Locals have until Oct 19 to say ‘No Public Bribes to Corporate Scofflaws’ Fresh off of throwing tens of millions of dollars at General Electric, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker are now planning to enter the international horse race to convince Amazon to let the city and the commonwealth shovel […]
UNIVERSALIZING RESISTANCE
A Q+A with BC sociology professor Charles Derber on his new book Why did you decide to publish a book on “universalizing resistance” at this particular moment in history? Because our survival is at stake. Universalizing resistance is a path toward dismantling the militarized capitalism before it wipes us all out. Climate change and […]
EVERY DAY IS LABOR DAY
DigBoston commits to expanding coverage of workers and unions For the past many years, I’ve written an annual Labor Day editorial for whatever publication I’m running at the time. And it’s always a relentlessly depressing exercise. Because there just hasn’t been much good news for working people in decades. Since the 1970s, […]
THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING
Photo by Kori Feener Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk in most of the news media, Saturday’s 40,000-strong Boston protests against extremism—and the tiny ultra-right rally that sparked them— were only wins […]
A PROTEST BY ANY OTHER NAME…
The best way to defeat the ultra right is to stop playing their game Street protest is a vital part of any genuinely democratic political system. But how and when people choose to demonstrate (or counterdemonstrate) determines the tactic’s relative success or failure. So in a situation like this week’s, when the ultra […]
PINCH MINI!
Boston’s Alternative to Punch Buggy So you’re tooling around town on a summer evening with nothing to do, but you’re sick of playing Punch Buggy—the ancient game where you shout “PUNCH BUGGY” and the color of any Volkswagen Beetle you see… followed by a (mock) punch to whatever part of any nearby companion’s anatomy […]
STRIKE. IRON. HOT.
You don’t need a union to take action for justice on the job
REAL RIDESHARING
Evolving the way the world moves … beyond Uber (and Lyft)
GETTING TO BIKE
Urban multimodal network needed to make bicycles a viable alternative in the ’burbs
PRESS FAIL: AS GE CEO STEPS DOWN, BOSTON JOURNALISTS MUST DO THEIR JOB
After all the prattle by fawning journalists about the days of wine and roses to come, it turns out that the various moves GE CEO Jeff Immelt made to reinvent the conglomerate as an “innovation” company came at the expense of a significant drop in profits.
