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By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — From 1978 to 1989, Northampton’s lesbian bookstore Womonfyre did more than sell books.Like many lesbian bookstores in the 1970s and ’80s, the store on Masonic Street offered newspapers and periodicals associated with the second-wave...

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — A week after a group of nurses stood outside in blistering heat to call attention to the working conditions at the Pioneer Valley Health and Rehabilitation Center off Route 202, the two state politicians who represent the town are...

By ALEXA LEWIS

AMHERST — At 6 a.m. on Tuesday, representatives of the University of Massachusetts administration arrived at the pro-Palestinian encampment that went up the previous day on the school’s South Lawn and issued a warning to protesters — take down their...

By JAMES PENTLAND

NORTHAMPTON — Aiming to expand their protest across campus, students who have occupied Smith College’s administration building for almost two weeks said Tuesday they are moving the focus of their activism to Seelye Lawn.“We are choosing to relocate to...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — At least one of three UMass Amherst students denied the chance to study abroad next semester after being arrested for participating in the October sit-in protests against the war in Gaza has raised the possibility of bringing a federal...

By EMILEE KLEIN

NORTHAMPTON — Palestinian advocates will march 25 miles — the length of the Gaza Strip — from Northampton to Springfield on Sunday to demand Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey call for a permanent cease-fire.The 12-hour event, expected to draw at...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

NORTHAMPTON — As Israel amasses troops along the border with Gaza in preparation for a likely ground invasion, around 50 protesters congregated at the roundabout in front of the Coolidge Bridge in Northampton Monday to call for a ceasefire in the...

By MADDIE FABIAN

NORTHAMPTON — As Chase Bank celebrated at a grand opening event for its Northampton branch Tuesday morning, more than 50 demonstrators held signs and banners outside the building calling out the bank’s investments in the fossil fuel industry and...

By EMILY THURLOW

WESTHAMPTON — With signs advocating for an “inclusive” learning environment and Taylor Swift blasting in the background, a small group of students gathered outside of Hampshire Regional Superintendent Diana Bonneville’s office after finals concluded...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — An anti-war group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst called the Dissenters is demanding that the university’s business school sever its ties with the defense and aerospace company Raytheon Technologies.The university, however, says...

By SARAH GARDNER

NORTHAMPTON — When she started planning a health care reform march two months ago, Debby Pastrich-Klemer thought she would be giving a speech in anger.But then, the day before the march, the “skinny repeal” bill, a scaled-down version of plans to...

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

NORTHAMPTON — When friends asked legendary Northampton activist Frances Crowe what she wanted for her 98th birthday on March 15, her answer surprised no one.“She kind of said, ‘We need to march and rally, we have to take to the streets,’” her friend...

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

NORTHAMPTON — Shel Horowitz was 12 years old when he attended a demonstration for peace during the Vietnam War. But that was just the beginning of his role in activism.In the 1990s, Horowitz organized a group called “Save the Mountain” to fight the...