The Recorder – School Committee emails prompt complaint

GREENFIELD — Questions of proper communication among School Committee members have flared back up following the filing of an Open Meeting Law complaint by a member of the education task force for Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution Thursday.

Paul Jablon, a Greenfield resident, claims the Greenfield School Committee, but specifically former superintendent and current School Committee Member Susan Hollins, chronically disregards committee decorum by discussing the school budget over email and not in public.

“It needs to be transparent, which is why myself and other people feel that it’s a con now,” Jablon said.

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The Recorder Death and taxes? On choosing life with a Green New Deal

FCCPR member Anna Gyorgy on the case for turning our national budget away from war, destruction and corporate enrichment towards reconstruction and reparations, under the umbrella concept of a Green New Deal.

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Montague Reporter ‘Out of the Streets and Into the Sewers’

April 4, 2019

by Mike Jackson

GREENFIELD— “These are moderate reforms,” Sheila Gilmour said, kicking off the municipal socialism conference on Saturday by laying out its basic premise. “They’re things that even the most conservative of our neighbors should be able to get behind.”

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Though progressives stir, Neal’s hold firm on Democratic center | The Berkshire Eagle

[FCCPR’s] David Greenberg, a member of the new [CD-1 Progressive] Coalition, said he’s not sure how vulnerable Neal is at this point…For now, the coalition aims to keep a focus on what Neal is getting done. “To make it easier to know what he’s doing or not doing. There will be a lot of people watching,” Greenberg said.

Though progressives stir, Neal’s hold firm on Democratic center

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Progressive Coalition invites US Rep. Richard Neal to Friday town hall in Holyoke | masslive.com

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The CD-1 Progressive Coalition, which includes FCCPR, announced Tuesday that it will convene an evening town-hall-style event at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center.

Organizers said they have asked Neal to take part in the event, which will run from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Feb. 22, at 100 Bigelow St., but have yet to hear back from his office.

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David Greenberg: Medicare for All is exactly what Americans want

“We strongly disagree with the [Springfield Republican] Feb. 3 editorial that ‘Medicare for all a trap for Democrats,’ page C4. Seventy percent of Americans support Medicare for All. Medicare for All is exactly what 2020 candidates should be supporting because it is what the American people want.”

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The Recorder – Greenfield nonprofit Common Good helps fund community projects, support local business

Among Common Good‘s 2018 funding projects was a training conference by Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution on democratic participation in rural communities.

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