After Marriage: The Future of LGBT Activism
5 April 2015 - 3:49am
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by Sue Katz
Harvard University’s Third Annual Gender & Sexuality Symposium, March 27, 2015
Opinion
Nightmare on Park Street: The Battle for the Survival of the MBTA Is in Our Hands
9 March 2015 - 4:10am
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by Alternatives for Community & Environment
Seeing the deplorable state of the MBTA this winter is like watching a poorly-made slasher film where the ending is obvious to everyone except the blundering, oblivious characters. Someone at a party neglects to close a door or other guests decide it's a good idea to explore the cellar during a black out - cut to the remaining partiers being just astounded when bodies start piling up in the corner.
The worst part? This crime scene was preventable.
The Current Measles Craze
28 February 2015 - 3:44pm
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by Richard Moskowitz, M. D.
Because I keep getting frantic calls from parents about this, and even such usually sensible sources as NPR and National Geographic are calling out "anti-vaxxers" as irrational, deluded, or even anti-scientific, the worst insult of all, hitherto applied only to climate deniers and those other yahoos and neanderthals of the Republican persuasion, I feel compelled to throw my own two cents in, and to try to inject at least a modicum of common-sense and sanity into the mix, so I don't need to repeat the same things over and over, even though I have to admit that I've been doing just that for t
Why Divest Is Sitting-In Outside Harvard President Faust’s Office
12 February 2015 - 8:34pm
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by Divest Harvard
Today, over 35 Harvard students are sitting in at Massachusetts Hall, outside President Drew Faust’s office, to demand full divestment from the fossil fuel industry. We sit in because Harvard has a responsibility to do everything in its power to address the climate crisis.
Boston Protest Vigil Against Australia’s Refugee Processing Facility on Manus Island
3 February 2015 - 3:56am
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by Julia Dehm
On 26 January activists braved the beginnings of a ‘crippling and potentially historic’ blizzard to hold a candle-lit vigil outside the ‘Australia Day Boston Dinner’ at the W Hotel in downtown Boston to protest what the United Nations Committee on Torture calls “the unlawful and inhumane treatment of asylum seekers” at an Australian Government-managed detention center on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG).
The Demise of Acute Health Care in Quincy, Massachusetts: Implications for Surviving Community Hospitals
6 January 2015 - 4:56am
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by Sandy Eaton
On Friday evening December 19th at midnight, Quincy Medical Center ceased admitting patients. The last in-patient was discharged on December 23th. QMC was officially closed on December 26th, five days earlier than even the illegally announced December 31st date. Steward Health Care had already shut down QMC’s geri-psych unit several weeks before, as well as its hotly contested surgical unit. The Emergency Department however remains busy. So ended the 124-year history of this fine institution.
Renewable Energy and Feed-In Tariffs Promoting Renewables
3 January 2015 - 4:38am
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by Dave Burt
The energy transition is well underway. At least we thought it was before the mid-term elections. Will those that the fossil fuel industries have in their back pockets be disinclined to vote for resounding incentives for solar and wind ? Here in Massachusetts, solar and wind have been in some ways encouraged by the legislature, assuming their backers have the funds to implement them. Fifth in the nation in the amount of energy we get from solar and that's without the big utility scale arrays that have been deployed in the deserts of California.
Shumlin’s Surrender: Vermont Democrats Go South On Single Payer
23 December 2014 - 4:00am
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by Steve Early
“Vermont…is the only state with universal single-payer health coverage for its residents.”
–James Fallows in The Atlantic, April, 2014
For nearly four years, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin has been basking in the glow of press accolades like the one above.
Unfortunately, what was often misreported nationally as a done deal was far from it in Montpelier, the state’s capital.
All Lives Matter: Against Double Standards
22 December 2014 - 11:19pm
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by Victor Wallis
People speaking for the victims of police violence have unreservedly condemned the recent killing of the two New York City police officers.
People speaking for the police never condemned the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
Cambridge's Policy Order on Bhopal an Admirable Step
2 December 2014 - 7:19pm
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by Umang Kumar
The Bhopal Gas disaster 30 years on - a struggle against apathy, legal labyrinths and corporate evasion
Thirty years mark a generation according to many - there are generational shifts, generational memories and generational lessons. The industrial disaster in 1984 in Bhopal, India, also feels long-ago, not just one but several generations ago.
