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Little Resolved at BU Biolab Hearing |
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by I-Hsien Sherwood, ihsherwood (nospam) yahoo.com |
 The latest hearing yesterday for the controversial Boston University bioterrorism lab had lawyers for both sides haggling like vendors in a market bazaar. Much of the debate focused on the timing of future hearings and judicial review.
With construction already begun and an additional $35 million in federal funds scheduled to be released to BU in September, Judge Patti B. Saris worried that she would not have enough time to make an informed ruling before the issue was moot. "How do you expect me to rule by then?" she said. "I'm not an ATM machine." |
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27 Jul 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Social Welfare |
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Roxbury Organizers Continue to Fight Biolab |
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by homefries, |
 Despite the recent ground-breaking of Boston University's BioSafety Level 4 laboratory, Roxbury organizers are still trying to stop its construction. The lab, which would test deadly pathogens such as anthrax and ebola, purportedly using scores of animals in the process, would be located next to the Roxbury neighborhood, putting Roxbury residents at grave risk in the case of a leak. |
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11 Jun 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Human Rights : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare |
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43 Events to Resist the Green Scare World Wide |
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by Friends of Free, freefreenow (nospam) mutualaid.org |
 Boston--December 7, 2005, marked the beginning of the largest roundup of environmental and animal rights activists in U.S. history. There have now been nearly 20 arrests and many Grand Jury subpoenas.
The nation-wide sweep of arrests, dubbed “Operation Backfire,” has been described by the FBI as a major hit to environmentalists and animal rights activists who engage in destruction of property as a means to defend wild lands and lives of animals. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales stated in January that, “Investigating and preventing animal rights and environmental extremism is one of the FBI’s highest domestic priorities”.
FRIDAY, JUNE 9th: benefit show and screening of 22/8. SUNDAY, JUNE 11th: symbolic demo at the federal building where different organizations will be speaking about the green scare. |
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09 Jun 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment |
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T Fare Hike Hearings Off to a Rough Start |
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by cuauhtemoc, cuauhtemoc_cesar (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Boston -- The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority held the first of a series of public hearings about a proposed subway and bus fare increase Tuesday in an overflowing and contentious meeting room at the Boston Public Library. Hundreds of people filled the room in the library’s Copley Square branch to express their opposition to the fare increase. |
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07 Jun 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment |
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Help Save the South Central Farm - PHOTO ESSAY |
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by Jonathan, jonnyrebellious (nospam) gmail.com |
 The city of Los Angeles is trying to take the collective South Central Farm away from the community. The struggle to save the farm might have implications to urban gardeners and urban community farmers in Boston and across the nation. |
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15 May 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Human Rights : Organizing : Social Welfare |
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The Threat Of Compulsory Insurance |
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by Watchdog, |
 The precedent of compelling drivers to purchase private auto insurance is bad enough, but one can opt out. One doesn't have to drive, they say. The only way to opt out of compulsory health insurance, however, would be to die. |
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Concerned citizens "die" at BU biolab site |
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by Operation: Over Media Team, operationover (nospam) hush.com |
 A crowd of people gathered outside the site of BU's proposed biolab late Tuesday afternoon and fell down "dead," faces streaked with fake blood. "We wanted to show the public what an outbreak might look like," said Derek Garcia, a Boston-area resident. The street theater, which was staged by anti-biolab protestors, was intended to draw attention to the dangers of placing a Biosafety Level 4 (BSL4) facility in the middle of a densely-populated urban area. Participants included members of the direct action campaign Operation: Over, people from the Coalition to Stop the Bioterrorism Lab, and members of the Green-Rainbow Party. |
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05 Apr 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Human Rights : Social Welfare |
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Cambridge's LISE Problem |
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by JT, darpiki (nospam) gmail.com |
 True to form, for their new Laboratory for Integrated Science and Engineering (LISE) Harvard University has spared no expense. Award-winning Spanish architect Rafael Moneo was hired to design the building with, according to the Harvard Gazette's Steve Bradt, "an unusual pearlescent façade that changes subtly with the day's lighting... sculpted pedestals... and an underground section designed to receive natural light." (1)
Local residents may live next door to a powder keg, but there's no doubt that keg will look fabulous.
BioLab Was Just the Beginning |
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13 Mar 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment |
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