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This is the official newsletter of the Everett Program,
the Observer. Take a look at the articles below and please
feel free to submit your own articles for review to info@everettinternships.org.
2002 Observer Article
Contest Winners
Good Jobs First (A project of Citizens
for Tax Justice) - DC Winner
The Washington, DC, metropolitan area is undergoing massive
change; so much so that some people say the newest monument
in town is the construction crane. Most would consider it
a mark of progress, but with all progress comes costs...
read the story
Crazy Horse: The Man, the Myth…
the Malt Liquor? NYC Winner
The name "Crazy Horse" has been associated with
everything from bars to clothing to strip joints, and yet
any of those associations may be more familiar to some Americans
than the exact history behind the name... read
the article
Read Other Fantastic Submissions
Government and Community Relations
- The Museum of Modern Art
I am an Everett intern in the Government and Community Relations
Department of the Museum of Modern Art. I have worked in
museums since I was thirteen years of age. My first job
was cataloguing objects for the Curator of Art and Architecture
at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, where
I grew up, and my latest is performing Nazi-era provenance
research on paintings in the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where I go to school...
read the article
Summer 2002: DO SOMETHING
I have been extremely blessed to be selected as an
Everett intern this summer in particular, considering the
traumatic past year the U.S. has experienced. After September
11th, the threat of biological and chemical terrorism, the
declining economy and the incredible dishonesty of the corporate
world, I was beginning to question the stability of our
"great nation." Thanks to the internship program,
my eyes have been opened to people who fight for what is
right in our nation, and to issues that I can actively take
a part in. After this summer, I know that I no longer have
to sit, wait, and worry about the future of our nation,
but I can do something to help... read
the article
Passion Is Not Enough
It has been refreshing to take a break from the abstract
theories and remote environment of Amherst College and to
enter the fast-paced, work-driven world of New York City.
An Anthropology and Sociology major, I spent the last year
learning about America by studying other cultures as well
as learning about the ways in which our capitalist system
fulfills the American dream for some but is more of a nightmare
for others. Working for the Common Ground Community and
being part of the Everett Internship Program has shed some
light on how our system functions in real life, how it affects
real people, and how individuals can make a difference through
non-profit work... read the article
Contemporary Issues at the Times
Square BID
It has been a two decades since Times Square became "the
sleaziest place in America." Every commercial expression
of social deviance imaginable found a home for its enterprise
on the once extravagant streets and avenues of Times Square.
The area, once a world-renowned center for theatre and entertainment,
descended deep into perversion post 1980. It became heavily
populated by social misfits; everything from pimps to prostitutes,
drug dealers to drug users, alcoholics, derelicts, chicken
hawks and many more of the like... read
the article
League of Conservation Voters Education
Fund
I have to admit that when I originally learned about my
first project for the League of Conservation Voters (LCV),
I was more than a little skeptical about the cause to which
I was about to dedicate my summer. I sat down in the office
of my fireball of a supervisor on my initial day of my first
"real" job (no more being a waitress or camp counselor),
and she told me that as the State Outreach Intern I would
be creating a database of trainings this summer that would
be given to the State LCVs when I was finished... read
the article
Enterprise Foundation, NY
As an Everett Intern at the Enterprise Foundation, NY, I
spent the first few weeks of my job horribly confused. Low
Income Housing Tax Credits? Partial Equity? Limited Partnership?
Third-Party Transfer? NEP, NRP, 85/85, CRA, CBO? While I
have slowly deciphered the low-income housing lingo that
a community development agency like the Enterprise Foundation
must speak fluently, I have also become frustrated by the
fact that community development is such a complicated process...
read the article
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from 2001
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