Eesha Williams's Blog, page 68
December 4, 2018
Indigo Girls to Play Northampton
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets are available on their web site. 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 Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
New Urban Park in Amherst
Thanks to the work of environmental activists, downtown Amherst is getting a new urban park. On December 3, Kestrel Land Trust announced the six acre park will be on East Pleasant Street, across from the University of Massachusetts. Urban parks "are not only safe and beautiful, but also serve as green engines to help address nearly every critical urban need from health to housing, to education and environmental justice, and countering sprawl to combating crime." That's according to:
November 30, 2018
Indigo Girls to Play Northampton
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets are available on their web site. 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 Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
Photo: Red Breasted Mergansers
This photo of Red Breasted Mergansers was taken in Turners Falls, Massachusetts. Turners Falls is near Greenfield. To enlarge the photo, click on it, then scroll down and click "see full size image."
photo by Joe Oliverio
November 27, 2018
Indigo Girls to Play Northampton
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets are available on their web site. 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 Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
Wins for Workers and the Environment
About 80 workers at the Hampshire Gazette and Valley Advocate newspapers are forming a union. The out-of-state corporate chain that owns both papers is fighting the workers. The workers are asking the public to attend a rally on November 27 at 11 a.m. at 115 Conz Street in Northampton. The workers are also asking people to sign a petition at:
www.massjwj.net/news/2018/11/19/stand-with-the-workers-at-the-daily-hamp...
November 21, 2018
Indigo Girls to Play Northampton
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets are available on their web site. 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 Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
Local Woman Arrested for Civil Disobedience
A local woman was among a group of 51 people arrested in Washington, DC for non-violent civil disobedience. "Our demands to Nancy Pelosi were sign on to the Green New Deal and sign a 'no fossil fuel money' pledge," Keene resident Katie Carbonara told the Valley Post in a phone interview. "It went really well."
Pelosi is the Democrats' top leader in Congress. The Green New Deal says:
(1) 100% of national power generation from renewable sources;
(2) Building a national, energy-efficient, “sma...
November 14, 2018
Indigo Girls to Play Northampton
The Indigo Girls will perform in Northampton in March. Tickets are available on their web site. Other dates on their spring tour have already sold out. 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 Saliers live near Atlanta, Georgia.
