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Notes from the New War Generation
I was born in 1991. I’ve lived over half my life in a nation at war. Starting in 2001, when I was just ten years old, the War on Terror and it’s two biggest projects
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CL/VU Protests Suero Eviction Hearing
Early Thursday morning, a group of two dozen protesters met on the Edward Brooke courthouse in downtown Boston to protest the eviction of the Suero family, an immigrant Dominican family living in Dorchester who are
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Indigenous Rights Movement “Idle No More” Comes to MA State House
On Friday, January 11, 30 activists gathered at the Massachusetts State House to participate in a global day of action in solidarity with First Nations, a collection of over 600 indigenous communities in Canada,
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New Technology, Old Philosophy Power Occupy Sandy Relief Effort
Natural disasters have a way of uniting people. Consider the United States after Hurricane Katrina, or the tornadoes that decimated Joplin, Missouri in in 2011: although both instances (but especially Katrina) were marked by
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On Hunger Strike in Colombia
November 28 was a national day of action to support the struggle of 12 former workers at the General Motors Colmotores plant in Colombia. These workers have sewn their lips shut–again–to protest the company
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Florida’s CIW Helps Protect Tomato Pickers
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2012 issue of Dollars & Sense magazine. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a non-profit worker’s rights organization in South Florida, was able to celebrate another victory in October
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NYU/Stanford Study Highlights Civilian Drone Casualties
At the beginning of 2012, the U.S. experienced a watershed moment in the history of its eight year old Drone program: the President of the United States acknowledged, for the first time, that it
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PHOTOS: #S17, View from a Novice’s Phone
Since every other media outlet has professional reporters and photographers in Manhattan for #s17, we at the Boston Occupier decided to do something different and let a first-time OWS attendee handle photo-taking for the day’s
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For Malden Tenants Union, Summer Finds Some Success But Few Answers
Click here to read more of the Boston Occupier’s original coverage of Malden/Medford Tenants United. MALDEN, MA — After four months of organizing against rent hikes at her Malden apartment complex, Barbara Avery was
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