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JACOB SCHLES

Somerville for Palestine celebrates the 9-2 victory at Somerville City Hall. Photo courtesy of Somerville for Palestine.
JACOB SCHLES

Somerville Council Vows To Implement Popular Call For Divestment

Somerville, Mass – Last night, Somerville city councilors overwhelmingly voted 9-2 in favor of a resolution vowing to implement Question 3, a nonbinding call to end business with companies that “engage in business that sustains Israel’s apartheid, genocide, and illegal occupation of Palestine,” which Somerville voters passed by a wide

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JACOB SCHLES November 26, 2025
JACOB SCHLES

Gun Violence Prevention Grant Puts Opioid Settlement Funds Back In Communities

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office is spending its settlement funds from the consulting giant McKinsey on nonprofits working on gun violence prevention, urban farming, and food access

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JACOB SCHLES November 2, 2025
A Somerville for Palestine rally outside Somerville City Hall in favor of Question 3 before an Elections Committee hearing on Oct. Photo courtesy of the Somerville Ballot Question for Palestine Committee.
JACOB SCHLES

Late Legal Challenge To Somerville’s Question 3 Remains Unresolved With Early Voting About To Start

After the Somerville Elections Commission rejected an opposition group’s challenge in that venue, the group took its fight to kill the question to a Woburn court

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JACOB SCHLES October 27, 2025
JACOB SCHLES

How MassArt’s Divestment Organizing ‘Met An Edge’

Efforts to enforce a late 2024 divestment policy stalled, leading to a fateful two minutes when a student protest entered a building

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JACOB SCHLES October 16, 2025
Community members filling Somerville City Council chambers. Photo courtesy of Somerville Boycott Question for Palestine Committee.
JACOB SCHLES

Somerville Kills Big Money Bid To Remove Boycott Measure From Ballot

A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned city councilor tried, and failed, to invalidate signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot

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JACOB SCHLES October 9, 2025
JACOB SCHLES

This Company Paid Massachusetts Opioid Settlement Funds, And Has Had Millions In State Contracts Since

The consulting giant McKinsey continued its work advising Mass on healthcare and other matters after paying for “illegal and dangerous partnership with Purdue Pharma”

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JACOB SCHLES September 21, 2025
JACOB SCHLES

When Married Women Couldn’t Teach, Massachusetts Unions Led The Fight

An often forgotten chapter in women’s labor history, the fight against marriage bans in Massachusetts eventually found success with activism, passionate union efforts, and nationwide economic change

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JACOB SCHLES July 17, 2025
Collage of farmer bringing family food
JACOB SCHLES

After Devastating December Budget Trim, HIP May Be Restored By Mass Legislature

The reduction to the Healthy Incentives Program cut monthly benefits for low-income families, but a higher proposed budget may bring back full payments as soon as July 1

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JACOB SCHLES June 25, 2025
JACOB SCHLES

Grace Lonergan Lorch Fought Back From Dorchester To Little Rock, And Paid Severely

Though best remembered as an integration advocate in Arkansas, Lonergan Lorch’s foray into activism was defending women teachers in her native Boston in the ’40s

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JACOB SCHLES April 13, 2025
JACOB SCHLES

How The Boston Federation Of Teachers Begat The Boston Teachers Union

A sidebar to “Grace Lonergan Lorch Fought Back From Dorchester To Little Rock, And Paid Severely”

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JACOB SCHLES March 20, 2025
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