No Assault & Batteries Public Meeting
Thursday, Aug. 22 · 6:30-8 p.m.
Wendell Meetinghouse
Following the efforts of No Assault & Batteries (NAB), New Leaf Energy withdrew its plans to construct a 105-megawatt lithium-ion battery storage facility at 68 Wendell Depot Road. Read NAB’s full statement.
The fight is far from over as future projects could threaten Wendell’s natural resources. Join NAB to celebrate and discuss what’s next. |
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WSFA Weekly Meeting
Sundays, 10:30 a.m. on Zoom
Join Wendell State Forest Alliance (WSFA) in the fight to protect Massachusetts’s biodiverse forests! WSFA meets weekly to discuss legislative and organizing efforts. Please contact Laurel Facey if you are interested in attending. |
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Film Screening:Â Where Olive Trees Weep
Wednesday, Aug. 28 · 5-7:30 p.m.
Greenfield Public Library Community Meeting Room
Following Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass, among others, this documentary offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. Learn more. |
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JFK Peace Speech Committee Petition
On June, 1963, President John F. Kennedy delivered the American University commencement address, in which he outlined a foreign policy plan. It remains our best chance to promote and institute world peace.
Peace activists invite you to call on Congress to review and implement President Kennedy’s plan for peace. Read and sign the petition.
Watch JFK’s remarkable speech. |
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What Does a Clean Energy Future Look Like?
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Sunday, Sept. 29 · 2-3 p.m.
Renewable Energy/Local Living Tent, Portal to the Future area
Anna Gyorgy, co-chair of No Assault & Batteries and chair of the Wendell Energy Committee, and Ivan Ussach, director of the Millers River Watershed Council, discuss ways to unify communities building “clean energy futures.”
See the full Renewable Energy and Local Living Talks schedule. |
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| In April, the town of Shutesbury passed a near-unanimous bylaw, instituting safety measures to protect ecologically important forest and critical water resources from large-scale, solar installation projects. Now, after a failed attempt to clear-cut hundreds of acres of protected forest for a large-scale, ground-mounted solar field, multinational corporation PureSky and landowner W.D. Cowls are suing the town!
This lawsuit threatens to strip the democratic power Shutesbury and other small Massachusetts towns wield in standing up against wealthy corporations. If PureSky and Cowls win, their project could produce ecologically damaging effects to hundreds of acres of forest through lithium-ion battery contamination, flooding, erosion, sedimentation, and carbon desequestration.
Smart Solar Shutesbury and Forest Allies for Responsible Solar are leading the march against irresponsible, large-scale solar installations. |
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Regional Roundup
Stories and updates from the frontlines.
- Climate Action Now Western Mass is hosting a webinar on Aug. 27 to discuss strategies for keeping climate issues at the forefront of the election.
- The Western Mass hub of Back from the Brink will meet on Aug. 28 (rain date Aug. 29) at 2 p.m. at Look Park, 300 N. Main St, Florence, to strategize for mobilizing against nuclear weapons. If interested, please send your RSVP to Bruce Stedman and Henry Rosenberg.
- The Smithsonian exhibit “Voices and Votes: Democracy in America” will be on display at the Mohawk Trail Regional School in Shelburne Falls in April 2025.
- Peace activist Sherrill Hogen shared her experiences from trips to the West Bank, Palestine. GCTV and the Greenfield RecorderÂcovered the webinar.
- GCTV interviewed Pat Hynes about peace and the anti-nuclear movement.
- Local Futures released a new documentary titled The Power of Local, detailing the ways localization can lead to meaningful global change.
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On August 6, seventy-nine years after the devastating US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, the Peace Pagoda, and area residents held a silent vigil on the Greenfield Common, followed by a program in the Greenfield Public Library. Mayor Virginia “Ginny” Desorgher issued aÂproclamation, declaring August 6 and 9 “World Free of Nuclear Weapons” days. Traprock’s co-founder, the late peace activist Randy Kehler, was also honored. |
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