Whatever the outcome of Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner's trial in federal court over the next several days, I can say as sure as poor DJ Henry was executed in upstate New York by the Mount Pleasant 5-0 a few days ago for DWB (Driving While Black) that Turner was targeted for political elimin
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22 Oct 2010 - 3:28pm
Democracy is fragile, and as Robert Reich says in his latest piece The Perfect Storm, our democracy is on the way out the door:
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20 Oct 2010 - 10:44am
BOSTON/Back Bay - About 50 housing advocates from City Life Vida Urbana, Mass.
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15 Oct 2010 - 11:24pm
Early Thursday evening, approximately 80 Somerville community members and affordable housing supporters gathered with sleeping bags, pillows and signs at the front steps of City Hall to protest the recent denial by the Zoning Board of Appeals of an affordable housing proposal that would have pro
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15 Oct 2010 - 11:04pm
Many Americans may get a kick out of making fun of the French. But our neighbors across the pond can teach us a thing or three about how to keep a society democratic. Admittedly, France has a different history than the U.S.
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15 Oct 2010 - 2:00pm
Somerville, MA - Davis Square is pretty funky under normal circumstances. Over the years, the influence (and confluence) of students from nearby Tufts and Harvard and MIT, along with Somerville city officials, has transformed the Square and environs into a must visit destination.
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13 Oct 2010 - 4:07pm
Springfield, MA - The headlines are familiar: The economy is fragile, Economists meeting in Denver share gloom as they consider next step, unemployment is high: one in 10 Americans is unemployed - not counting the people whose unemployment benefits ran out - and in communities of color, the unem
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13 Oct 2010 - 3:34pm
BOSTON/Boston Common - Ten students, staff, faculty, and alumni from the Public Higher Education Network of Massachusetts concluded a 114-mile march across the state to defend public higher education with a Thursday rally on Boston Common attended by over 150 supporters.
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8 Oct 2010 - 11:14pm
Regular Open Media Boston viewers have been seeing occasional editorials about our progress in forming a co-operative business to run alongside our existing non-profit since late last year.
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7 Oct 2010 - 7:40pm
The Association for India's Development (AID), the non-profit I volunteer for, has Gandhi's profile as its logo. AID has as its credo a slogan comprising three Indian words, Sewa, Sanghash, Nirmaan, which roughly translate as Service, Struggle, Construction (or, building something).
