The Western Mass Resistance Calendar and Supplemental Reading List
Starting this week, the Indy will maintain a calendar of resistance/pro-democracy actions in Western Massachusetts...
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Visas Revoked for 13 UMass Amherst Students. Trend Accelerates Across the Nation’s Campuses
Thirteen UMass Amherst international students (15 students across all five UMass campuses) have had their...
Amherst Joins the Nation in Protesting Trump and Musk’s Assault on Democracy
More than a thousand people turned out on Amherst’s North Common on a cold, drizzly...
What to Do if the Insurrection Act Is Invoked
With the Insurrection Act looming, now is the time to learn how it might unfold...
Lecture: How Can Universities Navigate the Current Moment
Source: UMass News and Media Robert Shibley, special counsel for campus advocacy at the Foundation...
Letter: National Catastrophe Makes Jones Expansion Too Risky
The following letter was sent to the Amherst Town Council and Amherst Town Manager on...
Letter: Silence Is Not an Option
by Aaron Berman, Rabbi Devorah Jacobson, Jeffrey W. Gold and co-signed by 106 others. On...
Paving over Historic Beauty: A History of the White House Rose Garden that Trump Plans to Rip Up
Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun The following column appeared previously in the Daily Hampshire Gazette....
Dear Reader
Dear Reader, What a week! Trump has crashed the economy (which he argues was his...
Updated: Hands Off Massachusetts – Mobilization Against the Trump Musk Agendas, Saturday April 5
Amherst Action Scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on the Town North Common on April 5 Thousands...
Opinion: On Gang Tattoos, Survival, and Respect in the USA
I grew up on the safe side of town with educational access and expectations of...
Photos of the Week: Tesla Takedown in Hadley
Kitty Axelson Berry captured these photos at the Tesla Takedown at the Tesla charging station...