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Providence Protesters Urge 'Justice' |
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by Mark Arsenault and Lynn Arditi, |
 NORTH PROVIDENCE — Clenched fists raised, close to 200 protesters yesterday denounced the North Providence police and demanded "justice" for a protester seriously injured two weeks ago while demonstrating at an Asian restaurant on Mineral Spring Avenue. |
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29 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / Labor : Media |
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Second Year Commemoration of Hurricane Katrina: Music and Politics |
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by Rosa Clemente, knowthyself (nospam) mac.com |
 The Hot 8 Brass Band continues their tour of the United States and abroad with their next stops to occur at Boston’s famous Wally’s Jazz Café and the 12th annual Cambridge Caribbean Festival. The Hot 8 are a part of the Finding Our Folk Tour, which was created after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. FOF seeks to raise the voices of Katrina's survivors and connects them with the voices of Katrina survivors and men and women in all corners of the country who remain on the margins of citizenship. The Hot 8 Brass Band; themselves, displaced after Hurricane Katrina through their music helps reconnect people throughout the country and world to the rich traditions, history and culture of New Orleans. |
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20 Aug 2007
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Filed under: Announcement / Labor : Politics : Race |
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Sacco and Vanzetti Live! Aug. 23-25 |
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by SVCS, info (nospam) saccoandvanzetti.org |
 Sacco and Vanzetti 80th anniversary of their judicial murder. No more raids on migrant workers! No more death penalty! No more war on immigrants! No more war, period!
This August, Boston will remember the 80th anniversary of the execution of radical Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti whose trial is widely regarded as one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history. Calling attention to the continued repression of immigrants and radicals, the Sacco and Vanzetti Commemoration Society invites all to attend and participate in planned events. |
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15 Aug 2007
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Filed under: Announcement / Labor |
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Vicious Police Attack on IWW Solidarity March in Providence |
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by aa, |
 On Saturday, August 11, 2007, Alexandra Svoboda, a member of the labor union Industrial Workers of the World, was brutally assaulted by North Providence Police officers as she was peacefully demonstrating with a group of fellow union members and supporters in support of workers at HWH/Dragonland in New York City. She was attacked while she was complying with orders given by the NPPD to move towards the sidewalk. Alexandra was then tackled and brutalized by the officers, suffering a grotesquely broken and dislocated knee and a ruptured vascular artery. She is currently recovering from her first operation at the Rhode Island Hospital and is awaiting a second surgery scheduled for Wednesday. |
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13 Aug 2007
Modified: 14 Aug 2007 |
Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor : Organizing |
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Stop the War on Immigrants! Stop the Raids! |
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by Boston May Day Coalition, info (nospam) bostonmayday.org |
 Boston, August 13, 2007. - Another immigration raid has taken place in the usual military style, this time in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Proclaiming that they were going after "criminals", Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rounded up 27 "Brazilians" in yet another effort to terrorize our immigrant community. According to ICE, the 27 arrested were part of "identity-fraud rings" that sold workers' permits and green cards to undocumented migrants. According to affidavits, an ICE agent over an extended period sold false documents to a group of undocumented migrants for thousands of dollars. ICE then made the arrests. This operation reflects the business as usual atmosphere in this country where the government fleeces undocumented workers of their money and then they are hauled off to jail. |
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14 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor |
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Telecom workers march for good jobs and reliable services at Verizon |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
 More than a thousand telephone workers from throughout Massachusetts marched on Verizon's New England headquarters to rally for good jobs and reliable services. "Next year's collective bargaining offers telephone workers our best chance to refocus management on making Verizon work for everyone: customers, employees and investors alike," said Myles Calvey, a 39-year splice service technician and Business Manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2222. |
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05 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / Labor : Organizing : Politics |
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Community and labor groups kick-off boycott of Enterprise Rent-A-Car |
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by Rand Wilson, rand (nospam) mindspring.com |
 East Boston (July 12, 2007) - Outraged by flagrant management retaliation against a good faith effort by Enterprise Rent-A-Car workers to improve their wages and working conditions, a broad coalition of labor and community organizations -- and many elected officials -- announced their support for a consumer boycott of the company. The effort is designed to level economic pressure on the nation’s largest auto rental employer because of its abuse of workers’ rights at its East Boston airport rental facility. |
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13 Jul 2007
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Politics |
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