As Tufts was announcing last week that it plans to “remove [the] Sackler name from [its] medical school facilities and programs,” on Dec 6, one city over in Cambridge, Harvard students joined community members in unveiling a pointed art installation on the topic.
SACKING SACKLER: TUFTS STUDENTS WORK TO EXPOSE ADMINISTRATION’S THIRST FOR OPIOID BLOOD MONEY
“I have very close family members who have been directly affected by the opiate crisis … They struggle with addictions that were brought on by the exact marketing tactics that the Sacklers used to make billions of dollars.”
AND NOW A WORD FROM THE BOSTON YOUTH TRANSPORTATION PROJECT
Transit policy has historically focused on expansion through suburban systems—serving White and wealthier constituents more reliably than those living in inner cities.
FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM
More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic year would be heavily modified […]
HIGHER LEARNING: MEET THE TUFTS STUDENT WORKING FOR SNOOP’S CANNABIS VENTURE FIRM
“What people don’t quite realize yet is that this industry is small in only one respect—it is only small in the sense of how big the industry will become in the coming years.”
LABOR PAINS: A WEEK AFTER THE TUFTS LOCKOUT, PENSIONS KEEP NURSES AND HOSPITAL AT ODDS AS BARBS CONTINUE TO FLY
“Management’s goal was clearly to carve off a bigger segment of nurses, but they failed to do so. In the end, it really only made the union stronger.”
STRIKE. IRON. HOT.
You don’t need a union to take action for justice on the job
SPECIAL HOUSING FEATURE: EIGHT ISN’T ENOUGH
For people living on the margins in the cities, towns, and suburbs around Boston, the available housing subsidies are painfully inadequate—just like the public transportation and job opportunities
BOSTON’S BESTEST ANNUAL GRATUITOUS SEASONAL PROTEST PIECE
With such precedents in mind, it’s important to keep watch as younger actions blossom, and as veteran activists find new direction.
HERE, SPOT: PARKING SUCKS. THIS COULD HELP.
If this week’s snowpocalypse spotlights one thing in particular, it’s the long-standing and well-known horror show befalling any poor Boston sot with a car, and nary a place to park it when push comes to shove.
