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Survival News est. 1986 Survivors, Inc.
                  ...the voices of low-income women

Latest Issue of the Newspaper
is now available online!

Volume 22, Number 1: Winter 2009 - 2010

Survivors, Inc.
20th Anniversary Celebration!

Sunday October 21, 2007

"We all survived the past 20 years and celebrated with a delicious dinner, good friends, hilarious entertainment, and political solidarity!"

Save Our School!

Join the campaign to save CPCS and press lawmakers to support public higher education in Massachusetts!

Poor women face constant challenges to our ability to remain in school.  Pursuing degrees—often on top of some waged work, unpaid caregiving  as single mothers, mandatory community service, and other personal challenges—we  mothers are pulling off miracles!  Few campuses provide the infrastructure to support us. One of the premiere programs that does support us and other nontraditional students is the College of Public and Community Service (CPCS) at UMass Boston, where Survivors Inc. has been organizing for years. Now CPCS is under attack. (More...)

PHENOMenal Advocates Press Legislators and Governor to Support

Public Higher Education

By Jackie Dee King

Calling for an end to the corporatization of higher education, hundreds of teachers, students and staff from campuses across the state visited their legislators on April 25 at the State House.

The Lobby Day was organized by PHENOM, the newly formed Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts. Advocates delivered 16,000 post cards to legislators and more than 5,000 to Gov. Deval Patrick. Survivors Inc. members who are students, staff, and alumnae of UMass, Boston turned out to support the cause. (More...)

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2010 Census

Census Day is April 1, 2010. Community planners and governments rely on census data to determine where there is a need for additional social services and funding. The census population totals determine which states  gain or lose representation in Congress. Census data affects your voice in Congress. It affects how much money and how many programs are available in your community for the next ten years. By law the Census Bureau cannot share your information with anyone, including the FBI, CIA, Welfare, Immigration, and other government and law enforcement agencies. Complete your 2010 Census. It's only 10 questions and only takes 10 minutes to complete.

Survivors, Inc. is an official partner with the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Welfare Speakers Bureau

Survivors, Inc. has a busy
Speakers' Bureau on Welfare.
We generally speak in teams
of at least two people, usually
including a current or former
welfare recipient who is
a welfare activist.
Other speakers come from
a variety of backgrounds,
including board members
of Survivors,Inc., community
activists, and committed
academics.
Fees are sliding scale
and free to low income
groups.
To get a speaker,
call ( 617) 298- 7311
Fax (617) 296- 4276

Veterans of Poverty

By Dottie Stevens

Oh what a pain,

To always want, and never gain,

To feel alone,
To feed the rest,

Always trying to
do your best.

The days were hard,
 the nights the worst.

Oh what I’d give to
quench such thirst.

Your work and toil
to make the bills,

Then the scripts for
your dose of pills,

The load wears you down, there seems no end,

But working in community
can change this trend!

 
Volunteers Needed!
Survival News
needs typists, reporters
artists, poets to work
on the paper, as well
as, work study
outreach workers, archivists
to archive our 18 years
of historical documents.
Have fun doing
rewarding work for
a good cause.
Call Dottie Stevens
@ (617) 298- 7311
 


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