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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...) Survivors, Inc., (617) 298-7311  Last Modified 10/2007 info..at..cqs.com This Internet site provides links or references to other sites that are provided as a convenience to users of this site. We have no control over the content of such other sites and shall not be liable for any damages or injury arising from that content. Survivors, Inc. 95 Standard St. Mattapan, MA 02126 Copyright © 2004-2007 Survivors, Inc. All Rights Reserved.  Grassroots logo by Claire Cummings |
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, Always trying to The days were hard, Oh what I’d give to Your work and toil Then the scripts for The load wears you down, there seems no end, But working in community  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
A new study by Salary.com shows that stay-at home (and welfare) moms would
earn an average
of
$131,471 annually,
including
overtime, if they
received
a paycheck.
The
old adage that
"a
mothers’s work is never done"
remains
as true now as ever.
Mother-work
IS Work!
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