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Supporters Rally to Support Shaw's Warehouse Workers

21 March 2010 - 3:12pm | Rand Wilson
by Rand Wilson (Advocate)

Dorchester, MA - Over 200 labor and community supporters turned out for a rally at the Shaw's Supermarket on Thursday to support striking warehouse workers at the company's Methuen Distribution Center.

Pictures from the rally can be viewed on the Picasa photo sharing site at:
http://picasaweb.google.com/randwilson.aflcio/RallyToSupportWorkersOnStr...

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Watching Vijay Shah Sue Homeland Security

16 March 2010 - 9:32pm | superuser
by Irene Glassman

Last week, I spent half a day at the Moakley Courthouse in South Boston in support of Vijay Shah, the friend of a friend, who had pressed forward with a lawsuit against the Secret Service after he was racially profiled and illegally detained on the day prior to the start of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in 2004. Here is a link to an article which ran in the Boston Phoenix after Vijay and two other South Asian men’s illegal detainment that week: http://bit.ly/bt9zSV.

Women in the Free Software Movement

16 March 2010 - 10:10pm | superuser
by Deborah Nicholson (Advocate)

I work for the Free Software Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the cause of computer user freedom. Free Software is software that you can run for any purpose, where you have the freedom to change and improve the underlying source code, and where you have the freedom to make copies of the software and give copies to your friends or the entire world. 


Why the US Occupation of Afghanistan?

15 March 2010 - 2:46pm | superuser
by Victor Wallis (Independent)

Two strands of argument are most commonly deployed in official US pronouncements. The most common one is that “we were attacked on 9/11.” The follow-up argument is that the US is in Afghanistan in order to build up a stable regime that can subdue the Taliban. The Taliban is targeted principally for its supposed complicity with the 9/11 attacks (“harboring” Osama bin Laden) and secondarily, or so it is claimed, on the grounds of its (undisputed) extreme subjugation of women.


Let’s Make “Green Jobs” Good Jobs

15 March 2010 - 2:36pm | superuser
by Rich Rogers (Advocate)

Six thousand new jobs are coming to Massachusetts. We need them. But will they be good jobs?




Not unless we make the fast-growing home weatherization field a high-road industry.



The home weatherization industry in Massachusetts is about to explode. Over the next three years the state’s utility companies will put $1.4 billion into energy efficiency, creating some 6,000 construction jobs. Other energy funds will create thousands more.

Telecom Workers Rally for Workplace Safety

11 March 2010 - 2:32pm | Rand Wilson
by Rand Wilson (Advocate)

Lynn, Mass. - About 75 telecom workers and community supporters rallied in support of a local Verizon technician who was recently threatened by a supervisor while acting in his capacity as an IBEW Local 2321 steward during a "captive audience" safety meeting.

In response to the steward's statement that management often retaliates against workers who ask questions during meetings, the foreman forcefully pointed his finger in the steward's face and said, "you're dead!!" For emphasis, he said it twice.

Chomsky on Palestine at Boston University

2 March 2010 - 11:49pm | admin
by Jason Pramas

BOSTON/Allston - Prof. Noam Chomsky of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology spoke on current events in Palestine tonight at Boston University to a crowd of over 300 attendees. The talk was one of a series of events sponsored by Boston University Students for Justice in Palestine as part of "Israeli Apartheid Week" - an week of action being held March 1-8 by human rights activists in cities around the world. Full audio of the event follows below the photo set.

Ralph Nader Speaks At Harvard Law School

2 March 2010 - 9:36pm | nosanctions
by Michael Borkson

Cambridge, Mass. - Ralph Nader - citizen and consumer advocate, presidential candidate, and author - spoke at Harvard Law School last Tuesday. Nader covered a variety of current topics, from the quality of law school education, the bailout of the corporations, the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan, the recall of Toyota cars, and more. He was preceded by Bruce Fein, progressive author and Harvard Law graduate 1972.

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