Catskill Freedom Network is an all-volunteer grassroots Democratic political action committee whose aim is to elect a Democrat and defeat Republican Rep. John Faso in New York’s 19th Congressional district in 2018.
Motivated by a strong distaste for the Trump administration, progressives in Berkshire County and across the state and nation moved quickly after the November election to mobilize and form a resistance movement rooted in policy and protest.
Along with hundreds of thousands of people all over the United States and elsewhere in the world, local protestors will be demanding that Donald Trump release his tax returns once and for all.
The Four Freedoms Coalition and Berkshire Community College will present a day of free, nonpartisan advocacy trainings on Saturday, April 1, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at BCC.
The Four Freedoms march and rally has garnered the support of over 80 community partners and more than 20 elected officials such as Massachusetts senators Edward Markey and Elizabeth Warren, Pittsfield Mayor Linda Tyer and North Adams Mayor Richard Alcombright.
In her letter to the editor, Mary Palmer of Lee writes: "The state wide 8-member GC has the final say in all appointments for state judges and court clerk-magistrates as well as criminal pardons."
During construction, the Bridge Street bridge in Great Barrington will be limited to one lane of alternating traffic. Accommodations for pedestrians will be in place. Completion of the project is anticipated to be in the spring of 2017.
