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East Boston Greenway

How can the East Boston Greenway make us a more cohesive community? How can it connect the inner harbor to bodies of water further north? Can it be a source of economic activity? How about connecting other municipalities in the region? What exciting activities are in store along the Greenway this Summer? Listen to Gretchen Robinkin, Chris Marchi, and Mary Ellen Welch from the Friends of the East Boston Greenway answer these and other questions on What’s up Eastie?

Contact information for the Friends of East Boston Greenway:

WEBSITE: EASTBOSTONGREENWAY.COM

EMAIL: EASTBOSTONGREENWAY@GMAIL.COM

PHONE: 617-417-2093

FACEBOOK: FRIENDS OF EAST BOSTON GREENWAY

TWITTER: @EASTIEGREENWAY

INSTAGRAM: @EASTIEGREENWAY

Journalism and the latino community

247808_10150298360727489_5625141_n — Luis Bravo, Editor, El Heraldo Latino

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Why is journalism ineffective today, at least the way it is being practiced? Why especially so in the latino community? Listen to Luis Bravo, a thirty year veteran of journalism, along with Jordan Frias, tackle these questions on What’s up Eastie?

Thank you, Brittany Thomas, of Zumix Radio for translation support.

You can contact Luis Bravo at perfilespubg@aol.com

Fighting Hunger and Addiction

The East Boston Community Soup Kitchen‘s Sandra Nijjar, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center‘s Joanna Cataldo, Project Bread‘s Maura Ackerman, and Karen a currently homeless person who visits the soup kitchen regularly, joined me today on What’s up Eastie? to discuss hunger alongside the social defects that lead to hunger, and the actions they are taking to combat both hunger and its root causes.

How you can get involved:

Project Bread’s Walk of Hunger is coming right up on May 6, 2018.
The National Prescription Drug Take Back Day is the coming Saturday — a great day to get rid of prescription drugs that are risky to keep in the house.
The soup kitchen is looking for assistance in many areas. Reach out to Sandra if you are interested in volunteering.

Listen to the conversation:

Youth on Gun control and Climate action

Thanks to school vacation week, some young people were able to join me on the radio today. And they have fresh and interesting perspectives on gun control and climate action. Take a listen:

Suffolk Downs Redevelopment

Tom O’Brien, HYM Investments

Tom O’Brien of HYM Investments, the Suffolk Downs developer, was on Zumix Radio on Wednesday April 11. Listen to the show:

Displacement

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City Life/Vida Urbana‘s Andres Del Castillo joined me on What’s up Eastie? to discuss displacement in East Boston, and CVLU’s fight against it. You can email Andres at andres@clvu.org, or call him at 617-524-3541 x304.

Community Rights

Two community organizers joined me on Zumix Radio to discuss community rights: New Hampshire Community Rights Network Michelle Sanborn, and long-term local (East Boston) community leader Mary Ellen Welch.

For listeners’ reference, Mary Ellen mentions the book Rites of way .

To learn more about New Hampshire’s community rights movement, check out http://www.nhcommunityrights.org/ and http://www.celdf.org