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As the culmination of Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride, on Saturday, October 4th, tens of thousands of immigrant workers joined friends and allies for a fabulous rally in Flushing Meadows Park in Queens, New York. You could literally feel the joy in the air and the sense of solidarity as people from many different nations joined together for a common cause: to focus attention on immigrant rights and to help force the United States government to make pivotal changed in its current immigration policies. Speakers elaborated on their message to the leaders in Washington and elsewhere that any new immigrant policy passed by Congress must include these key requirements: Legalization and a clear and well-defined road to citizenship for all immigrant workers; the right of immigrant workers to re-unite with their families; protection of the rights of immigrant in the workplace; and protection of the civil rights and civil liberties of all.
In the past two days, workers from the Wachusett Mountain Ski Area used chain saws and bulldozers to fell trees dangerously close to the trees two Earth First! activists are sitting in. Dandi and Badger, the two tree sitters, have also been cut off from their supporters on the ground. The tree-sitters are attempting to protect some of the last-remaining old growth forest in Massachusetts. Its loss would have environmentally devastating results, including increasing sediment and polluting the water supply of the city of Fitchburg, which is a reservoir lake at the bottom of the mountain.
As thousands of protesters rally and march in 
On the eve of the second anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, about 250 of us gathered on the Boston Common around the bandstand for a vigil in remembrance of all those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks of that day and the ensuing US wars on Afghanistan and Iraq. Organized mainly by a coalition of local churches, synagogues and mosques, the speakers shared their grief for the dead, their rejection of the hatred driving the attacks on Arab and Muslim immigrants at home and the US’s war-making abroad, and their hope for a better future, free of bigotry and war.
A reportback from the protest of John Ashcroft's visit to Faneuil Hall to promote the USA Patriot Act including a time line and photos. The Boston Police Department estimates over 1,000 protestors were in attendance. Links to other coverage of the event can be found 
