On Wednesday July 2, 2008, Community Change in Boston welcomes the public to partcipate in a round-robin reading of the 1852 speech by Frederick Douglass entitled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro."
Danvers, Mass. - About 75 Verizon workers rallied on June 26 for the good jobs our communities need.
A link to more pictures from the rally by telephone workers united with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2321 at Verizon's Danvers garage is pasted below:
BOSTON/East Boston - Recent developments in the 40 year fight to save the East Boston's Neptune Road neighborhood from destruction and incorporation into Logan Airport are chronicled in this two segment audio production by the Zumix Journalism Group, a radio training program for local high schoo
A new report released this week by Community Labor United - a coalition of labor and community organizations whose mission is to "protect and promote the interests of working class communities in the Greater Boston region" - indicates that Boston taxi drivers need a fare increase and other refor
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - Last Saturday, 75 people attended a "Stand for Security" march and rally called by the Service Employees International Union Local 615. The event was part of a national campaign that is seeking to unionize security guards in several cities across the U.S.
Proceedings and transactions of our Boston City Council are a sham.
For example, here's a so called Budget Hearing before our Council's
Ways and Means Committee
The first LP record anyone ever gave me was a gift from my grandmother of Carlin's 1973 "Occupation Foole." I was 14. My grandmother hadn't listened to the record; she just knew Carlin from his appearances on The Tonight Show. Man, was she shocked... And I was hooked.
In this week's editorial, we'd like to praise a great new documentary by a group of young community leaders in the Health Careers Ambassadors Program of the Hyde Square Task Force