Eesha Williams's Blog, page 34
June 13, 2021
June 10, 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.
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:
70 at Rally to Protest Gun Violence
On June 5 in Springfield about 70 people attended an outdoor rally against gun violence, Tanisha Arena told the Valley Post. She was at the event and she runs Arise for Social Justice. That's a group in Springfield that fights mass incarceration, climate change, and poverty.
In New York on June 9, 2021 state lawmakers passed three gun control bills. Phoebe Maltz Bovy wrote in a 2015 article in the New Republic magazine, "Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets and, as m...
June 9, 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.
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:
June 3, 2021
Indigo Girls Concert is June 12
The Indigo Girls will perform June 12 about three miles from Keene. Details are on their web site. 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.
Tax the Rich Rally is June 8
On June 8 in Springfield there will be a rally in support of raising taxes on rich people and giving the money to public schools and publicly-run buses and passenger trains. On average, even electric cars are worse for the environment than buses and trains, on a per-traveler basis. The rally will be outside city hall at 6 p.m. Details are at:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/springfield-for-the-fair-share-amendment
*********
May 27, 2021
Indigo Girls Concert is June 12
The Indigo Girls will perform June 12 about three miles from Keene. Details are on their web site. 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.
Big Win for Workers
Before Covid there were 130 workers at the company that runs vans for handicapped people, under contract to PVTA, the Pioneer Valley Transit Authority. “Now we have 88. We'll get back to 130 when Covid is over,” Jeanie Steel predicted in a May 22 voice phone interview with the Valley Post. For 21 years, she has been a driver for the various companies PVTA has hired to run the so-called para-transit service. She still drives for the latest company, National Express. Steel was one of the leaders o...
200 March, Rally for Black Lives
On May 25 in the Valley about 200 people marched and rallied in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The march was in the neighboring Massachusetts towns of Deerfield and Sunderland. Sunderland borders Amherst. Deerfield borders Greenfield. About 75 people marched, organizer Lu Vincent told the Valley Post. “We walked along the (Connecticut river) bridge in commemoration of the one year anniversary of George Floyd's murder, and to take notice of many many lives of people of color who hav...
May 20, 2021
Indigo Girls Concert is June 12
The Indigo Girls will perform June 12 about three miles from Keene. Details are on their web site. 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.
