Cambridge City Council Disrespects Christopher Columbus and Italian Americans; Outrage After Changing Columbus Day To Indigenous People's Day

"Councilor Nadeem Mazen, said he received a 'weird amount of racist backlash' on social media over last week’s vote. Mazen noted that when council makes a decision on one side of an issue, they are not standing against those with opposing opinions. [They're not? AHEM!] [. . .] When we stand for something in this room, it doesn’t mean someone should retaliate in racial overtones,” Mazen said. Is Councilor Mazen a black American, descended from southern slaves? Does he believe that disagreement is racist as many Cambridge residents and Harvard affiliates believe?
[. . .]



"Councilor Jan Devereux supported the idea that all immigrants need to be celebrated equally." Will the City Council establish a day for every ethnic group, every religion and what about a day for people with disabilities, who are still abused by police, the FBI and get no protection from law abiding officials?
[. . .]


Statue of Christopher in Columbus Circle, New York City, New York

"McGovern suggested an amendment to encourage schools to incorporate Italian-American education during the month of October" Why not a month for each ethnic group and nationality, and a month for people with disabilities, who are are still targeted for criminal abuse by public officials? Who needs to read, write, spell and add? Diversity now. Diversity forever.

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20160615/backlash-over-indigenous-peoples-day-prompts-vote-for-italian-heritage-day

Backlash over Indigenous People's Day prompts vote for Italian Heritage Day
By Natalie Handy
nhandy (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Jun. 15, 2016 at 12:07 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Name Changes of Cambridge, MA Nightclub. Violence Continues

Report omits the frequent evenings of blocked sidewalks preventing non bar patrons from walking along a public way. On one occasion a police officer had to make a path. The solution is to name the club Nuclear War and Peace Commission. Cambridge's has prevented nuclear war in Cambridge and Somerville since 1986. Check it out!

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20160615/violence-plagues-monroe-nightclub-in-cambridge-despite-attempts-to-rebrand

Violence plagues MONROE nightclub in Cambridge despite attempts to rebrand
By Amy Saltzman
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Jun. 15, 2016 at 1:17 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Cambridge, MA Seeks Civilian Input For City-Wide Planning

The naming process of this city wide plan was controlled and limited. Will citizen participation levels be similarly controlled? Will skepticism increase among high information voters and taxpayers? The city can continue fooling low, no information voters and omniscient voters. That is what enabled current misguided policies, which remain above criticism. The city's efforts reflect the methods used in Washington DC. Keep people ignorant while proclaiming how transparent the government is. As for diversity, aside from persistent concerned citizens at city meetings, who are ridiculed by officials, the only people who attend meetings are those who want privileges and benefits from the city.



http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20160106/public-input-sought-for-envision-cambridge-citywide-plan/?Start=1

Public input sought for Envision Cambridge citywide plan
By Natalie Handy
nhandy (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Jan. 6, 2016 at 12:33 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Concerned Citizen, Taxpayer, Voter Objects To Limited Candidate Names of City Plan Name Election

An Open Letter to the Cambridge Citywide Planners

Please rethink your undemocratic procedure for renaming the Cambridge Master Plan process and extend the voting deadline. The four tepid options you have offered do not reflect the unbounded creativity of the Cambridge citizenry and do disservice to the award-winning talents and renown accomplishments of our city's hardworking professional planning department.



As we have recently seen, Cambridge's unique Proportional Representation voting system allows the electorate to pick the excellent leaders we deserve in a much fairer manner than conventional winner-take-all methods.

Since you received 200 suggested names for the upcoming citywide planning process, why not provide a final ballot that lists all of these candidates, allows voters to rank-order their preferences, and lets them write-in other possibilities that you may have overlooked?

This approach would help to dispel rumors that the election has been rigged to ensure that "Envision Cambridge," a stale sobriquet that evokes the "Envision Porter Square" planning debacle of decades ago, is the predetermined selection of self-interested city planning officials who will enjoy a free junket visit to the upcoming "Envision America" event in Charlotte. North Carolina.



I have given this matter much thought, and I realize that the local PC police have properly demanded that the earlier "Cambridge Master Plan" designation be changed because of its sexist, racist, and fascist overtones. The term Master immediately evokes thoughts of our paternalistic society's ongoing subjugation of women. Surely a name such as the "The Cambridge Mistress Plan" or "Ms. and Mister Rossi's Neighborhood" is more appropriate for an inclusive community like Cambridge.

Instead of uttering "Master" and evoking the inequities of the medieval guild system, painful memories of slavery and brutality in American history, and degrading sadomasochistic sexual practices and forms of self-abuse that survive around the world to this day, how about substituting less inflammatory names, as, say, "The Cambridge Livin'-Wage-Is-Easy PLAN-tation," or "Cambridge Miracle Whip," or "Happy Ending Cambridge"?

And we certainly should not offend others by triggering thoughts of Hitler's "Master Race" policies when more appropriate names for our citywide comprehensive plan are readily available. How about "Triumph of the Willpower," "CamBridj Uber Call Lyft," or, my favorite, "Cambridge: The Final Solution"?



It's hard to accept that not one of the hundreds of suggested names I previously submitted made your final cut. I hope you will reconsider your decision, alter the online ballot to allow for multiple-preference selection, and open the naming process to individual write-in candidates such as those below.

Very truly yours,

A Concerned Citizen Voter of Cambridge

* * *

[Unapproved Candidates]

THE CONCERNED CITIZENS WRITE-IN SLATE

PlanIt Cambridge

Make Cambridge Great Again

Cambridge, More or Less

Toward a Sustainable Future, Part 2

Rx Cambridge

Cambridge Rising

Participatory Boondoggling

Growth Management for Dummies

Plan E from Outer Space

The Big Fix

There Goes the Neighborhood

Son of C2/K2 

Cambridge Blah-Blah​: ​The Vibrant, Resili​a​nt, Sustainable, ​Affordable, Accessible, Liv​able, ​Walkable, ​​​Bikeable, Innovative,​ ​Anti-Sprawl, Transit-Oriented, ​Multimodal, ​Green,​ ​Divers​e,​ ​​​M​ulticultural​, Politically Correct, Transparent, Inclusive, Participatory, Comprehensive, Citywide, Sanctuary, LEED-Designed, S​mart-​G​rowth​, World-Class, Fully ​Envisioned Buzzword Scheme​ for the Twenty-First Century, Infinity, and Beyond

Creating North Boston

Cambridge 2020 Vision

Picture This Cambridge

What's the Big Idea, Cambridge?

Metromind Cambridge

The Gospel According to CDD

America's Sexiest City Plan

Start Us Up, Cambridge

Dithering Heights: Boomtown Cambridge Goes All In

Adventures in Blunderland: Cambridge at the Gridlocked Crossroads

The Cambridge Benign Growth Plan

Boston Strong, Cambridge Stronger

Traffic Calming Gone Wild

NIMBYfest Cambridge: 2016 and Beyond

War of the Words: A Cambridge Public Plan

It's Futile, Utile

The Charles River Left Bank Blueprint Blues

Cambridge Goes to Rehab

Make My Cambridge

The Cantab Lunge

SOS Cambridge

Cambridge Fiddles (While Sanders Burns Hillary)

Cambridge 3000 or Bust!

Heads Up, Cambridge!

The Great Leap Forward

Cambridge Go Brag (Somerville Sucks)

Our Fair City: Cambridge Looks Ahead

Task Farce Cambridge: Grand Delusions and Foregone Conclusions

Next Stop Nirvana

Future Schlock!

Mission: Impossible -- Cambridge 

The Cambridge STEAMroller: Paving the Way to the Future

Remediate Cambridge

Cambridge LEEDs the Way

Hurricane Cambridge

Presto Chango Cambridge

The Concord-Alewife Study, Revised and Expanded Edition

Be Prepared Cambridge

Fantastic Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: A Cambridge Plan for Stopping Ocean Creep 

Tickle Me, Cambridge

Who's On First, Cambridge?

More Cambridge Conversations?

Cambridge Groupthink Rocks!

Cambridge Upside Down: Planning Our Civic Urinals

Cambridge Community Auditions

Mission Control Cambridge

Ground Zero Cambridge

Plan Ahead Cambridge: Blank Lives Don't Matter

CAD/CAM Cambridge

Cambridge from Here to Eternity

Granfalloon 2016: Bowling Alone Together in Cambridge

Going Gotham: The Road to Little Manhattan

Search for Tomorrow Cambridge: Paradise Lost or Prelude to Posterity?

The Royal Nonesuch: A CDD Touring Production

Cambridge Focus: Peeing into the Prevailing Winds of Change

Survivor Cambridge: Outwit, Outplay, Outlast CDD

Call Me Cambridge

Gentrify Cambridge Now: Staying the Course While Stumbling Forward

The Cambridge Planning Workshop: Stand Up, Speak Up, Sit Down, Shut Up

Springtime for Sansone: Tweaking the E Pluribus Unity Slate's Platform

Defining Cambridge: Urban Plannerspeak, Consultantese, and Zoning Gobbledegook for Laypersons

You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet, Cambridge

The Cambridge Stink Tank 

Iram's Magical Mystery Tour

Micromanaging MIT: Microtechnology, Microsoft, and Micro-Unit Apartments

The Funky Cambridge Visioning Party: City Hall's Def Jam Hip-Hop Breakout Group Break-Dance Street Celebration

The Cambridge Charrette: Think Locally, Act Vocally

The Cambridge One-Way Freeway to Anywhere

Je suis Cambridge: An Action Plan for Overreacting, Canceling Classes, and Evacuating the City through Rush-Hour Bottlenecks in an Age of Homegrown Bomb Hoaxes

Cambridge 2040: The Brave New World-Class City

Floating on Airheads Cambridge

The Town-Gown Frolics: Why Public Planning in Harvard's & MIT's Backyard Is Completely Academic 

Up with Cambridge: A PR Scheme to Make the City Slicker

Cambridge Follies of 2017: Remembering Ziegfeld, Fulton, Seward, and La Trémouille

Spiffing Up, Cambridge: The Porcine Lipstick Project

Urban Renewal Today: Tip's Legacy Lives

Your Voice, Their City: A Periodic Citizens Meet-and-Greet with CDD's Planners and Consultants

PlanCamGenY: Preventing Gen Z Frenzy

Beating the Bubble's Burst: A Better Cambridge Citywide Upzoning Plan

SimCambridge 3000: Advise and Dissent

Cambridge Urban Planning 101: Using PowerPoint to Promote Propensity for Density

Cambridge Stew: Ingredients for Course Correction in Midstream

Our Way or the Highway: Planning CDD's Next Big Mistake

Let's Get Engaged, Cambridge!

Helter Skelter: A Citywide Strategy for Co-opting the Cambridge Residents Alliance

The Mother of All Cambridge Plans

Cambridge on the Brink

Where's the Beef, Cambridge?

Making Sausage in the Public Square

The Cambridge Manifesto: Go Forth and Multiply

The Cambridge Homemade Applesauce Recipe

Growing for Broke Cambridge

Cambridge Status Quo Vadis?

Heaven Can't Wait for Cambridge

The "It Takes a Village Idiot" Plan for Cambridge

Tinkertoy Cambridge

Bob Winters' Wonderland

An Oaktree on Every Porch

Twist & Shout, Cambridge

A Cambridge Planning Lottery: The City That Never Sweepstakes

Here We Go Again, Cambridge

Cambridge Green Machine

Cambridge SpeakOut!

Preparation H Cambridge

Reaching Critical Mass Ave Cambridge

Flight of the Stumblebums

CDD's Next Top Model

Gimme Affordable Shelter (Side A)

Sympathy for the Developer (Side B)

(from the bootleg album You Can't Always Get What You Want, Twining/Normandy)

OMG LGBTQ LSMFT OICURAQT, Cambridge

Sharing Cambridge Fantasies

Trickle-Down Development

Dare to Dream Cambridge

The Cambridge Quietus Project

Cambridge Reborn

Treading H2O: Cambridge--Will It Float?

CDD Mails It In

Reinventing the Wheel with Harvard, MIT, and Lesley

The Cambridge Confederacy of  Dunces

Recycling Cambridge

Only in Cambridge

Rediscovering Newtown

Nobody's Home: Inclusionary Grousing in Cambridge

Ready or Not, Here We Come, Cambridge!

Reforming Cambridge

The Rossi Factor Spin Zone

WTF, Cambridge?

Marching to Oblivion: The Good Intentions and Best-Laid Plans of CDD

Nolen's Cambridge Nightmare: Burying Olmsted's Vision Forever

Healyville, Healyville--Here at Last!

Multimillion-Dollar Baby Steps: Timmy Toomey Told You So

Revolutionary Ways to Stop Revolting Developments in the People's Republic of Cambridge

Group-groping Toward Utopia

The Abominable Snowjob

Navigating the Cambridge Floods with Your Smart Phone App

The Ivory Towering Inferno: Preparations for Global Warming on Cambridge Campuses

Comprehensive Planning as Occupational Therapy in Cambridge

Cambridge 2525: Parking Lot or Camelot? 

Hah Hah Hah Hahvahd

Cambridge: City of Blights and Delights

Cloud 9 Cambridge

The Cambridge Wonk Parade: Treating a Cancer on the Residency

Cambridge Reimagined: What's the Frequency, Kenneth Reeves?

Taming the Beast: The Cambridge Emergency Brake Job

Averting but Flirting with Disaster: The Cambridge Balanced Approach to Growth

The Jolly Green Giant Ecoplan

Growing Up in Cambridge: Extrapolating Mass+Main Methodology

Bio-techno-tele-Cambridge.com

The Cambridge Idea Exchange & Swap Meet

Ecstacy = MassAve x Central Square

(E = mc2)

Code Blue Cambridge

A CamBridge Too Far

The Cambridge Mistress Plan

Ms. and Mister Rossi's Neighborhood

The Cambridge Livin'-Wage-Is-Easy PLANtation

Cambridge Miracle Whip

Happy Ending Cambridge

Triumph of the Willpower

CamBridj Uber Call Lyft

Cambridge: The Final Solution

### END OF PART ONE ###

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015​,  Melissa ​Peters ​
mpeters (at) cambridgema.gov wrote:

Hello Community Leaders –

Please help spread the word about an opportunity to help name the Citywide Plan!

We received 200 suggestions for names, and now we need your vote! To participate, simply complete this survey to select your top choice by December 21, 2015 from the names below:

• Envision Cambridge
• Cambridge Forward
• Cambridge: A Community Plan
• Cambridge: Our Plan

Thanks!

Melissa Peters, AICP, LEED AP ND

Land Use Planner

Cambridge Community Development Department

344 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139

617/349-4605

mpeters (at) cambridgema.gov

www.cambridgema.gov/cdd

More Details About Use of Indian Names For Pro Teams

[From article]
Amanda Blackhorse, a Navajo who successfully moved a federal agency to withdraw trademark protections from the Washington Redskins because it considers the team's name derogatory, lives on a reservation where Navajos root for the Red Mesa High School Redskins. She opposes this name; the Native Americans who picked and retain it evidently do not.
[. . .]
In today's regulatory state, agencies often do pretty much as they please, exercising discretion unconstrained by law.
In today's regulatory state, agencies often do pretty much as they please, exercising discretion unconstrained by law.
[. . .]
Thomas Sowell is correct that "some people are in the business of being offended, just as Campbell is in the business of making soup,"
[. . .]
People offended by this might be similarly distressed if they knew that "Oklahoma" is a compound of two Choctaw words meaning "red" and "people."
[. . .]
When two Oregon bakers chose, for religious reasons, not to provide a cake for a same-sex wedding, an Oregon government official explained why tolerance meant coercing the bakers: "The goal is to rehabilitate." Tolerance required declaring the bakers' beliefs and practices intolerable. We are going to discover whether a society can be congenial while its government is being coercive regarding wedding cakes and team names.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will062814.php3#.U7IqGd0--yM

Jewish World Review
June 28, 2014

Are you offended?
By George Will

Latest On Obama's Name Change

[From Article]
"I’ve known since the very beginning that David Axelrod astroturfed the whole “Birther” movement as an excuse for the media to ignore calls for Obama to produce his birth certificate. This is the oldest trick in the political book: if you don’t want your critics to ask about something, set the stage so that if they try to, you can used Alinsky polarizing/name-calling tactics against them.

As in, start asking WHY Obama won’t show his birth certificate — which is a ridiculous thing to refuse to show — and instantly the media calls you a “Birther!” and accuses you of buying into the conspiracy that Obama was born in Africa or maybe Vancouver. It was a great strategy on Axelrod’s part that kept the truth from being revealed for over three years now."

http://hillbuzz.org/2011/01/23/hawaii-ground-report-could-hawaiian-governor-neil-abercrombie-not-be-as-incompetent-and-foolish-as-he-appears-but-orchestrating-a-deliberate-birth-certificate-recovery-dead-end-to-cover-his-own-pap/

January 23, 2011
HAWAII GROUND REPORT: Could Hawaiian Governor Neil Abercrombie not be as incompetent and foolish as he appears, but orchestrating a deliberate birth certificate recovery dead end to cover his own papakole? UPDATED: Mystery solved! Reason Obama will not release birth certificate is because his name is legally written “Barry Soetoro” on it.
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