I'm starting a bit of a tradition this Thanksgiving week by re-publishing a blog entry I wrote for my Mass. Global Action blog four years ago as an Open Media Boston editorial for the second year running in these pages.
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22 Nov 2009 - 10:34pm
BOSTON/Fenway - A public meeting called by the Fenway Community Development Corporation to organize area residents to oppose the MBTA's proposed cut of the 55 bus route Monday, took a positive turn when State Rep.
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15 Nov 2009 - 11:11pm
It was strange to read today's Boston Globe article about the response of some Massachusetts small businesses to the premium increases that the health insurance companies are proposin
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15 Nov 2009 - 10:33pm
Cambridge, MA - On November 10, noted historian and novelist Tariq Ali spoke about his new book "The Idea of Communism" at Harvard Book Store to an audience of over 70 people.
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15 Nov 2009 - 9:42pm
“While investigators probe for a motive behind the mass shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas Thursday, in which an army psychiatrist is suspected of killing 13 people, military personnel at the base are in shock as the incident ‘brings the war home’… Tragically, Fort Hood has als
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15 Nov 2009 - 2:05am
On October 24, Bostonians went down to Christopher Columbus Park on the waterfront to participate in mass street theater on the theme of "Boston Under Water." The idea of the event - being held in cities around the world - was to draw attention to the fact that unless we can keep CO2 levels at o
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8 Nov 2009 - 10:28pm
It's rather disheartening to see the way that the ongoing economic downturn gets spun in the news media. Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the official unemployment rate went up into the double-digits for first time since April 1983.
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8 Nov 2009 - 9:49pm
BOSTON/Boston Common - Immediately following the yes vote on Maine's Question 1, the "Maine Same-Sex Marriage People's Veto," over 100 Mass. gay marriage advocates held a protest on Boston Common next to the Park Street T stop on Wednesday evening.
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6 Nov 2009 - 4:16pm
BOSTON/Dorchester - Malalai Joya, now 31, was the youngest ever woman elected to the Afghan Parliament in 2005 and is an outspoken critic of the Karzai government and NATO occupation.
