JUSTICE TECH WEEK – May 19-22, 2026

JUST TECH: The Future of Energy, Technology, and Finance:

Photos by Annielly Camargo

FINANCE UJIMA: Radical Dreaming

CREATIVE LANDSCAPES: An Arts and Health Conversation

Photos by Angela Rowlings

BLACK COTTON CLUB: A Creative Liberation Party

Photos by Dominique Sindayiganza

Tuesday, May 19th, 9am-4pm
JUST TECH: The Future of Energy, Technology, and Finance
At the Nonprofit Center

Thursday, May 21st, 5-7pm
Creative Landscapes: An Arts and Health Conversation
At Nubian Markets, 2565 Washington St

Wednesday, May 20th, 5-7pm
Ujima Wednesdays: Radical Dreaming
Virtual, with Ujima Boston

Friday, May 22nd, 7-10pm
Black Cotton Club: A Creative Liberation Party
At Black Market Nubian, 2136 Washington St

Dead Schoolchildren and Dr. King’s Warning

I can’t stop thinking about the Minab school in southern Iran, where a missile attack killed more than 100 schoolchildren on February 28th. To me, it strongly echoes the Birmingham, Alabama church bombing in 1963, when white supremacists killed four Black girls. And it reminds me that this week marks 58 years since the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Franklin Park Belongs to the People

ACE strongly opposes the City of Boston’s plan to develop a private soccer stadium in Franklin Park. Our neighborhoods and our people already face a heavy environmental burden. Our voices have been excluded. This is an illegal loss of public land. This will accelerate displacement. And $135 million could be transformative if NOT spent on the stadium.

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The AI Bubble and the Sacrifice Zone

The AI bubble treats our neighborhoods as sacrifice zones, where air-pollution and water-use regulations can be ignored, where speculative technology can be built overnight without regard for the law, where local health impacts aren’t important.

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