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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


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: Friends of Vintage Baseball


Pops and Karen O’Maxfield from Hartford’s own vintage baseball league join us to speak about their free (and baseball glove-free) weekly games in Colt Park.

 

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RadioActive: May Day Hartford


SEIU 1199′s Steve Thornton discusses the events surrounding Hartford’s first annual May Day celebration, coming Saturday May 1 to Burr Mall, Main Street next to city hall in Downtown Hartford – music, food, workshops and a walking tour of labor history in Hartford.

 

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  • steve thornton: [April 16]– Marking one full year in struggle, nurses, nursing assistants and support staff at...
  • dave rozza: Maybe I should have added Libya to the mix… :/ http://english.aljazeera.ne...
  • Meghan Quinn: Mubarak is out! Celebrate Saturday 2/12 at 1 PM behind the State Capitol!
  • kevin: so with that kind of political support, any hope of ending this thing equitably any time soon?
  • steve thornton: (January 15) Former Hartford Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry told Spectrum workers and their supporters that...

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