Prof Anthony Apesos teaching Art Institute of Boston (now LUCAD) MFA students in January 2011. Photo by Jason Pramas Alumni, students demand reinstatement of MFA program founder A group of more than 200 alumni and current graduate students have sent a petition to Lesley University’s administration, demanding the reinstatement of Anthony Apesos—a popular professor—to the […]
POWER STRUGGLE
Regulators infuriate activists with announcement that power plant will stay open About 300 residents of Cape Cod and the South Shore packed into the ballroom of Hotel 1620 in Plymouth last Tuesday, hoping to finally get some answers from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) about the future of the beleaguered operation in their backyard, Pilgrim Nuclear […]
SMOOTH LANDING (FOR NOW)
At Logan airport, a weekend of relief after a week of chaos WORDS AND PHOTOS BY JOSHUA EATON (Spanish Version Here) Azi Torkamani was skeptical when she heard that a federal court order in Massachusetts had temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s 90-day ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, including Iran. Torkamani’s mother, 67-year-old Ehteram Alian, was […]
FLAME WAR
Council greenlights social media surveillance despite lack of BPD transparency With the dawn of a new kind of surveillance upon us, it’s critical to trace the advent of social media monitoring in Mass back to its roots. There is a demonstrable history of the Boston Police Department and other city agencies utilizing sophisticated observation methods, […]
DAKOTA DISPATCH
Mass residents participate in humility at Standing Rock WORDS AND PHOTOS BY KORI FEENER DAY 1 (Friday, Dec 3, 2016) Vehicles line Highway 1806 heading into Oceti Sakowin camp. Security stops every car passing through, counting heads and screening visitors. Up on Media Hill—the only piece of high ground with cell service—Danny Bravo and Marisa Shea, […]