Michelle Fine, of RESPOND, has spent 17 years working with the Somerville domestic violence shelter.
Imagine standing up, walking out the door and leaving, for good, with nothing more than what's in your pocket. Did you remember your wallet? Are you wearing a decent pair of clothes? How good are your shoes? What's more, imagine you have small children in tow, and you're an undocumented immigrant. You're leaving whatever friends, family and community you have. You're also leaving a violent, brutal home, a place where you've been beaten. You may even fear for your life and the safety of your kids, which is why you've walked out the door with nothing more than what's in your pocket. Michelle Fine has worked with people, mostly women, facing situations like that for the past 17 years. Fine is director of programs and services at RESPOND, a …
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The district attorney donated forfeited cell phones to RESPOND, a domestic violence shelter based in Union Square.
Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone was in Somerville Friday to donate more than 100 forfeited cell phones—some of them dinosaurs of the mobile phone world—to RESPOND, a domestic violence shelter based in Union Square. Law enforcement officials seized the phones as evidence or as the "ill-gotten gains" from criminal activity, explained Leone. Some of the phones, by the look of them, had been sitting in evidence for years, and there was at least one PalmPilot in the mix. RESPOND, in turn, will sell the donated cell phones to Shelter Alliance, an organization based in Florida that refurbishes and recycles cell phones to help nonprofits raise money. Each phone will fetch a different price. According to Shelter Alliance's website, donated …
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