BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - About 30 activists - primarily from Service Employees International Union Local 615 and local labor advocacy organizations - formed a picket line outside the McDonald's restaurant at 146 Tremont St. near Park St.
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19 Dec 2008 - 10:58am
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19 Dec 2008 - 3:30am
BOSTON/Government Center - Over 50 people turned out to Boston City Hall Plaza in frigid weather on Wednesday to attend a press conference by former U.S.
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19 Dec 2008 - 2:24am
BOSTON/Beacon Hill - Seeking "more just and humane immigration polices," over a dozen children of new immigrant families joined with 30 representatives of immigrant and faith-based community organizations on Tuesday under the banner of the pro-immigrant coalition Welcoming Massachusetts to prese
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15 Dec 2008 - 10:48pm
Do you remember when you first fell in love with Firefox? How you got over your initial skepticism of an Internet Explorer alternative and quickly realized how much sweeter the HTML tasted, rendered by an open source browser?
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12 Dec 2008 - 11:35pm
Well it's the holiday season, and you know what that means ...
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12 Dec 2008 - 11:06pm
BOSTON/Roxbury - City Councilor Chuck Turner (G/R - District 7), fighting off charges that he took a $1000 bribe in an FBI sting operation, rallied his constituency to his side at a diverse 300 person rally at Roxbury Community College on Tuesday.
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12 Dec 2008 - 2:36am
The bailouts of big companies are reaching into the range of two trillion dollars. Two trillion. $2,000,000,000,000. Twelve zeros. Count them: twelve. That’s a lot of money. On top of that, another trillion dollars has been spent on the death, chaos and destruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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10 Dec 2008 - 11:59pm
More than 100 representatives from dozens of community and labor organizations gathered on Dec. 10 in Boston to mark International Human Rights Day and kick off a statewide campaign to win passage of the Employee Free Choice Act.
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10 Dec 2008 - 11:52am
Having written several articles and letters debunking the “consumer-driven economy” myth, I recently swore off further attempts. I thought.
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10 Dec 2008 - 11:38am
The Boston media used a snippet of videotape released by the FBI to conclude that Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner is guilty of bribery. But the accompanying FBI affidavit, when shorn of speculation and irrelevancies, is a decidedly unconvincing document.
