BOSTON/Boston Common - About 500 people rallied on the Boston Common at noon Saturday to commemorate May 1st, International Worker’s Day 2010. For the fifth year since the Boston May Day Coalition formed in 2006, the rally and subsequent march brought together a variety of students, workers and other activists. Represented groups included the ANSWER Coalition, the Student Immigrant Movement, the Worcester Immigrant Coalition, United for Justice with Peace and the Boston Anti-Authoritarian Movement (BAAM), among many others.

BOSTON/Boston Common – Nearly 5,000 people descended on the Boston Common last Wednesday morning to attend the last scheduled rally on the third Tea Party Express national tour. The special guest was former Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who spoke to the crowd in the late morning.

BOSTON/Boston Common - Over 125 students, faculty, staff and alumni from several Massachusetts public colleges rallied Monday on Boston Common to pressure the state legislature to increase funding for public higher education. The event was oraganized by the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts.

BOSTON/Boston Common - Approximately 200 people gathered on the corner of Park Street and Tremont Street on evening of December 2 to protest President Barack Obama's decision to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Protesters held lit candles and waved signs reading "War is Always a Defeat for Humanity" and "No We Can't," while speakers from Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, and other Boston-area peace groups addressed the crowd.

BOSTON/Boston Common - Immediately following the yes vote on Maine's Question 1, the "Maine Same-Sex Marriage People's Veto," over 100 Mass. gay marriage advocates held a protest on Boston Common next to the Park Street T stop on Wednesday evening. The question was put on the ballot by Stand for Marriage Maine - a coalition of conservative religious and social organizations - to overturn Maine's recently-passed gay marriage law. It was opposed by the progressive coalition Protect Maine Equality. Both the pro- and anti-Question 1 forces had significant support on the national and state levels during the closely watched campaign - which was widely viewed as a barometer of the prospects for the success of the gay marriage movement around the U.S.

BOSTON/Boston Common and other locations in downtown Boston - Over 1000 people - primarily members of dozens of area unions and allied community organizations - participated in a "Rally for Jobs" last Thursday around downtown Boston. The goal of the public action, according to organizers from the state's main labor federation Mass. AFL-CIO and the labor-community coalition Jobs with Justice, was to "fight against a jobless recovery and demand an economy that works for everyone." The event started with a rally on Boston Common followed by a march to another rally in front of Verizon headquarters in Post Office Square and concluded with another march to the Hyatt Regency hotel near Chinatown where the marchers met up with over 200 members of the UNITEHERE hotel workers union for a boisterous protest against Hyatt Corporation's recent firing of 100 longtime employees who were immediately replaced with contract workers.

BOSTON/Boston Common - In the parlance of journalism, the following is called burying the lead. But I’m confident you’ll understand.

Moments after his announcement event was over, and participants and press were packing up to leave, I asked a young supporter wearing an “Alan Khazei for Senate” t-shirt if I could check the label. Sure enough, the shirts worn by more than a hundred Khazei supporters gathered out on the Boston Common today were union made by members of the United Food and Commercial Union, textile division.

BOSTON/Boston Common - Over 5000 members of labor unions, Democratic Party chapters and health care advocacy organizations gathered on the Boston Common for a Health Care Rally on Labor Day. The event was called to shore up regional support for a public health care option - though not a single-payer option - in the proposed national health care reform plan being pushed by President Barack Obama and Democratic Party leaders.

Boston Common-Sept. 7, 2009
About one thousand concerned citizens gathered on Boston Common today to voice their demand for universal health care for all.

BOSTON/Boston Common - Approximately twenty members of the Free Software Foundation and supporters of free open source software gathered at the entrance to Boston Common from the Public Garden Wednesday to erect a giant trash bin into which they threw representations of proprietary software like Microsoft Windows 7, Mac OS X and the iPhone. The demonstration marked the launch of their Windows 7 Sins campaign, which identifies seven negative cultural impacts of Microsoft's proprietary software ecosystem and encourages users to use free software instead.