Upcoming Events

Join the Boston DSA Electoral Working Group to turn out DSA members in support of Evan MacKay's State House campaign!

Every Tuesday, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm, we will meet on Zoom to ask DSA comrades to show up and help win this race.

Stop by for as much time as you have to help us make calls. No experience required!

It's recommended (but not necessary) to have a laptop/desktop/tablet as well as a phone for this event.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/turnout-tuesdays-62-ewg-for-evan

This event is a history walking tour from the courthouse where Anthony Burns was detained, down the path he was escorted by federal marshals, to the end of Long Wharf where he was deported back into enslavement in Virginia.

On June 2nd, 1854, federal marshals deported Anthony Burns from Boston to Virginia. He was born enslaved there but had risked his life to escape to the free state of Massachusetts as an adult. He had started a new life in the Black community of Boston and was working humbly when one day he was kidnapped by federal slavecatchers. The Fugitive Slave Act had recently passed, granting the federal government the of use terrifying new powers to kidnap and enslave Black Americans, even against personal liberty laws passed in free states like Massachusetts. The organizing of the abolitionist community of Boston to the Fugitive Slave Act and the detainment of Anthony Burns can offer today’s immigrant justice activists powerful insights on how to organize communities against a tyrannical federal government tearing apart local communities.

The tour will end on Long Wharf, with a brief ceremony to commemorate the 172th anniversary of Burns’ deportation. The full itinerary of the tour will be sent to guests 48 hours before the tour. The tour is led by a Boston Public Schools teacher and Democratic Socialists of America organizer.

As part of the commemoration, attendees are asked to bring and carry a small stone for the duration of the tour and to drop the stone into Boston harbor at the end of the ceremony.

*Link to RSVP on ActionNetwork:* https://actionnetwork.org/events/abolitionist-history-walking-tour-in-commemoration-of-anthony-burns