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Check out the latest updates from our Working Groups
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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.
Gloucester, Beverly Public School Teachers Go On Strike
[[{"value":" By Nick Lavin 10:1 – the recommended ratio of union members to Contract Action Team (CAT) members – was the watchword of everyone on the picket line this weekend in Beverly and...
Boston DSA’s statement on the re-election of Donald Trump
A second Trump presidency will be disastrous for all working, marginalized, and oppressed peoples. The right wing agenda laid out in Project 2025 and supported by Trump and his allies seeks to strip...
UNITE HERE Omni and Hilton Workers Ratify New Contract
[[{"value":" By Ben Cabral Speaker from Solidarity Rally BOSTON – After multiple waves of strikes by UNITE HERE Local 26 hotel workers across the city, the militant labor actions are starting to...
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.
UNITE HERE Omni and Hilton Workers Ratify New Contract
[[{"value":" By Ben Cabral Speaker from Solidarity Rally BOSTON – After multiple waves of strikes by UNITE HERE Local 26 hotel workers across the city, the militant labor actions are starting to...
Opinion: Statement from Massachusetts Uncommitted Coalition
[[{"value":"Protestors dropped banners at a rally in Boston on November 3 The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. This...
Grad Workers Talk Contract Campaigns at Clark Panel
[[{"value":" WORCESTER — On October 24, the Clark University graduate workers union, affiliated with Teamsters Local 170, organized a panel of grad worker union activists from universities in...
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...