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Report: 3% of Black men in Massachusetts disenfranchised |
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by Peter Wagner, pwagner (nospam) prisonpolicy.org |
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This is the first presidential election since Massachusetts prisoners were stripped of the right to vote. The effected population is disproportionately Black. More than 3% of Black men in Massachusetts are denied the right to vote. |
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02 Nov 2004
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Politics : Race |
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Arbitrator rules UMass-Amherst international student 'fee' discriminatory |
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by Bryan G. Pfeifer, bgp (nospam) iacboston.org |
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In a historic and possibly precedent-setting decision rendered August 15 an arbitrator ruled that the University of Massachusetts at Amherst must cease and desist charging international graduate student employees an international student ‘fee’ and that all students who paid the ‘fee’ shall be refunded. This victory is a result of a seven-month campaign led by the Graduate Employee Organization. GEO filed its grievance with the administration Dec. 29, 2003 claiming the ‘fee’ was a violation of the union’s non-discrimination contract clause which bars discrimination based on national origin or citizenship among other protected statuses. The aritrator affirmed GEO’s charge stating discrimination was inherent in the way the administration levied the ‘fee’ because it was only mandatory upon international students. |
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23 Aug 2004
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Filed under: News / Education : International : Labor : Race |
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100+ Person Rally at Seaboard Corp. Office: Return the Land Now! |
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by Matt Feinstein, teo (nospam) riseup.net |
 "Here we are with Harry Bresky’s office behind us, and we’re here to say, ‘Give it back, Harry.’ The Ava Guarani and Kolla communities have made an urgent appeal for international solidarity. We have heard the appeal, and today we act upon it." This is one of many lines in an educational skit delivered today on the steps of the office of the Seaboard Corporation’s President and CEO, Harry Bresky, in Brookline, MA. Over one hundred activists gathered to express their disgust about Seaboard Corp’s complicity in the displacement of the Ava Guarani and Kolla communities from Salta, Argentina and allowing brutal repression of those re-occupying their native land. |
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31 Jul 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Race |
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Fourth Day of Protests, July 28th |
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by Matthew Williams, plaid_baboon (nospam) hotmail.com |
 The first major protest of the day, with 500 people, was a rally calling on the US government to respect human rights called, “What Have Become?: From Guantanamo to Abu Ghraib?” Another 400-500 people gathered in Blackstone Park to support a local environmental justice group calling for funding for public health, not the bioterror lab being built in their neighborhood. A group of 10 pro-gay marriage activists disrupted a DNC meeting and were removed by the police. In the early evening a street theater action took place against the “Free Speech Zone”, with activist entering it with hands bound and heads hooded, while a group of DNC delegates condemned the “Free Speech Zone”. The police were becoming increasingly aggressive throughout the day, showing up in totally disproportionate numbers to the environmental justice rally, and arresting one activist while he was walking down the street. |
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29 Jul 2004
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Filed under: News / DNC : Human Rights : Race |
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Racial Profiling at DNC: Man Arrested for Protesting While Brown |
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by Steve Iskovitz, steveisk (nospam) yahoo.com |
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As the International ANSWER march reached the Fleet Center (site of the Democratic National Convention), the Secret Service detained for questioning a demonstrator apparently of South Asian (Indian or Pakistani) descent for "looking around"--a clear act of racial profiling. He has since been released. |
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26 Jul 2004
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Filed under: News / DNC : Human Rights : Race |
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June 20 Antifa Reportback - Confronting Neo-Nazi Fascists |
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by northeast antifascists, neantifa (nospam) hotmail.com |
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On June 20, about 15-20 neo-nazi white supremacists decided to come hang out in Government Center during an Israeli Independence Day celebration. Since Northeast Antifascists had heard of them coming beforehand, we were also there for a little meet and greet. |
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24 Jun 2004
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Filed under: News / Race |
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Indigenous Rights Activists Banned by Newton Court |
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by Matt Feinstein, teo (nospam) riseup.net |
 Activists Vow to Find Other Means to Reveal Abuses of Chestnut Hill based Seaboard
Corporation
In an early morning court hearing in Newton District Court on Thursday, April 18th,
Judge Dyanne J. Klein banned international activists Cha-Cha Connors and Kevin Ksen
from future demonstrations against Chestnut Hill based Seaboard Corporation’s Board
of Directors. The one-year stay-away order marks an escalation of the Boston area
campaign in support of the Ava Guarani and Kolla indigenous communities in Northern
Argentina. In recent months, these indigenous communities have been violently
removed from their ancestral land, physically threatened and harassed by Seaboard
employees. |
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28 May 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Race |
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