BOSTON/Government Center - About 30 unionized security officers and community allies gathered at 1 Washington Mall next to Boston City Hall yesterday for a short memorial event for fellow security officers killed in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City on September 11, 2001
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11 Sep 2008 - 1:15pm
BOSTON - It's Saturday and a roomful of people are advising each other on modifying their mobile devices, optimizing their GNU/Linux systems and organizing for software freedom. But it's not a room full of experts - at least not mostly.
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6 Sep 2008 - 3:14pm
The beginning of September is a busy time for Boston, with students moving in, and pretty much everyone else swapping apartments. If you got caught up in the moving mayhem and are setting up a wireless network in your new home, take a few minutes to follow this guide and make sure it's secure.
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5 Sep 2008 - 5:02pm
Last Saturday, Open Media Boston was honored to receive the 2008 Richard Cloward-Frances Fox Piven Award from the New Political Science Caucus of the American Political Science Association at a ceremony at the Marriott Copley Hotel - site of the APSA annual convention.
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5 Sep 2008 - 12:57pm
BOSTON/Roxbury - About 50 people, activists from the Jamaica Plain based organization City Life/Vida Urbana, and their supporters, gathered in front of 76 Perrin Street in Roxbury today, to try and block police from evicting one of the building's residents, Paula Taylor, 43.
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3 Sep 2008 - 2:30am
submitted via email on 9/1/08 to info@openmediaboston.org with the subject line "Latino Workers Launch Campaign..."
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1 Sep 2008 - 12:50pm
Since the 1880s, Labor Day has been celebrated on the first Monday in September. The tradition was established as part of labor’s fight for the 8-hour work day; and has since then offered a chance to reflect on the struggles and victories of working families.
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29 Aug 2008 - 1:43pm
In Boston, as around the nation, poverty is on the rise. This is sadly unsurprising.
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29 Aug 2008 - 1:07pm
Comcast has announced that beginning October 1, they will institute a 250 GB monthly bandwidth cap for their high speed Internet customers. If you're a customer, you can now look forward to monitoring your bandwidth usage the way you do with cell phone minutes.
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29 Aug 2008 - 12:22pm
A recent study by the U-Mass Donahue Institute documents how the gap between rich and poor has widened substantially in Massachusetts over the past two decades.
