Interesting. So UAINE is kind of a side project of IAC. I hadn't realized that, but it would explain the observations that I made in my
post on the Day of Mourning event. As far as I know they have no connection with
NAICOB. I had wondered about that, why there wouldn't be collaboration there. (But then, there is a lot of politics around NAICOB that go way over my head.) It seems from Russell Peters'
statement on the Pilgrim Hall Museum website that sometime between the 70s and the 90s, leadership of the annual 11/25 protest in Plymouth shifted from the Mashpee Wampanoags to UAINE. I also wonder about the circumstances of that.
About the address, I live a couple blocks from there and it is a big complex on the site of a former brewery - well actually I think Sam Adams still maintains some kind of a facility there where they give tours(?) But anyway, some of the buildings seem to have Germania St. addresses while others are are on Amory; I wouldn't read too much into that part of it. Most of the Brewery complex is now owned by the local
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation which leases the spaces out to mostly small businesses and nonprofits. Some other orgs I know of housed there are the Tony Williams dance company which puts on the
Urban Nutcracker,
Bikes Not Bombs which does youth vocational training and international development, and
Urbano which is a youth arts program for inner-city kids.
Thanks for your research on this. I think there are a few more members of this forum from MA and I look forward to hearing their perspectives too, if any.
ps - It was a sad night in my neighborhood, I just went to a
vigil tonight for an incident where a gang feud left 3 young men dead in a busy restaurant on Sunday afternoon, a bystander injured, and many witnesses traumatized. I'm praying today for justice and for healing, here and everywhere, and I invite you to join me.
