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RadioActive: Activist Mims Butterworth, Part 2


Mims Butterworth is a 93-year-old activist who has traveled extensively, worked under the Ella Grasso administration, was a delegate to the 1968

Democratic National Convention and lived in Germany in the

summer of 1938 as a college student. Her memoir Just Say Yes was published by Antrim House this year.

 

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RadioActive: Activist Mims Butterworth, Part 1


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Mims Butterworth is a 93-year-old activist who has

traveled extensively, worked under the Ella Grasso administration, was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention

and lived in Germany in the summer of 1938 as a college student. Her memoir Just Say Yes was published by Antrim House this year.

 

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RadioActive: Artist Brian Cook


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Graphic designer Brian Cook has created a Hartford Museum Passport that he hopes will get into the hands of many middle school-aged

kids in Hartford. He tells us what this grassroots, community-funded project is all about. Update: the Museum Passport project was funded! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/886104268/hartford-museum-passport

 

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RadioActive: CT AIDS Resource Coalition


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John Merz speaks about the latest news from the CT AIDS Resource Coalition and their Art Grab fundraiser.

 

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RadioActive: Talking CT's State Budget


Matt O’Connor of CSEA/SEIU

2001 discusses the ongoing CT budget debate and its potential

effects on public employees

and the state overall.

 

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RadioActive: Planned Parenthood of Southern New England


We interview Susan Yolen of Planned Parenthood

of Southern New England about

the recent attacks on Planned Parenthood in Congress as

well as the range of services they offer in our area.

 

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