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Boston Pedals Ahead? |
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by Pete Stidman, pstidman (nospam) yahoo.com |
 City Hearing on Bicycle Safety This Monday, 9/20, 5pm at Honan Allston Library
Bicycling activists all around the city have tried for years to get the city thinking on two wheels but no amount of coaxing, re-assuring or elbow padding seems to work. MassBike has partially convinced the state to take off its training wheels but no luck with li’l Boston, Critical Mass continues to try to slap some sense into the kid on a monthly basis to no avail, and at one time the city hired a tutor with the title of “Bicycle Program Manager,” but so far all the efforts to get the city to understand how to pedal forward have ended up flat on the pavement. This city either has a total lack of coordination or something wrong with it's ability to think. Now, suddenly, when all heads are turned the other way, the city is asking for advice on bicycle safety. |
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18 Sep 2004
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Filed under: News / Politics |
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Earthworks and Better Tomorrows |
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by Atreyu, atreyu (nospam) ecomail.org |
 “This program is experimental by nature”, muses Ben Crouch, Program Director for Earthworks Boston. “We are documenting our work to track the results of how the land is adapting to what we’re doing. We want to help inform Boston on how to better manage the natural areas of the city”. If this sounds like a science experiment, done on the green spaces of our Boston cityscape, that’s because it is. And like any good experiment it is being done to further a process of understanding. However, this experiment is taking more into consideration than just science. |
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17 Sep 2004
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Filed under: News / Environment |
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Indymedia T-Shirt Design Contest! |
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by Boston IMC, indytshirt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Boston’s Independent Media Center is contemplating conquering the fashion world with our very own line of upper-torso wear. Being an open source media center, we felt that the best thing to do is give everyone a chance to come up with the winning design(s). After all, we are you, you are us and so on… The winner(s) will receive a year long subscription to the bi-weekly Boston Independent newspaper (that will debut in the next month or so) and two free T-shirts with their own winning design printed on them! Not to mention the satisfaction of promoting the future of Boston’s very own independent media source, working hard to bring you the truth and give you the tools to tell it. |
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14 Sep 2004
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Filed under: Announcement / Media : Organizing |
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Worcester Students Protest "Spirit of America" Tour |
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by Chris Caesar, ChrisCaesar (nospam) hotmail.com |
 I arrived at the Worcester Centrum with a contingent of Clark students around 930 that morning, and the peace presence was already quite conspicuous, “who would Jesus bomb”, etc. A Marines jeep sat on the sidewalk, with a phone number stenciled on the side for those hoping to “secure [their] futures” in the military. Recruiters in full attire greeted the students in the lobby of the Centrum, passing out pamphlets on all the so-called benefits that accompany military service, and imploring them to sign up.
Lacking a live-action laser show extravaganza of our own, we assembled peacefully on the sidewalk, armed with pamphlets about the risks of military service and instructions on preventing your personal information from being disclosed to military recruiters. This, it seems, was not entirely cool. |
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10 Sep 2004
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Filed under: News / Education |
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Recruiters Invade Worcester, Activists Plan Resistance |
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by Kevin, ksen.piedmont ( a ) juno.com |
 MA Call Out - Against the Kick-Off of a Major Military Recruitment Drive in Worcester Sept. 10th and 11th
Massachusetts based peace and global justice groups are calling for a convergence of voices and groups opposed to the U.S. military’s use of Sept. 11th for the purpose of recruiting another generation of young people.
The U.S. Army has announced a North East Regional presentation of “Spirit of America” a 2-hour multi-media extravaganza. Over 400 active duty military personnel, military vehicles, video, audio and electronic special effects, recreate bloodless battle scenes as part of a storyline portraying a young man who “decides to follow his grandfather in the path of military service”. |
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04 Sep 2004
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Filed under: Announcement / Education |
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Come build a community radio station in Portsmouth! |
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by kate coyer, kcoyer (nospam) yahoo.com |
During the weekend of September 10th-12th, hundreds of community radio organizers from New England, and all over the world, will gather together to bring a brand new community radio station to the air, as the Prometheus Radio Project partners with Portsmouth Community Radio for its sixth Radio Barnraising!
As volunteer technicians build everything from the studio to the tower, producers, engineers, and organizers from all over the United States and Canada will teach dozens of workshops on everything from how to record and edit a news show, to how to navigate the intricacies of FCC regulations. Earlier radio barnraisings have been with civil rights groups, farmworkers organizations, environmental groups, Native American tribes, and community groups. |
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04 Sep 2004
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Filed under: Announcement / Media : Organizing : Technology |
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The Long Arm of the UfPJ? (and RNC Photos) |
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by Pete Stidman, pstidman (nospam) yahoo.com |
 NEW YORK CITY- A half a million people marched by the Fortified and Republo-filled Madison Square Gardens today, and many felt the conspicuous absence of a rallying point. Tolu Olupna, a NYC resident, felt that the march was “disorganized,” because of the lack of a rally space. “I would love to be listening to speeches right now,” Olupna said as she sat in the shade at Union Square with other marchers uncertain about just where to go.
But requests for a permit to rally on the Great Lawn were finally denied by the New York State Supreme Court. UfPJ officially asked people not to march to Central Park. After a long and inspiring march, a focusing point is a positive thing, it is a place to get out the message, a place to talk and connect with people. UfPJ didn’t win a permit, but does that mean that they should also act to discourage people from assembling anyway? |
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Grand Opening! Workers Fight to Unionize Sexuality Boutique |
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by Choke, monty76 (nospam) riseup.net |
labor! sex! feminism! solidarity!
Organized labor has never been sexier! Grand Opening!, Boston's premier sexuality boutique, has once again revolutionized what it means to sell sex toys. GO! workers have voted to join with UNITE HERE! and form the Grand Opening! Workers' Union. They have taken this step due to the high turnover rate of good employees, the lack of adequate benefits, the lack of a consistently fair living wage, the desire for a meaningful voice in the workplace, and the lack of a formal grievance process, among other issues. |
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27 Aug 2004
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Filed under: News / Gender : Labor |
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