Posts Tagged ‘occupy boston’

We are the 99% | Photo Courtesy of user Protest Photos1 Via Flickr Commons

BU Occupies Boston Teach-In: Professors Contextualize a Modern Movement

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Yesterday, 99% was nothing more than an answer scribbled on a homework sheet or a statistic on a survey. Today, the percentage represents the increasingly self-aware fraction of Americans subject [...]

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Dec 2, 2011 | Leave a response

Wall St. Protests | Photo Courtesy of David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons

Op-Ed: What the Occupy Movement Could Learn from the Tea Party

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I have never been one to argue about the power of grassroots movements. They tend to be unfocused, unorganized and without a meaningful set of goals. Occupy Wall Street and its [...]

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Oct 14, 2011 | Leave a response

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Faces in the Crowd at the Occupy Boston March

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If the march on Monday was anything, it was loud. It seemed like everyone had something to say. While all the opinions didn’t match, they were all illustrative of the [...]

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Oct 14, 2011 | Leave a response

the police at Dewey Square early Tuesday morning. | photo by Hannah Morrison.

BU Occupies Boston: A Community Reacts

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At the beginning of this meeting, it was decided that, due to the sensitive nature of the incidents involved, the names of the students  incarcerated and the students who spoke [...]

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Oct 12, 2011 | Leave a response

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The March to Dewey Square: A Photostory

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All photos by Joel Kahn and Kelly Dickinson. At noon yesterday, a group of 50-odd students gathered in Marsh Plaza as part of the Students Occupy Boston march to Dewey [...]

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Oct 11, 2011 | Leave a response

The BPD take down the tents at the second campsite. | photo courtesy of Hannah Morrison

Occupy Boston: The Police and the Protest

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On Saturday, October 8, the relationship between the protesters of Occupy Boston and the Boston Police Department was friendly. “The police have been cooperative.” Geoff Matheson, local entrepreneur and Logistics [...]

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Oct 11, 2011 | Leave a response

Time for a very important conversation. | Promotional Photo courtesy of Occupy Boston.

Op-Ed: Occupy Boston- Coming Out to Your Parents

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In final weeks of the 2008 election, then-candidate Obama launched a viral campaign that posed a simple question to the ardent faithful in the choir: Have you had The Talk with your [...]

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Oct 11, 2011 | 1 Response

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Boston University Students Occupy Boston

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Yesterday, Boston University students joined hundreds of other college students in an Occupy Boston march protesting corporate corruption and the rising cost of college education. The BU students gathered in [...]

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Oct 11, 2011 | Leave a response

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Occupy Boston: A Photo Essay

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Inspired by the vision of Occupy Wall Street, hundreds of disgruntled Americans gathered at Dewey Square in Boston’s Financial District to form the Occupy Boston movement. Occupy Boston, an extension [...]

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Oct 3, 2011 | Leave a response