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Boston Activist Assaulted by Gathering of Eagles |
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by Mighty Quinn, smashette (nospam) gmail.com |
 Carlos Arredondo, Boston resident (Roslindale/JP) was assaulted by members of The Gathering of Eagles pro-war organization while he was demonstrating at the capitol this weekend. |
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19 Sep 2007
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Filed under: News / War and Militarism |
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Far from the Coalfields, Bank of America Can't Hide Dirty Investments |
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by erin, grapevine (nospam) riseup.net |
 As part of the Day of Action against Bank of America, part of an ongoing critique of B.o.A.'s funding of major players in the coal industry, a group of protesters held banners and passed out literature in front of the Bank in Amherst, MA on Friday. |
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04 Sep 2007
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Filed under: News / Environment : Organizing |
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Raids by ICE: A Psychological War that Terrifies Our Communities |
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by Boston May Day Coalition, |
 Last Tuesday, August 28, to people who live in the area of East Boston and Chelsea in Massachusetts it looked like the city was under siege. Detachments from the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and other police forces roamed the streets creating panic among immigrant workers and their families. A community organizer spotted the ICE agents at the Maverick T station and pointed his camera in their direction. He was immediately surrounded, his camera confiscated, he was interrogated, and he was ordered to show his documents. Eventually they let him go. A Spanish-radio reporter who knew the organizer stopped to inquire what was happening. ICE agents told him to move on and out of there. But, the alarm was set off and 1600 AM radio waves were soon filled with phone calls about additional ICE police activity around town. This went on from around 6 am until noon. |
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02 Sep 2007
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Filed under: News / Human Rights |
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Military Families Release Homemade Video to Challenge War Propaganda |
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by BIMC Editors, |
 Thursday, Military Families Speak Out (based in Jamaica Plain) and Gold Star Families Speak Out members picked up a video camera and made a one and one-half minute piece to counter and challenge a $15 million ad campaign to push the Bush administration's Iraq war agenda.
Celeste and Dante Zappala produced a home made video and posted it online to counter-act a national campaign launched by Ari Fleischer, former press secretary to President George W. Bush, and its advocacy group Freedom's Watch, to pressure Congress to continue funding the war. |
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31 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / War and Militarism |
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Providence Protesters Urge 'Justice' |
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by Mark Arsenault and Lynn Arditi, |
 NORTH PROVIDENCE — Clenched fists raised, close to 200 protesters yesterday denounced the North Providence police and demanded "justice" for a protester seriously injured two weeks ago while demonstrating at an Asian restaurant on Mineral Spring Avenue. |
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29 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / Labor : Media |
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Second Year Commemoration of Hurricane Katrina: Music and Politics |
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by Rosa Clemente, knowthyself (nospam) mac.com |
 The Hot 8 Brass Band continues their tour of the United States and abroad with their next stops to occur at Boston’s famous Wally’s Jazz Café and the 12th annual Cambridge Caribbean Festival. The Hot 8 are a part of the Finding Our Folk Tour, which was created after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. FOF seeks to raise the voices of Katrina's survivors and connects them with the voices of Katrina survivors and men and women in all corners of the country who remain on the margins of citizenship. The Hot 8 Brass Band; themselves, displaced after Hurricane Katrina through their music helps reconnect people throughout the country and world to the rich traditions, history and culture of New Orleans. |
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20 Aug 2007
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Filed under: Announcement / Labor : Politics : Race |
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Latin America Solidarity Lives! |
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by Shane Stewart, boscispes (nospam) speakeasy.net |
 Adam Reilly’s--or shall I say O’Reilly--“Ebbing Radicalism in Cambridge” (Boston Phoenix, 7/25/07) reads like a Fox News Op-ed piece. It’s nothing more than a regrettable attempt to cut down a fellow human who has struggled on the frontlines in Guatemala where the US oversaw and bankrolled a dirty war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives--all while ignoring the actual issues of US intervention, poverty, and violence that continue to thwart justice in Latin America today. |
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