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McKibben’s 350.org Planning 7/28 Protest and Mass Arrest at Brayton Point Coal Plant

24 July 2013 - 4:13am | Tate Williams
by Tate Williams

Cambridge, Mass. - The climate movement is a unique one, longtime activist Bill McKibben told an audience in Cambridge Sunday night, because it doesn’t gain its strength from a few powerful advocacy groups or high-profile leaders.

“What we are getting are thousands of nodes of people all around the world, groups in the community, fighting particular things—particular power plants, or fighting for wind on Cape Cod, fighting on all those fronts, but also realizing that they are connected and part of something much larger,” he said to the crowd at a rally and fundraiser.

Same-Sex Marriage Supporters Return to Cambridge City Hall to Celebrate Defeat of DOMA

28 June 2013 - 11:26pm | superuser
by Tate Williams
Cambridge, Mass. - It was right here on the steps of Cambridge City Hall, on May 17, 2004, where it all started. To the cheers of a crowd waiting eagerly outside, Cambridge opened its doors at the stroke of midnight on the day Massachusetts became the first state to cross the federal law of the land and allow same sex marriage. 

The Just Crust: After A Long Time In The Oven A New Kind of Pie Emerges

11 June 2013 - 3:38pm | sweetadelinevt
by Sarah Betancourt

Cambridge, Mass. - The crowd was out the door of The Just Crust this Saturday during its grand opening. Cambridge residents and their friends gathered to try free pizza and celebrate the worker-owned restaurant replacing a branch of Upper Crust Pizza - a small chain plagued by corruption, wage theft and other labor violations.

Harvard Alumni Faculty and Law Students Join Campaign to Ditch Fossil Fuel Investments

3 June 2013 - 3:19am | Tate Williams
by Tate Williams

Cambridge, Mass. - The campaign to pull Harvard’s stock holdings out of the fossil fuel industry has graduated from primarily a baccalaureate effort, to one that includes law students, faculty, and some of the school’s distinguished and well-heeled alumni.

Forum Highlights Questions on Racism Security and Privacy Rights After the Boston Marathon Bombing

24 May 2013 - 3:56pm | sweetadelinevt
by Sarah Betancourt

Cambridge, Mass. - Forty activists gathered on Monday night at the Cambridge Friends Meeting House for a forum on the reactions and responses to the Boston Marathon bombing. The event was sponsored by United for Justice with Peace.

Gap Called on to Sign Safety Agreement Harvard Square Outlet Picketed

6 May 2013 - 11:31pm | superuser
by Jonathan Adams

Cambridge, Mass. - In the less than two weeks since a devastating collapse at a Bangladeshi garment factory on April 24, over 650 workers have been confirmed dead with many more still missing and the death toll is still expected to rise.

Following the loss of life that allegedly resulted from a management decision to ignore structural faults in the building, picketers targeted the Gap outlet at 15 Brattle St. in Harvard Square on Saturday to call on the company – a major purchaser of garments from Bangladesh – to sign a safety agreement in the country.

Divest Harvard Holds Rally Demanding University Divestment from Fossil Fuel Companies

13 April 2013 - 3:53am | superuser
by Tate Williams

Cambridge, Mass. - Harvard student activists, frustrated by recent talks with university trustees, are escalating their campaign to get the school to ditch its fossil fuel company investments.

About 100 students, alums and faculty held a rally outside the Harvard president’s office Thursday, delivering 1,300 petition signatures and pouncing on a comment one trustee made that activists found particularly distressing.

Hotel Workers Activists Renew Fight Against Le Meridien Hotel and HEI Hospitality

9 April 2013 - 2:17pm | Andrew Jeromski
by Andrew Jeromski

ambridge, Mass. - Over 400 workers, activists and community leaders converged upon the Le Meridien Cambridge-MIT Hotel last Thursday to renew their call for hotel workers to be allowed a fair process to decide on unionization.

The protest, part of national week of action spanning both coasts, marked the latest event in a fight that has been going on for over a year.

LibrePlanet 2013 Conference Discusses Software Development from a Social Justice Standpoint

26 March 2013 - 6:25pm | superuser
by Tate Williams

Cambridge, Mass. - The free software movement—based on the idea that computer programs should be available for anyone to use or modify—is in some ways at the top of its game, and in others facing its most difficult challenges.

For example, free programs like Firefox and mostly free Android are highly popular. And collaborative software projects are tackling serious, global issues like improving health care in developing countries. But activists are still struggling to gain broad support, and to stay relevant in the face of increasingly proprietary devices.

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