“If I had a dime for every meal or cup of coffee I’ve generated in the North End, I’d have a boat by now.”
IN FEAR OF LOSING THEIR VOICES, BOSTON FREEDOM TRAIL GUIDES UNITE AND SPEAK UP (WHILE THEY STILL CAN)
UMASS BOSTON DISPATCH
The mayor, the music, and a mission under threat
At this year’s UMass Boston Convocation ceremony, special guest Mayor Marty Walsh was greeted by a multimedia musical performance that captured both what is so precious about UMB and what is now under threat.
First came the music: The UMB Chamber ...
WALLIS ON DEMOCRACY AND ECOSOCIALISM: TWO URGENT BOOKS FOR A WORLD COMING UNHINGED
The labor and ecological movements must converge, Wallis argues, despite a fraught history pitting “Jobs” against “the Environment.”
OPINION: THE HOT HATCHET IN MY FATHER’S CHEST (YES ON QUESTION 1)
It’s been over a decade now, but still my dad says it was the worst night of his life.
It wasn’t the night of his heart attack, or the night of his open-heart surgery (a quadruple bypass). It came after that, as he lay awake in the cardiac ICU, ...
‘IF WE DON’T GET NO CONTRACT—YOU DON’T GET NO PEACE’
This raucous crowd on the picket line—four to five hundred last Friday at the Ritz—are the very people who work in these fancy hotels, providing black-tie service with a smile, the very people who make the booming hospitality industry move.
PRESSURE FROM BELOW
“People in this country are being taught to think that they don’t deserve pensions, that they don’t deserve good health care coverage ... But it doesn’t have to be this way.”
GUEST FEATURE: UMASS BOSTON’S LAST REMAINING PAINTER
It used to be that Flaherty was part of a crew of five UMB painters. Together they handled everything from repainting offices for new faculty hires to cleaning up the occasional graffiti to preparing the campus for open houses, making sure that visitors would get only the best impression.
DEFENDING THE SPACE WHERE DREAMS CAN BLOOM
9/14/17 UMB rally protestors
UMass Boston prof criticizes move to balance budget by cancelling courses
The following speech was given at a Sept. 14 rally at UMass Boston in support of the release of a new report by the Coalition ...
