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Local Fights Against Austerity Are Growing Across the U.S. |
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by Mark Vorpahl, portland (nospam) workerscompass.org |
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Between sequestration, with its damaging impact on workers and the entire economy, and the billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security, Medicare and other necessary social programs that President Obama is pushing, it is evident that the economic policies of both major parties are not intended to promote a recovery for working people. You cannot lift up a nation’s economy while slashing away at its consumers’ pocketbooks. In order to justify their defiance of this elementary law, both Republicans and Democrats start talking the language of “austerity,” that is the notion that economic policy must be guided by reducing budgetary deficits first and foremost, and that workers exclusively must be made to pay the cost. |
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9/11, the Marathon Bombing, and the Security-Industrial Complex |
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by Boston IMC Editorial Staff, |
In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent manhunt and shootout, speculation has been rife about the attack being a "false flag operation", that is, a terrorist attack arranged by government agents for the purpose of scapegoating a particular group or nation, an example being the Reichstag fire. It's certainly not impossible. A government willing to commit similar atrocities on a daily basis by means of drone attacks in Pakistan is hardly above suspicion just because this attack occurred on US soil.
The conspiracy theorists are missing a more important point, however. Even if Tamerlan Tsarnaev wasn't secretly working for the CIA, the Marathon attack did a huge favor for the US security-industrial complex. |
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May Day 2013 Reports |
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by Cradle of Liberty News, cradleoflibertynews (nospam) gmail.com |
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This May Day, Bostonians held three separate events to mark International Workers Day. Below are reports from two of these events (the final report to come soon). |
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02 May 2013
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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May Day Funeral March Lays Capitalism to Rest |
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by Boston IMC, |
 For the second May Day in a row anarchist organizers in Boston held a mock funeral march for capitalism downtown. Featuring puppets of various sizes, "mourners", a coffin, and a marching band, the march was meant to point out the moral and financial bankruptcy of the capitalist system.
Video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtcHz3g71VA |
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02 May 2013
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor |
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Boston Funeral March for Capitalism, May 1 |
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by Funeral Procession for Capitalism Committee, |
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The Parade takes place the evening of May 1st, @ park street T stop. Come by 7pm if you want to be in the parade. Come at 8pm if you just wanna watch. |
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27 Apr 2013
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Filed under: Announcement / Organizing |
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Massachusetts NLG Calls For Explanation of Warrantless Searches |
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by Mass NLG, |
Boston, Friday, April 26, 2013: The National Lawyers Guild, Massachusetts
Chapter (NLG) continues to express its sympathy to those who were wounded and to
those who lost family members in the April 15 bombings and in the events of the
following days. We join in the hope for recovery and healing.
While we appreciate that public safety rules usually serve a legitimate purpose in
times of crisis in order to protect and maintain an orderly society, our legal
system includes other important protections derived from the U.S. Constitution.
Those protections must be upheld, especially in the aftermath of crisis. Indeed,
those protections are designed for times of crisis. If constitutional protections
are denied to some of us, they may one day be denied to all of us. |
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26 Apr 2013
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Filed under: Announcement / Human Rights |
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THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, MASSACHUSETTS CHAPTER URGES LAW ENFORCEMENT TO HOLD FAST TO U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS |
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by Mass NLG, |
Boston, April 21, 2013: The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) wishes to express its
sympathy to those who were wounded and to those who lost family members in the April
15 bombings near the close of the Boston Marathon and in the events of the following
days. We join in spirit with our fellow human beings to hope for speedy recovery
and healing. |
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Boston-area Adjunct Professors Kick Off Union Organizing Drive |
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by Jason A Stephany, jason (nospam) massuniting.org |
 More than 100 adjunct faculty members from throughout the Greater Boston area gathered at JFK Library Saturday to launch a massive, 20+ campus unionization drive. |
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16 Apr 2013
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Filed under: News / Education : Labor : Organizing : Politics : Social Welfare |
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