BOSTON/Theater District - Members of the Massachusetts Senior Action Council staged a rally in Boston Wednesday in protest against last year’s fare increase to the MBTA’s The Ride service, which they say was “extreme” and has now “imprisoned” seniors and people with disabilities in their homes. Around 100 people demonstrated near the Transportation Building at the corner of Charles St. South and Stuart St. Four members of the Council, along with its Executive Director, Carolyn Villers were then arrested following a planned protest in the street while sitting in a makeshift jail cell.
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15 Aug 2013 - 1:51am
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:27pm
Join us for our semi-annual day long planning retreat – this year we’re opening it up to current new and potential Boston Firefly Project members.
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:27pm
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - This Thursday September 30th Ford Hall Forum - in cooperation with Suffolk University and the Old South Meeting House - is sponsoring a public conversation on "AIDS Social Justice and the Politics of Transformation." Given that the war economy and upcoming elect
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:27pm
This presentation will explore the rising tide of white anxiety since the election of President Obama, and explore the roots of white racial resentment, currently being stoked by the Tea Party, among others.
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:27pm
Whether or not you know it, you are familiar with the work of Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), one of the most acclaimed of America’s sculptors of monuments. His staggeringly successful career spanned two centuries and lasted his lifetime.
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:05pm
One of the least credible attacks on Occupy Boston by local politicians pundits and press has been the idea that its Dewey Square encampment - judged to be a form of protected free speech last week when Judge Frances McIntyre issued a temporary injunction preventing the City of Boston from dism
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:05pm
It should come as no surprise to regular Open Media Boston viewers that I found the City of Boston’s destruction of the Occupy Boston encampment in Dewey Square on Saturday morning unnecessary and ill-considered.
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:05pm
As is usual for a largely volunteer-run publication like ours Open Media Boston will be slowing down our production schedule for the rest of December and much of January.
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11 Aug 2013 - 8:05pm
Yesterday 30 people - a nice mix of media professionals academics and advocates - founded the new Boston media reform network at a meeting at the encuentro 5 movement space in Chinatown. Sure that may not be the name that the network will end up using.
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11 Aug 2013 - 7:50pm
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