The annual public ritual of rendering homage to Martin Luther King Jr., the man, while obfuscating - if not actively betraying - his message, is de rigueur for elected officials, with or without the gospel choirs. Once a year, these officials issue their compulsory paeans to Dr.
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12 Jan 2012 - 2:47am
A handful of Massachusetts legislators have offered some solutions to the state's budgetary woes, fearlessly pursuing the criminals who enrich themselves at public expense but pay little or no state taxes. The big banks, you might ask?
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2 Jan 2012 - 12:00am
Quick note to say that Open Media Boston will be on a break while your faithful Editor/Publisher is attending his semi-annual graduate school residency. We'll be back after January 18th.
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30 Dec 2011 - 11:24am
Metropolitan Mediation Services is offering three 36-hour mediator training courses in the first half of 2012. There will be offerings in Jan- Feb, April-May, and June (dates below).
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26 Dec 2011 - 10:36pm
Our colleagues at South End Press put out the following call for financial support this week, and we're republishing it here it in hopes that Open Media Boston viewers will send them some money at speed. There aren't very many left-wing publishing houses in the U.S.
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23 Dec 2011 - 2:12pm
Howard Zinn would have loved to see you all here today, and to have been part of this historical moment. He believed that we should each do the right thing regardless of whether or not it has a visible impact. When a positive impact materializes, it then comes as a pleasant surprise.
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21 Dec 2011 - 4:48am
BOSTON/South Boston - An Everett man implicated in the 1989 assassination of six Jesuit priests and two civilians in El Salvador abandoned his guilty plea on two unrelated immigration charges in federal district court Monday.
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17 Dec 2011 - 11:56pm
Amidst the dispersion of local Occupy sites, an open session on civic education, a local community group electronic posting, and some online disappearances conspire for a recovery and renewal.
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16 Dec 2011 - 4:39pm
I think that at events like this it’s good for us to remember how lucky we are to have had this opportunity to work together with so many wonderful people over the years: to engage with each other both as colleagues and even as friends.* I know Howard Zinn used to talk about this, and as usual,
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10 Dec 2011 - 7:08pm
The following is a transcript of the Open Media Boston audio recording of a 6 a.m. press conference called by the Boston Police Department on December 10, 2011 on the corner of Atlantic Ave. and Congress St.
