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Community members, students, and faculty gathered in Emerson Suites at Ithaca College On Tuesday, September 5th for an event called Moving Forward: a conversation with Dr. Luvelle Brown and Mayor Svante Myrick. The hour long event focused on the effects of last month’s tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, and how hate can be prevented in the…
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The Tompkins County Workers Center has been celebrating Labor Day with their Annual Labor Day Picnic for more than 30 years. This year’s event happened under sunny skies at Cass Park, and brought out community members from different labor sectors and activist organizations and parts of the county to celebrate a year of labor rights…
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WRFI’s Lori Sonken speaks with Denise Nicole Green, curator of a new exhibit at Cornell, Union-Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century, about labor union strikes, clothing manufacturing practices, and the designer fashion industry the past century. Photo: Kheel Center, Cornell University, Flickr [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/wrficommunityradionews/showcasing-labor-union-industry-and-the-fashion-industry-in-the-1900s/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1]
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WRFI Community Radio News investigates Cornell University’s plans to release Genetically-Engineered diamondback moths into agricultural fields for the first time in New York State. The moths are a major agricultural pest of brassica plants. We speak to a moth expert, hear from the lead investigator on the experiments as well as representatives of environmental groups.…
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