Sister Mary Scullion Peps up, or is distracted, by the Independent Ethics Board?

For years, Sister Mary Scullion lobbied and pleaded not to label people on the street criminals just because they had no place to go, and at the same time helped many off the street with her organization Project Home with a reputation for actually keeping 95% of its clients from having to fall back on the street. Read the Metro Jan 29 page 2 and at the city of Philadelphia's webpage.

Sister Mary Scullion accepted Mayor Nutter's appointment to serve on The Philadelphia Ethics Board which gives advice and can level fines for unethical behavior of city departments and its contractors, and to some extent the public at large.

The articles in the Metro, and Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News were very short, though Metro's was prominently placed. I hope the weeklies or the Philadelphia Tribune will have something comprehensive.

Once the City was once extremely harsh with the homeless. Ed Rendell now Governor Rendell back in 2003 when he was Mayor, demanded that people stop giving sandwiches to people on the street. He had License and Inspection harass church kitchens. So sandwiches were prepared in suburban churches to truck over to Philadelphia.

Harassing people who are trying to do what is right, isn't necessarily only in the past in Pennsylvania. According to Pittsburgh Independent Media , Bread not Bombs had their food and vegetables confiscated by the police.

Activists have been appointed before to important City positions. Mayor John Street appointed Lance Haver to head the Department of Consumer Affairs. He was very active in the Consumer Party. Max Weiner the founder of the Consumer Party wanted to replace the efforts of Working Class Solidarity with Consumer Solidarity. The Consumer Party was close to taking one of the minority party shots routine won by Republicans on Philadelphia City Council when Max Weiner stopped taking his doctors advice to take it easy, and died of a heart attack. If Sister Mary Scullion makes as much difference on the Ethics Board as Lance Haver has made in the Department of Consumer Affairs, then Philadelphia is facing a real improvement.

Hey you other local Philly IMC readers, let's have a little more local news on our local Philadelphia Independent Media blog.

Comments

Protest and Working with Individuals is a Powerful Combination

Submitted by RichardKanePA on Sun, 01/31/2010 - 9:55pm

Sister Mary Scullion combines advocacy and helping individuals.

A few in the peace movement also worked against violence between governments, and gang violence locally. I wonder why people who urge high school students to think twice before they get enticed by a military recruiter, don't also urge them to think twice before joining a gang. A few probably do but think they are separate hats. However a march to, or from, a army recruiting center and a gang rap record company would be a powerful march.

A historic example is Dr. C. Delores Tucker, who among other things, founded the Philadelphia Chapter of the MLK Center for Nonviolent Change. Since her earlier MLK Center for Non-Violence Association, was identical in many ways to the MLK Center for Non Violence which predated Coretta Scott King 's MLK Center for Nonviolent Change in Atlanta Georgia, one could almost say the Philadelphia Chapter founded the national office.

Lance Haver was an activist in the Consumer Party, and the Consumers Education and Protective Association before Mayor Street appointed him to run the Consumer Affairs Department of Philadelphia. His great success might mean good news for Sister Mary Scullion future on the Ethics Board.

If you read this earlier I had complained about mistakes in how the article posted which was corrected so I edited it out of this comment.

However the link on how the homeless were mistreated under then Mayor Rendell was still wrong. Now it seems alright but if it happens again click on,
http://www.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22Philly's+mayor+urges+city+to+give+homeless+more+shelters,+fewer+handouts

Please don't miss the inspirational article.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_18942...

Richard Kane
http://www.RichardKanePA.blogspot.com

Good news is still around

Submitted by RichardKanePA on Mon, 02/01/2010 - 7:22am

We have been getting a little bad news of late, and I and many others responded by warning that far worse might be yet to come.

However, there is also a lot of good news. Think of how much both the image of this country and how it really behaves improved since Obama has become President. It wasn’t more than a year or two ago when the homeless were despised by some and subject to arrest just because they had nowhere to go.

Think of all the either desire or fear many Americans felt about the possibility of a war with Iran.

Here in Philadelphia, Sister Mary Scullion of Project Home has just been appointed to the Independent Ethics Board. I remember back when Governor Rendell was Mayor of Philadelphia, when he had License and Inspection harass church kitchens if the church members were handing out sandwiches on the street. Sandwiches had to be made in suburban church kitchens and trucked into Philadelphia.

We are suddenly, thanks to Obama, a lot more tolerance between blacks and whites and when it comes to Hispanics just a few years ago some communities were trying to zone immigrants away. So I think, maybe, there is even less prejudice on that issue as well.

I posted several places of impending doom as the wing nuts seize the Republican Party then the country as well, even managed to compare today’s events with events in Germany in the 30's. But I think the good news is a lot more present, and even more so if we start celebrating it again.

Let’s spread and post the following links and information all over the internet, and in our face to face encounters as well.

http://youngphillypolitics.com/sister_mary_scullion_independent_ethics_b...

http://www.phillyimc.org/en/sister-mary-scullion-peps-or-distracted-inde...

Think of how much more tolerant of the homeless we are today than last year. The following link is from bad news in the past an AP report in the Beaver County Times Page 6 center right about then Mayor Rendell pressuring people to not give out sandwiches to the homeless. Sometimes when you click on the link one gets the entire page and sometimes just the article excerpt.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2002&dat=19931003&id=irUiAAAAIBAJ&...

Richard Kane
RichardKanePA.blogspot.com

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