The Dig - Greater Boston's Alternative News Source
Among the many to weigh in on these issues, the New England First Amendment Coalition (NEFAC) has released a compelling statement... It’s on the money, and so informative and forward-looking that we thought it was our duty to excerpt it here...
The line connecting Yeats to Didion to us: The center cannot hold. The election should have shown us that clearly. The majority lost and we elected an authoritarian entirely uninterested in compromise.
Commercial media needed to pin a medal on somebody, and that person wasn’t going to come from any of the many groups that peaceably managed tens of thousands of people.
Between the protesters, the counterprotesters, the media, the cops, and a handful of trolls, countless stories unfolded in Boston last weekend. These are several we encountered…
The panicked calls came from my friends and family—including my poor old mother, who was afraid I would be shot—right around the time that I arrived on Boston Common on Saturday.
Where were these nazis anyway? Where were they coming from? Did they take Uber?
How a Boston demonstration first planned before Charlottesville answered the call to become something much, much bigger
Counter-protesters chase ‘free speech’ rally goers out of town, but endure police aggression after peaceful march
In the interest of doing better than those who are paying more attention to right-wing extremists than they are to the Bostonians speaking out, here are some of the points coming from the groups that are planning a counter-protest and march starting in Roxbury tomorrow at 10 am.
While we don’t recommend listening to Medlar too much, this video filmed by local filmmaker and artist Rod Webber is worth watching.
Governor says he’ll even show up on Saturday if his schedule is clear
Bostonians to stand in solidarity with Charlottesville and fight the ultra right
"White nationalists and neo-Nazi organizations are charging some of the counter-protesters with assault... we want to make sure that they have legal defenses for their court cases."
Charlottesville and the shattering of America
