This blog explains the entire current controversy with Idaho, including full references and links to articles and the artists. There are also suggestions about who to write and points that might be made in such communication. READ more:https://us06web.zoom.us/j/4011830132
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Local bridge editor and progressive activist Peg Johnston has spent her working career in abortion care at Southern Tier Women’s Health Services which she founded in 1981. Her specialty has been counseling those experiencing abortions and their loved ones. Now, at the end of her career, this special exhibit by San Francisco photographer Roslyn Banish
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HOW DO YOU SILENCE A COMMUNITY? by PEG JOHNSTON, SOUTHERN TIER WOMEN’S HEALTH SERVICES LLC AND ACTIVIST WITH THE CENTER FOR GENDER, ART and CULTURE. For more information: When one in four people experience an abortion in their lifetimes (and add in their partners, family, and friends), how do you keep them from talking about
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New York 06 February 2023 Secretary-General’s briefing to the General Assembly on Priorities for 2023 Mr. President of the General Assembly, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Before we begin, I want to convey my deep sadness about the devastating earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. I extend my condolences to the families of the victims. The United Nations
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Another Hunger Strike and Appeal from the County Jail Families Demand: Feed our Loved Ones Once again persons incarcerated in the Broome county jail have gone on a hunger strike, this week sending back meal after meal to the kitchen. Their appeal and actions add to years of reports of ill-fed, starving and brutalized
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AFTER GOVERNOR’S STATE OF THE STATE, CITIZEN ACTION CALLS FOR SPENDING PUBLIC MONEY ON PUBLIC GOOD A New York Where All Can Thrive Means Putting Everyday People First Instead of the Wealthy and Well-Connected January 10, 2023 (New York, NY) — Citizen Action of New York is committed to achieving a society rooted in dignity,
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by Jack Gilroy Ed.: This letter to the editor was rejected by the Press and Sun Bulletin and accepted for publication by the Scranton Times Union. It is published here by permission of the author The end of the genocidal neoliberal system has come, accompanied by catastrophic hyperinflation and the white-hot danger of thermonuclear war.
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As reported here in June, New York leaders supercharged its most successful blight elimination grant program, Restore NY, with a $250 million allocation in the state’s 2022-2023 budget. The Restore NY program is managed by Empire State Development (ESD), the state’s economic development agency. ESD announced this summer that the $250 million in Restore NY
This comprehensive report on the legal threats to women and pregnant people from “personhood” laws, which are already on the books and resulting in real charges against individuals, is from the much respected National Advocates for Pregnant Women (NAPW). The report is linked and is a 43 page legal resource and analysis. While the media
One of the missions of the binghamton bridge is to amplify local progressive news and organizations. We have been very impressed with AccessAbility, the newsletter of the Southern Tier Independence Center. The analysis of NYS politics and budget is excellent. The writing of Ken and Marie Dibble is just great. We highly recommend, in particular,
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