A small but enthusiastic group gathered on the fifth floor of the Chinatown community center, encuentro 5, last night to hear historian and author Paul Street talk about his new book, The Empire's New Clothes: Barack Obama and the Real World of Power.
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24 Aug 2010 - 3:48pm
Eminent public health scientist and activist Richard Levins considered some of the most pressing issues facing humanity--food and water shortages, drug-resistant micro-organisms, global warming and social inequality--in light of the intellectual triumphalism that seems to accompany every claim
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21 Aug 2010 - 6:05pm
Some of us who attend the weekly sat. peace vigil at Park Street in Boston heard from a passerby that the National Guard was staging a recruiting event/military display at Faneuil Hall a few blocks away.
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20 Aug 2010 - 11:55pm
Somerville, MA - Prof. Charles Derber of the Boston College Sociology department gave a talk on his new book "Greed to Green: Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy" on Thursday to a crowd of 35 people at the Somerville Public Library - Central Library.
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20 Aug 2010 - 10:43pm
On Thursday, Gov. Deval Patrick announced a $1.2 million federal stimulus award to eight workforce training partnership programs across the Commonwealth. He made the announcement at St. Mary's Women and Children's Center in Dorchester - one of the programs receiving funding.
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20 Aug 2010 - 9:36pm
BOSTON/Back Bay - After announcing his appearance on short notice, Linden Lab founder and CEO Philip Rosedale addressed over 300 attendees - all of whom are active participants in the Second Life virtual world - at the morning plenary session of the Second Life Community Convention at the Park P
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13 Aug 2010 - 12:54pm
It's really something to watch the mainstream media in our fair state close ranks around the mainstream candidates in the Mass. gubernatorial race.
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13 Aug 2010 - 12:01am
BOSTON/Back Bay - This weekend, over 300 people from all over the nation and world will be descending on the Park Plaza Hotel "to network, build friendships and to discuss Second Life in a common forum" according to the leaders of AvaCon, Inc.
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10 Aug 2010 - 7:54pm
It's Democracy Day today, and Massachusetts voters have a clear choice before them.
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6 Aug 2010 - 9:23pm
It's been another tough legislative year for progressives.
