Category: Activism
21
Aug
Lifelines Not Pipelines
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The roadside memorials and prayer vigils serve a purpose no doubt, but neither gets at the root of violence. This morning, the faith-based PICO National...
09
Aug
Learning to Fail, One Outrageous Punishment at a Time
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The high number of students being suspended, expelled, and arrested in urban schools is finally getting some attention. In 2011, Real Hartford reported that within...
22
Jul
“We Have to Make Vibrations Now”
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Rev. Henry Brown urged the hundreds of people gathering in Lozada Park to come together. Literally. How are you going to have unity, he asked,...
20
Jul
Peaceful Trayvon Martin March and Rally Planned
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Today was the National Day of Action for Trayvon Martin, but if you missed the noontime rally in Downtown Hartford, there is another opportunity to...
18
Jul
Creating Sense of Urgency about Hartford’s Nutrition Problem
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The little girl hesitantly holds a container of greens out to one of the farmers at the weekly market. She asks to return them. The...
02
Jul
Growing Need-Based Stipends for Gardeners
by Kerri Ana Provost
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The Burns Latino Studies Academy is closed this summer for construction, but the garden built on the east side of the elementary school is being...
27
Jun
Activism Asylum Hill Barry Square Clay Arsenal Community Downtown Environmental Interest Film Food Free Frog Hollow Fun Hartford North East North Meadows Parks Parkville Sheldon/Charter Oak South West Transportation Upper Albany West End
July 2013 Events
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Blazing heat might not be our favorite thing, but the near-constant availability of free jazz performances all month long eases some of that weather-induced misery....
12
Jun
Free Film for the Month of Resistance
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Learn about civil rights and anti-war activist Laura Whitehorn at the Kabbalah House’s screening of OUT: The making of a revolutionary. Whitehorn spent fourteen years...
07
Jun
Blowing Whistles for a Whistleblower
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Stephen Durham, the Freedom Socialist Party nominee for President in the 2012 general election, drove up from New York for the Thursday rush hour rally...
06
Jun
Front Street Labor Complaint
by Kerri Ana Provost
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A flyer distributed outside of the under construction Capital Grille Restaurant claims that a subcontractor was issued a stop work order by the Connecticut Department...