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HerStory, a benefit for the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County-May 31st, 2016

By WRFI News Staff

Esther Racoosin talks with Elisheva Glaser and Abby Cooper, co-Presidents of the SWIS club (Strong Women Impacting Society) at Ithaca High School, about their upcoming fundraiser, HerStory.  The event, benefiting the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County, features students and people from the community talking and performing about the meaning of mothers, mother figures, and mentors.…

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Update on the Nurse’s Union at CMC with Anne Marshall

By WRFI News Staff

On May 30th, we broadcast this interview with Anne Marshall.  Anne has been a nurse at Cayuga Medical Center for some time and has been in the forefront of the effort to unionize nurses at the hospital.  She discussed the recent NRLB Hearing on charges of unfair labor practices and the next steps in the…

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Update on the Nurse's Union at CMC with Anne Marshall

By WRFI News Staff

On May 30th, we broadcast this interview with Anne Marshall.  Anne has been a nurse at Cayuga Medical Center for some time and has been in the forefront of the effort to unionize nurses at the hospital.  She discussed the recent NRLB Hearing on charges of unfair labor practices and the next steps in the…

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Honoring Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) Veterans-May 27th, 2016

By WRFI News Staff

Esther Racoosin speaks with citizen Tiffany Miller, who wrote a Change.org petition requesting that the Secretary of the Army permit the inurnment of her Grandmother’s ashes in Arlington National Ceremony.  Her Grandmother had served with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) in World War II. This interview was originally aired on the May 27 th,…

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