Eesha Williams's Blog, page 24
July 26, 2022
Indigo Girls Concert is August 24
The Indigo Girls will perform August 24 at Look Park in Northampton. The Indigo Girls have sold more than 14 million albums and won a Grammy award. The Indigo Girls are Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, plus a changing lineup of musicians on their records and at some of their concerts. Some tours are just Ray and Saliers. Ray and Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
Win for Nature
About 200 people attended a workers' rights rally in Hadley, Massachusetts on July 23. Hadley borders Northampton. The rally was organized by workers at the Trader Joe's supermarket. More information is available via the workers' web site: https://TraderJoesUnited.org.
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July 18, 2022
Indigo Girls Concert is August 24
The Indigo Girls will perform August 24 at Look Park in Northampton. The Indigo Girls have sold more than 14 million albums and won a Grammy award. The Indigo Girls are Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, plus a changing lineup of musicians on their records and at some of their concerts. Some tours are just Ray and Saliers. Ray and Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
50 Rally
In Springfield about 20 people attended a rally on July 11. Charles Stokes lives in Springfield. He moved there 50 years ago from New Jersey. He is 60 years old. He was at the rally. “The mayor and city council need to make it easy for people to access health care, including addiction and mental health care,” Stokes told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview on July 13. “Community gardens too.” These things would reduce violent crime, and the number of people in prison, Stokes said.
July 9, 2022
Indigo Girls Concert is August 24
The Indigo Girls will perform August 24 at Look Park in Northampton. The Indigo Girls have sold more than 14 million albums and won a Grammy award. The Indigo Girls are Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, plus a changing lineup of musicians on their records and at some of their concerts. Some tours are just Ray and Saliers. Ray and Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
July 6, 2022
Racial Justice Victory
About 200 people attended rallies in favor of abortion rights on the Fourth of July in the county that's home to Greenfield. Susannah Whipps is a member of the Massachusetts legislature and she was at the rally in Orange. “A quick count of folks in Orange was over 90 participants,” she told the Valley Post. Other rallies on July 4 were in Greenfield and Shelburne Falls.
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June 25, 2022
Wins for Nature, Justice; 500 March, Rally
In Brattleboro on June 24 about 150 people attended an abortion rights rally, Eileen Sullivan told the Valley Post. She works for Planned Parenthood. In Northampton on the same day about the same number of people attended a rally for the same cause, organizer Debby Pastrich-Klemer told the Valley Post. Two groups helped her: Valley Women’s March and Indivisible Northampton. “150 people is great for a last-minute event,” Pastrich-Klemer said. The protests were in response to a supreme court deci...
June 16, 2022
40 at Greenfield Rally
In Greenfield on June 15 about 40 people attended a rally. The goal was to get the giant corporation that owns the Greenfield hospital, and other hospitals, to settle a fair union contract with the nurses at the Greenfield hospital. Suzanne Love is a nurse at the Greenfield hospital. She said, “We are simply asking Baystate Health to listen to its nurses, help us protect patient care, and keep care local.
June 8, 2022
222 Acres Saved
On June 8, a local land trust announced it had permanently protected 222 acres of forestland on the Massachusetts border in Rindge, New Hampshire. In Rindge, streams flow to the Connecticut river. Rindge is 19 miles from Vermont. The land trust is the Monadnock Conservancy.
Land trusts get a lot of their funding from the government. Politicians decide how much to invest in protecting open space versus war and tax cuts for rich people.
June 1, 2022
80 People Rally
About 40 people attended a rally in Springfield on May 31. The goal was to stop a proposed fossil fuel pipeline that would go about six miles from Springfield to Longmeadow, Massachusetts. The pipeline would cost around $40 million.
Naia Tenerowicz is a spokesperson for the two groups that organized the rally. On June 1, she told the Valley Post that the groups were the Longmeadow Pipeline Awareness Group, and the Springfield Climate Justice Coalition.
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