The Boston Occupier is seeking submissions for its next issue, which will be focused on EDUCATION — although it will also include more general stories of the 99%, economic injustice, activism and resistance. Submissions are due AUGUST 23rd, by 10 pm, to be considered for the August 30 printing.

Stories should be between 700 and 1150 words (shorter is ok; longer, probably not). We also welcome photos from recent actions, but will need a high-res image files for printing.

You can send your submissions to submit@bostonoccupier.com. I recommend cc-ing me as well (juliettejulianna[at]gmail) since sometimes it takes awhile for the submissions inbox to be sorted through.

Please by in touch to receive feedback on story ideas, etc.
Cool! Julie O

Possible Education Topics

• Student debt
• “Disorientation” at various Boston-area colleges & universities
• upcoming Boston student activism
• radical free education, para-academia, and alt-academy initiatives
• Chicago Teachers Union
• Recent influence of “Stand for Children” on Massachusetts public education, and resistance to it
• corporatization / marketization / privatization of public education (K-12 and higher ed)
• profile(s) of teacher-activists and/or a “community voices” forum of activist teachers
• Standardized Testing and the whole instrumentalization of education (at various levels, and through various forms of “assessment”)
• Labor movement in higher education, particular among grad students and among adjunct faculty
• Others???

General Guidelines

• We have a greater need for news stories than opinion pieces at present, but we’re happy to consider op-eds as well.
• Please gather exact quotes from sources — like, ” ‘I’ve been a high school teacher for twenty years,’ said Petunia Rose, a 38-year-old native of Waltham, ‘and these are the worst conditions for graduating seniors that I’ve seen.’ ” Etc.
• For news stories, try to be as objective and fact-based and fair as possible — which doesn’t mean being de-politicized! Actually, the facts show clearly enough how life is being made more and more difficult for the 99% — and how we’re resisting and fighting back.
• All stories for publication go through a process of at least two or three edits. If a piece doesn’t make it into the print edition (where space is very limited), it still stands a good chance of being published online.
• If you want to have a clear idea of what we publish, please take a look at our past print editions: http://bostonoccupier.com/print-edition.

OB is hosting a Bake Sale for the Fossil Fuel Industries!

On Saturday, August 4th don your finest business attire and join us at 11:30 at Dewy Square to raise money for our poor fellow citizens. Subsisting only upon record profits and a few billion $$ in US subsidies, how else can our friends in the oil industry afford to invest in innovative new technologies like arctic drilling, tar sands expansion, and hydro-fracking?

They can’t without our support. Last year you donated $35*, but it’s just not enough. We must encourage other people to give, and to give more. Please join us to encourage others to give more as well. Feel to bring pastries for profiteers, pancakes to raise particulates, brownies to buoy bitumen, and cookies to support the Keystone XL.

Think about it this way, when you make $137 billion, $11 billion in subsidies is just not that much.

We have to let people know that these businesses couldn’t make it with out people like us.

*Estimate for how much each person has “gave” on average in tax subsidies last year.

Note: do bring baked goods, we are doing this potluck style!

#OBRadio is On The Air! Producing & serving up top notch free/libre content. #occupy #occupyboston #ows #indymedia

OBradio needs your help!

We are in the process of changes, and need your assistance. OBradio is an internet radio station that was started 8 months ago by members of Occupy Boston in an effort to broadcast the voice of the 99 percent, broadcasting the injustices of the world, and sharing collective information on the struggles and success’ of the movement. In the past 8 months OBradio has gone from simply broadcasting on the spot interviews with occupiers from Dewey Square and General Assemblies, to producing 12 original show’s on a weekly basis.

The facility in which we broadcast from is called E5, or rather Encuentro Cinco. E5 houses 20+ organizations that are all oriented toward the advancement of liberties of all people. E5 was instrumental in providing a space for meetings, organization, educational conferences, and media development for Occupy Boston from the very beginning. OBRadio  moved into E5 in February building out a studio from which we broadcast from today.

E5 recently was informed that it’s space at 33 harrison, in Chinatown, would no longer be available for it to rent, and as a result OBradio, and the rest of the organizations at E5 must move at the end of July 2012. E5 is in the process of acquiring another space that will accommodate the organizations that utilize the space at 33 Harrison. Continue reading “Friday on <a href="http://www.occupyboston.org/radio/" target="_blank">OBR.fm</a>” »