UPDATE: Protestors just knocked down the barricades that had been penning in the MIT encampment. Supporters have streamed in and formed a human chain to protect the encampment.
#Boston-area Jews and allies are here at the #MIT encampment with MIT Jews for Ceasefire, uplifting students’ demands, singing for Palestinian liberation, and calling for an enduring ceasefire.
or they can take aim at the hyper-financialization which renders the university endowments' very real and material complicity in the oppression of Palestinians so opaque, as well as creating lots of other problems for higher ed:
silver lining: it was awfully thoughtful of all these boston college administrations to draw the attention of a group of young, energetic, politically active students to last year's "tent ordinance" that cruelly targets the unhoused and is now being used to crack down on speech
TODAY: #Columbia solidarity rallies are happening all over #Boston and #CambridgeMA. MIT at 11:15 (outside Stratton Student Center). BU at noon (Marsh Plaza). Harvard at 4 (Science Center). Come to one or all and show your support! @palestine
IfNotNow #Boston invites you to join us on Saturday, April 27th at 7:30 pm in #CambridgeMA in observing #Passover by calling for an end to violence, apartheid, and occupation.
We will come together to envision what true freedom looks like; a thriving future where all have access to safety, justice, and freedom of movement.
The USGS reported that the earthquake’s epicenter was in #Lebanon, NJ about 50 miles west of #NYC, where residents darted into streets wondering what had just happened.
Interesting analysis coming from Lexington, Mass.: by slashing the price of a year-round bus pass to $20 from as much as $260, the City gained ridership while retaining roughly the same revenue
On the morning of President Biden’s State of the Union, Jews and allies blocked rush hour traffic outside #Boston's South Station to demand Biden call for a lasting #CeasefireNow.