How MassArt’s Divestment Organizing ‘Met An Edge’
JACOB SCHLES
October 16, 2025
Efforts to enforce a late 2024 divestment policy stalled, leading to a fateful two minutes when a student protest entered a building
Efforts to enforce a late 2024 divestment policy stalled, leading to a fateful two minutes when a student protest entered a building
A committee backed by the ADL and a resigned city councilor tried, and failed, to invalidate signatures needed to get the measure on the ballot
The consulting giant McKinsey continued its work advising Mass on healthcare and other matters after paying for “illegal and dangerous partnership with Purdue Pharma”
An often forgotten chapter in women’s labor history, the fight against marriage bans in Massachusetts eventually found success with activism, passionate union efforts, and nationwide economic change
The reduction to the Healthy Incentives Program cut monthly benefits for low-income families, but a higher proposed budget may bring back full payments as soon as July 1
Though best remembered as an integration advocate in Arkansas, Lonergan Lorch’s foray into activism was defending women teachers in her native Boston in the ’40s
A sidebar to “Grace Lonergan Lorch Fought Back From Dorchester To Little Rock, And Paid Severely”
