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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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Author Nancy Kurshan: Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement |
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by Interview by Angola 3 News, |
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Author and longtime activist Nancy Kurshan’s new book, entitled Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons, has just been released by the Freedom Archives. Kurshan’s book documents the work of The Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML), which she co-founded in 1985. |
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16 Feb 2013
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Filed under: Interview / Human Rights : Organizing : Race : Social Welfare : War and Militarism |
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Freedom for Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3, After 40 Years in Solitary Confinement? |
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by Katti Gray, The Root (reprinted by Angola 3 News), |
 After four decades of solitary confinement in the nation's most populated maximum-security prison -- and one of its most historically brutal -- a member of the internationally known "Angola 3" has reasonable cause to expect that he will soon be released, his attorneys and supporters say. The request to set free Albert Woodfox, 65, is being heard by the same federal judge who in 2008 ordered that Woodfox be released, a ruling that Louisiana prosecutors successfully appealed and blocked. |
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05 Feb 2013
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare |
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Janitors, Community Leaders Gather for Strike-prompted Civil Disobedience Training |
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by Jason Stephany, jason (nospam) massuniting.org |
 With only days remaining until the contract covering 14,000 New England janitors expires, community, labor and student allies joined affected workers at Copley Square this week for hands-on coaching in non-violent protest and arrest protocol. |
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29 Sep 2012
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Filed under: News / Gentrification : Human Rights : Labor : Media : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare |
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No Room for Wishing, a documentary play about Occupy Boston |
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by Danny Bryck, dpbryck (nospam) gmail.com |
 Local theatre artist Danny Bryck performs his one-man documentary play "No Room for Wishing," chronicling the story of the occupation of Dewey Square, using the exact words of the people involved. Co-produced by Company One and Central Square Theater, playing at the Boston Center for the Arts this weekend and Central Square Theater 9/30-10/9. |
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23 Sep 2012
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Filed under: Announcement / Education : Environment : Gender : Globalization : Human Rights : Labor : Media : Occupy Boston : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare : War and Militarism |
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100+ Boston Janitors Rally to Raise Poverty Wages |
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by Jason Stephany, jason (nospam) massuniting.org |
 Workers in more than a dozen cities rally to support Houston janitors striking for fair wages and improved working conditions |
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06 Aug 2012
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : Labor : Media : Organizing : Race : Social Welfare |
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MAY DAY 2012: Hundreds Take to Boston-area Streets in the Fight for Workers’ Rights |
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by Jason Stephany, jason (nospam) massuniting.org |
 International Workers Day unifies Bay State labor, community, immigrant rights groups |
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02 May 2012
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Filed under: News / Gentrification : Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Media : Occupy Boston : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare |
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Rage Against Fascism |
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by Boston Antifa, bostonantifa (nospam) hush.com |
 In commemoration of an antifascist Sharp (skinhead Against Racial Prejudice), Jan Kucera, who was stabbed to death by Nazis in CZ on January 18, 2008, Boston Antifa will be hosting a show and fundraiser benefit for Anti-Nazi activists facing charges from the National Socialist Movement conference and march in Trenton, NJ during the weekend of April 16, 2011.
The show will take place February 4th at 8:00 PM at Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave in Chinatown. |
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27 Jan 2012
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Filed under: News / Gender : GLBT/Queer : Organizing : Race |
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