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Coming up on Connections: Thursday, May 23, 2024

Here's what's coming up on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Thursday, May 23, 2024. ....

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Coming up on Connections: Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Coming up on Connections: Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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New Food Policy Council looking to drain Rochester's 'food swamp'

ILLUSTRATION BY RYAN WILLIAMSON
Can Rochester s new Food Policy Council drain the city s food swamp ? On the anniversary of Daniel Prude’s fatal encounter with Rochester police, scores of demonstrators marched east from downtown to take over the parking lot at the East Avenue Wegmans, eventually prompting the store to close for the day.
“Wegmans exemplifies what’s wrong in our community,” Justin Morris, president of the Rochester Chapter of the Arc of Justice, a grassroots group for social change, said at the protest.
Around him, demonstrators wrote Black Lives Matter slogans in chalk on the asphalt as Wegmans workers locked themselves and shoppers behind the store’s glass doors. ....

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