State legislators have the opportunity to push through two environmental justice bills that emphasize citizens’ constitutional right to clean air and water and encourage stronger enforcement of existing state laws.
Op-Ed
VAMPIRE PROPERTY: CAPITAL AND THE LIVING DEAD
“The thing that you represent face to face with me has no heart in its breast.”– Marx
“There is no life in this body.” – Dracula
ARLINGTON PARENTS CALL OUT SCHOOL COMMITTEE CANDIDATE, NOTE RACIAL DISPARITIES
"Parents have attempted to bring up these disparities in achievement and discipline in the form of conversations with principals and emails to the superintendent’s office and school committee with little to no response."
WORKER SAFETY GROUP GIVES GOV. BAKER’S REOPENING PLAN FAILING GRADES
We are in the midst of an unprecedented worker health and safety crisis and need a plan for reopening the economy that truly protects workers and the public. The plan released by Governor Baker does not accomplish this vital task, and thus the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health gives it failing grades.
IT’S RISKY TO REOPEN PLACES OF WORSHIP, WHETHER MASS ALLOWS IT OR NOT
COVID-19 continues to pose an existential threat to public health and safety, and many of the churches that flouted social distancing guidelines became hot spots in their regions, increasing infection and death rates.
REOPENING PLAN IS THE LATEST REMINDER OF WHOSE LIVES ARE MOST VALUED
The groups that will endure the most deaths are not openly acknowledged in the state’s plan for withholding medical care, but Massachusetts is explicit when it comes to telling seniors they are expendable.
WHAT LOVE OF OUR NEIGHBORS LOOKS LIKE IN THE AGE OF THE CORONAVIRUS
The rapid spread of the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the inequalities in American society regarding who has access to sustainable and equitable healthcare, which students have strong enough support system in their homes to have an optimum experience with remote learning, which workers have the flexibility to work from home, and which do not.
WITH COVID-19, WE’RE LOSING THE SAME POPULATION THE AIDS PANDEMIC TOOK
Clergy in these communities have been performing non-stop homegoings, and helping families, loved ones, and communities of the deceased through this valley of anxiety, fear, and death.
CARES ACT GRANTS AVAILABLE FOR HUMANITIES ORGANIZATIONS
Mass Humanities to support nonprofit cultural institutions facing economic impact of COVID-19
GUEST OPINION: MASS SHOULD ELIMINATE CASH BAIL DURING THE PANDEMIC
The stakes are far too high to justify such detention. During the pandemic, incarceration puts a person’s life in serious danger.