Opinion
Every Community Must Embrace Human Rights Day Every Day
Human rights are a pathway to building a better world – and it starts locally.
Barbara Simmons
December 10, 2024
Barbara Simmons
Opinion
Trump’s Reelection Is White Supremacy’s Welcome Mat
Without vigilance and community organizing, white supremacy will continue to be normalized and spread, warns long-time Bucks County peace activist Barbara Simmons.
Barbara Simmons
November 17, 2024
Opinion
On International Day of Peace, Let’s Pledge to Make Peace a Bigger Part of Our Lives
If we taught peace lessons to youth each year – grades K-12 – would they change how they handle conflict?
Barbara Simmons
September 21, 2023
Top 5
Why I Commemorate the Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
As we commemorate the tragic, devastating events on August 6 and 9, let us work towards peace on a local level, on a national level, and on the global level.
Barbara Simmons
August 7, 2023
Opinion
Human Rights Day: Think Globally, Act Locally
Longtime Bucks County peace activist Barbara Simmons reflects on why we commemorate this day, and what we can do throughout the year to promote and protect human rights.
Barbara Simmons
December 9, 2022
Opinion
Raising Our Children as Future Leaders in an Era of Book Banning and Attacks on ‘Critical Race Theory’
When we decide to take books off the shelves because they don’t represent your family’s values, we are creating leaders who will be ill-informed, less compassionate, and less empathic.
Barbara Simmons
September 21, 2022
Education
What Does It Take to Be an Ally to Kids?
If we want teachers in Bucks County schools to be Allies, they need to count on us to be an Ally to them.
Barbara Simmons
May 19, 2022
Opinion
International Women’s Day: Replace Patriarchy with Matriarchy to Build a Better World
Use International Women’s Day as a reminder that women offer a saner, more compassionate worldview.
Barbara Simmons
March 8, 2022
Pennsylvania Homeless Advocates Condemn Trump’s Plans to Punish the Unhoused, Involuntarily Commit Them
August 7, 2025
“Homelessness is caused by poverty,” said Estelle Richman, HUD Chief Operating Officer during the Obama administration. “These are poor people … Many of them are working. They just don’t have enough money to pay the rent.”
80 Years After the US Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Nuclear Threat Remains Grave
August 5, 2025
Nuclear war is a real and present danger that we must acknowledge and confront, writes Ira Helfand.
Rivot Magazine Provides Bucks County a Much-needed Print Music and News Publication With a Punk Rock Ethos
August 4, 2025
Founder James Lamb said print media was a void that needed to be filled. “I just really like a physical, handheld thing that can be saved, that can migrate when I drop one at the bus stop.”
DOJ’s Demand for State Voter Lists Are a Major Battleground in Fights Over Access to the Polls
August 4, 2025
The Trump administration wants to scoop up voter registration lists and other election data from all 50 states.
New Pennsylvania Project Opens Office in Bensalem, Its First in Bucks County
August 2, 2025
The nonpartisan voting rights organization wants everyone in the county to be registered, educated, engaged and active voters.
