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
In His First 100 Days, Trump Launched an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Environment
April 30, 2025
Compared to his first term, the threat posed by Trump’s second administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say.
Bucks County Opportunity Council Celebrates 18 Families Who with Public Assistance and Hard Work Won Their Wars on Poverty
April 30, 2025
BCOC’s Economic Self-sufficiency Program has now reached 420 families becoming financially independent since its inception.
OPINION: Abram Lucabaugh Was a Divisive Central Bucks Superintendent Praised by Moms for Liberty. He’s the Last Person Who Should Run Centennial School District
April 29, 2025
I was shocked that anyone would consider him a good choice, writes Centennial parent Nancy Pontius.
These Pennsylvania College and University Presidents Say the Trump Administration’s ‘Unprecedented Government Overreach’ Endangers Higher Education
April 25, 2025
There are 480 higher education leaders from across the country who have signed a letter opposing “undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live and work” on their campuses.
Trump Administration’s Proposed Funding Cuts to Head Start Would Harm Vulnerable Bucks County Kids
April 24, 2025
“We should be expanding access, not taking it away. Every child deserves a fair and equitable start, and I’ll fight in Congress to protect programs like Head Start that make that possible,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie, a Democratic candidate for Congress in PA-01.
