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by Kavita Sukerkar (Advocate) | 25 May 2011 - 12:21pm

This Memorial Day weekend - May 28-30 - the Association for India’s Development will be hosting its annual conference at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA.

by Geoff Dutton | 24 May 2011 - 9:08pm

Here's a great example of why citizens must transform the way news media work.

by Marc Stern (Independent) | 24 May 2011 - 2:29pm

Music by Si Kahn, book by Amy Merrill

by Nancy Murray, ACLU of Massachusetts | 23 May 2011 - 5:38pm

The misleadingly named “Secure Communities” is a secretive deportation program launched in 2008 by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

by Jeff Newton | 19 May 2011 - 5:05pm

Today, temporary employees rejoiced, knowing that this will be the last they will be cheated out of pay and vacation hours, or subjected to unsafe working conditions.

by Jason Pramas | 13 May 2011 - 12:00am

On Thursday, May 5th, over 900 progressive activists showed up at the State House to attend a press conference and Gardner auditorium hearing in front of the Joint Committee on Revenue in support of An Act to Invest in

by Rand Wilson | 10 May 2011 - 6:30pm

A  group of twenty Verizon technicians and two other employees who formerly worked for Verizon Select Services (VSSI) have voluntarily gained union recognition from Verizon management.

by Amy Ferguson (Advocate) | 4 May 2011 - 4:18pm

A young man decides to confront race by questioning strangers on the street. The result of the process is powerful. In his first conversation, the stranger seemed to search deep inside himself for his understanding of race in order to genuinely help J.A. Mitchell and offer him some closure.

by Jason Pramas | 4 May 2011 - 12:00am

This week’s editorial would have been released on May 1st, but I decided to hold it up for a couple of days; so I could think over how to approach my subject, which - appropriately enough - is May Day and the American labor movement.

by Eli Beckerman | 2 May 2011 - 4:08pm

Please join us at a hearing on Thursday, May 5, 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, State House Gardner Auditorium, Boston.

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