Eesha Williams's Blog, page 3
March 7, 2025
340 March, Rally
In Brattleboro on March 2, about 175 people marched to protest Trump's policies. The march started outside 193 Main Street and ended at the food co-op. For more information, contact Dan Dewalt via https://rcpVermont.org. He helped promote the march. DeWalt told the Valley Post he's organizing a march to protest Trump's policies on March 14 at 5 p.m., starting outside 193 Main Street in Brattleboro. Sunset is at about 7 p.m. that day. The organizers of the March 2 march, and a similar march on Fe...
February 28, 2025
March Planned
In Brattleboro on March 2 there will be a march to protest Trump's policies. The march will start at noon outside 192 Main Street and will end at the food co-op. For more information, contact Dan Dewalt via https://rcpVermont.org.
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In the Pioneer Valley, on February 21 on the Gill-Turners Falls bridge on Route 2, about 20 people attended a rally to protest Trump's policies. The rallies will continue there every Friday at 4:30 p.m., according to a mass email from a group that has a web s...
February 27, 2025
Jazz Concert is April 25
On April 25, Allison Miller and her band will play a jazz concert at the Drake in Amherst. Miller played drums in the bands of Ani DiFranco and Natalie Merchant. Miller's current tour includes stops at the Village Vanguard, the oldest jazz club in New York City, and in Europe. The Amherst concert starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $28. You can see a Miller concert at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8dg8hAuGI&ab_channel=AllisonMiller
February 21, 2025
350 March, Rally
About 150 people marched in Brattleboro on February 17, despite extreme cold and deep snow along some of the route. They were protesting Trump's policies. Emilie Kornheiser of Brattleboro chairs the Vermont House Ways and Means committee. She wants to tax the rich. She was at the march and helped promote it.
In Springfield, Massachusetts on the same day there was a rally to protest Trump's policies. One of the groups that organized the rally is Rise Up Western Mass Indivisible. The group posted...
February 14, 2025
Workers Unite
In Northampton and the Pioneer Valley town of Westfield, workers at Starbucks are forming a union. Since June 2024, Ari Vaccaro has worked at the Northampton Starbucks that's not inside Stop and Shop. “We get $15.49 an hour,” Vaccaro told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview on February 10. “We can't live in our town on that. The CEO of Starbucks makes $50,000 an hour.”
February 7, 2025
120 Rally
In Springfield a total of about 120 people attended protests on February 4 and 5. The goal was to get Democrats in congress to try to stop many or all of Trump's plans. “It was a success,” Wendy Penner told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview on February 6. She was one of the organizers of the second protest and she is part of the group Greylock Together. “There were about 60 people there even though it was really cold. Staff people from both our U.S. senators' offices were there. We told...
January 31, 2025
Labor Rally is Feb. 3
Baystate Medical Corporation is refusing to sign a union contract for visiting nurses in Springfield. The nurses are members of the Massachusetts Nurses Association union. The nurses care for immigrants and low income people in Springfield's North End and Forest Park neighborhoods.
January 27, 2025
Lucinda Williams Concert
Lucinda Williams will play in Northampton on March 9 at 7 p.m. The venue is the Academy of Music. Tickets cost $71 to $82 including fees. A video of her performing one of her songs with a band is at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRtMZDJdIIU&ab_channel=LiveFromAustinTX
January 24, 2025
300 March, Rally; 2,900 Acres Saved
About 200 people marched in Brattleboro. The event was organized by local resident Vera Riley, and by the Women's March, a national group.
“It was wonderful,” Riley told the Valley Post. “Mollie Burke, Isaac Evans-Frantz, and others spoke of alternative media; nuclear delusion; military budget in the trillions; Palestine; gun control; Black Lives Matter; bi, gay, trans, etc; and more. George Carville sent us off with a story from 1982 about the Ku Klux Klan's unsuccessful event at the gazebo wh...
January 3, 2025
Peace Rallies Set
On November 21, 2024 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for the Prime Minister of Israel. In Brattleboro on January 4 at noon there will be a rally to call for a ceasefire in Gaza. The rally will be outside the main post office. A group that's promoting the rally has a web page at:
https://grassrootsfund.org/groups/upper-valley-action-affinity-group
A rally for the same cause will happen in Northampton on January 10 at 3:30 p.m. Details are available via:
