To protest Trump, on March 28 in Northampton about 7,000 people were at a rally. In Greenfield, 3,500 people marched. In Brattleboro, 3,000 people marched. In Amherst, 1,000 people were at a rally. Another 1,000 people were at the Keene rally. “Masked secret police terrorizing our communities. An illegal, catastrophic war putting us in danger and driving up our costs. Attacks on our freedom of speech, our civil rights, our freedom to vote. Costs pushing families to the brink. Trump wants to rule over us as a tyrant. But this is America, and power belongs to the people -- not to wannabe kings or their billionaire cronies,” said the organizers' web site: www.NoKings.org.
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On April 2, some 280 workers at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital announced they had voted to authorize a strike. They are “technical professionals, support staff, skilled maintenance and business office clerical staff.”
One of the workers is Hope Brooks. She is also on the contract bargaining team. “After more than a year of bargaining, we still don’t even have a wage scale from management,” Brooks told the Valley Post. “We are fighting for a contract that protects patient care.”
The nurses at the hospital recently also voted authorize a strike. The date to start the strike has not yet been set. The nurses and the other workers have one web site:
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