by Dave Eisenstadter, Sarah Heinonen, and Gina Beavers | Feb 27, 2018 | Articles, News
Born the same year of the Columbine High School Shooting in Colorado, 18-year-old Madison Pease of Southampton grew up hearing about school shootings. But it wasn’t until 17 people were killed in the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida, that she began thinking...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 27, 2018 | Articles, Between the Lines, News, Newsletter
Fifty years ago, in 1968, student protests rocked the Vietnam War debate, and were eventually credited with turning public sentiment against the war. For young people, particularly young men, their very lives were at stake with the instituted military draft sending...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 21, 2018 | Articles, Between the Lines, News, Newsletter
On Tuesday, Amherst state Representative Solomon Goldstein-Rose became the second independent in the Massachusetts Statehouse, changing his party affiliation from Democrat to unenrolled. Predictably, party elders and political pundits — the same ones that predicted a...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 16, 2018 | Articles, News, Newsletter
The day after Donald Trump’s election in 2016, corporate communications trainer Cathy McNally vowed to join activist communities to oppose the conservative forces that got him elected. Founder and CEO of the Women Speak Up organization, she realized that it was...
by Dave Eisenstadter | Feb 14, 2018 | Articles, News, Newsletter
Representing the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, 11 undocumented individuals will walk from New York City to Washington, D.C., starting Thursday, Feb. 15. Among them will be Eduardo Samaniego, 25, of Amherst. Samaniego is in his...
