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by ccoakley | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

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by Rand Wilson | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

Members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) are stepping up a campaign against the proposed sale of telephone lines in 14 states by telecom industry giant Verizon to the much smaller mostly rural carrier Frontier Communications.

by Rand Wilson | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

In Wisconsin and around our country the American Dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs Republicans are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich and then cutting funding for education police emergency response and vital human services.

by RadioView | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

BOSTON/South Boston - In 1999 author and media scholar Bob McChesney published the book "Rich Media Poor Democracy: Communications Politics In Dubious Times." This weekend more than two thousand activists government officials journalists artists and media consumers have joined McChesney a

by Rand Wilson | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

Comcast's "Easy Pay" locations throughout Massachusetts were visited on May 11 by their customers and local community leaders concerned about the company's treatment of its employees and lack of respect for workers' rights.

by RadioView | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

BOSTON/Long Wharf – Some of those standing in the hot sun in Christopher Columbus Park on Monday have been protesting the war in Iraq for twenty years; since the U.S. attacked that nation in January 1991.

by RadioView | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

BOSTON/Dorchester - Massuniting a grassroots coalition of community groups and concerned neighbors and a recent addition to a growing list of Boston area social justice organizations collaborating across various political economic and environmental issues is facilitating a public speak-out

by RadioView | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

BOSTON/Dorchester - Temperatures over 100 degrees had Bostonians scrambling to find relief last week. Perhaps an even harder challenge to face: what to do about the debt and deficit and taxes budget cuts and proposed austerity measures which have inflamed citizens from D.C. to Dorchester.

by RadioView | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

BOSTON/Dorchester - Normandy Street resident Drusilla Frances can remain in her home - at least for another day.

by RadioView | 11 Aug 2013 - 7:47pm

BOSTON/Boston Common - With a dogged persistence bordering on the quixotic activists on Tuesday evening staged a chaotic but wildly democratic launch to the Boston version of the #OccupyWallStreet campaign.

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