In a powerful display of civic engagement, local artists projected messages onto the Old State House to commemorate Boston's resistance to tyranny and injustice. Coinciding with Mayor Michelle Wu's testimony on immigration policies, the project used the pen name "Silence Dogood" to invoke Benjamin Franklin's revolutionary spirit. The choice of the historic site, significant to events like the Boston Massacre, highlighted the ongoing struggle for democracy, emphasizing that current challenges echo those of the past and require vigilant attention and action from residents.
We are creatives, historians, believers in democracy who, like many generations of Bostonians before us, feel called to speak out against injustice.
Although certain things have changed since the 1700s, history repeats itself in bizarre ways, and we are in precedented times.
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