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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her)

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Cambridge City Councillor. Democratic Socialist. linktr.ee/alzubi

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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Neighbors —I'll be at Street Theory Collective (541 mass ave) today at 5:30 pm with Rep Mike Connolly and staff from rep @pressley.house.gov's office. Please drop by anytime until 6:30pm in central so we can work together on issues at the intersection of city, state, and federal government.
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Digital Fourth @digital4th.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Read the comments here, and if you're in Cambridge, email CityCouncil@CambridgeMA.gov to let them know your opinion. @councilloralzubi.bsky.social's Public Safety Committee will hold a standalone hearing on ShotSpotter & review the whole Report before the end of May warrantless.org/wp-content/u...
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
This weekend, we’re hosting another Coffee with Comrades at Andala Cafe, 9:30 Sunday morning. Come on down to have a snack and hang out! Invite your DSA-curious friends! actionnetwork.org/events/coffe...
Coffee with Comrades
Sunday March 8 9:30 -11:30 AM
RSVP for location
Meet fellow socialists and connect with neighbors

Hand drawn illustration of people happily sitting in cups of coffee, one has headphones on, one is reading a book, one just has their hands clasped behind the back of their head and is leaning back & blissing out.
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Cambridge is leaving X. Our policy order to take the city off the platform passed unanimously Monday night. Yesterday morning, the city posted a final farewell message—and then went dark. Thread below on how we got here and what we do next
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Jim Aloisi @jimaloisi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Moral leadership comes in many forms.
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
i was proud to speak in support of this alongside Jesse and am glad to see it passed unanimously!
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Jesse and the Purple Crayon … of Death!! @misctakes.com · 03/03/2026
BREAKING: The @cambridgemass.bsky.social City Council just voted unanimously to discontinue using X. Thank you @councilloralzubi.bsky.social for putting this forward!
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Join us for joint community office hours with @pressley.house.gov on Tuesday 2/24 from 6-8pm at the Central Square branch of the Cambridge Public Library Our staff will be there to assist with federal and local constituent services, and answer questions and concerns. Drop by, no appointment needed!
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Join us for our third community office hours at the Valente Branch of the Cambridge Public Library (Wellington-Harrington). Looking forward to hearing your questions and concerns. #cambma #cambridgema
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Did you get our latest newsletter? It provides a detailed and transparent breakdown of Monday’s Council meeting and the rationale/analysis for my votes, including: Cambridge Street upzoning Democracy Center landmarking City Hall security Read here: councilloralzubi.org/newsletter-2...
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Cambridge Street Upzoning & Democracy Center - Councillor Al-Zubi Newsletter
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Cambridge/Somerville pals: the Union Square community pantry was bare this morning. I brought over a couple bags of groceries, but neighbors could use your help. If you are near Union Square, please consider giving something: a box of cereal, a bag of oranges, a can of soup. (behind the CrossFit)
An empty community pantry with nothing but a single can of sliced carrots and some random bits of trash
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Boston DSA @bostondsa.org · 22/01/2026
As ICE escalates its violence, unions in Minnesota have called for a general strike in MN tomorrow. In Boston, organized labor and community groups are holding a mass rally in solidarity with Minnesota. Arrive early and get Boston DSA signs and merch!
Strike ICE out of Massachusetts

Fri, Jan 23

No work, no school, no shopping 

Solidarity rally- South Bay Mall, Dorchester, 3 PM

Join us in supporting GLBC! 

The Boston chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America stands in solidarity with Minnesota in their day of actionA national day of truth, resistance and freedom 

Solidarity rally with the Minnesota Walk Out 

Friday January 23 at 3 PM
South Bay Mall- Dorchester, MA 
meet near Home Depot
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I am interested in hearing from people, especially constituents, about your experiences on X, and whether you would support a move to officially take the City of Cambridge off of that platform. My DMs are open!
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BINJReports @binjreports.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Homeland Security Investigations searched a Lesley U dorm in Cambridge earlier today. The federal search of the building has sparked a debate over police cooperation and transparency ... binj.news/2026/01/15...
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
THREAD: This morning federal law enforcement raided a building at Lesley University in Cambridge. Here's what happened and what we're doing about it.
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Join us for our first office hours tomorrow (Wed. Jan. 1/14) from 5-7pm at Andala. Drop in to ask questions, get to know each other or share your ideas!
Drop-in Office Hours
Ayah Al-Zubi
Cambridge City Counillor

Wed 1/14 5-7pm Andala Coffee House

No appointment needed!

Come by with questions, concerns, or just to say hello.
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Look for the wild cards in politics that put dignity first!
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Join us Saturday for our monthly meeting! We'll have a group debrief on the elections, hear a presentation on social housing, and learn how to get involved with the @sbworkersunited.org strikes. 🗓️ 11/22 2:30-4:30pm 📍 Cambridge Public Library @ 449 Broadway (or Zoom) RSVP: bdsa.us/CDSANov25
BDSA Cambridge Monthly Meeting
Join us at the Cambridge Working Group monthly meeting!
At the Cambridge Public Library Main Branch 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
Zoom option available too!
Saturday, Nov 22, 2025
2:30-4:30 pm est
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
LUCE expanded their work into food delivery, when they recognized that immigrants were afraid to leave their homes to buy food. In this time of acute insecurity, their mission is more important than ever. Please support them if you can!
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Elections are over, but organizing continues full steam ahead! In the last week of signature collection, let's keep up our momentum and get rent control on the ballot! TOMORROW Tuesday 11/11 at 1PM Meet in front of the Cambridge Public Library Main Branch, 449 Broadway RSVP: bit.ly/CPLrentcontrol
Cambridge & Somerville:
It's time to go all out for rent control!
Final week signature drive
Veteran's Day, Tuesday 11/11 1pm
Cambridge Public Library 449 Broadway
RSVP: bit.ly/CPLrentcontrol
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Bikepedantic @pedantic.bike · 10/11/2025
We invited Sam Westby, a local bikey instagrammer, along on our HONKoween #BikeBus parade, and he produced this nice reel that’s getting some exposure over there. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzVB2A...
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I was honored to speak with the Globe about our campaign. Together, we made history on Tuesday night, not just here but across the country. And we’re just getting started.
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Mike Connolly @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Congratulations to Ayah Al-Zubi on becoming the youngest member ever elected to the Cambridge City Council. Hats off to Ayah, her volunteers and campaign team, the dem socialist movement, and especially to the voters of Cambridge who sent her to the council on the first round of counting this week!
Boston Globe Nov. 8, 2025Speaking at Ayah’s kickoffWith Team Ayah
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
We stand in solidarity with workers against the world’s wealthiest university trying to deny them immigration protection and adequate benefits. Join us: bdsa.us/join
A large group of union members joining in song, in Cambridge Common
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Cambridge DSA 🌹 @cambridgedsa.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Election Day was just the beginning. On Thursday, DSA electeds @votejivan.bsky.social and @votealzubi.com rallied in support of @32bjseiu.bsky.social union workers organizing for a fair contract with Harvard.
Councillor-elect Ayah Al-Zubi, Councillor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, and union leaders Evan MacKay and Siobhan M posing against an extremely scenic backdrop of peak New England fall foliageCouncillor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler speaking into a micCouncillor-elect Ayah Al-Zubi, Councillor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, and union leaders Evan MacKay and Siobhan M clapping while standing in front of the Civil War Monument in Cambridge Common
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
ICE has been seizing people in Allston. Boston area folks, spread the word about the LUCE hotline to report ICE sightings. And here's stickers you can print and put up anywhere:
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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Be a part of the movement! dsausa.org/join
DSA has reached 85,000 members. We have a world to win! dsausa.org/join
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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
For over two years, a building movement has brought together Jews, Muslims, and allies to organize around a vision of shared safety and solidarity. On Tuesday night, our movement’s power thundered up and down the ballot, in races big and small, from NYC to right here in Massachusetts. 🧵
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Thank you to everyone who supported this campaign in big and small ways. Our volunteers were the heartbeat of this campaign.
The election night party, the Andala basement full of beautiful beaming volunteers
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
thank you ayah, thank you cambridge -the volunteers
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Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler @votejivan.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We did it! Thank you to everyone who made this win to keep fighting for an affordable, inclusive, and sustainable Cambridge on the City Council possible. I’m so grateful to every person who knocked doors, wrote postcards, donated, talked to friends & family, and voted
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 05/11/2025
Y'all we did it! We sent @votealzubi.com to Cambridge City Council, with preliminary results showing she came in for the 3rd spot out of 9 slots on the council! Democratic socialism and Palestinian liberation for the WIN www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/...
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Cambridge Municipal Election Preliminary Unofficial Results: November 4, 2025
The following results are unofficial as of November 4, 2025. Write-in, auxiliary, provisional, and overseas absentee ballots are not included in the results.
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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
DSA congratulates @votealzubi.com and @Boston_DSA on Ayah's election to Cambridge City Council! 🎉 Ayah has already been fighting for the housing rights of Cambridge residents and will keep it up in office to make sure Cambridge is affordable and dignified for all. 🌹 1/2
DSA-endorsed Ayah Al-Zubi wins 2025 Cambridge City Council seat! Ayah is pictured wearing a slightly edgy black dress shirt and gold necklace and grinning confidently.
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
We ran on making Cambridge an affordable and dignified city to live in, and making sure the most vulnerable people are heard. Everyday issues for working people were the driving force behind our campaign, and we will carry their voices into City Hall.
Councillor-Elect Ayah Al-Zubi

Image of Ayah superimposed over an image of a crowd of supporters
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I am so grateful for everyone who has worked so hard on this campaign. All that work comes down to this. I know from experience that every vote matters. Please text your friends and make sure they have a plan to vote by 8pm!
Morse Elementary School was a destination for a few candidates hoping to get out the vote. Ayah Al-Zubi arrived at 7:00 AM just as polls were beginning to open, with fellow challenger Elizabeth Bisio arriving soon after.

“I’m feeling grateful,” Al-Zubi said. “I feel like I’m running on adrenaline, caffeine, and faith.”

Al-Zubi was out until 4:00 AM this morning, leaving campaign literature on as many doorsteps as possible. Al-Zubi has led one of the most impressive volunteer efforts this race, with over 100 people working to help her get out the vote.

Al-Zubi came in 10th out of the nine available city council seats in the 2023 race. This year, she thinks her odds of making it onto council are better. “Compared to 2023, we’ve doubled to tripled our fundraising. We’ve doubled to tripled our field strategy,” she said. “So we’re putting it all on the line, and we feel like that hopefully will give us the results that we’re looking for.”
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I am so grateful for this endorsement from Erin Axelman, the director of @israelismfilm.com. We both know that the only true safety is shared safety, and our fight for dignity is a fight for dignity for ALL.
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IfNotNow Boston 🔥 @ifnotnowboston.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Get out and vote today!
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Run For Something was my first endorsement in 2023, and their early support was invaluable in getting our campaign off the ground. Their work supporting young progressive candidates is so important!
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I am so grateful for the community that we have built through this campaign. My name is on the ballot, but this is about all of us. 🧵
collage of photos of Al-Zubi campaign supporters posing for pictures at events throughout the campaign - a sea of smiling people holding up banners, signs, and campaign lit. In the center, overlaid, is the Al-Zubi for Cambridge City Council campaign logo.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/11/2025
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I am so honored by this endorsement. When I first joined DSA, I never could have imagined I'd be running as part of a national movement alongside other young Muslims like @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social. From Cambridge to New York to Palestine, our struggles are linked. We will win through solidarity.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Tapping the sign
Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax'
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Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
We're doing #GivingTuesday differently this year, donating 10% of our sales from 12PM-8PM on December 2 to five local organizations doing work that we believe meets this moment. If you can join us, RSVPing would be helpful. If not, but you still want to help, here's a thread of the organizations!
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Giving Tuesday at Porter Square Books
We hope our Giving Tuesday program will make it a little easier for you by giving you a chance to do several things at once with the same spending; getting a great gift for someone you care about, supporting organizations doing great work in your community, and keeping your local fiercely independent bookstore going.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
The free lunch/breakfast is such an important lifeline right now. I was talking to my SIL, who teaches in a school district that doesn't have the resources to do extra food support like Cambridge is doing. The free lunch/breakfast is as essential to her school right now as having lights.
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Mike Connolly @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Knocking doors today with @votejivan.bsky.social and @votealzubi.com and stopping to say hello to all the dogs 🐶 be sure to vote by November 4th 🗳️
With Jivan With Ayah
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Come join me and @mikeconnollyma.bsky.social this morning, Sennott Park at 10 am! (make sure you check your clocks!)
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
@mikeconnollyma.bsky.social is our OG democratic socialist state rep, and his leadership continues to pave the way for a rising cadre of bold leftist leaders changing the status quo on Beacon Hill. I am so grateful for his support in our race for Cambridge City Council.
Mike Connolly endorses Ayah Al-Zubi
Image of Ayah and Mike in front of Cambridge City Hall - Ayah is gesturing toward Mike and mike is pointing at the camera. Both are smiling.
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The disastrous lapse in SNAP benefits has put a spotlight on food insecurity — an issue that was already getting worse here, especially with the loss of the Daily Table. But we can fill that void, while giving the grocery chains some healthy competition. It's time for a city-owned grocery store.
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Councillor Ayah Al-Zubi (she/her) @councilloralzubi.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Honored to receive this endorsement from @electerika.bsky.social, an incredible champion for justice and liberation in the State House! In Cambridge, Somerville, and beyond, this election is a chance for some major wins for our movements, but it will take ALL of us.
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