Dec. 13, 2018
Mayor Caggianiano died shorty after he was elected. When I look back, I see this man, an elder statesman, carrying out his purpose. The elderly people of Lynn loved him and wanted him to "lead the city into the promised Land" as I see it. They had been very active for years, running a free lunch program out a local church. Rallying around the campaign to get him elected, I sat at Council meeting along with hundreds of seniors, and, as I wrote before, we all saw him speak "to"the Council as a man of the people. (Now I have to close this piece because it's time for lunch.)
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Thursday, December 13, 2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018
Dec. 12, 2018
Two good things have happened: my lovely nurse Dolores showed me how to use spell check. One of men out there is not old and demented, and unlike the other younger people I've known he's open minded and he follows politics. A few weeks ago he told me his mother, who is old and demented, worked on the Campaign of George W. Bush. So my wish came true. Some had a short talk with me about my favorite subject, after I came here and was told right away that "We don't talk politics."
Two good things have happened: my lovely nurse Dolores showed me how to use spell check. One of men out there is not old and demented, and unlike the other younger people I've known he's open minded and he follows politics. A few weeks ago he told me his mother, who is old and demented, worked on the Campaign of George W. Bush. So my wish came true. Some had a short talk with me about my favorite subject, after I came here and was told right away that "We don't talk politics."
Dec. 12, 2018
(I'm writing this in real time. Exiting things are going on around me. Michel Coen has been sentenced to 3 years in jail. I'm so happy Happy I've been going around singing "hey hey, wad Dada. say, the bad gays to jail." But I can only sing wit in my side of the room. If I went out and sang, a little too loud, a Nurse might come and say I'm being distributive, and I'll be shoved back into my room mumbling "This is not a prison, I have rights, I won't stay in my seclusion room." I often feel this is a "fancy prison." Noone here is allowed to disturbed people. It's a Nursing home, and everyone is ill, including me. Another thing happening is workmen out there putting in a new floor. All of them are black. When I helped one of them in the elevator, he said "thank you brother." It reminded me of my life in Lynn, so many years ago. Now, I go to dinner, anxious to tell people everything I feel good about today, but the're demented or apathetic, or just too rapped up in their own concerns to listen to me.
(I'm writing this in real time. Exiting things are going on around me. Michel Coen has been sentenced to 3 years in jail. I'm so happy Happy I've been going around singing "hey hey, wad Dada. say, the bad gays to jail." But I can only sing wit in my side of the room. If I went out and sang, a little too loud, a Nurse might come and say I'm being distributive, and I'll be shoved back into my room mumbling "This is not a prison, I have rights, I won't stay in my seclusion room." I often feel this is a "fancy prison." Noone here is allowed to disturbed people. It's a Nursing home, and everyone is ill, including me. Another thing happening is workmen out there putting in a new floor. All of them are black. When I helped one of them in the elevator, he said "thank you brother." It reminded me of my life in Lynn, so many years ago. Now, I go to dinner, anxious to tell people everything I feel good about today, but the're demented or apathetic, or just too rapped up in their own concerns to listen to me.
Dec. 12, 2018
LEO had a hieracrchy, like all anti-porverty programs around the country. Each program is unique, of course, depending on the nature of the community. Anti-Povertery Programs in large citys are very huge, buereacatic, and hieracract in charactar, as well as very rigid. Lynn was a small city. LEO allowed citizsenes to act freely within it's stucture. Each week, the Food Coop went down to the Chelsea Market, picket up crates and boxes of fruites and vegetables and brings them back to the huge huge room in LEO bldg.
LEO had a hieracrchy, like all anti-porverty programs around the country. Each program is unique, of course, depending on the nature of the community. Anti-Povertery Programs in large citys are very huge, buereacatic, and hieracract in charactar, as well as very rigid. Lynn was a small city. LEO allowed citizsenes to act freely within it's stucture. Each week, the Food Coop went down to the Chelsea Market, picket up crates and boxes of fruites and vegetables and brings them back to the huge huge room in LEO bldg.
Dec. 12,, 2018
Lynn was a City of many ethnic and racial groups: Itanian, English, Greek, Mexician, and more. All of them had "halls" where they met for social and polital engagent. People in Lynn enjoyed heated discusscuions. I myself loved to go hear sister Edideth Beauchamp talk about the resarch she had been doing into the "power struchtetr" of Lynn - the interconeiton between GE, the large landords, and public officials like members of the LHA.
Lynn was a City of many ethnic and racial groups: Itanian, English, Greek, Mexician, and more. All of them had "halls" where they met for social and polital engagent. People in Lynn enjoyed heated discusscuions. I myself loved to go hear sister Edideth Beauchamp talk about the resarch she had been doing into the "power struchtetr" of Lynn - the interconeiton between GE, the large landords, and public officials like members of the LHA.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Dec. 11, 2018
Looking back, after 17 years, it's hard to remember just how the LYNN TENANTS ACTION COMMITTEE was formed just after I got to Lynn. Someting miraculas the very week I arrived. A City County Council meeting was held, and Rent Control was on the agenda. Shortly before, an elction for Mayor was held and by surprise a man named Cannegiano, a furnaral direrector who had lost ten times was elected by an overweming majorinity. At the meeting, he addressed the Council from the floor. Rent Control won by a majority! In our next isse, the headline was, "People's Mayor on the Job."
Looking back, after 17 years, it's hard to remember just how the LYNN TENANTS ACTION COMMITTEE was formed just after I got to Lynn. Someting miraculas the very week I arrived. A City County Council meeting was held, and Rent Control was on the agenda. Shortly before, an elction for Mayor was held and by surprise a man named Cannegiano, a furnaral direrector who had lost ten times was elected by an overweming majorinity. At the meeting, he addressed the Council from the floor. Rent Control won by a majority! In our next isse, the headline was, "People's Mayor on the Job."
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