Over 30 people attended an informal lunchtime debate on Climate Justice, South Africa and the World Bank last Friday between Prof. Patrick Bond of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Centre for Civil Society in Durban, South Africa and Prof.
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13 Apr 2010 - 1:23am
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12 Apr 2010 - 5:24pm
At five tons, the pale pink cube that dominates the lobby at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, may be the largest, heaviest piece of glass ever cast. Then again, maybe it’s not. The art in the museum’s latest exhibition, titled “Roni Horn A.K.A. Roni Horn,” is ambiguous.
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12 Apr 2010 - 5:18pm
An exciting international multimedia art show opened in the U.S. last Wednesday at the UMass Boston Harbor Gallery, and I headed over to take some photos - since, fair disclosure, I'm part of the Caerleon Sims/Virtual Art Initiative group staging the event (although I have no work on display).
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9 Apr 2010 - 9:00pm
BOSTON/Government Center - Two Honduran activists presented the findings of a recent report by the Honduran human rights organization Committee of Relatives of Detained and Disappeared in Honduras (COFADEH) to an audience of over 30 concerned area residents at City Hall last Wednesday.
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9 Apr 2010 - 4:15pm
When the Commonwealth of Massachusetts put forward a new Economic Development bill, Verizon and Comcast inserted a little known provision to deregulate "Voice Over Internet Protocol" technology, often called VOIP.
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7 Apr 2010 - 12:00am
A few weeks back I wrote an editorial wondering aloud if Gov. Deval Patrick would have the gumption to use his power to limit health insurance rate hikes for individual and small business plans this year.
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1 Apr 2010 - 1:58am
BOSTON - In a surprise move, OmniMegaCorp of New York and Ulan Bator - a leisure service of the Bank of Insubtantia - proclaimed its hostile takeover of Open Media Boston at an early morning press conference in a bunker in an undisclosed location.
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30 Mar 2010 - 4:09pm
For many months I have been astounded by the absurdity of those Americans who equate Obama’s Private Insurance Bailout Bill with Communism or Socialism. A reader of an op-ed piece of mine wrote me explaining she had demonstrated against Obama’s health plan because she was opposed to Socialism.
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30 Mar 2010 - 12:00am
This will be a fairly short editorial (by my usual - rather loquacious - standards anyway). We're still in a deep recession marked by significant long-term job loss ... whatever Moody's and other business-oriented economic observers are currently saying to the contrary.
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29 Mar 2010 - 11:22pm
BOSTON/City Hall - With federal stimulus funding for youth summer jobs off the table in the wake of a failed U.S.
