We interrupt our regular editorial schedule to bring you an important announcement. Over the last year we've written a number of times about our work on launching an Open Media Co-operative as a democratically-run business wing of Open Media Boston. Well now it's go time. Next week, on Nov.
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7 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
It’s harvest time in New England and not only at the farms and orchards. Area museums, too, have set out a bountiful feast.
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5 Nov 2010 - 12:16pm
Quincy, Mass. - The Prison Book Program is a non-profit, all volunteer organization based in Quincy that distributes paper back books to people in prisons in Massachusetts and throughout the United States.
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5 Nov 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Roxbury - On October 22nd, a video surfaced showing 12 police officers kicking and punching a presumably 16-year-old African American male on the Roxbury Community College campus in Boston, MA.
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31 Oct 2010 - 12:00am
Originally I held up this week's edition until today to cover yesterday's rally in support of Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner.
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30 Oct 2010 - 12:00am
BOSTON/Fenway - Several local members of United Students Against Sweatshops and labor supporters gathered outside the Rite Aid at 1295 Boylston St. yesterday to protest what they call "sweatshop conditions" for workers at Rite Aid's Southwest Regional Distribution Center in Lancaster, CA, where 550 workers are in the sixth year of a struggle to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and bargain a contract.
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30 Oct 2010 - 12:00am
It was quite a sight indeed. A nine foot statue of Gandhi, flanked by police and security guards, was blocking the entrance to the Goldman Sachs offices in Boston on Thursday.
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30 Oct 2010 - 12:00am
Steve Early's new book goes into the sad, recent history of fratricide within and between unions. He particularly concentrates on the roles SEIU has played in this battle between brothers and sisters. To any reader, this book may seem to be overly anti-SEIU.
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29 Oct 2010 - 3:43pm
BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - Annie Leonard says she's obsessed with stuff.
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22 Oct 2010 - 11:35pm
The September jobs figures are out. And once again the political uproar that should have happened if our government leaders and candidates were serious about the seriousness of our economic situation was astonishingly pitiful and about spin not honest solutions.
