Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Justice for Faisal protest, Somerville High School, Jan. 29, 2023 (Cole Harrison/MAPA photo)
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

On the Killing of Arif Sayad Faisal

January 29, 2023 Hayat Imam
by Hayat Imam As a Bangladeshi American, I am still reeling from this tragedy in our community. The officer involved shooting death of a young man of 20 will have irreparable consequences. His parents, who took the chance to emigrate to the USA just a […]
Justice for Faisal rally, Cambridge, Jan. 9 (photo: Jonathan King/MAPA)
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Justice for Sayed Faisal!

January 28, 2023 Jackie Dee King
by Jackie King Three weeks after the police killing of a young Bangladeshi man who was experiencing a mental health crisis in a Cambridge neighborhood, an outpouring of community grief and outrage has continued to roil the city. Hundreds of people have attended rallies, city […]
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 […]
Peace and Climate

Save the Pine Barrens

June 6, 2022 Hartman Deetz
by Hartman Deetz Editor’s note: The Save the Pine Barrens campaign is working to protect the Atlantic coastal pine barrens in Massachusetts from mining and industrial development by companies like A.D. Makepeace and Borrego Solar. The coastal pine barrens in Plymouth, Carver, and Wareham are […]
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

US Militarism Fuels Domestic Gun Violence

June 6, 2022 Catherine Henning
by Nancy Goldner and Cate Henning Since we wrote this article, 3 people in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 3 people in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 5 people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde, Texas, a person at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, […]