BOSTON/State House - Over 75 people representing immigrant, labor and health advocacy organizations spilled out into the hallway during a packed State House press conference where a campaign was launched Wednesday to restore funds for health benefits for 30,000 immigrants covered by the Commonwe
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10 Jul 2009 - 11:17pm
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10 Jul 2009 - 10:12pm
I am employed by Harvard University in their Fine Arts Library as an image cataloguing assistant and on Tuesday June 23, 2009 I and two other people in the image cataloguing unit were laid off. Seven employees were cut from my library, 30 positions from Harvard College Library overall.
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10 Jul 2009 - 6:42pm
BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - On the third floor of Building L at the Brewery Complex in Jamaica Plain, staffers with the Institute for Policy Studies, the Forum Organizing Project, and the Jamaica Plain Forum, are laboring over a critical question for our times: how to pull people out of the quicksand
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10 Jul 2009 - 10:02am
Gold Star Mother and nationally known peace activist, Cindy Sheehan, addressed a full house at the Regent Theatre in Arlington, Massachusetts in late June.
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5 Jul 2009 - 2:22pm
BOSTON/Government Center - The Venezuelan Consulate marked Venezuelan Independence Day at Boston's City Hall by hoisting the flag on July 5th 2009.
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4 Jul 2009 - 11:44am
Cambridge, MA - It was September 2001 and Josh Steiber was in middle school in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The TV footage of airplanes flying into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon made an indelible impression on the young man.
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3 Jul 2009 - 11:24pm
IBM announced last week that it was adding a virtual world collaboration service it's calling Virtual Collaboration to its Lotus Sametime communications and collaboration software, which is aimed primarily at enterprises.
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3 Jul 2009 - 10:45pm
BOSTON/Government Center - Over 25 immigrant, labor, and religious advocates - some of them Honduran - held a brief protest between rain storms at City Hall against the military coup in Honduras this week and demanded that deposed President Manuel Zaleya be returned to power immediately.
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3 Jul 2009 - 10:06pm
Cambridge, MA - Noted labor organizer and author Steve Early read from his new book "Embedded with Organized Labor, Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home" to a standing room only crowd of over 100 people at Porter Square Books on Monday. A lively discussion followed.
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3 Jul 2009 - 7:01pm
Job losses related to the current recession continue to increase in Massachusetts. The state unemployment rate in April was 8 percent, up from 4.8 percent just a year ago. Over 12,000 Massachusetts jobs were lost in April alone.
