By H. Patricia Hynes Originally published on April 5, 2019 on Truthdig.com Gerry Machen / Flickr “Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption” A book by Simon Pirani The Great Acceleration: This is the designation given to the last 70 years during which industrial countries and a handful of newly rich developing countries […]
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The Measure of Our Happiness
By H. Patricia Hynes Originally published on April 3, 2019 on COMMON DREAMS As in past years, the Department of Defense (DOD) is allocated an increase and the lion’s share in the proposed budget (more than 60%), while every other department and agency that contributes to Americans’ daily well being is cut. Photo: Shutterstock For the […]
Death and Taxes? On choosing life with a Green New Deal
By Anna Gyorgy It’s that time again. When taxes are due and we can again consider how they are used. Here’s a case for turning our national budget away from war, destruction and corporate enrichment towards reconstruction and reparations, under the umbrella concept of a Green New Deal. The Green New Deal legislation, sponsored in […]
Biology Is Not Destiny: “The Independent Woman: Extracts from The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir”
By H. Patricia Hynes Originally published on Truthdig, on March 8, 2019 “The Independent Woman: Extracts from The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir” A book translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier. Annotated and introduced by Martine Reid “The Second Sex,” a two-volume classic by French writer Simone de Beauvoir, was published in 1949 and quickly […]
Hands off Venezuela
By Pat Hynes, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice Hope and US Aid at the Border, the title of a recent New York Times video, deodorizes the US attempt to overthrow President Maduro of socialist Venezuela and replace him with a hand-picked member of the Venezuelan elite, capitalist class. As the major media presents it, the […]
Hands Across the Hills story spreads far beyond Franklin County
Paula Green By RICHIE DAVIS, Staff Writer Published: 2/12/2019 10:36:50 PM LEVERETT – After a year of drawing attention solely from The Greenfield Recorder, this town’s Hands Across the Hills effort and its organizer, Paula Green, are in the spotlight nationally and internationally as an effort to help bridge the political – and now racial – divides […]
DISPATCHES: Back in Wendell, with climate thoughts and New Year’s wishes
By ANNA GYORGY Originally published in the Montague Reporter January 3, 2019 WENDELL – As readers of the Montague Reporter and the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice website know, I reported from Germany during November and December on citizen climate action and the UN climate conference held this year in December in Katowice, Poland. […]
DISPATCHES: After the UN Climate Conference: The meeting over, the movements growing
By Anna Gyorgy Originally published in the Montague Reporter December 17, 2018 German radio reported that 91% of Germans did not expect major advances from the 24th UN climate conference that ended late Saturday night December 15, in Katowice, Poland. But conference delegates did reach their basic goal, allowing relieved conference organizers to declare COP24 […]
Climate Crisis: “There Is No Time to Continue Down This Road Of Madness”
By H. Patricia Hynes Originally published on December 20, 2018 on PORTSIDE. People attend a Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice demonstration before the final session of the COP24 U.N. Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland, Dec. 14., credit: Daily Sabah (Istanbul) A week into the 2018 UN climate change conference convened in Poland, The New […]
DISPATCHES: Is Change Coming? (The Climate Won’t Wait)
Dispatch #4 From Berlin, December 10, 2018 Anna Gyorgy This is the fourth in a series of dispatches to the Montague Reporter and Traprock Center for Peace & Justice by Wendell resident Anna Gyorgy, reporting from Berlin. Is Change Coming? (The Climate Won’t Wait) Reports from Poland and France: Katowice and the COP24 climate conference […]