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Re: brief mention of ON bells on Rachel Maddow



(also a bunch of Unitarian Universalist churches, which does not surprise
me as we're the ones most likely to arrange something last-minute on Good
Friday because we heard about it on Rachel Maddow :-D)

On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM Alison Miller <millerab gmail com> wrote:

> https://www.letfreedomring.live/media has reports and videos from the
> other churches/towers/individuals that rang their bells in solidarity 
> last
> night.  Includes Stetson Chapel, Kalamazoo, and St. Luke's, Atlanta 
> (with a
> short video of call changes on 4).
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM Alison Miller <millerab gmail com> wrote:
>
>> I see that the Maddow clip includes the link to
>> https://www.letfreedomring.live/, so this does appear to be an organized
>> thing.
>>
>> Alison
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM Laura Dickerson via 
>> Boston-change-ringers
>> <boston-change-ringers cosmos phy tufts edu> wrote:
>>
>>>      Sarah M let me know that Rachel Maddow featured ON.
>>> https://youtu.be/C6TymJwvuP0?feature=shared
>>> There is the background for the history and the anniversary at the
>>> beginning of the show, and then slightly after 3 minutes in, there is
>>> mention of our ringing.  She said that there will be ringing across the
>>> country at the same time. I didn't know about that. We (via the church
>>> office) were requested to do some special ringing tomorrow, but maybe 
>>> this
>>> is a bigger organization than the person who originally wrote to us?  
>>> At
>>> any rate our commemorative ringing will be at 6-7 PM tonight, before 
>>> the
>>> lantern service, which will be livestreamed. Link here:
>>> https://vimeo.com/event/5056560
>>>
>>>     Maddow also talked about the 19th as a day of protests. I can't 
>>> find
>>> much mention of an on-foot protest tomorrow in Boston.  They are 
>>> happening
>>> in Worcester and Hyannis, for example.  There will be Lexington 
>>> residents
>>> protesting a couple of times tomorrow but I'll be in Boston for 
>>> practice
>>> and I was too disorganized to order one of the nice "No King  No 
>>> Tyranny"
>>> signs to hold.
>>>      I specified nothing on foot because I found this
>>> bike ride from the North End to Lexington partly along the Minuteman
>>> Bikeway
>>> https://events.pol-rev.com/events/0d9c4e6e-4f94-481d-aecf-4be886965b56
>>> I know nothing about it but that.  I'm not involved in any way.
>>>
>>> Laura Dickerson
>>>
>>> PS the regulars are out
>>>
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