Published in the Greenfield Recorder, September 10, 2020 MY TURN By SUZANNE R. CARLSON In reviewing Recorder articles on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Jeff Singleton (My Turn) posed a closing question: “Is it really helpful to…
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By H. Patricia Hynes Published on September 7, 2020 in Portside Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for Covid 19 face violence where they should be safest: in their…
Letter published in the Greenfield Recorder, September 1, 2020 When I stated in a recent Recorder article that dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a racist act against non-white people, described as…
Letter printed in the Greenfield Recorder, Friday, August 28, 2020 The Massachusetts legislature is currently finalizing climate legislation with a bill that calls commercial wood burning biomass incinerators “non-emitting sources” of energy. It encourages their…
Greenfield Recorder, August 6, 2020: Readers Write My own father, who was in the Army and who was on a ship heading from California as a member of the forces expected to fight on the…
Published in the Greenfield Recorder, Monday, August 10, 2020 MY TURN By SISTER CLARE CARTER Year 2020 — Its nature is like a mirror: 20 – 20. The mirror makes us stop and look, and…
Printed in the Greenfield Recorder, Saturday, August 8, 2020 MY TURN By SHERRIL HOGEN Change! Finally, after 400 years, White America may be ready to start addressing the wrongs that brought our country into being….
Thursday, August 6, 2020 MY TURN By SUZANNE R. CARLSON “What do you think of Western Civilization?” a journalist asked Mahatma Gandhi, who replied, “I think it would be a good idea.” I’ve been thinking…
Greenfield Recorder, August 5, 2020 MY TURN By TIMMON WALLIS and VICKI ELSON Download as pdf After 75 years of living with nuclear weapons, we have an opportunity to eliminate them from the face of…
MY TURN By H PATRICIA HYNES Download pdf version here. “Poet survivors of the merciless, savage US atomic bombing of Japan guide us to the deepest, most intimate loss and suffering of survivors, the hibakusha….