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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! Michaelann Land http://michaelannland.blogspot.com/ Michaelann Land is the political and personal blog of a longtime community activist in Springfield Massachusetts. It tracks homelessness, poverty and environmental news in Western Mass and elsewhere, with random bursts of poetry and humor. Category: Directory » Society Blogs » Activism Hits: 1 Date added: 2008-02-17 23:22:43 Alexa traffic rank: 2,557,279 Site average load time: 1.718 Second(s) Fast Faster than 49% of websites Site language: EN

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Michaelann Land Latest Posts

Gas rip-off on Boston Road
I admit the second part of my day hasn't been so good (sick cat) so I wasn't in the best mood, but what happened tonight really pissed me off.I'm on my way home driving down Boston Road basically running on fumes. Usually I get my gas at the gas/convenience store on the corner of Oakland and... Read more...
Published 1 day ago

Seven homeless arrested at Portland OR protest
"You may be giving up, buddy, but I'm not." that's what homeless leader Larry Reynolds told Portland Mayor Potter, after the mayor refused to lift the ban on camping and pointed instead to the city' ten year plan to end homelessness. If that's not good enough, the mayor had said, I'm giving... Read more...
Published 2 days ago

International Tent City Day to be commemorated May 15
Last night I got an unexpected phone call from a former resident of Springfield's 2004 Tent City. He's in Tennessee now and considering whether or not his city's homeless are ready to organize a tent city. Lots of homelessness but not much leadership, he said-- a not uncommon scenario.... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Where are Springfield's falcons?
The Republican reported this morning that the nesting pair of peregrine falcons, a familiar site in Springfield for the last 19 years, don't seem to be around this spring. Usually, they next on on a specially-build platform on the 21st floor on Monach Place, although they moved to the Memorial... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Does this make sense? Canadian Gov't pays farmers to kill 150,000 pigs
The pork industry is on the verge of collapse in Canada and so the government will be paying $50 million to kill off 150,000 pigs. Each farmer who wants to participate must kill off an entire breeding barn of pigs and agree not to restock the barn for three years. About 25% of the meat will go... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Bees to have their own movie
Bees are finally getting their own movie! Well, actually, we've had "Killer Bees," "The Savage Bees" and "The Deadly Bees," but nothing about the disappearance of bees until now.I've been meaning to get to an update on bees and I still will, but in the meantime, I found out from the Organic... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Fences both protect and destroy animal habitat
More than 50 years have passed since the end of the Korean War and the establishment of a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea. In those 50 years an abundance of plants, bird and animals have thrived in a strip of land only 150 miles long and two and a half miles wide. 97% of... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

How Massachusetts are you?
Take this little quiz over at GoToQuiz and find out how Massachusetts you are. Not too many questions yet, but the author plans to expand. If you have good ideas for additional questions, you can leave them in the Comments section.Sample questions:Do you know what a packie is? A beater car A... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Councilor Tim Rooke doesn't get ward representation
The Civil Rights and Race Relations Committee met again this afternoon to discuss plans for implementing ward representation. I must say it was a thought-provoking meeting. Each department head that had been charged with assessing potential changes in their departments gave a report. Mike... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Poor people kicked out of session on poor people
Well, if this isn't typical. Premier Dalton McGuinty of Ontario was elected partly on his party's platform of reducing poverty by 25% in five years, but now that he is starting the process of "getting firsthand feedback" (his words) apparently that doesn't include getting any input from the... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Homeless, Tired of foreclosures, Reclaim Vacant Government Homes
I have a link to these folks -- the Nashville Homeless Power Project-- on my blog, and when I got this email today, asking for help publicizing what they're up to, I was happy to oblige.Contact: Jeannie Alexander, 615-799--8108 Homeless, Tired of foreclosures, Reclaim Vacant... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Iraq: making it out alive but not for long
The war in Iraq may be off the radar screen for many of us, but not for U.S. military personnel and their families.In the month of April, 51 servicepeople died in Iraq, the highest number since last September. April injury numbers aren't out yet, and we know the military bigwigs do the best they... Read more...
Published 6 days ago