PART 1: Our Visions, with music and speakers, 12:15 – 1:15 pm
- Song by Raging Grannies
- Welcome by Susan Triolo
- Keynote speaker Rev. Kate Stevens
- Songs from Twice as Smart youth group
- Speakers on Vision themes: Peace, Reproductive JusIce
- Kaia Jackson and Juliette Margola
- Song by Sarah Pirtle
- Speakers on Vision themes: Environment, Civil Rights/Immigrant Rights
- Bill Stubblefield, Marieange Laroche
- Song by Ann Ferguson
PART 2: Info, discussion, refreshments with local groups in Community Room
- Singalong Music with Annie Hassett
Thanks to speakers, musicians, and all participating groups
Program Speakers
- Susan Triolo, Our emcee, is a retired preschool/elementary teacher, long time peace & social jusIce activist and member of FCCPR & W. MA Code Pink Women for Peace.
- Kate Stevens is a retired UCC minister and member of the Interfaith Council of Franklin County.
- Juliet Margola is a member of the Amherst Young Feminist Party. With a degree in journalism and gender studies, she is now a teaching assistant at Four Rivers Charter Public School.
- Kaia Jackson is a core organizer with Jewish Voice for Peace for Western MA , as well as a healing arts facilitator, storyteller and movement chaplain who calls Great Falls home.
- Bill Stubblefield has a doctorate in evolutionary biology and ecology and works with a variety of groups to protect forests and wild lands.
- Marieange LaRoche is on the staff of Jewish Family Services and organizing a group for Haitian immigrants.
Program Musicians
- The Raging Grannies are concerned elder women who sing truth to power with saIrical lyrics: “we are gadflies, provocateurs. https://westernmass.raginggrannies.org
- Twice as Smart Singers, directed by Gloria Matlock, are members of the Twice as Smart aXer school program teaching them to think big and dream boldly. twice.as.smart396@gmail.com
- Sarah Pirtle, who writes and sings songs of peace and jusIce and works with Journey Camp (Traprock), will teach a song by Melanie DeMore.
- Ann Ferguson is a local feminist, a peace and social jusIce musician, and a former teacher.
- Annie Hassett is a well-known local feminist peace and social jusIce musician.
Organizing Committee of Sponsors: Ann Ferguson & Anne Louise Moore (Franklin County Continuing the Political Revolution, FCCPR), Susan Triolo (FCCPR & Code Pink), Sandra Boston (Interfaith Council), Anna Gyorgy & Suzanne Carlson (Traprock Center for Peace and Justice)
For contact information for all of the sponsors and co-sponsors, click here.