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Freeman Center to retool 'Walk a Mile' fundraiser, citing LGBTQ+ concerns


PITTSFIELD — The Elizabeth Freeman Center will reformulate its annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event, citing feedback it received that the event reinforced gender stereotypes and did not more fully include the LGBTQ+ community.
The campaign, which takes place each September, will be replaced by a new event, according to a letter to the community from Executive Director Janis Broderick and board President Marie Paradise.
“For the past ten years Elizabeth Freeman Center participated in an international campaign called ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.’ In the Berkshires, this event occurred every third Thursday of September and grew each year,” the letter said. ....

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Freeman Center retires 'Walk a Mile' fundraiser, citing LGBTQ+ concerns


PITTSFIELD — The Elizabeth Freeman Center will reformulate its annual “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event, citing feedback it received that the event reinforced gender stereotypes and did not more fully include the LGBTQ+ community.
The campaign, which takes place each September, will be replaced by a new event, according to a letter to the community from Executive Director Janis Broderick and board President Marie Paradise.
“For the past ten years Elizabeth Freeman Center participated in an international campaign called ‘Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.’ In the Berkshires, this event occurred every third Thursday of September and grew each year,” the letter said. ....

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Looking Back At 2020: COVID-19 In Berkshire County


“Our next facility after that will be Mount Greylock on the 2nd of January, followed by Williamstown Commons on the 4th, and then we have North Adams and Hillcrest Commons on the 8th, she said.
At the county’s largest hospital – Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield – nurses feuded with management over mask policy, with RNs like Mark Brodeur insisting the company supply all frontline workers with the then-scarce N95 masks as potential COVID-19 exposures ran rampant through the staff.
“Since a patient could have been exposed and shedding the virus without any symptoms, at this point in order to reduce the spread it’s important to assume that every single patient you have contact with has the coronavirus in order just to flatten that curve and ensure that the spread is slowed down as much as possible so that all of our resources aren’t overwhelmed at one time,” he told WAMC. ....

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