Northampton Abolition Now (NAN) and Western Mass Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) co-hosted a city council candidate forum on Oct. 27 to ask the candidates for City Councilor At-Large about their plans to advocate for racial equity in Northampton if elected.
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Northampton mayoral candidates responded to a survey about racial equity and their plans to address racism in schools, policing and the local community.
REAL (Racial Equity and Learning) Northampton is an organization funded by the Northampton Education Foundation that works to create an anti-racist culture in Northampton public schools (NPS). In October, REAL distributed a survey to the mayoral candidates Gina-Louise Sciaara and Marc Warner about their views on racial equity and what they would do to further that agenda if elected. The full questionnaire is available to read on REAL Northampton’s website.
A small group of protestors conducted a demonstration against drone warfare outside of L3Harris, a local defense contractor Oct. 1.
Planned Parenthood Advocacy of Western Massachusetts partnered with the Valley’s Women’s March to hold a protest against Texas’s restrictive abortion law that came into effect…
People stood on a street corner outside the Northampton Senior Center waving colorful signs, hoping to raise awareness for their candidates on Sept. 28. This preliminary election narrowed the number of mayoral candidates from four to two and City Councilor At Large candidates from five to four.
On Sept. 16, Dean of the College, Baishaki Taylor, announced that UMass Amherst reported 371 positive COVID-19 cases in the week of Sept. 8-14. Hampshire County has since been designated very high risk for COVID-19 by Covid Act Now.
In Northampton, MA the preliminary election is quickly approaching and mayoral candidates continue their fight to make it on the municipal election ballot.
Last Sunday, hundreds of UMass students gathered outside the Theta Chi fraternity house in protest of sexual assault allegations.
Smith began its Year on Democracies with a Presidential Colloquium featuring Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. She opened the annual Colloquium series on Sep 8, answering questions from Smith students and faculty about the condition of the U.S. democracy and her position within it as one of the most politically powerful women in the country. The event was held at John M. Greene Hall, allowing a portion of the Smith community to attend in-person, while others watched the live-stream.
NORTHAMPTON -- Beneath a waving Confederate flag and MAGA banner, twenty white people shouted proudly on the corner of Elm and Prospect. Across the street, Smith students wrapped in pride flags kissed each other. A projected image declared, “Speaker Pelosi, Fight for our future!” on the Campus Center. Scattered police officers, campus safety patrollers, and Secret Service agents watched blankly.