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Prospective BU Students Informed of Biolab During Campus Tours |
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by Operation: Over Media Team, operationover (nospam) hush.com |
 Seven Boston University (BU) campus tours were interrupted today by members of Operation: Over to inform the prospective students about BU’s proposed BioSafety Level 4 (BSL-4) lab in Roxbury. These interruptions were intended to promote the boycott of BU that Operation: Over has called.
The boycott is calling for high school students who are considering attending BU to reconsider, on the grounds that their tuition money will go towards funding the proposed BSL-4 lab, which will be built in a densely populated, low-income community of color against its wishes. |
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23 Feb 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Organizing : Race |
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BU Theology Students Confront Biolab Construction |
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by h-fries, |
 Last Wednesday, February 15th, students from the BU School of Theology tied themselves to a civil rights memorial on campus in protest of the construction of the proposed BioSafety Level 4 laboratory that would test deady diseases on animals and put nearby residents at risk. Calling the lab an act of environmental racism, some students flyered and spoke to crowds passing by.
[Listen to the posted .mp3 radio piece for the whole story.] |
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21 Feb 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Human Rights : Organizing : Social Welfare |
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Anti-Biolab Protesters Visit BU President Brown’s Home for a Second Time |
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by Operation: Over Media Team, operationover (nospam) hush.com |
 Roughly 30 concerned citizens chanted slogans and wielded signs and banners in front of BU President Robert Brown’s house late Monday night, for the second time in one week, to protest BU’s proposed Biolab in the Roxbury / South End area which could break ground as early as this month. Activism against the Biolab, which will likely be performing illegal research on deadly pathogens such as tularemia and Ebola, has been on the rise since it recently gained Federal approval to be built against the community’s wishes. |
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14 Feb 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Globalization : Human Rights : Politics : Race : Social Welfare |
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BU President Brown Confronted at His Home About Proposed Biolab |
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by Operation: Over Media Team, operationover (nospam) hush.com |
 A dozen Boston University (BU) students and other concerned citizens gathered outside of BU President Robert Brown's $4.5 million house in Brookline protesting the proposed BU Biolab in Roxbury / South End. The Biolab, which has recently gained federal approval for construction, could break ground as soon as this month, against the community's wishes. |
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09 Feb 2006
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Filed under: News / Education : Environment : Human Rights : Organizing : Race : Social Welfare |
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Racism, Classism, and the BU BioLab |
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by Pete L, |
 Over 30 members of BU student community and Boston area turned out for a panel discussion of the BU Bio lab on Tuesday night. The joint Federal and University funded level 4 Lab is on track to be built in the South End starting this spring so that viruses and lethal bacteria such as Ebola, anthrax, hemorrhagic fever and other “unknowns” can be researched in sometimes classified experiments. The incalcuable risks, enormous costs and unanswer community concerns has citizens and activist groups vowing to shut the City promoted project down. |
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26 Jan 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment |
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BU Biolab Protest Pictures |
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by micah, pirate.micah (nospam) gmail.com |
 BU is having a Global Health Initiative conference and one of the events was in a BU auditorium where BU President Robert Brown introduced other speakers (including the US surgeon general), plugging the proposed bioweapons lab in South End/Roxbury. Activisits with the BU Peace & Justice Project and Boston Mobilization staged a protest during President Brown's speech. The Global Health Initiative is supposed to promote public healthcare, not top secret military research. Here are pictures. |
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16 Nov 2005
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Filed under: News / Education : Environment : Globalization : Human Rights : Politics : Race : Social Welfare : Technology |
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Food Aid vs. Food Sovereignty |
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by RadioActive, |
An interview with Aburadha Mittal founder of the progressive think tank, the Oakland Institute. Representatives from the Oakland Institue are heading to the WTO ministerials in Hong Kong next monrth with a message about food sovereignty.
RadioActive is a grassroots environmental and social justice news radio journal hosted by Amy Browne and Meredith DeFrancesco and heard Thursdays from 4:00 - 4:30 pm on WERU FM 89.9 and 102.9 Bangor, Maine in the United States. |
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31 Oct 2005
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Filed under: News / Environment |
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Local Activists Raise Funds for Fair Trade |
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by Talia Whyte, globalwireinfo (nospam) hotmail.com |
 Fair Trade activists came together Monday night to raise funds for trade justice around the world in style. The model in the photo is wearing a scarf, hat and bag that were produced by workers paid fair wages in safe conditions and produced in a way that is more respectful of the environment. Photo by Christopher Brown.
Over 150 local activists celebrated trade justice in style and raised over $1,000 at the Fair Trade Fiesta at All Asia Café last Monday night. The fundraiser was hosted by the Boston Fair Trade Coalition in cooperation with Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community (UUJEC), Oxfam America, It’s Only Fair, Dean’s Beans, and other local organizations. |
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19 Oct 2005
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Filed under: News / Environment : Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor |
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