Last year, a Massachusetts state employee failed to show up for eight appointments with a four-year-old boy whose survival the employee was responsible for. The boy died. His name was Jeremiah... Read more »
May 16, 2015
Holyoke Workers Unite
Workers at a high school in Holyoke are organizing a union. “We have more than a dozen members out of about 35 workers,” Sofia Lemons told the Valley Post on May 14. She is a math teacher at... Read more »
May 16, 2015
Photo: Solidarity Victory
On May 14, a work day, at 8:30 a.m., dozens of people in Springfield showed up at a rally and stopped a multi-billion dollar bank from evicting a low-income family. Organizers say the bank may try... Read more »
May 09, 2015
Springfield Man in Prison Since 1985 for Crime He Did Not Commit?
Chris Fabricant is a lawyer and former professor of law in New York City. He works for the Innocence Project, a non-profit organization that has freed 329 people in the USA from prison by proving... Read more »
April 30, 2015
Two Marches on May 1
On May 1, there will be marches for immigrant rights and for raising taxes on the rich to help the poor. The marches will be in Amherst, Massachusetts and Montpelier, Vermont. People will be... Read more »