BOSTON - A Boston-based print and online teen magazine that became defunct sometime last year is now facing allegations that it failed compensate around 40 of its young contributors by over $100,000.
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24 Jan 2014 - 4:46pm
Open Media Boston is very pleased to announce that we've just hired our second full-time staffer ever: Jonathan Adams, who we have promoted to Associate Editor.
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23 Jan 2014 - 2:12pm
We Are Music will be presenting a one evening festival of events with 100% of ticket proceeds to benefit rebuilding efforts in the Philippines post-Typhoon Haiyan. The event will be held on Saturday, 2/1, from 6 p.m.
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22 Jan 2014 - 11:16pm
There's an event on Saturday evening that we'd like everyone to attend: the 1st Annual Activist Ball.
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21 Jan 2014 - 4:53pm
New Bedford, Mass. – A supervisor at Sea Watch International Seafood died after becoming trapped in clam-shucking machinery while working a night shift Thursday.
Victor Gerena, 35, who was the father of several children and originally from Puerto Rico, was tragically killed after he became entangled in machinery he was trying to clean; the exact details of which are not yet known.
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20 Jan 2014 - 11:27pm
This is #6 of "Local Edition," the twice a month newscast sponsored by the WMBR Radio News Department and Open Media Boston.
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17 Jan 2014 - 8:53pm
Cambridge, Mass. - The Kendall Square branch of the pharmaceutical company Genzyme was the target of a protest Thursday. Around 30 members of the Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ called on the company to hire what they call a “responsible contractor” from the bids for an upcoming cleaning services contract.
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15 Jan 2014 - 12:00am
Hot on the heels of last week's announcement of our new Radical Boston section, I'd like to launch another initiative this week. The Boston area is home to large numbers of university departments, research institutes, non-profits, unions, businesses, libraries and religious denominations that bring in all kinds of speakers from all over the world year round. Many of those talks express forward-thinking progressive ideas that Open Media Boston's audience would love to hear, but most folks won't be able to attend in person. And many events still aren't livestreamed.
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14 Jan 2014 - 1:19pm
BOSTON/South Boston - Marking the first anniversary of the death of renowned internet activist Aaron Swartz, there were renewed calls in Boston for the resignation of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz and Assistant US Attorney Stephen Heymann.
A small group of independent activists, and Massachusetts Pirate Party members, demonstrated outside the US District Court in the city Monday, and delivered a letter to an Ortiz official stating their position.
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9 Jan 2014 - 11:07pm
“You're playing into the hands of imperialism! We need to support Iran against the USA!”
Anyone who has been around certain sections of the radical left has encountered this attitude at one time or another. For some on the left, it is not enough to oppose US imperialism or its wars, but we need to do more and 'support' every government targeted by the United States. And that 'support' winds up being uncritical support to any government opposed to the United States, no matter how repressive or reactionary it may be.
