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New Name For Senate Telecom Bill—But Still In Need of Fix |
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by Lyell Davies, |
 Summary: Sen. Steven’s telecom bill HR5252 is now called the “Advanced Telecommunications and Opportunity Reform (ATOR) Act”—but still fails to protect Net Neutrality, allows for telecommunication ‘redlining’ of low income and rural communities, and hurts public access TV, says Anthony Riddle of the Alliance For Community Media. |
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16 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / Media |
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Poverty in Boston, What Poverty? |
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by Sofia Jarrin-Thomas, |
 That’s exactly what an editor for the business section at the Boston Globe said during class at Harvard when I proposed writing a story about the correlation between the rise in crime and poverty in our city. I was dumbfounded and almost answered, “All you have to do is look outside your window,” as I remembered the men standing day after day on the street corners looking for work at my Somerville neighborhood. Then again, I didn’t know where the editor lived and the suburbs isn’t exactly a Boston hub for the homeless. The story idea was shut down, and we both moved on with our privileged lives. |
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09 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / Education : Media : Race |
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Making Technology Relevant to Nonprofit and Social Change Groups |
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by S. Eppler, |
 On June 17, 2006 the Boston based Organizer's Collaborative (OC) held their 7th annual Grassroots use of Technology Conference (http://organizerscollaborative.org) at UMass Boston's bayside campus. The Organizer's Collaborative is an organization of over 500 individual members and member orgs that are working together to advance the use of technology for social change. OC believes that all non-profits and community groups, regardless of size or income, should have access to up-to-date technology that enhances their ability to carry out their mission. |
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19 Jun 2006
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Filed under: News / Education : Media : Organizing : Technology |
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DAY OF OUT(R)AGE AGAINST TELCOS—MAY 24TH |
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by save access, |
 Wednesday May 24th—Protests planned at phone company offices in NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities to expose efforts by the phone companies to push legislation that could end the Internet as we know it, increase the digital-divide through redlining—and destroy Public Access TV! For more information, or to organize action in your town, go to www.saveaccess.org —or email Info (at) saveaccess.org |
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18 May 2006
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Filed under: News / Media |
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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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BC Students Stage Die-In On Iraq War Anniversary |
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by BC Global Justice Project, |
 Chestnut Hill, MA—More than thirty Boston College students staged a die-in against the Iraq War on the campus green on March 20, 2006. March 19, 2006 was the third year anniversary of the U.S. led invasion of Iraq—a war that has cost U.S. taxpayers nearly $250 billion and claimed the lives of more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians and 2,300 U.S. soldiers. |
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22 Mar 2006
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Media : Organizing : Politics |
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Peoples Victory in Picariello Case! |
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by International Action Center, |
 Peoples Victory in Picariello Case!
After two years of courtroom battle, a very significant peoples' victory was won in court today in the case against longtime anti-war activist Richard Picariello. Picariello was acquitted on all charges in the first of the two cases. And the defense motion was granted to dismiss the second case arising out of a protest at a 2004 Bush fundraiser in Boston because of prosecution failure to provide required discovery information. |
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07 Mar 2006
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Media : Organizing : Politics : Social Welfare |
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When Freedom of Expression Becomes a Weapon |
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by wave, |
 Most of us are now well aware of the caricatures of the prophet Mohammad, solicited by and published last September in the right-wing Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. This week several publications resurrected those controversial images of Mohammad as a bomb-turbaned terrorist and another where he refuses suicide bombers entry into Heaven as “We’ve run out of Virgins.” Then our news sources informed us that due solely to these images “outrage sweeps across the Muslim world.” Such coverage has elicited miles of text and a Babel of blather denouncing those who would dare threaten OUR freedom of speech because it offends THEIR “backward” beliefs. |
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06 Feb 2006
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Filed under: Review / Media |
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