Somerville, MA - Sixteen Centro Presente organizers and local Somerville residents stood outside of Diva Indian Bistro on Friday evening to protest the restaurant's firing of one of their workers.
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9 Dec 2012 - 10:08pm
As a member of the Alliance for Secular and Democratic South Asia (“Alliance”), a Cambridge, MA based organization which champions issues in South Asia, the news of the November 24th Tazreen garment factory fire in Dhaka Bangladesh in which 112 workers lost their lives was a rude jolt.
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27 Nov 2012 - 11:13pm
BOSTON - Upper Crust Pizza filed for bankruptcy protection last month – following years of legal battles with staff, creditors, and regulators. The local chain owes employees about $850,000 in back pay and wages.
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26 Nov 2012 - 12:00am
It's been an odd last several months here at Open Media Boston; so I thought I'd just catch folks up on what we're up to. And talk about a new program we're trying out that I think will generate some interest among underemployed journalists in our fair city.
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23 Nov 2012 - 11:07pm
Teaneck, N.J. — The damage incurred by Hurricane Sandy – the largest Atlantic super-storm on record — is second only to New Orleans’ Hurricane Katrina in terms of magnitude and cost.
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19 Nov 2012 - 4:47am
The only groups that we demand a strict adherence to nonviolence from are the marginalized and their advocates. We call their grievances ‘ideologies’ as a means of crushing any discursive avenues by which they can be addressed.
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18 Nov 2012 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Downtown Crossing - “Burning carbon is the whole point of digging it out,” said Naomi Klein, during the advocacy group 350.org’s "Do the Math" tour stop at the Orpheum Theater in Boston on Thursday night.
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13 Nov 2012 - 10:14pm
BOSTON/Copley Square - Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad shared their thoughts Thursday on the outcome of the recent US elections to four hundred people at Old South Church in Boston, MA USA. The dance and percussion group Scaramouche warmed up the crowd.
Yes, No, and Yes on Mass. 2012 Ballot Questions 1, 2, and 3 (and Yes on the Budget for All Question)
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5 Nov 2012 - 10:07pm
Getting back into the swing here after being on a school-related hiatus from journalism for a few weeks. I've been quite busy working on my MFA in Visual Arts for the second stretch this year, but decided to spend more time on my thesis artwork and finish up next semester.
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5 Nov 2012 - 3:44pm
Look, I know you’ve been buried by campaign ads lately, and I feel your pain.
