BOSTON/State House - Over 100 immigrant students and allies held a rally at the State House on Monday to push Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) to back Sen. Harry Reid's (D-Nev.) recent inclusion of the DREAM Act into the National Defense Authorization Act as an amendment, and vote in favor of the NDAA with the DREAM Act language intact.
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21 Sep 2010 - 1:34am
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20 Sep 2010 - 4:18pm
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894
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17 Sep 2010 - 11:53pm
Okay, I'm not a funny guy. But even good comedians appear rather staid and stodgy next to Jon Stewart.
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17 Sep 2010 - 11:52pm
BOSTON/Beacon Hill - A talk by US Marine veteran Ross Caputi, journalist Dahr Jamail (on live video via the internet), and MIT Prof. Noam Chomsky drew over 150 attendees to the Paulist Center on Thursday.
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17 Sep 2010 - 11:41pm
Cambridge, MA - Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post spoke with host Christopher Lydon of Radio Open Source about her new book Third World America to a sold-out house at the Brattle Theater on Monday.
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17 Sep 2010 - 11:26pm
With the primaries behind us, and Election Day looming in the middle distance, it seems like a good time to take a look at this year's three statewide ballot questions. And it's interesting that the progressive position on all three looks to be a "no" vote. Which is fairly unusual.
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17 Sep 2010 - 10:44pm
Cambridge, MA - A group of 15 local anti-war activists gathered outside the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church in Harvard Square on Wednesday to protest an appearance by former United Kingdom Prime Minister Tony Blair - who was in town to discuss his new book with former New Yorker edito
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17 Sep 2010 - 10:09pm
BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - The Jamaica Plain Forum, a series of local and national speakers and public discussions sponsored by the Institute of Policy Studies and the First Unitarian Universalist Church in JP, hosted local journalist and author Michael Blanding on Thursday.
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10 Sep 2010 - 11:38pm
It's not usually the practice of this publication to spend much time in our weekly editorials sniping at the flaws of other Boston news media.
