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.
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FIGHT WHERE YOU STAND
Organizing for democracy on the job can spark a movement for democracy nationwide.
SPECIAL FEATURE: RETURN TO DEWEY SQUARE
In 2011, thousands of New Englanders occupied an obscure slice of Boston and became leaders in a national movement against greed. Five years later, we asked some of those activists to reflect on their radical protest camp experiment.
STREET FIGHT: STUDENTS DISSATISFIED WITH POLITICS AS USUAL WILL FIND PLENTY OF GRASSROOTS ACTION IN BOSTON
Want to fight for social justice, but not sure where to plug in?
APPARENT HORIZON: CABLE JEOPARDY
Now that broadband internet is a public utility, both cable companies and telephone companies need to pay for public access television — not try to defund it
LIQUOR LICENSE UPDATE: THE THIRSTY GAMES CONTINUE
After failed attempt to give Boston control of licenses, liquor laws still stuck in last century
WITH RESIGNATION OF BLS HEADMASTER, SOME IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER
The world outside of Latin School would still have no idea about any of this if not for some extremely brave students
UNACCOMMODATING: A BLS STORY
The Hub’s most elite high school has been under growing scrutiny for its apparent neglect to properly address a culture of racial intolerance. While federal investigators probe that issue, this story of a former Boston Latin School student with special needs raises additional points of concern about another minority population at BLS.
STATE OF THE BOSTON COMEDY UNION
Seven comics. Two hours. One historic summit on the state of stand-up comedy in the Hub.
IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY GROUP OF CAMBRIDGE PROVIDES MODEL FOR MUNICIPAL HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM
On the one hand, the United States is a more diverse society than at any other point in its history. On the other, we're witnessing a presidential campaign where Donald Trump has captured the Republican nomination in part by whipping up hysteria against immigrants.