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TOM MEYERS

Opinion: Teachers Shouldn’t Fund Genocide With Our Pensions

As a Massachusetts educator and proud member of the Massachusetts Teachers Association, I am heartened that our union recently voted to support Rep. Erika Uyterhoeven’s (D-Somerville) bill, H.2984: An Act Relative to Pension Divestment from Companies Providing Military Equipment to the State of Israel. This bill represents a simple but

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TOM MEYERS January 14, 2026
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

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
MTA Rank and File for Palestine protests on Boston Common on October 6, 2024. Photo by Sue Doherty, used with permission.
JEN MEAGHER

MTA Board Votes Overwhelmingly To Divest From Weapons Manufacturers

“The bumper sticker on my car announces ‘I am a proud union member of the MTA.’ That has never been more true.”

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JEN MEAGHER August 14, 2025
Boston University student anti-apartheid protestors in 1986. Photo of 2010 scan of a page from the April 30, 1986 edition of the Daily Free Press by Jason Pramas. Original Daily Free Press photo by Paul Callard.
JASON PRAMAS

BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus

And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986 Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and

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JASON PRAMAS March 14, 2023
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