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6 Aug 2008 - 12:55pm
March 2008 ushered in the sixth year of war and occupation "without end" on Iraq. In an act of arrogance and impunity, Congress in a bipartisan vote approved another $162 billion in funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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3 Aug 2008 - 2:24am
The Communications Workers of America announced tonight that in light of progress that has been made in bargaining for a new contract with Verizon, it has agreed to "stop the clock" on the expiration of the current contract and postpone strike action while negotiations continue.
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2 Aug 2008 - 2:03pm
Dave Goodman of "RADIO with a VIEW" and Open Media Boston speaks with actor, director, producer Robert Townsend, in Boston for the 10th annual Roxbury Film Festival. Townsend's entry, "Of Boys and Men" features himself as the father of a Chicago family that recently has lost it's mother.
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1 Aug 2008 - 6:38pm
Open Media Boston co-sponsored a 100-person "Ideas and Action: Human Rights in Boston and the United States" conference yesterday at the Boston Public Library and the Old South Church that joined a number of progressive sociologists in town for the annual conference of the American Sociological
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1 Aug 2008 - 5:58pm
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - Over 100 unionized security officers and labor allies joined ununionized security officers in a march yesterday to demand that the non-union security company Palladion Services recognize Service Employees International Union Local 615 and bargain a union contract with
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1 Aug 2008 - 4:39pm
BOSTON/Beacon Hill - The hopes of advocates for the passage of a criminal justice bill (House Bill 5004 "An Act to Improve Certain Criminal Justice Matters") that would have reformed the controversial Criminal Records Information System were dashed this week when the House Ways and Means Committ
