In August 2017, over 40,000 Bostonians marched on Boston Common to tell a small gaggle of nearly incoherent hard-right louts that they were not welcome in our city. Especially in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the murder of a left-wing counterdemonstrator by a young Nazi. At […]
A PROTEST BY ANY OTHER NAME…
The best way to defeat the ultra right is to stop playing their game Street protest is a vital part of any genuinely democratic political system. But how and when people choose to demonstrate (or counterdemonstrate) determines the tactic’s relative success or failure. So in a situation like this week’s, when the ultra […]
LIFE ON THE LEFT BANK: CAMBRIDGE CITIZENS FOR SMOKERS’ RIGHTS
