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AIF-Massachusetts

Hands Off 2025 protests in and around Massachusetts on April 5th:

Boston
April 5, 11am-2pm
Parkman Bandstand
mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764

Hyannis
April 5, 12-2pm
Hyannis Airport Rotary, 499 Barnstable Road, Hyannis
mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765

Haverhill
April 5, 10am-11:30am
White's Corner - Central Plaza
mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764

Worcester
April 5, 12pm-3pm
Worcester City Hall
mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764

Plymouth
April 5, 12-1pm
Coles Hill, Water Street
mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764

Providence, RI
April 5, 12-1:30pm
Hope High School, 324 Hope St, Providence
mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764

#Massachusetts #Rhode Island #Boston #BostonMA #Barnstable #Hyannis #Haverhill #HaverhillMA #Worcester #WorcesterMA #Plymouth #PlymouthMA #Providence #ProvidenceRI #Events #Antifascism

MobilizeHands Off Massachusetts! Rally/March · Hands Off***RALLY AND MARCH*** **SCHEDULE:** - 11:00 am: Meet at Parkman Bandstand - 11:15 am: Kickoff speaker - 11:25 am: March to City Hall Plaza - 12:30 pm: Speakers at City Hall Plaza **CURRENT SPEAKERS INCLUDE:** - Just added: Dropkick Murphys! - MC: Jean-Luc Pierite | President | North American Indian Center of Boston - Senator Ed Markey - Carol Rose | President | ACLU-MA - Chastity Bowick | Founder | Trans Resistance - Chrissy Lynch | President | Massachusetts AFL-CIO - Jaya Savita | Director | Asian Pacific Islander’s Civic Action Network - Jessica Tang | President | AFT-MA - Dr. Kylie Ariel Bemis | Rising Hearts The federal administration thinks this country belongs to them—and that they're above the law. They're taking *everything* they can get their hands on—our rights, our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. But as Mayor Wu put it — two weeks after standing up for Boston’s immigrants in Congress and one week after Boston became a sanctuary city for the LGBTQ+ community — “No one tells Boston how to take care of our own, not kings, and not presidents who think they are kings… God save whoever messes with Boston.” On Saturday, April 5th, a coalition of Massachusetts resistance groups is taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! Because we will always protect our neighbors, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, origin, background, status, disability, religion or lack thereof. Massachusetts is ready to protect democracy—and we the people are ready to show up. **We the People** means ***EVERYBODY!*** **And we need your support to make this happen. Please help us rent the equipment we need to make this event as accessible to as many people as possible by [donating here!](https://secure.actblue.com/donate/handsoffboston)** **Co-Sponsors:** • Indivisible Mass Coalition • Mass 50501 • Swing Blue Alliance • UU Mass Action • [And many more!](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14li-zLQXoKFzkBMV4OqrnewXTc8kExequ0zzKg6kIhc/edit?tab=t.0) Sign up [here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd678fb0AUXo7fTMxpvPv4YULGatuAmajaVJdb6H8JtshMSpA/viewform?usp=header) to join our growing list of co-sponsors! **This is a nonviolent action.** We expect **ALL** participants to remain **peaceful** and to try to de-escalate any potential confrontations. **Transportation:** [Western Mass](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YnkMiv3K12HMBpklTcOKI007c-cr6j289YfIP8zhiYc/) [MetroWest](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ipWCbrVGM1of0fSsXA5sdLraTye-W-whDz4SpZgPFXo/) *More areas coming soon!* **How to Prepare:** • Bring signs → Make your message visible! • Recruit friends → The more people, the more power. • Record everything (except faces when possible)→ Post photos/videos with #HandsOff #HandsOff2025 #50501 #Mass50501 #FiftyFiftyOne #BostonTok #Indivisible #SwingBlue **FAQ** **Q**: Why is there a butterfly on your flyer? **A**: The monarch butterfly represents the dignity and resilience of migrants and the right that all living beings have to move freely. **Q**: What should we bring? **A**: Bring your flags! American, Pride, Earth, etc. Bring your signs! And bring water and a snack! Dress for the weather! **Q**: Will there be ASL Interpretation? **A**: ASL interpretation will be available during speeches at the Boston Common and at City Hall Plaza, with the interpreters positioned within view of the accessibility areas at both locations. **Q**: How long is the march and is it accessible? **A**: Most of the crowd will gather on Boston Common beginning at 11 am. After a brief speaking segment on the Common, the .9-mile march will begin at approximately 11:25 am and arrive at approximately 12:30 pm. The march route will be accessible, with curb-cuts for transitions from marching on sidewalks to the streets. Most of the route is paved, but there are sections with a relatively flat brick surface. Along the route, participants can move between the road and sidewalks via curb-cuts as they prefer. If they would prefer not to participate in the march, participants can also go directly to City Hall Plaza, the end point of the march and the location of the rally. An alternative route from Boston Common is available via sidewalks that avoid brick areas. It is also possible to take the T from Boston Common to Government Center, which is a wheelchair accessible station. **Q**: I am disabled/neurodivergent and want to attend. What can I expect, and how much accessibility support will there be?  **A**: This event may involve 10,000 or more people participating in a march from Boston Common to City Hall Plaza for a rally. These are wheelchair accessible public locations. Both sites will have a designated accessibility area near the stage. At the Boston Common, this area will be both a central location to answer questions about accessibility and to find support for access needs, and a space for disabled individuals and their allies to gather if they would like to march together in community. The accessibility area at City Hall Plaza will have a small number of chairs for those who need to sit during the rally and will be the location where our ASL interpreters will be located. There will be a team of accessibility team volunteers at these locations whose goal is to support the community and accommodate as many access needs as we can. For more questions, email info@mass50501.com
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Dave (nkL⭕ttery)

"First" Eggy show on Thursday and it's in Rhody. What a treat! Anyone going by chance? Tickets still available 🎟️
etix.com/ticket/p/75244821/egg

I use air quotes saying "first" because in 2023 I tried going to summer YEMSG afterparties at The Cutting Room. LaMP was the best, I was too tired at Perpetual Groove, and the house was way too packed at Eggy so I could only last one song. Excited for the full Eggsperience

#eggy#rhodeisland#pawtucket
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AIF-Massachusetts

Rhode Island doctor Rasha Alawieh was deported for unknown reasons, despite a court order that should have stopped the act. She is a kidney doctor who works for the Brown Medicine Division of Kidney Disease & Hypertension. She had a valid H1B visa at the time.

providencejournal.com/story/ne

The Providence Journal · Brown Medicine doctor deported despite federal court order. What we know.By , The Providence Journal
#RhodeIsland#Providence#RashaAlawieh
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gbhnews

Hello #Fediverse - this is GBH #News bringing you the world from #Boston. It's 27F at Logan and visibility is 10mi.

The USS United States has set out for its last trip: it will be sunk to become part of an artificial reef.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has announced he will not seek re-election in 2026.

Michael Townsend will make his return to the #Providence Place Mall after being banned for building a secret apartment there. He's back to show his documentary.

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DoomsdaysCW

'This is our country:' Anti-Trump protesters march at the #RhodeIsland State House. What they said.

by Katherine Gregg, #Providence Journal, February 5, 2025

PROVIDENCE – "Several hundred anti-President Donald Trump demonstrators, responding to an online call for protests at the capitals in all 50 states at noon on Wednesday, marched around the Rhode Island State House chanting 'Hey hey, ho, ho, Elon Musk has got to go.'

"Similar chants went up at other rallies on Wednesday, including New York where protestors chanted '#DeportElon!' and Georgia, where protesters carried signs with messages like '#StopMusksSteal' and '#NoKingsInTheUSA.'"

One protestor said:
"They hate the Black people. They hate the Mexican people. They hate trans people. They hate women. They hate everything that is not white male and Republican. This is a country of people. We are all different. Thank God," she said, urging the crowd to "keep the pressure on ... get involved with a local organization."

"I know that we're all overwhelmed," she said. "They want you to pay attention to the breaking news because they know that it incapacitates you. It gets you worried. It gets you silent and that is not acceptable at this time. This is our country."

Read more:
providencejournal.com/story/ne
#ProvidenceRhodeIsland #Project2025 #50501Movement #50501Protests #ResistFascism #Resist

The Providence Journal · 'This is our country:' Anti-Trump protesters march at State House. What they said.By , The Providence Journal
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Chuck Darwin

Threats to democracy and its institutions aren't new.

The right has been bent on their destruction for more than a century.

As Rick Perlstein says, the point of taking note of this isn't to minimize the danger, rather, it's to contextualize it.

⭐️The American right has, since the founding of the Republic, been bent on creating a system of hereditary aristocrats, who govern without "interference" from democratic institutions, ⭐️
so that their power to extract wealth from First Nations, working people, and the land itself is checked only by rivalries with other aristocrats.

🔸The project of the right is grounded in a belief in #Providence: that God's favor shines on His best creations and elevates them to wealth and power. Elite status is proof of merit, and merit is "that which leads to elite status."🔸

When a wealthy person founds an intergenerational dynasty of wealth and power, this is merely a #hereditary #meritocracy: ♦️a bloodline infused with God's favor. Sometimes, this belief is dressed up in caliper-wielding pseudoscience, with the "good bloodline" reflecting superior genetics and not the favor of the Almighty. ♦️

Of course, a true American aristocrat gussies up his "race realism" with mystical nonsense: "God favored me with superior genes." 💥The corollary, of course, is that you are poor because God doesn't favor you, or because your genes are bad, or because God punished you with bad genes.💥

👉So we should be alarmed by the right's agenda. We should be alarmed at how much ground it has gained, and how the right has stolen elections and Supreme Court seats to enshrine antimajoritarianism as a seemingly permanent fact of life, giving extremist minorities the power to impose their will on the rest of us, dooming us to a roasting planet, forced births, racist immiseration, and most expensive, worst-performing health industry in the world.👈

But for all that the right has bombed so many of the roads to a prosperous, humane future, 🔷it's a huge mistake to think of the right as a stable, unified force, marching to victory after inevitable victory. 🔷

⭐️The American right is a brittle coalition led by a handful of plutocrats who have convinced a large number of turkeys to vote for Christmas.⭐️

The right wing coalition needs to pander to
forced-birth extremists,
racist extremist, Christian Dominionist extremists (of several types),
frothing anti-Communist cranks,
vicious homophobes and transphobes, etc, etc.

Pandering to all these groups isn't easy: for one thing, they often want opposite things
– the post-Roe 🔸forced birth policies🔸 that followed the Dobbs decision are wildly #unpopular among conservatives (with the exception of a clutch of totally unhinged maniacs that the party relies on as part of a much larger coalition.)

Even more unpopular are 🔸policies banning birth control, 🔸like the ones laid out in #Project2025.
Less popular still: 🔸the proposed ban on no-fault divorce. 🔸
Each of these policies have different constituencies to whom they are very popular,
but when you put them together, you get Dan Savage's "Husbands you can't leave, pregnancies you can't prevent or terminate, politicians you can't vote out of office"
@pluralistic
pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fra

pluralistic.netPluralistic: The true, tactical significance of Project 2025 (14 Jul 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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NecronomiConPVD

Hello, world. This is my #introduction

This is not an official account. It's a fan account, created and monitored by @podsothoth.

I'm happy to give this account away to someone official, if they want it. Or, they can make their own and I'll delete this one. I just don't want my favorite con locked up in the Facebook/Twitter hegemony.

Also, I think it's funny to have a #Providence account on an explicitly #Boston-based server, but maybe that's just me.

#Lovecraft#Lovecraftian#Horror
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Charlie McHenry

Providence, part of Catholic Peace Health system, to pay $200M for illegal timekeeping and break practices - proving once again that even non-profit #HealthCare systems cut corners by overburdening and underpaying vital employees. Just one more way our chaotic, mismanaged health care system is broken. #hospitals #Labor #Employees #PublicHealth #Providence #PNW #Labor seattletimes.com/seattle-news/

The Seattle Times · Providence to pay $200M for illegal timekeeping and break practicesProvidence Health & Services must pay hourly employees nearly $200 million for illegal timekeeping and meal break practices, per a jury verdict this week.
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