A Boston Abolitionist Calendar

NEWLY UPDATED: WEEKLY/ONGOING EVENTS AND LOCATION-BASED ORGS HAVE BEEN UPDATED 9/18

9/18/24 Wednesday

12 PM - ONLINE/LIVE BROADCAST
WEEKLY BROADCAST: The Electronic Intifada hosts a livestream

3 PM - ONLINE / REMOTE ACTION HOUR
Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & fear into action to stop a genocide

9/19/24 Thursday

All Day - ANYWHERE
FAST FOR GAZA

2:30 PM - RAYTHEON FRONT GATE @ RT 133 (ANDOVER)

STANDOUT AGAINST RAYTHEON WITH MV PEOPLE FOR PEACE, MASS PEACE ACTION, AND LOCAL QUAKER ACTIVISTS

3 PM - ONLINE / REMOTE ACTION HOUR
Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & fear into action to stop a genocide

4 PM - Salem Farmer's Market, 32 Derby St. (SALEM)
WEEKLY STANDOUT with Northshore for Palestine

5 PM - Salem Street and Main Street (MALDEN)
WEEKLY Standout with Malden For Palestine

5 PM - Massachusetts Avenue & Pleasant Street (LEXINGTON)
WEEKLY STANDOUT with Lexington for Palestine *Kid-friendly; please keep signs and conversations rooted in love, community support, and appropriate for all ages*

9/20/24 Friday

12PM - ONLINE / ACTION
American Friends Service Committee's Action Hour – Ceasefire Now

12 PM - Tufts Campus, Academic Quad (MEDFORD)

Disorientation Week: (Student Org Fair) Look for SJP TUFTS table to get involved/learn more

3 PM - ONLINE / REMOTE ACTION HOUR
Power Half-Hour for Gaza: Channel grief & fear into action to stop a genocide

5 PM - Northampton Round-about (NORTHAMPTON)
Standout: Jews & Friends for Ceasefire Now with JVP Western MA

9/21/24 Saturday

10 AM - THE TRIANGLE (MAYNARD)

Maynard for Palestine Stand Out

10:30 AM - 1259 Hancock St (QUINCY)
Quincy Standout for a Permanent Ceasefire

11 AM - MASS AVE @ MYSTIC ST (ARLINGTON)
Weekly Stand-out for Ceasefire with Arlington UJP

11 AM - COURT SQUARE (GREENFIELD)
Weekly Standout for Palestine

12 PM - WATERTOWN SQUARE (WATERTOWN)
WEEKLY Vigil for a Permanent CEASEFIRE in Gaza and Palestine

12 PM - Cole's Hill, across from Plymouth Rock (PLYMOUTH)
STANDOUT with Plymouth for Palestine; Tell Rep Bill Keating, Sen Warren and Sen Markey to SAVE THE CHILDREN OF GAZA

9/22/24 Sunday

10 AM - 575 MEMORIAL DR (CAMBRIDGE)

Runners for Justice in Palestine - All paces 3-4 mile run, 1-2 mile walk

11 AM - Northampton Round-about (NORTHAMPTON)
Standout: Jews & Friends for Ceasefire Now

11:30 AM - 489 Pittsfield Rd. (LENOX)
WEEKLY Standout for Palestine

11:30 AM - First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist, 1969 Main St. (BREWSTER)
WEEKLY Standout: Brewster Community Standout for Peace

1 PM - 798 Washington St. (BRAINTREE)

WEEKLY Braintree Standout for Palestine

1:30 PM - 489 Pittsfield Rd. (LENOX)
Weekly Standout For Palestine

4 PM - FIVE CORNERS (VINEYARD HAVEN)

WEEKLY Standout with Marthas Vineyard for Palestine *new time*

4 PM - First Baptist Church, 633 Centre St (JP/BOSTON)

WEEKLY Standout and then Open Meeting *communal snacks welcome, be mindful of allergens*

9/23/24 Monday

5 PM - Mass Ave & Mystic St (ARLINGTON)

Arlington Standout For Palestine

5 PM - The intersection of Routes 6 & 140 (NEW BEDFORD)

WEEKLY Standout for Palestine with SE Mass Coalition for a Free Palestine

9/24/24 Tuesday

4:30 PM - 147 High St (MEDFORD)
WEEKLY VIGIL FOR CEASEFIRE with Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford Vigil for Ceasefire *No chanting or signs; just quiet vigil*

5 PM - The Pond - 50 Payson Ave (EASTHAMPTON)

WEEKLY STANDOUT with Easthampton for Ceasefire

6:30 PM - Humphrey-Pleasant and Lafayette St Intersection (MARBLEHEAD)
WEEKLY Vigil

7 PM - Fisherman's Wives Memorial (GLOUCESTER)
WEEKLY Vigil

8 PM - DM FOR LOCATION (SOMERVILLE)

Somerville for Palestine Open Meeting hosted by Somerville for Palestine ***MASKS REQUIRED***

8 PM - ONLINE / ACTION AND INFO SESSION

Weekly remote meeting to share news, accessible action, and education

News

4/25/24:
Mass arrests last night @ the Emerson Gaza solidarity encampment; numbers still being determined, NLG tweeted at 6:50 that estimates are 70-100 students and faculty/staff members. Jail support needs will be posted in the events feed.

4/24/24:
Harvard Liberation Zone For Gaza has been set up.

4/22/2024:
Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee has been suspended.

4/21/2024:
Palestine Solidarity Encampments began at MIT, Emerson, and Tufts at 7PM. Their collective demands are as follows: 1. Disclose all holdings and collaborations universities have in the Zionist entity, 2. To divest and cut all investments to the Zionist entity, including companies companies complicit in the colonisation of Palestine, 3. To drop all charges and attacks on student organizers, 4. An end to the occupation in Palestine, including an immediate and permanent ceasefire

3/30/2024:
Boston Coalition for Palestine held a march thru Back Bay Saturday, which ended with activists occupying the Mass Ave Bridge at dusk to form a "human banner." A group of anonymous/autonomous protestors also shut down the Longfellow ridge that day, flying a banner to call out Elbit Systems (a leading producer of weapons currently being used by Israel to murder Palestinians).

3/25/2024:
The spending bill has passed and will, tragically, continue the suspension of aid to UNRWA until at least March 2025 and dole out the yearly $3.8 Billion in aid to Israel. Senators Warren and Markey, alongside 7 Massachusetts members of Congress, and President Joe Biden worked together over the weekend to ensure the continued starvation and murder of Palestinian civilians. Representatives Auchincloss, Clark, Lynch, Moulton, Neal, Trahan, and Keating should all be deeply ashamed of themselves for contributing to this genocide. The only MA rep to vote "No" was McGovern. (LINK)

2/27/24:
Staff at Cambridge music venue, The Sinclair, organized a picket and protest alongside Jewish Voice for Peace and other local members of the Boston music community tonight in response to a benefit concert featuring Zionist performer Ishay Ribo. The concert, organized by Harvard Chabad, advertised the concert as a fundraiser to "rebuild and heal Israel." The protest drew a large, musical crowd outside of the venue. Artists are beginning to cancel future shows at the Sinclair in solidarity. (LINK)

2/27/24:
Northampton has voted in favor of a Ceasefire Resolution.

2/25/24:
Aaron Bushnell, 25, originally from Whitman MA, self immolated this afternoon in DC, while shouting "FREE PALESTINE." His full speech before committing this act follows. "I am an Active-Duty Member of the US Air Force and I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme form of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it is not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal." (LINK)

2/17/24:
Protestors shut down a JP branch of Chase Bank for Palestine on Saturday. Action led by BDS Boston and Palestinian Youth Movement. (LINK)

2/14/24:
~100 If Not Now Boston and Muslim Justice League protesters staged a die-in at South Station during rush hour today, demanding a ceasefire and chanting "free Palestine," calling on Senators Warren and Markey to block aid to Israel (LINK)

2/12/24:
Senators Warren and Markey betrayed constituents and continued their complicity in the genocide of Palestinians by voting in favor of additional funding for Israel on Sunday. (LINK)

2/9/24:
Jews & allies held sit-in at in Senator Markey's office demanding a NO vote on $14.1 billion unconditional military aid to Israel. (LINK)

2/8/24:
Community members staged a disruption at the downtown Boston offices of Elbit-investor BNY Mellon (LINK)

2/7/24:
House Resolution 7217, Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, FAILED to get the 2/3 majorite needed to expedite passage. (Link)

Medford City Council voted 5-1 in favor of a resolution calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire in Gaza

2/5/24:
Japan's Itochu Corporation, one of the world's largest companies, just announced it is ending its partnership with the largest Israeli weapons company, Elbit Systems, citing the ICJ’s ruling as the reason for cutting ties (LINK)

Somerville High students will deliver a Ceasefire Letter to the School Committee at today's meeting, 6:45pm.

2/3/24:
Logistics giant, Kuehne + Nagel, confirm they've cut their contract with Elbit Systems and will not work with the Israeli weapons maker again. (Link)

2/2/24:
Brown University students announce hunger strike for Gaza (Link)

1/29/24:
Cambridge City Council passed ceasefire resolution (Link)

1/29/24:
Harvard students filed a federal civil rights complaint over Harvard’s failure to protect them from targeted racism and harassment on campus, discriminating against them for being Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and students supporting Palestinian rights. (Link)

About this site

this site was started in 2020 to help spread the word about webinars and remote panels happening on topics of racial justice, abolition, and related struggles. I also sometimes posted protests and rallies. I am going to try to start updating it again to share events and actions (in-person and remote) related to Palestinian solidarity, with a focus on MA but maybe some stuff in RI and NH as well.

A C alendar of A bolition in B oston

2024: Now updating again to focus on Palestine Solidarity