Students protest Gaza attacks in Copley Square rally
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 against Palestinians.Protesters met on Copley Square, holding up signs that read “Israel Apartheid” and “Boycott all Israeli products.” The crowd blocked traffic as it marched from Copley [...]
Mass. back to status quo with Warren’s Senate victory
Although Democrats took back a Senate seat with the victory of Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren after a heated race, political experts said the win represented nothing more than a shift back to the status quo in the Commonwealth. Last Tuesday’s election returned a Massachusetts Senate seat back to Democratic control when Warren triumphed over incumbent Republican [...]
New 7th District Rep. Capuano works closely with BU
As representative of the newly drawn Seventh District, U.S. Rep. Mike Capuano has thousands of students from more than 35 colleges to consider in Congress — including Boston University. Capuano, a Democrat, was re-elected on Tuesday with 84 percent of the vote, adding another term to his seven terms in Congress. Capuano represents the Eighth [...]
Youth voter participation increases in 2012 elections, data shows
Recent data suggests that more youth voters turned up at voting booths on Tuesday than in 2008, despite the challenges younger voters face of learning state-specific voting requirements. Nineteen percent of voters younger than 30 cast their ballots in the 2012 election, representing a 1-percent increase from 2008, according to a press release from the [...]
Medical marijuana, Right to Repair passed with majority on Mass. ballots
Following months of heated debate, Massachusetts citizens passed the legalization of medical marijuana on Tuesday’s ballot questions, while the outcome of physician-assisted suicide was still too close to call in the early morning hours on Wednesday. Question 3, Medical Use of Marijuana, passed with 63 percent of the vote. The legislation ended state criminal and [...]
