Eesha Williams's Blog, page 65
March 5, 2019
Activists Work to Make Roads Safe for Walkers
On March 2 at about 8:45 a.m. in West Springfield, Massachusetts a driver of a car drove into a pedestrian, killing the pedestrian. “This is at least the eleventh pedestrian who has been hit and killed by a driver in Massachusetts already this year,” Brendan Kearney told the Valley Post. He works for a group that has a web site at https://walkboston.org. Despite the group's name, Walk Boston works statewide. “We need to reduce illegal speeding to help prevent and/or reduce the severity of the...
February 25, 2019
Indigo Girls to Play Near the Valley
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets sold out in January. Tickets are available for an 8 p.m. Indigo Girls concert on March 23 in Torrington, Connecticut. That's about an hour by car from Springfield, Massachusetts. The band will release a new album this year, probably in late summer.
Local News Round-up
In Springfield on February 26, there will be a rally calling on a local congressman to do more to fight climate change. As of February 25, more than 30 people had RSVP'd. The rally will be at 300 State Street at 4 p.m. Details are at:
February 19, 2019
Indigo Girls to Play Near the Valley
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets sold out in January. Tickets are available for an 8 p.m. Indigo Girls concert on March 23 in Torrington, Connecticut. That's about an hour by car from Springfield, Massachusetts. The band will release a new album this year, probably in late summer.
Protesting Trump's Wall
On February 18 there were rallies around the Valley calling on Congress to stop Trump's planned border wall and his “state of emergency.” Borders serve mostly to keep the world's poorest people out of rich nations.
The average white person is richer than the average black person in the USA and around the world because thousands of years ago, white people got lucky – not because, as racists say, white people are smarter or work harder.
February 12, 2019
Indigo Girls to Play Near the Valley
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets sold out in January. Tickets are available for an 8 p.m. Indigo Girls concert on March 23 in Torrington, Connecticut. That's about an hour by car from Springfield, Massachusetts. The band will release a new album this year, probably in late summer.
Peace Action; 3,560 Acres Saved
On February 12 at 1 p.m. there will be a peace march and rally in Amherst. The event will start with a rally outside the main entrance to the Campus Center building at the University of Massachusetts.
Almost half of this year's entire federal budget of about $3 trillion is being spent on war. That’s according to:
www.WarResisters.org/FederalPieChart
With 4 percent of the world's population, the USA spends at much on the military as the rest of the world combined.
February 5, 2019
Indigo Girls to Play Near the Valley
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets sold out in January. Tickets are available for an 8 p.m. Indigo Girls concert on March 23 in Torrington, Connecticut. That's about an hour by car from Springfield, Massachusetts.
The Indigo Girls have sold more than 7 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...
Two Marches Planned
A Springfield group is planning a march against police brutality. In about a decade, from 2006 to 2017, police brutality lawsuits cost taxpayers in Springfield some $3.9 million. On January 30, 2019, a jury ordered the city to pay another $250,000 to another victim of police brutality. “The march will be in May or early June,” Ellen Graves told the Valley Post in a phone interview on February 4. She works for Arise, a group that has organized well-attended marches in the city in recent years....
