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News Briefs: May 19, 2014

19 May 2014 - 2:34pm | jadams
by Jonathan Adams

Adjunct Action, Northeastern University – Fenway
Adjunct faculty at Northeastern University last week voted in favor of forming a union as part of the Adjunct Action campaign of the SEIU. The adjuncts have formed the largest part-time faculty union in Boston, and along with 2,000 adjuncts at Tufts University and Lesley University, they are now united as part of the metro organizing strategy.

Pro-Palestinian Student Group Pickets Northeastern University Following Suspension

19 March 2014 - 12:00am | jadams
by Jonathan Adams and David Goodman

BOSTON/Fenway - Demonstrators called on the Northeastern University administration to reinstate the suspended student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), in a picket at the school on Tuesday. 

Over 200 supporters and members of SJP protested the university’s decision earlier this month to suspend the group for what the administration alleges were repeated violations of the school’s policy concerning protests.

Pro-Palestinian Student Group Suspended by Northeastern University Administration

13 March 2014 - 7:01pm | jadams
by Jonathan Adams

BOSTON/Fenway - An officially recognized Northeastern University student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), has been suspended by the Northeastern administration for a string of alleged violations of school policy regarding protests. 

In a letter on Friday, the administration suspended the group until the end of the year, revoking SJP’s access to finances, campus space, and their right to organize.

Student Labor Activists Protest Sweatshop Conditions for Rite Aid Warehouse Workers

30 October 2010 - 12:00am | superuser
by Jason Pramas

BOSTON/Fenway - Several local members of United Students Against Sweatshops and labor supporters gathered outside the Rite Aid at 1295 Boylston St. yesterday to protest what they call "sweatshop conditions" for workers at Rite Aid's Southwest Regional Distribution Center in Lancaster, CA, where 550 workers are in the sixth year of a struggle to join the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and bargain a contract.

Advocates Picket Sox-Diamondbacks Game in Protest of Anti-Immigrant Arizona Law

18 June 2010 - 12:00am | superuser
by Jason Pramas

BOSTON/Fenway - About 100 immigrant, labor, community and religious advocates held a picket outside the Boston Red Sox-Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game at Fenway Park on Tuesday in opposition to an Arizona law that they believe is discriminatory to immigrants. Organizers said that they were calling on Major League Baseball to reschedule the 2011 All-Star game to a city outside of Arizona - which is the target of growing international boycott since the April 23rd passage of the controversial legislation SB 1070.

MBTA 55 Bus Off the Chopping Block; Meeting to Save the Route Becomes Meeting to Improve It

22 November 2009 - 10:34pm | jpramas
by Jason Pramas

BOSTON/Fenway - A public meeting called by the Fenway Community Development Corporation to organize area residents to oppose the MBTA's proposed cut of the 55 bus route Monday, took a positive turn when State Rep. Byron Rushing's (D-Boston) aide Elizabeth Corcoran-Hunt announced that no bus routes were slated to go on the chopping block in the wake of an independent review of the T commissioned by Gov. Deval Patrick and released earlier this month. The 55 bus runs from the Fenway up Boylston St. to Copley Square and downtown Boston.

Students, Colleagues, Friends Rally in Boston for Deported Teacher

20 June 2008 - 11:28am | RadioView
by Dave Goodman / Boston Community Reporters Project (Staff)
BOSTON/Fenway - Four weeks ago, a popular Boston teacher - Obain Attouoman - was deported from the United States to his native country of Ivory Coast. Known to his students at Fenway High School as "Mr. Obain," the math teacher had been living and working in the U.S. legally since 1992.

Popular High School Teacher Obain Attouoman Deported by Federal Government

21 May 2008 - 10:47pm | RadioView
by Dave Goodman / Boston Community Reporters Project (Independent)

BOSTON/Fenway - Obain Attouoman, a popular math teacher at Fenway High School, was deported yesterday to his native country of Ivory Coast.

Details are sketchy. Parents were alerted to the teacher's deportation through an automated phone call that was transmitted to all student's homes.

In the message, Fenway High Assistant Headmaster Kevin Brill said only that Attouoman was arrested and then deported following his regular visit with federal immigration authorities at the JFK Federal Building in Boston.

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