Los Angeles Special Needs Students Made To Go Through Trash For Recyclables

[From article]

The family of astudent with special needs in Jurupa Valley is furious that his school had him and his classmates rummage through the trash for recyclables.
Officials at Patriot Valley High School announced Wednesday that they’ve suspended the program in response to the backlash.
“The shame and the embarrassment for the children, it hurts,” said Carmen Wells, who complained to the Jurupa Unified School District on Tuesday. She said her son, Marcus, came home upset from his first day back at school because he was told to put on gloves and dig through the trash, alongside other studentswith special needs.
She said she couldn’t believe her ears.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/08/13/family-outraged-school-had-special-needs-students-dig-through-trash/

Family Outraged School Had Students With Special Needs Dig Through Trash For Recyclables
CBS News Los Angeles CA
August 13, 2014 11:00 PM

Somerville, MA Marine Needs Help To Move Local Government To Make Street Repairs

Walking along Morrison Avenue in Somerville near Davis Square I noticed this interesting sign on Newberne Street. It indicates that a resident citizen is having trouble getting services from his elected officials. A neighbor explained that the man, Kevin Merrill (his name is written on the sign [image below]) is upset because the street gets flooded after a heavy rain. The floods  bring trash and vermin which creates health hazards. While we were speaking Mr. Merrill appeared with pictures of the street when it gets flooded. I suggested if city officials do not respond to his petitions maybe some media attention would help. Thus I am posting this and sending it along to local journalists who may be moved to assist this U.S. Marine and taxpayer. 



The sign reads "Due to incompetent contractors and city inspectors I apologize for inconvenience."

Harvard Trash Invites City Wildlife

Loose trash bags (images taken at about 6:45 AM Tuesday September 1, 2009) in rear of 85-95 Prescott Street, owned and operated by the President and Fellows of Harvard College via Harvard Real Estate Services.
See this link for previous images with links to previous images

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/08/harvard-trash-tuesday-august-25-2009.html

Some of this pile remains after 8 days.

Harvard Trash Tuesday August 25, 2009

Images are from Tuesday August 25, 2009 at about 6:15 AM rear of 85-95 Prescott Street. The dumpster is full.
See also images from Monday August 24, 2009 at
http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/08/harvard-trash-for-wildlife-august-24.html

Harvard Trash for Wildlife August 24, 2009

These four images at about 6:15 AM on Monday August 24, 2009 show trash outside of storage dumpster in rear of 85-95 Prescott Street, Cambridge MA, a Harvard Real Estate Building. See previous related posts at
http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/08/harvard-nourishes-city-wildlife.html

Harvard Nourishes City Wildlife

This is the latest example of Harvard's negligence regarding rodent control in the City of Cambridge. It is a long term problem which City employees and residents spent many hours trying to address. But Harvard is exempt from encouraging rodents on their property. Is this a result of the City Manager's misguided policies to permit Harvard to exist as a separate entity exempt from city and state laws? Restricting City police from enforcing city ordinances and state laws may allow drug dealers and under age drinking to thrive on Harvard property. But it does little to encourage respect for the Constitution and laws of the land. It encourages elitism and a feeling of entitlement to Harvard affiliates to be above the laws of man. These images were taken at about 5:00 PM on Sunday August 16, 2009. After almost three weeks of complaints to the City Rodent Control officers, Harvard residents of 85-95 Prescott Street continue to leave trash available for city wildlife. In July 2009 Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates accessed Harvard's Old Boys Network. He called upon the President of the US (a Harvard Lawyer), the Governor of MA (a Harvard lawyer), the District Attorney of Middlesex, the Attorney General of MA (married to a supervising Cambridge police officer), and the Mayor of Cambridge to have the most famous arrest for disorderly conduct in the history of the world, dismissed before arraignment. It appears that the same Old Boys Network allows Harvard to remain unaccountable to attracting rodents to their property. They already used three special campus cops to intimidate me. Stopping to ask me if I was taking pictures is one thing. But to actively harass me for a week after I explained why I was taking pictures, that is a felony violation of state and US laws. MA Civil Rights statute (MA Gen Laws, Ch. 265, Sec. 37
http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/265-37.htm
; and Title 42 US Code Ch. 1983,
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1983.html
Title 42 Ch. 1985
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/1985.html
. Knowing that Harvard remains above the laws of man and unaccountable for violations of city, state, and US laws it is unlikely that any of their employees or police officers will be restrained from continuing to abuse their privileges and powers granted by the state government and the MA taxpayers. Harvard's Old Boys Network is alive and well even with the first female President of Harvard running the network.
The Cambridge City Council spent many hours discussing and rewriting the city ordinances to try to control the rodent population of the city. They spent taxpayer funds purchasing new barrels and declared manners and times in which trash may be stored and placed out for collection. All of their efforts remain meaningless, an exercise in futility due to the Old Boys Network which rules the USA. Is this the change that Obama brought to the White House?

Link to Harvard Crimson story about Harvard cutting janitor's hours.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528682

FAS Cuts Janitor Hours
School officials say the moves save jobs, but union calls reductions 'drastic,' 'unnecessary'
Saturday, August 15, 2009 1:05 PM
By PETER F. ZHU
Crimson Staff Writer

See related entries and more photos at:

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/08/trash-for-cambridge-wildlife.html

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/08/harvard-trash-negligent-police-training.html

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/08/harvard-residents-and-unsecured-trash.html

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/07/outdoor-trash-attracts-rodents-at.html

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/08/common-sense-is-absent.html

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-tenants-health-hazard.html

Harvard Residents and Unsecured Trash August 12, 2009

Creative residents find another inappropriate place for their trash. Contractors employed by Harvard Real Estate working in 85-95 Prescott Street brought a tool box for their workers. Alas residents perceived it as a small dumpster closer to the door. Even with a sign identifying it NOT as a dumpster, Harvard affiliates were unable to read the sign now that others found the door to the real dumpster. This image was taken at about 12:30 PM on Wednesday August 12, 2009. At 6:00 PM it was unmoved.

Trash for Cambridge Wildlife

These images are from 8:00 AM on Monday August 3, 2009. One week earlier July 27, 2009 Harvard Real Estate posted a sign in the building reminding residents that trash should be placed into the dumpster in the rear of 85-95 Prescott Street. Nonetheless it appears there is a failure to communicate as in Cool Hand Luke. In addition the last image shows trash inside the basement of 85 Prescott Street near the exit door. More images of trash for wildlife at

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/07/outdoor-trash-attracts-rodents-at.html

and this video

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/06/cambridge-ma-sights.html

DUMPSTER LOADING PRACTICE

Monday July 27, 2009 at about 7:05 AM this truck landed outside of my window and unloaded this huge green dumpster. The truck drove away. While I was wearing ear phones working on audio the driver came back, uploaded the dumpster and took it away. At about 11:15 AM he returned and again unloaded the dumpster. About 30 minutes later he returned and again uploaded it and took it away. He did not return a third time. Here's my question. Was the driver practicing? Was he just doing it to make noise and to annoy me? I was able to take these still photos which do not include the sounds of the uploading which is not very inspiring or danceable. On Tuesday July 28, 2009 at about 7:05 AM the company truck appeared with a dumpster and dropped one again. At about 7:25 AM a truck appeared and took it away. Then at about 1:45 PM another dumpster was dropped. At about 2:05 PM the truck appeared and picked up the dumpster. I called to the Cambridge Department of Public works to inquire what was going on. A DPW employee referred me to the Department of Traffic and Parking, which issues permits for dropping dumpsters. I was unable to get through their voice mail to a real person for the man in charge or his emergency referral person. I left a message for the deputy of the department. I also called to the C. J. Mabardy Company which is in Cambridge. The receptionist asked my name. I did not want to give it for fear of having one of their employees come and beat me up. It is a "removal" as in trash company. I said I would call back which I did. I finally spoke with their point man for directing their dumpster deliveries. He told me that the dumpster was dropped at the location under direction of the construction project manager. He was able to determine that it was from the renovation construction of the high school, one and one half blocks away. I did not say that I knew they needed a permit to drop their dumpsters no less their drawers. I asked how long it was going to continue. He said he did not know, but that it was only for the "initial demolition." That meant that after they knocked down whatever they were knocking down there would be no more dumpster drop-offs under my window. On Wednesday July 29, 2009 there was no drop off at 7 AM as there were on the previous two days. On Friday July 31, 2009 the company dropped off a dumpster at about 7:20 AM and picked it up at about 7:50 AM.

Outdoor Trash Attracts Rodents at Harvard

These photos show the dumpster behind 85 Prescott Street a Harvard building. The dumpster replaced the plastic barrels. New tenants are unable to figure out how to get their trash into the dumpster and leave it out for the rodents.

See also this video

http://enoughroomvideo.blogspot.com/2009/06/cambridge-ma-sights.html