BOSTON/Financial District - Over 150 janitors, security guards, and staff from Service Employees International Union Local 615 - and supporters - marched from the State House to the Financial District in often-driving rain on Tuesday to call on the real estate industry to preserve full-time jobs
This past week has seen two major service announcements in IP voice and video communication that challenge the telcos.
If there's one politician that Boston community and labor activists can count on to "afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted" it's Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner (G/R - District 7).
This Tuesday (11/18/2008) I joined a delegation of about twenty security officers, organizers and community allies from SEIU 615, the union representing security officers in many of Boston's largest and most profitable properties.
BOSTON/Copley Square - On Tuesday, a 20 person delegation representing unionized security guards from the Service Employees International Union Local 615 - including guards, union staff, and supporters from the Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice and Jobs with Justice - entered the lobby of
Cambridge, MA - On Sunday, over 200 people attended the 2008 Cambridge Peace and Justice Awards at the Dante Alighieri Cultural Center.
The current crisis did not start with finance, and it won't end with finance.
Superpowers are a fact of history. Before the Soviet Union and The United States, the British Empire was the world superpower.
On Friday, November 7th, Professor Arthur MacEwan aka "Ask Dr. Dollar" spoke at the Jamaica Plain Forum.