BNICEH for Green-Youth-Disability-Health-Tobacco Prevention

Support BNICEH at Rogers Park Holiday Market Sat. Nov. 26, 2011

2011-11-23T15:12:00.000-08:00

OCCUPY Rogers Park Holiday Market –What Vendors Will Be Selling from 10am-3 pm at 1230 W. Greenleaf Chicago IL 60626
Info: 773-416-7366

Our vendors are diverse small businesses, businesses owned by persons who are disabled, Black-owned and woman-owned businesses, and young people who own businesses.

Vendors will be selling handmade jewelry- wire wrap jewelry, one-of-a-kind-jewelry, hand spun knits and yarn, hand spun scarves-- knitted caps and mittens- handmade pillows - poetry - drawings -- masks--dolls--Wellness products such as Nature's Sunshine, herbs, doctor-formulated nutritional supplements, products to protect from EMFs in cell phones, appliances, PCs, laptops --magnetic and copper jewelry--massage and healing services--coffee--tee shirts-candles--vintage clothing, organic snacks, fruit, nuts, gourmet food and drink mixes, etc.

We have a dee jay. The hosts and the dee jay are disabled professionals who are community-focused. It’s a culturally diverse and SAFE family event-- NO ALCOHOL, NO TOBACCO, NO DRUGS, NO GUNS ((~_~))

“Don’t (sic) cost attendees nothing” but TIME, a voice to sing along, and if you have them, the dollars you saved by not shopping Friday. The vendors come here to sell products or provide services. This is not only Black Saturday, but Healthy Saturday—vendors with health products, healthy food or healthy attitudes are pleased to serve…sell…and profit from your support.

Remember to stop by for the FREE raffle, FREE ornament-making and FREE Children’s Caroling Contest. Winners must be present to win. COME SPEND BLACK SATURDAY AT LOYOLA PARK. Hungry for more after you snack with us? Several restaurants are nearby—some deliver, some are within walking distance.

Give thanks for More Health, More Life, More Substance for All to sustain Themselves and Grow Despite Economic Outlooks! Asè (ah-shay)

Support Our Fundraisers for IMPRUVE, Volunteer for our Projects

2011-08-10T14:47:00.000-07:00

Youth advocates of BNICEH are always busy on projects:

Ramissa Maat, CAU student, model/actress, BNICEH youth member performs at No Exit Cafe--featured in News Star in Rogers Park for her Spoken Word

Photo shows former vice president and treasurer Alyce Battle who passed into transition December 2010 and worked with youth at BNICEH and rode Illinois paratransit

L to R - Battle, former secretary of BNICEH Devon Tripp (pre-w/c days_, former youth leaders Ebony Tripp and Cory Martin (whose mother former secretary/VP of BNICEH Ora Martin Harris passed into transition March 2011)

Andrew Tripp also a paratransit rider assists his mother Devon at Family Defense Center Juneteenth celebration at UIC - June 2010

Tyquan Baxter at at Memorial rally of National Paratransit People's Movemnet Assembly (NPPMA)

Genevarenee Baxter at Memorial rally of NPPMA

Youth: Danny, Manny and Corvin of BNICEH marched with IMPRUVE in Disability Pride Parade as senior Harold Bellamy awaits lineup

Some of Board of BNICEH/IMPRUVE at Lion King November 2011

Fund Raisers - Summer through Fall 2011

"Fundraiser for IMPRUVE - $5 each----BNICEH, parent of IMPRUVE, is selling Carson's Community Day books-August 10 through November 12, to continue its advocacy work and prepare for Memorial Rally for paratransit riders trip May 2012. Call 773-416-7366 or 773-255-2113 www.bniceh.blogspot.com"
Or see Patricia Baxter, Genevarenee Baxter, Ayo Maat

Worth the price for the $10 discount (Limit: up to 5 ten dollar discount coupons per purchase) and discount coupons on selected merchnadise good November 11 and 12, 2011.

IMPRUVE is traveling back to Washington for NPPMA Memorial Rally 2012 on behalf of paratransit riders (all ages) who have passed away since 2010.

Discount coupons good on November 12 at any Bon Ton's, Carson's. Boston Store, Elder-Beerman, Herberger's, Younkers, P-A-R-I-S-I-A-N (in Detroit)

Upcoming benefit concert with composer, musician/singer Chuck Idol Sr. (guitarist on right) and the rock band he performs with - TBA

Call 773-416-7366 or 773-338-1090 email: bniceh@yahoo.com bnichevideonews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or www.groups.yahoo.com/bnicehvideonews
We are on facebook, too

BNICEH Looking For New Advisors, Volunteers

2011-06-23T20:42:00.000-07:00

Time for new life. BNICEH is searching for youth and adults who want to volunteer and share our mission, values and purpose. Read what we have done on our newsgroup and note the projects that we host or have supported:

Black Mental Health Forum
No Butts No Booze Back to School Fest
IMPRUVE Paratransit Campaign
Chicago Together
SmokeOut video production
Family Job Affair
Watoto Speak - Vols I & II
SmokeOut Newsletter (youth production)
et al

WE NEED YOU

Help us plan the 2nd Black Mental Health Forum
Raise funds
Organize youths
Engage youth in anti-violent activities and street truces
Get youth involved in green technology and nanotechnology
Help youth move out of poverty into entrepreneurship

www.groups.yahoo.com/group/bnicehvideonews

BNICEH requests your help for IMPRUVE--buy Carson's booklets from us; Attend fundraisers, A

2011-02-23T13:21:00.000-08:00

Help us get to DC to Rally for Transit Freedom and Justice Nationally for Paratransit Riders

Fundraisers for 2011 - Winter to Spring

Fundraiser through Sat. February 26, 2011 - Support BNICEH (parent company of IMPRUVE) in Carson's Community Day Event now through February 26, 2011. To help BNICEH for IMPRUVE's trip to DC and general support --buy discount books for $5. Buy discount books now from us!!! Call 773-416-7366 or 773-255-2113. The five dollars goes directly to us when you buy from us (not while we are in the store Feb. 26). On Feb. 26, we turn over monies to Carson's from sales of $5 coupon booklets; they share the money among all groups present in the store selling by issuing a check by mail, weeks after event ends. The $5 Discount books contain coupons up to $200 in value that include: $10 off coupons, 30%, and 50% off coupons, and other specials. We are registered with Evergreen Plaza and Edens Plaza Carson's in Wilmette IL, but the books we are selling are good at any Carson Pirie Scott, Bon Ton, Be. 19, members can pay $15 at door rgner, Parisian across the nation.

Sat. March 5, 2011 - 1030 N. Clark Chicago IL 60610 6-11 pm , dine until 10 pm in private room, then move to play power games. Or play board games (checkers, dominoes, backgammon, Scrabble) and cards (bid whist) until 9 pm. Stay until 1 am in Dave and Buster's. Fajita Buffet or Special Menu Upon Early Request and Payment --Raw Organic Vegan - $35 due February 19, 2011. With $ 20 Deposit by Feb. 19. Members can then pay $15 cash or money order at door. No personal checks. Money order, Bank check or Credit Union check. Request flier impruve2@yahoo.com
Sat. April 9, 2011 - Leona's Pizza Party 6935 N. Sheridan Rd Chicago IL 60626 5:30-8:30 pm Veggie w/tofu Skewer or Raw psychedelic salad w/avocado Vegan Option must be requested & paid in advance. Silent Auction. Performance by Bruh Luh. $25 due by March 31, 2011. Non-members at door $30. Members may pay deposit of $15 by March 31, 2011 and $10 at the door.

Sat. May 7, 2011 - Leona's Pizza Party 6935 N. Sheridan Rd Chicago IL 60626 5:30-8:30 pm Pizza Party. Veggie w/tofu or Raw psychedelic salad w/avocado Vegan Option must be requested & paid in advance. Silent Auction. Performance by Bruh Luh. $25 due by April 30, 2011. Non-members at door $30. Members may pay deposit of $15 by April 30, 2011and $10 at the door.

National Paratransit Peoples Movement Assembly formed by IMPRUVE in 2010

Going to DC May 23-27, 2011 to rally for paratransit riders and take Declaration of Transit Justice and Freedom to Obama adminiustration, FTA, Congress and U.S. Access Board in memory of two directors who passed in 2010 in December and July respectively:

Director Emeritus Alyce Battle, 1st vice president 1999-2009 , treasurer 2005-2007
Director Emeritus Omar Basheer,   president (1992-93) and vice president 1991-92, 1994-95
and in memory of paratransit rider Tracey Berry who passed in April 2010
and BNICEH volunteer and child welfare advocate Judith Catlin who passed in January 2010.

BNICEH and IMPRUVE Board 2008-2010: Dr. Ayo Maat, pres; Dr. Jackie Haas, Patricia Baxter, treas.; Cecelia Jackson, secy (missing: Alyce Battle (decesaed 2010), Jeanette Exom, Donna Lewis, Harold Bellamy, Joanne Tillis)
Joanne Tillis, director- At ACT One Cafe, Rogers Park 2010
Photos of paratransit riders,  other persons who are disabled, families of members, and youth who have participated in our events or events that we attend or support:

Dr. Ayo Maat, president, at NorthSide Community Federal Credit Union (NSCFCU) annual meeting Member of Board of Directors, NSCFCU

Board of BNICEH and IMPRUVE at Lion King, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Nov. 2010

Patricia Baxter, Treasurer,  Chair, IMPRUVE Fundraising Committee

Geneva Baxter, IMPRUVE Fundraising Committee

Ernestine Standberry, Tom Babbington, Dr. Jackie Haas at rally for
fixed route public transit and paratransit re: DoomsDay fares
at State of Illinois Thompson Center 2007

Liz Bracken at RIC 2008

Cecelia Jackson, secy and vice president (on medical leave 2011),
at RIC Computer Lab 2008

Prayer vigil, IMPRUVE with Paratransit Riders Arlington Heights IL Preaying for right action
re: paratransit fare hikes and policy 2009

Tyquan Baxter, IMPRUVE Fundraising Committee, Tech Support
at Loyola Park Afrikan Heritage program 2008

Jeanette Exom, former Outreach Director, IMPRUVE, (on medical leave 2010) at sit-in, Jan. 2008
at Currency Xchg to protest monthly paratransit pass cancellation

Peggy McCusker at RIC 2008

Herb Hoffman at RTA rally to protest paratransit zone system 2008

Richard James at RIC 2008

Actress-model Ramissa Maat, CAU student, former member BNICEH Youth Board
Trish Hardy, vocalist with 40 years performing experience, modeling earrings by Maat at IMPRUVE fundraiser,
Leona's after wailing the blues from her wheelchair, November 2010

Dock Walls

2011-01-17T10:01:00.000-08:00

New Chicago 2011 Denies Inclusion of Speaker, Blames IRS

2010-12-12T22:29:00.000-08:00

If our youth are going to run things in the future, we must clean up our acts, the election process and the manner in which campaign forums are held. Foremost is reinstating fair play and being inclusive.

Open Letter to New Chicago 2011 and Amisha Patel, The Grassroots Collaborative and the Voters of Chicago Who Deserve to Hear from All Candidates

I am appalled at the lack of fairness, inclusion, and flexibility of the New Chicago 2011, which to my knowledge includes the Jewish Council On Urban Affairs as a member of the Grassroots Collaborative. According to letter to William Walls III (Dock Walls) from Amisha Patel, he is not invited to speak on Tuesday December 14, 2010. That means one group has determined for voters whom they should listen to in the Chicago Mayoral Campaign race and whom they should not.

It should not matter if I support Dock Walls. I do. But I support social justice, corporate responsibility, and fair play more. And I will get the word out and ask people to flood the offices or inboxes of the Grassroots Collaborative, New Chicago 2011, Jewish Council On Urban Affairs and attend the forum or blast the Internet to let all know how much they support fair play.

This is not just about the man Dock Walls, but the principles of fair play that he stands for and the fact that not just he, but 4 candidates were excluded based simply on how many signatures they turned in, not how many were valid or went unchallenged.

Moreover, why is it based on signatures alone?

I will be sure to include this information to my facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, BNICEH and IMPRUVE families and members, if I have to stay up most of the night and ask them to email their lists and call their contacts tolt them know of his miscarry of justice by organizations that I thought support social justice.

I have lived in this city over two score (that's over 6 decades). I have not been asleep at the wheel, bombed out on alcohol or drugs, locked up, or in a country where there is no contact with other people or access to media.

What the Chicago media has done to erode campaign fairness is a sin. What you are doing by excluding a viable candidate such as William Dock Walls and others whom people need to hear to make a sound judgment and informed consent is almost akin almost to fixing the election so candidates chosen by you are favored.

By not exposing persons to all or most of the candidates, at least those whose petitions proved to be sound and unchallenged from the beginning, you give validation to the candidates who are being challenged, and invalidate those who worked hard to get on the ballot and did it without paying for signatures or excluding those who could not get as many petitions from the disability community and non-disabled community due to barriers of inaccessible facilities, buildings, and weather.

I can tell you for those who are disabled and believe in fair play who went out for William Walls III aka Bill Dock Walls to get signatures as hard as it was to get over construction sites, brave the cold weather and the cold suspicious hearts of residents who thought we might be begging and did all but fall over our wheelchairs trying to get away from us before they could hear us out, we are not happy with the New Chicago 2011's decision. We also did not support you excluding the other 3 candidates. We get enough of that from WVON and the major networks.

I just watched an excellent mayoral forum held at UIC on Channel 19 CAN-TV on Sunday from 5-7 pm. I did not know most of the candidates, but it was a pleasure having the opportunity to hear the ten of them on every question. That is what a democratic process is suppose to do. Noticably absent were three candidates who turned in the most petitions and are being challenged, but you have invited them to your forum. Unlike what you did, they were not excluded. They were just not there to publicly answer the panel's questions. Andy Shaw did an excellent job of representing the Better Govt. Assn. By the way, all asked excellent questions that resonated with the issues of which voters are most concerned.

We cannot let this slide. I am not angry, but I am weary of the games played in this town to exclude people we need to hear.

I would like to know how in this world did the sponsors of Tuesday's mayoral forum expect us to accept their refusal to allow 4 of the candidates who are not being challenged (incl. William Walls III) to be included, based on mere petition numbers. What would you decide if like in Portland, only 50 signatures were required? Only invite the first six in line when petitions were turned in? Or the first six to call and ask to be invited? I shudder to think what basis you would use in the future. And why six? It's not based on Feng Shui, some mystical reason, or astrology and indeed it should not be.

When people pay for petition signatures or have huge campaign financing behind them, that is no indication that they are the best or only candidates that should be presented before the people who will be voting.

In fact, that takes it out of the realm of a public forum and makes it a forum of selective candidates--sort of elitist, what does that say about New Chicago 2011 and who is pulling your strings or financing the forum. Perhaps a better name for the collaborative would be Same Old Chicago 2011.

This is no different than the unfair system that we are trying to get rid of now as it exists within the Chicago Board of Election Commission.

The weather is not the only thing that is fierce in Chicago. Here's my weather advisory for the forum -- watch out for backlash from a Chicago that stands for fairness, expects it, and won't support those who want to carry on business as usual in presenting candidates to the public.

One final question--did you exclude the 4 candidates, because your funding or position has been threatened? because the argument you used to exclude Dock Walls was less than weak,--"can't jeopardize your IRS 501(c)(3) approval"-- it was right up there with the worst excuse for not turning in homework: "my dog ate it." So IRS not only gives you nonprofit status, requires you to file 990 tax forms, but now determines for nonprofits whom they can invite to speak at forums and you have decided that to keep from violating 501(c)(3) rules, you cannot invite those with the lowest signatures even if they met the requirements of the Chicago Board of Election Commissioners, are unchallenged and are on the ballot. If true, sounds like the IRS is wasting our tax dollars and violating one of Maat's 42 laws--
30. I have not overstepped my boundaries of concern. Sounds like someone has had a lobotomy of that part of their brain that includes reasoning.

Sincerely in Love and Peace, I am
Maat

Dr. Ayo Maat
Coordinator of GreenThink Tank for the Disability Community
President, Black Network In Children's Emotional Health (BNICEH) and
(IMPRUVE) Independent Movement of Paratransit Riders for Unity, Vehicles, Equality

btw, Maat is not just a name. Maat is the energy of Justice, the one who weighs the heart on the scale of truth to be sure nothing is weighing down the heart. Maat abhors injustice, disorder, chaos; and favors those who have not cheated anyone at the scale due to injustice or skimming. Balance of the scale is required. There are 42 laws or principles of Maat--these are two of them that most of us should use for self-examination: I have not acted hastily or without thought and I have not acted with insolence.

Memorial Service for Former Vice Pres of BNICEH Dec. 6, 2010

2010-12-05T14:52:00.000-08:00

Memorial to Alyce A. Battle Dec. 7, 1943-Dec. 2, 2010 set by BNICEH and IMPRUVE.

Time: 1-3 pm
Location: Access Living
115 W. Chicago Ave. 2nd floor
Chicago IL 60610
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Another ancestor has passed. Ase!
Info: 773-416-7366

Alyce serevd long and served well as vice president. She helped with the SmoekOUt program at Probation Challenge run by IMPRUVE, manned the phones for 7 years for BNICEH's Hotline 21 Show at CAN-TV (Chicago Access Corp.), donated to support the music fest, stayed active as a witness with the federal paratransit case Crosby et al v. Pace, RTA, CTA in IL Northern District, served as vice president for both BNICEHa dn IMPRUVE, volunteered with BNICEH's youth prevention programs, FASA and NAMI. She sang in her church's choir for years. She supported the Chicago mayoral campaign of William Dock Walls III.

BNICEH is More Than A Black Network and Disability Advocacy Group for Youth, We Advocate for Green Employment and Health

2010-05-22T09:08:00.000-07:00

When the family becomes a respected icon of American society, we will stop sending heartless politicians and bureaucrats to state legislatures, Congress, and the judicial system to

Criminalize Youth Worth Saving
Spend More on War than Community Programs and Character Education
Anesthesize Their Parents
Enact Child Welfare Policies and Family Law that Are Archaic, Create Heart and
Mind Damage, Make It Difficuly to Believ We Live in A Civilized 21st Century
Neglect Youth Who are Disabled
Ignore Families, Lawyers,and Social Workers Who Speak On Behalf of Them

We sponsored the first National Black Mental Health Forum in Chicago in 1993. We are a charter member of Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Consortium.

BNICEH (be nicer) receives no funding currently, but is working to redevelop our programs that gave youth an alternative to drug use and dealing, unlawful gang activity; provided training, jobs, and stipends for young people; and trained parents as advocates and organizers, knowledgeable of child welfare law and human rights.

We are looking for more youth to serve on our youth advisory board and more youth who have behavioral health disabilities or are at risk for behavioral health disabilities.

Call if you would like a scholarship for Juneteenth luncheon--Family Reunification Day sponsored by Family Defense Center at 840 S. Wood UIC - student center west Chicago June 19, 2001 10 am -2 pm.

Call us at 773-416-7366 or email bniceh@yahoo.com
Dr. Maat (Maat--pronounced mah-ott)

Demo of Sujee Hand Therapy and Opportunity to Train To Be An Acutherapist

2009-07-05T19:42:00.000-07:00

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Dr. Maat, president of BNICEH and member of Black Business Builders Club(BBBC), reminds us that the Black Community is one of the first communities that suffers long-term health and nutrition issues when alternative healthcare and insurance is not accessible to them.

Moreover, we have seen many well-off Black figures who can afford good healthcare make their transitions within this decade: Bernie Mac, Michael Jackson, Gayle Sayers, Eddie Levert, Isaac Hayes, Rick James, James Brown, Barry White, et al.

Barefoot Medicine is here now and available to all regardless of income. Training and Seminars will be presented all over the world. Introductory Seminars may be made available free to disability, senior and low-income communities when there are sponsors.

AcuCenters can be set up by Black business persons in their communities for profit or nonprofit.

Meet Sy Bounds, the Blog Professor, blogging coach, and creator of innovative digital flash drive technology, to drive your online green business e.g. healing or medical practice, jewelry business, art and crafts business, sustainable living, green building and architecture, bicycle repair shop, appointment setting and scheduling, taxi or other transportation, etc.

Sy Bounds is the technology person who created the digital flash drive business technology used by Dr. Frank Yurasek
Acucenters, Teishin Institute,
and physicians working across the nation and in Guatemala.

Learn how you can work with others to set up Acucenters and train to revolutionize global healthcare. Learn how Dr. Frank Yurasek, healers and other health practitioners are using digital flash technology of the blog professor Sy Bounds to perform best practice in digital technology, safeguard patient directives and medical information, run their businesses more effectively, use a digital public health model to heal the planet.

Sponsored by BNICEH "be nicer;" since 1992, an Illinois nonprofit in Rogers Park community of Chicago concerned with green living, sustainable health and living, youth and family community health, disability issues, ATOD (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drug use) and prevention, mental health and emotional well-being, financial literacy, and eliminating poverty and poor health where possible.
BNICEH is the Black Network In Children's Emotional Health. Our Recreating the Village ATOD projects provided successful mentoring, employment, volunteerism, No Butts No Booze music fests, family job affairs, for 13 years in Rogers Park for youth, families, and community residents.

BNICEH is co-sponsoring with Green Think Tank for the Disability Community and Acuwerks, the dynamic talk by key speaker Dr. Frank Yurasek of Oriental Medicine Society, Acuwerks and HealLand:

Barefoot Medicine Goes Digital
Date: Sat. July 11, 2009
Time: 2-6 p.m.
Where: United Church of Rogers Park
Overdier Hall - 3rd floor
1545 W. Morse
Chicago IL 60626

FREE

www.bniceh.blogspot.com

The Chicago seminar July 11 is Free and open to physicians, nurses, healers, business owners, as well as students, seniors, youth, people who are disabled, and the general public thanks to Acuwerks, Dr. Yurasek, Dr. Maat, BNICEH and Green Think Tank for the Community.

More sponsors are welcome for these seminars in order to be able to include the public. You can host or Invite Dr. Yurasek and associate partners Dr. Khalil Abdul-Rahim, Dr. Christian Nix and Gabriela Ardila to present an online seminar, too. Just ask. Contact acuwerks@gmail.com or maatzenzuu@comcast.net

Demo of Sujee Holopathic Hand Therapy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9QngUoF-O8 or

An AcuFlash Digital Laser demo will be done July 18 in Chicago at Rogers Park Ethnic Book Fair and Artist Market sponsored by Ibeji Center Info: 773-761-7306/ Location: 1615 W. Morse Ave. Chicago 60626

Info on July 11 seminar at www.bniceh.blogspot.com

www.acuwerks.com

www.drmaat.multiply.com/journal

www.greenthinktankfordisabilitycommunity.blogspot.com

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. -Thomas A. Edison US inventor (1847 - 1931)

Why I Support No More Shootings, Not Just No More School Shootings

2009-06-21T11:55:00.000-07:00

How Many More Funerals Will You Attend By 2016
How Many More Youth Will Be In Wheelchairs
How Much More Youth Anger Will Go Unchecked with No Character Building
How Many More Shootings Have to Happen Before You Get Tired, Repulsed, Angry?
Whose Child, Which Student, What Young Person Will Be Next?
What Family Member? What Innocent Bystander?

How Are Youth Not Afraid to Shoot or Kill Others; or Shoot, Smoke, Snort or Huff Drugs; or Burn Out their Mucus Membranes or Decrease their Brain Function; or Disrespect their Elders; or Use Aerosol Sprays and Creams that Pollute their Skin, Hair and the Environment; or Deny their Creator,

But Are Afraid to Try Kombucha; Herbal Tea; Broccoli; Vegan Burgers; Lentil Soup; Portabella Mushrooms; raw plant-based foods; Alkaline Water; Xango, Noni, Goji or Red Xingia Juice; Real Juice (100% or pressed) that is not from a concentrate or mix of chemicals, water and 10% juice, (and not Kool Aid or mercury-laden, corn-syrupy or watered down drinks with refined sugar, Nutrasweet (aspartame), artificial flavors and coloring)?

How Many More Dollars That Could Be Helping Will Go For War, Target Practice, Gun Purchase, Violent Video Game Purchase, Marketing of Lies, Underage Drinking, Drug Treatment without real cure(i.e. Methadone, Nicotine) for Drug Addiction (i.e. Heroin Addiction, Tobacco Addiction) and Funeral Costs (More Spent on Funerals than Providing Community Supports for Families, Persons who Are Disabled, Local Home-Based and Small Business, Youth Employment)?

How Many More Shootings By and At Police, Soldiers in War, or Families at War Before You Have Had Enough?

How Many More Hunting and Fishing Trips Will You Go On Before You Realize It is Not Building Character, Our Global Infrastructure, Or Helping the Planet

I am concerned that mediation, self-awareness, breathing, negotiation, meditation, reflection, anger management and mentoring are being replaced by shooting to kill and misdirection of anger without a second thought about consequences spiritually and emotionally, not just physically to the families, and other youth, not to mention that it is lucrative for the morticians, nursing homes, hospitals, and insurance companies. Oops, almost forgot--this is the 21st century, many of our healthcare facilities and practitioners are not getting paid timely, as they should, by the state and other health insurers; and most of our community is uninsured or underinsured, and opposed to cremation instead of burial, healing instead of drugs and surgery, and unaware or afraid to use barefoot medicine and other non-invasive methods such as spiritual treatment (prayer, laying on hands), fresh air, sunshine, pure water, veganic food (organic food grown without animal manure, animal products). Okay, I'm woke now.

We do mortgage workouts; how about character-building workouts by people who have character, integrity, balance and violence and anger workouts by people who are not violent or do not have repressed or obvious anger, before these planned and often impulsive shootings can occur?

How can it be healthy and contribute to the prosperity, health and well-being of a community; race; species; gender; and peer or ethnic group to say that you do not support gun control, but it is okay to condone these shootings or carrying of weapons, because of Constitutional protection; and allow imbalances caused by youth spending most of their life in violence, playing violent games, listening to violent lyrics, watching rap beefs, watching videos from self-proclaimed leaders training them in how to become criminally-minded, under the guise of freedom of speech?

That has to be a boring life--snuffing out young lives like alpha and omega beasts in the wilderness vying for survival and food; having sex as if licensed to impregnate or give birth and have taxpayers or the parents to pay the cost of youth's unbridled passions; celebrating the birth with gift-giving and much ado as if a rite of passage, then abandoning the child(ren) because you have not grown up yourself or want to move on to the next experience; drinking 40s and vodka (manufactured or promoted by hip hop stars)while our community does not thrive, but continues to have rising illness and mortality rates, local businesses, esp. in the Black community fail while Wal Mart, Aldi and others make huge profits as you continue to bypass your Mama's or Daddy's businesses and other local merchants that cannot offer the huge discounts you seek, smoking kush and cigarettes thinking they are harmless, because cannibis is a herb and your Granddaddy is still alive and still smoking, never creating anything of value, never exercising character, not paying attention to the signs of the time....

Be like the kangaroo--it never moves backward. It can't. Move forward. Be grateful. Gratitude expands blessings. Don't worry about anything. Just be wiser today. Spiritually discern to make the wisest choices.

Let nothing crush you. Rise immediately. - Mary B. Eddy, CSB

Love and Peace,

Maat (bringing order to chaos)

Ayo Maat, Ph.D., M. HS

P.S. Check out July 11 "Barefoot Medicine Goes Digital" - arm yourself with some real protection and higher knowledge from the Most High or from AcuWerks, Freedom and Victory Publishing, the Principles of Maat, and Sy Bounds. Research. Be dependable, not expendable.

"Barefoot Medicine Goes Digital" at UCRP -- BNICEH and Green Think Tank...Sponsor

2009-06-16T12:18:00.000-07:00

BNICEH is co-sponsoring with Green Think Tank for the Disability Community and Acuwerks, a dynamic talk by key speaker Dr. Frank Yurasek of Barefoot Medicine Society, Acuwerks and HealLand:

Barefoot Medicine Goes Digital

Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Yurasek, this introductory session is FREE to the community.

Date: Sat. July 11, 2009
Time: 2-6 p.m.
Where: United Church of Rogers Park
Overdier Hall - 3rd floor
1545 W. Morse
Chicago IL 60626

Dr. Maat of BNICEH and Green Think Tank for the Disability Community says Listen Up:

Check out the details at the website and blogs listed. And remember to tune in to Rogers Park station "From the Heartland" WLUW FM 88 FM Sat. July 4 from 9 - 10 am for more information, or come down to eat and listen to the show at Heartland Cafe 7000 N. Glenwood Ave Chicago IL 60626:

Meet Sy Bounds, the Blog Professor, blogging coach, and creator of innovative digital flash drive technology, to drive your online green business e.g. healing or medical practice, jewelry business, art and crafts business, sustainable living, green building and architecture, bicycle repair shop, appointment setting and scheduling, taxi or other transportation, etc.

Sy Bounds says

New Gen Digital Flash Drive Technology is the way to go and stay ahead of the game; along with using blogging and Google tools, it's best practice for digitized business.

BNICEH and Green Think Tank...Sponsors Barefoot Medicine Goes Digital by Dr. Ayo Maat is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.multiply.com/drmaat/journal.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.home.comcast.net/~ayomaat.

Black History Month In Rogers Park, Chicago neighborhood: Afrikan American Book Exhibit

2009-02-13T21:12:00.000-08:00

You are invited to Black History Month In Rogers Park, a diverse American neighborhood

America Celebrates the Black Family
9th Annual Black History Month Event at Loyola Park

Free Admission and Pot Luck Served

When: Sunday February 22, 2009
Time: 11:00am -3:00 pm (elders procession, libation begins at 11:15 am)
Place: 1230 W. Greenleaf, lst floor Gym
(Accessible by wheelchair-see an attendant to use the elevator lift)
For information: Call 773-761-7306 Selena Derry (Awoleye)

International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry
Afrikan Creation Story: The Movie
Exhibit of Afrikan-American History Books

•Libation Ceremony – Lighting of Kinara Candles (Dr. Ayo Maat)
•Black National Anthem: Lift Every Voice and Sing
• Historical information, Book Exhibit, Cultural Education
• Music by We Be Jamming DJ Rob, Urban Sounds, Drumming by Dan McNeil and youth

Please Be On Time -- Plan Not to Miss Libation -- No Admittance During Libation

Meet the Elders of Rogers Park Selected as our Council of Elders – the Bolozi Wazee:
Kelan Phil Cohran, Ora Harris, Dr. Ayo Maat, Selena Derry (Awoleye) confirmed

Bring Your Family and Neighbors

Es Gratis - Bienvenidos - Byenvini

La programa es un celebracion de las culturas negras

Loyola Park Advisory Council
Afrikan Heritage Program
1230 W. Greenleaf
Chicago, IL 60626

February 14, 2009

Dear Patron:

Loyola Park Advisory Council is planning a special Afrikan Heritage program in honor of Black History Month on February 22, 2009. This year we have the International Society of Sons and Daughters of Slave Ancestry.

As the program coordinator, I am working with Mary Hopkins, Mary Bao, Sandra Glpsie, Katie Hogan, and Anita Sims of Loyola Advisory Council to present a program that will add rich culture to the Rogers Park community while providing fun, education, food, music, and performers that all ages, all genders can appreciate.

We need your help to make this event successful. Please attend. Although the event is free, please feel free to help us offset costs by donating cash or service, or food (especially looking for donations from restaurants or caterers).

Sincerely,

Selena Derry (Awoleye) Planning Coordinator
On behalf of Loyola Park Advisory Council

Honor elders who share wisdom. Live the dream—make it happen. Be known by your character. Let your word be your bond. Keep crime in check. Make decisions responsibly. Love for the sake of living. Help a worthy person. Mentor a child. Bring order to chaos. YES, WE CAN!

See reservation/donation list below. (Restaurants: Call if you need someone to pick up food dishes early Sunday morning Feb. 22):

Please reserve the following:

Donations

_______ I would like to help donate food (estimated 80-100 people will be in attendance)
_______ I am not donating a food dish or cash, but will attend.
_______Yes! I will donate this/these food dish (es) or beverages and list the ingredients ______________________________________________________________
_______Yes! I WILL attend. Please reserve ____ seats for ____ adults____ children
_______No! I WILL NOT attend, but will donate $ _______ to cover entertainment or where it can best be used. _______ No! I WILL NOT attend, but I will deliver a food dish. ______
_______ No! I WILL NOT attend, and I need someone to pick up the food dishes listed above.
_______ Yes! I will volunteer to ___ pick up food donations ___ cleanup ___ serve food
__escort the Council of Elders __decorate tables on February 22 ___ take news photos
__ videotape to show on CAN-TV or for the Advisory Council archives
______ I want to earn community service learning credits for volunteering

RSVP Deadline: Friday Feb. 20, 2009

Name ____________________________________________________ age if a youth ________

Title or Position _________________________________________

Company _____________________________________________________
Address _____________________________________________________
City/Zip___________________________Phone/Cell ______________________/______________
Fax____________________ Email ____________________________________________________

Please find enclosed a check in the amount of $_______________ or I will deliver cash $ _____ to the Loyola Advisory Council at Loyola Park 1230 W. Greenleaf or call to arrange for cash pickup. Call 773-761-7306. Please make check payable to Loyola Park Advisory Council. Your cash donation may be deducted as a contribution under Rogers Park Community Council, the fiscal agent for Loyola Park Advisory Council.

Please reply to Selena Derry (Awoleye) 773-761-7306 or Loyola Park 773-262-8605
Email to selenaderry@sbcglobal.net or mail to: Loyola Park Advisory Council Black History Month 1230 W. Greenleaf Chicago, IL 60626

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Obama Day at Chicago Temple

2009-01-03T07:16:00.000-08:00

Community Alert: January 10, 2009 - See New LOcation

IT'S OFFICIAL! -

Obama Day - A Celebration Fit For A King!!

January 15, 2009

Move forward into 2009. Be there to celebrate two great occasions. Obama Day on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday anniversary. Mark your calendars for January 15, 2009 10 a.m. in downtown Chicago at 77 W. Washington Chicago Temple First Methodist Church (indoors). Sign on. Call 312-525-0010. Your input is critical. Groups that work on issues of housing, disability, personal care, transportation, seniors, human rights, education, union organizing, or faith-based initiatives are all encouraged to participate.
Mission and information is posted at www.FromWallStreetToYallStreet.com

Working subcommittees are planning for what they would like to see President Obama focus on or accomplish during his first 100 days in office.

The Logistics Committee is planning transportation for people who are disabled, homeless, have no transportation access near them, or have difficulty paying extra carfare for nonessential travel. Carriers and taxi drivers can call to volunteer transportation.

Call 312-525-0010 now to join a working committee, sign up your organization, or for next meeting locations.

Join others and me on the Human Rights Committee to formulate our message regarding transportation for people with disabilities and our federal litigation concerning transportation; plus input on housing, children and their families, etc. Call me at 773-416-7366.

Please join and help prepare the “Poor People’s Agenda” or donate funds or feasible ideas to the work, or work on the committee of your choice. Meanwhile I am working with IMPRUVE, BNICEH and ZenZuu to restore people who are disabled from poverty and pity. Ase´ (ah-shay)

Tobacco Quiz Bowl Winners - 1st Place and Grand Prize - Regular Category & MVT and MVP

2006-10-09T17:22:00.000-07:00

Top Winners in City Finals held September 23 at UIC Student Center 750 S. Halsted for 2006 BNICEH first annual Tobacco Quiz Bowl live in NE, SE and SW regions of Chicago:

Grand Prize - Most Valuable Team (MVT) -
Winning Team: Powerful
Dalila Johnson accepted for the team; Team Region: SW

Most Valuable Player (MVP) - Abisayo Ariwoola, age 12; Sponsor: Lola Ariwoola; Team: Chi Town's Finest; Region: NE

1st Place - Regular Category - ages 7-10 Winning Team: Eagles
1st Place - Regular Category - ages 11-14 Winning Team: Chi Town's Finest
1st Place - Regular Category - ages 15-18 Winning Team: No Limit

Congratulations. Keep posted for other winners in 2nd and 3rd places, and Unique Category, all age groups, all places.

Tobacco Quiz Bowl Winners - 3rd Place - Regular Category

2006-10-09T17:19:00.001-07:00

Top Winners in City Finals held September 23 at UIC Student Center 750 S. Halsted for 2006 BNICEH first annual Tobacco Quiz Bowl live in NE, SE and SW regions of Chicago:

3rd Place - ages 7-10 Winning Team: Goudy Winners Team Captain: Cortez Young, age 10
3rd Place -ages 11-14 Winning Team: Northside Warriors Team Captain: Courtney Murphy, age 12
3rd Place - ages 15-18 Winning Team: 2/B announced (consolation contest)

Special Acknowledgements:

Most Valuable Players - NE Regional Semifinals:
Cortez Young, age 7, Team: Goudy Winners
Courtney Murphy, age 12, Team: Northside Warriors

Congratulations. Keep posted for other winners.

Tobacco Quiz Bowl Winners - 2nd Place - Regular Category

2006-10-09T17:19:00.000-07:00

Top Winners in City Finals held September 23 at UIC Student Center 750 S. Halsted for 2006 BNICEH first annual Tobacco Quiz Bowl live in NE, SE and SW regions of Chicago:

2nd Place - ages 7-10 Winning Team: Blue Ribbon Team Captain: Abisoye Ariwoola, age 8 Region: NE
Sponsor: Lola Ariwoola, mother

2nd Place - ages 11-14 Winning Team: Freedom, Unity & St. Lawrence -Team Captain: Kelvin Liggins, age 11 Region: SE Sponsor: Cottage Kids Learning Center, Woodlawn Preservation & Investment Center

2nd Place - ages 15-18 Winning Team: Powerful(combined team) Region: SW Team Captain: Leroy Johnson, age 15 Sponsor: South Side Tabernacle & Daisy Stubbs

Special Acknowledgments: Regional Semifinals

Most Valuable Player - SE - Victoria Ellison, age 12, Team: Freedom

Congratulations. Keep posted for other winners.
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