BOSTON/State House - Over 200 labor and community activists gathered in front of the State House Steps on Tuesday to commemorate Workers' Memorial Day - the annual state holiday that honors all workers killed on the job over the previous year.
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1 May 2009 - 2:16am
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1 May 2009 - 1:16am
BOSTON/Chinatown - Sunshine Travel Services bus drivers took to the streets of Chinatown again on Monday to get the word out about poor labor and safety conditions they have endured on the job.
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30 Apr 2009 - 4:51pm
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is celebrating their 50th anniversary with a unique series of seven performances (that’s 18,000 tickets!) at the Opera House thanks to the Celebrity Series of Boston.
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24 Apr 2009 - 11:41pm
There are many issues I could editorialize about today, but a funny thing happened as I was writing up our news piece on the Boston Globe union rally for Open Media Boston this evening ...
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24 Apr 2009 - 11:21pm
With a few UI tweaks and fixes, the newest version of the Skype application for iPhone and iPod Touch is worth downloading.
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24 Apr 2009 - 10:36pm
BOSTON/Faneuil Hall - Over 300 unionized Boston Globe employees, family members and allies held a lunchtime rally outside Faneuil Hall today to drum up local support for their struggle to "save the Boston Globe." The event was organized by the Boston Newspaper Guild - The Newspaper Guild/Communi
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24 Apr 2009 - 5:17pm
An Open Letter to Professor Jacob Hacker, University of California, Berkeley
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23 Apr 2009 - 3:08pm
Robert Shetterly, Maine-based painter and creator of the portrait book “Americans Who Tell The Truth” was joined by historian Howard Zinn on Friday for a program at Emerson College in Boston.
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20 Apr 2009 - 12:00am
Somerville, MA - The Board of Directors of the Somerville Teachers Association (STA) voted to endorse HR 676 at its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, April 7.
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17 Apr 2009 - 11:32pm
Art is often subversive. Hitler knew it. Stalin knew it. And Mao Zedong knew it. Dictators regard ideas expressed by art for art’s sake as a threat. They use art as propaganda, a tool to glorify the state.
