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Saturday, August 12, 2017

In Boston-Celebrate and Join the Save Our Community Centers Campaign!

8/11/2017 12:04 PM

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COMMUNITY MEETING
featuring City Councilor Tito Jackson

Monday, August 14th
6:30 PM
West Roxbury Public Library
1961 Centre Street

Celebrate and Join the Campaign!

Come out on Monday and to discuss the recent victory of Save Our Community Centers (SOCC) at Draper Pool and Ohrenberger Community Center & join the resistance to Boston City’s agenda of cuts and austerity for working people. Help organize to stop all cuts and win full funding for all of Boston's community centers!

Speakers include:
Seamus Whelan, SOCC organizer and West Roxbury resident
Tito Jackson, City Councilor and candidate for Boston Mayor
and more!

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Last Fall Boston Centers for Youth and Families (BCYF) announced 16 community centers in the city would lose their morning operating hours and subsequently staff from Ohrenberger Center, Draper Pool and others. In response, Community members banded together and launched the Save Our Community Centers campaign against the cuts.

After months of community organizing and and media outreach, SOCC has won a significant early victory in forcing Mayor Walsh’s BCYF to withdraw a portion of the cuts by reopening senior programming at the Ohrenberger and by extending Draper pool hours.