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Someone walks past anti-ICE signage by Somerville Avenue in Somerville, MA, Oct. 5, 2025. Photo by Christopher Morris. Copyright 2025 Christopher Morris.
C. SCOTT MORRIS

Immigrants Hesitate To Access Social Services In Somerville

“There is no space for silence”

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C. SCOTT MORRIS October 16, 2025
Margarita, an undocumented immigrant from Honduras, and her citizen daughter. Photos courtesy of Centro Presente.
SARAH BETANCOURT

ICE Check-Ins Become Catch-22 For Immigrants

Go and be detained … or stay home and be detained

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SARAH BETANCOURT June 17, 2025
Photo courtesy of the South Asian Workers Center- Boston.
JYOTI SINHA

OPINION: WOMEN’S EMPOWERMENT THROUGH CARE, EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS, AND ECONOMIC LIVELIHOOD

Creating social connections and fostering engagement in communities is a growing challenge that we faced while doing community building work at the South Asian Workers Center- Boston.

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JYOTI SINHA March 15, 2024
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

ADDRESSING WAGE THEFT IN SOMERVILLE

How can we continue to combat this persistent problem? (Somerville Wire) – The problem of wage theft in Somerville has persisted long enough that in late 2019, the City Council passed a new Wage Theft Ordinance. This law also created a Wage Theft Advisory Board, a group that has given

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN February 1, 2022
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

INVESTIGATING THE INTERSTATE: IN THE SHADOW OF THE HIGHWAY

How immigrants and working-class people have been impacted by I-93, across the years The Somerville Wire recently received a Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grant, through the National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute. This article is the fourth in a series about how roadways like I-93 and

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN November 16, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

ASIAN AMERICANS REFLECT ON RACISM, DISCRIMINATION

A newly formed group aims to identify what it means to be Asian in Somerville.

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN June 8, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

NIBBLE KITCHEN NAVIGATES PANDEMIC PATH

The immigrant run eatery continues to honor culinary-cultural exchange and global fare.

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN May 4, 2021
SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

SOMERVILLE WORKER CENTER COMBATS INJUSTICES

The new organization has been defending worker rights and advancing education.

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SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 30, 2021

TOWNIE: MASS REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITIES FACE MAJOR BUDGET CRISIS

  Gov. Baker’s proposed cuts throw gasoline on raging policy fire   February 21, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   A quarter-century ago, I lived in Lawrence for a few months. Because it was the closest place to Boston that I could find a cheap apartment on short notice. Unfortunately,

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JASON PRAMAS February 21, 2018

WHY NATIVISM REMAINS THE POLITICS OF THE SCOUNDREL

November 17, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS In early November, I wrote the following commentary for the third episode of the Beyond Boston video news digest that my organization produces monthly in collaboration with several Boston area public access TV stations. Given the nature of the political crisis sparked by

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JASON PRAMAS November 17, 2016
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