Eesha Williams's Blog, page 70
October 17, 2018
Victories
A giant corporate bank wants to evict a low-income family from the family’s home in Springfield. The community is fighting back. On October 17 at 6 p.m. there will be a rally outside 91 Deepfield Road. The public is invited to attend. The event organizers have a web site at www.SpringfieldNoOneLeaves.org. They have had several victories in Springfield.
October 11, 2018
Kasey Chambers Concert in Northampton this Winter
Kasey Chambers is from the Australian outback. “I grew up on the Nullarbor Plain with my family for the first 10 years of my life. We did all of our cooking on open fire -- my dad hunted for our food,” she said. On her new album she is joined by Alan Pigram, an Aboriginal person from the outback. You can hear the first song from Chambers' new album at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tua2SBHsrsU
Some of her older songs have almost 1 million views on YouTube but they aren't as good as her new songs.
...October 10, 2018
Critical Mass Oct. 20
There will be a Critical Mass bicycle ride on October 20 at 3 p.m. in Brattleboro. Critical Mass bike rides started in 1992 in California and have since spread around the world. Hundreds of people ride together in a group on roads, forcing cars to go at bicycle speed. They often chant, “Critical Mass, don't use gas!”
The ride will start at a location to-be-announced and will go through downtown. Photos of a Critical Mass bike ride in Brattleboro last month are at:
October 3, 2018
Local News Round-up
Thousands of people marched in Northampton for the Women's March in January 2017 and January 2018. Debby Pastrich-Klemer helped organize both marches. On October 1, 2018, she told the Valley Post that the next Northampton Women's March will be on January 19, 2019.
October 2, 2018
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September 25, 2018
Victories: Fewer Prisoners, More Forests
In terms of incarceration rates, in the past decade Vermont went from being one of the worst states in the nation to one of the best. “We have a shortage of housing in Vermont and that affects people as they are released” from prison, Jeanette White told the Valley Post on September 21. She is a state senator for the county that's home to Brattleboro. “We are working on that.”
Of the 50 states, only Massachusetts keeps a smaller percentage of its people in prison than Vermont. New Hampshire i...
September 19, 2018
Holyoke Pipeline Fight is On
In Holyoke, activists are fighting construction of a proposed fracked gas pipeline. “It would go six miles from Agawam to Holyoke,” Jacqueline Velez told the Valley Post in a telephone interview on September 13. She lives in Holyoke. “It would cost $24 million to build. Holyoke is the second worst city in the nation for people with asthma. This would make it worse. We closed the Mount Tom coal plant so we can stop this.”
