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Infographic: The Gender Wage Gap
It’s 2012 and close to four years after the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law. Surely, the gender wage gap has been closed, right? Wrong. Even with moves toward equalizing pay
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More Than Just Schools: Financial Education and Cultural Capital
September’s print edition of the Boston Occupier focused primarily on education—an area where the poor and underprivileged find themselves ingrained into a system of institutionalized inequality, both of opportunity and resources. The scandal of student debt
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The Intersection of Education and Social Justice
For the September print edition of the Boston Occupier, we asked a few teachers and students from the Boston area to respond to this prompt: “How do education and social justice intersect today?” Below are
Read More »Free School University Saturday 21, 2012: Citizens United Summit
A Rally and Summit to Unite Citizens for Democracy On the January 21 anniversary of the Citizens United decision, a wide coalition of groups will stand together for GETTING MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
Read More »Pilot Project Engages Distant Suburbs
by Matt Cloyd Last night, Jason Potteiger and Phil Anderson of Occupy Boston hosted an Occupy Boston “house party” in Needham, MA. The house party was a pilot run of an effort to bring
Read More »Upcoming Free Classes
All FSU classes meet at the FSU tent, end of the garden, street side of Dewey Park. Special Offering from Effective Deep Green Resistance:A Strategy Conversation Friday, October 7 — 1:00-4:00 pm Location: Deep
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