Category: Articles
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Talking Points: Speaking out about Newton’s response to ICE
Introduction On Wednesday, April 15th, 2026, at 7:00 p.m., in the Newton City Hall Council Chamber, the City Council’s Public Safety & Transportation Committee has scheduled a meeting to hear public testimony on residents’ concerns about ICE, including how we would like the City to respond to ICE activity in Newton. Please show up and…
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Sidney On’s Speech at No Kings 3
Sidney On, a Newton High School Student, gave the following Speech at No Kings 3, March 28, 2026, in Newton Centre. On January 30th, 2026, I participated in the walkout amongst many of my peers. I remember marching with my friends amongst this large crowd. I saw signs reading “Ice out” and from distance I…
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How we came to be Newton Indivisible
On Sunday, February 1st, 2026, we held our Procrastinators Holiday Party in the Parish Hall at the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Newton. The event began with a toast to Newton Indivisible. We began in December 2024 after the Presidential election. When we asked the small group gathered on Zoom to share their feelings, faces…
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Newton Resists ICE Abuses with “ICE Out for Good” Event
In an event organized by Newton Indivisible, 570 people gathered in Newton Centre on January 10, 2026. They came to protest ICE abuses, as exemplified in Minneapolis by the apparent murder of Renee Good, a US citizen and mother of three. Many witnesses and Renee’s killer video-recorded the apparent murder, along with the circumstances leading…
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Large Turnout in Newton Centre for No Kings Protests
More than 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Newton Centre on Saturday, October 18, for the second No Kings protest, joining more than 7 million people across the country to say: America has no kings, and the power belongs to the people. The crowd assembled at the Newton Centre Green and the event was kicked off at…
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The Democratic Party’s abandonment of working-class voters and the road ahead
The recent electoral struggles of the Democrats stem not from messaging failures or insufficient outreach, but from a deliberate strategic realignment that has systematically alienated working-class voters. This alienation is the result of conscious choices made by Democrats to prioritize neoliberal economic policies over material security for ordinary Americans, combined with an ideological rigidity that…
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Impact storytelling and nonviolent civil resistance
Impact storytelling in the context of nonviolent civil resistance encompasses practices that repurpose everyday objects as symbols of struggle, uses art to interpret everyday life through the lens of injustice, and reappropriates words that traditionally have negative connotations. The concept is closely related to “narrative resistance,” which creates new collective imaginaries and articulates movements’ visions…