The Boston Pride Parade took place on Saturday around the Boston Common. The Boston Pride Festival was held at City Hall Plaza the same day. Photos of both events follow below.

This is a photo essay of the July 4th 2010 Boston fireworks - shot from the Cambridge side of the Charles River ... directly in front of the fireworks barge.

All photos by Jason Pramas for Open Media Boston. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2010 Jason Pramas.

The following is a photo essay of a rally held outside the Park Street T Station on Saturday. Several Boston area immigrant organizations and supporters originally called the event to protest anti-immigrant legislation recently passed in Arizona, but expanded the protest to include criticism of anti-immigrant immigrant amendments passed last week in the Mass. Senate as part of their version of the annual state budget bill.

Photos of a 4/15/10 Copley Square rally by striking workers from Shaw's.

Open Media Boston Staff Photographer Diana Mai attended two labor pickets at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Cambridge in February and produced the following photo essay.

BOSTON/Fenway - President Obama spoke at Northeastern University's Cabot Gym on Sunday in the hopes of galvanizing people to vote for Martha Coakley for senator. The line of those waiting outside the gym stretched down from Cabot along Huntington Ave and wrapped around Matthews Arena, circling back to Krentzman Quad.

BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - A photo essay of a candlelight vigil called by labor and community organizations on 11/11/09 in support of 100 housekeepers fired from 3 area Hyatt hotels in August after being forced to train their replacements from a subcontracting company. The event was attended by fired workers and their families, members of UNITEHERE Local 26, the Greater Boston Labor Council, and supporters from several religious, community, and labor organizations.