By Sam Mandala, Campus Co-Editor
• September 19, 2025
The voices of the Extinction Rebellion Boston members protesting environmental destruction ring outside the General Hooker entrance of the Massachusetts State House. The activists have flyers in hand and are ready to approach whoever enters their eyeline.
Statehouse Standout, a protest initiative organized by XR Boston, takes place every Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and seeks to draw legislators’ attention to the climate crisis.
Boston City Council passed a new measure to increase commercial property taxes last week after Mayor Michelle Wu reached a compromise with local businesses that continues to receive praise and backlash.
Anti-abortion protestors gathered outside Planned Parenthood at 1055 Commonwealth Avenue and walked to the Massachusetts State House at a “Men’s March for Life” rally on Saturday, a national organization that calls on men to abolish abortion, rally for personhood and be “men of god,” according to the Men’s March mission statement.
The protest joined a growing list of rallies across the country. Spectators and protesters gathered around the Parkman Bandstand painting cardboard signs with messages such as “Stop Asian Hate” and “I am not a virus.”
At 21, he joined Boston’s Laborers Local 223 Union, maintaining active involvement for over 20 years. Now, the 53-year-old is being pulled to D.C., where he awaits a likely confirmation as President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Labor.
From his office at the State House, Baker began the speech by acknowledging the damage of, and lives lost to, COVID-19 — what he called “the worst public health crisis of the last 100 years.”
Bostonians gathered at the steps of the Massachusetts State House to protest the military conflict in Yemen Monday afternoon, asking the Biden administration to halt support of a war that has raged since 2014.
Cheering and chanting as cars driving by honked in solidarity, hundreds of supporters of president-elect Joe Biden and vice president-elect Kamala Harris gathered near the Boston Common Saturday afternoon to celebrate the results of the 2020 presidential election.
A panel of BU alumni and journalists offered insight into the historic nature of presidential election coverage in a virtual panel Saturday entitled “An Election Like No Other: Journalists Share Final Thoughts."
The Boston Red Cloaks, a group of women who dress up as handmaids from “The Handmaid’s Tale” and advocate for women’s equality, gathered on the steps of the Massachusetts State House on Sunday...
