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  Editor's Letter

  Occupying Empty Houses and Airwaves to Fight Foreclosures in Boston

  July 1, 2014 - 

  As members of the Boston-based community group City Life/Urbana Vida moved a homeless couple into an empty house, a collective of artists and activists including John Hulsey set up a pirate radio station inside the house and organized conversations about housing equity using the frequency of a recently shuttered radio station.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz

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  Op-Ed

  We’re Here, We’re Qwerty, and I’m Not Sure I Want to Get Used To It

  June 23, 2014 - 

  The musician JD Samson (of Le Tigre and MEN) proposes we celebrate Pride Month with a commitment to commemorate and support diverse struggles across the LGBTQI community, joining together for interpersonal, intersectional discussions instead of divisive online debates.  More

  By JD Samson

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  Dispatch

  The Cloud Is Not the Territory

  May 20, 2014 - 

  Arguing that the public has a right to understand internet infrastructure, artist Ingrid Burrington visits “the cloud”—the data centers of northern Virginia through which two-thirds of internet traffic currently circulates.  More

  By Ingrid Burrington

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  Op-Ed

  How to Get a Whole Generation to Sell Out

  April 11, 2014 - 

  Today’s twenty-somethings aren’t apathetic or opportunistic. They’re just trying to survive an economic system that has saddled them with inescapable student debt.  More

  By Astra Taylor

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  Op-Ed

  Is Capitalism Working for You?

  April 7, 2014 - 

  Artist Steve Lambert has asked thousands of people across the United States whether capitalism is working for them. Here’s why.  More

  By Steve Lambert