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{COVER Pg 8

What 300 Extra Hours Will Meanto Some NY Schools

{LOCAL Pg 4 - 10

Local Efforts Support At-RiskMale Students in the RochesterCommunity Wright Preps Boardof Trustees Looking forRochester Community Voices Friends of the GardenAerialand Elected Ofcials AnnounceGreentopia Festivals 2013 Mayor Thomas S. Richards OnBausch + Lomb Leaving Rural Metro Files Bankruptcy toCut Debt in Half Monroe County Finances Continueto Deteriorate Upstate NY Leaders andCommunity

Members Hold Rally at FederalDetention Center Project Homeless ConnectReturns to Rochester

{TATE Pg 12

NY apple growers announcenames of 2 new varieties; at farmstands this fall, stores in 15 NY attorney general postsapplications for land banks to turnvacant properties

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US careful not to let Snowdendestroy Russia ties

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Remembering Rochesters OscarGrants

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your favorite song, that feeling whenyou hear it come on in the club, thatpassion thats expressed and how youfeel when you hear it. When I createmusic, I dont worry how other peoplewill view or judge it, because at theend of the day my music is like a bigdiary. When Im done wring my mindis clear, I feel relieved and I can goon with my life. I also get to sing anddance to it when I hear it too. Theresno beer feeling than sing in thestudio and hearing a banger that youjust created.

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Born and raised on Rochesterswest side, by a single mother andgrandmother, M.A.R.S got his rstintroducon to music in the thirdgrade where he played the trombone.He put down his instrument and pickedup a pen and began songwring at thetender age of 12 where he developedhis skills as a songwriter.

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The lack of a true father gure in hislife led him to the street life of the city.M.A.R.S said his music saved him andhe can reect on his past through hismusic.

I learned a lot of things the hard way,being in the streets and dealing drugs,seeing people killed in front of me,losing people close to me. My music isa representaon of the struggle that Ihave been through.

There are several dierent typesof rappers in the music industry.Conscious rappers, mixtape rappers,

commercial rappers and gangsterrappers are just a few on the list.M.A.R.S said he can be all types basedon the song. But he tries to keep it asposive.

My style does not have a type, I tryto cover every topic that I have lived orexperienced. I can be hood, polical,and religious at mes, record a songwith 100 bars like a mix tape rapper,and sll make songs for the ladies allin one album and be successful at it.I try to make sure there is somethingfor everybody on the material that Iput out. Most of my music is posive,about striving forward when mes gettough and about beering yourself. I

make that feel good music. Like newold school. I try to separate myselfwith my music by having a broad genreof topics, using samples and melodiesfrom dierent genres such as pop androck, and by thoroughly thinking out

the concepts and ideas that I use tomake music.

M.A.R.S aributes his inspiraon tomul-planum rap arsts T.I., Jadakissand rap icon Jay-Z. I believe everyrapper has been inuenced by Jay Zwhether they tell you that they havebeen or not. His lyrics, his stories, and

the way he always stays on top of thegame. Hes a great rapper and evenbeer businessman. I always wantedto be Jay Z growing up. I would loveto work with Kendrick Lamar, Drake,Fabolous, 2 Chainz, Andre 3000. Iwould love to work with singers likeFrank Ocean or Jeremih.

M.A.R.S has performed locally at theAuditorium Center and Water StreetMusic Hall. Hes also graced stagesin New York City, New Jersey andPhiladelphia. He says his greatestaccomplishment has been the outletsto which his music has been spread.

I may not have a deal now, butonce my material is complete I havethe connects established to get mymusic heard by the masses. I havehad my music on some of the biggestand upcoming sites such as Brobible.com and thatnewjam.com and I havemusic on MTVs web site as we speak.I have been contacted by collegeradio throughout the country askingfor permission. I just recently endedinternship at BMG. Because of thesesites, my audience has been growingand people want to hear more fromme.

M.A.R.S is currently recording musicand geng prepped for his albumrelease The Double Bind, as well asgeng ready to go back to grad school.He said he will always be connected tohis Rochester roots and will stay trueto the man that he is.

Rochester has made me who Iam today. The way that I think, theway that I adapt, and the way that Ihandle things all derive from the townI was raised in and our es will neverchange. We are on the map once I geta deal. I never speak on anything thatI have not or will not ever do. I will notlie about who I am, what I have doneand where I came from. Anybodywho knows me knows that thereis no dierence between MarsellisMcGowan the person and M.A.R.S therapper. I love to have fun, love to livelife.


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Local Efforts upport At-Risk Male tudents in the Rochester CommunityBy Delani Weaver

Black and Lano men are more atrisk for dropping out of school thanany other race. Stascs show thatRochester has the lowest Black andLano male graduaon rates thananywhere else in the country. In 2010alone, a disturbing 9 percent of Blackmales and 10 percent of Lano malesgraduated from high school.

In eorts to curve this number andkeep more Black and Lano malestudents in school and ensure theygraduate, a new partnership betweenNorth East Area Development, Inc.(NEAD), John James Audubon School33 and the University of Rochesters

Warner School of Educaon will putforth me and thousands of dollarsto implement community basedstrategies to reach that goal.

We are pleased to be given theopportunity to partner with NEAD andSchool 33 in this capacity, says DeanRaaella Borasi of the Warner School.We look forward to working with ourpartners in achieving our mutual goal,which is to provide students and their

families in the Rochester community

with a solid structure and supportsystem as they move through school.

The New York State Department ofEducaon awarded NEAD, School33 and the Warner School funds toconstruct and manage a 21st CenturyCommunity Learning Center (CCLC)in Rochester. The $945,000 awardwill be spread over 3 years to provideseveral dierent services aimed atkeeping Black and Lano males in theBeechwood neighborhood enrolled inschool and inspired to graduate.

This program is called LiteracyEngagement and AchievementProgram, also known as Project

LEAP. NEAD was the only communityorganizaon locally to receive a 21stCentury Community Learning Center(CCLC) grant.

George Moses, execuve directorof NEAD, the acve neighborhoodassociaon where School 33 is located,says that this neighborhood place-based strategy is a much targetedapproach to reach a very vulnerablepopulaon.

As we talk about the holisc child,there is an academic piece in schooland an academic piece out of school,says Moses, who will lead this eort.Few actually take into accountinformal learning outside of theclassroom, but Project LEAP does. Itsan authenc partnership, with a verybalanced approach, that will maximizewhat each partner does well.

An aerschool program meeng twicea week, individual literacy instruconprogram for kindergarten throughthird-grade students who need itmost, monthly STEM Family Saturdaysto include family members in math,

science, and technology learningacvies, mentoring and outreachacvies for youth and familymembers, and two summer programsare all included in the programsacvies.

School 33 Principal Larry Ellison saysthat the sta at School 33 is workinghard to change the course of itsstudents.

We recognize that to change thisnaonwide trend, we need addionalsupport for our students, Ellison says.

The mission of the sta at School 33 isto educate all students to their highestlevels of performance, in eecvelymanaged learning environments thatare safe, producve, inclusive andstudent-centered and in collaboraonwith families and communitypartners.

Under NEADs leadership, Project LEAPwill design, deliver, and evaluate about200 hours of high-quality, expandedlearning opportunies outside of thetradional school day each year to210 students in School 33 who facechallenges in achieving academicstandards. Addionally, more thanhalf of these students will also aend

the Horizons at Warner, a six weeksummer enrichment program andFreedom School summer enrichmentprograms for an addional 180 hoursof summer programming.

Our partnership between NEADand the Warner School is expectedto provide the support that we areseeking in improving the academicsuccesses of our students, and we arevery excited about the forthcomingopportunies that Project LEAP willbring to our at-risk male populaon,Ellison said.

Wright Preps Boardof Trustees Looking forRochester Community Voices

Residents of Rochester are beingwelcomed by Wright Preps board oftrustees to aend an informaonalmeeng about Mary L. Wright School,a health and legal career school thathas been proposed.

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The weeklong event, Greentopiawas a series of ve fesvals within alarger, curated and designed eventinclusive of ecofest, music, lm andfutures Summit and DESIGN. Now inits third year, it includes: interacveexperiences; eco-friendly vendors andexhibitors; thought leaders; speakers;performers and arsts who showcasenew ideas, creaons and who presentcung-edge technologies.

Greentopia is a project of Friendsof the GardenAerial, which will becelebrang all things sustainable inthe Rochester and Finger Lakes area

and making sure that the communityis educated on praccing a holisc andsustainable or green life. Greentopiawants the community to know howto live healthier lives and promote

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Mayor Thomas . Richards On Bausch + Lomb Leaving

By Delani Weaver

Baush + Lomb recently announcedthat it will be moving its headquartersfrom Rochester to New Jersey to cutcosts and save millions. However,with the millions of dollars that willbe saved for the company, 1700 of thecompanys Rochester employees areat risk of losing their job.

Mayor Thomas Richards is urgingthe company to remain in Rochesterand keep the over 1,000 Rochesterresidents employed.

I have had contact with theValeants management and urged

them to connue their presence andinvestment in Rochester, Richardssaid. While it is encouraging that thecompany is making a commitmentto keeping the R&D (research anddevelopment) and manufacturingfacilies in Rochester, the company issignaling they will move the companyheadquarters out of the City. Thisleaves a great many jobs and thefuture of the tower in queson.

How much of a reducon inemployees worldwide the companywill administer, is unknown as is theamount of Rochester employeesthat will be let go. Richards said thatunknown answers are sure to causeuneasiness amongst employees, buthe hopes that whatever the amountof reducons, the aected employeeswill soon be recruited by other localbusinesses.

Our thoughts are with the employeesand their families who will beaected. However, Rochester hasbeen through this before. We are aresilient community and hopefully,whatever the job losses will total, we

hope those people will be absorbedby other area businesses and by newentrepreneurs.

Bausch + Lomb, founded in Rochesterin 1853, is one of the citys landmarkcompanies along with Kodak andXerox. Valeant Pharmaceucalsbought the eye care company last year.

Kodak led for bankruptcy lastyear and has since sold several of

its patents to dierent companiesincluding Facebook, Google, Samsungand Microso for over $500,000,000.The downtown Kodak site has recentlybeen bought by Monroe CommunityCollege.

While we work to maintain a futurepresence of our citys hallmarkemployers, we understand that ourcommunitys relaonship with ouronce-large employers is foreverchanged. This is true for Rochesterand for so many other cies acrossthe naon. As a result, I considerour work to leverage public fundsto spur private investment and jobcreaon will connue to be one of

the most important funcons of Citygovernment.

Richards said he understands thatthe Rochester area is changing butwill make sure that jobs connueto come and stay in the area. Ourarea is transforming; that we cannotchange. But we do have a say in whatwe transform into. I will ensure thatCity Hall remains dedicated to growingour local economy and seeing that

all of Rochesters residents have anopportunity for a job and a place inour future.

Mayor Thomas Richards

Rural Metro Files

Bankruptcy to Cut Debt in HalfRural Metro reached an agreement foran all-inclusive nancial restructuringplan with the hopes that it will balanceout the companys debt and interestexpenses by as much as 50 percent bytransforming specic debt into equity.

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Beginning in eptember, students in 40 schoolsin five states will embark on a school yearthat will be 300 hours longer than last year,the equivalent of about 50 extra days.

The schools, with nearly 11,000students, are part of a three-yearpilot iniave whose goal is to booststudent achievement and make U.S.schools more compeve on a globallevel. The other schools involved areColorado, Conneccut, Massachuses,

New York and Tennessee.

Ocials hope the schools willbecome models for more widespreadexpansion of extended learning methroughout the country.

Individual districts have leeway in howto build the extra hours into the schoolday or year. To understand what itwill look like in New York, here areanswers provided by the Rochester

Central School District, the statesonly parcipang district in the Timefor Innovaon Maers in Educaon(TIME) iniave.

Q: Whose idea was this initiative?

A: The TIME idea is a partnershipbetween the nonprot FordFoundaon, which has commied$3 million a year over the next threeyears, and the Boston-based Naonal

Center on Time & Learning. The center,whose focus is expanding learningme to improve student achievement,is providing technical assistance to thestates.

Q: How many Rochester schools will participateand how and why were they chosen?

A: Superintendent Bolgen Vargashas made expanding learning me apriority in his troubled western New

York district, where the four-yearhigh school graduaon rate is whathe calls a painfully unacceptable43 percent. Administrators believepart of the reason is that Rochesterstudents spend less me in schoolthan suburban and charter schoolpeers. Five elementary schools wereselected from among 18 invited bythe district to submit proposals forthe TIME iniave last September. Theplans had to include a mix of academic,

enrichment and social programming.

Q: How will they add 300 hours into the year?

A: Generally, the schools are adding 90minutes to the school day, so insteadof spending a lile less than 6 hoursin school, students will spend abouteight, with the day starng at 8 or 8:15a.m. and dismissal set for 4 or 4:15p.m.

Q: How will schools use that time?

A: Schools cant just tack the meonto the end of the day for, forexample, tutoring. They were told toreimagine the school day in a way

that incorporates not only academicsand extra help in subjects such asreading but also the arts and otherenrichment they might not haveme for now, along with things likecounseling sessions or school andcommunity projects. Each schooldeveloped its own plan with a specictheme. One is focused on STEM,science, technology, engineering, andmathemacs learning, so studentsthere might get involved in a computeranimaon club or use a 3-D rover tochart a track through the building.Another schools focus is arts, healthand wellness, while yet another,located in the heart of the city, willvisit cultural instuons with an aim

toward college and career readiness.

Q: How much will this cost, and how will it bepaid for?

A: The district has budgeted $1,200to $1,300 for each of the 2,300parcipang students, which willcover such things as extra ulity costs,nursing services and paper supplies aswell as the addional programming.The districts expanded learningdirector, Caterina Leone-Mannino,cites a dizzying array of funding thatincludes the inial investment fromthe Ford Foundaon and various stateand federal grants.

Q: Are teachers on board with this?

A: Yes. The teachers in each school hadto approve their schools parcipaonby an 80 percent majority vote.

Teachers wont necessarily workaddional hours, though those who dowill be paid for them. In many cases,schools will use exible scheduling,staggering start mes to cover more ofthe day without requiring addionalsta me.

Q: What about students?

A: School No. 46 Principal THaniPantoja said in-school surveys have

shown students are excited aboutthe idea, especially the addion ofdance, music and theater, which willoer benets beyond fun. Said Leone-Mannino: A struggling reader mighthave an addional period for readerstheater, where theyre praccingscripts and acng out and learningdrama. Thats actually helping them asa support for their reading.

Q: What do parents think?

A: Pantoja said parents have beensurveyed at length and have hadmany quesons. Once theyve goenanswers, most support extendedlearning. Many worried whether

transportaon will be provided (itwill), whether buses will sll dropo children at aer-school day care(they will) and what services studentswill receive (varying, based on need).Parents of kindergartners are beingassured the youngsters will get brainbreaks and plenty of me to moveduring the longer days.

Q: How will we know if its working?

A: Since the main goal is gengstudents to learn, local and New Yorkstate assessments should show signs ofprogress. To a lesser extent, the districtwill also measure success based onstudent engagement, looking at things

like aendance rates, parcipaonand the number of mes students getsent to the principals oce.

Q: Was this a tough sell for the community?

A: No. Few, if any, city residents aresased with the districts performanceand want it to improve. Administratorssay not only have parents and teacherssupported lengthening the school day,but community instuons have alsostepped up, oering resources.

Q: Will other Rochester schools eventuallyexpand their days?

A: Rochester wants to work with a

second group of schools during theupcoming school year to get themready to launch extended learning inthe 2014-15 school year.

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By Delani Weaver

Every day, while driving around thecity we see men and women holdingsigns saying will work for food orhomeless, please help. We see

them laying on the ground aroundgrocery stores, bus stops and parks.Approximately, 650 homeless people

currently live in the Rochester area.

Food stamps, SSI, veterans benets,subsidized housing and daycare,Medicaid, job training and severalother programs and services are

available to the community, howeverbecause applying is a long andsomemes frustrang process, it

usually becomes the determiningfactor between a life of homeless anda secure, stable life. If a person has lostimportant paperwork, social securitycard or idencaon card, they dontget any help.

Project Homeless Connect willreturning to Rochester for a third yearto host a conference for the homelesspopulaon, sponsored by the Cityof Rochester at the Blue Cross ArenaSeptember 20. This event will bringsall resources available to a person orfamily in need of help to one place andeliminang the worry of having to gofrom place to place around the city.

The Blue Cross Arena will be donatedfor the event free of charge by the cityalong with the employees needed toset up and clean up aer the event.

The conference will be providing hot

showers, foot care, haircuts, coatsand hot meals to the homeless andprovide them with access to servicesand programs that have long term

benets such as medical and dentalservices, housing, employment andtraining and legal services.

Local non-prot organizaon,PathStone Corporaon has donated

over $20,000 for the event as wellas provided sta to organize themechanics of seng up the eventincluding booths, computer and powerhookups and provider coordinaon.PathStone will also act as the scalagent for the conference this year.

400 people are urged to volunteer forthe day of the event. Foodlink andNazareth College will be recruing andtraining the volunteers and providingT-shirts so volunteers can be idened.

Eorts are being made to obtain in-kind donaons such as coats, food,and other clothing for the day.

For more informaon about ProjectHomeless contact PathStone Corp:585-340-3345

Monroe County is facing seriousmoney problems according to the2012 Monroe County ConsolidatedAnnual Financial Report (CAFR) that

was recently released. The StateComptroller has labeled MonroeCounty as being under signicant scalstress and Democrats in the CountyLegislature are weighing in on theinformaon from the report.

Democrac Leader Carrie Andrewssays that County Execuve MaggieBrooks and her administraon knowswhat is going on but have beenignoring the issues.

As in years past, the BrooksAdministraon connues to sckits head in the sand and ignore theproblems facing our County, Andrewssaid. By connuing to ulize one-shot revenue sources instead of

transparently balancing the Countysrevenues and expenditures, thisadministraon has decimated theCountys nancial well-being. The

Countys total net assets from allacvies have declined by more than50% in the past eleven years and thetrend line is steadily deteriorang. Itdoes not require nancial genius tosee that this County is headed towarda nancial disaster.

2012 ended with a balance in theGeneral Fund where the propertytax rate is determined of $1,708,000,according to the County report.However, Democrats have donefurther invesgaons and have foundthat the reason there is a balance inthe fund is because deferred pensioncosts to the State Rerement Systemwere not reported in the GeneralFund.

The County has deferred $31,411,000of pension costs for 2010, 2011 and2012. If the County had reported itsunpaid pension bills, the General

Fund would have had a decit of$28,028,000 at the end of 2012. Theseunpaid pension costs must be paid overthe next ten years and must be paidwith interest to the State comptroller.

Democrac Legislator Paul Haney(D-Rochester) said that this situaonhas been a long me coming andMonroe County isnt the only countythat is facing the same crisis.

We have been warning about thisrapidly approaching scal crisis formany years, Haney said. We are notalone. Erie and Nassau counes haveFiscal Control Boards. Other counesare in serious trouble. The rst step tosolving this crical problem is to stop

deecng blame and hiding from ourproblems and admit that we have aserious problem on our hands. Thesecond step is to begin a meaningfuldialogue across the aisle and with thecommunity about the problem andpossible soluons. We must nd someway to work together to stop thisCounty from following in the footstepsof other failed municipalies.

Monroe County Finances Continue to Deteriorate

LOCAL

Upstate Y Leaders and CommunityMembers Hold Rally at Federal Detention CenterBy Delani Weaver

People are demanding jusce forimmigrants and a fair immigraonsystem. Upstate NY residents areunsased with the recent billintroduced in the Senate and areraising their voices for change.

The Greater Rochester Coalionfor Immigraon Jusce (GRCIJ)along with community members,36 various organizaons, religiousleaders and lawyers rallied togetherlast Tuesday evening at the BataviaFederal Detenon Center demanding

immigraon reform, equal protecon,equal treatment under the law anda fair pathway to cizenship forimmigrants.

Dr. John Lory Ghertner of MigrantSupport Services of Wayne Countysaid, We are speaking out to ourconcern that the present reform

package as produced in the Senateand the discussion in the House isharmful to the farmworker communityin Western NY and, if enacted, wouldhave negave eects on the economyof this area.

GRCIJ says that they are pleased thatthe need for substanal reform is beingrecognized, however the coalion isnot in support of doubling the amountof Border Patrol agents, addionalborder fencing, helicopters, andcosng American taxpayers another$30 billion.

Currently there are 2200 agents arethe border and this new plan will have3400 agents by 2014. Of the 42 U.Sborder patrol staons, Rochestersstaon detains the most people,according to the coalion.

Coalion member Phyllis Tierney said,We are very concerned that thisimmigraon bill pass congress andwe are concerned about the posionthat some people in the house havetaken which is trying to take away orto postpone the ability of people whohave worked here for a number ofyears to earn cizenship. We depend

on them for our food supplies andmany areas whether its construconor landscaping. So where would we bewithout them because they take jobsthat no one else will apply for and webuild on what they do. Imagine what itwould be like.

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Y apple growers announce names of2 new varieties; at farm stands this fall, stores in 15THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALBANY, New York New Yorks applegrowers are releasing the names oftwo newapples that will soon hitselected farm stands aer more thana decade of development byCornell University.

The variees are now known simply as

New York 1 and New York 2. Therst isdescribed as crisp and juicy likeits parent, the popular Honeycrisp.Cornell says the secondis suited forbaking and fresh use and is high invitamin C.

Cornells apple-breeding programhas taken a new approach tocommercializing the newvariees.

Instead of publicly releasing them to allgrowers, Cornell has forged a licensingagreement with a new industry group,New York Apple Growers.

The names will be released Thursdayat Cornells annual fruit grower elddays in Geneva

Y attorney general postsapplications for land banks to turn vacant propertiesTHE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ALBANY, New York The New YorkAorney Generals Oce has postedapplicaons for $20 million to helpLand Banks restore abandonedproperes.

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Aorney General Eric Schneidermanis dedicang money from the 2012naonal selement with ve majormortgage lenders over foreclosurepracces.

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13 www.minorityreporter.net|august 12 - 18|2013NATIONAL

U careful not to let nowden destroy Russia tiesBRADLEY KLAPPER

WASHINGTON (AP) - Russias decisionto grant asylum to Edward Snowdenhas upset the Obama administraonand enraged Congress. But if theUnited States wasnt prepared to scrapits maddeningly dicult relaonshipwith Russia because of missiledefense, human rights or Syriascivil war, its unlikely the 30-year-oldNaonal Security Agency leaker alonewill sour es irrevocably between twopowers that both have moved pasttheir half-century Cold War for globalsupremacy.

Aer Snowden le the transit zoneof Moscows airport and ociallyentered Russia on Thursday, the WhiteHouse declared itself extremelydisappointed and suggestedPresident Barack Obama wouldreconsider his autumn summit withRussian President Vladimir Pun inMoscow.

American lawmakers threatenedworse, from demanding Russia forfeitits right to host a summit of the worldsbiggest economies to quesoningwhether Washington and Moscowcan now cooperate at all. Some inCongress have spoken of boycongnext years Winter Olympics in thesouthern Russian city of Sochi.

Russias acon today is a disgrace anda deliberate eort to embarrass theUnited States. It is a slap in the faceof all Americans, Sen. John McCain,R-Ariz., said. Now is the me tofundamentally rethink our relaonshipwith Puns Russia.

Retaliaon against Russia comes at acost, however. Pun has proved overmore than a decade in power that hellrespond to perceived oenses fromthe United States, whether in the formof a missile defense network in Europeor U.S. support for pro-democracydemonstraons in Ukraine, Georgiaand other neighboring naons. And forall the tough talk in Washington, theU.S. knows it needs Pun to promotea range of American naonal securityinterests and has tried to temper itsreacon to Puns provocaons.

Without the Kremlins help, the U.S.would have a harder me containingterrorist groups in the South Caucasus,ensuring supply routes to U.S. troopsin Afghanistan and prevenng Iranfrom developing nuclear weapons.And it would have zero chance ofpersuading Syrian President BasharAssad to join rebels in peace talksto end a war that has killed 100,000people, includes compeng claimsof massacres and chemical weaponsuse, and has pulled Washington andMoscow onto opposing sides.

The administraons rst reacon toSnowdens asylum was condemnatorybut cauous.

We are extremely disappointed thatthe Russian government would takethis step despite our very clear andlawful requests in public and privatethat Mr. Snowden be expelled andreturned to the United States, WhiteHouse press secretary Jay Carney said.

The U.S. has demanded that Russiasend Snowden home to faceprosecuon for espionage over hisleaks that revealed widespread U.S.telephone and Internet surveillance.For more than a month, Russianauthories le him stranded at theairport aer he ew there from HongKong, unwilling to grant him temporaryresidence or travel documents that hecould use without a valid U.S. passportto travel on to Lan America. The sagaended Thursday, when Snowden wasgranted a one-year stay.

However, even Pun has seemedintent on liming the fallout. Beforethe decision, he said asylum wouldbe conngent on Snowden refrainingfrom leaking any more materials -suggesng that even as the Russianleader considered knowingly provokingthe United States, he didnt want toharbor a fugive who would seek toaunt his safe status beyond the reachof American law enforcement.

Paul Saunders, execuve directorof the conservave Center forNaonal Interest think tank, saidthe administraon erred in exerng

worldwide pressure to preventSnowden from nding a new home.

The administraon backed Moscowinto a corner, thinking that would pressthem to give in, he said. In fact, it justmade them harden their posion.

Speaking to reporters, Carney declinedto outline what consequences Russiamight face.

He suggested only that Obama wasreconsidering his upcoming tete-a-tete with Pun, which was supposedto focus on the Syrian civil war andrighng a relaonship with Russiathat the U.S. president already triedto reset once aer taking oce in2009.

Canceling the meeng would be asurprise, however, considering thatObama was willing to meet despiteRussias ban on U.S. adopons, itscrackdown on pro-democracy groupsand gay rights organizaons, and itsconnued military and diplomacsupport for the Assad regime.

Carney said Moscows decision

undermined U.S.-Russian lawenforcement cooperaon that hadimproved since two ethnic Chechenswere blamed for the Boston Marathonbombings. American ocials will reachout to their Russian counterparts,Carney said, but he pointedly refusedto detail any diplomac repercussionsfor Moscow.

Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spelled outone, calling on Obama to recommendmoving the G-20 summit of worldleaders in St. Petersburg on Sept. 5-6.

Russia has stabbed us in the back, andeach day that Mr. Snowden is allowedto roam free is another twist of theknife, Schumer said.

The Senate already had been workingon sancons against any countryprepared to help Snowden avoidextradion to the United States. Themeasure introduced last week by Sen.Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., demands thatthe State Department coordinate withlawmakers on seng penales againstnaons oering Snowden asylum.The Senate panel backed Grahamsproposal, without objecons.

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Oscar Grant asshot and killed by

Bay Area RapidTransit policeOcer JohannesM e h s e r l ein Oakland,California onJanuary 1, 2009.

As I sat in Theater16 waing towatch Fruitvale

Staon, the lm about Oscar Grantslast day on earth, I couldnt help butwonder if the other four people in thetheater realized that less than 10 milesfrom the big movie screen in front ofus, the Rochester Police Departmenthas its own Oscar Grants.

Denise Hawkins was shot and killed

by Rochester Police ocer MichaelLeach, as she ran from her abusiveboyfriend;

Alicia McCuller was shot and killedby Rochester Police Ocer Thomas L.Whitmore, and according to neighborsstood over her, and red a second shotinto her as she lay dying;

Calvin Greene was unarmed whenRochester Police Ocer Gary E. Smithshot him three mes at close rangekilling him instantly;

Vandy Davis, a 21-year old father ofthree, shot and killed by RochesterPolice ocer David Gebhardt, who

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to go o, striking Davis in the chest;

Craig Heard, a 14-year-old shot twicein the head by Rochester Police ocersSerge Savitche, and Hector Padgham;

Israel Izzy Andino, a mentally-ill young man, was shot by sevenRochester police ocers in whatneighbors described as a modern-dayring squad.

I went to see Fruitvale Staon, for thesame reason the lms director, RyanCoogler, made the movie: Because Iwanted to know Oscar Grant.

I wanted to know him as more than

just a name. I wanted to know himas more than just another innocent

African-American, or Lano youngman shot and killed by a white cop.

Coogler helped me do that.

I laughed. I cried. But throughoutthe movie I also did something else:I thought of all the innocent vicms,killed by Rochester police ocers.

I thought of their stories, theirstruggles, their dreams, their families,and of the children some of them lebehind.

Throughout the lm, I just couldntkeep from thinking of Rochesters ownOscar Grants.

Theviewsexpressedonouropinionpagesarethoseoftheauthoranddonotnecessarilyrepresentthe

positionorviewpointofMinorityReporter.OPINION/EDITORIALRemembering Rochesters Oscar Grants

DAVY VARA

John CalvinM i t c h e l l ,h u s b a n dof ConnieMitchell, fatherof ConstanceM i t c h e l l -Jeerson, myPop #2, family-man personied,

and friend tomankind arrivedin this dimension

April 21, 1930.

John was born in Segura, (New Iberia)Louisiana. At age 83, in Rochester,N.Y., he le us on July 3, 2013, twodays before he was to celebrate his63rd wedding anniversary. His funeral(home going) was celebrated at St.Monicas Catholic Church, and wasociated by Father Ray Fleming,as well as Pastor and Father RobertWerth.

John and Connie Mitchell moved toRochester in 1950, and were living on

Greig Street in the Cornhill area when Irst met them, as a child. I am certainI have known them since elementaryschool. I know I have spent so muchme with the family, many in thiscommunity believed I was a relave byway of Louisiana.

I am not sure if it was the golf courseor poker table that caused them tomake friends with my parents Jamesand Wilma Winston. I do recall my rstinvolvement in the polical arena hadsomething to do with going door todoor passing out literature for ConnieMitchell, who historically became therst black woman in Rochester electedto polical oce. Connies campaign

manager was her husband, JohnMitchell. It is oen said that behind

every good man is a good woman,but in this case, just the opposite rangtrue.

Those who knew John Mitchell knewhe was, in his own right, a mightyforce in this community. He was theepitome of a quiet storm. Thosewho were asked to speak at his going-home service reected, from their

hearts, their personal experiences andmemories of such a great man. JohnMitchells living was certainly not invain.

Three years aer arriving in Rochester,John was hired as a machinist at theRochester division of General Motors.He worked for General Motors andrered aer 30 years. John went frommachinist to becoming a coordinatorin personnel, before rerement.He also became the rst loanedexecuve at GM from 1967 to 1973.During this me period he becamedirector of Project Upli for the UrbanLeague of Rochester; communityacon coordinator at Acon for a

Beer Community; and director of theHousing Council for the United Way ofRochester.

Upon returning to GM John held theposion of EEO director, coordinatorof salaried personnel, coordinator ofhourly personnel, assistant managerof hourly personnel, and coordinatorof aendance control.

Rerement did not prevent John fromconnuing his work in the community.He remained acve as a volunteer withmany community organizaons, bothprofessional and civic. His involvementin the community included, but wasnot limited to, organizaons such

as The Mens Service Center (nowPathway House), Manhaan Golf Club,

Rochester Rotary Club, the Boys andGirls Club advisory board, Red Wingsboard, Monicas Church, Baden StreetSelement, Genesee Selement,Salvaon Armys board, Bishop SheenFoundaons board, Council on SocialAgencies board, Acon For a BeerCommunity, the F.I.G.H.T. Organizaonand co-founding the Urban League ofRochester.

Readings were given by KarenMcClearn and Gloria Winston Al-Sarag. The extraordinary vocals ofDeborah Cox, Rose Stokes and SenitraCastelberry contributed greatly to theoccasion.

Among the rst set of speakers at thishome-going service, were MahewAugusne, who shared personalreecons regarding his relaonshipwith John Mitchell. Minister FranklinFlorence Sr. shared communityreecons. He spoke about whenand how he rst met the Mitchells,highlighng a variety of communityiniaves they worked on together.

Scheduled to speak, but not in town,was former Mayor William A. Johnson.His wrien remarks were shared byPrecious Fontenee, revealing tosome and reminding others that Johnwas his campaign manager when herst ran for mayor and won. RotaryClub President Peter Kelderhouseshared his personal reecons andexperiences with John in the civicarena.

Family tributes were given by GeorgeFontenee Jr., represenng thecousins, and George W. Mitchell Jr.,represenng the nieces and nephews.Mahew Stevens, also known as

Chuckie, represented those who sawJohn Mitchell as a friend and father

gure.

Johns grandson Gregory C. Jeersonwas unable to aend but sent wordsthat were read by Andre Fontenee.Constance Mitchell-Jeersonsomehow found the strength to oerreecons on her father, highlighngwhat an extraordinary husband andfamily man he was.

One of the more prized possessionsJohn Mitchell le GM with uponrerement was his GM discount. Iused to listen intently on how he lovedto negoate with car salesmen andthen would drop the fact that he had aGM discount on them. John also lovedgames of chance. I am not sure if heliked playing the loery or poker best.

He also belonged to a group of menwho called themselves the ROMEO.I believe ROMEO meant Rered OldMen Eang Out. They would meetmonthly for lunch.

Not only did I love John Calvin Mitchell,

and look up to him as so many othersdid, I felt it was important to sharethis snapshot of his life, in my columnespecially. Im hoping that my youngerreaders will take the me to considerwhat a meaningful life looks like.

We have so many hidden treasuresand so much history in our community,much of it goes missing because thelocal history oered in our schoolsdoes not reect the lives of communityicons like John Mitchell. John CalvinMitchells contribuons to thiscommunity are more than noteworthy.The lives he touched and the work hedid clearly, and loudly, speaks for him.

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GLORIA WITO AL-ARAG

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