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Celebrating Five Years!
by Kerri Ana Provost
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This Friday marks five years of Real Hartford‘s existence, so leading up to that, there will be some extra attention on the site itself. In addition to whatever else happens...
Beyond Occupy: What is and what could be
by Kerri Ana Provost
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One critique of the Occupy Hartford movement has been that a number of uninformed activists — new to the area or to activism in general — attempted to reinvent the...
“Getting to Zero” Community Forum on HIV/AIDS
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“We’ve become complacent” about AIDS, a community member said during Tuesday’s World AIDS Day forum in the Hartford Public Library. In the 1980’s and 1990’s, she said, society talked about...
Hartford Unity Community Conversation: “Empower People Already in Hartford”
by Kerri Ana Provost
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Not unusual: people coming into Hartford with big ideas about what residents need and what will “save” us. The Public Allies — an AmeriCorps program — promise that is not...
Patti Smith Rocks the Wadsworth
by Kerri Ana Provost
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“It is important that they are there declaring their existence,” Patti Smith said of the Occupy Wall Street activists, even naming Occupy Hartford. And, she said, in between songs Thursday...
Scenes from the Sidewalk: Installment 32
by Kerri Ana Provost
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I came across this brush in Bushnell Park and immediately had two thoughts: