Eesha Williams's Blog, page 189
April 25, 2011
Workers Rally in Amherst April 28
Janitors, cooks, and other workers will rally for justice, April 28 at noon in Amherst. The public is invited to attend. The state workers who are organizing the rally are paid low wages and have no job security. They work for the University of Massachusetts. The rally will be outside the student union building. There is a map at:
www.umass.edu/visitorsctr/Campus_Map
Parking on campus is easy but expensive. Details are at:
http://parking.umass.edu/index.php/home
April 19, 2011
Simba Plays Near Brattleboro June 21
Simba will play a public concert in Dummerston, Vermont, near Brattleboro, on June 21. The evening concert will be at the Grange hall at the corner of East-West and Middle roads in Dummerston. At least 100 people danced to the music of Simba for hours at a recent concert near Brattleboro. The band plays reggae and funk, among other kinds of music.
Expert: Public Can Influence Judge in Entergy v. Shumlin
On April 18, Entergy Corporation of Louisiana sued Vermont because the people of Vermont used the democratic process to order Entergy to close its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in March 2012. Vermont Yankee is three miles from Massachusetts and a stone's throw from New Hampshire. The reactor, which opened in 1972, has been plagued by problems in the past few years, including a fire that could be seen from many miles away, and a flood when hundreds of thousands of gallons of water poured ...
April 18, 2011
Simba Plays Near Brattleboro June 21
Simba will play a public concert in Dummerston, Vermont, near Brattleboro, on June 21. The evening concert will be at the Grange hall at the corner of East-West and Middle roads in Dummerston. At least 100 people danced to the music of Simba for hours at a recent concert near Brattleboro. The band plays reggae and funk, among other kinds of music.
April 15, 2011
Concert Review: Red Molly
Red Molly performed an excellent public concert in Putney, Vermont on April 17. Putney is 10 minutes by car from Brattleboro. There's a bus between the two towns.
According to the Boston Globe, "Red Molly may be from New York, but their bluegrass and old-time gospel sounds and buoyant three-part harmonies are so down-home it's as if their notes are carried to you on the crisp air of the Ozarks."
Folk Band Red Molly Will Play Near Brattleboro April 17
Red Molly will play a public concert in Putney, Vermont on April 17. Putney is 10 minutes by car from Brattleboro. There's a bus between the two towns.
According to the Boston Globe, "Red Molly may be from New York, but their bluegrass and old-time gospel sounds and buoyant three-part harmonies are so down-home it's as if their notes are carried to you on the crisp air of the Ozarks."
In Amherst, Brattleboro: Protest War Taxes, Tax Evading Corporations
Taxes are due on April 18 this year. Activists in Amherst and Brattleboro plan to use the occasion to educate the public. About half the federal budget goes to war. The richest Americans and biggest corporations are able to avoid paying all or most of the money they owe the government.
Protesters will hand out a pie chart showing what the government does with the money that Americans pay in income taxes:
www.warresisters.org/sites/default/files/FY2012piechart-color.pdf
April 11, 2011
Folk Band Red Molly Will Play Near Brattleboro April 17
Red Molly will play a public concert in Putney, Vermont on April 17. Putney is 10 minutes by car from Brattleboro. There's a bus between the two towns.
According to the Boston Globe, "Red Molly may be from New York, but their bluegrass and old-time gospel sounds and buoyant three-part harmonies are so down-home it's as if their notes are carried to you on the crisp air of the Ozarks."
April 10, 2011
Simba Plays Near Brattleboro June 21
Simba will play a public concert in Dummerston, Vermont, near Brattleboro, on June 21. The evening concert will be at the Grange hall at the corner of East-West and Middle roads in Dummerston. At least 100 people danced to the music of Simba for hours at a recent concert near Brattleboro. The band plays reggae and funk, among other kinds of music.
Vermont Nears Passage of Single-Payer Health Care; Rally May 1
In what could be a model for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and the nation, Vermont is poised to enact single-payer health care. A march and rally that will be held on May 1 in Montpelier is part of a mass movement that has earned the support of Vermont governor Peter Shumlin, and the state legislature. Shumlin lives in Putney, near Brattleboro. The insurance industry is working to kill the movement's momentum in the legislature.
