Eesha Williams's Blog, page 16
May 12, 2023
Joe Bataan Concert
Brian Foote works for the city of Northampton. He told the Valley Post that in August or early September 2023 at 6 p.m. there will be a free concert. Joe Bataan will play at Pulaski Park in Northampton. By June 1, Foote will have the exact date, he said. You can hear one of Bataan's songs at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQr3-AQKLL8&ab_channel=MuddyScience
May 25 is BLM Rally
On May 25 there will be a Black Lives Matter rally in Sunderland, Massachusetts, near Northampton and Greenfield. The rally will be at 4:30 p.m. on the bridge between Sunderland and Deerfield on Route 116. One of the groups that's organizing the rally has a web page at:
www.facebook.com/groups/548230779189803/
To get there from Brattleboro takes about 30 minutes by car.
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In Amherst on May 5, about 200 people attended a rally calling on politicians to build more affordable housing in the ...
May 5, 2023
Joe Bataan Concert
Brian Foote works for the city of Northampton. He told the Valley Post that in August or early September 2023 at 6 p.m. there will be a free concert. Joe Bataan will play at Pulaski Park in Northampton. By June 1, Foote will have the exact date, he said. You can hear one of Bataan's songs at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQr3-AQKLL8&ab_channel=MuddyScience
440 Rally
About 300 people attended a labor rally in Springfield, Massachusetts on April 28. One of the speakers was Nellie Taylor. She graduated from Smith College. She then spent five years working at the Pioneer Valley's Deerfield Academy and she now works at UMass Amherst. Deerfield Academy is 19 miles from Brattleboro. The rally organizers have a web site at www.MassTeacher.org.
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On April 28 in Amherst about 100 people attended a labor rally. The organizers have a web page at:
April 28, 2023
Joe Bataan Concert
Brian Foote works for the city of Northampton. He told the Valley Post that in August or early September 2023 at 6 p.m. there will be a free concert. Joe Bataan will play at Pulaski Park in Northampton. By June 1, Foote will have the exact date, he said. You can hear one of Bataan's songs at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQr3-AQKLL8&ab_channel=MuddyScience
200 March, Rally
About 100 people marched in Amherst on April 21. They were calling for peace. With 4 percent of the world's population, the USA spends as much money on war as the rest of the world combined. The march organizers have a web site at https://WeAreDissenters.org.
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April 21, 2023
Joe Bataan Concert
Brian Foote works for the city of Northampton. He told the Valley Post that in August or early September 2023 at 6 p.m. there will be a free concert. Joe Bataan will play at Pulaski Park in Northampton. By June 1, Foote will have the exact date, he said. You can hear one of Bataan's songs at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQr3-AQKLL8&ab_channel=MuddyScience
250 Rally
About 150 people attended a rally on April 18 in Belchertown, Massachusetts, which borders Amherst. They were defending the rights of Jewish people. The principal of Belchertown's Jabish Brook middle school on April 3 said the school was investigating recent anti-Semitic behavior by many students at the school. Students did Nazi salutes and joked about the Holocaust.
