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Occupy Boston

A BRIEF MEDITATION ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 20, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Image for Occupy meditation. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2021 Jason Pramas.

And the possibility of its return

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: 1%, 99%, anarchism, Andrei Tarkovsky, anniversary, Apparent Horizon, Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter, Boston, capitalism, Column, corporation, Democracy, Film, future, global warming, history, HOPE, international, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Meditation, novel, Occupy, Occupy Boston, Open Media Boston, Politics, Protest, rebellion, reflection, Revolt, socialism, Solaris, Stanisław Lem, usa, worker, working class, working people

SPECIAL FEATURE: RETURN TO DEWEY SQUARE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 30, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials

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.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction, Specials Tagged With: 2011, anniversary, Biddy Early's, BINJ, Boston, Boston 2024, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Dewey Square, intersectional politics, Occupy, Occupy Boston, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Protest, Return to Dewey, sink incident

INTERVIEW WITH MIKE CONNOLLY: THE FIRST OCCUPIER ON BEACON HILL

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted September 9, 2016 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“I guess you’d have to ask those institutions what they didn’t see.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #mapoli, 26th Middlesex, Activism, Beacon Hill, Cambridge, Mike Connolly, Occupy Boston, SOMERVILLE, Tim Toomey

THE SHAME OF OUR CITY: HOW BOSTON FAILED BELLA BOND AND BEYOND

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted September 21, 2015 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, News

With another cold front coming, the city doesn’t only need a better plan

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Free Radical, News Tagged With: Baby Bella, Bella Bond, Boston, Homeless, Long Island, mayor Marty Walsh, Occupy Boston, Southampton Street

SUPREME CLIENTELE

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted March 12, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Steve Onderick documents the man, the myth, the meme for 2016 ...

Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Chicago, Chris Faraone, DNC, documentary, Erik Angra, Jimmy McMillan, NATO, Newt Gingrich, Occupy Boston, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Rainbow Gathering, RNC, Rob Potylo, Steve Onderick, The Rent Is Too Damn High, Vermin Supreme

FROM TOP TO BOTTOM RANKS, BPD IS CLUELESS

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted January 6, 2015 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

"The protests, demonstrations and riots, well this too shall pass. That is of course until the next one."

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Black Lives Matter, Boston Police, BPD, BPD Commissioner Evans, BPPA, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Occupy Boston, Pax Centurion, protests

MEDIA FARM: DAN REA IS THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE IN THE BOSTON MEDIA

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 2, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image by Tak Toyoshima

 

We’re kidding with that headline. Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports is obviously the pinkest asshole in Hub media, having tweeted for drivers to run over demonstrators who tried blocking I-93 last week. That said, you already know this, and Portnoy embraces it, so we thought ...  read more

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #boston4ferguson, Barstool Sports, biggest asshole, Black Lives Matter, Boston Media, Dan Rea, Ferguson, hub media, nightside, Occupy Boston, Occupy Wall Street, protests, talk radio

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