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The Body Politics

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Monte

2/6: Irvine Sobelman , member of the Sugar Shack Alliance and Steering Committee member of Climate Action Now, on today’s Kinder-Morgan pipeline-induced and judicially-approved funeral (the death, not the funeral) of the Otis State Forest; JM Sorrell, the LGBTQ JP, on Trump’s effect on the community; Liz Friedman, co-chair of Our Bodies/Our Justice, and Amaad Rivera, former Springfield City Councilor and former aide to Sen Ed Markey, on the upcoming Our Bodies/Our Justice rally; Black in the Valley with special guest Hip-Hop producer Demany Gordon.

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