Living

On October 24, Bostonians went down to Christopher Columbus Park on the waterfront to participate in mass street theater on the theme of "Boston Under Water." The idea of the event - being held in cities around the world - was to draw attention to the fact that unless we can keep CO2 levels at or below 350 parts per million, then global warming will accelerate and sea levels will rise.

BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - On the third floor of Building L at the Brewery Complex in Jamaica Plain, staffers with the Institute for Policy Studies, the Forum Organizing Project, and the Jamaica Plain Forum, are laboring over a critical question for our times: how to pull people out of the quicksand that is the U.S. economy.

Andree Zaleska, Director of the Forum Organizing Project and Chuck Collins, Institute for Policy Studies Senior Scholar, and their partners with the Grassroots Policy Project and On The Commons, think they have a pretty good answer: "common security clubs."

Cambridge, MA - Prof. Pardis Sabeti of the Center for Systems Biology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University gave a fascinating lecture on Evolution in the Post-Genomic Age on February 26, 2009, at the Geological Lecture Hall at the Harvard University Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States to a full house of over 150 people. The event was part of Harvard University's celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth.

At the end of January, progressive forces from around the globe will gather in Belem, Brazil at the 8th World Social Forum. As usual it will be a point for reflection and platform for organizing on many fronts - from Gaza to the Amazon, from DC to Soweto, from the deserts of Rajasthan to the Bolivian highlands, from Athenian streets through Paris' "banlieues" to Oakland on the Pacific coast ... the Forum will embrace a diversity of oppositional forces.