Congress must listen to the voices that for nearly 30 years have consistently sounded the alarm about management schemes that privatize fishing rights, industrialize the ocean, and undermine our public commons.
Category: Community Voices
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Letters to The Light: Spillane’s column honors Montigny’s important contribution
Bringing the College of Visual and Performing Arts into a renovated Star Store was the critical piece of the downtown puzzle. Keeping it here preserves downtown’s important anchor.
Posted inCommunity Voices / Fishing Crisis
Public reaction to New Bedford fishing industry investigation: ‘This is a disgrace’
“What hurts them and their families, hurts me … I think putting the squeeze on the very people who do the backbreaking work is unconscionable. Corporate greed at its best.”
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Letter: Folk Festival provided ‘phenomenal enthusiasm and wonderful entertainment’
A volunteer shares her experience taking in the sights, sounds and food of “New Bedford at its best.”
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Opinion: Manipulation of the fishing industry is alive and well
“Sennott’s piece brings into focus what we’ve long wondered aloud: How much of the $11 billion the industry generates each year stays here … Certainly not enough.” — Joshua Amaral
Posted inCommunity Voices / Fishing Crisis
Opinion: First, ground fishing takeover — next is the scallop industry
“We as fishermen pour our hearts out to the (scallop leasing) committee. And they sit there with a straight face like they have already made their decision.” — Fishing Captain Justin Mello
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‘Thank you, Jack,’ and other letters to The New Bedford Light
“The fact that this Chat [on abortion] was organized by a man is significant. … It is not just a woman’s issue, and more men are needed to speak out!”
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Commentary: Defending democracy and a woman’s right to choose
Women, especially low-income women, will be forced to have illegal and potentially dangerous abortions. Women and mothers, sisters and daughters will die as a result of this ruling.
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Updated: Community reacts to Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade
Comments pour in from advocates, readers and public officials. “I am extremely discouraged, saddened, shocked, and angry,” says one reader.
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Roe overturned: What you need to know about the Supreme Court abortion decision
The ruling does not mean that abortion is banned throughout the United States. Rather, arguments about the legality of abortion will now play out in state legislatures.
