Read on for some of the best recent articles by local independent news outlets around the Bay State! Includes IndyMass #65 and #66.
ARTS
Arts Feature: The Museum of Modern Renaissance — The Urgency of Preserving a Living Work of Art
The Arts Fuse (Somerville)
Two immigrant artists who created a highly unusual museum in an old church over 25 years seek a historical landmark designation … and a kind of immortality for the building in the preservation of their life’s work.
LIFESTYLE
How are the everyday people of Davis Square passing the summer?
Cambridge Somerville Independent
A little slice of life from Somerville’s best known square.
HISTORY
Revisiting the Ipswich Mills Strike, with a special focus on immigration
The Local News (Ipswich)
Very interesting look at the history of a significant labor struggle in a North Shore community.
POLICE
There will be no going off script
Worcester Sucks and I Love It
Bill Shaner on the ongoing push for a civilian review board to oversee the Worcester police.
Will more police make us safer?
The Flipside (Boston)
The eternal struggle between community organizations seeking policies that prevent crime and establishment policies that lead to incarceration, as interrogated by Yawu Miller.
ShotSpotter gunfire tech is restored for 90 days as Cambridge turns to new ‘resident assembly’ for answers
Cambridge Somerville Independent
In Cambridge, cops and their political allies win a temporary victory allowing them to continue using a much-criticized technology for another three months.
SURVEILLANCE
Automated license plate readers Flock to western Massachusetts
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
The movement against corporate surveillance grows.
“Get the Flock Out”: Western Massachusetts residents push back against automated license plate readers
The Shoestring (Western Mass.)
More on the new movement against corporate surveillance.
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