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By H. PATRICIA HYNES

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.

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

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 us. Yet he couldn’t see the parallel between the security he offered patients and the security socialized medicine would have offered him and all of his patients.

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

Pick up any liberal U.S. newspaper today and there are reams of columns speculating on the fate of our country. What will happen and how quickly to our country with Donald Trump as president and a cabinet of billionaires as they destroy an already...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

Whatever postures our country has projected to the world — shining city on a hill; leader of the free world; model of democracy; the indispensable nation; a rules-based order — all have crumbled like a house of cards. Our country’s failures, however,...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

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...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

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...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

As I write, five of nine governments with arsenals of nuclear weapons — capable of destroying life on our planet many times over — are engaged in war: the United States (in multiple wars and stoking one with China), Israel, Russia, and NATO members...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

The war on women is everywhere: in the home, locally, nationally and globally. Take the recent report from NELCWIT here in Franklin County. In this past year they served 1,933 women survivors of mainly male sexual and physical violence.In 2018, the...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

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 LIVEFREE PALESTINECEASEFIRE — NO ARM$ TO ISRAELNEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONEWhy?Johanna (Jo) Rosen stands on the...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

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 the least safe states in the country for women to give birth; and the vast...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

On March 8, 1908, female garment workers marched through New York City’s Lower East Side to protest child labor and sweatshop working conditions and to demand women’s suffrage. By 1910, March 8 became observed annually as International Women’s Day and...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

As I began this piece on trees in forests, woods and parks, a friend asked, why in February? Why didn’t I wait until the deciduous trees were a palette of new spring green crowning the stark brown trunks and branches of winter? The next day, Jan. 7,...

By H. PATRICIA HYNES

Dear President Joe Biden: I would wish you a Happy New Year but it seems trite, given all the challenges and troubles you and our country face in 2024 — some inherited from previous administrations, others of your making.Americans are 10 times more...