Originally published on August 7, 2019 in the Greenfield Recorder. Venerable Brother Towbee Keyes, Venerable Brother Gyoway Kato and Sister Clare Carter, from the New England Peace Pagoda, offer chants and prayers as people gather along the riverbank Tuesday afternoon at Unity Park in Turners Falls to honor the victims of the nuclear bombing of […]
By ANNA GYORGY Originally published on July 25, 2019 in the Montague Reporter. TURNERS FALLS – The Japanese city of Hiroshima was bombed on August 6, 1945, and three days later Nagasaki. Each year, many people around the world gather to remember this first use of atomic weapons, and urge an end to the nuclear […]
By PATRICIA HYNES and VICKI ELSON Published: 7/22/2019 9:26:07 AM Originally published in the Greenfield Recorder. Give back my Father, Give back my Mother. Give Grandpa, Grandma back; Give my sons and daughter back. Give me back myself. Give back the human race. As long as this life lasts, this life, Give back Peace […]
Letter to the Editor, Greenfield Recorder Published 6/24/2019 7:50:25 PM The state Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has its head in the sand in light of current environmental health findings regarding the human health and climate polluting effects of burning biomass to generate energy. Calling it “clean energy” and promoting legislation to give state renewable […]
By PATRICIA HYNES Originally published in the Greenfield Recorder, May 29, 2019 “We are here because you were there.” — Slogan of 1980s immigrants rights campaign in Britain. Why would so many Guatemalans make the arduous journey to the U.S.-Mexican border seeking refuge, knowing the hatred heaped on them by the Trump administration? A short […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]