activism
Fenway Students, Residents Add Their Voices to ‘The 99%’ at Dewey Square
We the people who have occupied Dewey Square, under the name Occupy Boston, have done so in order to maintain a place where all voices are welcome for the open discussion of ideas, grievances, and potential solutions to the problems apparent in our society. We are and will be holding general assemblies where proposals may [...]
Burbank Tenants Join 2,000 Protesters to ‘Take Back Our City’
By Conrad Ciszek On September 30, about 20 members of the Burbank Apartments Tenant Association (BATA) staged a picket at the downtown office of First Realty Management (FRM). These tenants and their supporters—including representatives of the Fenway Community Development Corporation, Massachusetts Alliance of HUD Tenants, High Point Families United, and the Boston Tenant Coalition—continue to [...]
Fighting to Reform City’s Affordable Housing Policy—Will You Help?
BY MONICA LISA JOHNSON Who cares about affordable housing in the Fenway? The market will bear what the market can bear, right? So what if we lose a few affordable units? We want to encourage development because it helps the economy and brings more services to our community. This used to be the way I [...]
Community Newslines
Switcheroo: BPS Lets Arts Academy Stay, Moves Fenway High Bowing to angry students and parents from Boston Latin Academy, the marginally less-prestigious cousin of Boston Latin School, Boston School Superintendant Carol R. Johnson dropped her plan to move the Latin Academy into shuttered Hyde Park High School. That move would have set off a chain [...]
Seniors Shake Up Berklee Awards, Prepare for Walk
by Stephen Brophy Berklee College of Music definitely knows how to stage an awards ceremony. On April 16 it gathered faculty, students, administrators and neighbors for a lively ceremony recognizing folks who have done extra-good work within the school and out in the world. Fenwickians from the Peterborough Senior Center, in photo, gave a rousing [...]
Fenway Students Join March to Protest School Budget Cuts
by Daniel Alvaro On March 2, a crowd of Boston Public School students, including participants from three Fenway high schools, gathered at the Hyde Park Education Complex to march against the Boston School Committee budget proposal and the controversial plan to close under-performing schools in the district. The march culminated at a School Committee meeting [...]
News Notes – March 3
SJP responds to ‘Israel Peace Week’ with protests, speakers by Amelia Pak-Harvey/BU Daily Free Press – Mar 3, 2011 Countering last week’s Israel Peace Week, Students for Justice in Palestine is hosting Israel Apartheid Week bringing a number of speakers, including the former legal advisor to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, to Boston University. The week [...]
Kenyan School Finds Hearts, Helping Hands at Fenway High
by Laura Finaldi Hearing journalist Anthony Mulongo tell the story of a six-year-old homeless Kenyan girl who had to care for her baby sister only to have the baby die from starvation struck the heart of Fenway High School senior Caitlin Fitzgibbon particularly hard. “The children in Kenya—you can get thrown in jail for being [...]
News Notes – February 28
Stop & Shop protest march urges more pay for tomato farmers By Stewart Bishop – Globe Correspondent / February 28, 2011 Hundreds of demonstrators marched from Copley Square to a Brigham Circle Stop & Shop yesterday, calling on the supermarket chain to improve wages and working conditions for farm workers who labor in Florida’s vast [...]
News Notes – October 27
Turner says he can’t recall taped exchange – Councilor takes stand against lawyers’ advice By Jonathan Saltzman and Andrew Ryan – Globe Staff / October 27, 2010 Boston city councilor Chuck Turner testified yesterday that local businessman Ronald Wilburn handed him “something’’ when they shook hands at a meeting in 2007, but insisted that he [...]