In this interview, Bill McKibben opens the Global Teach In on Wednesday by reviewing the scale of environmental challenges that corporate power and carbon-lobby pose for humanity as a whole.
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26 Apr 2012 - 8:00pm
The “winter that wasn’t” in Boston, tornadoes ripping through Springfield, hurricanes ravaging Vermont, record-breaking heat waves in Russia, wildfires in Australia, floods in Thailand: when do isolated incidents start to form a pattern?
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26 Apr 2012 - 7:51pm
Earlier this week, the Boston Bruins hockey team was knocked out of the NHL playoffs when Washington Capitals Winger Joel Ward scored a game-winning goal in overtime. And true, the Bruins were the defending champions. But, as the saying goes: too bad so sad. That would have been that.
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23 Apr 2012 - 5:11pm
I know that Miss Representation is an important film and I feel bad that I didn’t love it more. Its mission is to explore “how the media’s misrepresentations of women contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.” And it makes a strong case. M
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19 Apr 2012 - 1:37pm
**As deadline looms for low-income and middle class families, mass march and rally shine a light on Bay State companies and CEOs whose Tax Day never comes**
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16 Apr 2012 - 10:43am
For the next two days, the Boston area is experiencing extremely high pollen levels - 11.8 on a 12 point scale. And the pollen levels will continue above 10 points all week until it finally rains next weekend. This is highly unusual.
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15 Apr 2012 - 3:54pm
It was gratifying to take part, as the more or less self-appointed representative of the war tax refusal community in Eastern Massachusetts, in the planning of the tax day events coming up on April 17th.
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13 Apr 2012 - 2:48pm
Quincy, MA – Sonny Ochs has been producing concerts for a long time. A polite reporter doesn’t ask a woman her exact age.
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13 Apr 2012 - 11:26am
BOSTON/Roxbury - Close to 300 people - led by African-American students in the new Boston4Justice network - marched from the Ruggles MBTA Station to Dudley Square on Saturday to demand that George Zimmerman, the confessed killer of Sanford, FL teen Trayvon Martin, be put on trial for murder.
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13 Apr 2012 - 11:24am
Since the fall of the Occupy Camp at Dewey Square, which held for 71 days in the shadow of the Boston Federal Reserve building outside of the doors of South Station, a contingent of activists and community members have focused their energy and planning on the debt and budgeting controversy surro
