Israel's Birthday Bash

International controversy comes home!

On Wednesday night, Bostonian Israel supporters gathered at the JFK Library in Dorchester to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence.

Your U-Lock won't protect you

On May 5th, bicycles locked to parking meters began to disappear from Comm. Ave.

May Day

Political discourse meets spontaneous musical theater

Wielding crimson sickled Soviet flags and sporting red armbands, 100 demonstrators gathered around the Bandstand in Boston Common on Thursday to participate in the May Day Rally in support of immigrant workers' rights. In between frolicking beneath the pink, blossoming elm trees and romping around the springy green lawn, the activists took in some Bolivian folk music and several impassioned speeches outlining the travails of modern-day laborers.

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On Sunday, more than 40,000 people walked a 20-mile circuit spanning Boston, Newton, Watertown and Cambridge to raise $3.8 million

Marathon Vigil

Tibetan activists stage a protest of Olympian proportions

Tibetan flags shook over the pit in Harvard Square, as a man wearing a "Free Tibet" beanie clutched a microphone. Then the chanting rang out, as it has each night since March 15th. It begins with one baritone voice, but is picked up and carried by the group of Tibetans and sympathizers who pray for the dead.

Our crunchy, leafy governor

Nestled among an assortment of leafy potted plants and manicured flower arrangements that apparently boosted his green cred, Gov. Deval Patrick spoke about "Clean Energy in the Commonwealth" to an enthusiastic crowd of hippies, students and yuppies at MIT's Kresge Auditorium on Earth Day.

"The age of clean energy is here," Patrick declared, before rattling off a laundry list of good environmental deeds accomplished by his administration and touting Massachusetts as a national leader in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Janitors ask Northeastern to clean up its contract

"The Boss" clutched cardboard cash, as a cigar stub drooped from his mouth and his pupils gleamed with dollar signs.

C iz 4 canvas, thaz gud enuff 4 me

Another "green monster" descended on Boston for an hour last Wednesday outside LUSH's Newbury Street storefront. As an extension of the chain's green philosophy, an employee dressed in 350 plastic shopping bags—which signified the number of bags a family of four uses in four months—convinced passersby to exchange their plastic for a free canvas bag, eventually giving out 50 canvas bags and collecting upwards of 200 plastic ones to recycle.

Teh state gets joyous kidz 2 carry itz fish

Last week, Gov. Deval Patrick donned rugged outdoor gear to help schoolchildren and state wildlife officials dump 700 hatchery-raised fish into Jamaica Pond.

ROFLCon

Internet memez taek ovar Boston ... & this headlien

Batten down your laptops and back up your hard drives: The internet is coming to Boston. Cyberspace is all a-blog about ROFLCon, the two-day conference set for April 25th and 26th. Internet celebrities, academics and casual nerds will invade MIT for a group dissection of the internet, examining the history and future of online culture.