protest Archives

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

CENTRA INTELLIGENCE

New Documents Reveal Extent, Cost Of BPD’s Secret Surveillance Strategy After more than 100 white supremacists gathered in Boston and marched through the city over Independence Day weekend, city and law enforcement officials said they “did not have intelligence” that the nationally-known Patriot Front group was coming to the Hub—despite

DAN ATKINSON July 11, 2022

Somerville City Councilor-at-Large Willie Burnley, Jr. Courtesy photo.

OPINION: MY PRIDE IS A RIOT AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY

“As a Black and queer person, I know that when a person’s very existence is criminalized it inevitably results in fear, hate crimes, and death.” The rain poured down on me and a cadre of queer and trans youth in front of the bricked facade of Somerville’s City Hall. The

WILLIE BURNLEY JR June 7, 2022

Fish house, Somerville. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

SOMERVILLE WIRE: MAY 3, 2022 WEEKLY ROUNDUP

Proakis Seeking Job in Watertown, Youth March for Peace, and More Articles ANOTHER SEASON OF OUTDOOR DINING BEGINS City still working to help restaurants survive ICYMI: DONATE TO THE SOMERVILLE MEDIA FUND! Somerville Media Center and BINJ join forces to create municipal foundation to support nonprofit community journalism Shorts Proakis

LINDA PINKOW May 3, 2022

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR SOMERVILLE TO LIFT ITS MASK MANDATE?

The City enters into a new phase of the pandemic (Somerville Wire) – On Feb. 18, the day that Boston Mayor Michelle Wu decided to lift the B Together Initiative that required visitors to show their vaccine cards at certain indoor, public spaces, Irene* went to Aeronaut Brewing Company, a

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN March 8, 2022

UNION SQUARE RALLY CALLED IN SUPPORT OF INDIAN FARMERS

July 25 event will be held in support of farmers protesting agricultural laws

SHIRA LAUCHAROEN July 20, 2021