Gabe Dixon will play a concert at the Iron Horse in Northampton on February 9 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30. You can hear him sing one of his songs, while playing piano, at:
October 26, 2026
Korean band at the Drake on Halloween
The Korean band Leenalchi will play at the Drake in Amherst on Halloween. The concert starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $28. A video of the band is at:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldO3cpyy55g
In 2022, Valley Post editor Eesha Williams and his wife, organic vegetable farmer Elizabeth Wood, worked on farms in Korea. They wrote this article about their experience:
www.mofga.org/stories/community/organic-farming-in-south-korea
October 26, 2026
250 March
In Amherst, 250 people marched for jobs with justice on October 22. One of the unions that organized the march has a web page at:
https://universitystaffassociation.org/about-usa/history-of-usa
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October 16, 2026
A Win for Nature
Thanks to the work of environmental activists, the state of Massachusetts will spend $800,000 to protect forests and other open space in the Pioneer Valley, the state recently announced at:
www.mass.gov/news/healey-driscoll-administration-awards-over-13-million-...
The best global environmental group is the Center for Biological Diversity. The best in the Valley is Citizens Awareness Network.
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October 09, 2026
Rally for Palestine
On October 9, lawyer Navi Pillay won the Nobel peace prize. Born in South Africa, she was the leader of a U.N. panel that ruled that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza. In December 2023, about 600 people marched 25 miles from Springfield, Massachusetts to Northampton to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza.
October 07, 2026
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October 02, 2026
Nurses Win
The nurses at the Greenfield hospital reached a tentative union contract on September 28. “This is an enormous victory for patients, nurses and the Franklin county community,” said Suzanne Love, an emergency nurse at the Greenfield hospital. “We stayed united and persisted over several months of a coordinated community campaign because our patients need safe staffing. In the end, Baystate (the corporation that owns the hospital) moved toward us and we reached an agreement because nurses and our community supporters refused to give up.”
The nurses won:
September 24, 2026
Peace Protest is September 26
In the Pioneer Valley town of West Springfield, there will be a peace protest on September 26. The protest will be at 10:30 a.m. on “Memorial Ave, on the sidewalk in the vicinity of Work N’ Gear (218 Memorial Ave), and Pet Supplies Plus (175 Memorial Ave). This location is a prime spot as hundreds of vehicles per hour exit from the interstates for the major Big E gateway location,” the organizers wrote at:
September 18, 2026
No Kings; Land Saved
The members of the People's Resistance Marching Band play trombone, snare drum, tuba, steel pan, trumpet, bass drum. At the Brattleboro No Kings march on September 12, they played the reggae song Get Up, Stand Up; the New Orleans classic When The Saints Go Marching In; and other songs.
Singers from the Good Trouble Choir sang. The weather was 65 degrees and sunny with a light breeze. Among the signs people carried in the march were “ICE out of Vermont” and “Migrant Justice.”
September 11, 2026
Ghanaian Highlife Concert
Gyedu Blay Ambolley and Sekondi Band will play at the Drake in Amherst on Saturday, September 12 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance. Most people in the audience will dance, some will sit, according to the Drake web site. A video of a concert by Gyedu Blay Ambolley and Sekondi Band is at: