Massachusetts election results have left many sanguine about the prospects of challenging the Right in the future. Turnout, turnout, turnout! That is the mantra of the victorious.
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22 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
It has been 40 years since the Wampanoag leader Wamsutta (Frank B.) James was asked to give a speech at the annual Thanksgiving reenactment in Plymouth, MA. That year, 1970, was the 350th anniversary of the Pilgrims' arrival on Wampanoag land.
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22 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Copley Square - On Tuesday, 18 people gathered in the Guatemala Room of the Community Church of Boston to hold the first organizing meeting of the campaign to launch the Open Media Co-operative - a new democratically-run business wing for Open Media Boston.
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22 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
Under a luminous full moon at midnight, my partner and I buy tickets for the shuttle bus from the airport to the Reykjavik central bus station. We pay 33 Euro for the two tickets and receive our change in Icelandic kroners, beautifully decorated paper money, including a 2,000 note with a woman in full frontal nudity. What a way to start our vacation.
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21 Nov 2010 - 1:14pm
Cambridge, MA - The definition of the word intractable says a lot about the situation in the Middle East: “a problem that is so hard…that it cannot be solved; resistant to treatment.”
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14 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Faneuil Hall - Over 75 members of Boston area chapters of Veterans for Peace and supporters marched behind the Veterans Day Parade through downtown Boston Thursday.
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14 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
On Thursday, I spent part of my afternoon covering the latest intervention in the "official" Boston Veterans Day Parade by the Veterans for Peace.
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12 Nov 2010 - 9:54pm
When I first started medical school this past fall, I decided it would be a good idea to find some mentors at my school who shared my interest in immigrant health. So, modern girl that I am, I hopped online and entered “immigrant health Harvard Medical School” into my search browser.
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12 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
Last Tuesday a hundred people stood in a cold drizzle at the Chinatown Gate and kicked off a neighborhood weatherization project. City, state, and utility company officials praised each other for persevering through a year of negotiations.
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7 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Roxbury - Over 50 Roxbury Community College students and community supporters held a protest against police brutality on Thursday in response to the beating of a 16 year old teenager by several Boston police officers on their campus on October 22nd.
