Jun 2, 2023 | Cambridge, PEWG blog
In January, Cambridge police killed Arif Sayed Faisal, a 20-year-old UMass student experiencing a mental health crisis. Despite multiple protests and community outrage in the 5 months since the shooting, neither Cambridge Police (CPD) nor the established Police Review...
Feb 22, 2023 | Electoral, Housing, PEWG blog
Boston City Hall Photo by Naquib Hossain on Flickr On Feb. 21st Boston DSA emailed out the following call to action to Boston residents encouraging them to give public testimony on how the Mayor’s rent control proposal is in need of serious changes Tomorrow,...
Jan 12, 2023 | Chapter Updates, Committees, PEWG blog
The first thing I want to say about our December 10 defense of the Fall River Pride Committee’s drag story time is that we succeeded. I wanted to start out that way because between all the various mediocre news stories and online commentaries, you might not realize...
Dec 1, 2022 | Chapter Updates, Electoral, Labor, PEWG blog
The rail freight carriers that employ approximately 125,000 unionized employees have spent years prioritizing shareholders and executives, making record profits for the railroad industry. At the same time, the carriers have downsized the rail workforce by furloughing...
Oct 11, 2022 | Internationalism, PEWG blog
Sixty Years after the US Navy’s Caribbean fleet first created a picket around the island of Cuba, the United States’ cruel and aimless embargo of Cuba continues. Despite decades of red scare tactics, designed to silence Socialists who believe the embargo is a moral...
Aug 19, 2022 | Electoral, PEWG blog
Painting credit: @Lizzie Rutberg Today, in an unprecedented and historic move, Governor Charlie Baker’s MBTA will shut down the entire Orange Line for thirty days of emergency maintenance. This, the severs a vital transit artery for hundreds of thousands of greater...
