Yep. Knitty Gritty Committee is totally awesome. They brightened up the gazebo in Elizabeth Park with yarn roses. Go check it out before the birds take them to make nests! Pic from the Committee – check out their blog for more photos.

From Trinity College – Stop the Raids:

Mariano Cardoso lives, works and goes to school in Hartford, CT. He is now facing deportation. Help Stop the Raids! rally support for him so that he can stay here to finish his college degree in Engineering!

For those who are interested, we are making posters for the rally this Friday the 11th at 7:30pm in the Community Service Office. Please help us make a visible impact at the rally!

More info is on the Facebook event page.

We’ll be following this story.

(Hartford) On Saturday, February 5, people from the Hartford area joined together at the State Capitol to show support for the people of Egypt and to protest US military aid to Egypt. Despite the rainy weather, a good number of individuals, young and old, made it out to the Capitol and raised their voices in both Arabic and English. The group then marched on to the Federal Building on Main Street.

One of the event’s organizers, an Egyptian-American named Rana Elazazy, will be on RadioActive next week. Tune into that show Tuesday 2/15 at 1 PM on WESU Middletown 88.1 FM, Wednesday 2/16 at noon on WWUH West Hartford 91.3 FM, or Thursday (new date!) 2/17 at 6 PM on WHUS Storrs 91.7 FM. And as always, there will be a podcast right here at hartfordimc.org.

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Activist and student Lorella Praeli on the DREAM Act: a path to citizenship for undocumented students that is currently in the Senate. UPDATE: This will come to a vote in the Senate on Saturday, December 18.

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More info about CT Students for a Dream.

More about the DREAM Act.

Read an article on the DREAM Act in Connecticut.

We speak with Lief Ellis, Bill Solomon and Matt Sargent, members of Studio for Electronic Music, Inc. about their upcoming concert of percussion and electronics.

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Tipped off by A Few Queers on the Prowl on this one.

Image from jonathan_palmer on flickr

Connecticut Valley Atheists, and the national Atheist organization American Atheists, of which Connecticut Valley Atheists is an affiliate, said they will jointly sponsor a protest of the practice of opening Hartford City Council meetings with a prayer.

During the meeting of Monday December 13, members of the groups will remain seated and silent when the room is requested to stand for prayer. Read the full story at A Few Queers on the Prowl.