BOSTON/State House - Over 200 union members, allies, and family members representing the 47 Massachusetts workers who died on the job over the last year gathered in front of the Mass. State House yesterday to commemorate Workers' Memorial Day.
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24 Apr 2011 - 11:14pm
The eyes of a growing number of Bostonians are doubtless locked on the growing media frenzy surrounding the wedding of William Mountbatten-Windsor and Catherine Middleton.
Mass. Labor-Community Coalition Protests Corporate Tax Scofflaws at Financial District Demonstration
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22 Apr 2011 - 4:03am
BOSTON/Financial District - Over 500 union members and community allies held a protest on the Rose Kennedy Greenway adjacent to the 1 International Place complex on Thursday April 14th to protest corporate tax breaks and demand a progressive tax system and job creation programs in Massachusetts.
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22 Apr 2011 - 12:00am
Cambridge, MA - Last Friday, over 25 protestors representing several Boston area immigrant, labor and community organizations held a picket outside Gov. Deval Patrick's signing of his new memoir "Reason to Believe" at the First Church in Harvard Square.
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19 Apr 2011 - 4:02pm
A bill currently under consideration in the Massachusetts Joint Committee on the Judiciary could lead to increased liability for Massachusetts companies.
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19 Apr 2011 - 1:29pm
Rising costs of food and housing; attacks on healthcare reform and worker's rights; gentrification continuing the displacement of communities that have been the cultural backbone of neighborhoods; criminalization of immigrants through violence, intimidation, and policing of borders.
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17 Apr 2011 - 12:00am
Gandhi famously said “A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.” The same sentiment can certainly be applied to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - and its leaders Gov. Deval Patrick and the state legislature.
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16 Apr 2011 - 11:37pm
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art. - Charles Bukowski
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16 Apr 2011 - 11:12pm
The hills are alive with colorful wildflowers in Fredericksburg, the heart of Texas Hill Country, where every spring Lady Bird Johnson's legacy blooms anew to the delight of travelers and locals.
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13 Apr 2011 - 8:49am
Last year, Massachusetts taxpayers sent $19.9 billion to the Pentagon to fund the trillion dollar wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, sustain over 800 military bases in Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, Afghanistan and other countries all around the world, and “improve” our vast stockpile of nuclear
