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Boston Protest Legend Rob Potylo Detained By ICE In Oregon

The performer also known as Robbie Roadsteamer was reportedly released about an hour later

CHRIS FARAONE October 15, 2025

The rainbow crosswalk at Amherst Regional Middle School. Photo: Art Keene. Used with permission.

Judge Orders Reinstatement Of Counselor Fired For Discrimination Against LGBTQ Students

“Gay and transgender students and their caregivers reported significant distress that led to depression, suicidal thoughts, post-traumatic stress disorder, and school withdrawal”

ART KEENE July 22, 2025

Protestor holding sign saying "I was totally paid to throw Molotovs" next to the words "This is not real."

When Big Protests Come To Massachusetts, How Can Journalists Compete With AI Disinformation?

I don’t know. And, as a journalist, I don’t like that I don’t know.

JASON PRAMAS June 12, 2025

Police preparing to move on the protesters at UMass, May 7, 2024. Photo: Leyla Moushabeck.

UMass Paid $446K for Report Exonerating Chancellor in Police Assault on Student Encampment

The police intervention … involved over 200 police officers including UMass Police, State Troopers (including the State Police Special Emergency Response Team (SERT)), Town of Amherst police, Town of Hadley police, and members of the Hampshire and Hampden County Sheriff’s offices.

ART KEENE May 15, 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

Photo of an Emerson College building entrance.

Emerson Students, Staff, And Faculty Face Restrictive New Policies Born From Gaza Protests

The Emerson College administration put rules in place in response to last year’s campus unrest that some community members say violate their First Amendment rights

MADISON LUCCHESI January 23, 2025

APPARENT HORIZON: NO SURPRISE MASSACHUSETTS HAS A HOUSING CRISIS

Just look at what happened to the former East Cambridge courthouse property (now “40 Thorndike”) …

JASON PRAMAS August 8, 2024

Protestors defend Northeastern University pro-Palestinian encampment. Photo courtesy of Axelle Yanakakis-Carroll and the You Are Here team at WERS 88.9. Republished with permission.

‘UNSAFE’ AND ‘HOPEFUL’

Northeastern students divided after encampment and commencement arrests

MADISON LUCCHESI May 17, 2024

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.

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

JASON PRAMAS March 14, 2023

CAAS Tenant Rally on July 29, 2022. Photo courtesy of Community Action Agency of Somerville.

TENANTS RALLY IN FRONT OF 6-8 MORTIMER PLACE

Protest “tidal wave of gentrification sweeping the new Green Line Extension corridor” (Somerville Wire) – Responding to soaring rents and increasing economic uncertainty, the Community Action Agency of Somerville organized a protest last Friday in support of three Brazilian families who are at imminent risk of displacement in September, after

LINDA PINKOW August 2, 2022