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Thousands March in Boston for Immigrant Rights |
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by Sofia Jarrin-Thomas, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Boston, MA--Although march organizers expected numbers only in the hundreds, an estimated four to six thousand people came to the Boston Commons to rally in favor of immigrant rights. Inspired by huge crowds of people that rallied this past weekend in Los Angeles (estimated at 500 thousand to 1 million people) Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Milwaukee, and other cities across the United States, Bostonian immigrants came out in mass to take a stand against legislation like Rep. James Sensenbrenner’s (R-WI) bill HR 4437. |
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28 Mar 2006
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Organizing |
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Danny Glover, Sen. John Edwards Rally with Hotel Activists for Workers' Rights |
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by Talia Whyte, globalwireinfo (nospam) hotmail.com |
 Boston area hotel workers came out strong at the Ritz Carlton Hotel to hear Senator John Edwards, actor/activist Danny Glover and other union leaders speak on workers’ rights last Saturday. The speakers were part of the “Hotel Workers Rising,” one of several nation-wide events to support increased benefits for hotel workers, part of the nation’s fastest growing labor industry.
Photography by Alexis Winter |
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21 Feb 2006
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Politics |
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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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At a Snail’s Pace: Building a Different Kind of Politics |
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by Sofia Jarrin, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 On January 24, the Snail’s Pace Collective visited Boston as part of their East Coast US tour, which includes at least fifteen cities in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee; to facilitate a workshop on the Zapatista movement.
The Snail’s Pace Collective is a small group of student activists brought together as a result of their experiences in Chiapas, Mexico. They all participated in a study abroad program offered by the Mexico Solidarity Network, which is a 14-week, inter-disciplinary program focusing on the context, strategy, and tactics of Mexican social movements. As part of the program, the students attended an indigenous university for one month and participated in a Spanish language program in Zapatista territory for the reminder period of time. The life-changing experience in Chiapas is what prompted these students to share lessons learned with their immediate and larger communities. |
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28 Jan 2006
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Organizing : Politics |
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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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Inequality in America: version 2.0 |
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by Chuck Collins and Felice Yeskel, |
 Fall is inequality season. Every autumn, as the leaves change color, we get a vivid new picture of the trends that pull us apart as a country.
This year is no different. But after almost three decades of incrementally widening disparities of wealth and income, it¹s worth noting that we¹ve entered a new version of economic apartheid, American-style. Let’s call it Inequality 2.0.
The United States is now the third most unequal industrialized society after Russia and Mexico. This is not a club we want to be part of. Russia is a recovering kleptocracy, with a post-Soviet oligarchy enriched by looting. And Mexico, despite joining the rich-nations club of the Organization for Economic and Community Development, has some of the most glaring poverty in the hemisphere. |
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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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Retirees and union members blow the whistle on GE’s low pension and health care benefits |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
 Lynn, MA -- General Electric retirees led a rally in front of the Riverworks plant on Sept. 29 calling attention to the company’s skimpy pension benefits that have not kept up with the rising cost of living -- especially skyrocketing health costs. The retirees were joined by current GE employees, Local 201 and other union leaders, and several community supporters. At the rally, retirees used a cell phone to call GE CEO Jeffrey R. Immelt at the company’s corporate headquarters in Fairfield, CT. Unable to reach him, they sent a message by blowing whistles and playing a new protest song, “The Plight of the GE Pensioneer.” |
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04 Oct 2005
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