Christopher Ryan Spicer
@crspicer.bsky.social
Current Somerville Human Rights Commissioner
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Sign on: Demand Governor Healey to stop the war on immigrants
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ICE, stay out! Somerville is a Welcoming City. With limits imposing fear/avoidance of "interference," LUCE is training vigilers and calling Governor Healey to stop the war on immigrants. bit.ly/sign-healey-demands
Dr Asim Qureshi, research director at CAGE International, negotiating partners for hunger strikers alongside Prisoners for Palestine, said:
From Guantánamo to Gaza, the infrastructure of authoritarian terror laws ...must be dismantled. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
From Guantánamo to Gaza, the infrastructure of authoritarian terror laws ...must be dismantled. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Defend Our Juries and Prisoners for Palestine are teaming up for mass civil disobedience
Defend Our Juries and Prisoners for Palestine, along with a raft of other actionists, will protest the ban of Palestine Action
www.thecanary.co
October 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Dr Asim Qureshi, research director at CAGE International, negotiating partners for hunger strikers alongside Prisoners for Palestine, said:
From Guantánamo to Gaza, the infrastructure of authoritarian terror laws ...must be dismantled. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
From Guantánamo to Gaza, the infrastructure of authoritarian terror laws ...must be dismantled. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
As an ex-Guantanamo inmate, I stand with Gaza against US terror www.newarab.com/opinion/ex-g...
As an ex-Guantanamo inmate, I stand with Gaza against US terror
Injustice unites those in Guantanamo Bay with those under blockade in Gaza. And though the road ahead may be long, justice will prevail, says Mansoor Adayfi.
www.newarab.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As an ex-Guantanamo inmate, I stand with Gaza against US terror www.newarab.com/opinion/ex-g...
Neighbors moved to New Zealand and others soon to Ohio. The neighbor deported to Russia this June has since migrated to Ecuador. "Instead of arguing about immigration with shocking anecdotes and exceptional incidents," let's look at a resource: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First
These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Neighbors moved to New Zealand and others soon to Ohio. The neighbor deported to Russia this June has since migrated to Ecuador. "Instead of arguing about immigration with shocking anecdotes and exceptional incidents," let's look at a resource: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
"if you don’t like having your neighbor’s family torn apart by some guys wearing masks who won’t even tell you what their names are, then don’t cover up your head with a blanket. That’s what they want you to do." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
Opinion | ‘The Game Is Rigged’: Elizabeth Warren on America’s Next Story
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"if you don’t like having your neighbor’s family torn apart by some guys wearing masks who won’t even tell you what their names are, then don’t cover up your head with a blanket. That’s what they want you to do." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/o...
Door knocking with Dad, Dave Spicer, helping me deliver campaign fliers to nearly 2000 individual Somerville properties this past weekend.
September 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Door knocking with Dad, Dave Spicer, helping me deliver campaign fliers to nearly 2000 individual Somerville properties this past weekend.
$2.1 Million already appropriated for reparations for harms since 2020 “…Forced to reside in, adjacent to, or near Brown Zones and other toxic sites that negatively impact their health and property. ”https://apdillon.substack.com/p/city-of-asheville-council-and-the
City of Asheville Council and the millions on "reparations"
$2.1M has already been appropriated from a city-owned land sale
apdillon.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
$2.1 Million already appropriated for reparations for harms since 2020 “…Forced to reside in, adjacent to, or near Brown Zones and other toxic sites that negatively impact their health and property. ”https://apdillon.substack.com/p/city-of-asheville-council-and-the
"...inequality undermines the foundations of civic life. Without political action to bring about a more economically equal society, it is hard to imagine a regeneration of civic engagement."--Robert Macewan, professor emeritus of economics at UMass Boston www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Opinion | Remedies to the ‘Boy Crisis’
www.nytimes.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"...inequality undermines the foundations of civic life. Without political action to bring about a more economically equal society, it is hard to imagine a regeneration of civic engagement."--Robert Macewan, professor emeritus of economics at UMass Boston www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Love our immigrant communities! www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’
Data does not support claims that the United States is experiencing a surge in crime caused by immigrants.
www.brennancenter.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Love our immigrant communities! www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...
See you tonight
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
See you tonight
Door knocking last night, Anand, West Somerville resident, asked what we can do about ICE raids, and what if the national guard were deployed to Somerville? wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u... Tonight's ICE bystander training is full, but more coming.
How LA is uniting to provide mutual aid for those impacted by ICE raids
Through fundraisers, grocery deliveries and ‘adopt a corner’ initiatives, Angelenos are coming together to support their immigrant neighbors.
wagingnonviolence.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Door knocking last night, Anand, West Somerville resident, asked what we can do about ICE raids, and what if the national guard were deployed to Somerville? wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u... Tonight's ICE bystander training is full, but more coming.
A house is as much about a watersystem that goes through it--co-custodians with new forms of rights, agency with a future to explore systemic entanglement--how do we build the empathy and care to embrace the implication to our theory of property rights? vimeo.com/836637025?&l...
IAE @ 3 Keynote: "Propositional Politics" with Indy Johar
Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects. With this simple premise, DS4SI’s radically accessible systems design book made…
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August 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
A house is as much about a watersystem that goes through it--co-custodians with new forms of rights, agency with a future to explore systemic entanglement--how do we build the empathy and care to embrace the implication to our theory of property rights? vimeo.com/836637025?&l...
9:15am, Tues, 8/19 City Hall Plaza--Support Mayor Wu defy Trump's mass deportation policies.
August 18, 2025 at 11:53 PM
9:15am, Tues, 8/19 City Hall Plaza--Support Mayor Wu defy Trump's mass deportation policies.
Please join me:
August 18, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Please join me:
Reports of 200 Gazans who have died of starvation as aid shipments are turned away. www.reuters.com/world/middle... "Christian Politicians Don't Turn Away" Good Friday, 2024.
August 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Reports of 200 Gazans who have died of starvation as aid shipments are turned away. www.reuters.com/world/middle... "Christian Politicians Don't Turn Away" Good Friday, 2024.
I found a flier from Mar 1, 2021 protest of Germany-based PUMA in Assembly Row pictured here: thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2021/03/01/p...
After unrelenting pressure, circa Nov. 26, 2024 PUMA declared it no longer sponsors Israel Football Association.
After unrelenting pressure, circa Nov. 26, 2024 PUMA declared it no longer sponsors Israel Football Association.
Puma Store, Assembly Row, Somerville Picket
Activists Protested PUMA’s Support for Israeli Settlements at New Assembly Row Headquarters this past weekend.
thesomervillenewsweekly.blog
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I found a flier from Mar 1, 2021 protest of Germany-based PUMA in Assembly Row pictured here: thesomervillenewsweekly.blog/2021/03/01/p...
After unrelenting pressure, circa Nov. 26, 2024 PUMA declared it no longer sponsors Israel Football Association.
After unrelenting pressure, circa Nov. 26, 2024 PUMA declared it no longer sponsors Israel Football Association.
7:30 am vigil for Blanca who made the life altering decision to self-report to Burlington ICE Headquarters.
August 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
7:30 am vigil for Blanca who made the life altering decision to self-report to Burlington ICE Headquarters.
Noticing the pattern of where my campaign signs are planted yet? Or why my questionnaire responses avoid pandering to promises of "bullet voting," where the smaller voting blocks limit themselves to a fraction of their voting power? www.nonprofitvote.org/the-bias-of-...
August 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Noticing the pattern of where my campaign signs are planted yet? Or why my questionnaire responses avoid pandering to promises of "bullet voting," where the smaller voting blocks limit themselves to a fraction of their voting power? www.nonprofitvote.org/the-bias-of-...
with Nobel Prize laureate, Hiroshima bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow at the United Nations during the March 2025 review conference for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
August 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
with Nobel Prize laureate, Hiroshima bomb survivor Setsuko Thurlow at the United Nations during the March 2025 review conference for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
Please join my wife and me for the activist side of our wedding anniversary! Boston Hiroshima-Nagasaki 80th Anniversary Commemoration
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Dewey Square 572 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA, United States
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Dewey Square 572 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA, United States
August 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Please join my wife and me for the activist side of our wedding anniversary! Boston Hiroshima-Nagasaki 80th Anniversary Commemoration
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Dewey Square 572 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA, United States
Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Dewey Square 572 Atlantic Ave, Boston, MA, United States