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Below you’ll find the latest updates from across Boston DSA, including local events and actions that we are supporting, campaigns our Working Groups are focusing on, and local political news.
Somerville 4 Palestine Defeats Challenge, Divestment Moves to Ballot
[[{"value":" The moment the Elections Commission ruled against the objection to Somerville 4 Palestine’s ballot initiative (Working Mass) SOMERVILLE, MA – On October 6, 2025, the Somerville...
Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later
[[{"value":" The Davis Square location of Starbucks one week after its closure, with every sign of the store’s existence purged. (Working Mass) By: Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA – The last few weeks...
On for Young and Old: How Boston University’s Resident Assistants Pulled Off a Double Strike
[[{"value":" Otganizers at the Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre on Commonwealth Avenue in Winter 2025 (Working Mass) By: Stacey Yuen and Alana Edwards, with contributions from Thomas...
Working Mass
Working Mass is a collaborative project of many Massachusetts DSA chapters and working groups, including Boston DSA’s Labor Working Group, Cape Cod DSA, and Worcester DSA. Read more on their website.
Starbucks Workers in Davis Square Join SBWU; Company Closes Store One Week Later
[[{"value":" The Davis Square location of Starbucks one week after its closure, with every sign of the store’s existence purged. (Working Mass) By: Terence Cawley SOMERVILLE, MA – The last few weeks...
On for Young and Old: How Boston University’s Resident Assistants Pulled Off a Double Strike
[[{"value":" Otganizers at the Boston University Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre on Commonwealth Avenue in Winter 2025 (Working Mass) By: Stacey Yuen and Alana Edwards, with contributions from Thomas...
Step By Step, We Built a Movement to Transform Our Local Government
[[{"value":" Our Revolution Medford endorsed candidates and supporters hold a final get-out-the-vote rally in Medford Square on November 3, 2023. (PC: Zac Bears) By: Zac Bears and Jessica Farrell...
Political Education Working Group (PEWG) blog
Political education is the shared learning process needed to inform, mobilize, and advance our work. The PEWG blog is maintained by Boston DSA’s Political Education Working Group and focuses on providing different insights and perspectives on socialism. Read more on their website.
60 Years of Failed Policy: Boston DSA Leads the Way in Ending the Embargo on Cuba
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...
Fund, Fix, and Free the T! Boston DSA statement on T closure
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...
Standing where I am now: Five years since the streets of Charlottesville
Chalked messages of love and courage on the pavement Where we left off Five years ago I was at the counterprotests to Unite the Right, the fascist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, that...
Take Back the Grid blog
Take Back the Grid is the action arm of Boston DSA’s EcoSocialism Working Group. Its goal is to democratize, decarbonize, decommodify, and decolonize energy utilities here in Massachusetts. You can read more on their website.
Winter Utility Bills: No Good Choice for MA Residents
Image by user GT1976 on Wikimedia Commons If you need immediate assistance with utility bills, please check out the following resources: MA Cold Relief Brochure – includes local agency info Fuel...
Scientists Identify Anti-Environment Lobbying Groups in MA State Legislature
– Will W. “Public opinion is not the barrier to climate policies in Massachusetts.” So concludes Who’s Delaying Climate Action in Massachusetts? Twelve Findings, a policy briefing on the challenges...
Massachusetts’s Climate and Energy Strategy: An Ecosocialist Evaluation
Photo: King of Hearts, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons – Lila S., Chris C., Chris K., Perri M. On December 30th, 2020, the Baker Administration’s Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs...