zoe mathews
zoesmathews.bsky.social
zoe mathews
@zoesmathews.bsky.social
producing radio, podcasts, news @GBH. dreaded local angel.
“I love Arthur T. I think he’s the best, I want to cook for him, I want to do anything I can to help him in his situation, and if he needs me for anything all he has to do, I’ll be here at Market Basket."

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Latest family feud at Market Basket has customers asking 'what to do?'
MIT labor expert calls for mediator, calling leadership turmoil a potential 'disaster' for the grocery chain.
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July 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Dama, a Nigerian immigrant and manager of the popular Roxbury eatery Suya Joint, was initially taken to the same Burlington ICE facility where other detainees have described awful conditions: bit.ly/44GCheP
Manager of award-winning Boston restaurant detained by ICE
Paul Dama, a Boko Haram survivor and the manager of Suya Joint, was stopped on his way to church on Sunday morning.
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June 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
In New England, poll numbers show pessimism. At the Carsie Blanton show in Cambridge last month, a "revolutionary optimism."

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Musician Carsie Blanton says she wants to bring 'revolutionary optimism' to a new generation
Protest music appeals to young activists who say 'Trump has reignited some struggle'.
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June 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“We, immigrants, are not criminals. We came here to work, to provide a better future for our family,” Daiane Pereira said. “Criminals don’t get up at 5 a.m. with a uniform to go work. To paint, to build houses, to clean bathrooms and wash floors.”
June 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Around two dozen workers have been detained by federal agents, among them eleven workers from the local seafood processing plants that have been a site of recent worker organizing. jacobin.com/2025/04/migr...
ICE Sets Its Sights on Massachusetts Immigrant Workers
This week, ICE snatched an immigrant seafood worker in Massachusetts at an employer whose workers have engaged in nationally celebrated collective action for years — the kind of collective action that...
jacobin.com
April 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM