Boston Youth: Realize Dream Design

JAN/19/08 - Boston-area Youth Organizing Project (BYOP) & Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) convened more than 200 youth activists, artists and children for the first annual citywide t-shirt screening day. "Realize. Dream. Design." Youth designed and printed shirts with revolutionary styles, quotes, and images, to a soundtrack ...

Updated: Jan 19, 2008 10:50pm PST

At the US Social Forum activist gathering in Atlanta

JUN/30/07 - I traveled to Atlanta and caught the tail end of the US Social Form. Below are photos of friends and some of the many events starting with the Poor People's March on Coke Headquarters, two workshops one by the Catalyst Project and another by Ruckus Society, plus some shots of sds meetings and chicken and waffles.

Updated: Dec 17, 2007 5:53pm PST

Boston Youth Rally at City Hall for Jobs and Program Funding

JUN/21/07 - Several hundred local youth and supporters gathered downtown to rally and demand the city budget include an extra 8 million for youth jobs and programs. Boston has seen a rise in street violence over the past few years coinciding with a decrease in funding for street workers and youth programs.

Updated: Jun 22, 2007 12:12pm PST

Boston Youth Coalition Demands Funding and Jobs

MAY/25/07 - Over 200 Boston teens and youth workers marched through downtown on their way to City Hall, where eleven youth delivered moving testimony inside the Council Chambers, they were demanding more funding for youth and summer job programs.

Updated: May 25, 2007 9:37am PST