Articles by David Detmold

Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Let’s Get this Done!

June 5, 2026 David Detmold
By David Detmold, Montague It has been six months now since the last meeting of the Massachusetts Seal, Flag and Motto Advisory Commission.  Call me naïve, but has the political will to accomplish this long-awaited change vanished from the statehouse and the governor’s office in […]
Leonard Peltier. Photo: Jeffry Scott
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Leonard Peltier is America’s Nelson Mandela

July 12, 2022 David Detmold
by David Detmold Imprisoned American Indian Movement (AIM) elder Leonard Peltier is 77 years old, suffering from severe diabetes, hypertension, an aortic aneurysm, and is blind in one eye. He has been imprisoned for more than 46 years, unjustly convicted of aiding and abetting in […]
On Saturday, October 10th, Chali'Naru Dones of the United Confederation of Taino People, stands atop the plinth where the decapitated statue of Christopher Columbus once stood, on the Boston waterfront. The crowd responded, "City by city, town by town, Christopher Columbus must come down!" photo: Claire Gosselin / Mass Peace Action
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Indigenous Peoples Day Now!

October 12, 2020 David Detmold
On Saturday, October 10th, approximately 400 people marched from the Boston Common to the North End park where a statue of Christopher Columbus once stood. Beheaded in June amid a nationwide uproar over structural racism following the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands […]