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RadioActive: NARAL Pro-Choice CT

RadioActive: NARAL Pro-Choice CT

Jillian Gilchrest, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice CT, discusses recent successes and ongoing challenges in the reproductive freedom struggle. Click here to download the MP3

RadioActive: Law For Food

RadioActive: Law For Food

Adam Prizio discusses the need for affordable legal services for small farmers, farm production and farm businesses.  He also discusses what his firm, Law for Food, describes as “nothing short of a revolution in American agriculture.” Click here to download the MP3

Taking Candy From Babies

Taking Candy From Babies

By John Dennehy, HIMC alumnus and American abroad There are many reasons why I enjoy traveling to unlikely places in unusual ways; one of them is because it lets me be a child again.

RadioActive: Breakdancing Shakespeare

RadioActive: Breakdancing Shakespeare

Nina Pinchon, director, and Kevin Scott, composer, discuss their hip-hop production of Shakespeare’s “MacBeth” at Hartford Stage. Click here to download the MP3

RadioActive: The Kitchen at Billings Forge

RadioActive: The Kitchen at Billings Forge

Julie Carrion, director of catering and education, discusses The Kitchen at Billings Forge in Hartford.  Topics include the farm to table movement, food policy, and community development through job training. Click here to download the MP3

International Overdose Awareness Day, 8/31

International Overdose Awareness Day, 8/31

25 August 2010

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 25 August 2010 Contact: John Merz, Executive Director Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition (860) 761-6699 Paul Botticello, Executive Director AIDS Project Hartford (860) 951-4833 International Overdose Awareness Day August 31, 2010 (Hartford)  AIDS Project Hartford and the Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition will join dozens of organizations in the U.S. as they participate in International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31st. [...]

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Harvesting the Teeth of the Dragon

16 August 2010

“Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.” - Saying attributed to the Old Man of the Mountain, leader of the assassins, the Hashishin The events in Manchester Ct. at Hartford Distributors on August 3rd and what happened on September 11th in New York are bound together by a history of violence. The history in question is the past [...]

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The Politics of Paper (or how primaries are bad for the environment)

The Politics of Paper (or how primaries are bad for the environment)

09 August 2010

Tomorrow is primary day for CT Democrats, but the mailings make it seem more like a high school class president election.  I made the mistake of registering as a Democrat in 2006 when I felt strongly that we should oust Joe Lieberman (see how that turned out).  My punishment now seems to be that I [...]

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Hartford Bike Tales (part 1)

Hartford Bike Tales (part 1)

30 July 2010

Despite what you may have heard from suburbanites, Hartford is a very bike-able city.  It’s relatively small in geographic size.  Many shoulders are wide enough to provide safe bike passage.  And, Hartford even has a few bike lanes.   Plus, Connecticut in recent years passed legislation that protects bikers on the road (see also: the three [...]

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Climate Activists Drop Banners on 3-Month Anniversary of the Gulf Oil Crisis to Demand an End to Oil Dependence

Climate Activists Drop Banners on 3-Month Anniversary of the Gulf Oil Crisis to Demand an End to Oil Dependence

22 July 2010

Hartford; Middletown, CT—Two days ago during rush hour, activists with the climate justice network Connecticut Rising Tide dropped two large banners off of the Portland Bridge in Middletown and over Interstate 91-North in Hartford, to highlight the irreparable destruction in the Gulf of Mexico on the 3-month anniversary of the oil disaster, [...]

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Hartford Sound Alliance, Jacob Zimmerman Quartet and The Sophisticates

Hartford Sound Alliance, Jacob Zimmerman Quartet and The Sophisticates

22 July 2010

FREE CONCERT — FRIDAY July 23rd  7:30pm @ Charter Oak Cultural Center GET YOUR IMPROV ON! Hartford Sound Alliance performs along with the Jacob Zimmerman Quartet and The Sophisiticates. …Improv, electronics, jazz, composition etc etc We hope to see you all there! ~-~-~-~ Jacob Zimmerman Quartet is: Jacob Zimmerman – sax (Berkeley, CA), Randy Pingrey – trombone (Boston, MA), Jesse Ward [...]

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Independence Day Thoughts

Independence Day Thoughts

07 July 2010

This article by Ryan Harvey of the Civilian Soldier Alliance raises some insightful points about what we are really celebrating on Independence Day. Thanks to Dave Ionno for the tip.

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Five to One

Five to One

03 July 2010

Five to one, Baby One in five They got the guns We got the numbers Doors Jim Morrison The muted rumblings in Greece, site of the Athenian Acropolis and birthplace of democracy, precedes the perfect political storm.  Olga Stefan, a 20 year old Greek university student thinks her government is in ..“someway afraid of us.  There are too many of [...]

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Skateboarding No Longer A Crime In Hartford

Skateboarding No Longer A Crime In Hartford

29 June 2010

On Monday night, Hartford’s City Council voted to overturn ordinance Chapter 31, Article I, Section 31-5 of Code de Skateboards. Which barring any mayoral veto, officially repeals the archaic and unnecessary ban of skateboarding on Hartford’s streets and sidewalks. The ban, which has been in place for 33 years was hardly-if ever-enforced and [...]

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Crossing the $1 Trillion “Cost of War” Line

Crossing the $1 Trillion “Cost of War” Line

03 June 2010

On May 30, 2010, at 10:06am, the National Priorities Project Cost of War counter – designed to count the total money appropriated for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars – reached the $1 trillion mark. To date, $747.3 billion have been appropriated for the U.S. war in Iraq and $299 billion for the war [...]

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  • kevin: UPDATE: I got two calls this morning, from the same union, AFT, telling me who they’re endorsing. Only...
  • goolia: A reminder about voting – August 26th is the 90th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. The Young...
  • goolia: Nice post!! Yes, a gust of wind can throw someone off a bike. Who knew! I’m so happy to be...
  • kevin: i love the yellow bike idea. i would love to see it happen in Hartford. Maybe we can get a bunch of the police...
  • dave rozza: It would be rad if Hartford had a “yellow bike” program or something similar. Not that it...
  • steve thornton: One of the Strike’s biggest supporters died last Thursday. She spoke at our first rally and...
  • dave rozza: VIDEO FROM THE RALLY: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =JA-9WMB4CQs
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