BOSTON/State House - Demanding a more equitable transit system Wednesday, demonstrators targeted the State House where the Senate is expected to vote on a transportation bill next week.
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10 Apr 2013 - 4:59am
The poet Verandah Porche, a New England treasure, will be reading from her new collection Sudden Eden. The book party is being held at a Cambridge home (parking will be permitted) on Wednesday, April 24 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. Please call 617 354 6237 for the address.
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9 Apr 2013 - 2:17pm
ambridge, Mass. - Over 400 workers, activists and community leaders converged upon the Le Meridien Cambridge-MIT Hotel last Thursday to renew their call for hotel workers to be allowed a fair process to decide on unionization.
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9 Apr 2013 - 4:01am
BOSTON/Faneuil Hall - As part of a coordinated effort to push Congress in the direction of progressive immigration reform, the Service Employees International held a rally and march in Boston on Saturday.
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26 Mar 2013 - 8:52pm
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - US House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi hit the hub on Monday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act at the West Street headquarters of the Service Employees International Union Local 615.
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26 Mar 2013 - 6:25pm
Cambridge, Mass. - The free software movement—based on the idea that computer programs should be available for anyone to use or modify—is in some ways at the top of its game, and in others facing its most difficult challenges.
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25 Mar 2013 - 12:26pm
Calling all progressive organizers! RootsCamp MA (April 6-7, 2013 at 1199 SEIU in Dorchester) shakes up the traditional conference model. No need to submit workshop proposals in advance. Instead attendees decide an agenda together each morning of the conference.
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20 Mar 2013 - 7:31pm
BOSTON/Copley Square - Over 100 people gathered in Copley Square on Saturday to commemorate the second anniversary of the Syrian uprising and ask for international support for their struggle.
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20 Mar 2013 - 6:30pm
Somehow I always took the idea that Open Media Boston would make it five years as a given.
