Eesha Williams's Blog, page 130
November 15, 2014
Eviction Protest Is November 18 In Springfield
Activists are asking the public to attend a rally outside the home of a low income man in Springfield who is being threatened with eviction. The bank that wants to evict Jeff Solivan is Fannie Mae Corporation, whose CEO was paid $6 million in 2010, the most recent year for which data was available.
The rally is set for November 18 at 9 a.m. at 32 Edgemont Street in Springfield. The group that is organizing the rally has a web site at www.SpringfieldNoOneLeaves.org.
November 8, 2014
Matisyahu Northampton Concert December 29
Tickets are $50 for Matisyahu's December 29 concert at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton. The concert will be acoustic. Globally, his song “King Without a Crown” was one of the most popular songs of the past decade.
A video of Matisyahu performing an acoustic song is at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPuU-iTIFoI
100 at Public Hearing for Proposed Bike-Ped Bridge
About 100 supporters of a proposed bicycle-pedestrian bridge over the Connecticut river in Northfield, Massachusetts attended a meeting with state officials. Northfield borders Vermont and is near Greenfield. No one opposed the bridge at the meeting. State senator Stan Rosenberg was at the October 30 meeting in Northfield.
November 1, 2014
Matisyahu Northampton Concert December 29
Tickets are $50 for Matisyahu's December 29 concert at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton. The concert will be acoustic. Globally, his song “King Without a Crown” was one of the most popular songs of the past decade.
A video of Matisyahu performing an acoustic song is at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPuU-iTIFoI
64 Protesters Arrested
At the office of Vermont governor Peter Shumlin, 64 people were arrested for non-violent, civil disobedience October 27. They were protesting his support for a proposed fracked gas pipeline in Vermont. Shumlin is from Putney, Vermont, near Brattleboro.
Fracked gas is a climate change-causing fossil fuel. Scientists say climate change is a threat to human life on earth.
Fracked gas is mined by Exxon Mobil corporation using a technique known as fracking, which contaminates drinking water for peo...
October 25, 2014
Matisyahu Northampton Concert December 29
Tickets are $50 for Matisyahu's December 29 concert at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton. The concert will be acoustic. Globally, his song “King Without a Crown” was one of the most popular songs of the past decade.
A video of Matisyahu performing an acoustic song is at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPuU-iTIFoI
1,700 Workers Strike
Telephone and internet workers are on strike. They are asking the public to join their picket lines in Brattleboro and Keene. More than 1,700 workers at Fairpoint Corporation are on strike in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. The company is the monopoly provider of landline telephone and DSL internet in those states.
Fairpoint is based in North Carolina. It wants to cut wages for workers it hires in the future by 40 percent.
October 24, 2014
Matisyahu Northampton Concert December 29
Tickets are $50 for Matisyahu's December 29 concert at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton. The concert will be acoustic. Globally, his song “King Without a Crown” was one of the most popular songs of the past decade.
A video of Matisyahu performing an acoustic song is at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPuU-iTIFoI
