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Emma Clement | Graphics Editor

Cutting costs by cutting jobs will not save the gaming industry | Full Inventory

Chloe Cramutola February 20, 2025
The gaming industry has been blown to pixelated bits. It’s not because of its games. It’s not the expensive, downloadable content or DEI controversies. It’s how the industry is treating its workers — the very talents who make the games we know and love.
UNITE HERE Local 26 union members picketing outside of W Boston hotel on Tremont Street on Sept. 13. Workers from multiple Boston hotels are engaging in an open-ended strike while they wait for their employers to reach a contract agreement with the UNITE HERE Local 26 union. LAUREN ALBANO/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER

UNITE HERE Local 26 workers strike indefinitely at four Omni, Hilton hotels

Liam Dunne October 15, 2024
Nearly 1,300 workers at four Boston hotels embarked on an “open-ended strike” this past week after giving hotels a deadline to reach a contract agreement with their union.
Chloe Patel | Senior Graphic Artist

‘Let’s go lesbians!’ | Final Girl

Kiana Aftahi May 1, 2023
Lesbians represent a life full of success, love, joy and community — entirely devoid of men. They are living proof that women are incredible and capable in themselves — women don’t need men. 
Antuan Castro Del Rio at the Colombians Demand Justice protest

Boston-area demonstrators rally against economic inequality, brutality against protestors in Colombia

Anna Vidergar May 25, 2021
Demonstrators marched through Boston in opposition to violence against protesters in Colombia.
stop asian protest in nubian square

Activists rally against anti-Asian hate in Nubian Square

Sam Trottenberg March 28, 2021
The event was part of a National Day of Action — similar rallies took place in more than 60 cities.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Despite severity, the Boston Marathon bomber’s actions don’t justify the immorality of capital punishment

Editors March 23, 2021
The death penalty is immoral and an amplifier of existing racial inequities in our judicial system.
Angela Ao/DFP STAFF

EDITORIAL: Rising anti-Asian hate crimes illuminate broader issue of intersectionality, racism within minority groups

Editors March 16, 2021

Over the past few weeks, the media has latched onto anti-Asian American racism after a surge of anti-Asian hate crimes across the nation. Ever since COVID-19 struck the United States, the rates of these...

Simone Alyse, 20, a Berklee College of Music student from Everett, leads a student walkout down Newbury Street to the Boston Common during the “#wakeupworld” rally to support students of color. PHOTO BY BETSEY GOLDWASSER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

College students walk out, rally in support of students of color

Olivia Quintana November 17, 2015

Walking out from colleges across Boston, several hundred students gathered at the Boston Common Monday at a rally called #WAKEUPWORLD to show solidarity with students of color throughout the country. The...

Students gather to honor Chapel Hill shooting victims

Students gather to honor Chapel Hill shooting victims

J.D. Capelouto February 12, 2015

[mediagrid cat="18130"] Following a shooting Tuesday that left three Muslim students dead near Chapel Hill, North Carolina, more than 100 students, from Boston University and the community, gathered Wednesday...

Students protest Gaza attacks in Copley Square rally

Daily Free Press Admin November 21, 2012

Waving giant Palestinian flags and shouting “Viva viva Palestina,” more than 1,000 protesters marched from Copley Square to the Israeli Consulate Tuesday night, demanding a stop to Israel’s actions...

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