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by Gary Zabel | 18 Nov 2011 - 11:53pm

Video of the UMass Boston Student Union - an outgrowth of the Occupy UMass Boston movement - rallying on campus on Thursday and then participating in an Occupy Boston march with labor in downtown Boston shortly afterwards.

by Amy Grunder, OMB Special Events Unit | 18 Nov 2011 - 1:45am

BOSTON/Dewey Square - Two incidents early this week suggest that the Boston Police Department is preventing activists from winterizing their encampment as the weather grows colder.

by Dory Dinoto and Annie Shreffler, OMB Special Events Unit | 18 Nov 2011 - 12:30am

BOSTON - Members of the Occupy Boston group came out in force on Tuesday to march in protest to New York police clearing their sister camp at Wall Street. A banner carried by leaders of some 200 marchers read: "11/15 at 2 a.m. without notice, NYPD raided OWS!"

by Shirley Moskow | 16 Nov 2011 - 3:15am

Rug hooking has a long history as a traditional domestic craft, but about twenty women from the Canadian province of New Brunswick have put a new spin on it. They practice rug hooking as a contemporary art form.

by Steve Early | 15 Nov 2011 - 11:35pm

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has given our timorous, unimaginative, and politically ambivalent unions a much-needed ideological dope slap. Some might describe this, more diplomatically, as a second injection of “outside-the-box” thinking and new organizational blood.

by Don Warner Saklad | 11 Nov 2011 - 5:18pm

Interview the City Stenographer, Boston City Council about the new stenographic scopist technologies including the Diamante Stenograph.

by Jason Pramas, OMB Minister of Truthiness | 10 Nov 2011 - 10:24pm

It's always important to read between the lines of any official document coming from any significant societal institution - especially during times of crisis.

by Rachel Roth | 10 Nov 2011 - 9:52pm

As the Massachusetts Legislature considers this year’s crop of criminal justice reform bills, one that has not gotten much attention is a measure to ensure proper treatment of pregnant women in jail and prison.

by Jason Pramas, OMB Special Events Unit | 9 Nov 2011 - 11:28pm

Cambridge, Mass. - Harvard University's main quad - the famed Harvard Yard, bounded by Mass Ave., Peabody St., Cambridge St., Broadway and Quincy St. - was locked down in response to Harvard students, staff and faculty calling the first general assembly of Occupy Harvard this evening.

by Rand Wilson | 9 Nov 2011 - 2:00pm

Customer Communication Technicians who work out of Comcast's Fall River and Fairhaven offices have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to supervise a union representation election.

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