FOREST HILLS—Boston Teachers Union School (BTUS) students sent letters to President Barack Obama, the Arizona Attorney General, Arizona Superintendent and Arizona students, to express their outrage at Arizona’s suspension of Mexican American studies in public schools. When Latino students in…
Author: Rebeca Oliveira
Reporter at the Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill Gazettes.
Librarian remembers civil rights struggle
A small-town Arkansas sheriff once threatened to decapitate JP resident Laura Foner and throw her head in a river. During her time with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1965 and1966, Foner, the children’s librarian at the Connolly Branch…
JP Agenda, 4/13/12
The deadline for JP Agenda listings is noon, April 24 for the April 27 issue. Send listings to [email protected]. Note: 617 should be dialed before numbers below, unless another area code is given. Meetings BPS school choice community meeting, Fri.,…
Sights and Sounds, 4/13/12
The deadline for listings is noon, April 24 for the April 27 issue. Send listings to [email protected]. Note: 617 should be dialed before numbers below, unless another area code is given. Special Events Kush Groove Clothing Company spring line launch,…
More apartments coming to S. Huntington
S. HUNTINGTON—A large apartment complex with 195 units is being planned for a parcel next to the North American Indian Center of Boston on S. Huntington Avenue, according to a Letter of Intent filed with the Boston Redevelopment Authority last…
Casey Arborway project advisory group could change
FOREST HILLS—The design team for the Casey Overpass replacement project, known as the Casey Arborway, may change as the planning moves ahead. The crowd of over 100 community members responded mostly with support for the plan and community engagement going…
‘Casey Arborway’ project met with cheers, protests
FOREST HILLS—The newly-renamed Casey Arborway project is being greeted with both cheers and protests by the community. Some members of the project’s Design Advisory Group (DAG) showed their ire and disappointment at Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s (MassDOT) choice of an…
Activist who left the 1% writes book on inequality
Jamaica Plain resident Chuck Collins has been organizing against income inequality for decades, including giving up his personal fortune in his 20s—so when he was invited to write a book about inequality and the 99 to 1 percent divide, he…
Ex-miembro del 1% escribe sobre la desigualdad
Hace décadas que el residente Chuck Collins ha estado organizando contra la desigualdad de salario, incluso entregar su fortuna personal durante sus 20s, así cuando fue solicitado para escribir un libro sobre la desigualdad y la división del 99% y…
Library Friends push for renovations
JP SOUTH—The Friends of the Jamaica Plain Branch Library are not giving up on a long-delayed $8.5 million renovation, despite the Boston Public Library (BPL) trustees voting earlier this month to only request $125,000 for “improvements” to the branch instead.…