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Beyond the Living Wage: A New Challenge for Progressives |
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by Sam Pizzigati, |
Over the past dozen years, probably no grassroots campaign has excited progressives more and generated more real victories than the living wage movement.
Over 120 communities, big and small alike, have now enacted ordinances that require businesses that win government contracts to pay a living wage. These victories have made an undeniable impact. Low-wage workers from Baltimore to Los Angeles have seen their annual take-home pay rise by hundreds, even thousands, of dollars. |
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04 Sep 2006
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Filed under: News / Politics : Social Welfare |
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Lessons from Katrina: One Year Later |
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by Sofia Jarrin, |
 “The source of the flood is not the water; it's gentrification,” said Keric Johnson from the Builders Guild at a rally yesterday in Roxbury organized by the Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee to remember the ongoing suffering of the people of New Orleans from Katrina and its aftermath. “The land belongs to the people. It isn’t the water that drove us away, it’s the globalization of the economy, it’s the end of the post-industrial cities. We need to build a damn ourselves.” |
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30 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Race |
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when it comes to katrina, spike ain't cicero (film review) |
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by jeffery mcnary, |
 Oak Bluffs, Mass - The isle of Martha’s Vineyard provides intriguing theater in mid and late august, particularly for black folk of means. There’s a “history”, and culture and cash often collide. This year cinema entered the equation on the evening of August 23rd when filmmaker Spike Lee, a summer resident of the island, rolled on and rolled out, his version of the events around August 29, 2005 when a hurricane named Katrina slammed into the gulf regions of Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi. On August 30th, the levees designed to protect “n’Orleans” broke, sending torrents of water and death into the city’s primarily Black and poor 9th Ward. “On the Vineyard…high cotton”, Mr. Lee said. “Lobster and stuff…Chardonnay. Think about ‘em over in the muck of New Orleans.” |
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29 Aug 2006
Modified: 10:08:59 AM |
Filed under: News / Media |
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A look at the First Annual Sacco And Vanzetti Memorial Parade |
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by Jake, |
 On Sunday, August 27th, 2006, about 50 people braved the pouring rain to gather for the first annual Sacco and Vanzetti Memorial Parade.
The event began at the Southwest Corridor Park across from the Stony Brook T stop. People shared food, poems, speeches and letters written by Sacco and Vanzetti. An accordion performance was followed by Sergio Reyes, of Latinas and Latinos for Social Change and the May Day Coalition, playing songs on his guitar. |
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28 Aug 2006
Modified: 29 Aug 2006 |
Filed under: News / Human Rights |
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New Name For Senate Telecom Bill—But Still In Need of Fix |
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by Lyell Davies, |
 Summary: Sen. Steven’s telecom bill HR5252 is now called the “Advanced Telecommunications and Opportunity Reform (ATOR) Act”—but still fails to protect Net Neutrality, allows for telecommunication ‘redlining’ of low income and rural communities, and hurts public access TV, says Anthony Riddle of the Alliance For Community Media. |
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16 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / Media |
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4th Boston Justice for Lebanon Rally |
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by Sofia Jarrin, |
 Under a thin veil of desperation, about 500 Lebanese, Lebanese-Americans, and supporters from many walks of life assembled for the fourth consecutive week at Copley Square to protest the ongoing indiscriminate attacks of Israel on the Lebanese civilian population and its infrastructure.
Photos by Jonathan McIntosh
http://capedmaskedandarmed.com/photoblog |
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12 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : War and Militarism |
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Local Jews Protest Against War and Stand With Humanity |
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by Jonathan McIntosh, |
 On Thursday afternoon, August 10th, several dozen people from various Jewish peace organizations gathered for a demonstration at 126 High Street in downtown Boston. They came together at that location to protest under the banner “The Jewish organizations in this building do not speak for us!” |
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10 Aug 2006
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : Race : War and Militarism |
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