Letter to the President on MLK Day 2010 (from a War Tax Resister)
18 January 2010 - 11:14pm
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by Patrick Keaney (Independent)
January 18, 2010
Dear President Obama,
Opinion
Subrata Ghoshroy on U.S. Military Funding of Academic Research
29 December 2009 - 8:00pm
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by Subrata Ghoshroy
Subrata Ghoshroy, an MIT researcher and former Congressional whistleblower on faked "Star Wars" missile defense tests by government contractors, spoke to a group of 250 striking students in early December at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany. The students have been demanding that their college stop all military research - part of a national movement towards that end. In his talk, Ghoshroy gave a summary of the history of military funding of U.S.
The Urgent Cry of the Gaza Freedom March: End the Siege of Gaza!
21 December 2009 - 7:11pm
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by Heike Schotten (Advocate)
At this time last year, the bombs had just begun to rain down on the Gaza Strip. In a devastating war that seems all but forgotten here in the United States, Israel brutally massacred more than a thousand people in Gaza in the short space of three weeks. A significant portion of those murdered were children; most were ordinary people hiding in their homes or UN buildings, terrified families and workers hoping to escape what they quickly discovered to be the inescapable carnage of the Israeli military.
A Murder Mystery: Who Killed Medicare Advantage?
29 December 2009 - 1:11pm
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by Mary Lynn Cramer
“It was a cold and snowy night in December 2008, when the insurance company Executive Officer sat alone in his brightly lit office suite. He himself was all a glow with warm fuzzy feelings as he composed a memo to his staff advising them of his planned absences from corporate headquarters over the next several months. None other than the President-elect of the United States had personally called and invited him to Washington DC to help design a new health care reform policy. Yes, he’d be spending a lot of time in his new office at the nation’s capitol—several days or weeks a month.
Why I Support the Gaza Freedom March - December 31st 2009
20 December 2009 - 4:35pm
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by Rama Williams (Advocate)
As we approach the end of the year, I am part of a group in the Boston area preparing for what we hope will be a historic, life-giving march: a call to "End the Siege of Gaza." Fourteen Massachusetts residents will be traveling to the Gaza Strip to march alongside 1,400 internationals from 42 countries and tens of thousands of Palestinian residents of the blockaded Gaza Strip. Among them will be the writer Alice Walker, 85-year old Holocaust survivor Hedy Epstein, European Parliamentarians and a contingent from South Africa including prominent colleagues of Nelson Mandela.
Requiem For A Heavyweight Telephone Labor Division
20 December 2009 - 6:36pm
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by Steve Early (Independent)
BOSTON - Twenty years ago this December, the large Dorchester clan of Jerry “Judgie” Leary was, like many other telephone worker families in the northeast, not exactly flush with cash for Christmas presents.
Jerry and 60,000 other members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Communications Workers of America (CWA) had just spent four grueling, impoverishing months on the picket-line battling NYNEX, the regional telecom giant now known as Verizon (VZ).
Memories of that strike include first time-ever visits to food banks, the loss of job-based medical benefits because NYNEX cut them off, and the dismissal, suspension, or arrest of hundreds of union activists in New York and New England. In Westchester County, N.Y. a CWA picket captain with several young children was hit by a car driven by a scab and died of brain injuries; in New Hampshire, an IBEW striker was killed in an industrial accident, while trying to do an unfamiliar factory job to feed his family.
Dorcester People for Peace Protest Escalation of the War in Afghanistan
6 December 2009 - 3:39am
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by Angela Kelly (Advocate)
BOSTON/Dorchester - Members of Dorchester People for Peace stood out in Fields Corner Tuesday evening to protest Pres. Barrack Obama’s announcement of an impending escalation of the Afghanistan War by sending 30,000 more troops at an annual cost of tens of billions of dollars.
The protest drew dozens of peace activists from Dorchester and beyond and was featured on New England Cable News along with coverage of the President's speech.
The Skinning of Seniors: Who Gives a Damn!
28 November 2009 - 6:16pm
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by Mary Lynn Cramer
The health reform endgame is over for low-income senior citizens, but the national hoax continues. Seniors in the state where I live don’t have to wait for the finale of “what is expected to be a bruising, full-scale health care debate after Thanksgiving” to find out how their health care costs and benefits will be impacted. (AP/Espo, 11/21/09) No, the low-income elderly in Massachusetts already got notices in the mail, weeks ago, from their Medicare Advantage insurance providers announcing big premium increases for 2010.
Senate Passes CORI Reform
23 November 2009 - 11:06am
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by Aaron Tanaka (Advocate)
BOSTON/Beacon Hill - In the last hours of the 2009 legislative session, the Massachusetts State Senate voted to pass “An Act Relative to Sentencing Laws.” The omnibus criminal justice bill included comprehensive CORI reforms sought by a broad statewide network organized as the Commonwealth CORI Coalition (CCC). CCC is led by the Boston Workers’ Alliance, Neighbor to Neighbor MA, Ex-prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA), Massachusetts Community Action Network, American Civil Liberties Union and the National Association of Social Workers.
Tariq Ali at Harvard Book Store on The Idea of Communism
15 November 2009 - 10:33pm
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by Jason Pramas
Cambridge, MA - On November 10, noted historian and novelist Tariq Ali spoke about his new book "The Idea of Communism" at Harvard Book Store to an audience of over 70 people.
