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By CHRIS LARABEE

GREENFIELD — Local organizers and activists are planning to bring forward a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza to the Greenfield City Council as early as the body’s March meeting.The resolution’s organizers, who are bringing the matter...

By DOMENIC 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.”...

By ERIN-LEIGH HOFFMAN

GREENFIELD — The Karuna Center for Peacebuilding hosted a virtual discussion on Wednesday during which activists reflected on the state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and shared ideas for community building and future peace efforts. Karuna Center...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

A local group of bike-riding activists will ride together again for the first time in a decade, this time in protest of FirstLight Hydro Generating Co.’s Northfield Mountain Pumped Storage Station.The Solar Rollers, a grassroots advocacy group that...

By ANTHONY CAMMALLERI

GREENFIELD — City Council will hold a special meeting on Monday amid activists’ growing push for the council to pass a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.The single-topic meeting, which comes after numerous residents carrying signs and...

By JAMES PENTLAND

AMHERST — In the face of the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza and stepped-up settler violence in the West Bank, one grassroots group of Palestinian and Jewish Israelis is striving to provide an alternative to the government’s dominant...

By MARY BYRNE

NORTHFIELD — Residents from Northfield and surrounding communities packed the Community Bible Church Sunday night for what felt like a second hurrah seven years after the defeat of the Kinder Morgan NED Pipeline.“It’s wonderful to see so many familiar...

By BELLA LEVAVI

From fighting against nuclear power plants to fighting for elected officials, Al Giordano was known for his love of stirring things up.While his work went to much larger arenas, with Giordano ultimately being known internationally for his journalism...

By BELLA LEVAVI

BUCKLAND — Sophomores are learning more than simply math and science at Mohawk Trail Regional School; they are learning about their own agency. The students spent the last semester analyzing their own identities and their larger community as part of...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

NORTHAMPTON — On his travels around Northampton, city resident David Edwards sees people he once went to school with or worked alongside whose lives have been upended by poverty, now living on the streets or regularly relying on the help of social...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — Captivating dozens packed inside the Episcopal Church of Saint James and Andrew, nationally acclaimed environmentalist Aaron Mair emphasized that environmental activism must be an “intersectional” effort.Mair, former president of the...

By JULIAN MENDOZA

GREENFIELD — In commemoration of Palestine’s Land Day, local activists will stage a demonstration on the Greenfield Common on Saturday from 11 a.m. to noon.According to Sherrill Hogen, a member of the local Palestine solidarity group Kairos/Franklin...