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by Jason Pramas | 2 May 2014 - 11:51pm

This week I have basically one point to make. I think it's time for the organizers of Boston's main May Day march and rally to bring the event back to downtown Boston.

by Jonathan Adams | 2 May 2014 - 11:47pm

Cambridge, Mass. - Demanding an open meeting with Harvard University President Drew Faust to discuss the school’s investments in fossil-fuel related industries, which they say has been denied to them since the fall, protestors blockaded her office on Wednesday. 

by Doug Enaa Greene | 2 May 2014 - 3:16pm

On April 14, 2014, longtime activist and registered nurse, Sandy Eaton spoke at the Center for Marxist Education on the health care industry.

by Inez Hedges | 2 May 2014 - 12:49pm

Plays about real-life human dramas often plumb deep cultural roots.  For the first time in earth’s history, massive climate change is taking place in the presence of a terrestrial species that expresses itself in cultural artifacts.  Human activity threatens the natural world, but humans are also

by Jonathan Adams | 29 Apr 2014 - 12:53pm

BOSTON/State House - The annual Workers Memorial Day, in commemoration of employees who have died on the job in Massachusetts over the last year, was held on the steps of the State House on Monday. 

by Jonathan Adams | 29 Apr 2014 - 2:07am

Jobs Not Jails – Boston Common

by David Goodman | 27 Apr 2014 - 2:19pm

In his song “A Brief History of the Orange Line” David Rovics tells the story of how activists prevented state and federal transportation officials from building an eight lane highway through Boston’s Roxbury and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods.

by Jonathan Adams | 26 Apr 2014 - 6:15pm

BOSTON/Financial District - The Campaign for a Debt-Free Future hit out at the growing levels of student debt in a rally outside the US Department of Education (DOE) in Boston on Friday.

by Jason Pramas | 25 Apr 2014 - 11:56pm

Several days ago, the federal government shut down TOUCH 106.1 FM - an unlicensed low power radio station serving Boston'

by David Lewit | 25 Apr 2014 - 4:27pm

Author's Note: Former Polish cavalry officer, escaped prisoner of the Nazis, and ardent Catholic Jan Karski risked his life and dared to confront 

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