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Community members gather in the park for the 2023 Wake Up the Earth festival. This tradition was created in 1979 to commemorate successful activism against a highway being built through Jamaica Plain.

Busy weekend in Boston: two protests and a festival in one day

Yaakov Aldrich, news correspondent May 19, 2023

Two protests and a community festival took place May 6, marking the height of a busy Boston weekend to promote environmental veganism, labor rights and the celebration of spring and local activism.  The 2023 Wake Up The Earth Festival began at noon, just outside of Stony...