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THE YEAR IN LOCAL PROTEST: FROM TRANSPORTATION TO MILITARIZATION

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 21, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Mass unrest, like the Black Lives Matter demonstrations, doesn’t erupt randomly.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #boston4ferguson, #enoughisenough, Black Lives Matter, Boston Common, Chinatown, Darren Wilson, DPH, Eric Garner, Ferguson, gentrification, Israel, Marijuana, Missouri, New York City, organizing, Palestine, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis, Staten Island, year in protest

THE PROTESTS ARE ONLY BEGINNING; MIGHT AS WELL GET TO KNOW THE ACTIVISTS BLOCKING TRAFFIC AROUND BOSTON

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 14, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Images by Chris Faraone unless otherwise noted

 

First some disclaimers for positive measure …

 

This post is not intended to suggest or imply either bonds or divisions between movements or organizations. Members of some groups we included may have ideological differences with ...  read more

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Blackstonian, body cameras, Boston, Boston Globe, BPD, civilian review board, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Mass State Police, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, propaganda, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis

PICS & DISPATCH: HARVARD MARCHES EN MASSE IN SOLIDARITY WITH #BLACKLIVESMATTER MOVEMENT

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 12, 2014 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

On Friday afternoon, Harvard University students will rally in Harvard Yard to show their support to the grassroots, youth-led movement that started in Ferguson, MO and has spread to the entire country - a movement that objects to racist laws, violent police tactics, and systemic inequality.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, #enoughisenough, Black Lives Matter, Cambridge, cranky old white guys, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, harvard, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis, Terry Marshall

MEDIA FARM: WHY IS THE BOSTON GLOBE PRETENDING THAT POLICE VIOLENCE DOESN’T HAPPEN IN MASSACHUSETTS?

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 10, 2014 Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image of stop-and-frisk outside the Boys & Girls Club on Talbot Ave in Dorchester (Nov. ’14)

 

Just a few months ago, the Boston Globe informed us of an ACLU study about the epidemic of stop-and-frisk in the Hub. From their reporting:

 

Boston police officers disproportionately ...  read more

Filed Under: Media Farm, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Globe, BPD, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Mass State Police, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, propaganda, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis

FREE RADICAL: SOME WHITE PROTESTERS STILL DON’T GET IT

Written by EMILY HOPKINS Posted December 9, 2014 Filed Under: Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS

“All it takes is one push.”

 

The police were out numbered many times over last week, and that’s all it would have taken to push past them and lead the masses onto an on-ramp and beyond. The two men having this conversation, in a way pleading those surrounding them to nudge ahead, were ...  read more

Filed Under: Free Radical, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #boston4ferguson, #enoughisenough, Black Lives Matter, Darren Wilson, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Missouri, New York City, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis, Staten Island

ON THE GROUND AT #ENOUGHISENOUGH, FROM BOSTON COMMON TO EVERYWHERE IT TAKES US

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 5, 2014 Filed Under: News

Images by Chris Faraone

 

It was inevitable that some kind of protest mix involving numerous fronts — housing, homelessness, fair wages, etc. — would culminate in the kind of HOLY FUCKING SHIT IS THIS BOSTON? moment that is currently underway downtown.

 

 

As you read ...  read more

Filed Under: News Tagged With: #enoughisenough, #occupyboston, Black Lives Matter, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis

DISPATCH & ANALYSIS: #ENOUGHISENOUGH WAS LARGEST HUB PROTEST IN 10 YEARS, AND MAYBE EVEN BOSTON’S BIGGEST ANTI-RACISM ACTION IN DECADES

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 5, 2014 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Images by Chris Faraone

 

You should probably ignore any individual or lone reporter who attempts to inform you about the demonstrations that snaked through Boston, Cambridge, and even a few corners of Somerville last night.

 

Like me, those folks may have witnessed segments of the ...  read more

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: #boston4ferguson, #enoughisenough, Black Lives Matter, Darren Wilson, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Missouri, New York City, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis, Staten Island

PICS & DISPATCH: PARK STREET FAST FOOD STRIKE FORESHADOWS THURSDAY #ENOUGHISENOUGH RALLY IN BOSTON

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 4, 2014 Filed Under: News

Images by Chris Faraone

 

This afternoon’s fast food worker strike at the Burger King across from Park Street was kind of like the slogan on those juvenile old Co-Ed Naked Tennis t-shirts: They were in, they were out, it was over.

 

Short as their lunchtime rally was, workers with ...  read more

Filed Under: News Tagged With: #enoughisenough, Black Lives Matter, Boston Common, burger king, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Fight For 15, food unionism, hospitality workers, labor, minimum wage, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, SEIU, St. Louis

#ENOUGHISENOUGH: RALLY FOR JUSTICE SCHEDULED TO COINCIDE WITH BOSTON COMMON TREE LIGHTING

Written by SUSANNA JACKSON Posted December 4, 2014 Filed Under: A+E, News

Photo By Jacob Leidolf

 

On Thursday, December 4, Boston’s 73rd annual official tree lighting takes place in the Boston Common from 6 to 8 p.m. But, honestly, who right now gives a shit about a glowing Nova Scotian sapling?

 

Yesterday marked the end of the criminal case against New York police ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, News Tagged With: #enoughisenough, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Common Lighting Ceremony, Boston high school students, Cambridge, Codman Academy, Darren Wilson, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis

ONE WEEK LATER: LOOKING BACK ON THE MASSIVE #BOSTON4FERGUSON RALLY BEFORE LOOKING FORWARD

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted December 2, 2014 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

There’s no telling where things are headed, but there are high levels of unrest in the air, with outrage surfacing on several fronts.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston high school students, Cambridge, Codman Academy, Darren Wilson, Ferguson, Missouri, organizing, peaceful protests, police brutality, racism, Roxbury, St. Louis

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