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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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Hong Kong Dockers Claim Victory
Published on May 7th on Labornotes at http://www.labornotes.org/2013/05/hong-kong-dockers-claim-victory. A 40-day strike of more than 500 dockworkers at the Port of Hong Kong ended yesterday with a settlement that included a 9.8 percent wage increase, non-retaliation against
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Surviving City Cycling
Cycling in a city like Boston, with a dense population and a constant maze of traffic, must be approached with both intuition and common sense. Beyond the general rules of wearing a helmet
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Peace Warrior
Carlos Arredondo of Roslindale is the man in the cowboy hat in the most famous photo from the Boston Marathon bombings. In the photo, he is rescuing Jeff Bauman, who lost both of his
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Amity on Three Wheels
These days, it seems like just about everything in our society is designed to keep us apart from one another. As a fellow pedicabber remarked recently—ironically enough, using Facebook— “…the more we interact with
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Criminalizing Black Freedom: Assata Shakur on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List
On Thursday, May 2, 2013, Eric Holder’s Justice Department re-opened a 40-year-old case, adding Assata Shakur to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List alongside an inflated reward to $2 million for Shakur’s capture, rehashing
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The Slow Track to High Speed Rail
In April 2009, President Obama stood with Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and announced his grand vision for a national high-speed rail system. Less than 100 days into
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SUNDAY READS
SUNDAY READS: Sundays are for reading the paper. This week’s favorites: 1. “What Would Wanna Say about Cyclist Machismo?” by Wanna. Middle-finger Up, Street Harassment Down. http://wp.me/p20Z1k-2Pp 2. “’Human Beings Have No Right to Water’
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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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April Days of Action: Drones and the Bigger Picture
The Network to Stop Drone Surveillance and Warfare (NSDSW) called for protests against drone attacks throughout the month of April. NSDSW was formed in December 2012 in New York City as a coalition
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