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Saturdays Boston Common Anti Israeli Wall Demo Report Back |
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by Stop Killing Balata's Children, |
 About 15 Palestine solidarity activists gathered on the Boston common Saturday to protest the ongoing occupation and theft of land by Israeli forces throughout the west bank. We gathered to educate people about the hardship it causes the residents of Bethlehem and Jerusalem both Christian, Muslim and other. Due to media and Israeli military censorship people are generally unable to witness the construction of the wall first hand and to see the racism of the occupation and its structures. |
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03 Jan 2006
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Rosa Parks Human Rights Day March |
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by Chris Williams, christianawilliams (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Over 500 people participated in the "Rosa Parks National Day of Absence Against Poverty, Racism and War" march that began on Dudley Street in Jamaica Plain and went all the way to City Hall in Boston flanked by two rows of police on bikes and motorcycles. The march had an impressive concurrence from the black community and was well received by people who waved, hand-gestured for peace, and honked their cars on the streets. The highlight of the day was when marchers reached Madison Park Technical Vocational High School and exchanged calls of solidarity with dozens of students hanging from windows, shouting "Rosa Parks! Rosa Parks!" but were not allowed to join the crowd. Inspirational speakers for the day included Chuck Turner, Charles Yancey, Felix Arroyo, Rev. Franklin Hobbs, Minister Rodney Muhammad, and local activists.
On Oct. 26, the Boston City Council passed a 13-0 resolution in tribute to the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' defiance to segregation in the US, and encouraged businesses and schools to close for the day of December 1st. Activists in New York, Baltimore and Detroit also organized events and hope to get a similar resolution passed in their cities. |
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03 Dec 2005
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Media : Organizing : Race : Social Welfare |
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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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Concerned Citizens Confront Menino Campaign on Proposed Bioterror Lab |
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by Matt Osborn, mattosborn (nospam) riseup.net |
 [Dorchester, MA] During a campaign event at Prince Hall in Dorchester, Mayor Thomas Menino and his supporters were greeted by members of the Boston Direct Action Project (BDAP) dressed in hazmat suits marked “Biohazard,” masks, and gloves. The BDAP members confronted Menino about his support of Boston University’s proposed bio-lab. |
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02 Nov 2005
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Filed under: News / Politics : Race : Technology |
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Fast for Justice: Providence Janitors Struggle for Union Power |
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by Alex Gould, alexandergould (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Monday: Over forty union supporters protested in front of the "Turk's Head" downtown office building as five strong-willed people went into their fifth day of fasting today. The fasters, camped out in front of the fancy bank offices since Thursday, are members of SEIU local 615 and their supporters. They want the owner of the Turk's Head building, millionaire landlord Lloyd Granoff, to hire a union cleaning contractor. |
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01 Nov 2005
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Politics : Race : Social Welfare |
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Discrimination against People with Criminal Records Begins to Change in Boston |
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by homefries, |
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A recent ordinance to stop discrimination against people with criminal records in the city's hiring practices recently passed unanimously in Boston's city council. Activists say that this form of discrimination haunts those who have already served their time, creating a form of post-correctional incarceration when people are denied jobs, housing, and other basic needs. Activists are also saying that this type of dicrimination is deeply connected to racial discrimination. For more on the story, listen to the posted audio file. |
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26 Oct 2005
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Filed under: News / Politics : Race |
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Anti-Racist Medicine |
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by david, davewreckoning (nospam) hotmail.com |
A review of Tim Wise's recent memoir 'White Like Me, Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son' (Soft Skull Press, 250pp., 2005.)
Tim Wise was born to the post-civil-rights-era US south. However, unlike most white people, he has dedicated himself to attempting to understand how his whiteness, in a white-dominated society, affects him. |
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04 Oct 2005
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Filed under: Review / Race |
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Report and photos of solo AIPAC Protest @ BU |
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by Pete, |
 Inspired by and in solidarity with the demonstration against American Israeli Political Action Committee in DC I turned out in the rain to demonstrate against an AIPAC event at Boston University on Sept 26.
Their were 4 Israeli politicians speaking about how great their "democracy" was and I, having spent two summers in occupied refugee camps and 3 weeks in an Israeli jail system full of Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike, thought I should turn out to keep them honest. |
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27 Sep 2005
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Filed under: Review / Race |
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