Can Nonviolent Activists Thwart ICE Snatch Squads?

Rallies in support of recently detained immigrants like Rümeysa Öztürk are important, but might it be possible to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants in similar situations in the first place?
Challenging Fear And Trepidation, Democracy Activists Rally In Somerville Following Student ICE Arrest

“Justice is something that people ignore until it happens in the neighborhood. … No one thought this would happen in a school in Massachusetts.”
Boston Sci-Fi Turns 50: Return Of The Longest-Running Genre Film Fest In The US

Our interview with director Katie Dellamaggiore, whose “Small Town Universe” will play at the festival Although the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival turns an impressive 50 this year, its roots stretch back even further—to science fiction fan gatherings in the 1940s, when a group of locals called the Stranger Club created Boskone, the area’s largest sci-fi […]
THE WAITING GAME

He’s been to shelters, he has a case worker, doctors will help him—but how much longer can he wait? Meet Billy, one of the many sources informing “Cambridge Unhoused,” who sells Spare Change News in Central Square
IN MASS, A LACK OF COORDINATION HAMPERS EFFORTS TO HELP THE UNHOUSED

“We don’t have a network of communication between the communities, so it’s very easy for people to slip through the cracks, which is not good for them.”