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Free Her Campaign Takes Action in the State House

July 1, 2025 Grace Cowell

By Grace Cowell The Free Her policy platform, spearheaded by Families for Justice as Healing and the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, consists of four MAPA-supported bills in the state legislature, proposing critical criminal legal reforms to ensure safety and […]

Trump’s Iran Attack Showcases Why Nuclear Apartheid Must End

June 30, 2025 Joseph Gerson

by Joseph Gerson This piece was originally published in Common Dreams. War is Not the Answer Ever since Senator Kennedy’s campaign to transform Boston into a nuclear weapons base was defeated 40 years ago, I have had the extraordinary privilege of working with Japanese and […]

Zohran Mamdani’s Victory is About More Than Just New York City

June 25, 2025 Sam Levine

By Sam Levine 33-year old democratic socialist, Zohran Mamdani’s victory over scandal ridden and disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo paves the way for a future apart from tired Democratic establishment rhetoric, giving Americans hope for the left after the election of Donald Trump. Cuomo was […]

Mass-Care Conference Marks 30 Years of Campaigning

June 24, 2025 Colleen Kelley

By Colleen Kelley On Saturday, June 21st, Mass-Care held its Medicare for All Conference at Clark University in Worcester. This conference marked the 30th anniversary of the Mass-Care coalition, and 30 years of commitment, hard work, and dedication for many of the coalition’s members. Myself, […]

Forcibly displaced people seek shelter in a destroyed UNRWA school in Gaza City, the Gaza Strip, June 2025. © 2025 UNRWA photo

Starvation in Gaza

June 24, 2025 Rosemary Kean

by Rosemary Kean Velva Spriggs, a lecturer in Social Work at Bowie State College in Maryland writes that, sometimes, when remembering that the people of Gaza are being “deliberately starved to death,” she is unable to eat. Likely many of us, especially when preparing dinner […]

Rally in Boston against Trump's strikes on Iran.

“Peace” President Starts New War: Boston Responds

June 23, 2025 Sam Levine

By Sam Levine Late in the evening of June 21st, Donald Trump made a strange and shocking statement on his Truth Social personal social media site. Shocking because he announced that the US had successfully attacked three nuclear sites in Iran, and strange because in […]

Standout at MIT Conference: No Genocide in Healthcare

June 18, 2025 Addelyne Lilley

By Addey Lilley Yesterday, June 17th, while the MIT CEO conference was being held inside of the Koch Institute, the voices and chants of protestors outside could be heard from blocks away. The “not-to-be missed” networking event at the Koch Institute was co-hosted by MIT […]