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Harvard Union Protests Racist Layoffs at Commencement |
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by Boston IMC, |
 Members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers marched at Harvard commencement to protest the racist layoffs of three of their members. |
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31 May 2013
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Filed under: News / Education : Labor : Race |
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Local Fights Against Austerity Are Growing Across the U.S. |
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by Mark Vorpahl, portland (nospam) workerscompass.org |
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Between sequestration, with its damaging impact on workers and the entire economy, and the billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other necessary social programs that President Obama is pushing, it is evident that the economic policies of both major parties are not intended to promote a recovery for working people. You cannot lift up a nation’s economy while slashing away at its consumers’ pocketbooks. In order to justify their defiance of this elementary law, both Republicans and Democrats start talking the language of “austerity,” that is the notion that economic policy must be guided by reducing budgetary deficits first and foremost, and that workers exclusively must be made to pay the cost. |
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May Day 2013 Reports |
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by Cradle of Liberty News, cradleoflibertynews (nospam) gmail.com |
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This May Day, Bostonians held three separate events to mark International Workers Day. Below are reports from two of these events (the final report to come soon). |
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02 May 2013
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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May Day Funeral March Lays Capitalism to Rest |
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by Boston IMC, |
 For the second May Day in a row anarchist organizers in Boston held a mock funeral march for capitalism downtown. Featuring puppets of various sizes, "mourners", a coffin, and a marching band, the march was meant to point out the moral and financial bankruptcy of the capitalist system.
Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtcHz3g71VA |
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02 May 2013
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor |
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Boston-area Adjunct Professors Kick Off Union Organizing Drive |
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by Jason A Stephany, jason (nospam) massuniting.org |
 More than 100 adjunct faculty members from throughout the Greater Boston area gathered at JFK Library Saturday to launch a massive, 20+ campus unionization drive. |
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16 Apr 2013
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Filed under: News / Education : Labor : Organizing : Politics : Social Welfare |
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Boston IWW's Statement of Solidarity with Survivors of Gender-based Violence |
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by Boston IWW, |
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Statement of Solidarity with Survivors of Gender-based Violence and Condemnation of the PLP’s Defense of Rape and Class Reductionism |
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05 Feb 2013
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Filed under: Announcement / Gender : Human Rights : Labor : Organizing |
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Kanye-inspired “Gold Diggers'' remix calls out Bank of America/Fix the Debt scheme to snap up your tax dollars |
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by Jason Stephany, jason (nospam) massuniting.org |
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Flashmob's parody highlights financial giant’s true plans for US taxpayers via “Fix the Debt” front group. |
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30 Jan 2013
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Filed under: News / Labor : Media : Organizing : Politics : Social Welfare |
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Outsourced Workers Drop 40-foot Tall “Stop the Romney-Bain Economy” Banner Outside Romney National Headquarters |
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by Jason Stephany, jason (nospam) massuniting.org |
 They’ve been traveling across the country over the past few weeks, but today workers from Sensata and other Bain-owned companies brought their message straight to Mitt Romney’s campaign headquarters in Boston — and they made damn sure their message would be seen... |
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19 Oct 2012
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Media : Organizing : Politics : Social Welfare : Technology |
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