Massachusetts

A Turning Point For The Charter School Movement

September 1, 2016 Molly Knefel, www.truth-out.org Educate! Charter Schools, Massachusetts

By Molly Knefel for Truthout - A political battle is being waged over charter schools in Massachusetts right now, and it's a microcosm of the state of the charter debate across the country. In the lead-up to a November ballot measure in which voters will decide whether or not to lift the state's cap on charter schools, known as Question 2, Democrats passed a resolution this month opposing charter school expansion.

Massachusetts Supreme Court Rules Against Pipeline Tax

August 18, 2016 Larry Chretien and Eugenia Gibbons, www.blog.massenergy.org Resist! Massachusetts, Pipelines, Supreme Court, Taxes

By Larry Chretien and Eugenia Gibbons for Mass Energy Consumers Alliance - On May 17, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a unanimous opinion confirming that the landmark 2008 climate protection law, the Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA), requires the state to take enforceable action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on an annual basis in order to achieve the law’s mandate. Basically, they said “limits are limits”, the targets are binding, more needs to be done to achieve the emission target for 2020, and the law is unambiguous.

Protesters Call For Halt To Three Massachusetts Pipeline Projects

July 21, 2016 Phil Mckenna, www.insideclimatenews.org Resist! Massachusetts, Pipelines, Protests

By Phil Mckenna for Inside Climate News - Hundreds of environmental activists protested at the Massachusetts Statehouse this week against natural gas pipeline projects that would significantly increase the amount of fracked gas delivered to the eastern part of the state. Pipeline opponents said the added capacity isn't needed, would rely on increases in consumer utility rates, and would lock the state into future dependence on fossil fuels and their related emissions for decades.

Prisoners Met With Legislators On Reform, Put In Solitary

May 31, 2016 Staff, www.solitarywatch.com Resist! Massachusetts, Prisoner rights, Solitary Confinement

By Staff of Solitary Watch - Three men incarcerated in Massachusetts who were working with a prison reform caucus of state legislators have been thrown in solitary confinement, in an apparent retaliation against their activism and an attempt to disrupt further communications. In the middle of the night on March 23, 52-year-old Timothy Muise, 44-year-old Shawn Fisher, and 39-year-old Steven James were taken from their cells at the medium-security prison MCI Shirley, handcuffed, and transported by van to three separate prisons spread across the state..

Massachusetts Court Sides With Teenagers In ‘Historic’ Climate Victory

May 18, 2016 Deirdre Fulton, www.commondreams.org Resist! Climate Change, Massachusetts

By Deirdre Fulton for Common Dreams - Siding with four teenage plaintiffs and the environmental groups that backed them, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday ruled that the state has failed to fulfill its legal obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The unanimous decision from the state's highest court reverses a lower court ruling and requires the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issue regulations

Minisink, A Cautionary Tale Every Community Can Learn From

April 21, 2016 Elaine Ulman, www.recorder.com Resist! FERC, Massachusetts, Pipelines

By Elaine Ulman for The Recorder - Once upon a time back in 2011, Minisink, a small New York town about an hour northwest of Manhattan, faced a big problem. That may sound like the start of a fable, but rest assured: All names, dates, and events in this commentary are real, as is “the Monster.” That summer the Millennium Pipeline Company LLC proposed to run a 30-inch fracked gas pipeline through town and install a 12,000-horsepower compressor station.

Cape Cod Activist Found Guilty; Act Of Conscience Or Crime?

February 8, 2016 Karen Vale, www.capecodbaywatch.org Resist! Activists, Arrest, Energy, Massachusetts, Protests

By Karen Vale for Cape Cod Bay Watch. Plymouth, MA - Seventy-three year old Paul Rifkin of Mashpee, Mass. was on trial February 2 at Plymouth District Court. The charge was trespassing at Entergy’s Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station on Mother’s Day in 2015 during a rally with 40 other protestors. Two people were arrested, and it was Rifkin’s third arrest at Pilgrim. Rifkin refused to plead guilty or accept a deal with the prosecution because his actions last May, he stated, “deserved commendation, not condemnation.” He chose to have a jury trial with the possibility of jail time. A jury of six was selected and Rifkin represented himself.

Pipeline Perambulations

January 24, 2016 Melinda Tuhus, www.melindatuhus.net Resist! Massachusetts, Oil and Gas, Pipelines

By Melinda Tuhus for MelindaTuhus.net. I just got back from a transformative three-day walk to Stop the Pipeline in northwest Mass., through several “hill towns,” as the locals call them. It was organized almost single-handedly by a feisty septuagenarian named Hattie Nestel. For over a year, abutting property owners, local officials, the president of the state senate, the state attorney general and major environmental groups have all been saying the Tennessee Pipe Line Company's Northeast Energy Direct pipeline is not needed nor wanted. It would bring fracked gas from Pennsylvania through New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, which they say will be exported to Eastern Canada. The love, commitment and generosity of spirit were almost overwhelming. As Hattie said at the end of our conversation, “People are really upset about this, so there’s a lot of activism in Massachusetts to stop this pipeline, and we might do it, we just might do it.”

Peaceful Protesters Walk Against Pipeline

January 21, 2016 Rachel Rapkin and Lisa Spear, www.recorder.com Resist! Massachusetts, Pipelines, Protests

By Rachel Rapkin and Lisa Spear for the Recorder - DEERFIELD — A crowd of peaceful protesters are trekking part of the route of the proposed natural-gas pipeline from Northfield to Plainfield, to both commemorate the life of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and to put a stop to the fossil fuel industry’s plan to construct the Tennessee Gas Pipeline that would run through western Massachusetts. “People are so worried about what is happening locally and globally,” said Sister Clare Carter, a Buddhist nun who has lived at the New England Peace Pagoda in Leverett for nearly 30 years.

Temporary Injunction Keeps Affordable Internet Access At Libraries

November 7, 2015 Timothy Inklebarger, www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org Resist! Internet, Massachusetts

By Timothy Inklebarger for American Libraries Magazine - Massachusetts state court has granted a preliminary injunction to stop a planned shutdown of Sprint Corporation’s WiMax broadband network, giving providers of low-cost internet access to libraries and other organizations 90 days to migrate users to Sprint’s LTE network. Mobile Citizen and Mobile Beacon, which provide unlimited broadband access for $10 per month to 61 libraries, 429 schools, and 1,820 nonprofits, requested the emergency relief order after negotiations stalled between Sprint and the nonprofits in October over the terms of the transfer to the new network.

Another US Nuke Bites The Dust

October 15, 2015 Harvey Wasserman, www.commondreams.org Resist! Massachusetts, Nuclear Power

By Harvey Wasserman for Common Dreams - The chain reactor operator Entergy has announced it will close the Pilgrim nuke south of Boston. The shut-down will bring U.S. reactor fleet to 98, though numerous other reactors are likely to face abandonment in the coming months. But Entergy says it may not take Pilgrim down until June 1, 2019—nearly four years away. Entergy is also poised to shut the FitzPatrick reactor in New York. It promises an announcement by the end of this month. Entergy also owns Indian Point 2 and Indian Point 3 some 40 miles north of Manhattan. Unit 2’s operating license has long since lapsed. Unit 3’s will expire in December.

Mass. Senate Pres. To Hand Deliver Pipeline Testimony In DC

September 3, 2015 Mary Serreze, www.masslive.com Resist! Massachusetts, Oil & Gas, Pipeline

Senate President Stanley Rosenberg, D-Amherst, said Tuesday he will travel to Washington to hand-deliver testimony gathered from Massachusetts residents on Kinder Morgan's proposed Northeast Energy Direct natural gas pipeline. Rosenberg said he will meet with Federal Energy Regulatory Commissioner Cheryl LaFleur on Sept. 30. "I can't think of anyone better to speak with about the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline, the concerns of western Massachusetts residents, and energy policy in general. I certainly appreciate her willingness to meet with me," Rosenberg said in a statement. The public testimony will be that delivered at a Sept. 10 session at Greenfield Community College. Rosenberg organized the public hearing after the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission refused to reschedule its own session concerning the environmental impact of the pipeline.

Spectra Sues Boston Over West Roxbury Gas Line

July 5, 2015 Jack Newsham, www.bostonglobe.com Resist! Gas, Massachusetts, Pipelines

By Jack Newsham for the Boston Globe. The owners of the biggest natural gas pipeline in New England have sued the city of Boston for standing in the way of a controversial pipeline extension through West Roxbury. Spectra Energy Corp., the Houston company that is expanding Algonquin pipeline network, filed suit against the city in federal court on Wednesday alleging that the city would not sell the easements, or rights-of-way, that the company needed to bury its pipeline. Boston politicians have resisted the company’s efforts to build a pipeline spur through part of West Roxbury, siding with neighbors who say the gas line’s proximity to a gravel quarry in the neighborhood poses a threat to public safety. Federal regulators have dismissed those concerns. But Mayor Martin J. Walsh, city councilors, and Congressman Stephen Lynch, a Democrat whose district includes West Roxbury, have appealed that decision and asked regulators to halt pipeline construction until its appeal is heard.

143 Mile Hike Protests Kinder Morgan NE Energy Direct Pipeline

April 10, 2015 Kelsey Erickson, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! Climate Change, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pipelines

The Pipeline Pilgrimage is a Quaker-led trek along the proposed route of Kinder Morgan’s Northeast Energy Direct pipeline in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It began in Pittsfield, MA on April 1st and will end in Dracut, MA on April 12th, a total of 143 miles. The purpose of the pilgrimage is to foster spiritual growth in a community to catalyze a force for change. As the pilgrims travel, they are meeting local people who will be directly impacted by the pipeline, many of whom are farmers and many of whom have young children. The health and safety hazards of the Kinder Morgan pipeline would threaten their livelihoods and increase fracking operations in communities residing over the Marcellus Shale. The implications of an increase in fracking go far beyond the desecration of people's drinking water. A surge in methane emissions will seal a future of climate chaos at which point we will be powerless to remedy the wreckage we've inflicted on our planet.

Mass. Leads On Protecting Rights For Domestic Workers

April 10, 2015 The Editorial Board, www.bostonglobe.com Organize! Law, Massachusetts, Worker Rights and Jobs

LAST SUMMER, Massachusetts became the fourth state in the nation to enact a bill of rights for domestic workers, establishing labor standards and granting basic protections to nannies, housekeepers, and other in-home caregivers. The law, which went into effect on April 1, is broader in scope than similar laws in California, New York, and Hawaii. As other states consider cracking down on what essentially is an unregulated underground economy, Massachusetts’ leadership, by empowering domestic workers, stands out and deserves praise. The new law is the result of four years of organizing work by the Massachusetts Coalition of Domestic Workers, which campaigned on behalf of the estimated 65,000 domestic workers in the state.

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