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REMEMBER THEIR NAMES: STUDENT ART CHALLENGES HARVARD TO JOIN OTHER MAJOR INSTITUTIONS IN SACKING MONSTERS BEHIND OXYCONTIN

Written by Posted December 11, 2019 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

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.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge, deaths, fight, FIGHT Opiates, Guggenheim, harvard, opiates, opioids, public health, Sackler, Sackler family, tufts, VT Digger

SACKING SACKLER: TUFTS STUDENTS WORK TO EXPOSE ADMINISTRATION’S THIRST FOR OPIOID BLOOD MONEY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted April 23, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“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.”

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, fight, FIGHT Opiates, Guggenheim, opiates, opioids, Sackler, Sackler family, tufts, VT Digger

AND NOW A WORD FROM THE BOSTON YOUTH TRANSPORTATION PROJECT

Written by DIG STAFF Posted December 12, 2018 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Transit policy has historically focused on expansion through suburban systems—serving White and wealthier constituents more reliably than those living in inner cities.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, Boston City Council, Boston transportation, Boston Youth Transportation Project, BYTP, MBTA, michelle wu, public transit, tufts

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 5, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

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  ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, development, dorm, gentrification, government, higher education, Housing, Jason Pramas, news, Politics, pricing, private, Protest, public, Real Estate, student, tufts

HIGHER LEARNING: MEET THE TUFTS STUDENT WORKING FOR SNOOP’S CANNABIS VENTURE FIRM

Written by CONNOR DALE Posted July 15, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo

"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."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Talking Joints Memo Tagged With: business, cannabis, investing, Marijuana, Snoop Dogg, tufts, venture capital

LABOR PAINS: A WEEK AFTER THE TUFTS LOCKOUT, PENSIONS KEEP NURSES AND HOSPITAL AT ODDS AS BARBS CONTINUE TO FLY

Written by SARAH BETANCOURT Posted July 18, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

"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."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, labor, Lahey Health, Mary Cornacchia, Massachusetts Nurses Association, mayor Marty Walsh, Michael Wagner, MNA, organizers, strike, Taft-Hartley plan, tufts, Tufts Medical Center, union

STRIKE. IRON. HOT.

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 18, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

You don't need a union to take action for justice on the job

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Colored National Labor Union, history, labor, Massachusetts, New Deal, NLRA, nurses, strike, tufts, union, unions

SPECIAL HOUSING FEATURE: EIGHT ISN’T ENOUGH

Written by LAURA KIESEL Posted April 26, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

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

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: arlington, Ben Carson, Boston, Cambridge, Department of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning, Housing, HUD, Inclusive Communities Project, Section 8, SOMERVILLE, tufts, vouchers

BOSTON’S BESTEST ANNUAL GRATUITOUS SEASONAL PROTEST PIECE

Written by DIG STAFF Posted April 27, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

With such precedents in mind, it’s important to keep watch as younger actions blossom, and as veteran activists find new direction.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Beacon Hill, BHSC, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Homeless Solidarity Committee, Boston Tea Party, Cambridge, Charlie Baker, City Life Vida Urbana, Elizabeth Warren, Fannie Mae, Fight For 15, foreclosures, fossil fuel divestment, Freddie Mac, harvard, Housing, labor, Local 26, Maura Healey, mayor Marty Walsh, No Boston Olympics, police brutality, police misconduct, Protest, service workers, spring, State House, tufts

HERE, SPOT: PARKING SUCKS. THIS COULD HELP.

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 31, 2015 Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop

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.

Filed Under: LIFESTYLE, Shop Tagged With: Boston, Events, garages, google play, harvard, itunes, lots, MIT, mobile, parking, reservation, TD Garden, tufts, vendors

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