Last month I called your attention to a migrant shelter hosted by Eastern Nazarene College, a Christian college in Quincy, Massachusetts. You can read “Eastern Nazarene College: An Evangelical School Doing Evangelical Things” here.
Here is the latest from The Patriot Ledger:
Quincy police said that at about 8:30 p.m. Saturday, 25 to 30 white men in khakis and face masks marched to the site housing the families and “stood on a public sidewalk while holding flares, a banner and chanting for the migrant families to ‘go home’ and that they ‘were not welcome.'”
The group left after 15 to 20 minutes, police said. No vandalism or violence was reported.
The same group held a similar demonstration outside a Kingston hotel in October 2022 to protest the state’s placement of homeless people there, including Haitians fleeing the violence and poverty in their home country.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, NSC-131 is a neo-Nazi group based in New England. NSC is an abbreviation for National Socialist Club. The German Nazi Party was officially called the National Socialist German Workers Party.
NSC-131 originated in Massachusetts in December 2019, particularly in Worcester, Boston, Quincy, Rutland and Sturbridge, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
On Sunday, a group of Quincy residents visited the campus with multilingual welcome signs and cutouts of hearts. In a Facebook post, organizer Maggie McKee thanked those who attended the counterprotest.
“If you came, thank you,” McKee wrote. “You made a difference. You were a light in the darkness.”
Read the rest here.
If you can get past the paywall, The Boston Globe also has a piece on this. Also here.