BOSTON/Dorchester - Over 50 members of Occupy UMass Boston - one of the many informal campus chapters of the Occupy movement that have sprung up around the United States - held a protest outside the inauguration of UMass president Robert Caret at the JFK Library on Tuesday.
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4 Nov 2011 - 6:20pm
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2 Nov 2011 - 11:56pm
99 Voices is a project to give voice to the people in Boston who call themselves “The 99 Percent." The project will document the stories of 99 participants in the
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2 Nov 2011 - 11:25pm
The Occupy movement entered a new phase today in Oakland, CA by holding a one-day general strike that shut down the Port of Oakland.
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31 Oct 2011 - 5:03pm
The open letter below is addressed to Facing History and Ourselves Executive Director Margot Strom, Associate Executive Director Martin Sleeper and Board Chairwoman Tracy Palandjian.
An Open Letter to "Facing History and Ourselves"
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26 Oct 2011 - 5:34pm
The targeted recent campaigns by federal prosecutors on two local politicians, Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and State Senator Dianne Wilkerson show that the FBI is an organization that is hostile towards Boston’s and Massachusetts’s minority citizens and is able and willing to use their re
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26 Oct 2011 - 1:56pm
Why I support the release of Tarek Mehanna.
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26 Oct 2011 - 12:00am
BOSTON/State House - Physician and environmental activist Jill Stein of Lexington announced her candidacy for President of the United States on the Green Party ticket at a press conference outside the State House on Monday.
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26 Oct 2011 - 12:00am
Just a note to thank everyone who participated in the Social Movements/Digital Revolutions conference over the weekend.
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24 Oct 2011 - 11:11pm
BOSTON/Roxbury – Over 400 Roxbury residents, activists, students, #OccupyBoston activists and supporters from around Boston assembled at Dudley Square for the first Community Speak Out/Rally on Friday. Jamarhl Crawford, editor of The Blackstonian, and Cornell Mills organized the Speak Out - which featured speakers ranging from Denise Williams, whose two nephews were murdered while returning from a family barbecue on July 4, 2011, to community organizer, educator and longtime political activist Mel King. The Speak Out was followed by a National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality on Saturday, October 22nd. The next Speak Out is slated to be held next Friday, October 28th.
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23 Oct 2011 - 12:00am
If I’d ever stopped to think about it, I might have figured out what dance and drawing have in common. The similarity is not immediately apparent, but both art forms depend on composition, line, rhythm, focus, creativity, and an understanding of spatial relationships.
