Legislation and Policy

Legislation and Policy

ShotSpotter Surveillance To End in Cambridge

June 11, 2026 Spencer Piston
MAPA’s Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity Working Group collaborates with The Black Response Cambridge (TBR Cambridge) and recently heard their analysis of the effects of the use of ShotSpotter technology in Cambridge. Interestingly, we learned that the neighborhoods in Cambridge where this surveillance technology has […]
Fund the People, Not the Pentagon

Rent Control is Good for Communities

May 20, 2026 Kiam Jamrog-McQuaid
Housing advocates across the state have worked to put rent control on the ballot this November, in an effort to slow the rampant displacement caused by the housing crisis and by unreasonable rent increases that outpace inflation. Passing this ballot initiative would limit annual rent […]
Democracy

War Crimes in an Age of Impunity

April 29, 2026 Abigail Greenblatt
Last week, on Wednesday, April 22, Amal Khalil, a Lebanese journalist, was targeted and killed by Israeli forces while reporting on an earlier Israeli attack with her colleague Zeinab Faraj. Khalil and Faraj took shelter in a building, where rescue workers tried to reach the […]
Action Report

A Brief History of May Day

April 22, 2026 Jeanne Trubek
by Jeanne Trubek Why did May 1st become International Workers Day throughout the world? It began with a general strike in the United States. The country was experiencing a long economic depression that started in 1873 and continued for 5½ years.  The Great Upheaval – […]
Fund the People, Not the Pentagon

Our Classrooms Are the Cost of War

March 31, 2026 Owen Madaus
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is […]