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Sunday Reads
SUNDAY READS: Sundays are for reading the paper. This week’s favorites: 1.“Surviving City Cycling” by Kendra Moyer http://wp.me/p20Z1k-2RY 2. “Peace Warrior” by Sage Radachowsky http://wp.me/p20Z1k-2RS 3. “Criminalizing Black Freedom: Assata Shakur on the FBI’s
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Months After Break-in, Free Bike Shop is Ready to Reopen
Dora Cacioppo arrived at The Community Spoke!, a volunteer-run free bike shop at 10 Boylston Place in Jamaica Plain, on a Tuesday last November to find the door open and the lights on. At
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Sunday Reads: Sundays are for Reading the Paper
Today, Sunday April 21, I’m launching Sunday reads, a weekly short highlighting articles written by The Boston Occupier Free Press journalists. From our desk to your hands. Here are this week’s favorites: 1. “CISPA
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Honoring Political Prisoners
Political prisoners are people incarcerated for their political commitments and oppositional actions which fight against social injustices, colonialism and imperialism. While incarcerated, political prisoners adhere to their political beliefs. The United States has incarcerated
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America the Great… Global Arms Dealer
The American imperial system incorporates much more than supporting the occasional coup or undertaking the occasional war. Coups, wars, assassinations and other forms of overt and covert violence and destabilization, while relatively common and
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99% Spotlight: Emad Burnat’s 5 Broken Cameras
A car alarm is heard, and the sound of running. The camera jiggles from side to side as if it were bouncing on the back of a horse. After a few moments, the camera
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The Perils of Pot Prohibition
At the end of 2011, there were over 7 million inmates, parolees, and probationers under supervision by our nation’s corrections system. Out of these millions, over 1.5 million people were doing their time for
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Next Theme Announcement!
Greetings Readers! The next print edition of the Boston Occupier—which will hit the streets at the end of April—will focus on Alternative Transportation. The Boston Occupier editors seek submissions on any number of subjects related to
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Jim Crow for Kids: Schools Prepare Children for Life Behind Bars
Gone are the days of children dreading a trip to the principal’s office or spending their lunch time in detention. Instead, children are now facing the possibility of being dragged out of their classrooms
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End of An Era for Boston Media as Phoenix Shuts Down
By Tate Williams, Mar-15-13 Originally posted by OpenMediaBoston.com BOSTON – When the Boston Phoenix announced it was shutting down Thursday afternoon—after nearly 50 years of often being at the cutting edge of alternative
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