Monthly Archives: March 2012 »
Kiss Me, I’m 99% Irish! St. Patricks Day Peace Parade Marches Through South Boston
A marching band strikes up a tune at the St. Patrick’s Day Peace Parade on March 18, 2012. The parade drew about 1000 people to South Boston. (Photo: D.J. Buschini) More than one thousand
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PHOTOS: Occupy Boston Women’s March; 2 Arrested
Occupy Boston held a rally and march on Tuesday, March 20, to show solidarity with women at Occupy Wall Street who have been victims of police abuse. Several spoke of Cecily McMillan, a protester
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A People’s Movement for Housing Justice Builds in Chicago
This article is form the Occupied Media news wire. It was original published over at the Occupied Chicago Tribune. Amid the urban sprawl and industrial decay that have come to mark Chicago, a growing
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OBTV: Occupy the T
Doug Enaa Greene hosts a discussion on the MBTA’s planned service cuts and fare increases with Occupy the T’s Joe Ramsey, Occupy Somerville’s Cat Mead and Billy Gahagen, a T rider
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No Democracy in Michigan?
A vital but drastically under-reported political fight in the USA today is that of the unprecedented attacks on local democracy by the governor of Michigan. The 2011 expansions of the Michigan “emergency financial manager”
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#Occupied: Reports From the Front Lines
YOUR WEEKLY ROUNDUP OF OCCUPY MOVEMENT NEWS This week in Occupy, we turned six months old – and law enforcement noticed, Occupy Seattle’s Chase 5 was found not guilty, spring training for the nation’s
Read More »PHOTOS: St. Patrick’s Day Peace Parade
This past Sunday, March 18, many members of Occupy Boston participated in the Saint Patrick’s Day Peace Parade in South Boston, organized by the Smedley D. Butler Brigade of Veterans For Peace. Photos by
Read More »Honoring International Women’s Day with Occupy Boston
March 8 was the 103rd celebration of International Women’s Day, a holiday first originated in 1909 by the Socialist Party of America and later adopted by an International Women’s Conference as an international celebration.
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The Case for Voting
The voting booth is the means by which average Americans can directly affect their federal, state, and local governments. Voting allows Americans to select politicians who represent the views and ideologies that they would
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