Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann is a national treasure. Maybe that’s why George W. Bush wants to bury him.
Nestled in the verdant mountain valley of Glover, Vermont, way up in the northern part of the state, is a farm of rolling meadows, pine forests, and gray barns, all under vast skies.
By GREG COOK | August 28, 2008

A history of violence

Ron Pownall’s photos of the ’68 Democratic Convention
It was August 28, 1968, and Ron Pownall could feel the storm brewing as he arrived at a Vietnam War protest during the Democratic Convention in Chicago.
By GREG COOK | August 26, 2008

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By JOEFF DAVIS | August 31, 2008

Protesters will crash McCain fundraiser in Kennebunkport

A summer visitor
McCain won’t be so luxuriously welcomed by all Mainers. Left-wing protesters are planning a counter-reception that will amount to quite the opposite of rolling out a red carpet.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | July 16, 2008

Muzzle mania

Letters to the Boston editor, July 11, 2008
Giving a Muzzle Award to the Boston Police Department for its handling of Veterans Day protesters is in keeping with widespread media complicity that allows lower ranks to be court-martialed while war criminals in the White House escape accountability for Abu Ghraib.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | July 09, 2008

On Friday, bigotry won’t be tolerated

Dyke March
When members of Maine’s GLBT community — specifically, lesbians and those who love them — take to the streets on Friday, June 20, it’ll be with pride, plus a little defiance.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 18, 2008

10 Anti-Social Things To Do in Boston Without Gas

By JAMES PARKER | June 11, 2008

Alma Obama

Understated understudy
My niece Rachael was graduated from Wesleyan this past Sunday, an accomplishment perhaps overshadowed for some by the highly publicized circumstances surrounding the commencement ceremony.
By PETER KEOUGH | May 28, 2008

Tell it to the judge(s)

Bangor Six activists rally; pot boosters to gather in Monument Square
Bangor Six supporters held a rally on Tuesday outside the Penobscot County Courthouse
By DEIRDRE FULTON | June 24, 2008

More police, less Harvard

Freedom watch
The Harvard Crimson reported this week the arrest of two non-student demonstrators at a student-organized protest in front of Holyoke Center.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE | April 16, 2008

Still dissecting

Danny Schechter’s bid for media reform
A year after releasing his remarkably prescient film on the then-nascent financial crisis, In Debt We Trust , veteran progressive journalist Danny Schechter finally made it onto CNBC.
By DAN KENNEDY | April 10, 2008

Totalitarian ploy defeated

Free speech trumps Boston cops
For performance artist Milan Kohout, freedom of speech has prevailed.
By HARVEY SILVERGLATE AND JAN WOLFE | March 12, 2008

The medium is the movie

In new films, truth is fluid — and controlled by the click of a button
In almost every movie you go to these days you’ll see another screen — a television, a computer, even another movie screen — within the screen you’re watching.
By PETER KEOUGH | March 05, 2008

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