways Internship Experience Program (IEP) Now Accepting Applications We are accepting applications for the U.S. Department of State Pathways Internship Experience Program (IEP). Visit USAJOBS to start the online application process and view the following vacancy announcement numbers. Please note the cutoff point for these positions: These vacancy announcements will be open from May 5 to May 11, 2017 or when the application cutoff limit has been reached for each position. Each vacancy will close on whichever day the first of these conditions is met. If the application limit is reached on the same day the announcement opened, the open and close date will be the same. Candidates are encouraged to read the entire announcement before submitting their application packages. Vacancy USAJOBS Links Location Cutoff Budget Analyst (Student Trainee) GS-0599-04/04: HRSC/PATH-2017-0037 Washington, DC 100 Human Resources (Student Trainee) GS-0299-04/04: HRSC/PATH-2017-0041 Charleston, SC 100 Student Trainees work closely with the U.S. diplomats and Civil Service professionals who carry out America’s foreign policy initiatives. To witness and participate in U.S. foreign policy formulation and implementation, consider a Pathways internship with the U.S. Department of State. The Internship Experience Program (IEP) allows for non-temporary appointments that are expected to last the length of the academic program for which the intern is enrolled. IEP participants, while in the program, are eligible for noncompetitive promotions. This program allows for noncompetitive conversion into the competitive service following successful completion of all program requirements. Veteran’s preference applies. U.S. citizenship is required for all positions. If you have any questions or would like to search for topics of interest, please contact HRSC@state.gov or visit our forums or FAQs at careers.state.gov. We appreciate your interest in a career with the U.S. Department of State.

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Haiti 2017. Reflections. The richest families. The 2%

http://www.haitiobserver.com/blog/the-richest-families-in-haiti.html

The Richest Families In Haiti

Sunday, October 28, 2012 10:13 PM

Despite Haiti being the poorest of poor countries, it has a percentage of very rich elite who control the economy and the governance of the country.

In such a difficult social economic environment, the few wealthy families live in a class of their own; tiered, Malibu-style homes above in the hills of Port-au-Prince.

In the 1980's reports show that the upper class in Haiti constituted of 2 percent of the total population. However, the 2 percent controlled about 44 percent of the total national income.

Though the elite percentage is small it has the biggest share of the economy. The top six richest families in Haiti are: Madsen, Brandt, Lacombe, Gardere, Mevs and Bigio.

These families are by large of foreign origin. The Mevs and Brandts are originally Jamaicans who immigrated to Haiti. The Biggios came from the Middle Eastern while the Madsens are rooted in Denmark.

They have prospered mightily under the dictatorial leadership of President Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier. There were monopolies on food and other essential items during the regime. Those who were connected to the president won the most lucrative opportunities.

Easy access to education is what has enabled some of the rich individuals climb the ranks of the upper class. Others have been able to accrue wealth through the industries and export-import businesses

A statement by an expatriate journalist in Haiti who has studied these families closely reported, "In terms of assets, they are very, very, very rich - very rich. In Haiti, and outside of Haiti" . Critics claim that these notoriously wealthy families do not value democracy in politics or in economic matters.

The families have been linked with the facilitation of the coup d'etat that ousted Haiti's elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.

Webinars. Environmental. 2017. Risk e-Learning Webinars. Analytical Tools and Methods

Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Superfund Research Program (SRP) invites you to join us for the second session in a series of free Risk e-Learning webinars, Analytical Tools and Methods, hosted on EPA’s Contaminated Site Clean-Up Information (CLU-IN) website. The series features innovative analytical tools and methods developed and used by SRP grantees. The presenters will highlight the benefits of these new tools and methods compared to conventional approaches. They also will include information about how the technology has helped to facilitate ongoing SRP research.

Session II - Techniques for Trace Analysis of Metals and Chemical Metabolites will be held Monday, May 22 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm EDT. In this session, speakers will highlight techniques to measure trace levels of metals and chemical metabolites to better understand environmentally relevant exposures. For more information about each presentation and to register, visit EPA’s CLU-IN Training & Events webpage.

Session II Presentations:
• Spatially resolved elemental analysis for low-level trace metal analysis and speciation, Tracy Punshon, Ph.D., Dartmouth College
• Accelerator mass spectrometry for human monitoring of metabolism of hazardous chemicals at low, environmentally realistic levels, Bruce Buchholz, Ph.D., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• High resolution mass spectrometry for non-targeted environmental exposomics, Lee Ferguson, Ph.D., Duke University

Registration is also open for the third session, Fate and Transport of Contaminants, which will be held on Monday, June 12 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm EDT. During this session, speakers will highlight tools and methods to detect contaminants and measure their fate and transport in the environment, including work related to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and chlorinated volatile organic contaminants in the environment. Presenters include: Keri Hornbuckle, Ph.D., University of Iowa SRP Center; Jennifer Guelfo, Ph.D., Brown University SRP Center; and Mark Brusseau, Ph.D., University of Arizona SRP Center.

The webinars are free and open to the public. Please visit the Risk e-Learning website for more information about each session, a list of presenters, and links to register.

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