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Third Death Procession Successful |
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by Operation: Over ally, |
 On Monday, July 31, six Boston-area locals helped spread the word to other community members (and tourists) about the biolab and the dangers it poses to residents and visitors to our city. Unlike previous awareness-raising events by Operation: Over, this time participants also held a banner reading "Oppose the BU Biolab" at busy intersections (below). The event began at 4pm at the Park Street T Stop, proceeded down Tremont, stopped on the corner with Boylston (displaying the banner), continued to Copley where the banner was brought out again. By 7pm people had gone their separate ways, though one participant continued flyering back to Park Street. |
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01 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / War and Militarism |
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Stop the Bombing of Lebanon Protest (Photo Essay) |
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by Jonathan, |
 Several hundred Lebanese-Americans, religious leaders and concerned citizens gathered in Copley square Friday for a demonstration demanding an immediate end of the humanitarian and economic catastrophe in Lebanon as a result of Israel’s bombing and invasion of the country.
Supporters lined the streets waving red and white Lebanese flags and holding signs and banners denouncing Israeli aggression and killing of civilians. A heavy storm moved in halfway through the rally but most of the demonstrators stood their ground singing, chanting and dancing in the pouring rain. |
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02 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : War and Militarism |
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Little Resolved at BU Biolab Hearing |
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by I-Hsien Sherwood, |
 The latest hearing yesterday for the controversial Boston University bioterrorism lab had lawyers for both sides haggling like vendors in a market bazaar. Much of the debate focused on the timing of future hearings and judicial review.
With construction already begun and an additional $35 million in federal funds scheduled to be released to BU in September, Judge Patti B. Saris worried that she would not have enough time to make an informed ruling before the issue was moot. "How do you expect me to rule by then?" she said. "I'm not an ATM machine." |
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27 Jul 2006
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Filed under: News / Environment : Social Welfare |
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Activists launch 'Summer of Organizing and Struggle' |
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by Bryan G. Pfeifer, |
 A contingent from the Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee (BRPHRDC) hit the streets for a mass leaflet distribution July 22. Traveling through mostly working class communities of color, organizers were busy informing people about the committee’s Summer of Organizing and Struggle campaign against poverty, racism, sexism and war. |
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27 Jul 2006
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Filed under: News / Organizing |
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Banners Dropped Today Against Biolab |
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by Op: Over Participant, |
 On Monday, July 24, Operation: Over participants hung two anti-biolab banners on bridges over the Mass Pike and Route 128. The banners were dropped at the beginning of evening rush hour.
In other biolab news, there will be a court hearing at 1:30pm this Wednesday,the 26th, for the lawsuit against the National Institute of Health, which is one of three lawsuits alleging the illegality of the proposed lab. Roxbury SafetyNet folks are urging people to come out for this, and so is Operation: Over. |
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25 Jul 2006
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Filed under: News / Social Welfare |
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Boston Protest to Stop Invasion of Palestine and Lebanon |
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by Sofia Jarrin, |
 Boston, Mass. -- “This is not a war based on religion; it’s a war based on politics,” said orthodox Rabbi Dovid Feldman from the Neturei Karta International, Jews United Against Zionism, “There was a co-existence of Jewish and Arab people before the creation of the state of Israel.” |
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22 Jul 2006
Modified: 24 Jul 2006 |
Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Organizing : Politics : War and Militarism |
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Boston's Chinatown Community Shows Solidarity and Pride |
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by Michael Ferola, |
 BOSTON, Mass. -- In response to a group of men fighting near 88 Beech Street in Chinatown on Thursday, July 20, 2006 at approximately 7:10PM, members of a group of the local neighborhood Crime Watch sprang into action. Crime watch team members, Tony Yee and Michael Wong among other community members, tried to talk the disorderly men out of fighting and to move on. After being threatened by these men, the team immediately called police. |
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21 Jul 2006
Modified: 24 Jul 2006 |
Filed under: News / Organizing : Politics |
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