Massachusetts Archives

Massachusetts Is The Only State That Still Bans Nunchucks. Could A Recent Court Decision Impact Weapons Laws?

The Bay State prohibition of the legendary weapon dates back to fears from 50 years ago about menacing young kung fu hooligans. Can the nunchuck ban be reversed?

ZACK HUFFMAN April 11, 2025

A recent rally in support of Rümeysa Öztürk at Somerville City Hall.

Can Nonviolent Activists Thwart ICE Snatch Squads?

Rallies in support of recently detained immigrants like Rümeysa Öztürk are important, but might it be possible to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants in similar situations in the first place?

JASON PRAMAS April 3, 2025

IndyMass: April 3, 2025

A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press

JASON PRAMAS April 3, 2025

For Any Generation, Boston Icon Peter Wolf’s Pocketbook Of Party Stories Can Inspire

“While writing these chapters, I experienced both joy and sadness— the exaltation of rediscovery combined with the realization of [a] profound loss.”

LEA TRAN April 3, 2025

Democracy activists protest the arrest of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk by ICE at a protest in Somerville's Nathan Tufts Park, March 26, 2025. Photo by Gabriel Martins. Copyright 2025 Gabriel Martins.

Challenging Fear And Trepidation, Democracy Activists Rally In Somerville Following Student ICE Arrest

“Justice is something that people ignore until it happens in the neighborhood. … No one thought this would happen in a school in Massachusetts.”

GABRIEL MARTINS March 27, 2025

Large crowd outside of Skinner and Eddy employment office. The shipyard workers struck two weeks before the Seattle General Strike on Feb. 6, 1919.

General Strikes Are Now Mainstream In Massachusetts

Big ups for Rep. McGovern and Jon Keller discussing what was once undiscussable in Bay State media, but a few historical corrections are in order

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2025

IndyMass: March 20, 2025

A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2025

A Boston Compass newspaper box on a busy street

The Greater Boston Zine Scene’s Cultural Compass

A nearly hundred-year-old grassroots publishing tradition is kept alive by local celebrants and acolytes

YOKO ZHU March 20, 2025

African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters demonstrating outside the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; some hold signs with portraits of slain civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

The Minimum Program: A Strategy For Political Mobilization

We can rebuild the Mass. (and US) left by fighting for democracy, human rights, environmental restoration, peace, and bread-and-butter economic guarantees for working people

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025

IndyMass: March 6, 2025

A roundup of recent articles from the Massachusetts independent press

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025