Press Pass TV sits down with the candidates and takes their views on Charter Schools for Boston's first mayoral race in over two decades.
Press Pass TV sits down with the candidates and takes their views on the crime rate and the ongoing violence for Boston's first mayoral race in over two decades.
BOSTON/State House - Over 1,000 teenagers and youth advocates from across Massachusetts marched from Copley Square to the State House on Thursday to lobby for more funding for youth jobs in the Fiscal Year 2012 Mass. state budget. Gov. Deval Patrick, several legislators and business leaders addressed the marchers at a rally in Gardiner Auditorium. Patrick called both for more funding for youth jobs in the upcoming budget and for the private sector to do its part to hire more young people - especially in the summer time when young people are out of school.
For the past decade, the United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) of Lowell has been changing – and sometimes even saving – the lives of the city’s youth, and they want you to know about it. In an effort to share their experiences at UTEC with the Boston community, dozens of the center’s teens will host the Lowell Connector Fundraiser Event on Tuesday, June 30 from 6:30-8:30 pm at the Institute for Contemporary Art.
Students from the Zumix Radio Journalism Group have produced audio reviews of the Prison Break TV show and the Twilight book franchise. Listen to the reviews with the embedded Internet Archive players below, or download the original files in mp3 format directly from the Internet Archive by clicking the links below each player.
BOSTON/Government Center - Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner (G/R - District 7) held a hearing Tuesday afternoon at Boston City Hall to solicit public testimony on his proposed resolution to modify the Boston Police Department's Safe Homes Initiative that currently allows police to visit homes and ask parents to allow a warrantless search for guns their children are suspected of possessing. Over 40 people were in attendance - about a dozen of whom gave testimony ... the majority in favor of the resolution.
BOSTON/South End - If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words might dozens of artworks by local kids express?
Quite a lot, if the expressions of many of the 200 attendees at Tuesday evening's 6th Annual YouthShines Art Auction - a fundraiser for the South End/Lower Roxbury Youth Workers' Alliance - at the Boston Center for the Arts were any gauge. And a diverse crowd it was.
Wheelock Family Theatre is a non-profit, professional Equity theatre located in Boston's historic Fenway neighborhood on the campus of Wheelock College. Since 1981 WFT has been producing dramas, musicals, and children's shows with a mission of creating accessible theatre - through affordable ticket prices, a colorful casting policy, and audience enhancements that include ASL interpretation, audio-descriptions, and open captions.
