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Palestine Land Day Commemoration Demands: ‘FIFA – Move The World Cup!’

April 8, 2026 Will Hodgkinson, Workers World. , , , ,
Boston — At a press conference on the front steps of Boston City Hall Plaza timed to coincide with Palestine Land Day, member organizations of the Boston Coalition for Palestine (BCFP) and allies announced today they are joining the international call to “Boycott the U.S.” for its war crimes in Cuba. Iran, Palestine, Venezuela  and elsewhere.  Speakers demanded that the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) move its scheduled 2026 World Cup games out of U.S. cities, including Boston, where Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) searches at the airports and kidnappings in the streets have created unsafe conditions for the world’s football fans, players and other travelers.

Community Leaders Gather To Honor Solomon Northup

October 25, 2025 Jean-Luc Pierite, Popular Resistance. , , ,
Boston, MA — The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, City of Boston, and community partners gathered this week to celebrate the unveiling of Hope Out of Darkness, the first-ever bronze sculpture honoring 19th-century abolitionist Solomon Northup (1807–unknown), author of Twelve Years A Slave. The installation, created by Emmy and Oscar-winning sculptor Wesley Wofford, FNSS, was unveiled before an audience of civic leaders, artists, descendants, and residents at the Boston Harbor Islands Welcome Center on the Rose Kennedy Greenway on Wednesday. The legacy of Solomon Northup was recognized by Massachusetts Governor Maura T. Healey, who presented a citation honoring the exhibit of the sculpture and reflecting on “Massachusetts’ history of Black and Indigenous slavery and slave trade, as well as the Commonwealth’s leading role in the abolitionist movement.”

Amid Local Failures And Federal Cuts, Advocates For Unhoused Step Up

August 26, 2025 Olivia Deng, HorizonMass. , , , ,
It’s been more than half a year since the state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation spent four days clearing out an encampment near the BU Bridge in Cambridge, and Gemma Byrne has yet to see any of the people who were displaced by what one witness described as “the most inhumane sweep she has seen in her approximately 10 years of being unhoused.” Byrne is an organizer for the material aid and harm reduction program Warm Up Boston, which distributes supplies to encampments and has developed connections with their residents. Homelessness and fringe housing get more attention in the bitter cold months, but the work continues in the heat, as do haunting memories of what came last December.

Boston Ujima Project Is Investing In A Community Land Trust

August 14, 2025 Oscar Perry Abello, Next City. , , ,
If there’s one thing Ruby Reyes loves more than learning, it’s protecting and supporting opportunities for her community to learn together. She gets to do both as part of the Boston Ujima Project’s member fund management committee, which reviews potential investments for the community-controlled social investment fund focused on uplifting Boston’s BIPOC communities. Each investment requires a majority vote for approval from the Boston Ujima Project’s voting membership, which currently consists of 240 people who identify as working-class or person of color or both, either living in Boston or have been displaced from Boston. The Boston Ujima Project has made 10 investments so far.

‘Capital One, You Can’t Hide!’: Cambridge Escalates For Palestine

August 13, 2025 Will Hodgkinson, Workers World. , , , , ,
A militant crowd organized by the Boston Coalition for Palestine faced off against a phalanx of cops guarding a Capital One Café and shut down the streets of Harvard Square in Cambridge for nearly two hours during the sweltering afternoon heat of Aug. 10. The action was in response to a violent attack by Cambridge police a week earlier at the same storefront on activists with BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) – Boston. Capital One Café — the target of a month-long campaign by BDS – Boston — is run by the ninth largest bank in the U.S. Besides luring people like students into its credit card debt trap through gimmicks like “cafés,” the otherwise online-only Capital One Financial has amassed much of its $490.6 billion in assets by extending lines of credit to the military-industrial complex.

After A Six-Year Struggle, Boston Tenants Won Permanent Affordability

August 4, 2025 Sandra Larson, Next City. , , ,
After a yearslong standoff with a large corporate landlord who had imposed sharp rent increases after purchasing their complex, a group of tenants in Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood have scored an unusual victory: long-term affordable housing. For six years, tenants who live at the Fairlawn Estates complex organized, sought to negotiate lower rent increases, and staged protests and rallies with strong support from City Life/Vida Urbana, a housing justice nonprofit that’s been organizing low-income tenants in the Boston area for more than 50 years. The situation took a turn in March 2025 when the building went up for sale again.

No To Fascist Austerity! No Pride In Genocide!

July 31, 2025 Workers World Boston Bureau, Workers' World. , , , , ,
Over 1,500 demonstrators rallied outside Boston City Hall on July 23 to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). A coalition of Massachusetts disability rights organizations and labor unions, including Boston Center for Independent Living, Dignity Alliance Massachusetts and Service Employees International Union 1199, along with dozens of others sponsored the commemoration. Decades of protests, sit-ins and shutdowns by disabled activists and their allies forced Congress to pass the ADA in 1990.

Fenway Park Concessions Workers On Strike

July 25, 2025 Ted Wayman, WCVB. , , , ,
For the first time in Fenway Park's 113-year history, concession and restaurant workers went on strike Friday as the Boston Red Sox begin a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Members of UNITE HERE Local 26, who work for Aramark, providing food services in the historic ballpark and the neighboring MGM Music Hall, had set a strike deadline of noon on Friday to reach an agreement. As negotiations continue for a new collective bargaining agreement, the union said its key demands are: citywide-standard wages; guardrails on automation; increased gratuity for premium workers who serve season ticket holders and special guests; and fair scheduling that respects workers' seniority.

Blue Bottle Baristas Walk Out In Boston

May 13, 2025 Steve Gillis, Workers World. , , ,
Boston, Massachusetts - Baristas at Blue Bottle coffee shops in Boston are so fed up with their boss’s blatant union-busting bulls–t that they walked off the job at multiple stores twice last week. They are preparing for more job actions. This time last year Blue Bottle workers in Greater Boston voted 38-4 in a National Labor Relations Board-conducted election to join the Blue Bottle Independent Union (BBIU). This came after years of low wages and disrespect from the San Francisco-based, high-end coffee chain, part of the Nestlé corporation’s sprawling global conglomerate.

Class War At Universities: Workers, Students Unite Against Fascism!

May 10, 2025 Will Hodgkinson, Workers World. , , , ,
Boston - Students, professors and workers are confronting the Trump administration’s fascist crackdown at universities across the U.S. Since President Donald Trump took office on Jan. 20, immigration officials have revoked at least 1,700 student visas. In the Boston area alone, hundreds of students at Harvard, Northeastern, Emerson, Berklee School of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts have already lost legal protection and face deportation.  Over the past few months, authorities have kidnapped and detained dozens of students and university workers who have opposed the ongoing Zionist genocide in Palestine.

Thousands Protest ICE Abduction Of Tufts Student

March 28, 2025 Julia Conley, Common Dreams. , , , , , ,
As reports surfaced Wednesday that Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University Ph.D. student who was abducted by immigration agents off a street in Somerville, Massachusetts, had been taken to a detention center in Louisiana, thousands of people assembled in the Boston-area city to demand Ozturk's release. Ozturk was transferred to the South Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) processing center despite a court order barring immigration officials from moving her out-of-state without prior notice, and her lawyers shared a statement at Powder House Park saying they hadn't been notified about the Turkish student's exact whereabouts. They also said her F-1 student visa had been terminated.

Removing Obstacles For Small-Scale Manufacturers In Boston

February 13, 2025 Ilana Preuss, Next City. , , ,
Jen Faigel stood in the production line watching a rush of mini-pies bake to a golden brown. Around her, 10 people stood at different spots, each responsible for a different process: pouring in the apple and blueberry filling, sprinkling a generous helping of crumb topping, sliding the pies in to bake, pulling pies off the cooling rack and into custom-designed packaging. After seven days of baking, it smelled like her grandma’s kitchen. Teresa Maynard, owner of Sweet Teez Bakery, and her team were busy filling the largest single order they had ever received: 42,000 pies, going to 25 Whole Foods stores.

Striking Hotel Workers Fight BlackRock

November 3, 2024 Will Hodgkinson, Workers World. , , , , , ,
Boston, Massachusetts - For almost two months, UNITE HERE! Local 26 hotel workers have been striking to demand the living wages and expanded benefits that management has denied them for years. The strike wave began on Sept. l when over 1,000 Boston and Greenwich, Connecticut, hotel workers walked off the job. Rolling strikes in nine other cities — including Baltimore, Honolulu and San Francisco — have followed. UNITE HERE! demands include: increased wages to offset rampant inflation, fair staffing schedules and an end to the staffing cuts made during the first wave of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Over 5,000 hotel workers have gone on strike across the U.S since September.

Boston Rally Demands: Indigenous Peoples Day Now!

October 18, 2024 Will Hodgkinson, Workers World. , , , ,
Boston, Massachusetts - Nearly 200 Indigenous protesters and their allies gathered outside Park Street Station in Boston on Oct. 12 to demand that Massachusetts immediately designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. An Indigenous-led coalition of United American Indians of New England (UAINE), the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB), Cultural Survival, the New Democracy Coalition, Workers World Party-Boston and Italian Americans for Indigenous Peoples Day organized the Oct. 12 action, which bolsters the longstanding effort to demolish the cult glorifying Christopher Columbus, whose lifework was characterized by conquest, slavery and genocide.

BU Graduate Students Reach Deal End Seven-Month Strike

October 13, 2024 Diti Kohli, Portside. , , , , , , ,
Boston University and its graduate student union have agreed on terms for a new contract that would raise the graduate students’ pay, benefits, and job protections and end the longest such strike in American history. The agreement, announced jointly on Friday afternoon, concludes seven months of sparring between the administration and the union that represents 3,000 graduate students. Many teach classes, grade papers, and conduct research, and argued the school severely underpaid them for essential work. Now the first-of-its-kind contract includes provisions to raise the annual stipend PhD workers receive to at least $45,000, or $20 an hour for graduate students, which would be as much as a 60 percent bump for the lowest paid PhD students.
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