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Respect And Friendship Don't Depend On Shared Politics, Say Those Who Have Bridged The Divide
Here and Now's 2020 Election Coverage:
Two years ago, we brought you a conversation between liberals from western Massachusetts and conser
Interview on WBUR's Here and Now by Robin Young
Nov 16, 20201 min read
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Letcher County's Black Sheep Brick Oven Bakery Inspires Hope
Leverett Hands Across the Hills visited the Black Sheep Brick Oven Bakery in Hemphill KY as part of our bridging project. This film from...
freethink.com
May 13, 20201 min read
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Meet 27 People Bridging Divides Across America
Time Magazine has just published a feature "Meet 27 People Bridging Divides Across America". Among those 27 are Paula Green of Leverett,...
TIME Magazine Staff
Mar 28, 20201 min read
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Building a bridge across the countryside for talking in polarized times
Sometimes it seems the only thing blue and red voters share is mutual contempt. Organizations like Better Angels or Bridge the Divide try...
John C. Clayton, The Fulcrum
Mar 27, 20204 min read
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WGBY's 'Connecting Point' features Hands Across the Hills
With polarization on the rise in the United States, Hands Across the Hills bridges divides by bringing groups from vastly different parts...
Ross Lippman, Connecting Point, WGBY
Nov 7, 20191 min read
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Hands Across the Hills has a Message to Share
Over the past two years, the Hands Across the Hills cultural exchange project has created strong bonds of friendship between conservative...
Paula Green, Op-Ed, Hampshire Daily Gazette
Oct 23, 20192 min read
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Hands Across the Hills: Conversation leads to collaboration
LEVERETT — The nation’s political divide may have widened, but the bond between Kentuckians and Leverett residents who met for the third...
Richie Davis, Greenfield Recorder
Oct 16, 20195 min read
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Liberals and Conservatives from North and South Reunite in Western Mass.
A culture-crossing project borne of the 2016 election met for the third time this past weekend in Leverett, Massachusetts. Hands Across...
NEPR report by Karen Brown
Oct 16, 20193 min read
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Kentuckians to visit Leverett again as part of dialogue project
LEVERETT — A project that started two years ago to bridge political and cultural divides between Leverett residents and people living in...
Scott Merzbach, Daily Hampshire Gazette
Sep 30, 20192 min read
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How to Talk When You Don't Agree
After the 2016 presidential election, Dr. Paula Green, founder of the Karuna Center for Peacebuilding, a US-based NGO focused on...
Gayle Jo Carter, Aspire for Equality
Apr 10, 20194 min read
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Valley group talks race on S. Carolina trip
AMHERST — In late January, 18 people from all over western Massachusetts traveled to South Carolina to talk about race with people from...
Greta Jochem, the Daily Hampshire Gazette
Mar 2, 20193 min read
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CAN RED AND BLUE AMERICA EVER SEE EYE TO EYE? SHE’S BETTING ON IT
America's partisan gap is widening. The key to bridging it is by simply initiating conversations with the other side, says Paula Green....
Brianna Provenzano for Nation Swell
Feb 28, 20196 min read
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A Conflict-Resolution Expert on Whether Political and Racial Dialogue Have Value in the Trump Era
Paula Green has worked in peace-building and conflict resolution for three decades, often in places torn apart by war and ethnic...
Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker
Feb 13, 201911 min read
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Hands Across the Hills story spreads far beyond Franklin County
LEVERETT – After a year of drawing attention solely from The Greenfield Recorder, this town’s Hands Across the Hills effort and its...
RICHIE DAVIS, Recorder Staff
Feb 12, 20193 min read
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They Have Worked on Conflicts Overseas. Now These Americans See ‘Red Flags’ at Home.
LEVERETT, Mass. — Paula Green has spent much of her life working on conflicts abroad. In places like Bosnia, Rwanda and Myanmar, Dr....
Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times
Feb 5, 20195 min read
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Grateful Changemakers: Hands Across the Hills
Here in our feature “Grateful Changemakers,” we celebrate programs and projects that serve as beacons of gratefulness. These efforts...
The Gratefulness Team, https://gratefulness.org
Jan 25, 20198 min read
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Bridge over troubled water
Something extraordinary will quietly happen here this weekend. You might not have heard about it. I just got the news, myself, right...
Margaret Evans, Low Country Weekly
Jan 22, 20195 min read
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Talking Race In South Carolina
Paula Green and Amilcar Shabazz discuss the Bridge4Unity project and the upcoming trip to Beaufort, SC. LISTEN HERE:...
The Bill Newman Show - WHMP Radio
Jan 16, 20191 min read
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Conservatives in Kentucky, Liberals in Massachusetts Try to Bridge Political Divide
Listen to the podcast of Paula Green and Gwen Johnson on NPR's Here and Now After the 2016 presidential election, conflict resolution...
Aired on NPR's Here and Now, Robin Young
Nov 30, 20186 min read
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Peacebuilder awarded for bringing divided US citizens together
With so much disunity across the United States, it can be difficult to find common ground. But one organization is taking steps to bring...
Amanda Menas, peacenews.com
Nov 25, 20182 min read
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