Terry Allen recently reported in In These Times on gun-drug runners carving a deep, two-way trench down the Northeast, leaving a toxic trail of violence, misery, and addiction. You can read her piece in the print edition of The Commons this week in Voices, where it appears with the kind permission of the magazine. To read it online: inthesetimes.com/article/18168/guns-heroin-vermont-new-york.
Mary McCallum used to contribute regularly to the commentary series that used to air on...
Timothy Belknap describes himself as a "downtown resident and Brattleboro lover." BRATTLEBORO-The yes vote to...
WEST TOWNSHEND-When I learned, as a girl, about the lead-up to Kristallnacht, I had thought...
BRATTLEBORO-The headline made me curious enough to read this one person's opinion of a local...
Charles Eisenstein can tell you about his environmentalist friend who insists the one and only solution to climate change - barring any thought or talk of all other suggestions - is a carbon tax. “There's something in me,” he says, “that knows that can't be right.” Eisenstein, author of four books on ecology and economics, doesn't doubt the science. But in a polarized world, he questions society's increasing tendency to stake out uncompromising positions. “We will not have a healthy...
Every third Monday in January, we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. - a day largely marked by recommitments to the continued struggle for racial and economic justice within the United States. In 2017, we saw the ongoing repression of racialized groups and the normalization of violence and brutality. The consequences of racism arise in so many different sectors of society, and they disproportionately impact people of color. MLK's fight for racial equality also entailed his commitment to...
After the end of Gallery Walk on Friday, July 2, Epsilon Spires will turn the parking lot of the historic First Baptist Church on Main Street into an open-air cinema experience for the fifth installment of its weekly Backlot Cinema Series. The screening this week features two films by Soda Jerk, two Australian sisters - Dominique and Dan Angeloro - who use sampled footage from existing films and television shows to produce moving-image collages that create new meaning out of...
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