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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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Thank You, Governor Patrick: A Letter to the Governor from an Underpaid Worker
Dear Governor Patrick, My CEO suggested I write you a “thank you” letter for my 23 cent raise. And I really needed it! You’re going to raise fees and the gas tax for the
Read More »Labor Activists Protest Harvard Layoffs, Citing Discrimination
Published by Open Media Boston on January 18, 2013 at http://openmediaboston.org/node/2503. Cambridge, Mass. – Labor activists, Harvard University employees, and friends and family rallied today in Cambridge to protest the laying off of three University
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Massachusetts Women Encounter Great Economic Hardship
This article originally appeared in Spare Change News. Although Cambridge and its sisters Boston and Quincy remain economically prosperous and have a combined population of 830,000 people (including 430,000 women), women still have a higher
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Where are the Citizens in Citizens United?
“In a democracy, the people rule.” – John Harwood, North Shore Move to Amend On October 25, twelve people rallied around a rotary on the North Shore, holding signs that called for a constitutional
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Stop Ignoring the Poor: An Open Letter to Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren
The coming election of our next United States Senator from Massachusetts once again highlights the choices we make as citizens in a democracy. As candidates, your job is to state your position on the
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The Great Strike: Lawrence, 1912
The great Lawrence Textile Strike, a strike of some 25,000 mainly immigrant workers, took place from January to March of 1912. The strike spread rapidly, encompassing nearly every mill within a week. It defied
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Celebrating “Bread and Roses” in Lawrence
LAWRENCE, MA — While many celebrated Labor Day weekend with beach trips and barbeques, the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts did something unusual: it actually commemorated the U.S. labor movement. The “Bread and Roses Heritage
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350.org Launches Massachusetts Network
Cambridge, MA –– Although 350.org has become a global leader in the fight against climate change, its beginnings are modest. “350 started like this, in a circle, in Vermont, in 2006,” said Phil Aroneonu,
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Occupy Homes Comes to Massachusetts
Michael Premo, an enthusiastic organizer for a new initiative called “Occupy Homes”, doesn’t see anything new in what he or other groups are doing to stop foreclosures and evictions. “It started with the Communist
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