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by Angela Caputo-Papastamos | 29 May 2008 - 12:39pm

BOSTON/Allston – With over 50,000 bands booked for 8,000 shows on two continents in this year’s competition, the Emergenza European and North American Live Festival for Up and Coming Bands is now making an appearance in the Boston area.

by Dave Goodman / Boston Community Reporters Project (Independent) | 26 May 2008 - 11:56pm

BOSTON/North End - Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Military Families Speak Out held a Peace Memorial on the Boston waterfront in Christopher Columbus Park on Memorial Day.

by Rand Wilson | 23 May 2008 - 8:52pm

Telephone employees across Massachusetts spearheaded a day of action on May 22 to protest efforts by Verizon and many other employers to force workers to pay more for their health insurance premiums or increase co-pays and deductibles.

by Editor | 23 May 2008 - 1:01pm

It is unfortunate, to say the least, that Gov. Deval Patrick recently chose to renege on his promise of a few months ago to grant hundreds of children of undocumented immigrants the right to pay in-state tuition rates to attend public colleges in Massachusetts.

by Angela Caputo-Papastamos and Jason Pramas (Staff) | 23 May 2008 - 11:32am

BOSTON/Beacon Hill - After marching for 5 days from Worcester to Boston for reform of the Criminal Offender Record Inquiry system in Massachusetts, a group of over a dozen ex-prisoners and supporters led by members of Ex-Prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement was received b

by Jason Pramas | 22 May 2008 - 11:19pm

BOSTON/South End - If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words might dozens of artworks by local kids express?

by Dave Goodman / Boston Community Reporters Project (Independent) | 21 May 2008 - 10:47pm

BOSTON/Fenway - Obain Attouoman, a popular math teacher at Fenway High School, was deported yesterday to his native country of Ivory Coast.

by Dave Goodman (I.B.I.S. Radio) | 21 May 2008 - 10:03am
 

Dave Goodman of "RADIO with a VIEW" spoke with Comedian Wendy Liebman, who visits Boston for one show this week:

A benefit for COMMUNITY WORKS on Wednesday, May 21st at 8:00pm at The Comedy Connection in Quincy Market.

by Jenna Alderton (Independent) | 20 May 2008 - 1:43pm

If my cousin still had a voice I wonder what he would say. If he had the opportunity to tell his story, I wonder who would listen. He would be 21 this month and maybe a junior or senior in college.

by ACLU of Massachusetts (Advocate) | 20 May 2008 - 1:43pm
ACLU Report Exposes Unjust Detention of Youth
 
Pre-Trial Juvenile Lockup In Massachusetts Disproportionately Impacts Youth Of Color
 

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