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- From Global to Local: Women to the fore with moral visionFrom Global to Local: Women to the fore with moral vision Pat Hynes of Montague Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King Jr., speaks during the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 26, 2023. An event at the Second Congregational Church on Jan. 18, Our Projects… Read more: From Global to Local: Women to the fore with moral vision
- Ann Ferguson on Our Projects for 2025
- My Turn: Local congratulations to Nobel winner Nihon HidankyoGreenfield Recorder, November 14, 2024 At a time of a both extensive and costly “overhaul” of U.S. nuclear weapons, and increased dangers of the use of atomic weaponry, area activists welcome the announcement of Nihon Hidankyo as winner of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. The name of this Japanese group of atomic bomb survivors may… Read more: My Turn: Local congratulations to Nobel winner Nihon Hidankyo
- My Turn: The wisdom of President Kennedy on world peacePresident John F. Kennedy delivers the commencement address at American University on June 10, 1963. CECIL STOUGHTON/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS By DR. E. MARTIN SCHOTZ Published: 11-21-2024 5:07 PMOpinionCummington MAfacebook Today marks the 61st anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination. In the last year of his presidency, Kennedy took extraordinary steps in the direction of world peace. He tried… Read more: My Turn: The wisdom of President Kennedy on world peace
- Your True Self
H. Patricia Hynes 10/21/2024 online at: https://www.juancole.com/2024/10/your-true-self.html On a blackboard in a 1930s log cabin at Jacob’s Pillow dance theater in the hills of western Massachusetts, I came upon an intriguing question written in chalk: When do you feel your true self? Visitors had left responses on the blackboard, some thoughtful, some light, such as:… Read more: Your True Self - Will brutal campaign remake Mideast this time?
https://www.recorder.com/Guest-columnist-Levine-57504989 MY TURN, Greenfield Recorder, October 18, 2024 By JOSEPH LEVINE After a year of a genocidal campaign in Gaza in response to the Al Aqsa Flood attacks of Oct. 7 and the recent escalation in Lebanon and beyond, it’s a good time to assess where we’re at, how we got here, and where we’re… Read more: Will brutal campaign remake Mideast this time? - WATER AND WAR IN GAZACOLUMN, Pat Hynes, Greenfield Recorder, October 4, 2024https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Pat-Hynes-57276827 In late 2020, a report titled “Saving Gaza Begins with its Water” stated: “The water crisis in Gaza is a problem of daunting proportions, with grave implications for the more than 2 million inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave … The aquifer from which it pumps water is… Read more: WATER AND WAR IN GAZA
- Discovering intelligence growing all around usCOLUMN, Greenfield Recorder, September 5, 2024 https://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Hynes-56823287 From the largest to the smallest and the oldest to the youngest creatures on Earth — Antarctic blue whales and coastal redwood trees, minute bacteria and human beings — we are all enmeshed in layers of relationships. We need each other, though some more than others. Plants evolved… Read more: Discovering intelligence growing all around us
- Activists call for nuclear disarmament on 79th anniversary of Hiroshima bombinghttps://www.recorder.com/Activists-call-for-nuclear-disarmament-on-79th-anniversary-of-Hiroshima-bombing-56395255 By CHRIS LARABEE GREENFIELD — With drums and a march to the Greenfield Public Library, more than 40 community members advocated for nuclear disarmament on the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on Tuesday. Organized by the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice and the New England Peace Pagoda, folks stood… Read more: Activists call for nuclear disarmament on 79th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
- The ultimate person of conscience’: Friends remember anti-war activist Randy Kehlerhttps://www.recorder.com/-The-ultimate-person-of-conscience-Friends-remember-anti-war-activist-Randy-Kehler-56157722 Greenfield Recorder, July 25, 2024, By Diane Broncaccio SHELBURNE FALLS — Randy Kehler, a war-tax resister whose opposition to the Vietnam War, advocacy for social justice and refusal to pay federal taxes gained national attention, died at home Sunday morning after a long battle with myalgic encephalomyelitis. He was 80. Kehler was remembered fondly… Read more: The ultimate person of conscience’: Friends remember anti-war activist Randy Kehler