Hundreds of telephone workers united in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) rallied for good jobs on Thursday, August 5 at Verizon's New England headquarters.
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6 Aug 2010 - 5:06pm
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5 Aug 2010 - 12:00am
“Art for All, British Posters for Transport,” the exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT is aptly named. Certainly, posters are the most democratic form of art.
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4 Aug 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - Over 200 people attended a protest picket outside the Hyatt Regency Boston hotel on Thurs. July 22nd to demand that the Hyatt Corporation reinstate the jobs of 98 former members of their housekeeping staff. The event was part of a nationwide day of protest by the UNITE HERE hotel workers union. Similar protests were held in several other cities.
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2 Aug 2010 - 6:09pm
On the last day of the 2009-10 formal session, the Massachusetts state legislature gave final approval to an overhaul of the state’s criminal background check system.
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30 Jul 2010 - 12:00am
One of the pitfalls of running a non-profit independent news publication with a still-shoestring budget is that there are times when the absence of key staff - in this case your faithful Editor/Publisher - is far more apparent than it would be in larger publications.
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29 Jul 2010 - 9:12pm
Following weeks of street pressure and before a divided political establishment, an Arizona judge issued an injunction against some of the most odious features of SB1070, the anti-immigrant legislation passed by that state's government.
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21 Jul 2010 - 11:32pm
Greetings, Open Media Boston viewers. Just thought I'd take advantage of a slow news week to talk shop with you all.
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21 Jul 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Chinatown - Student Immigrant Movement organizers and supporters held a press conference at the encuentro 5 movement space last Wednesday to announce their participation in a national campaign to push for passage of the DREAM Act - a bipartisan bill that would grant some undocumented immi
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21 Jul 2010 - 12:00am
Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a landmark bill that ends the use of dangerous floor finishing product.
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14 Jul 2010 - 11:56pm
This week the Open Media Boston inbox has been echoing with alarums from various civil liberties organizations - the Mass. Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union at their forefront - about a law that Gov.
