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- A Sign of HopeLast Saturday morning, April 12, I co-led with Court Dorsey a mini-nonviolence training in Montague. If you remember that morning you woke to cold weather, snow or rain, a most unappealing day! Despite the weather about 100 people came to the meeting hall. They came, some said because they wanted to stand with our neighbors,… Read more: A Sign of Hope
- 350 People and a Brass Band Attend Hands Off! Conway Stands for Democracy Event on April 5Hands Off! Conway Stands for Democracy crowds and Conway Town Hall Expandable Brass Band plays for the crowds at Hands Off! Conway Stands for Democracy Looking north toward downtown Conway at Hands Off! Conway Stands for Democracy crowds Despite cold, rainy weather, 350 people and a brass band showed up in downtown Conway on April… Read more: 350 People and a Brass Band Attend Hands Off! Conway Stands for Democracy Event on April 5
- Resistance is alive and wellCOLUMN, Greenfield Recorder, April 2, 2025 The Republican administration’s edicts — imposed by broligarchs President Trump and Elon Musk — are with us for the next two to four years. Who or what will defeat them? Not the inside-the-Beltway Democratic politicians. Most are supine and silent, or cautious and cowardly, or helping to advance certain… Read more: Resistance is alive and well
- On Int’l Women’s Day: Women’s Equality: What will it Take, What will it Yield?By H. Patricia Hynes Greenfield, Mass. – International Women’s Day (now March 8) had its origins in great social unrest, turbulence and critical debate among women in Western countries regarding their oppressive working conditions in factories and their lack of voting rights. Marching through New York City in 1908, 15,000 women demanded shorter hours, better… Read more: On Int’l Women’s Day: Women’s Equality: What will it Take, What will it Yield?
- Gen Z workers driving unions’ comebackCOLUMN My father was a family doctor in the mid 20th century whose main political issue was socialized medicine, which he preached against to his “large, poor family,” as he liked to describe us. Dad never turned away a patient who couldn’t pay and brought in indigent patients from his office to have dinner with… Read more: Gen Z workers driving unions’ comeback
- 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