by | Feb 28, 2014 5:34 pm | Comments (0)
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Murphy Friday with the Greater New Haven Peace Council’s Henry Lowendorf.
As Ukraine slid toward a possible civil war amid fears of Russian military intervention Friday, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, in a New Haven stop, took a stance of wait-and-see — while watching very closely.
Continue reading ‘Murphy Keeps Eye On Russian Maneuvers In Crimea’
by | Feb 24, 2014 12:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Murphy, at right, in Westville Sunday evening helping Gary Holder-Winfield campaign for state senator.
Chris Murphy witnessed history in the making last December in the central square in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Sunday he praised the direction of the uprising’s success there — while sounding notes of caution.
Continue reading ‘Murphy: U.S. Must Walk “Fine Line” In Ukraine’
by | Feb 23, 2014 8:44 pm | Comments (1)
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“I’m happy right now, but it’s not over yet. I want a new Ukraine.”
by | Feb 20, 2014 9:02 am | Comments (0)
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Subjects outside Chapel Street location.
**CONFIDENTIAL**
Via AIRTEL
TO: SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE, CONNECTICUT DIVISION (100 – 19186)
FROM: NEW HAVEN FIELD OFFICE
SUBJECT: THREAT TO STATE SECURITY
Continue reading ‘Subversives Infiltrate City; Action Planned’
by | Feb 18, 2014 1:55 pm | Comments (2)
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Cinder block by cinder block, Father Emmanuel Ihemedu’s dream of bringing health care to thousands of needy villagers in his native Ejemekwuru, Imo State Nigeria, has edged closer to reality.
by | Dec 12, 2013 9:33 am | Comments (0)
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The mystery began when an anonymous woman walked into New Haven’s Ecuadorian consulate with a shoebox full of missing treasure.
by | Sep 29, 2013 9:49 pm | Comments (44)
Trevisan.
Law Dean Post “immediately” sought reporter’s release.
Intrepid Brazilian reporter Claudia Trevisan dealt with the authorities in North Korea. She dealt with state security while pursuing stories in China. None of that compared to dealing with cops on Yale campus when she came here to report a story — and ended up in handcuffs, then incarcerated in the police station pokey.
Continue reading ‘Law Dean Called For Arrested Reporter’s Release’
by | Sep 20, 2013 3:46 pm | Comments (8)
As he commemorated the history of a court case that freed a group of African slaves, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information proposed a new lawsuit — suing Spain for damage caused by the slave trade.
Continue reading ‘On Amistad Anniversary, A Call For Reparations’
by | Aug 16, 2013 2:52 pm | Comments (1)
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Reem Elazazy said her dad went to Egypt to visit relatives and is now trapped inside his family home as people die in the streets — killed by American-made weapons.
Continue reading ‘Activists Call For End To Military Aid To Egypt’
by | Jun 27, 2013 3:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Father Emmanuel was in Nigeria to help supervise clinic construction
When Father Emmanuel Ihemedu came before the Westville community and supporters at a fundraiser at Lyric Hall last February, a new health clinic under construction in his hometown of Ejemekwuru, Imo State Nigeria, was a mere foundation built on a dream.
by | Apr 29, 2013 8:00 am | Comments (3)
Bill Curry, a former state comptroller, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and adviser to U.S. President Bill Clinton, wrote this commentary.
Continue reading ‘Drones Are New; The Moral Challenge Is Not’
by | Apr 24, 2013 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
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From “Humor from my Pen,” with the pun on penitentiary,.
If he were making his presentation in Miami, Tim Craine said, he’d need a security detail. In New Haven he just relied on some tasty sandwiches and lemonade, the Greater New Haven Peace Commission, and a politically active local librarian.
by | Feb 26, 2013 4:33 pm | Comments (2)
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A spirit of giving and fellowship enveloped a crowd of supporters who came to Westville’s Lyric Hall Friday, with the common purpose of raising funds for a modest health clinic in Ejemekwuru, Imo State, Nigeria. The project, sponsored by New Haven’s MaryCare organization, brought together Hartford and Westville communities, who were greeted at Lyric Hall by the African drum rhythms of Aly Tatchol Camara. A slate of performers and entertainers followed, with attendees enjoying foods, desserts, and fine wines donated by Amity Wines in the floral bedecked reception area.
by | Feb 21, 2013 3:58 pm | Comments (11)
As one New Havener lost his fight against deportation by the feds, four others were arrested Thursday by federal marshals outside a courthouse in Hartford.
Continue reading ‘4 Arrested As Feds Order New Havener Deported’
by | Feb 7, 2013 2:25 pm | Comments (1)
Brad Horrigan Photos
Local photographer Brad Horrigan recently traveled to Nicaragua and brought back these photos, which are part of an exhibition about to open at the Institute Library AT 847 Chapel St. The exhibition’s title: “Bittersweet: Dying in the Nicaraguan Sugar Fields.” Horrigan contributed the following write-up about his experience.
Updated post-storm note: The opening reception is now rescheduled for Saturday, Feb. 16, from 5 – 7 p.m. The exhibition is also open for viewing from Feb. 9 — 23, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.A book of the exhibition photographs will be available for purchase, withproceeds benefiting the New Haven Leon Sister City Project.
by | Nov 28, 2012 10:10 am | Comments (3)
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As Yale steams forward with its controversial efforts to open a new college in Singapore, new criticism has appeared in a surprising location — the steam tunnels below the original campus here in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Believe In People Returns From, To Underground’
by | Nov 19, 2012 4:52 pm | Comments (2)
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Malala is recovering at a U.K. hospital.
Caryn Lawrence thought about a 15-year-old heroic Pakistani girl who almost lost her life to a gunman for the offense of wanting to go to school. Then she thought about her brother’s best friend, who got shot here in New Haven.
by | Nov 19, 2012 8:55 am | Comments (4)
“Hi, hon!” a man called out to Lt. Holly Wasilewski after she pulled her cruiser into the Church Street South housing projects, home to three homicides last year.
It’s not the kind of greeting cops would have received on a similar errand in Tajikistan.
by | Oct 12, 2012 10:06 am | Comments (0)
She wants troops home from Afghanistan sooner than later. He wants the job “finished.”
Israel bombing Iran? On that one, they agree: No second-guessing an ally.
You get to vote for one of them on Nov. 6 as your next representative in the U.S. Congress.
by | Sep 24, 2012 8:06 am | Comments (1)
They spoke across continents in Polish and English. But they also speak in a common language — the language of peace.
by | Jul 10, 2012 12:14 pm | Comments (0)
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Richard Brooks, Kisha Mitchell, and Hillary Brown.
“The most frequent [racial] assumption is that I’m from patient transport services, there to pick them up. But it doesn’t bother me. I just clarify: I’m your doctor.”
Actually, the petite black woman with big intense eyes is not only their doctor, but their surgeon. Their vascular surgeon.
by | May 16, 2012 8:25 am | Comments (1)
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A missionary’s tale kept students rapt — & got them thinking.
After hearing a firsthand account of the Rwandan massacre, a city seventh-grader said that she wants to travel the world to fight genocide anywhere it happens. She and her classmates also learned that they can also stay here and fight hatred at home.
by | Dec 15, 2011 1:11 pm | Comments (0)
Mask fashioned by Haitian earthquake victim from husk of the inedible fruit of the tropical “calbas” tree.
Whenever there’s construction noise or the clatter of falling stones, many of 500 little kids in her charge still tremble and require care, comfort, and maybe even yoga. They remember the big earthquake.
by | Oct 18, 2011 4:30 pm | Comments (6)
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Chris DePino.
Local harmonica sensation Chris DePino played a concert Monday night at the Czech Republic’s presidential palace. He sent in these photos and this write-up:
Laco Deczi, jazz trumpet legend and patriot, played a concert tonight in front of a prestigious crowd of VIPs at the president’s castle in Prague. Ambassadors from a dozen countries were also in attendance as the jazz legend performed his compositions. And by his side was New Haven’s Chris DePino who wowed the crowd with his chromatic harmonica and singing!
by | Aug 21, 2011 11:28 am | Comments (1)
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Fans of the Harry Potter movies may recognize this cloister at Gloucester as a hallway at the Hogwarts School.
The choir of St. Thomas’s Episcopal Church in New Haven is in England until Aug. 22, singing for church services at Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle, and Gloucester Cathedral. Mark Branch is keeping a journal of the trip for the Independent.
We left London Tuesday morning for Gloucester, a city in western England that is just about the same size as New Haven (but without the Elm City’s large suburban population). It has other similarities to New Haven: It is a port city, thanks to a canal that connects it to the Bristol Channel. It is a planned city, built by the Romans in their fashion with a main north-south street and east-west street crossing at what is still the center of town. And it is a former industrial city that is still trying to find its way in a post-industrial world.