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| Glen O’Gilvie and Earth Conservation Corps |
VOICE writes, " Glen O’Gilvie and Earth Conservation Corps
Restoring the Anacostia and young people’s hope
BY JOSHUA GRAY
On a brilliant late-summer afternoon, Glen O’Gilvie sees things in the Anacostia River that no one else sees. Where some find one of America’s most polluted waterways, and others a waterside ripe for development, O’Gilvie sees a training ground for disadvantaged youth, a springboard for higher achievement and education and a route out of dead-end lives. "
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Posted on Sep 26, 2007 20:25pm.
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| Fighting the good fight for D.C. voting rights |
admin writes, "Fighting the good fight for D.C. voting rights
BY JOSHUA GRAY
Nelson Rimensnyder is a very patient man. In a transient city where one-term residents style themselves veterans of the struggle for voting rights, Rimensnyder stands out — he’s been fighting the good fight for nearly 20 years.
Rimensnyder started his campaign as a high-school student in Philadelphia, at a time when few outside the District were even aware of D.C.’s disenfranchisement.
“In our textbook, there were a couple of pages on our territories and the District of Columbia, and that’s how I even knew about the connection,” says Rimensnyder. “My senior year in 1960, the amendment was going through Congress to give the District the vote for president — and I took it on as my senior project, to go and lobby my state senate and legislature to support the resolution in the General Assembly in Pennsylvania.”"
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Posted on Sep 01, 2007 15:43pm.
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