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Stop the War on Immigrants! Stop the Raids! |
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by Boston May Day Coalition, |
 Boston, August 13, 2007. - Another immigration raid has taken place in the usual military style, this time in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Proclaiming that they were going after "criminals", Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents rounded up 27 "Brazilians" in yet another effort to terrorize our immigrant community. According to ICE, the 27 arrested were part of "identity-fraud rings" that sold workers' permits and green cards to undocumented migrants. According to affidavits, an ICE agent over an extended period sold false documents to a group of undocumented migrants for thousands of dollars. ICE then made the arrests. This operation reflects the business as usual atmosphere in this country where the government fleeces undocumented workers of their money and then they are hauled off to jail. |
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14 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor |
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Boston Anarchists hold Oaxaca Solidarity Demonstration |
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by a boston @, |
 A small but determined group of Boston anarchists demonstrated outside of the Mexican Consulate twice on Tuesday, August 7, in solidarity with the people of Oaxaca. Boston anarchists called attention to the ongoing resistance and repression in Oaxaca, Mexico. Demonstrations happened at 9 am and 4 pm due to the odd hours of the consul in Boston.
For updated information on Oaxaca visit:
http://www.elenemigocomun.net/ |
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08 Aug 2007
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Filed under: News / International |
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Hiroshima Day 2007 |
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by Bill Templer, |
 Today is the 62nd anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima and its people in split seconds, 8/6/45 -- the worst massacre and bloodiest day in American and Japanese history. In human history. 140,000 perished immediately and within hours and days. Another 70,000 were vaporized in Nagasaki on 8/9/45. Survivors (hibakusha) are still dying from the long-term after effects, their average age now 73, the cenotaph in Hiroshima now bears more than 253,000 names. These survivors were little kids caught up in the blast. |
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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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