In the long relay race of oppressed communities and the global working class, Chuck Turner picked up the baton in the 1960s as a young activist in the Northern Student Movement (a wing of the civil rights movement). By Christmas Day 2019 when he walked on, that beginning had been eclipsed by a series of powerful base-building projects—many that at once challenged the ruling class while creatively empowering the excluded and the exploited.
DEESCALATING THE HARVARD CRIMSON BOYCOTT
Alternatives for feuding student immigrant advocates and journalists As someone who has been both a journalist and a left-wing political activist for a long time, I suppose it’s inevitable that I would feel the need to weigh in on a debate currently raging between Harvard immigrant advocates and the independent Harvard student […]
MADAME GANDHI: THE FUTURE IS FEMALE (AND SHE’LL PUT UP A FIGHT)
The solo musician, activist, and former M.I.A. drummer knows the future is worth fighting for and she knows how to get us there.
BREAK THE CHAINS: BOSTON’S ALL GENDER, ALL GENRE DANCE PARTY
“This dance party is about breaking down the systems that oppress and divide us and having a ton of fun while doing it … This is not a gay dance party or a lesbian night. It’s an event for people of all genders and sexualities to come together around awesome music, social justice, and community.”
THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES: OLIVIA THIRLBY STARS IN—AND BELIEVES IN—EVE ENSLER’S NEW PLAY “O.P.C.”
Photo By Gretjen Helene If Blake Lively were sitting in front of me and describing her latest role as “my favorite,” I might be wont to dismiss it as a flippant remark, something like a friend offhandedly reassuring you that she just loves her new shoes. But Romi, the unapologetic, radical-minded, free-loving freegan of Eve […]
THE FREEGAN DIALOGUES
Olivia thirlby stars in—and believes in—Eve Ensler’s new play “O.P.C.”
