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Boston Pastor Meets with Governor Lynch

2009-08-14T12:52:00.000-05:00

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Boston Pastor Asks Lynch For Help Reducing Gun Violence

Massachusetts Officials Say Most Guns Used In Crimes Come From Other States

POSTED: 5:47 pm EDT August 12, 2009

UPDATED: 6:20 pm EDT August 12, 2009

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Pastor Bruce Wall of Global Ministries Christian Church has long been outspoken about gun violence in Massachusetts. The topic got new attention recently when Philip Markoff was charged with using a gun bought in New Hampshire to kill a woman he met on craigslist.org.

Wall said the people who use the guns illegally need to take responsibility for their own actions, but he said he thinks that by bringing more awareness to the issue, it could prevent tragedies.

"What's happening is residents from Boston are traveling to New Hampshire and working with the locals, New Hampshire residents," Wall said. "New Hampshire residents are purchasing the weapons and giving those weapons to those from Massachusetts."

In the Granite State, a resident who passes a background check can purchase a gun. In Massachusetts, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said that of the guns used in Massachusetts crimes, only 20 percent were purchased in the Bay State, and the rest came from states with more lax gun laws.

Wall said he visited New Hampshire to get Lynch's attention. Lynch has told News 9 that he believes the state's gun laws are appropriate, but Wall said he isn't trying to change the law.

"I'm coming to New Hampshire and asking the governor if he will publically say to New Hampshire young people, 'This is not right. You need to be careful,'" Wall said.

Wall and Lynch did speak for a few minutes behind closed doors. Wall said they talked about coming up with a plan that would allow them to work together.

"I believe he and I will have more talks," Wall said. "I was not sure he'd be able to see me, but now he knows me and I know him, and I'm coming back."

Lynch declined to speak with News 9 after Wall's visit.

Return to WWZN

2009-06-08T07:45:00.000-05:00

PASTOR RETURNS TO WWZN 1510 AM RADIO
The management of WWZN 1510 AM, conservative talk and sports radio, offered Pastor Bruce Wall a lease contract to broadcast on Sundays from 6:30 AM to 7:00 AM.

THE NEED FOR ADVERTISERS
Pastor Wall's Boston Inspiration Network is lining up advertisers to help him expand his time on the stations in Boston and to purchase time on radio stations in New York, New Hampshire, Virginia, Florida and Texas.

HE WILL STILL BE ON WEZE
Although he can still be heard on WEZE 590 AM Radio Monday through Friday from 11:00 PM to 12:00 AM and Saturday's from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM, Pastor Wall is again adding WWZN to his growing list of radio stations.

UNIVERSAL CHRISTIAN RADIO
Each Monday he can be heard on Universal Christian Radio by way of satellite. The entire population of Canada, United States, Mexico, and most of the Caribbean can be served by the satellites providing a signal from a the Glorystar Free Christian Broadcasts – that is over 480 million people!

THOUSANDS ARE BEING REACHED
His two BNN Cable-TV channels and his new 24/7 Bruce Wall Internet Radio station are reaching thousands of people with a message of hope.
Listen this Sunday at 6:30 AM on WWZN 1510 AM RADIO.

Church is to be blamed

2009-05-26T12:36:00.004-05:00

CHANGE CAME THROUGH THE CHURCH
In the 60's and the 70's the Black churches in the south were the catalyst for social, economic, political and spiritual change. The church was the main social outlet for the Black community. The movement for change in the south was born out of the church. Furthermore, most of our the leaders who brought the systemic change in the south came out of the black church.

THE CHURCH USED TO BE AN AGENT OF CHANGE
In Boston, the Black church was used of God to bring about a revolution that motivated the leaders of the City of Boston to stop the violence that claimed the lives, through violence, of hundreds of teens from 1988 to 1996. Today, the many issues that plague the Black community have manifested itself in Black on Black crime.

DEATH ON THE STREETS OF BOSTON
Children and teens are killing their peers and parents by shooting them in the head and leaving them to die in the streets of Boston. Where is the church? Why is it silent?

THE CHURCH HAS BEEN BOUGHT OFF
I have concluded that the Black church has been "bought off" by the government through something called the faith-based initiative. The government says that we cannot pray in the school, that the Bible can no longer be read in the classrooms and that churches that accept government grants cannot teach about Jesus.

THE MESSAGE ABOUT JESUS "SAVED" FAMILIES
What saved the lives of thousands of teens that I used to work with is the message of hope and salvation that came from the pulpits, flowed into the streets and impacted the lives of youth and their familes who were living without hope.

When the government "pays the church off" to be silent the message of hope and salvation dies and the church loses its message and potency. When the government used the church as their base for the election campaigns, the church became a prostitute. When government officials isolate and marginalize pastors who are agents of change and buy off pastors to be silent, the church stops being the church and becomes simply a non-profit organization created to do nothing else but to bring money into their organization to sustain their existence.

I BLAME THE BLACK CHURCH
I am laying the death of our children, teens and adults at the doorstep of the Black church. The church has sold it message for government grants to hire staff that must be approved by the government.

WATERED DOWN
The church has watered down their message because it must be screened by the government before it can be proclaimed.

JESUS HAS TO GO
The church has taken the name of Jesus off their programs, applications for grant money and out of their messages that they preach so that the government will continue to pour federal, city and state dollars into the Black churches of Boston.

My anger and frustration is not with the GOVERNMENT. They are only doing what the government does, i.e., they sanitize and change the message of the church to make it politically correct so that our message of salvation will not hurt or offend the tax payer whose money is now running the churches in Boston.

STOP TAKING THE GRANTS
The Church needs to stop accepting the government money and start to win the lost for Jesus. I say that the church must raise the money to fund our ministries through the tithes from their members. If we want to stop the violence in th City of Boston every church must take the pledge to not accept the money from the government and teach and proclaim the message from the Bible without compromise and without needing to be politically correct.

In 1988, when I went to the Chez Vous Roller Skating Rink in Mattapan and worked with Christian leaders to stop the violence at Chez Vous we did it on a budget of $5,000 dollars a year that came from the church and our pockets. We saw Chez Vous transition from a place once called the "Bucket of Blood" or "Pistol City" to a place of peace. It was the message of Hope about a faith relationship in Jesus that changed people's lives.

FEDERAL DOLLARS
It was when the federal dollars started pouring into Boston to fund the pastors in the crusade against violence that I began to see ministers sanitize their message, compete for the same "government welfare handouts" and stop trusting each other as they built their non-profit programs and empires. Their goal was to out do their ministerial colleagues so that they could attract the dollars to their churches to fund their ministries.

I charge the church with being greedy and loving money over against winning lost souls for Christ...without the government paying for it.

END

10,000 Bullets

2009-05-19T08:32:00.001-05:00

DORCHESTER PASTOR TO TRAVEL TO NEW HAMPSHIRE TO SPEAK ABOUT ILLEGAL GUNS

I WANT TO KNOW WHO SOLD THE 10,000 BULLETS
Pastor Bruce Wall, Senior Pastor of the Global Ministries Christian Church and Television and Radio broadcaster, will travel to New Hampshire to track down the person who sold 10,000 bullets to the Haverhill man who was arrested for having 30,000 bullets in his possession.

THE NAMES OF GUN DEALERS
A letter will be sent to Essex District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett for the name and the address of the gun dealer who sold the bullets to the man who was arraigned for weapons possession.

55,000 POUNDS OF AMMUNITION
Pastor Wall will ask some Boston Pastors to travel with him to New Hampshire. The man arrested for illegal weapons possession had recently displayed a large sum of cash in an effort to purchase 55,000 rounds of ammunition in New Hampshire.

WE WILL SPEAK WITH GOVERNOR LYNCH
Pastor Wall will also speak to the New Hampshire Governor John Lynch and ask him what can be done to stop the illegal weapons from coming from New Hampshire, to Boston and then ending up on the streets of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. The illegal weapons pouring into Boston have been used to shoot our children and teens, often in the head at a point blank range.

This individual who was arrested is facing charges of illegal possession of ammunition, three counts of possession of a high-capacity firearm, and three counts of illegal storage of a firearm.

END

Who Really Cares?

2009-05-18T09:55:00.000-05:00

WHO REALLY CARES?
If one white person from out of town is shot in Boston the city puts helicopters in the air and the Black pastors have a press conference downtown with the politicians to speak about the violence.

IF A BLACK PERSON DIES
If a Black person is shot twice in the back of the head we have a funeral and the politicians attend the funerals and say the same thing. WE MUST TAKE BACK OUR STREETS. The preachers preach, the families mourn their loved ones and the friends of the deceased talk about what a great person has just been murdered.

IT IS JUST A GAME
After the funeral the politicians go golfing or to their NEXT EVENT, the children and teens go back to school, the family of the deceased return home to a shattered life and we all brace for the next "Menace To Society" killing of another teen, child or baby.

IT IS A CYCLE THAT BRINGS MONEY TO BOSTON
The more teens, children and babies die in our city the more money comes to Boston to fight crime.

The more teens, children and babies die in our city the more police officers are hired.

The more teens, children and babies die in our city the more court officials are hired

The more teens, children and babies die in our city more and more pastors can apply for a grant to fight the crime.

Unfortunately the pastors will not receive the grants if they speak out about the crime and honestly do something about the violence on the streets. It appears that the grants serve as "hush money" and too many pastors and community activists are falling into the trap.

The worse it gets on the street the more money is made available...to do what?

GET INTO THE STREETS
How many teenagers, children and babies need to be shot and killed in Boston before we get back on the streets to protect our families. I have never seen such an inability for leaders to unify and come together to create a comprehensive plan to save the lives of the teens, children and babies in this city.

HOW MANY MORE MUST DIE?
How many more teenagers, children and babies need to die in the city before we all declare a community focused State of Emergency to stop the homicides in Boston

I WILL CONTINUE TO SPEAK OUT
Each time a teen, child or baby is killed I will speak out against it so that someone says something in this city. You will receive a fax, e-mail, hear a comment on my radio and television shows until WE address the issue of homicide/suicide head on.

LET BRING PEACE BACK TO BOSTON
At age 60 I will be still be on the streets Friday and Monday nights protecting those who want and need to be protected. What will you do to stop the murders in Boston and bring peace back to our City?

Bless You
Pastor Bruce Wall

An Ambitious Vision

2009-04-06T12:27:00.001-05:00

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LOCAL PASTOR'S RADIO BROADCAST ARE TAKING OFF
While newspapers are closing down all over the country and radio and television stations are laying off personnel, Pastor Bruce Wall's radio and television broadcasts are growing across the country.

SATELLITE RADIO
With a newly signed contract with the brand new Universal Christian Radio (Internet and Satellite) based in California, Pastor Wall has landed his first satellite radio station. He has the potential to be in 4 million homes with one broadcast.

9 RADIO AND TELEVISION STATIONS
Through the nine radio and television stations, he is pushing to get his radio broadcast in the radio markets in the United States and then worldwide. He is looking into broadcasting on shortwave radio and national cable television channels to achieve this ambitious goal.

He can be heard in Boston, Mondays through Saturdays on the #1 religious radio station in New England, i.e., WEZE 590 AM, on Sundays from 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM on WWZN 1510 AM Radio and now 24-hours a day on his own GMCC Internet radio station right out of his church.

NEW YORK CITY
He is on stations in California, Pennsylvania and Alabama. He has also negotiated with Mr. Willie Saunders to be on WSNR 620 AM. This radio station airs in New Jersey and is the #1 radio market in New York City.

THE CHURCH OF THE MIDNIGHT HOUR
Pastor Wall has been on 11 radio and television stations in the last two and a half years. His broadcast ministry is growing as he seeks to franchise and syndicate his newest addition to his broadcast lineup, i.e., "The Church of The Midnight Hour" heard Monday through Fridays from 11:00 PM to 12:00 AM on WEZE 590 AM radio in Boston.

Louise Carcione
Spokesperson
GMCC-Radio
670 Washington Street
Dorchester, MA 02124
617-617-4149, Office
louise.carcione@comcast.net, E-mail
www.globalministriesboston.org Web

The Politicians Need Us

2009-02-25T16:07:00.001-05:00

THE POLITICIANS NEED US
Boston, MA - This is a mayoral election year and politicians are seeking the vote of the Black community.

I have been courted by candidates seeking my support because they think that I have influence in the City.

DO NOT GIVE YOUR VOTE AWAY
This election year I am asking the voters in the Black community not to give their vote away. Make the politicians earn your vote.

THEY TAKE US FOR GRANTED
For too long politicians in Boston have acted like we owe them our vote. They take us and our vote for granted. This most stop. Most of the candidates in this City recognize that they can easily win with the Black vote.

For too long the pastors have given their support and vote to politicians without making them work for it. This is the year for this practice to stop.

SOME PASTORS WILL NOT SPEAK UP
Our youth are dying in the streets of Boston and the pastors cannot speak up about it unless they have permission from the politicians.

LOSE THEIR FUNDING
Some pastors are afraid to independently create a plan to stop the violence on the streets for fear of having their funding from the City or State rescinded.

THEY DO NOT KEEP THEIR PROMISE
Pastors stop prostituting, i.e., selling yourselves to the politicians for promises that they cannot keep.

We must make the politicians earn our vote with more than a visit to our churches and $2.00 dollars in the offering plate.

THEY WORK FOR US
The politicians work for us we do not work for them. Any politician who wants my vote will need to show me that they will do more than visit my church on a Sunday morning.

For example, I want to know if the politicians, who want my vote, will walk with me to a radio station that has threatened to have pastors, women and children arrested for exercising our right to assemble to pray.

WE NEED YOU WHEN IT COUNTS
My message to the politicians in this city is simply this, if you cannot walk and stand with me when me it counts why should I, or any pastor, give you our vote?

This is a warning for any politician. Your time for violating the community of color has ended. Our votes are not for sale.

"MURDER CAPITAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS"
I pray that the men and the women in the churches that are located in the most troubled parts of Boston, the "Murder Capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts" will rise up and stop their pastors from walking the marbled floors of City Hall or the State House to sell themselves or their congregations for promises that the politicians will not keep.

YOU DO NOT HAVE THE BLACK VOTE
In the upcoming mayoral elections none of two announced candidates or the incumbent Mayor will be guaranteed the Black vote. They will have to earn it. Our vote will not be cheap and the price for our vote will cost more than an empty promise.

END

The Police Will Arrest...

2009-02-22T09:17:00.000-05:00

Dear Friends,

I really need you.

WHY AM I SUPPORTING LOVELL DYETT
Many of you are wondering why I am standing with Lovell Dyett and fighting to get him fully restored, i.e., back to his Saturday, 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM talk show time slot. Here is the main reason, In 1983, Lovell stood with me when there was a "HIT" on my life in November of 1983.

Will you stand with me for 15 minutes as I explain to the City why I want to lead a march to pray at WBZ NewsRadio 1030 AM Radio?

CBS HAS THREATENED THE MINISTERS
Since I started preparing this e-mail a representative from CBS Radio has issued a verbal warning to me to not come on to their property. They are saying that if the protesters come on their property they would be subject to arrest.

THE POLICE WILL ARREST MINISTERS IN BOSTON
I spoke to the police and they stated that they would have to arrest the ministers and protesters if we walk on the WBZ Radio property and the station staff ask us to move and we refuse to comply.

I WILL ANNOUNCE MY RESPONSE
Would you stand with me on Monday, February 23, 2009, 6:00 PM at the Global Ministries Christian Church, 670 Washington Street, Dorchester, MA. 02124, as I announce my response to CBS Radio's threats to have the residents of Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan and other communities arrested if we march to their station to pray?

I NEED FIFTEEN FOLK
I need about 15 folk who would be courageous enough to stand with me at my church as I respond to CBS Radio.

I WILL AIR THE STATEMENT
We will air the statement "Live" on my Internet Radio and Television Stations. The statement will be recorded and aired on WWZN 1510 AM and WEZE 590 AM Radio. I am asking some members of the press to show up.

I NEED YOU
This time I need you. I have stood with many of you from time to time. Will you now stand with me?

Let me know if you can be present. We need a head count.

LOVELL COULD HELP US
With Lovell back on the air, in his regular time slot, he will be able to assist all of us with issues related to our community and City. Let's finally come together to help our brother when he is down and in need of our love and support.

Thanks and have a blessed day.

Pastor Bruce

Threat by WBZ??

2009-02-19T09:24:00.002-05:00

STAY OFF OUR PROPERTY OR YOU WILL BE ARRESTED
Pastor Wall received a call from a CBS Radio representative on Tuesday night and was told that CBS was not giving his marchers permission to be on their property at the WBZ NEWSRADIO studio at 1170 Soldiers Field Road in Brighton, MA. In essence, stay off of our property.

THE STATION IS PRACTICING INEQUALITY
Pastor Wall has organized a march to pray at WBZ NewsRadio 1030 AM on Friday, February 27, 2009 at 6:00 PM. The reason for the march is to call attention to the fact that WBZ NewsRadio released a number of broadcasters due to budgetary concerns but called two of them back because of the pressure of the listeners. Thousands of listeners are angry with the station manager because they restored Steve LeVeille back to his 25-hours of broadcasting but refused to return the popular Lovell Dyett to his 3-hour time slot on Saturdays from 9:00 PM to 12:00 Midnight. Instead they will only let him broadcast 30-minutes a week on Sundays at 4:30 AM. Pastor Wall is charging WBZ with practicing inequality.

THE ROXBURY RESIDENTS NEED TO STAY FROM OUR STATION
CBS has made it clear that they do not want the residents of Roxbury, Dorchester or Mattapan on their property. The CBS lawyers have ordered the marchers to stay off of their property. Pastor Wall said, "It sounds like the CBS and WBZ Brass are saying 'You people stay off of our property'."

PASTOR WALL IS SHOCKED
Pastor Wall said that he was shocked to receive the call. He asked if they plan to arrest the people coming to the station to pray from Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan? Pastor Wall is wondering if CBS will order the police to arrest the thousands of children, teens and adults who are coming to protest.

Pastor Wall said, "This changes our peaceful march and prayer rally at WBZ." He continued, "Not only do they disrespect Lovell Dyett but now they are threatening us and telling us to stay off of their property."

WILL HIS MARCHERS BE HURT?
Pastor Wall is concerned that his planned peaceful rally could turn ugly and this is not what he wants his people to encounter. He does not want people to be hurt if the WBZ security and Boston Police start to haul people away.
Pastor Bruce

Bring Back Lovell Dyett

2009-02-07T14:26:00.000-05:00

The Movement To Bring Lovell Dyett Back To His Microphone at WBZ 1030 AM Radio.

SUPPORT LOVELL DYETT

WBZ PROGRAM DIRECTOR PETER CASEY
SAID NO TO LOVELL DYETT COMING BACK
TO HIS REGULAR BROADCAST TIME SLOT ON WBZ.

PASTOR BRUCE WALL SAID, “PETER CASEY IS SAYING, BY HIS ACTIONS, THAT HE DOES NOT CARE WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY AND THAT HE WILL DO WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. IT IS TIME THAT WE TAKE A STAND AND FIGHT FOR A MAN WHO HAS FOUGHT FOR US.”

JOIN THE MARCH AROUND
THE WBZ RADIO STUDIO.

WHERE WE WILL MEET
1170 SOLDIERS FIELD ROAD
BOSTON, MA 02134

DATE
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009

TIME
6:00 PM

(SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF LOVELL DYETT)
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 617-282-7794 OR
E-MAIL PASTORBRUCEWALL@AOL.COM

Send Your E-mail to Peter Casey
News Director / Program Director

TELL HIM THAT:
"We want Lovell Dyett back behind his microphone
on Saturday's From 9:00 PM to 12:00 AM.

Black leaders: Bring back Lovell Dyett
Ouster of ’BZ host raises ire
By Jessica Heslam
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 - Updated 5d 19h ago

Church in Dorchester wants to meet with WBZ radio news director Peter Casey to “negotiate” Dyett’s return to the CBS-owned station.

Wall is gathering signatures for a letter he plans to send Casey and he’s urging listeners to “jam” WBZ’s phone lines. In his letter, the pastor mentions late WBZ talk-show hosts David Brudnoy and Paul Sullivan.

“As you may know, Lovell has some health challenges,” Wall wrote. “We were hoping you were going to afford Lovell the same courtesy, dignity and respect that you offered David Brudnoy and Paul Sullivan.”
The letter also says, “The decision to terminate Lovell Dyett was not a wise or a prudent business decision.”

Wall said yesterday Dyett has been a voice of “reason and hope” in Boston and that he helped to calm residents during the city’s busing crisis. “You don’t let an institution like that go,” Wall said. “This is not a black thing. He transcends the whole color barrier.”

Louise Carcione, past president of the Codman Square Neighborhood Council and a member of Wall’s church, said Dyett has the ability to reach a “diverse listening audience.”
WBZ didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1143347

DIAL UP OUTRAGE ON LOVELL DYETT’S OUSTER
By Joe Fitzgerald
Saturday, January 10, 2009 - Updated 1d 3h ago
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Boston Herald Columnist

The saddest thing about the sacking of Lovell Dyett is what it says about those bloodless bottom-liners who cut him loose.

After 37 years of endearing himself to the WBZ audience, he was told by corporate bean counters that, in their eyes, he was now expendable.

Though consigned to a veritable weekend ghetto, which was eventually slashed to Saturdays only, Dyett nevertheless established himself as a masterful conversationalist, innately understanding a good interviewer must be a good listener, too, a truth clearly lost on shallow, ego-driven charlatans whose boorish drivel dominates the airwaves today.

Although different in background and approach, Dyett was cut from the same cloth as Larry Glick, who filled the wee hours with rollicking warmth, and the late Norm Nathan, who wonderfully succeeded in his oft-stated goal to “leave the world a little bit sillier.”

Like those giants who once graced the WBZ studios, Dyett took his work seriously, not himself, which is what made listening to him so addictive, informative and pleasurable.

The black community is reportedly irate over his unmerited ouster. Fine. It ought to be.
But Dyett, 73, was more than just a black host; he was a magnificent host who happened to be black, meaning anyone with half a brain ought to be offended by his dismissal.

This was a very decent man who brought civility, insight, grace and perspective to some of the most contentious issues of our day, providing common ground for meaningful discussion.
In a voice that sounded like James Earl Jones, he brought compassion and reason to a city so urgently in need of both.

But now WBZ has decided he is a luxury it can no longer afford.
Dyett was still in the Air Force, stationed in Texas, when he discovered his signature line.
“I was promoting concerts,” he once recalled. “Duke Ellington invited me to take a trip with his band on its bus. I noticed at the end of every concert, just before he walked off stage, he would turn to the crowd and say, ‘I love you! I love you madly.’

“It touched me so much that I ended every one of my own shows with it.”
He ought to be ending one with it again tonight.

Shame on WBZ, not just for what it’s done to him, but for what it’s done to all of us who loved him madly, too.

Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1144315

LETTER TO SUPPORTERS

Good Morning,

I am praying and fighting for my friend and mentor.

Can you sign on to this letter today?

Can you get me some other folk in the city and across the nation who will say yes to having their names listed on this letter.

This will be sent to WBZ today.

Please do not feel pressured to get involved and allow me to list your name. I believe that a couple thousand will support this effort. I will get you on the next crusade.

Blessings and have a great day.

Thanks

THIS LETTER WILL BE SENT TO PETER CASEY.

Peter Casey, Program Manager
WBZ News Radio 1030
1170 Soldiers Field Road
Boston, MA 02134

Dear Mr. Casey:

Many of us in the City, New England and across the nation were shocked to learn that Lovell Dyett was taken off the air. We recognize that you manage the station and you carry out the decisions of your corporate executives. However, the decision to terminate Lovell Dyett was not wise or a prudent business decision.

Lovell has been a WBZ loyalist for years and he has been good for the station. As you may know, Lovell has some health challenges. We were hoping you were going to afford Lovell the same courtesy, dignity and respect that you offered David Brudnoy and Paul Sullivan.

We were disappointed that you let him go when the station could have continued to keep him as a valued broadcasts and given Lovell the right to leave the station when and if you both agreed that it was right time.

Your station needs Lovell and Lovell needs WBZ. The City of Boston, New England and nation need him on the air. We are asking that you reinstate him and that the Lovell Dyett Program continue on WBZ Radio.

Would you please consider giving him what he deserves? He deserves your professional respect of his 38-years of loyalty and commitment to your station and his thousands of listeners throughout the country.

We will schedule a meeting with you for this week.

Sincerely,

Pastor Bruce Wall
Global Ministries Christian Church

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LOVELL DYETT'S TERMINATION ANGERS BOSTON RESIDENTS
Boston, MA. Lovell Dyett, after 38 years with WBZ Radio, was, along with a few other broadcasters from WBZ radio, let go last week.

A VOICE OF REASON
Lovell Dyett has been the "voice of reason and hope" for Boston during the turbulent times in our City and nation.

HE CALMED RESIDENTS
During the busing days in Boston his radio and television broadcast helped to calm residents in both the Black and White neighborhoods of Boston. He has served in the past as an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , Coretta Scott King and a few presidents.

WE NEED LOVELL DYETT ON THE AIR
He does not deserve to be "let go" even if it was a corporate decision. Boston and New England needs a Lovell Dyett to speak to the needs and concerns of our City and nation during these troubled times.

We will need Lovell Dyett and his ability to speak to many trouble people in Boston who are looking for a venue to vent their concerns or anger about the issues of the day.

A CALM MEDIA PERSONALITY
The Black and White communities in Boston needs a calm media personality to help to guide us through turbulent times in Boston. With people loosing their jobs, homes and crime on the rise in Boston we need Lovell Dyett to help people to make sense out of all that is going on in their lives.

PEOPLE ARE UPSET AND ANGRY
Many Bostonians have expresses anger and disappointment that Lovell Dyett was just let go.

Pastor Bruce Wall stated, "I, along with other leaders in the city, will speak with Peter Casey, Program Manager, WBZ AM Radio to negotiate his return to the airwaves."

He continues to say, "We cannot standby and do nothing while Lovell is pushed out of his broadcast chair."

Louise Carcione, former president of the Codman Square Neighborhood Council said, "I am outraged that WBZ would terminate Lovell's contract." She continued, "We all wait for his broadcast on Saturday. Now, what will we do without his leadership and guidance over the radio?"

WE WILL JAM THE LINES
Pastor Wall said, "We will jam the WBZ phone lines as a way of letting the station management know that their actions have hurt and disappointed many of us in Boston and across the county."

A number of city leaders, executive directors of agencies, and some elected officials will call WBZ and demand that the Lovell Dyett show be placed back on the air.

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PASTOR TO SPEAK TO THE CITY ABOUT THE STATUS OF THE NEGOTIATIONS TO BRING LOVELL DYETT BACK TO THE AIRWAVES.

Boston, MA - Pastor Bruce Wall will speak to the City of Boston about WBZ NewsRadio 1030's "Letting Go" of Lovell Dyett on Monday night, January 12, 2009, 9:00 PM on GMCC Internet radio just before his live broadcast on WEZE radio 590 AM heard at 11:00 PM.

A MOVEMENT HAS STARTED
Thousands of listeners are calling and sending e-mails to WBZ's News Director/Program Director Peter Casey to protest the station's action. Pastor Wall will speak to why the silencing of Lovell Dyett's voice has ignited a movement in Boston.

Reporters are calling from all over Boston because they want to know why the "Letting Go" of one 73-year old broadcaster has created such an uproar among listeners in the City of Boston, throughout New England and now across the country.

Pastor Wall said, "This feels like the atmosphere that was created when Rosa Parks decided not to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama." Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white male passenger on a Montgomery, Alabama bus on December 1, 1955 triggered a wave of protest on December 5, 1955 that reverberated throughout the United States. Her quiet courageous act changed America, its view of black people, and redirected the course of history.

IGNITED A REACTION
The response to WBZ taking Lovell Dyett off the air has ignited a reaction in men and women across racial and ethnic lines to come together and cry foul. Boston and our country cannot lose Lovell Dyett. His voice and positive influence in this City cannot just be thrown away.

Senators, pastors, community activists, senior citizens, Boston and Cambridge City Councilors, doctors, engineers, waiters and just about everyone from all walks of life have said that they are willing to march and pray for Lovell Dyett.

SEEKING A PERMIT
Pastor Wall is seeking a state and city permit to hold a prayer vigil in the front entrance of WBZ NEWS Radio and to "camp out" and sleep in front of the station to bring attention to this injustice done to a man who has given the station 37 years of service. WBZ gave Lovell the door and did not even let him say goodbye to the many colleagues who love and respect him.

The decision is now with the management of WBZ News Radio and CBS.

HOW TO HEAR THE BROADCAST?
People can hear Pastor Wall on GMCC Internet Radio by going to our website: www.globalministriesboston.org and click on 24-Hour Live Radio. Click on "If you would like to use your own media player" and another window will open where you will hear our radio broadcasts.

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Dyett to meet with 'BZ
Supporters of laid-off WBZ-AM host Lovell Dyett are still pushing for his reinstatement, and they may have a glimmer of hope. Dyett is meeting with station management today to discuss returning to the airwaves, a source close to the negotiations said. Dyett could not be reached for comment, and the station's general manager, Ted Jordan, said he can't comment on the matter. Since Dyett was let go in early January - along with talk hosts Steve LeVeille and Pat Desmarais, and sports reporter Tom Cuddy - upset listeners have petitioned WBZ, attempted to jam phone lines with complaints, and threatened to boycott advertisers and picket the station. Fans of LeVeille have launched similar efforts, through websites such as www.bringbacksteve.com. Jordan refused to address the backlash, but admitted, "We've laid off a lot more than that in the past year." Between his two stations, WBZ and WODS-FM, there have been 20 people let go, he said. "Our biggest advertisers have been autos, banks, airlines. . . . It's been a very difficult year." As to whether more cuts are coming, Jordan said, "Gosh, I hope not. I can't imagine there would be more."

February 5, 2009 — vol. 44, no 25

Hub radio host to return, but airtime cut angers fans

For 37 years, Lovell Dyett, shown here in this 1977 file photo, has been one of Boston’s premiere black broadcasters, hosting well-regarded talk shows on both television and radio. After being let go by employer WBZ-AM in a round of budget cuts last month, a rush of support from loyal listeners has brought Dyett back on the air — but on Sunday morning, instead of his long-held Saturday night slot, and for only a half-hour instead of three hours. (Banner file photo)

Frederick Ellis Dashiell Jr.

Weeks after a budget crunch led to his dismissal, one of Boston’s longest-tenured black media voices is coming back to local airwaves, but the supporters who pushed for his homecoming are not pleased with the terms of his return.

Local radio station 1030 WBZ-AM announced last Tuesday that they are bringing back talk show host Lovell Dyett, a decision spurred in part by a slew of calls, e-mails and letters the station received from upset listeners complaining about the host’s ousting in a recent round of budget cuts. Another host who lost his show, Steve LeVeille, who is white, was also brought back.

“It was the right thing to do for the station and New England,” WBZ-AM news and program director Peter Casey told the Boston Herald.

But some of those who called for the hosts’ return are not so sure “the right thing” was done the right way.

LeVeille, 53, has been returned to his old time slot, Mondays at midnight. The 73-year-old Dyett, however — a 37-year WBZ veteran — won’t go back to his familiar stomping grounds of Saturday nights from 9 p.m. to midnight, now occupied by paid programming. Instead, he will host a pre-recorded, half-hour public affairs program, scheduled to run at 4:30 a.m.

After news broke that Dyett’s time slot had shifted and shrunk, the longtime host made terse comments to the Herald: “Steve LeVeille got full restoration. Lovell Dyett did not … It needs to be determined if that’s the proper thing that the station should be doing with me.”

Neither Dyett nor Casey responded to repeated calls from the Banner requesting comment.

The diminished return certainly hasn’t escaped the notice of the Rev. Bruce Wall, the outspoken pastor of Global Ministries Christian Church in Dorchester and one of Dyett’s staunchest supporters.

In a letter dated Feb. 2, 2009, and sent to Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS Corp. — the parent company of local radio affiliate WBZ — Wall accused news and program director Casey of creating “ill will” by fully restoring LeVeille’s airtime but refusing to do the same for Dyett.

“Mr. Dyett’s listening base finds this solution not only not satisfactory, but insulting, and more important it is discriminatory,” Wall wrote. “I appeal to you, as the CEO of the corporation, to fully restore Lovell Dyett to his Saturday time slot. As I write this letter, a group of us in Boston are preparing to march on the WBZ News Station in Brighton … Your intervention is needed to right this wrong.”

Boston’s airwaves have seen their fair share of unique personalities over the years, strong characters that have pushed the public discussion with their own opinions and style. But Dyett is one of a relative few who, through years of work, have become city institutions.

In 37 years of broadcasting on Boston radio and television, Dyett has developed a following of loyal listeners who praise his ability to discuss issues fairly and evenly, a quality many listeners appreciated at a time when extreme opinion often dominates the debate.

A graduate of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla., Dyett also holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and Boston University. His career as a Boston media staple started in 1968, when he moderated a series of shows for WNAC-TV (Channel 7) titled “Journey Out of Africa.” At the time, he had been hosting a weekly talk radio show on a smaller local radio station, WILD.

Later, at WBZ, he became an anchor for “Black News,” a weekly television program aimed at Boston’s urban communities. By 1974, Dyett had established himself as one of WBZ’s top television personalities, as well as a popular local radio host with two shows, “Soul Searching” and “The Lovell Dyett Show.”

Hub radio host to return, but airtime cut angers fans

According to statements by Dyett, he came across his signature line while promoting concerts and serving in the Air Force.

“I was promoting concerts, and Duke Ellington invited me to take a trip with his band on its bus,” Dyett said. “I noticed at the end of every concert, just before he walked off stage, he would turn to the crowd and say, ‘I love you! I love you madly.’

“It touched me so much that I ended every one of my own shows with it.”

For nearly 35 years, his Saturday night show has been a WBZ mainstay, a place where host and listeners alike could discuss issues ranging from the local to the national.

In December, however, Dyett was informed that he would no longer have a radio program and was, in fact, no longer employed by WBZ.

Dr. J. Jacques Carter, M.P.H., an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and a friend of Dyett since the 1980s, said he spoke to Dyett the day he was terminated. According to Carter, the firing surprised the longtime host.

“Lovell did not receive the proper amount of prep time concerning his termination … There are better ways to retire someone from a radio show,” Carter said.

On that point, Pastor Wall agreed, calling the decision to terminate Dyett “mean-spirited” and “not good business.”

“Lovell is an institution in Boston; he is able to transcend race and culture and speak to everyone,” Wall said.

The pastor even went as far as to liken Dyett’s termination to Rosa Parks’ 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat at the front of the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Ala. Wall said Dyett’s firing had sparked similar outrage, and subsequent unity, in Boston’s communities.

Others with whom Dyett has worked over the years echoed their surprise at the way the situation has unfolded.

“I thought [Lovell] was a guy who would be [on air] forever,” said James Henry, an aide to state Sen. Anthony Galluccio.

Henry met Dyett in the 1990s when they worked together on a documentary about some of the issues facing minorities in Cambridge. He said he was shocked when he first heard news of Dyett’s firing.

“I’m amazed at the disloyalty they could show him,” Henry said.

Along the same lines, black community activist Sadiki Kambon said he thinks Dyett has been underappreciated and overlooked at WBZ.

“Lovell looks to uplift society, not just build his resume,” said Kambon, director of the Black Community Information Center, who said he has known Dyett for more than 30 years. “… I don’t think WBZ knows what they have in Lovell Dyett.”

For his part, WBZ’s Casey told the Banner that the decision to terminate Dyett was made necessary by the changing economic landscape, saying that the station is not immune to the financial pressures being felt by many media outlets. However, he was quick to note that he agrees with Dyett’s supporters’ characterization of the host’s place in the Boston broadcasting landscape.

“Boston has a great local presence,” Casey said in an interview prior to the host’s reinstatement. “Lovell is a great piece of that.

2009-02-07T14:25:00.000-05:00

Bring Back Lovell Dyett

2009-02-07T14:23:00.000-05:00

Too Much Violence

2008-10-25T21:07:00.001-05:00

MELANIE STETSON FREEMAN - STAFF

Boston battles surge in gun violenceAs the murder rate hits a 10-year high, community leaders combat illegal guns and gang culture

By Sara Miller Llana Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

BOSTON – City leaders across the country have been reassured by declining rates of violent crime during the past five years. But in Boston, they are shaken by daylight gun battles and a disturbing trend of youth-on-youth killings. Shootings are up 33 percent from a year ago. And in the 18-to-21 age bracket, firearm-related arrests are up 38 percent. The murder toll has set a 10-year-high.

At 67, the number of homicides is still low compared with other major American cities, but half of the victims were 25 or younger. The spike in gun violence - particularly among youths - is a setback for a city that led the way in combating youth violence last decade. Community leaders say increasing numbers of teens without job opportunities, including a growing number of high school dropouts, are turning to illegal firearms, which activists say are too easily accessible. Fewer police officers on the streets have also caused alarm. And, many say, the coalitions of community activists, clergy, police, and academics that united in the 1990s to cut back on youth homicide - giving rise to the so-called "Boston Miracle" - have fragmented, leaving them ineffective today."It took ten years for the Boston Miracle to erode," says Pastor Bruce Wall of Global Ministries Christian Church in the Boston neighborhood of Dorchester, who has worked for decades to stop youth violence.But the city's past experience, he and many others say, means it can regroup and fight this new spate of violence too. "We are not novices here," Reverend Wall says. "We've all matured doing this work."City officials are scrambling to stop the violence that has erupted in Boston's criminal hot spots. Mayor Thomas Menino has pledged to reevaluate how the city fights crime. His plan includes better integration of city agencies and advocates, more attention to the illegal flow of guns in the city - including an anonymous tipster line to report them - and a boost in the number of police officers in high-crime areas. He even discouraged some local businesses from selling the popular "Stop Snitchin" T-Shirts.Residents have been shaken by brazen incidents in the past couple months. Last month, a man was shot to death in Boston's South End in broad daylight. Two weeks ago, shots rang out as a group of fifth-graders were beginning recess.Boston faced a direr situation 15 years ago. In 1990, the city's homicide rate peaked at 152. In response, the city launched "Operation Ceasefire," which forged partnerships between researchers and community activists to aggressively address the youth homicide rate. It worked. The number of murders dropped to 31 in 1999.As the model was repeated in cities across the nation, however, leaders in Boston say divisions and budget cuts led to its deterioration. Rev. Wall blames fragmentation on competition among coalitions for money that poured into the city. And with success came complacency. "They stopped doing it because of the erroneous belief that crime wasn't a problem anymore," says James Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University here.Today gun violence is often due to small gangs of high-rate offenders, driven by turf, respect, and personal vendettas, says David Kennedy, a criminologist at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and a leader in Operation Ceasefire when it launched in Boston. "This kind of thing feeds on itself," he says. Dr. Fox says the murder rate today is not as alarming as it was 15 years ago. "But it is an early warning of worse things that may come," he says. "It's time to wake up."Kathy Kihanya, who directs the GED Plus program in Roxbury, says there is a sense of hopelessness among many of today's youths, who sometimes turn to gangs and guns when they have no work opportunities. That has bolstered the market for guns in the area: even those uninvolved in crime have armed themselves for self-protection. "It is a multiplying effect," she says. "Every time someone has a gun, someone else has to have one."Some residents have begun taking action on their own, especially, they say, with the police department down 200 officers. Suspects have been arrested or identified in only 20 of 67 homicides this year.Barry Mullen, a community activist, has helped organize 15 crime watch associations in the past six months in Dorchester.The crime watch associations seek visibility with fliers, by actively calling the police to report suspicious activity, and by confronting young loiterers in the community. Most important, he says, they get to know one another and become a united front. "The neighborhoods that are organized are going to push [crime] out," he says.

Rev. Michael E. Haynes

2008-10-25T21:06:00.001-05:00

Dr. Michael E. Haynes to Receive Honorary Doctorate South Hamilton, MA
– Dr. Michael E. Haynes, Senior Minister of Boston’s Twelfth Baptist Church since 1964, will receive an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree at the commencement exercises of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary on Saturday, May 10, at 10 a.m. in the Bennett Center at Gordon College.Dr. Haynes, a member of the Gordon-Conwell Board of Trustees since 1976, has served three terms in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and 16 years on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Parole Board and Board of Pardons, and was one of five commissioners of the city’s Fair Housing Commission. He has also served in an advisory capacity to four governors, two mayors, two U.S. senators, and one United States president. He has given leadership to more than 40 social, welfare, recreational, criminal justice, governmental, educational and religious boards, including the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Vision New England, Christianity Today, Northeastern University, New England Baptist Hospital, and the Boys’ and Girls’ Club of Boston.Commencement speaker will be The Rev. Dr. Bruce Wall, senior pastor of Dorchester Temple Baptist Church and founder and president of Bruce Wall Ministries, an outreach to youth and their families in Boston’s inner city. Rev. Dr. Wall holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from Berkshire Christian College, a Master’s in Religious Education from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and honorary doctorates from New England School of Law and Gordon-Conwell. He serves as an adjunct member of the ministerial staff at Grace Chapel in Lexington, Massachusetts and as chaplain for the City of Boston Emergency Medical Services. His address is titled “Prepare God’s People for the Work of Service.”The student speaker will be Joyann B. Sparks, a Master of Arts in Religion graduate.The Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Board of Trustees will confer 245 Master’s degrees and 34 Doctor of Ministry degrees to graduates of the seminary’s South Hamilton and Boston campuses.For more than a century, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary has prepared students for leadership as pastors, teachers, missionaries, evangelists, and other Christian ministry positions. The multi-denominational, evangelical Protestant seminary serves more than 1,700 students on campuses in South Hamilton and Boston, Massachusetts, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Students on the three campuses represent 92 denominations and 34 foreign countries. The seminary ranks 6th in size among all seminaries accredited by the Association of Theological Schools of the United States and Canada. Gordon-Conwell offers 19 degrees at the master’s and doctoral levels and has gained an international reputation for leading faculty in the areas of Biblical Studies, Ministry and Theology.Attention Media: For further information on this or other news, please contact Anne Doll, Director of Public Relations, at (978) 646-4141.

Witnesses

2008-10-25T20:34:00.001-05:00

August 24, 2007 - Boston Herald (MA)Stand By Witnesses Who Stand UpBy
Peter Gelzinis, Boston Herald Columnist
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The beauty of dropping dimes to the police via anonymous text messages is that you can feel like a witness, while suffering none of the consequences. It's sort of like the difference between being a weekend paintball warrior or a Marine on patrol in Fallujah.Don't get me wrong, providing the police with information that is timely and accurate is crucial, particularly when the alternative can be not providing it at all. Those few words punched out on a cell phone can take guns off the street or lead investigators to the suspects they're chasing."Intelligence is incredibly useful," the Rev. Bruce Wall agreed, "but intelligence is not the same thing as a witness. And in lots of cases, what you need is a witness."These days, witness is a word enveloped by the dark shadow of that other word: "snitch." They are not, in fact, the same. A snitch is someone who trades information to save their own skin . . . to stay out of jail, or make a pending charge disappear.A witness, on the other hand, is that kind of rare neighbor and citizen Bruce Wall described, someone who will stand up and do the right thing for no other reason than it's the right thing to do."This gentleman goes down to court not long ago to provide testimony about a vicious incident that occurred two streets over from where he lives," Wall recalled yesterday."The problem is, by the time this gentleman makes it home, he finds out from others in the neighborhood that the perpetrator, the person he gave testimony against, has already made bail and is back on the street."Now this witness has to think seriously about whether to relocate, or take his chances bumping into this person. 'Pastor,' he says to me, 'what am I going to do? I still see this guy on the street. I'm scared.' "Bruce Wall's friend and colleague, the Rev. Jeffrey Brown, believes that the distinction between a witness and a snitch is not lost on those who choose to deal in terror."They most certainly know the difference," Brown said recently. "They realize that citizens -- outraged by witnessing, say, a brazen murder in broad daylight -- may be moved to speak. But fear is a very effective silencer."In this way, Bruce Wall suggested, witnesses often find themselves in a far worse bind than a snitch. For they may not be as closely embedded with the police as the snitch who has "struck a deal."Ministers like Bruce Wall and Jeff Brown believe that one of the greatest civil rights threats now gnawing at the African-American community in the inner city comes from what Brown called "the suppression" of law-abiding people at the hands of virulent young hoodlums who may well be their own children.Secretly pecking out S.O.S. signals on a cell phone is a step in the right direction, not to mention a ray of hope. But what separates a faceless text message dropped through the ether of cyberspace from a witness who'll sit in a witness box and point a finger at a killer is courage."What did it take for Rosa Parks to finally decide she wasn't going to surrender her seat on that bus at a time when black people were forced to eat at separate lunch counters and drink from separate water fountains?" Jeff Brown asked. "It took courage buttressed by great faith."Both Wall and Brown believe that what was true half a century ago in the struggle for civil rights holds so today. "People will have to stand up," Wall said, "and the clergy will have to stand with them."Yes, we need more (people like) Rosa Parks, but until we're willing to say yes, we'll go to court with you, we'll go to work with you, we'll walk your kids to school with your kids, we won't be in a position to help more witnesses step forward."

Guardian Angels

2008-10-25T20:31:00.001-05:00

Local Coverage Guardian Angels fly out of Hub By Jessica Van Sack / The BeatMonday, October 13, 2008 -
Updated 12d 9h ago+ Recent Articles + Recent Blog Entries + Email + BioGeneral Assignment ReporterJessica Van Sack is the Herald's Boston police bureau chief covering crime and justice. She works out of City Hall where you can send tips to jvansack@bostonherald.com.E-mail Printable (24) Comments Text size Share (0) Rate
Eighteen months after the street-patrolling Guardian Angels landed in the Hub - with a lot of hoopla and controversy - it’s hard to find a local resident, city official or a cop who’s seen the red berets pounding the pavement lately.As chapter leader David “Ranger” Liles tells it, it’s not that they’ve halted their efforts, but that only a handful are left to carry them out.On Saturday night, Liles said, about five loyal activists, police radios in hand, canvass the most gang-ridden public housing projects citywide. They pay their own T fares and gas. There’s no money in the chapter bank account - not even enough to register a car donated to them last year.Many have shifted their focus to a nascent Brockton chapter. And though the small band of do-gooders boast one recent success - helping cops locate a thief at Back Bay Station - the deed went unrecognized.“A lot of people got discouraged,” Liles said. “We’d try to do something, and every time, things just got thrown in our way. But we didn’t give up on the community.”So it’s hard to square his take on the Angels with the group’s founder, Curtis Sliwa. As Sliwa takes to the mic for a new radio gig on the Hub’s WTKK, he claims an army of footsoldiers on patrol.“I was just with them last weekend,” Sliwa said. “And I had an opportunity to see what they were doing on the MBTA in Dorchester, and they were at the (Downtown) Crossing where there had just been that stabbing. There were about a dozen Guardian Angels on Saturday night.”Maybe they were there to see Sliwa.Pastor Bruce Wall took a lot of heat for his decision to back the group’s Boston effort and provide his church, Global Ministries in Codman Square, as a home base. These days, it’s tough for Wall to remember the last time he saw the Angels in his neighborhood.“The Guardian Angels will never survive in Boston if they’re not embraced by Boston,” he said.By that he means the mayor and police commissioner, who had but one icy meeting with Sliwa.Still, Wall believes the fireband group of anti-crime activists arrived at the right time.“It caused so much tension in the black community, and we were embarrassed that it took a group coming in to make us realize we weren’t doing our jobs,” Wall said.“I got a call about a week ago from a member who’s trying to get it up and running again,” Wall said. “I said, ‘We still need you. But don’t worry about me. I’m still here.’ ”

Halloween Lock Down

2008-10-25T20:11:00.000-05:00

Eastern Halloween Lockdown Proposed In BostonReportingChristina Hager
BOSTON (WBZ) ― Recent violence in Boston has one minister warning it's not safe to go out trick-or-treating in the city. Instead he has come up with an alternative celebration, which will be closely guarded by hundreds of citizens on patrol. Trick-or-treating isn't what it used to be -- at least not in some neighborhoods. "I cannot allow my own children to go trick-or-treating because they may not come home, and I think it's that serious," said Rev. Bruce Hall with the Global Ministries Christian Church. "We've had homicides on Halloween night. Young people are robbed on Halloween night," he added. Since three children were shot at the Academy Homes complex last weekend, Rev. Bruce Wall is calling for what he calls a Halloween lockdown with hundreds of adult volunteers to line the streets so children can safely walk. Instead of the traditional trick-or-treating, they'll have controlled indoor events. The plan sounds extreme to some, and police say it is safe to go trick-or-treating as long as it's done right. "I think it's a nice American tradition, and I hate to see it interrupted for any reason," said Boston police Capt. Jim Hassom. "I think if you stay with your children, and stay within defined areas." And only go knocking for treats from people you know. "What does this say about our times, that kids can't go out trick or treating the way we did growing up?" Christina Hager asked Rev. Wall. "Well you have children that are being shot," Wall said. "The whole Academy Homes shooting bothers a lot of us. What we're hearing is horrendous." Not the kind of horrendous we normally associate with our scariest holiday. Boston police also plan to have extra security out on the streets Halloween night, and they say they would welcome the help from citizens that Rev. Wall is calling for.

Halloween - NO HOMICIDES

2008-10-25T20:09:00.000-05:00

Hub: No holiday horrors... As pastor calls for Halloween ‘lockdown’
By Jessica Van Sack Friday, October 24, 2008 http://www.bostonherald.com <http://bostonherald.com/> Local Coverage <http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/>Boston Police will increase patrols one week from today on Halloween night as a prominent pastor calls for the city to be on veritable lockdown following the frightful shooting of three children last weekend.
“Boston is not safe for our children,” wrote the Rev. Bruce Wall in a mass e-mail to listeners of his radio show on 1510 AM (WWZN). “We will therefore put the streets on lockdown.”
Wall said in an interview yesterday that he aims to station 1,000 men on Hub streets from 6 p.m. to midnight to prevent violence from marring the holiday.
“It means we’re going to lock it down so that it’s safe,” Wall said. At times, Halloween in the Hub has been a literal night of horrors. The three children shot on Saturday night were in Academy Homes, steps from where Jermaine Goffigan, 9, was fatally struck by an errant bullet on Halloween in 1994. Three people were shot on Halloween night last year, one on Hendry Street in Dorchester and two on Dudley Street in Roxbury.
“We are increasing patrols on Halloween night as we do every year,” said Boston Police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll, adding that cops welcome help from citizens like Wall.
Meanwhile, cops are also planning several “safe and ghoulishly good” events for kids throughout the week, including a bash tonight at the District E-5 station in West Roxbury, which is expected to draw 1,000 partygoers.
Boston police officials are asking parents to attach their phone number and address to children’s costumes, to make sure fake knives, guns and swords are made from cardboard so they’re not mistaken for the real thing, and are asking residents to drive slowly on Halloween night.
“It is critically important that we recognize the police cannot do this by themselves,” Wall said. “I am asking Boston city councilors, state representatives, community activists, pastors and suburban folks to come into the city and take the street corners so that any person bent on hurting someone else will have to think twice.

HALLOWEEN NIGHT: NO HOMOCIDES

2008-10-24T07:25:00.000-05:00

THE BOSTON POLICE CANNOT SAVE US
We recognize that the Boston police cannot save our families. It is our responsibility. These are our children who are shooting each other and dying.

THE ELECTED OFFICIALS
We do believe that the elected officials also have a role in protecting the youth on Halloween night. On many occasions the elected official will call pastors to attend a hearing about a city-wide issue.WE RESPOND TO THE ELECTED OFFICIALSMany of us will drop whatever we are doing to travel to City Hall or the State House to meet with the elected officials or to testify at a hearing.

COME WALK WITH US
We are asking the elected officials to come from behind their protected and comfortable offices and come into the sections of the city where babies, children and their parents have been murdered, assassinated or injured, and walk with the clergy who are putting the trouble sections of the City of Boston on lockdown.

THE ROLE CALL
All of the elected officials who walk and control the streets with us will have their names mentioned in the city and nationwide on the streaming 50,000-watt 1510 AM Victory Radio. The station manager, Pastor Bruce Wall said, "We want to publicly acknowledge the elected officials who courageously were will willing to come out to walk with us in the streets."

WE WILL PUT THEM ON BLAST
The politicians who refuse to come on the streets of Boston with us on Halloween night will also have their names mention in the roll call of elected officials. We will no longer allow elected officials to come see us on Sunday morning in our churches to ask for our vote but then are not there when the families of our city needs them. It is time for our politicians to put their bodies where their campaign promises said that they will be.

"WE ARE PRAYING FOR NO HOMICIDES ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT. "

Residents to Speak Out

2008-08-29T22:28:00.000-05:00

VICTORY RADIO
WWZN 1510 AM Radio
(50,000-Watts of Power)
301 Columbia Road
Dorchester, MA. 022124
(www.w1510thezone.com)

MEDIA ADVISORY

PASTOR USES A MICROPHONE TO STOP THE SHOOTING IN DORCHESTER

WHO:
Pastor Bruce Wall, Senior Pastor of Global Ministries Christian Church and Radio Broadcaster

WHAT:
Pastor Wall will walk a local street that has been plagued with shootings. He will broadcast "live" from Dorchester. He has asked the Boston Police to not accompany him as he allows the residents of the street to speak about the crime and pain they are experiencing.

WHERE:
Undisclosed location

WHEN:
Saturday, August 30, 2008

TIME:
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

For More Information Call 617 283 9561

Pastor Bruce

Expanding Across the Country!

2008-03-24T17:45:00.001-05:00

The Boston Inspiration NetworkNews From Boston

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 3/24/2008 1:50 PM

CONTACT:Pastor Bruce H. Wall, 617-283-9561

Senior Pastor, Global Ministries Christian Church

Host, Morning Inspiration Radio Show, WRCA 1330 AM Radio, Boston, MA,

Host, Let’s Pray, Radio Show, WEZE 590 AM Radio, Boston, MA

Host, The Codman Square Connection on BNN Boston Cable –TV Channel 9 & 23

Host, Live Internet-TV

Public Information Officer Louise Carcione, 617-697-4149

Global Ministries Christian Church Pastor Expands His Reach On The Air

Pastor and radio broadcaster Bruce Wall has just signed with Wilkins Communications Network to be heard on two of their national radio stations. Beginning next week he will broadcast weekly on the 10,000-watt WITK-AM 1550 in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA and the 5,000-Watt WIJD-AM 1270 in Mobile, AL. Presently he is broadcasting 6-days a week in Boston on the 5,000-watt WEZE 590 AM Radio and the 5,000-watt WRCA 1330 AM Radio. Pastor Wall aspires to syndicate his #1 rated "Morning Inspiration" and "Let's Pray" broadcasts on radio stations across the country. This is a major breakthrough in that effort. On the Boston based radio station WEZE 590 AM, Pastor Wall's radio program continues to pull in a large listening audience to the station. Stu Fink, Station Manager of WRCA 1330 AM Radio in Cambridge, MA stated, "Pastor Wall started on my station less than two years ago. His program has grown from a one-day a week broadcast to broadcasting 6-days a week on my station." According to Christopher M. Woodlief, Director, Client Development for Wilkins Communications Network, Inc. "We welcome Pastor Bruce Wall to our radio network and we believe that he will not only grow with us on his broadcasts in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, PA and Mobile, Alabama but he will have more opportunities to be on all fourteen of our radio stations across the country." This is an exciting time and opportunity for Pastor Bruce Wall and the Global Ministries Christian Church.

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Taste of Eden Restaurant

2008-01-09T07:52:00.000-05:00

BOSTON RADIO PASTOR/Broadcaster AND successful BUSINESS OWNER TO Start Something new

Radio and Internet -TV Simulcast
On Saturday, January 12, 2008, 6:00 PM at the Taste of Eden Restaurant, 38 Norfolk Street Dorchester, Massachusetts a Dorchester restaurant owner and a local pastor and radio and cable-TV broadcaster will combine their talents, resources and vision to have the first simulcast radio and Internet-TV broadcasted from a local Dorchester restaurant and on the number one religious radio station in New England.

Scott Cohagan, Station Manager of WEZE 590 AM radio, stated, "Pastor Bruce Wall's "Let's Pray" radio show is helping to reshape lives and restore the communities we call 'home.' I hope that "Let's Pray" can soon be syndicated to help other cities."

Hopa Bailey, owner of Taste of Eden Restaurant, stated, "My restaurant is doing well but with a live radio broadcast operating out of the restaurant…I am expecting to fill all the tables on Saturday night."

The Boston Police and Juvenile Probation Department
Last week as Pastor Bruce Wall, the Boston Police and a Boston Juvenile Court Probation Officer walked the street in the business section of Codman Square, they were greeted by many residents and business owners who thanked them for walking the 10-blocks in the vicinity of his [Pastor Wall’s] church. For the past sixteen years, Pastor Wall has been walking in the area of his church to clean up the crime and violence. Codman Square in Dorchester is no longer considered a "Hot Spot" in the City of Boston. This is due in part because the Boston Juvenile Court Probation Department, Captain John Greland (Area C-11) and James Claiborne (Area B-3) have assigned a probation officer and police officers to walk and patrol the ten-block area with Pastor Wall.

People Are Feeling Safe
The reason why the radio broadcast will be a success at the Taste of Eden Restaurant in Codman Square is because people are feeling safer in Codman Square.

We believe that other businesses in the City of Boston will want Pastor Wall to broadcast his popular radio show at their place of business so that their customers will flock to their business establishment to see and hear one of Boston’s popular and well respected pastors on the air live on WEZE 590 AM Radio and on the new Internet-TV. Moreover, when we work with business owners we gain their trust. An active partnership with the businesses in the area will let them know that the work of securing the neighborhood cannot be done by one person, but needs the collaboration of all residents and businesses as well.

A RUSH TO JUDGMENT BUT A HOPE THAT POLICE WILL LEARN TO WORK DIFFERENTLY WITH YOUTH TO AVOID FUTURE MISTAKES

2007-12-15T21:36:00.000-05:00

A RUSH TO JUDGMENT BUT A HOPE THAT POLICE WILL LEARN TO WORK DIFFERENTLY WITH YOUTH TO AVOID FUTURE MISTAKES
When they first told me why they called me out of class, my heart froze. Honestly, I wasn’t really sure what to think.

I was being accused of taking part in an armed robbery of two cell phones. My advisor kept asking me if there was anything I wanted to tell him. My Principal asked me if I did it. I’ve been at the school for about three months now. I felt that the school should know my character inside and out because of the way I carried myself, as respectful, quiet and studious. I was furious and felt insulted. Something about the way my principle asked me made it sound to me that he really thought I either had something to do with it or did it myself.

When my mother found about it all she was so stunned, she broke down and cried. It broke my heart to see her like that. When I was interrogated by the police my first thought was: just tell the truth and this will all get sorted out. Even my honesty was misread. Apparently, I came off guilty to them. Guilty and angry are two distinctively different looks. I felt like I was treated like a common criminal, even though I didn’t even have a criminal record. One officer said that just the fact that my mother looked like she had been crying was a sign of guilt. I realize now how naïve I was thinking that telling the truth would lead to a positive outcome. It was an awful feeling thinking that it might not. My heart goes out to all of those people who have been, or are being charged, and are innocent. I now know in a very personal way, what they went through.

The detectives seemed intent on solving the crime. But their tactics made me feel that they didn’t care who they pinned it on, as long as they as they looked good. They were so sure that I was the one. One of them even called me a liar. The fact that he was wrong proves just how great a human lie detector he turned out to be. Even while my head was swimming with all of the possible negative outcomes of this situation, DYS, probation, etc., the thing that bothered me most was that I was worried about my mother crying her eyes out every night because of the multiple threats we received about search warrants and arrest warrants. If anyone deserves an apology, it is my mother. The police were so sure that I was guilty and the way they went about proving that they were right, put my family through outrageous and unnecessary pressure and stress.

Under normal circumstances I deal with more pressure than most teens, in part because of the work my father does. I was feeling so much stress that one Saturday, not knowing whether I would be arrested at any minute for something I didn’t do, I just collapsed and had to be taken to the hospital .Once out of the hospital I tried to pretend everything was normal while waiting to see which way this case would go. Going to school was the hardest and dealing with rumors and questions from the curious onlookers. I wondered: Who believed I was innocent and who behind my back was saying I probably did it? The day they picked up the true culprits, my parents had let me go to a Step Show with my school. While I was there I got a call from my parents. All I recall is the amount of joy in my mother’s voice. I’d never heard my mother so happy. The police had found the RIGHT person and I had been cleared.

I’m keeping my head and my grades up. I am relieved but most of all, I am hopeful that my situation will be a lesson because the police need to look at better ways to deal with young people if they want to be more effective at solving crime and most importantly getting the right person. If they approach situations with black teenagers like they are all guilty until proven innocent, instead of the other way around, they will never be trusted. I hope too that the media and the police stop rushing to judgment just to solve a case.

Jeremy Wall
Age 15
Son of Pastor Bruce H. Wall
Global Ministries Christian Church

Protecting the innocent is protecting the community

2007-12-13T07:37:00.001-05:00

Protecting the innocent is protecting the community
We take strong exception to the Banner’s editorial that seemed to equate our taking a public and proactive stand in supporting our son’s innocence with parents who wrongfully protect and cover for their guilty kids (“Who protects the community?” Dec. 6, 2007). Nothing could be further from the truth in our case.
Your readers should know that there were some not-so-above-board tactics that went on out of public view that necessitated our decision to get “in front” of this story, rather than to continue to allow the solid case of misinformation that was in the process of being built to destroy an innocent young person’s life. We’ve seen that happen too many times in our ministry to youth.
We have a history of being out front and steadfast in supporting many young people who we knew to be innocent. Our unwavering support, involvement and active advocacy for Donnell Johnson led to his being exonerated despite police claims of an airtight case, as one example.
For the record, we decided to do the press conference after the story of our son’s accusation had been leaked to a police reporter. The press conference also served the purpose of bringing the situation into public view. So in a very real sense, we feel the press conference, even though our son was not yet charged, helped to keep everything above board and everyone honest during the investigation, which eventually led to our son being proven innocent.

An avoidable crisis

2007-12-13T07:36:00.000-05:00

A substantial reduction in the level of urban violence requires an effective police force. Close police-community relations would make it more difficult for miscreants to commit crimes without being apprehended. Unfortunately, while most police officers behave in a highly professional manner, there are some who cause considerable concern in the community.

It is bad enough that some police officers are involved in illegal drug trafficking or are guilty of using excessive force against citizens, but their misdeeds do not stop there. An unidentified police officer recently notified the Boston Herald that Rev. Bruce Wall’s 15-year-old son was a person of interest in a series of armed robberies. Every police officer worth his salt knows that an identification from a photo lineup is very weak evidence of involvement. In fact, it turns out that the identification was mistaken. The real suspect has been apprehended. But in the meantime, the Wall family has been forced to suffer the threat of their son’s arrest and the extensive search of their home. Such senseless acts by the police make the public leery of informing on their neighbors who may be involved in criminal activity.