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- Activists call for nuclear disarmament on 79th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
https://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 Kehler
https://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
- My Turn: ‘Bigger than Dobbs’: So many rights at riskBy LOUISE ANTONY and ANN FERGUSON June 24 will be the second anniversary of the Supreme Court’s earthshaking decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which eliminated the constitutional right to abortion, established in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Reversing nearly five decades of precedent supporting Roe, six Republican-appointed justices appealed to “history… Read more: My Turn: ‘Bigger than Dobbs’: So many rights at risk
- Important interview with Jeffrey SachsInterview with Tucker Carlson! Detailed responses from Dr. Sachs on many key issues of war, peace and politics.May 28, 2024
- Opposing Israel’s policies simply not antisemitismMY TURN, Greenfield Recorder, June 7, 2024 By MARTIN SHOTZ, STEVEN SCHIFF, LIZ KELNER and JOHN BERKOWITZ We are writing in response to Mitchell Grosky’s My Turn: “War will end with Hamas destroyed,” [Recorder, June 2]. As members of the Jewish community, we would like to share our perspective, which is quite different from that… Read more: Opposing Israel’s policies simply not antisemitism
- Raising hands and hope in common protest for peacehttps://www.recorder.com/Columnist-Hynes-55342344 COLUMN, by Pat Hynes, Greenfield Recorder, May 30, 2024 They gather every Saturday morning on the Greenfield Common from 11 a.m. to noon, often staying later. Their signs and banners read: LET GAZA LIVE, FREE PALESTINE, CEASEFIRE — NO ARM$ TO ISRAEL, NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE Why? Johanna (Jo) Rosen stands on the common… Read more: Raising hands and hope in common protest for peace