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Good afternoon and welcome to another week of GBH Journal. I'm Marcia Hurd sitting in today for Bill Katniss. The show today consists of a report on a federally funded youth employment program in Boston. Then we'll hear about local participation in the March at the White House on Saturday. We'll have an interview with a female animal trainer. And to close Louis Lyons will take a look at some of the weekend's needs. Earlier this year the U.S. Department of Labor awarded Boston 24 million dollars for the implementation of an employment program. The program is designed to guarantee jobs for 6000 districts. The
aims of the program being to improve the employment picture in the city and to lower the school system's dropout rate. The kids who were chosen for the program have to be from families with incomes below poverty level. In recent weeks controversy has developed over the implementation of the program to the exclusion of certain neighborhoods from sharing in the appropriated funds. Jamaica Plain is one of the areas not included in the employment program visited Jamaica Plain High School and spoke with students and administrators about the situation. Here's her report. In a dispute over the implementation of a twenty four million dollar federally funded program aimed at getting jobs for 6000 16 to 19 year olds and for Boston school districts top black officials in the white administration have split with key may Auriol aides. The major concern is that Project Yes which is the name of the youth entitlement service program leaves out areas of Roxbury North
Dorchester and Jamaica Plain all of which have large numbers of unemployed black and Hispanic youths with most of his students left out of the yes program. I recently asked the assistant headmaster of Jamaica Plain High School Mr. Baker why his school wasn't included within the entitlement area where it was explained to me is his past and we had it out underprivileged because originally we were going to have a separate proposal is a mini proposal. So they figured they would put the whole area. According to the map east Boston Brighton West Roxbury Jamaica Plain and I'm included in it. If there's a high concentration of minority students you definitely need that I mean do you think this was sort of arbitrary and its choice.
Well according to what I've been told they figure that they will reach 50 percent of the youth that are underprivileged economically disadvantaged within this area. They only have twenty three million dollars to work with. So I think probably they all they figured that they would take the easy areas and if it is a pilot project that was maybe well it's been in the water but such high concentrations of minority students rather than say Franklin feel percs sample rock Jamaica Plain It seems difficult for me to believe that with that that high concentration that these specific areas would be left out. Is it a misunderstanding on the part of the statistics. Well I can't speak of her terribly on it but I do know that judging from the lunch applications of the school. We probably went anywhere we want and live as he does and again I don't know
when I was when he was with Baker's ambivalence stems not from a lack of concern or research but because the original federal guidelines themselves are vague. The guidelines require that entitlement areas be contain within contiguous geo political subdivisions. Charles Adkins director of the economic and employment administration which project yes is a part of says there aren't any clearly accurate statistics which could show exactly where these are what they include school districts made up from admittedly arbitrary boundaries. Are his only option for the 18 month yes pilot program there's only a limited amount of funding. Most of those areas chosen are nearly as poor straights as areas of Franklin Field in Jamaica Plain when it comes to youth unemployment. With the exception of most of Beacon Hill and back bay and this among other reasons is where which contiguous school districts have been chosen becomes a matter of dispute. Two reasons cited by Atkins for the choices were first areas which were most vocal and
heavily affected by busing were taken into consideration at the mayor's request and second White also asked the areas involved in his self-chosen Boston plan b included. There is growing uncertainty about the political fairness and integrity involved in at least one of the four target areas chosen in the Boston plan while the other three areas are in great need of urban renewal. Either one of you contacted them. Avocational How do you feel about that. People need to get married. We've got we've we've you know we could talk about women even you know who I mean why any being that we are not people. Question surrounding the administration of the U.S. program have also risen
some school representatives say there will be overlaps involved in the Sida and AB CD summer job programs safeguards have been written into the program by the administration but their effectiveness is unclear. Yet other major questions have been answered by the yes project team. One concern surrounds the lack of bilingual information distribution which the administration claims has been performing sufficiently up to this point. One problem is that more publicity can't be funded until City Council votes on the program state. Many are worried that the publicity will not reach those who have dropped out of school or are in school but will miss the application deadline due to the lack of information. Adkins says the project is 18 months long and there is no deadline for applications. Although the program was hoped to be begun March 20th he also says that a mass citywide campaign to recruit dropouts back to school and into the employment program will begin if the council votes to approve the program.
But then questions arise of how these students will be monitored and kept in school. Critics of the program say that this problem has not been carefully regulated. While Akon says there will be 219 councillors having 25 students each. These counselors will have supervisors and the supers will have managers. It will be the sole duty of the counselor to make certain those are rolled in the yes project without a school drop in. And those in school remain unrolled political implications surrounding the program are still unclear. Some of those close to the problem say that this is not a program for students it's just another way to work for whites reelection. Other sources say that this program is not really all that bad but it does have its political self-interest overtones that must be cleared up before final passage and order to decide whether you can support this program and how you might be able to lobby for modifications. The yes project has provided a hotline service. The number is 7 2 5 3 5 5
for GBH Journal. I'm Joan Freeman burg. On Saturday White House to ask President Carter has become a cause for various black and civil rights groups across the country. One hundred fifty people from Boston attended the march. Many of them members of the National Alliance against racial and political repression. Reporter Debbie Farrar spoke with a member of the alliance and has more about that group's activities and about Saturday's march.
On March 18th the lawn of the White House once again became the final destination of a national march. The march was organized by the National Alliance against racist and political repression. About 8000 people gathered at the White House in support of the nine black and one white civil rights workers who were convicted of firebombing store in Wilmington North Carolina during the racial turbulence that dominated the 1960s since the ten were convicted most of the prosecution's witnesses and their testimonies saying they were bribed by North Carolina officials into giving false information. But despite these admissions North Carolina Governor James Hunt refused to pardon the Wilmington Ten. The purpose of the march was to pressure President Carter into intervening in the case of the Wilmington Ten and their plight. Next question what becomes of the local chapters now who have spent months preparing for this march since according to one of the members it was a success. Where do they go from here. Do they
return to the local issues they were addressing prior to the march. The answer I received was yes. Next question then. What were some of those issues. I spoke with Winston cando a Roxbury attorney and local alliance member about the local chapter and where it was headed from here. Kendall has been a member of the eight year old organization for four years which is also as long as he's been practicing law. I asked candor why he joined the organization. Well I was concerned because my own political role is that as a practicing attorney it's very difficult for me to institute a kind of meaningful changes that are necessary to bring about equity within the system. Mind you the very serious problem because the institution of law in this country was came about and we disavow the interests of the ruling classes the bourgeoisie the people the money the food crisis the James what have you. And I was prompted to join the alliance because I think L.A. has been the only broad based group within the United States
that addresses itself to the problems of redistribution of wealth and assets and within this country. Kendall talked about what he called the checkered history of the local alliance. Locally we've addressed the question of bussing the whole crisis around the segregation as well as a crisis around the racial attacks on black people in Boston like it's ever since the desegregation crisis started but it's been a checkered history because the alliance in this state is perceive you primarily as a white organization. When the problems that that face people in this in this society in Boston primarily are really would be called black problems the problem around busing the problem wrong racial attacks on black people. But for some reason it seems that it seems that there are more white people who are attracted to join the ranks of the Alliance for whatever reason that I don't understand fully. I ask you know how successful the organization has been in addressing these issues. Want to be to be honest I don't think it's been very successful at all the work that has been
trying to do around the question of busing is not generally well known because it has been mixed in with the work of other groups like the NWC alliance has not given gotten his fair share of recognition for the work that is done. And again I have to fault the people in their lives my flop and others for not making all the rule that we had been taking well-known to people to right people in the black community. Aside from being a member of the alliance Kendall is also a person of its Police Crimes Task Force. He describes some of the responsibilities of that force. One of the main responsibilities that we have is documented. And collect data on police crime primarily police brutality assists people local citizens who are being picked up by police in seeking legal redress for the grievances. One of the unfortunate things is. Unfortunate aspects of police crime is that most of the people are victimized black
and most of them are unaware that they have the right to seek legal redress. For the princes. Too many times when someone is beaten by a cop he doesn't even know that he has a right to seek a complaint against a cop. And one of the one of the things that we set ourselves up to do is educate people to understand when the legal right but that nothing be just one part of the work of the coalition. When we feel being girly the correlation is that the people in this city control the police department. The political arm is controlled by the mirror the mirror is on responsive to the needs of people because he doesn't see black people being important except around election time until we could control the mere thought of an entire week when the city council. There will always be the victims of police crime because the police officers come by people with impunity within the city. The Boston alliance against racist and political repression took 150 people with them to Washington D.C. in an effort to attract more attention a local alliance
will begin mailing out copies of its new monthly newsletter entitled constant struggle which reminds me of a song that can be attributed to Frederick Douglass. He said if there is no struggle there is no progress. Reporting for GBH Journal I'm Debbie Farrar. And the other day I met a friend of mine at the New England Aquarium and we went in the diving. And I was able to ride the 450 pound turtle Myrtle. And I often got from the hugging
sharks may not be an everyday occurrence for Casey Kovar but training animals of various sizes and species is Casey cover is an animal trainer which makes her something of a rarity herself since the profession of animal training consists primarily of males mostly Clipper was curious about MS cover. So she spoke with her recently and asked some questions about her unusual profession. You know one of the few women trainers in the States. How many are there. It varies from place to place with I would say there are relatively few female animal trainers in most of the trainers are women. However in the professional organizations that I belong to at any given professional meeting that I've been to there would be a maximum of 20 females compared to let's say 60 or 70 males. Have you encountered any discrimination because of your sex in jod trainings. Let's say the expeditions that animal trainers have to go on.
If I was their hand for example I was offered a job by one firm and the head trainer took me aside and told me that he could never work with a good working girl. So this is a compliment. Perhaps I should be pleased however I resolved it resulted in my not getting the job. Also I was not eligible to go on expeditions I was qualified to assist on because of the logistics of taking a female along on a non mail trip. Now this was even though the places that were being visited had facilities for females. In terms of working with male animal trainers are there any stimulatory practices or just attitudes that women can have to do this type of thing women can never handle in the halls because it's a dangerous field. Yes I found a lot of men that I've met have any kind of outlook on training animals.
They believe that it takes a lot of strength training animals is a question of psychological dominance and the psychological dominance is gained through respect which is installed because of your intelligence and your ability to control this situation. If you're trying to turn whale or an elephant or any large or any dangerous animal I don't care what size of the man you are. That animal is more than your match if you want to use aggression as a form of communication. So I don't believe that strength is any kind of a valid qualification for the job. What types been most of you worked with. I've trained horses I'm sea lions first seals harbor seals cats. Dogs various kinds of rodents. And now I'm working with monkeys primates. What are you exactly doing with them. These monkeys are part of a scientific pilot project to determine the capability of
computers in monkeys which are the organ grinder's monkeys to perform as aids for human beings. We have been very successful. We have. Who are the two monkeys I've been working with. One has to feed people and the other one has learned how to fetch things and brain a designated object whatever you point to to you. She also turns on TVs light switches. You know radios speaker phones things like that. As an animal trainer Are there any interesting problems that you've encountered. Yes we talked about the problems that men assumed I would have been there for limited me in applying for jobs and so on but there were a few problems physically that I did have. For example one of the places I worked the tanks were about 5 feet high. The walls of the tank there were there was no way to get out of the tank. After you finished training an animal except to vault over the side. I'm only five feet high myself and it was very difficult for me to
learn how to bark. However I had some assistance from one of my animals who chased me out one day and perfected my technique. I also have made it a point to learn how to haul £50 or £60 boxes of fish all over the place and had a horst Dora's that weighed 100 pounds so that I could be independent and could be truly functional part of the team. That took a lot of work for GBH journalists Lesley clipper. The news of the weekend came mostly from overseas which movie lines discusses in today's commentary much trying day as spring open so are the carcasses that had
just emerged from under the snow blanket on a fresh snow covered them last Thursday. But I fast noting days of freedom again and snow drops to warm days and shot nights keep the sap running sugaring off parties greet the season in the maple country along with the first town meetings. The fast evaporation of ice snow banks is reducing the flood danger when the rains come. Prime Minister begging arrives in Washington just as the United Nations adopts the American proposal to replace the Israeli forces in Lebanon with the United Nations peacekeeping force the U.N. Security Council called on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon by a 12 to nothing well this obviates abstaining linked to this was the American resolution to send in a U.N. force of 4000. But the Israelis are now in full control of the border strip inside Lebanon. That is begins big bargaining point for his argument for border security. If this puts negotiation back to square one it also challenges the vitality
of the international community to deal with the vacuum that is Lebanon. The final round of the French elections echoed the old French song the more things change the more they are the same. The government party is held against the left even gained a small but surprise margin for a working majority in the parliament. Most incumbents were re-elected. The socialist communist coalition fell apart in too many districts. Yet both the Left parties gained are not enough. Some 14 seats each. This was at the expense of Chirac's Wright his New York colleagues party which lost 40 seats. This from one hundred seventy four that gave it three fifths of the outgoing parliament President discards and sent a group of partys picked up six seats to one hundred thirty seven. So there was a substantial shift to the left despite the failure of the left to take over the government. A socialist leader says the election showed a bare half of France is frightened of change. The result is to leave present the Scots government less dependent on
Chirac's right and with a strong warning of the need for reform. The evident weakening of the relation between socialist and communist led some government officials to see a possibility to draw the socialists or some of them into a government coalition leaving right and left as fringes of a strong center. Prime Minister Barrie appeared to be proposing to exploit this opportunity. In his post-election statement that the government should seek to open its ranks politically and move resolutely for economic progress and social justice. Italy is not letting the threats of Albemarle kidnappers block the trial of the 15 terrorists scheduled to open today. The trial did open one of the demands of Mara's kidnappers was that the trial be called off. The jailed terrorists freed in the stand the NDR government follows the position of the Dutch government took against the threat of the modern terrorist last week and to the West German government earlier in defying the threats of the terrorists who held a leading industrialist. His kidnappers killed him.
Italy also appears to be taking that chance with marl. But also determined that the state itself so not be the victim of those geographically inclined will have noted that only three of the Democrats who voted against the Canal Treaty were from north of the Mason-Dixon Line and those three were from the west. All but six of the 22 Republicans opposed were from west of the Mississippi. Nearly four to one this regional aspect of the vote echoes the voting in the last presidential election when the Mississippi divided the country almost totally as in fact it has an all close election since 1960. The debate resumes on the second treaty but it will hardly sustain attention. Some senators said their votes for the first treaty did not commit them for the second. But the vote against the transfer the canal after approving the conditions for it would make no sense. The ratification vote the D-Rays the public estimate of both Senate leaders Byrd and Baker birdshot sagacity diplomacy and political instinct beyond what was known of him.
Baker was minority leader had the more difficult and politically dangerous role. Once it became apparent that an attempt would be made to make it a party issue his stand is said to have accounted for bringing five other Republicans to support the treaty. Baker went to pantomime self-disgust a question with President Joe Hilo had a hand in shaping the two amendments that both presidents accepted and took a position that brought him into direct confrontation with Governor Reagan's campaign manager sent a lecturer who led the anti treaty Republicans. One has to go back to center to Vandenberg the rally of his fellow Republicans in 1945 to bipartisan support of collective security against Senate attacks isolationism for an equal example. Senator Baker is up for re-election this fall. He's also a prospective presidential candidate for 1980. His canal position places him definitely in the public mind. He gambled in the public mind could change from the anti treaty bias registered in early polls from the two amendments he helped
engineer. He told the Senate just before the vote that is own test in Tennessee showed that the poll in December forty five against twenty three four with 32 undecided had changed to 56 4 to 29 against. By the end of the debate. And so we come to the close of GBH journal for today. The show is produced by my shirts. Many thanks to today's engineer Bill do you have a good evening. With her. With her.
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Youth Employment Program, Boston Chapter Of Alliance Against Racist And Political Repression, Female Animal Trainer, Louis Lyons
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Chicago: “WGBH Journal; Youth Employment Program, Boston Chapter Of Alliance Against Racist And Political Repression, Female Animal Trainer, Louis Lyons ,” 1978-03-20, WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-9351cnpd.
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APA: WGBH Journal; Youth Employment Program, Boston Chapter Of Alliance Against Racist And Political Repression, Female Animal Trainer, Louis Lyons . Boston, MA: WGBH, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-9351cnpd