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Boston has a robust history of crushing left-leaning dissent By Peter Roberge Leftist groups and causes have made major headlines of late, in the Hub and elsewhere, especially as they’ve responded to far-right and neo-Nazi demonstrations popping up across the country. A most sensational such brush went down on Boston Common last August…

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The enduring stories of the statues that inhabit Davis Square — By Lynne Doncaster I’ve been hung up on these statues for most of my life. I grew up in Davis Square. I have brief, early memories of the giant holes that became subway stations, as viewed from a stroller. The statues were installed just before my sixth birthday, in September 1983. When spray…

Playing hardball in Florida with Lil Papi and the other stars of Red Sox Nation’s one-of-a-kind women’s fantasy camp — By Britni de la Cretaz The sun is overhead, so bright it’s easy to lose a baseball popped high into the sky. It’s January, but Florida January, which means I’m comfortable in just a long-sleeved T-shirt. The smell of grass and dirt is inescapable. There are approximately two dozen people scattered around the green outfield…

With controversial reactor down since storms, tensions run extremely high in Plymouth — By Miriam Wasser Ed. note: For extensive background on the fight over nuclear energy in Mass, check out Miriam Wasser’s oral history covering 50 years of protests against the power plant in Plymouth at pilgrimsoralhistory.org. As the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth remained offline for the 22nd consecutive day, supporters and opponents…

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By Chris Faraone — Our teams at DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism were thrilled to see this tweet from climate justice activist Bill McKibben go viral on Tuesday: Good golly! A few minutes ago a Boston judge acquitted 13 pipeline protesters on the grounds that the climate crisis made it necessary…