Barbara Berenson, author of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers, will discuss the woman suffrage movement, focusing on Massachusetts suffragists on Tues, Sept 17, 4:15 pm at Williams College Griffin Hall, Room 4.

Sponsored by the Northern Berkshire Suffrage Centennial Coalition & Williams College Political Science Department, Berenson’s talk will detail how Massachusetts was at the center of the national struggle for woman suffrage.  It is part of an ongoing series of  programs commemorating the woman suffrage centennial and focusing attention on the importance of voting for our democracy.

The regularly scheduled Williamstown Planning Board meeting of September 10 has been moved to the following Tues, Sept 17 at 7:00pm.  Watch it live on WilliNet TV ch 1303.

Watch Democracy Now! Monday- Friday at 8:00 am & 5:00 pm on WilliNet’s channel 1303! Democracy Now! moved their evening broadcast time to 5:00pm (from 7pm).

Martha Jones, Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver this talk at Williams College on Thu, Sept. 12, 4:15-5:30pm in Griffin Hall, room 3.

Jones is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. She is also the author of Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture 1830-1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). In addition, she is a coeditor of Toward an Intellectual History of Black Women (University of North Carolina Press, 2015). She is currently completing Vanguard: A History of African American Women’s Politics (Basic)—to be published in 2020 in conjunction with the 19th Amendment’s centennial.

“The Isis Trial” screening Saturday, September 14, 2019, Potluck at 6:00 PM, film at 7:00 PM at the Old Chatham Quaker Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham NY, across from Pitt Hall Road and Powell House.

“The Isis Trial” by local filmmaker Ellie Bernstein, is a look at the controversial investigation and trial of 3 young Somali boys with no history of violence accused and convicted of terrorism in 2016 and sentenced to a combined total of 95 years.  Orchestrated by the FBI, this is the second largest federal terrorism case in the United States.  The film examines the controversial use of informants and how federal Countering Violent Extremism programs have divided communities.

Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow led by the filmmaker and Attorneys Kathy Manley and Steve Downs.  For more information call 518-794-3048.  For directions:  www.oldchathamquakers.org