There are three major structural problems out of the control of impoverished individuals that best explain the rise of homelessness in Massachusetts: savage cuts to our state mental health system, an economy that creates large numbers of bad low-wage jobs, and the destruction of affordable housing.
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REMEMBERING THE HUB’S ADORABLE AND EXPLOITED NEWSIES
Through the warts and beauty of it all (but mostly the warts), street photographer, sociologist, and activist Lewis Wickes Hine focused on the seedy underworld of child news distribution
TEMPORARY RADICALS? DISAFFECTED DEMS NEED TO STAY IN THE STREETS AFTER THE GOP MENACE IS BEATEN BACK
As long as the new Republican administration remains somewhere within the bounds of traditional American politics, there is a lot of room for the full panoply of transformative social movements to maneuver.
50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE: AN ORAL HISTORY OF HALEY HOUSE
“First we saw that people were homeless and needed a place to stay. Then we saw that they were hungry and they needed food. Then we figured out that people needed permanent housing. And then jobs.”
THREAT LEVEL: HYPOTHETICAL
It was a standard public information request … until the state set up a maze to block one intrepid reporter’s access to records
WHY NATIVISM REMAINS THE POLITICS OF THE SCOUNDREL
Unless you’re Native American ... then your family crashed a country that used to belong to someone else.
A VERY SPECIAL MEDIA FARM: ALTERNATIVE SPIN
Heads are looking for a place to turn. A hopeful place, but also outlets that are down to scrap.
DEMOCRATIZE AMERICA
The fight to save the nation and the planet doesn’t stop on Election Day
DEAR READER: 11/3/2016
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UMASS CAMBRIDGE: MAKING HARVARD UNIVERSITY PUBLIC WILL SOLVE ITS WORKERS’ PROBLEMS—AND THE COMMONWEALTH’S HIGHER ED CRISIS
If you really want to help the Harvard dining hall workers and much of the population of Massachusetts in the bargain, help start political movements to demand structural reform of the state university system.