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
Moms for Liberty CEO and Co-Founder Tina Descovich Verbally Attacks the Bucks County Beacon at Harrisburg-Area Event
October 8, 2025
Our crime? Journalism.
Using Black Hawk Helicopters and Chemical Agents, ICE Agents Turn Chicago Into a ‘War Zone’
October 7, 2025
Activists, residents and leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest city.
Pennsylvania Budget Impasse Is Just Another Form of Abuse for Domestic Violence Victims
October 6, 2025
As PA Senate Republicans hold the budget hostage, domestic violence shelters are forced to furlough staff and turn away victims putting Pennsylvanians at risk of injury or death.
We Must Continue to Defend the Freedom to Read in Central Bucks School District
October 6, 2025
With elections next month, Central Bucks School Board’s Karen Smith reminds community members of the chaos and divisiveness Republican book banners inflicted on the district just a few years ago.
The Quiet Creep of Censorship: How ‘Everyday Banning’ Is Reshaping American Schools
October 5, 2025
PEN America’s new report “The Normalization of Book Banning” exposes how book censorship has become “rampant and common” in public schools across the United States.
