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- 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
- Charlemont activist Sherrill Hogen talks recent Palestine visithttps://www.recorder.com/Charlemont-activist-Sherrill-Hogen-talks-recent-Palestine-visit-56168698 Greenfield Recorder, July 26, 2024, By Dominic Poli By sharing some of the photographs she took during her recent trip to the West Bank, Charlemont activist Sherrill Hogen said she hopes that attendees of her virtual presentation on Wednesday might “meet the people of Palestine and hear their stories.” Describing herself as “an American… Read more: Charlemont activist Sherrill Hogen talks recent Palestine visit
- On women, democracy, and menhttps://www.recorder.com/My-Turn-Meyer-55982729 MY TURN, Greenfield Recorder, July 12, 2024 By KARL MEYER The women were there first. That s h o u l d n’t come as a surprise. It’s likely been that way throughout history. Those were the people I found quietly holding signs on the village green on a Saturday some 20 years back.… Read more: On women, democracy, and men
- War on women going stronghttps://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Pat-Hynes-55773861 The war on women is everywhere: in the home, locally, nationally and globally. Take the recent report from The New England Learning Center for Women in Transition here in Franklin County. In this past year, they served 1,933 women survivors of mainly male sexual and physical violence. In 2018, the National Sexual Violence Resource… Read more: War on women going strong
- Why challenge to Israel is felt as fearhttps://www.recorder.com/Guest-columnist-Levine-55687087 MY TURN, Greenfield Recorder, June 22, 2024 By JOSEPH LEVINE A common theme in the justification for the violent police raids on the pro-Palestine encampments on campuses across the country, including my own at UMass Amherst, has been their alleged antisemitic character and the consequent feelings of being unsafe on the part of many… Read more: Why challenge to Israel is felt as fear