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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="36" data-total-count="36"><em>Good morning on this chancy Tuesday.</em></p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="86" data-total-count="122">Mary Sansone is a loud voice in New York City. And that’s saying a lot. She’s 101.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="119" data-total-count="241">The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/30/realestate/30habi.html">Brooklyn resident</a>, who was born in 1916 in what is now Cobble Hill, has been a community activist since she was 12.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="105" data-total-count="346">“My life has always been organizing,” she said, “and I’m not afraid to tell people how I feel.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="326" data-total-count="672">As a child, she and her father would join rallies in Union Square to support unions. After high school, she worked in a Manhattan sweatshop to better understand the working conditions and help laborers organize protests and go on strike. She volunteered with the Red Cross during World War II, among other social service work.</p><div id="story-ad-1" class="story-ad ad ad-placeholder nocontent robots-nocontent ">
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<p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="164" data-total-count="2670" id="story-continues-4">• Use Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms as tools to start conversations, organize and “then publicize so others can come with you,” she said.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="164" data-total-count="2834">Most importantly, get involved, whether the issue “hits home or not,” Ms. Sansone said, because if we “don’t get involved, then it starts all over again.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="162" data-total-count="2996">“I’ve been in demonstrations where people came with Seeing Eye dogs and walkers,” she added. “They couldn’t see, they couldn’t walk, but they came.”</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="52" data-total-count="3048">Think of them — or Ms. Sansone — as inspiration.</p><p class="story-body-text story-content" data-para-count="32" data-total-count="3080">Here’s what else is happening:</p><h4 class="story-subheading story-content" data-para-count="7" data-total-count="3087">Weather</h4><figure id="ny-today-weather-module" class="interactive interactive-embedded  limit-small layout-flex-medium">
    
    
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}
  .nyt-weather .w-link {
    visibility: hidden;
    font-weight: 400;
    display: inline-block; }
  .nyt-weather .w-location {
    margin-bottom: 6px; }
    .nyt-weather .w-location .w-current {
      text-transform: uppercase; }
    .nyt-weather .w-location .w-city {
      color: inherit;
      margin-right: 20px; }
    .nyt-weather .w-location a {
      pointer-events: none; }
    .nyt-weather .w-location .w-link {
      display: none; }
  .nyt-weather .w-description {
    font-size: 14px;
    margin-bottom: 6px;
    color: #000; }
    .viewport-medium .nyt-weather .w-description {
      font-size: 16px; }
  .nyt-weather .w-icon {
    vertical-align: middle;
    margin-right: 5px;
    height: 35px; }
  .nyt-weather .w-temp {
    font-size: 34px;
    line-height: 1;
    font-weight: 100;
    margin-right: 8px;
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: middle;
    color: #000; }
  .nyt-weather .w-high, .nyt-weather .w-low {
    font-size: 18px;
    line-height: 1;
    font-weight: 100;
    display: inline-block;
    -webkit-transform: translateY(-1px);
        -ms-transform: translateY(-1px);
            transform: translateY(-1px); }
  .nyt-weather .w-low {
    opacity: 0.7; }
  .nyt-weather .w-tomorrow {
    border-top: 1px dotted #DDD;
    margin-top: 12px;
    padding-top: 16px;
    text-transform: uppercase; }
    .viewport-medium .nyt-weather .w-tomorrow {
      display: inline-block;
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