In the middle of a major snow storm about 25 people attended a rally in Northampton on Martin Luther King day. The goal was to get congress to pass voting rights bills. Congressman Jim McGovern and Northampton city councilor Garrick Perry were at the rally, Debby Pastrich-Klemer told the Valley Post. She is a leader in the Northampton Democratic party.
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Green Mountain National Forest is near Brattleboro. Activists who have a web page at
are organizing a January 29 march in Burlington to stop logging in the forest.
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