BOSTON - Union leaders rallied with some 300 supporters outside the Massachusetts Republican Party headquarters in Boston on Monday April 4th to recall the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and stand in solidarity with public sector workers.
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12 Apr 2011 - 11:25pm
So what’s funny about being in my 60s? It’s funny to be at an age where historical documentaries are being made about political actions I was involved in. Am I history?
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10 Apr 2011 - 11:12pm
Since we're playing catch up this week after days of meeting and greeting and public events, I'll limit this editorial to thanking to all the folks who made the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform such great time for us - and over 2500 old and new friends.
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9 Apr 2011 - 10:05pm
On April 8th, 2011, a planned event at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, Massachusetts was briefly interrupted by a tactical action to protest the recent detention of the acclaimed artist Ai Weiwei by Chinese authorities.
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8 Apr 2011 - 6:01pm
Frances Fox Piven (professor, CUNY Graduate Center) and Cornel West (professor, Princeton University) hosted a national webcast teach-in on Tuesday addressing the roots of the current economic crisis and what people are doing to fight back.
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8 Apr 2011 - 3:24am
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3 Apr 2011 - 11:22pm
Cambridge, MA - Members of the Boston Chapter of the Colombian left-wing opposition party Polo Democratico Alternativo (Alternative Democratic Pole) and allies held a Kendall Square protest against the appearance of former Colombian President Álvaro
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3 Apr 2011 - 1:52am
Audio recording of a panel discussion on Digital Media and Popular Uprisings featuring Ethan Zuckerman of Global Voices and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Jillian York of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and Suren Moodliar of Massachusetts Global Action and the Majority Agenda Project on March 31, 2011 at the University Hall Amphitheater at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, USA. The event was sponsored by Open Media Boston and Lesley University. 40 people were in attendance.
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1 Apr 2011 - 11:19pm
Now that the media circus is over, the tremendous price being paid by former Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner and his family following his conviction on charges of taking a $1,000 bribe from a government informant is only under discussion at the grassroots level.
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1 Apr 2011 - 2:49pm
APRIL FOOLS! ... BOSTON/South Boston - According to some guy on the street, a bunch of white local and state politicians were arrested in a lightning dawn raid near the corner of L St. and E.
