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by Tara García Mathewson | 19 Dec 2014 - 3:42am

BOSTON - Massachusetts incarcerates a higher portion of its population than nearly every country in the world.

by Haley Hamilton | 10 Dec 2014 - 11:24pm

BOSTON/South Boston - Organizers and supporters of No Boston Olympics, the local grassroots group protesting the city’s recent bid to host the 2024 summer games, gathered outside the Institute of Contemporary Art Monday night before the Boston Glo

by Doug Enaa Greene | 7 Dec 2014 - 1:00am

On November 1, 2014 activist and writer Ron Jacobs provided a radical synopsis of the 1960s in hopes of sparking a lively discussion at the Center for Marxist Education in Cambridge, MA.

by Tara García Mathewson | 6 Dec 2014 - 10:20pm

BOSTON - A gruesome kidnapping in Mexico in late September is causing a ripple of outrage worldwide. In Boston, local protesters are using the disappearance of 43 students as an opportunity to call for the US government to stop funding the drug war in that country.

by Sarah Zheng, Somerville Neighborhood News | 6 Dec 2014 - 12:04am

Somerville, Mass. – The proposed citywide ban on plastic shopping bags took a step forward on Nov. 20 at the meeting of the Board of Aldermen’s Environment and Energy Special Committee.

by Elijah Kaplan, Somerville Neighborhood News | 6 Dec 2014 - 12:01am

Somerville, Mass. - Somerville is going through changes. With the Green Line coming soon, the redevelopment of Union Square and new businesses moving into Assembly Square, property values are skyrocketing across the city.

by Umang Kumar | 2 Dec 2014 - 7:19pm

The Bhopal Gas disaster 30 years on - a struggle against apathy, legal labyrinths and corporate evasion

by Leonardo March | 28 Nov 2014 - 11:15pm

BOSTON - Over one thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the Boston Police Department Area B2 station in Dudley Square on Tuesday evening to protest the failure of a St.

by Jason Pramas | 26 Nov 2014 - 11:09pm

For many of the last 30 years, I have been in leadership of various movements for democracy and social justice in and around my hometown of Boston.

by Tara García Mathewson and Leonardo March | 23 Nov 2014 - 6:33pm

Cambridge, Mass. - Housekeepers at the Harvard-owned DoubleTree Suites by Hilton complain of injury at a far higher rate than their peers at other hotels. They are responsible for cleaning more rooms than their fellow housekeepers in the area.

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