by H. Patricia Hynes This article was originally published in Informed Comment. Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment) – In June 2023 Amanda Jones, an African American who had recently given birth to her second daughter Miranda, died from pregnancy-related causes. Her state, Georgia, ranks among […]
by Pat Hynes Originally published in LA Progressive A sign hung in a Greenfield, Massachusetts storefront window: “Negotiate for Peace in Ukraine” – the most direct of the many “Peace,” and singular “Make Tea Not War;” “Food For All, Not War; “Books Not War;” “Brew Beer […]
by Pat Hynes Originally published in the Greenfield Recorder April, the month tax filings are due, prompts us to ponder what our income taxes pay for. Are they used to provide all citizens sufficient resources and public goods for human security and well-being — the […]
by Pat Hynes This article was originally published in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. Jan. 22 marks the second anniversary of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a global lifeboat supported by 70% of the world’s countries. Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Energy’s […]
Originally published in the Greenfield Recorder by Patricia Hynes Dear Joe, Remember the mid-March snowball fight with some boys in our 8th grade class at St Helena’s School in Wilmington, Delaware? The wet snow made for hard, icy snowballs, so I hid my young sister […]
by H. Patricia Hynes Originally published in the Greenfield Recorder The first Armistice Day in 1919 was a celebration of the moment that the brutality of World War I, which robbed 40 million soldiers and civilians of life, ended; and peace began. In 1926, the […]
by Pat Hynes Originally published by LAProgressive Mainstream US and British media have all but eclipsed the record climate temperatures, drought, floods and fires of 2022 across the world with their preoccupation on militarizing Ukraine to defeat Russia. “They will beat their swords into plowshares…Nor will they train […]
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