BOSTON/South Boston - Dr. Tarek Mehanna, a 29 year old pharmacist from Sudbury, Massachusetts, entered the courtroom at the Moakley Federal Courthouse on Wednesday wearing an orange prison jumpsuit.
In another important solidarity development, seven Boston-area Verizon employees who are members of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 2222 left on Friday afternoon for an eighteen hour drive to Madison, Wisconsin to join the massive labor protests scheduled for this weekend.<
Remember when Republicans were falling all over each other praising first responders in the wake of 9/11? Fire fighters, cops and EMT's could do no wrong back then.
Boston, Mass.-Feb.22, 2011:
Over a thousand labor activists held a rally in front of the Mass. State House in solidarity with the Madison, Wisconsin union action.
Last year's first Digital Excellence Conference and Technology Fair, Dexcon2010, went by little noticed by those outside of Chicago.
One of the insufficiently highlighted treasures of the Boston area is the wealth of student theatre productions. I’ve discovered this because Sheriden Thomas of the Tufts drama faculty invites me to the productions she directs.
An unusual event is taking place next Friday, 2/25, at 3 p.m. at the Church on the Hill on Boston's Beacon Hill.
UMass Boston now has a new program that explores the social, economic, and political dimensions of science and technology in our ever-changing world.
A half dozen community supporters greeted shoppers at Rite Aid's Davis Sq. store in Somerville on Valentine's Day to focus public attention on the company's culture of corporate greed and its assault employees' health care benefits and job rights.
When Free Press asked Open Media Boston to join the local host committee helping to organize theNational Conference for Media Reform (April 8-10 at the Seaport World Trade Center), we jumped on the opportunity