Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Essential Workers Strike for Black Lives

July 24, 2020 Andrew King
by Andrew King  Nearly 200 essential workers and their allies rallied at the State House on July 20 to demand racial and economic justice as part of a national Strike for Black Lives that took place in many cities across the country. The rally was […]
Will Trade Racists for Refugees
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#BlackLivesMatter and the Third Reconstruction

July 21, 2020 Ty dePass
Presentation by Ty dePass at a webinar “Authoritarianism and Democracy“, June 29, 2020.  Watch video of the presentation and discussion On an early morning in July 1980, 14-year-old Levi Hart was shot and killed by Boston police officer Richard Borque, Jr., following a police chase […]
Racial Justice and Indigenous Solidarity

Antiracism and Peace Webinar Series

July 20, 2020 Nicholas Smaldone
Events of the past few months have exposed deep racist inequities with life and death consequences. COVID-19’s disproportionate death tolls in communities of color and the continued blatant police and extrajudicial killings of black people reached a tipping point with the murder of George Floyd […]
Militarized Boston Police
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Reinventing law enforcement in Boston

June 18, 2020 Jeff Klein
by Jeff Klein Originally published in the Dorchester Reporter Many people who hear calls to “defund” or “abolish” the police may have the impression that these are demands to eliminate law enforcement altogether.  That is incorrect. The intent is to reinvent law enforcement in a […]