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Boston-Area Students and Raging Grannies Unite to Carol for Peace |
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by Paul Nauert, |
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Boston, MA, December 20, 2007—Groups from across the region and generations are joining together this Friday in a timely, creative call to end the American occupation of Iraq. Boston students from schools around the area are uniting their voices with the Boston Raging Grannies to sing a rousing chorus of anti-war, pro-peace holiday carols at 3:30pm on Friday in Downtown Crossing (the corner of Washington St. and Bromfield St.) We encourage all students still in the area and Bostonians to join us to engage in an anti-war action before this New Year! |
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21 Dec 2007
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Filed under: Announcement / War and Militarism |
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We condemn ICE Raid in Milford, Mass., and protest insensitive media reporting about it |
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by Boston May Day Coalition, |
 Last Friday, December 7, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents "supported" by the Milford Police Department raided an immigrant community again. They arrested 15 undocumented migrant workers. Reports indicate that most were from Ecuador. The media, uncritical and sympathetic to ICE reported that the workers were charged for violating criminal laws. However, the same article indicated that only one person was charged with violating "criminal laws". The others “will face a federal immigration judge." In other words, the raid was about migrant workers and not about criminal law enforcement. |
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12 Dec 2007
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : Labor |
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Activists Open 10 Year-Old Roadblock, Again |
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by Palestine Solidarity Project, |
 Israeli and international solidarity activists from the Palestine Solidarity Project joined Palestinians from Beit Ommar, Surif, Al-Jab’a, and Hebron as they moved the massive interlocking cement blocks and boulders, opening a space for Palestinian vehicles to pass through. PSP has organized actions at this roadblock a number of times in the past year, in defiance of the IOF’s attempts to control Palestinian freedom of movement. |
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05 Dec 2007
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : International : War and Militarism |
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Coup D'Etat Rumblings in Venezuela |
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by Stephen Lendman, |
 The Bush administration tried and failed three prior times to oust Hugo Chavez since its first aborted two-day coup attempt in April, 2002. Through FOIA requests, lawyer, activist and author Eva Golinger uncovered top secret CIA documents of US involvement that included an intricate financing scheme involving the quasi-governmental agency, National Endowment of Democracy (NED), and US Agency for International Development (USAID). The documents also showed the White House, State Department and National Security Agency had full knowledge of the scheme, had to have approved it, and there's little doubt of CIA involvement as it's always part of this kind of dirty business. What's worrying now is what went on then may be happening again in what looks like a prelude to a fourth made-in-Washington attempt to oust the Venezuelan leader that must be monitored closely as events develop.
LISTEN TO VENEZUELA'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM ON DECEMBER 2nd LIVE:
http://radiovenezuelaenvivo.blogspot.com/ |
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Massachusetts Rallies in Support of Pakistani Lawyers |
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by Benjamin Evans, |
 The National Lawyers Guild organized a demonstration in Boston on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 in solidarity with lawyers in Pakistan, who have been beaten and jailed for opposing the suspension of constitutional rights in their country. |
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14 Nov 2007
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Filed under: News / International |
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