On Wednesday, Oct. 4, the news carried an apocalyptic version of our country with its chaotic national and foreign policy politics; its epidemic of Americans massacred by fellow Americans fatally attracted to assault weapons; and climate change denial in the face of a trifecta of record-breaking hurricanes.
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
- #DivestFromWar Campaign Launch Summit
October 21, 2017: N/A - FUNDRAISING FOR THE LONG HAUL: ADVANCED TOOLS FOR ACTIVIST ORGANIZATIONS with KIM KLEIN
October 22, 2017: N/A - Sending Love, Hope and Relief to Women and Children in Syria
October 22, 2017: 3:00 pm
Past 30 Days
- Repercussions of the Muslim Travel Ban and Community Responses to Immigrant Rights
September 21, 2017 - COLLABORATION, CO-CREATION, AND EMPOWERMENT: COMMUNITY BUILDING SKILLS FOR CHALLENGING TIMES with STARHAWK
September 22, 2017 - Fundraiser For Sierra Leone Flood & Mudslide Survivors
September 22, 2017 - Climate Change and the Growing Risk of Nuclear War: An Agenda for Action
September 23, 2017 - Peace of Mind: World's Largest Human Peace Sign
September 23, 2017 - An Interview with the Founders of Black Lives Matter
September 26, 2017 - Layaali Arabic Music Ensemble
September 27, 2017 - Syria's Disappeared
October 1, 2017 - Appalachian Film Night
October 2, 2017 - Agape’s Francis Day: “Listening to Native Voices: Standing Rock is Everywhere”
October 7, 2017 - The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code
October 7, 2017 - The Harvest: Brown v. Board, North & South
October 9, 2017 - Fall Foliage & Natural History Walk at the Quabbin
October 15, 2017 - The Harvest: Brown v. Board, North & South
October 19, 2017
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Learning peace, justice through children’s books at Orange libraries
The Traprock Center for Peace and Justice in Greenfield awarded $1,000 to the Friends of the Orange Public Libraries this summer to purchase fiction and nonfiction books for children on subjects including world peace, empathy, friendship, diversity, tolerance, community, and humans’ place in the natural environment.
Traprock supports peace action in Korean crisis
We face so many problems, issues and challenges, both personal and in the larger society, all at the same time. But let us not forget the situation in Korea. Just as Donald Trump finds it difficult to condemn outright right-wing hate and violence at home, so he keeps the fires of hatred burning against a […]
Female Equality Is Key to a Sustainable Future
I am looking at the faces of 10-year-old girls from across the world—faces brimming with expectancy. The U.N. report, “The State of World Population 2016,” opens with their photos, and these words are part of the introduction to Chapter 4, “The Face of the Future”: With support from family, community and nation, and the full realization of […]
My Turn: Banning nuclear weapons is just the beginning
Against all odds, 122 countries agreed in July to ban nuclear weapons. At the heart of the United Nations treaty is an explicit ethical goal: to protect peoples of the world from the humanitarian catastrophe that would ensue if nuclear weapons were employed. Once 50 states ratify the treaty, it will enter into international law. […]
Traprock grants support local to global action
In late June 2017, the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice board of directors approved grants for members’ projects ranging from identifying and addressing sexism at home and in our communities, to planting trees in a reforestation project in an area of Vietnam devastated by Agent Orange defoliants during the Vietnam War. “These projects have […]
June 18th, the Doctrine Of Discovery and Pope Francis
On this day, June 18th, 565 years ago, Pope Nicholas V signed a papal bull, Dum Diversas, which led to the Doctrine of Discovery. The Doctrine is used to justify today’s laws which justifies the taking of lands and rights from American Indians. Please sign the Romero Institution’s Letter to Pope Francis asking that he […]
Marines’ ‘Always Faithful’ Motto Doesn’t Apply to Fellow Females
The first women were assigned to a Marine infantry unit on Jan. 5, fulfilling the 2015 Department of Defense mandate that all military service jobs, including combat, be open to women. By late January, a Google Drive link with photos of nude and barely dressed Marine servicewomen was posted to the Marines United Facebook page […]
How the Light Gets In
In these times of climate change denial, macho military chest-beating, stagnant wages, and soulless extremes of wealth and poverty, light-bearing cracks are all that we have. The northern Great Plains, likely the richest wind regime in the world, the potential of tribal wind power exceeds 300 gigawatts across six states, according to the Department of […]
17th annual Peacemaker Awards recognize local youth leaders
At the the 17th annual Peacemaker Awards Thursday night, four students expressed the importance of listening to others — even the youth. “There’s a strong idea that the ideas and thoughts and drives that young people have are not as useful and important,” award-winner Larkin Christie said. “It’s really important that we recognize the wisdom […]