“It was a cold and snowy night in December 2008, when the insurance company Executive Officer sat alone in his brightly lit office suite.
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21 Dec 2009 - 10:56pm
It starts to feel like I'm repeatedly writing the same editorial about different subjects at times like this. Just a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned how it surprised no one when Pres. Barack Obama recently announced that the U.S. was escalating the war on Afghanistan.
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21 Dec 2009 - 7:11pm
At this time last year, the bombs had just begun to rain down on the Gaza Strip. In a devastating war that seems all but forgotten here in the United States, Israel brutally massacred more than a thousand people in Gaza in the short space of three weeks.
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20 Dec 2009 - 6:49pm
The recent short trail starts with "Technology for Social Change" — The Grassroots Use of Technology Conference X, October 16 and 17 at Northeastern University in Boston.
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20 Dec 2009 - 6:36pm
BOSTON - Twenty years ago this December, the large Dorchester clan of Jerry “Judgie” Leary was, like many other telephone worker families in the northeast, not exactly flush with cash for Christmas presents.
Jerry and 60,000 other members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) had just spent four grueling, impoverishing months on the picket-line battling NYNEX, the regional telecom giant now known as Verizon (VZ).
Memories of that strike include first time-ever visits to food banks, the loss of job-based medical benefits because NYNEX cut them off, and the dismissal, suspension, or arrest of hundreds of union activists in New York and New England. In Westchester County, N.Y. a CWA picket captain with several young children was hit by a car driven by a scab and died of brain injuries; in New Hampshire, an IBEW striker was killed in an industrial accident, while trying to do an unfamiliar factory job to feed his family.
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20 Dec 2009 - 4:35pm
As we approach the end of the year, I am part of a group in the Boston area preparing for what we hope will be a historic, life-giving march: a call to "End the Siege of Gaza." Fourteen Massachusetts residents will be traveling to the Gaza Strip to march alongside 1,400 internationals from 42 co
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19 Dec 2009 - 3:51am
Following a months-long spat of constant attacks against 4chan that included spam, malicious links and disgusting child pornography, 4chan founder "Moot" unofficially called for a response against file sharing host Sharecash.
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16 Dec 2009 - 12:00am
In 2003, Steve Jobs railed against music subscription services, telling Rolling Stone that “People want to own their music.” Now it appears that Apple might be changing its iTune.
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15 Dec 2009 - 11:12am
Last week, only a few days after hearing that he was ill, I got word that my friend and mentor Tim Costello had passed away. He was 64. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to speak to Tim in the last few months before he died.
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14 Dec 2009 - 12:52pm
BOSTON/Copley Square - Coming up on Sunday, December 20, 2009, the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra will present its long running annual Christmas Concert and benefit.
