Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #55.
CIVIL LIBERTIES
Lexington Chamber of Commerce moves fundraiser location due to ICE ties
The Lexington Observer
Turns out the old school Cafe Escadrille restaurant in Burlington is owned by the guy who owns the ICE’s New England headquarters and infamous internment facility nearby. Protests intensify.
FEMINISM
Local moms to host dance party for reproductive rights
The Local News (Ipswich)
Come for the face painting, stay for the “sex-positive zines.” Sounds like Ipswich residents are more hip than they let on … for a good cause, too.
HOUSING
Local officials come out against rent control
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
In related news, water is wet … the real estate lobby remains strong in Holyoke as it is across the Commonwealth.
POLICE
Police budget in Cambridge draws attention to overlap with social services and unarmed response team
Cambridge-Somerville Independent
Emergency care services created to be separate from police after Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 have ended up developing more connections than planned.
SO-CALLED “AI”
AI concerns in the arts loom over city’s youth summit
The Flipside
Great to see Boston students and teachers joining the growing chorus against the highly problematic group of technologies that nobody asked for, creative young people least of all.
IndyMass is produced for BINJ.News, the independent weekly magazine of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, by Jason Pramas and is syndicated by BINJ’s MassWire news service.
