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The Daily Free Press

The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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Action Hour is the Boston University Queer Activist Collective’s weekly commitment to anti-racism activism. ILLUSTRATION BY LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

BU’s Queer Activist Collective calls on community to fight for social justice

Julia Furnari October 28, 2020
The LGBTQ+ advocacy group holds a weekly "Action Hour," where members call representatives to demand justice for victims of police brutality and race-based violence.
EDITORIAL: Prison labor should be a form of rehabilitation, not punishment

EDITORIAL: Prison labor should be a form of rehabilitation, not punishment

Editors September 28, 2020
The prison system is not designed to address crime. It is simply a revolving door: the people who come in are never truly offered a way out, even after release.
Burke’s Bully Pulpit: California is exploiting prisoners’ labor

Burke’s Bully Pulpit: California is exploiting prisoners’ labor

Patrick Burke November 13, 2018

The wildfires in California rage on. The media is giving the fire ample airtime, but the fact that super-sized weather-related disasters are happening in record numbers isn’t hitting home as well as...

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