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Category: Community

Learn How To Use LimeBike, Hartford’s First Bike Share Program

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| Community

The city’s first bike-share program is up and running – riding – with residents at crosswalks and bus stops gawking as LimeBike employees installed the bright green bikes at locations across Hartford. LimeBike, the brainchild of CEO Toby Sun and a prominent Silicon Valley firm, provides affordable, dockless pedal bikes to cities and college campuses across the United States. Hartford will […]

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Don’t Forget Flint!

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| Black Lives Matter, Community, Economic Justice, Health, Justice, Social Action

Lead crisis: Flint braces as Michigan shuts down free bottled water sites “My water stinks. It still burns to take a shower. There’s no way they can say it’s safe.” by Erik Ortiz / Apr.09.2018 / 11:44 AM ET / Updated Apr.09.2018 / 2:39 PM ET Shawn Jones, 42, right, and Tony Price, 54, distribute bottled water at a point […]

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After Two Deaths, HPD Heeds Parents’ Demand for Crossing Guards

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| Children, Community, Uncategorized, Youth

  After Two Deaths, HPD Heeds Parents’ Demand for Crossing Guards Denise Fillion, School Crossing Guard Supervisor for the Hartford Police Department (HPD) Traffic Division, sent a letter to the Milner School office dated August 22, 2017, informing the school that two crossing guard posts associated with the school would be closing. Fillion cited “low […]

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A Return to Debtors’ Prisons

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| Civil Rights, Community, Courts, Incarceration, Information, Justice, US Supreme Court

A return to debtors’ prisons: Jeff Sessions’ war on the poor One day after President Donald Trump invited Republican lawmakers to the White House to celebrate the historic tax cuts they passed for corporations and wealthy business leaders, his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, quietly reinstated a draconian policy that effectively serves as a regressive tax […]

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Camp Words in Congressional Record

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| Community, Current Events, Faith, Justice

More to Think About: Community Rep. John Larson came to Faith Church for many reasons. Rep. Larson has visited numerous times, bringing information and keeping us informed. On this visit, he did two important things: he presented a copy of a proclamation in conjunction with having Rev. Camp’s words read into the Congressional Record, and […]

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Faith Church and CENCAP

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Faith Church and CENCAP Faith Church raised approximately $1500 for hurricane relief in Puerto Rico. We sent the money through CENCAP Federal Credit Union, a neighborhood financial institution.  CENCAP is one of the few neighborhood financial institutions on Hartford’s North End.  The branch nearest Faith is in a building formerly occupied by Bank of America. […]

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Environmental Racism Is the New Jim Crow

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| Black Lives Matter, Civil Rights, Community, Environmental Racism, Health, Information, Justice, Race

 7 videos   Video by The Atlantic African Americans face disproportionate rates of lead poisoning, asthma, and environmental harm. Staff writer Vann R. Newkirk II argues that discrimination in public planning is to blame. “Pollution and the risk of disaster are assigned to black and brown communities through generations of discrimination and political neglect,” says Newkirk II. […]

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Another prison facility closes as CT inmate population shrinks

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| Community, Incarceration, Information, Men, News!

Another prison facility closes as CT inmate population shrinks By: MARK PAZNIOKAS | The administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Wednesday the closure of the 254-bed Radgowski annex at the Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Center in Montville, saving about $3 million in annual operating costs. “As crime in Connecticut has dropped to its lowest level in […]

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With Integrated Schools Out Of Reach, Segregated Options Gain Favor

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| Black Lives Matter, Children, Community, Courts, Education, Information

Imperfect Choices: With Integrated Schools Out Of Reach, Segregated Options Gain Favor Twenty years after Sheff v. O’Neill — Connecticut’s decree that racial isolation in Hartford schools violated children’s constitutional rights — neighborhood schools have been left in the ruling’s shadow. Kathleen Megan and Matthew Kauffman      Contact Reporters Connecticut’s network of regional magnet schools, long hailed […]

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WHEN POVERTY PERMEATES THE CLASSROOM

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| Black Lives Matter, Children, Community, Courts, Education, History, News!, Public Schools

TROUBLED SCHOOLS ON TRIAL: FIRST OF SEVEN STORIES WHEN POVERTY PERMEATES THE CLASSROOM Struggling to cope with past sexual abuse and a mother who works long hours at a low-wage job, Alex regularly breaks down while at school. The screaming, crawling and crying of this 5-year-old at North Windham Elementary School – and the arrival […]

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RSS UCC News

  • Shari Prestemon named Acting Associate General Minister for Wider Church Ministries September 20, 2023
    A new United Church of Christ national leader has been called. The UCC Board voted in a special meeting Monday, Sept. 18 to appoint the Rev. Shari Prestemon as Acting Associate General Minister for Wider Church Ministries and Co-Executive for… The post Shari Prestemon named Acting Associate General Minister for Wider Church Ministries appeared first […]
  • Grief, healing, hope: Join the Movement honors 60th anniversary of Birmingham church bombing September 19, 2023
    On Sept. 15, 1963, a bomb was detonated at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., by four members of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, 60 years later, the United Church of Christ’s Join the Movement Toward Racial Justice… The post Grief, healing, hope: Join the Movement honors 60th anniversary of Birmingham church bombing […]
  • Tens of thousands of climate activists march in NYC September 19, 2023
    At least 75,000 climate activists showed up Sunday, Sept. 17 in New York City as part of the March to End Fossil Fuels. People of many faith perspectives were represented, including the United Church of Christ. The national UCC, along… The post Tens of thousands of climate activists march in NYC appeared first on United […]

RSS Our Daily Bread

  • Beautiful Restoration September 22, 2023
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  • God Covers Our Sin September 21, 2023
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  • Shooting Ourselves in the Foot September 20, 2023
    In 2021, an engineer with the ambition to shoot an arrow farther than anyone in history took aim at the record of 2,028 feet. While lying on his back on a salt flat, he drew back the bowstring of his personally designed foot bow and prepared to launch the projectile to what he hoped would […]

RSS National Public Radio – News

  • Kentucky's near-total abortion ban takes center stage in gubernatorial election September 22, 2023
    Incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear's latest campaign ad features a victim of rape and incest calling out Republican AG Daniel Cameron's support of the current state abortion ban.
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RSS Think Justice: The Vera Institute

  • How the United States Punishes People for Being Poor September 21, 2023
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