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For some Berkshire County demonstrators, the fight to oppose Israel’s war in Gaza has continued unabated since October 2023.

Rebecca Vilkomerson will be speaking at the Hudson Library at 3:30pm on March 22nd. The talk is titled “Community Responses to Israel’s U.S.-Supported War on Palestinians: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaigns.” Rebecca was Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace for ten years. She will be joined for the talk by Riham Barghouti, Palestinian educator and founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

At a time of intense media criticism from multiple viewpoints, a national broadcast journalist spoke in Albany Sunday about changes he’d like to see.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan recently returned from the West Coast where she participated in a three-day summit against antisemitism.

Senator Ed Markey was in Berkshire County this week, and discussed some of the week’s biggest headlines during his stop in Pittsfield, Massachusetts with WAMC.

Congressman Richard Neal was in Lee, Massachusetts Wednesday, and answered questions about the vice-presidential debate, war in the Middle East, immigration, and more.

A protest and march against the conflict in Lebanon and Gaza is scheduled for this afternoon in Albany.

Fellowship of Reconciliation is a global movement founded in 1914 to support the rights of conscience in resistance to war and military conscription. We are joined by Executivve Director Ariel Gold and scholar of race, religion, and resistance, Iskander Abbasi.

Sayed Kashua, an Arab Israeli novelist and newspaper columnist based in Boston, is best-known internationally as the creator of hit TV series, most recently "Madrasa," about a bilingual school in Jerusalem where Palestinians and Israelis try to find a common ground. He will be at the WIT Festival on 9/28.

An interview with Western Mass Area Labor Federation President Jeff Jones.