Somerville Voices: SHS diversity, campaign training, violence in Foss Park, and more.

[Somerville Voices]

 New This Week on Somerville Voices <http://www.somervillevoices.org/> March
5, 2009   *This week we posted our first batch of messages from a media
class at **Somerville** High. They wrote about how the different groups of
students get along. There was also a first-hand account of a stabbing in **
Foss** **Park**. Also, of course, the over-18 crowd had a few things to say.
* * * Youth Voices: My father’s
story<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/immigration/youth-voices-my-fathers-story/>
by
Brian Renderos

I interviewed my father about why he left his country, El Salvador. “I
wanted a better future for my sons and there was a civil war going on so it
was dangerous to be there.” Read
more<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/immigration/youth-voices-my-fathers-story/>


Youth Voices: My
Accident<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/schools-and-youth/youth-voices-my-accident/>
by
pnm

The knife barely reached my ribs. I felt like a boxer when they get hit and
knocked out.  I could hear my own thoughts and everything around me was
quiet. Even though there was noise, it felt so quiet. Read
more<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/schools-and-youth/youth-voices-my-accident/>


Winning Progressive Campaigns: A Training for Candidates and
Activists<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/03/02/politics/winning-progressive-campaigns-a-training-for-candidates-and-activists/>
by
Barry Rafkind

Answer President Barack Obama’s call to action! You are invited to our
training to learn the basics of how to run and win a local campaign. Read
more<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/03/02/politics/winning-progressive-campaigns-a-training-for-candidates-and-activists/>


Attention, Women
Bloggers!<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/03/02/uncategorized/attention-women-bloggers/>
by
eila

The International Women's Media Foundation announces the Elizabeth Neuffer
Fellowship for  full-time, part time or freelance journalists working on
human rights or social justice issues.  This fellowship will allow
recipients to spend 9 months in a research program at MIT. Read
more<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/03/02/uncategorized/attention-women-bloggers/>


Somerville High School Student
Voices<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/schools-and-youth/somerville-high-school-student-voices/>
by
the editors

The following writings [13 individual posts] were submitted by students in a
media class at Somerville High School. Read
more<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/schools-and-youth/somerville-high-school-student-voices/>


Service Learning in
Somerville?<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/uncategorized/service-learning-in-somerville/>
by
Bill Shelton

>From Washington to Somerville, the pathetic state of our dreary, divisive,
ineffectual, and money-driven politics results in large part from reduced
citizen participation. Read
more<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/27/uncategorized/service-learning-in-somerville/>



*Upcoming events on our calendar:*



   - March 6, 2009: Old, Cold, & Slow gothic dance party March 6 (8:00
pm)<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/03/04/events/old-cold-slow-gothic-dance-party-march-6/>
   - March 14, 2009: Registration Deadline for Progressive Campaign Training
   (all day)<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/03/02/events/registration-deadline-for-progressive-campaign-training/>
   - March 28, 2009: Early Childhood Festival (10:00
am)<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/01/02/events/early-childhood-festival/>
   - March 29, 2009: Temple B’nai Brith Spring Open House: March 29th,
   11am-1pm (11:00
am)<http://www.somervillevoices.org/2009/02/12/events/temple-bnai-brith-spring-open-house-march-29th-11am-1pm/>
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