Rebuilding the Labor Movement
Greg KingSave Our Unions: Dispatches from a Movement in Distressby Steve EarlyNew York: Monthly Review Press, 2013 At the beginning of 2013, American workers were reeling from body blows -- in Michigan...
View Article2/1: Philippines Benefit and Climate Change Awareness Event
Jill GavrilescuWe Are Music will be presenting a one evening festival of events with 100% of ticket proceeds to benefit rebuilding efforts in the Philippines post-Typhoon Haiyan. The event will be held...
View ArticleFilm: Omar - One-Night Engagement This Friday (2/28)
Katherine HannaThe Boston Palestine Film Festival Proudly Presents A One-Night Only, Limited Engagement of the Oscar-Nominated Palestinian Film ... Omar by Hany Abu Assad2013 | Drama | 98...
View ArticleFILM: Shadows of Liberty - 3 Boston Area Screenings Starting 2/28
Debra BrownJoin filmmaker Jean-Philippe Tremblay for three Boston area screenings of the documentary feature Shadows of Liberty - co-sponsored by Open Media Boston.
View ArticleSpinachCon Wants You: To Help Make Free Software Better
Deb NicholsonDo you ever wish the free software was just a little bit better? As a longtime free software advocate, I certainly have had this thought many times. Sometimes nothing can be done because a...
View ArticleLibrePlanet Free Software Conference Coming to Cambridge, March 22-23
Libby Reinish, Free Software Foundation
View ArticleOpen Media Boston's June 1st Fundraiser Features Unique Talents
David GoodmanIn his song “A Brief History of the Orange Line” David Rovics tells the story of how activists prevented state and federal transportation officials from building an eight lane highway...
View Article6/12 Book Talk: Steve Early on "Save Our Unions"
EditorHow can we save our unions? Find out at a book talk and discussion of progressive labor initiatives in Massachusetts and other states.Date: Thursday, June 12thTime: 7 p.m.Porter Square...
View ArticleTRAVEL: NY (July 2014): Brooklyn Museum, Fireworks, A Subtlety
Sue KatzTHURSDAY JULY 3The drive from Boston to NYC is endless and difficult – and I’m just the passenger! It may take fewer hours than other trips I’ve been known to take, but it’s more daunting what...
View Article2014 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Rally and March, 8/23, 2 p.m.
Sergio Reyes2014 Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Rally and MarchSaturday, August 23Boston Common Visitor CenterBoston, MARally 2:00 p.m. followed by a March to the North End for more speakers and musicMark...
View ArticleLas Vegas: Wealth Disparity in all its Glitter
Sue KatzLas Vegas is one of the top tourist spots in the world – and offers visitors a chance to visit “papier-mâché” versions of Venice, Paris, Rome, and Egypt without leaving the USA. It is also the...
View ArticleEVENT: United Story - Boston Beyond Today
United Story ProjectUnited Story Project is organizing a series of events this winter around the country, to share documentary art based on people's personal experience with systemic racism and police...
View ArticleEVENT: "Voices of Homeless" Fundraiser, March 4, 6 p.m.
EditorVoices of Homeless will be hosting a fundraiser on Wednesday, March 4, 6 - 8 p.m. at the Out of the Blue Too Art Gallery & More, 541 Mass Ave., in Central Square, Cambridge.This event is to...
View ArticleEVENT: Iyad Burnat to Speak on Non-Violent Resistance in Palestine
variousFor ten years the residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in have held weekly non-violent protests against the confiscation of their land and destruction of their olive trees.For ten years...
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