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Faulkner Hospital RNs Will Hold Informational Picketing on March 29th |
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by Iron Chef, |
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Registered nurses (RNs) at Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain will conduct informational picketing outside the entrance to the facility on March 29, 2004 from 6 a.m. – 7 p.m., to draw attention to key issues in dispute in stalled contract talks with management that the nurses believe impact their ability to deliver safe care to patients at the facility. More than 300 registered nurses are represented by Massachusetts Nurses Association at Faulkner Hospital. They have been negotiating their contact since last October with 13 sessions held to date, and the last five sessions before a federal mediator. The key issues in dispute include the need to provide full staffing at the facility and, as a result, to end the dangerous practice of forcing nurses to be transferred to areas where they are not qualified to safely care for patients; the call for a salary level on a par with other Partners-owned facilities, and improvements in the nurses’ pension plan and health insurance benefits. |
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24 Mar 2004
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Filed under: News / Labor : Social Welfare |
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As We Protest Today, Remember Those in Trouble for Speaking Out! |
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by Matt, |
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As Bostonians join with thousands of others around the world protesting the war today, we must remember those who face police reprisal for their protests. One is Massachusetts organizer Camilo Viveiros, arrested protesting the Republican National Convention in 2000, whose trial is coming on April 5. |
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21 Mar 2004
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Filed under: News / Human Rights |
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Seaboard Corp Publicly Revealed in Boston Area for Indigenous Rights Abuse in Argentina |
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by Matt / WoGAN, |
 Activists from Worcester and Boston, Massachusetts brought the voices of the Ava Guarani to the front steps and office doors of the Seaboard Corporation this afternoon. This action was part of an international coalition, Alerta Salta (www.Alerta-Salta.org.ar), which has formed to support the indigenous community in Salta, Argentina. This Ava Guarani community has been displaced and severely repressed at the command of the San Martin del Tabacal sugar refinery, which is owned by the US-based Seaboard Corporation. |
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19 Mar 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Race |
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Civil Unions today, Gay Marriage March 29th? |
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by S. Eppler, |
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On Thursday March 11th, 2003, the State of Massachusetts House and Senate reconvened a Constitutional Convention to debate the issue of gay marriage. During the March 11th session, three votes were made regarding three different bills on this topic. The Amendment options for the legislature to consider were: one that enabled civil unions as an alternative to gay marriage, one that defined marriage as a heterosexual unions that promotes “the stability and welfare of society”, and one that enabled civil unions while defining marriage as an institution between man and woman. |
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12 Mar 2004
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Filed under: News / GLBT/Queer |
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Rhode Island's War on Anarchism |
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by David Grenier (repost), |
If you live in Rhode Island, you could get ten years in prison just for reading this. I have on my desk right now a copy of the new Rhode Island "homeland security" bil proposed by Governor Carcieri. It's an 18 page document, and right on the first page, before talking about weapons of mass destruction or poisoning the water system or anything else that a rational person might consider "terrorism", it says "any person who shall teach or advocate anarchy" will go to prison for ten years. Of course, we're not just going to roll over and let the government fuck us. We're going to fight this the right way, the anarchist way.
Update: The day after submitting the "homeland security" bill, Governor Carcieri withdrew it. |
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01 Mar 2004
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Politics |
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Picket in Front of Parsons Corporation as Part of International Day of Action Against War Profiteering in Iraq |
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by Matthew Williams, |
 On Tuesday, February 24, 2004, from noon to 1:00, about twenty-five of us picketed at Parsons Corporation’s offices at 100 Summers Street in Boston’s Financial District. This was part of a international day of action against war profiteering in Iraq, Parsons being targeted because of the contract it was awarded by the Army Corps of Engineers to help rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure. The focus of the protest, organized by United for Justice with Peace (UJP), Massachusetts Peace Action and other groups, was the corrupt manner in which contracts had been given out by the Bush administration, primarily to those corporations with close ties to members of the administration. Much of the reconstruction work has been done in an incompetent manner, without the in-put of the Iraqis most affected by this process--and, to top it all off, it is being paid for with revenue from Iraq’s oil sales. The critique of those protesters I talked to was far wider than just corrupt contracting though--as one might imagine, they were critical of the Bush administration’s war-mongering, but also its neoliberalism (“free” trade policies) and the lack of democratic accountability on the part of the government and corporations, both in Iraq and in the US itself. People in the peace movement are definitely making an effort to tie the issue of ending the US occupation of Iraq to a larger attempt to change our social system. |
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25 Feb 2004
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Filed under: News / Globalization : International : Labor |
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Consulta Reportback From Austin Activist |
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by Bl(A)ck Tea Society, |
An Austin activist provides a reportback to the DNC resistance consulta, held in Boston Feb 13-16.
The Democratic National Convention Resistance Consulta, called by an anti-authoritarian coalition known as the Bl(A)ck Tea Society, was held in Boston on the weekend of February 13-16. Participants traveled from all over the country, either with or on behalf of larger affinity
groups. Written proposals came in from as far away as Washington state. The purpose of the consulta was to collectively discuss and educate one
another about the upcoming actions surrounding the Democratic National Convention, to be held in Boston on July 26-29. Participants came to
hear what was already being planned, both by the Bl(A)ck Tea Society and the State, as well as to offer discussion and proposals about possible action scenarios. |
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25 Feb 2004
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Filed under: News / DNC : Organizing |
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