Opinion: Racism Is in Our Way
This column appeared previously in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. On March 14, 2022 the Amherst...
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Opinion: Personal Reflections on the Ceasefire Vote
This piece was written the day after the more than five-hour long town council meeting...
Indy Rewind Opinion: The Chamber of Commerce Home Rule Charter Debate
With the mandated once-every-ten-years Home Rule Charter review around the corner, and with the League...
Opinion: Is Nuclear Power Coming Back from the Dead? Not If We Can Help It Say Activists Who Buried Nukes More Than 40 Years Ago
by Clamshell Alliance Forty-five years ago, on March 28, 1979, one of the nuclear reactors...
Opinion: Cutting Restorative Justice at the High School Fits a Pattern: Maintaining White Control as Opposed to Valuing Diversity
In spite of Amherst Regional School’s clear statements in support of racial justice and diversity,...
Opinion: Canceling the Debts of Global South Nations: A Necessary Part of the Worldwide Climate Effort. Part 1
Love, Justice and Climate Change We finally have a fairly widespread understanding that we must...
Opinion: Keep Wildwood as a Town Building
There has been a great deal of talk recently about what should happen with Wildwood...
Opinion: Global Issues Are Local Concerns
This column appeared previously in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. On March 4, 2024, the Amherst...
Opinion: Amherst Students Urge Support for Ceasefire Resolution
by Marisol Pierce Bonifaz, Mar Gubrium, Zoey Mordecai, and Saara Rathod The following column appeared...
Opinion: US Must Stop Funding the Killing in Gaza
I’m saddened by the increasing number of and ferocity of verbal attacks on Amherst4Ceasefire members,...
Opinion: The Jones Library is Eating the Schools’ Lunch
Amherst Public Schools Face Painful Cuts and a Fiscal CliffHome to two colleges and the...
Opinion: Who Is Present on Zoom at Amherst Municipal Meetings? The Public Has a Right to Know.
It is time to “open up” the meetings of Amherst’s public committees. Governor Healey has...