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Pick up the Latest Issue of the Boston Occupier!
View this post for a list + map of pick-up locations for the Boston Occupier's latest print issues!
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Learning From Missteps: the Eviction of Occupy LA
This blog post was originally published here on January 28, 2013. I’ve been thinking a lot about Occupy, lately. Perhaps it’s the slow, plodding force of a familiar New England winter allowing me to
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Sustainable Food Is a Full-Time Job, Campus Cooks Say
This article originally appeared in Labor Notes. On the American University campus in Washington, D.C., a movement is growing to make the university accountable for food sustainability—and it begins with the workers who cook
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CARTOON: Spreading Extremism
“Spreading Extremism” by Kip Lyall. To see more of Kip’s work, visit his website
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Greece in Crisis: An Interview with Despina Lalaki
In early January 2013, Doug Enaa Greene of the Boston Occupier interviewed Despina Lalaki on the current situation in Greece. Despina Lalaki is a sociology doctoral candidate at The New School University and Lecturer at the
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Statement: Why We Got Arrested at the University of Chicago
This article first appeared in the Occupied Chicago Tribune. Four protesters demanding an expansion of trauma care services on the South Side were arrested during a sit-in at the University of Chicago Medical Center
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Wildcat Winter: How The Walmart Labor Struggle is Going Global
Originally published by Waging Nonviolence. “Workers of the world unite!” says the traditional slogan of the Industrial Workers of the World. The Wobblies, since their founding in 1905, have envisioned a global union capable
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Labor Activists Protest Harvard Layoffs, Citing Discrimination
Published by Open Media Boston on January 18, 2013 at http://openmediaboston.org/node/2503. Cambridge, Mass. – Labor activists, Harvard University employees, and friends and family rallied today in Cambridge to protest the laying off of three University
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Will the Dudley Municipal Center Project Revitalize Roxbury?
This article first appeared in Spare Change News. The Roxbury community has a 300-year-long history, starting out as a colonial town and later, in the 19th century, becoming part of the city of Boston.
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