by Zack Kligler | Nov 10, 2025 | BDS, Divestment, elections, Gaza, Israel, Massachusetts, News, Palestine, Rümeysa Öztürk
When voters across the country filed into polling stations on November 4, making choices that could shape their communities over coming years, residents of Somerville, Massachusetts, also had the opportunity to vote on a question of international significance: whether their city should boycott and divest from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide in Gaza.
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by Eileen Appelbaum | Oct 17, 2025 | California, Elizabeth Warren, health care, Maine, Massachusetts, News Analysis, Oregon, Private Equity
New legislation in California is poised to rein in the financialization of healthcare — part of a growing trend of states taking action while federal legislation struggles to move forward. On October 6, California enacted legislation (Senate Bill 351) that restricts financial firms’ ability to influence how physicians in practices they own treat patients. It prohibits the firms from setting…
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