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Wednesday, October 27 at 7:00 PM Somerville Stands Together (SST), is a coalition of 22 community, environmental, and labor groups committed to maintaining the city’s diversity and upholding [...]

By Julia Taliesin, Posted Feb 12, 2019 at 12:54 PM The Finance Committee had to move to the full Council Chambers to accommodate the 30 Royal Hospitality workers there to show support for keeping [...]

DECEMBER 20, 2018 Projects must be held to safety standards Re “Toward a more perfect Union Square”: I’ve met with too many fathers, mothers, sisters, and brothers who have lost loved ones from [...]

DECEMBER 20, 2018 Residents demand accountability from developers, City Hall The article “Toward a more perfect Union Square” (Page A1, Dec. 9) glosses over the reality that out-of-town [...]

Somerville residents testifying at the public hearing on the importance of winning a good Community Benefits Agreement for the US2 development in Union Square.  

On Monday of this week, members of Somerville Stands Together (SST) held a rally in Union Square, openly calling for the City of Somerville to require developer US2 to agree to a Community [...]

Somerville, MA – Chanting “Somerville stands for affordable housing! Somerville stands for good, union jobs! Somerville stands together!” hundreds of residents, workers, and advocates with [...]

Somerville—Somerville Stands Together joined by Ayanna Pressley, Democratic nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives, was at a rally in Union Square to support affordable homes, good jobs [...]

Hundreds rallied in Somerville’s Union Square neighborhood on Monday in favor of a community benefits agreement that would aim to protect the interests of local workers and residents before [...]

Somerville, MA – Somerville Stands Together is celebrating the launch of talks between Somerville’s newly-elected Community Benefits Negotiation Committee and Union Square developers US2.  The [...]