Eesha Williams's Blog, page 33
July 13, 2021
700 Nurses Strike
Seven-hundred nurses are on strike in Worcester, Massachusetts. The nurses are asking the public to join them on the picket line. On July 13, the Valley Post travelled to Worcester and spoke with two of the nurses on the picket line at 123 Summer Street. Debbie Morgan has been a "same day surgery" nurse at Saint Vincent hospital for 35 years. In one of the below photos, she is holding a sign reading, "128 days out (on strike). 35 years of dedicated service." Morgan said, "We had it easy last yea...
July 8, 2021
Moxie Concert is August 6
Moxie will perform a free outdoor concert in Brattleboro on August 6 at 7 p.m., despite different times being listed on the first two web pages listed below. That's according to a spokesperson for the Stone Church night club in Brattleboro, which lists the concert on its web site. The spokesperson didn't immediately reply to a message asking the location of the concert. This article will be updated when the Valley Post gets the info.
One of the band's songs has more than 2 million “listens” on ...
Forest Rally Set
In Greenfield on July 31 there will be a rally to protest cutting down forests in Massachusetts to put up solar panels. The panels can go on roofs of big box stores, warehouses, and other buildings, and on top of parking lots. To see a big photo of seven acres of solar panels over a parking lot in Amherst, click on the small photo of "Lot 44" at:
www.umass.edu/dcm/campus-solar
The Greenfield rally organizers said, “To date, the state has lost 4,000 acres to large ground-mounted solar, much of it...
July 1, 2021
Keene Rally
On June 27 in Keene, 12 or so people attended a rally against a new state law that would censor public school teachers, especially history teachers. Tennessee, Texas, and several other states earlier this year passed similar laws. In a forthcoming New York Times article, a Yale history professor says, “It is a perverse goal: Teachers succeed if students do not understand something.”
Nurses Fight Back Against CEO
On June 30 in Springfield about a dozen nurses and their supporters delivered a petition signed by 800 or so people to the nurses' boss. The nurses work at Mercy medical center. The petition says, “These front-line workers deserve to have their voices heard and have a fair contract settled, and the community deserves high-quality and safe care. It is time to settle a fair contract with the nurses of Mercy medical center and invest in the future of our community.”
The 400 or so nurses who work at...
June 24, 2021
50 Rally
On June 22 in Springfield, despite rain, about 50 people attended a rally in support of the fair share amendment. It would create an extra 4 percent tax on the part of a person’s annual income above $1 million. The new revenue generated by the tax, approximately $2 billion a year, would be spent on public education and passenger trains and buses, among other things, all in Massachusetts. “The rally went well,” Andrew Farnitano told the Valley Post in a voice phone interview on June 24. He works ...
June 17, 2021
247 Acres Saved
The Connecticut river valley town of Dublin, New Hampshire is five miles from Massachusetts. On June 16, a local land trust announced it had saved 132 acres of forestland in Dublin from development. The USA is losing 6,000 acres of open space to development every day.
Dublin is six miles east of downtown Keene, population 23,000. The town of Surry, New Hampshire borders Keene. June 10 was Surry's annual town meeting. Voters there created a 115 acre town forest.
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June 13, 2021
Moxie Concert is August 6
Moxie will perform a free outdoor concert in Brattleboro on August 6 at either 5 p.m. or 6:30 p.m., depending on which web site you trust. One of the band's songs has more than 2 million “listens” on Spotify. The members of Moxie live in the Brattleboro area.
To hear Moxie's music, and for details about the concert, go to:
https://www.brattleboro.com/downtown/gallery-walk/?fbclid=IwAR1wBooDqwhM...
and
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4K2IUtmY2APWh6mdxzBOZF
The band has a web page at:
Photo: Common Mergansers
This photo shows common mergansers on the Connecticut river in Northampton. It was taken on June 13. Common mergansers eat fish. Common mergansers sleep in hollow trees. To enlarge the photo, click on it, then scroll down and click “see full size image.” photo by Eesha Williams
The Connecticut river is dammed. In 2023, the USA's biggest ever dam removal project is scheduled to happen. Details are at:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201110-the-largest-dam-removal-proj...
