99 Voices is a project to give voice to the people in Boston who call themselves “The 99 Percent." The project will document the stories of 99 participants in the #OccupyBoston movement, as told in their own words.

Rug hooking has a long history as a traditional domestic craft, but about twenty women from the Canadian province of New Brunswick have put a new spin on it. They practice rug hooking as a contemporary art form.

They call themselves Les Hookeuses du Bor’de’lo or, wryly, “The Hookers,” and use the age-old rug hooking technique to create unique mats, tapestries, and wall hangings. Their designs range from the realistic to the abstract. Their palette runs the gamut from pale ivory to vibrant blues and crimson. Their choice of such materials as metal is sometimes unorthodox. Like other 21st century artists, they refuse to be confined by past practices.

99 Voices is a project to give voice to the people in Boston who call themselves “The 99 Percent." The project will document the stories of 99 participants in the #OccupyBoston movement, as told in their own words.

If I’d ever stopped to think about it, I might have figured out what dance and drawing have in common. The similarity is not immediately apparent, but both art forms depend on composition, line, rhythm, focus, creativity, and an understanding of spatial relationships. Moreover, you don’t have to be an expert to enjoy dancing or drawing, or "Dance/Draw," the latest exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA).

99 Voices is a project to give voice to the people in Boston who call themselves “The 99 Percent." The project will document the stories of 99 participants in the #OccupyBoston movement, as told in their own words.

Each week Open Media Boston will post stories from #OccupyBoston collected by the 99 Voices Project.

99 Voices is a project to give voice to the people in Boston who call themselves “The 99 Percent." The project will document the stories of 99 participants in the #OccupyBoston movement, as told in their own words.

Each Sunday Open Media Boston will post stories from #OccupyBoston collected by the 99 Voices Project.

Somerville, Mass. - Photo essay of the 6th Annual HONK! Festival of Activist Street Bands on Saturday.

“The Guard” (shouldn’t that be, The Garda?) is a terrific Irish film that showcases Brendan Gleeson, a wry and splendid actor who plays a small time village cop, Sergeant Gerry Boyle. (The film was a critical and popular hit in Ireland.) When three drug traffickers make their way to his area, he suddenly has to deal with the rather up-tight FBI agent Wendell Everett played with fitting cultural confusion by Don Cheadle.

"No Word for Welcome: The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy" by writer and formerly Boston-based organizer Wendy Call covers a range of topics better known of than they are understood: indigenous struggles to preserve livelihoods, environments, language and identity; resistance to corporate globalization; popular education, bi-lingualism and interculturalism; and, in an older frame, development and underdevelopment. Through a nuanced and textured recounting of conversations and their contexts, Wendy remaps the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico’s Deep South while surfacing each of these topics.

Come share your energies at the 5th monthly Peña Rebelde at the encuentro 5 movement space on September 10th at 7 p.m., a gathering of souls in verse and rebellion. Gabrilla Ballard-Thakore, a recent transplant to Boston from New Orleans, will share her singer-songwriter creations. Gabrilla's music, an imaginative hybrid of her musical inspirations--from Bob Marley to Nina Simone - will delve into where she comes from and where she's going, not only as a musician, but as an activist and mother.