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Thousands of protesters gather at Boston Common on Saturday.

GALLERY: Bostonians gather for No Kings protest at Boston Common

By Ben Clark, Daniel Garber, Miranda Lupel, and Ava Rubin October 21, 2025

Over 100,000 people gathered at the Boston Common for the No Kings protest on Saturday to voice their dissatisfaction with the current Trump administration. Approximately 7 million people attended No Kings...

Protesters make their way down Winter Street toward Downtown Crossing after breaking through police lines.

GALLERY: Key moments from the pro-Palestine rally in Downtown Boston

By JOSEPHINE KALBFLEISCH, Photo Co-Editor October 9, 2025

The Quinobequin Student Front For Palestine and numerous other protesters gathered at The Embrace statue in the Boston Common on Tuesday night to condemn the actions of the Israeli government against Palestine....

People wave Palestinian flags during a rally organized by the Boston Coalition for Palestine. PHOTO BY LEIA GREEN

Bostonians rally, reflect on one year since Oct. 7 attacks

By Leia Green October 8, 2024
This week, events in solidarity with both Israel and Palestine occurred throughout Boston and reflected the myriad of perspectives surrounding the ongoing conflict.
Members of the Chinese Progressive Association hold up a flag and sign during the organization’s rally on Monday. Workers are demanding severance pay and benefits after East West Manufacturing announced its closure and layoffs. COURTESY OF CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION.

Factory workers rally to call for severance pay, added benefits after sudden closure

By George Lehman June 13, 2024
Electronics workers held a rally outside East West Manufacturing’s Boston factory on Monday morning to demand severance pay and benefits ahead of the factory’s unexpected closure set for later this month.
BU College Democrats executive board members Shana Weitzen and Sean Waddington

GALLERY: Students rally for gun reform

Boston students rallied for gun reform outside the Massachusetts Statehouse last Friday. Senator Ed Markey attended the rally and delivered a speech.
Protesters hold up signs for the Reslife Union Rally in front of George Sherman Union. ZIYU (JULIAN) ZHU/DFP STAFF

Boston University students comment on RA unionization

By Valeria Rivera February 27, 2023
Following a rally outside of the George Sherman Union earlier this month, Boston University students shared their opinions about the University’s Residence Assistants unionization.
Reslife Rally

GALLERY: Reslife Union Rally at George Sherman Union

By Andrew Burke-Stevenson and Ziyu (Julian) Zhu February 8, 2023
Protestors gathered outside George Sherman Union in support of resident assistants Feb 8. Speakers shared their experiences being resident assistants and how they’ve been mistreated.
East to West: Oct. 31, 2022

East to West: Oct. 31, 2022

By Ellen Maloney October 31, 2022

Happy Halloween! Today on East to West we cover a BU union rally last Thursday, BU StuGov looking to recruit new CFA senator, a recent Boston city council meeting and more. Click here to stream this...

grad workers union rally

Boston University Graduate Workers United rallied for unionization

By Jit Ping Lee September 20, 2022
BU Graduate workers and their supporters rallied at Marsh Plaza.
Roe v. Wade Protest

Protestors flood Boston streets following Roe v. Wade reversal

By Jennifer Small June 28, 2022
Following the Roe v. Wade reversal, Boston abortion rights protestors marched to the state house to express their anger with the Supreme Court's decision.
protest outside President Brown's office against COVID-19 policies

BU students stage walk-out, demonstration to protest current COVID-19 policies

By Talia Lissauer January 26, 2022
Organizers demanded classes be taught remotely until the positivity rate drops below 1%, among other things.
Alexia Nizhny / DFP Staff

Seen On TV: AT&T and OAN, an unlikely love affair

By Brian Foisy October 18, 2021
How could AT&T, under its Warner Media empire, fund both CNN and the right wing media source OAN?
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