Ayanna Pressley leads US lawmakers in calling for Biden to reject Israel’s blacklisting of human rights groups
Last year activists called on Ed Markey stand up for Palestine, but they have yet to see any action.
While popular indie rock band Big Thief’s decision to play in Israel exemplifies the violent complicity of liberal Zionism, the recent Boston Palestine Solidarity Concert sets forth a bold new standard for musical solidarity with Palestine.
The Mapping Project shows connections between oppressive institutions where we live – including NGOs, weapons companies, computer/logistics companies, universities, biomedical research institutions, and others. The intersections between agents of oppression offer possibilities for connecting our struggles. They study us and are networked; we need to study them and form our own networks of resistance.
An interview with the activists behind the Mapping Project, a project created to “investigate local links between entities responsible for the colonization of Palestine, for colonialism and dispossession here where we live, and for the economy of imperialism and war.”
I was a sophomore in high school in 2020 when I helped build a youth movement and online cult of personality around Senator Ed Markey that helped him get elected. Now, his lack of accountability on Palestine has shown me the limitations of electoral politics.
Pro-Israel groups lament they have lost Rep. Ayanna Pressley as a dependable vote.
On behalf of 400 medical, public health, and community leaders, the Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is calling on Scientific American to immediately re-publish an article on Palestine solidarity that it removed, and to end its censorship of Palestinian voices.
The City of Cambridge, Massachusetts has the chance to take action against Israeli oppression at its City Council meeting on Monday when it votes on an order to end its contracts with Hewlett Packard.
Activists rallied to defeat a bill in the Massachusetts House of Representatives that would have adopted the IHRA definition of antisemitism for the state.