Anti-circumcision protest in Somerville
Anti-circumcision protest by three people affiliated with Bloodstained Men and Intact America in Somerville’s Union Square on Sept. 10, 2016. Photo copyright Greg Cook.Continue Reading →
Protest encampment demands Northeastern divest from fossil fuels
Northeastern University students calling for the Boston school to “to divest the university’s endowment from fossil fuels” have been encamped on the school’s Centennial Common since Oct. 3. Photos copyright…Continue Reading →
Rally for Indigenous Peoples Day in Boston
Native American groups calling for the City of Boston to name the second Monday of October “Indigenous Peoples Day” and abolish celebrations of Christopher Columbus Day brought dozens of people to Boston…Continue Reading →
‘Protect the Water’: Dakota Pipeline Protest at Boston’s South Station
“We stand with Standing Rock Sioux” was one of the signs some four dozen protesters of the Dakota Access Pipeline project held during a rally at Boston’s South Station yesterday…Continue Reading →
‘My Son’: A Killing by Police Protested at Boston Police Headquarters
In the video, projected on a building across from Boston Police Headquarters tonight, Carla Sheffield stood six-stories tall, holding a photo of her dead son, and crying. Burrell Ramsey-White was…Continue Reading →
Franklin Graham prayer rally in Boston: ‘We’re on the verge of losing our nation’
“Ladies and gentlemen, we’re on the verge of losing our nation,” Franklin Graham, son of the famous Christian evangelist Billy Graham, told thousands who’d come to Boston Common for his…Continue Reading →
In solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux, a pipeline protest at TD Bank in Cambridge
A group led by Arlington United for Justice with Peace protested TD Bank in Cambridge’s Central Square this evening “in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe against the Dakota Access Pipeline.”…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Whatforward Circus’
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Whatforward Circus’ as photographed by Greg Cook in Glover, Vermont, during the weekend of Aug. 21, 2016. The family-friendly satirical, slapstick show poked at Donald Trump…Continue Reading →
Black Lives Matter Protesters ‘Condemn’ City Hall, Demand More Affordable Housing
Yesterday morning, Black Lives Matter Cambridge protesters chained themselves together at Cambridge City Hall to call for more affordable housing in the city. Black Lives Matter Cambridge taped a broadside to…Continue Reading →
‘If Trump’s in it’s a win-win’—Photos from Beverly Farms Horribles Parade
The annual July 4 Horribles Parade in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, is notorious for its satirical floats. In addition to the usual red-white-and-blue kids and colonial reenactors, this morning’s parade offered…Continue Reading →