H. Patricia Hynes Originally published February 2020 in The Berkshire Eagle and Informed Comment “The 500 richest people in the world…gained a combined $1.2 trillion in wealth in 2019, further exacerbating inequities that have not…
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By Anna Gyorgy, for the Montague Reporter BERLIN – On Saturday, January 18th, for the tenth year in a row, German farmers on tractors joined more than 25,000 colorful, banner waving supporters calling for a…
By ANNA GYORGY Guest Editorial, December 5, 2019 in the Montague Reporter WENDELL – Massachusetts is my home state, but I never took a real look at the state symbol until April 22, 2018, at…
By Diana Roberts Published on January 15, 2020 in the Greenfield Recorder I was dismayed to read Joshua Goldstein’s suggestion that nuclear power is the better bet for replacing coal. “You should probably thank your…
By SUZANNE R. CARLSON Published: 1/14/2020 1:25:08 PM / Modified: 1/14/2020 1:24:20 PM, by the Greenfield Recorder The article in the Recorder on Jan. 7 pricked me to respond immediately. Author Joshua Goldstein spoke at…
H. Patricia Hynes Originally published in Informed Comment and The Berkshire Eagle December 17, 2019 Thousands of climate scientists are exhorting governments publicly, with an existential sense of urgency based upon the most up-to-date…
H. PATRICIA HYNES, 11/11/2019 Watching Londoners reveling in the streets on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, the war critic and pacifist Bertrand Russell commented that people had cheered for war, then cheered for peace…
H Patricia Hynes Originally published in The Montague Reporter, October 31, 2019 Last summer I saw a young man standing by a large dusty gray turtle on the Turners Falls bike path, shielding this fellow…
“There were many trails of tears all over North America of indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed by government forces. The indigenous peoples who are making their way up from the southern hemisphere are a…
By Suzanne Carlson, 9/20/19 Thirty-five years ago I walked across the country – all but 6 weeks of the 7-month Walk for the Earth 1984 from Pt. Reyes National Seashore (CA) to Washington DC. Everywhere…