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Telecom workers march for good jobs and reliable services at Verizon |
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by Rand Wilson, |
 More than a thousand telephone workers from throughout Massachusetts marched on Verizon's New England headquarters to rally for good jobs and reliable services. "Next year's collective bargaining offers telephone workers our best chance to refocus management on making Verizon work for everyone: customers, employees and investors alike," said Myles Calvey, a 39-year splice service technician and Business Manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2222. |
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05 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / Labor : Organizing : Politics |
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Residents Take on Cluster Bomb Manufacturer on War Anniversary |
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by Middle East Crisis Coalition, |
 The Middle East Crisis Coalition held a demonstration on Thursday, August 2nd in downtown Waltham to protest Raytheon's manufacturing of weapons designed to indiscriminately kill all living things in a wide area.
Raytheon, headquartered in Waltham, is the biggest missile manufacturer in the world, one of the world's leading manufacturers of cluster bombs, and ranks fourth in terms of military sales. |
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03 Aug 2007
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Filed under: Announcement / War and Militarism |
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Community and labor groups kick-off boycott of Enterprise Rent-A-Car |
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by Rand Wilson, |
 East Boston (July 12, 2007) - Outraged by flagrant management retaliation against a good faith effort by Enterprise Rent-A-Car workers to improve their wages and working conditions, a broad coalition of labor and community organizations -- and many elected officials -- announced their support for a consumer boycott of the company. The effort is designed to level economic pressure on the nation’s largest auto rental employer because of its abuse of workers’ rights at its East Boston airport rental facility. |
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13 Jul 2007
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Politics |
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Artist Stages Reenactments of Vietnam-Era Protest Speeches |
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by Meghan Boudreau, |
 Exploring the parallels between the war in Iraq and the Vietnam War, artist Mark Tribe will stage re-enactments of Vietnam-era protest speeches in Boston and Washington, D.C. in July. The events are part of Tribe’s Port Huron Project, a series of re-enactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the 1960s and ’70s. |
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13 Jul 2007
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Filed under: Announcement / War and Militarism |
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The New York Times Sells Cameroon for $250,000 |
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by Sofia Jarrin Hurtado, |
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On a silver platter this past Sunday, The New York Times magazine featured no less than eight pages towards the liberalization of the economy in Cameroon. Showing off its excellence in corporate media advertising, the NY Times magazine sold prominent space to Cameroon business traders so they can in turn sell their country’s resources to U.S. investors, no doubt to the demise of many of its citizens. “Cameroon ready for growth, ready for investment,” reads a headline on page 59 which goes on to explain the country’s “quest for sustainable growth...” |
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10 Jul 2007
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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US Labor Against the War Iraqi Solidarity Tour |
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by Craig Carpenter, |
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Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President of the Electrical Utility Workers Union of Iraq and Faleh Abood Umara Gen. Sec. of the Iraqi Fed. of Oil Workers were hosted by U.S. Labor Against the War and offer perspective on the labor situation in Iraq. SEE VIDEO COVERAGE: |
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06 Jul 2007
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Filed under: News / International : Labor : War and Militarism |
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Immigrants Rights at the U.S. Social Forum |
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by Sergio Reyes, |
 Atlanta, GA - Friday, 6/29/97.- The U.S. Social Forum is in progress with workshops, presentations and plennaries that cover almost all areas of struggle in this attempt to build "another world." The small Boston May Day Coalition has been present in as many migrant workers workshops as humanly possible. The concept of "migrant worker" is not popular in the forum. Most of the events are labeled "immigrant rights". |
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30 Jun 2007
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International |
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