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Michaelann Land

http://michaelannland.blogspot.com/

Michaelann Land is the political and personal blog of a longtime community activist in Springfield Massachusetts. It tracks homelessness, poverty and environmental news in Western Mass and elsewhere, with random bursts of poetry and humor.

Added on: Jun 9th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: michaelann bewsee
Listed in: Politics Political Activism
Tags: housing environment poverty organizing homelessness voting rights

Recent Posts

I have great daughters and a great granddaughter!

Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 17:06 in life

My daughter Jess just updated her blog and I'm going to take this opportunity, before turning to more serious things, to remark that both of my daughters and my granddaughter have blogs. Jessie's blog came about after she discovered a t...
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Posted on Thursday November 19th, 2009 at 07:25 in life

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. —Michael Althsuler Photo is Antoine de Saint Exupéry, author of Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars and The Little Prince. Atom ...
Seven reasons to oppose a toxic incinerator in Springfield.

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 22:13 in health, biomass, health care industry, springfield ma, 01108, palmer renewable energy

Palmer Renewable Energy’s proposal to build an electricity-generating biomass plant in Springfield, Massachusetts is moving very quickly, now—the developers need two more permits and then they get the green light. I myself refuse to call PRE�...
Former shelter director Keough arrested - some people just don\'t learn

Posted on Sunday November 15th, 2009 at 10:44 in homeless, friends of the homeless, springfield ma, 01108, frank keough

Can't let this sad, funny and infuriating event pass without comment: on Friday, Frank Keough, former director of the Worthington St. Shelter, was arrested in Rhode Island after attempting to steal his former furniture from his former house! S...
The Particle Zoo

Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 18:05 in life, science

From the Particle Zoo, where you can buy your favorite stuffed gluon, photon, or proton or neutrino.Atom ...
Veterans Day: may they all come home (and always HAVE a home)

Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 09:07 in war, homeless, iraq, peace, afghanistan, springfield ma, 01108

I saw some of Springfield's Veterans Day parade today as marchers kicked off from State and Federal Streets. Only a few blocks away, at Worthington St. shelter, I knew that more than a quarter of the homeless men and women "living there" are veter...