34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil And March
“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.” He was kicking off the 34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil at…Continue Reading →
Striking Newton Teachers: ‘We Won’t Break’
Update Feb. 3, 2024: Striking Newton public school teachers won increased pay, increased family leave, and increased mental health supports for students in a tentative contract deal with the city…Continue Reading →
‘Age of Roe’ Surveys Activism For And Against Legal Abortion In U.S.
“The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America” at Harvard Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library’s Poorvu Gallery in Cambridge from Oct. 24, 2022, to March 4,…Continue Reading →
MLK Memorial ‘The Embrace’ Unveiled At Boston Common
“This work is really about the capacity for each of us to be enveloped in love, and I feel enveloped in love every time I hear the names and see…Continue Reading →
Wee The People Anti-Racism Workshops Cancelled By Westwood Schools
Was an Instragram post by Wee The People the reason Westwood Public Schools cancelled anti-racism workshops it had scheduled by the social justice education group? Francie Latour, co-founder and co-director…Continue Reading →
‘Time to Panic!’ Extinction Rebellion Addresses Global Warming
“Earth Day 2022, Time to Panic! The art of protest in the age of climate crisis” at Storefront Art Projects, 83 Spring St. Watertown from April 9 to 30, 2022,…Continue Reading →
Photos: Honk Festival In Somerville, Cambridge And Boston
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, returned yesterday, after taking a year off from live performances to help stem the spread of covid. Bands from around greater Bsoton…Continue Reading →
10th Anniversary Of Occupy Boston
Today is the 10th anniversary of the beginning of Occupy Boston at Boston’s Dewey Square, opposite the Federal Reserve Bank in Boston, on Sept. 30, 2011. It was one of…Continue Reading →
‘Her Flag’ Celebrating Centennial Of Women’s Suffrage At National Museum of Women in the Arts
A flag celebrating the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote within the United States Constitution, will be displayed on the New…Continue Reading →
Trump Mob Attacks Capitol: Eyewitness Videos: Part 1
When a Trump mob attacked and overran the U.S. Capitol to try to stop confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, it was…Continue Reading →