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CONNECTIONS: In this fraught time, focus locally

It is important for us to feel relevant at a time when it is easy to feel small and impotent.

‘This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land’

On this Fourth of July -- especially on this Fourth of July -- Woody Guthrie reminds us of the true spirit of America. Here's Woody singing his ballad, as well as Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie with a recent rendition.

Commentary: Immigrant dreams

It’s time we faced the fact that We the People of these United States are a blended family of stepchildren and adoptees.

Start Talking    

No matter what action is taken to treat drug abuse what must happen first is that a dialogue has to begin. We have to talk.

POEM: Anonymous Concrete

Listen to the flag rope hitting the flagpole no flag is in sight and yet we all wave

Lulu ‘n’ Hershey

Patrons and staff at Lulu and Hershey's coffeehouse, the Cafe Perspectivo, react to the shootings across in Dallas, Baton Rouge, Minnesota, Chicago.

CONNECTIONS: Power Shift, Part II

America stands on the precipice about to step into a new age just as America did at the beginning of the Gilded Age. What if anything can we learn from the last seismic change in the primary source of energy?

South Berkshire Interfaith statement: Support for Muslim brothers and sisters

In their statement the clergy of South Berkshire write: “We weep for the refugees who run from terror and we seek to provide a safe harbor for these innocent families caught in the cross-fires. We recognize that responding to hate with hatred and with fear, only fans the fires of enmity among us.”

Poem: Veterans Day

A poem honoring veterans on this Veterans Day, November 11, 2015. It was written recently by Ursula Setlow Pearson, who was born on November 12, 1911.

Poem: For Yom HaShoah

Two by two, we boarded the boat Noah’s grateful beasts To salvage what was left.

KALCHEIM: Shameful lessons from Dresden 

During World War II in the European theatre, surely the Allied air forces of Britain and America would not have been so barbaric, and imprudent, as the Germans, so as to target civilian populations, all on the bogus precept of weakening enemy morale. Or would they?
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