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Center for Progressive Organizing Must Seek New Home
“Encuentro Cinco is the beating heart of the Boston progressive community.” As Occupy Boston activist Brian Kwoba spoke these words, several in the circle of grassroots organizers, immigrants’ rights advocates, and occupiers nodded in
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VIDEO: Dan La Botz on Austerity and Resistance
On Saturday, June 30, the Boston branch of Solidarity sponsored an event “Austerity and Resistance: New England Crisis School 2012″ at the Democracy Center. 30 people attended the event, featuring Dan La Botz, a
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Anti-Occupy Police Newsletter Loses Sponsors Over Racist, Sexist Language
The Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association (BPPA) has recently faced critique for offensive remarks printed in its newsletter, the Pax Centurion. Community members have noted that the newsletter, which includes updates about union bargaining and
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“We Won’t Pay for Their Crisis”: Anti-Austerity March in Boston
More than 50 protesters marched through the streets of Boston on Saturday, June 16, to protest austerity measures in Massachusetts and around the world. At different sites around the city, activists spoke out against
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Activists Rally Behind Bill to Fight Foreclosure in Massachusetts
Troubled homeowners may be getting some much-needed assistance in the form of new legislation from Beacon Hill. Last week, the State Senate passed a bill which aims to reduce the amount and severity of
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Resistance at Home and Abroad to Austerity
The Occupy movement has been triggered not only by the economic crisis itself, but, more importantly, by the way that ruling classes around the world have pushed to make workers and poor people pay
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PHOTOS: Boston Dyke March 2012
This past Friday, June 8, the Boston Occupier set up shop at the 2012 Dyke March, “a non-commercial, fundamentally grass-roots alternative to Boston’s Pride celebration,” that, despite the threat of rain, drew a thousand people
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Zinn Lecture Series: Richard Seymour
Richard Seymour is a socialist author from London, England and runs the popular blog Lenin’s Tomb. Seymour is the author of the Liberal Defense of Murder and The Meaning of David Cameron. This is
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Community & Labor Concerns Complicate Re-Licensing of Pilgrim Nuclear Plant
At the edge of the forests that make up much of southeastern Plymouth, on a stretch of land that looks out on Plymouth Bay spilling into Cape Cod Bay, sits the Pilgrim Nuclear Generating
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