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A Response to Manulife Financial's Refusal to Meet with SEIU 615

21 November 2008 - 3:13pm | jpramas
by Bro. Jack Rathschmidt (Independent)

This Tuesday (11/18/2008) I joined a delegation of about twenty security officers, organizers and community allies from SEIU 615, the union representing security officers in many of Boston's largest and most profitable properties.

Our task was simple. We wanted to speak with a representative of Manulife, the owners of The Berkeley Building at 200 Berkeley St in Boston about the deplorable salaries and benefits Securitas, the security firm they employ, pays its security officers.

Letter from Legal Sea Foods

3 September 2008 - 2:30am | jpramas
by Ida Faber, Director of Marketing, Legal Sea Foods (Independent)

submitted via email on 9/1/08 to info@openmediaboston.org with the subject line "Latino Workers Launch Campaign..."

Good morning,

In reference to your article 8/28/08, please know that I did not receive any calls from Open Media Boston as reported. When contacted by Univision on 8/25/08, we provided the following response:

10-Year-Old Commits Suicide on Mother's Day

20 May 2008 - 1:43pm | Jenna Alderton
by Jenna Alderton (Independent)

If my cousin still had a voice I wonder what he would say. If he had the opportunity to tell his story, I wonder who would listen. He would be 21 this month and maybe a junior or senior in college. If he were taking a social psychology class at UMass Boston and had to write an autobiography, I wonder if he would talk about what it felt like to be physically and emotionally abused or sexually violated as a child.

"Know Your Milk" Campaign in Massachusetts

7 May 2008 - 1:33pm | Rita Arditti
by Rita Arditti

An open letter from Judy Norsigian (Our Bodies Ourselves); Deborah Shields (Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition): Rita Arditti and Margo Golden (Women’s Community Cancer Project); Amy Agigian (Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University); and Ellie Goldberg (Healthy Kids: The Key to Basics) April 2008. Dear Friends and Colleagues As health and food safety advocates we are concerned about the use of rBGH (recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone) in dairy products in Massachusetts.

The Law is a Two-Tiered System in Brookline

6 April 2008 - 1:38am | sfallen
by sfallen

The Law is a Two-Tiered System in Brookline

At a recent Brookline Selectmen meeting, Chief of Police, Dan O’Leary recommended that a owner/manager of a local tavern be closed as a punishment for (1) patrons’ rowdy behavior outside the establishment on two occasions and (2) for failing, on three occasions, to properly have displayed the manager's name.

Alert Congress: S 1959: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act doesn't meet Constitutional Benchmarksl

6 April 2008 - 1:34am | sfallen
by Susan F. Allen (Reposter)

Dear Senator Kennedy (D-MA),

S 1959: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act is illegal

by Susan Allen

http://www.opednews.com
I am writing to you to express my concern that Senate bill:
S 1959: Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, which seeks to limit, freedom of religious expression over the internet, fails to meet constitutional benchmarks.

Advise Congress The Treasury’s Summary Of Regulatory Proposal Constitutes Treason

6 April 2008 - 1:00am | sfallen
by Susan F. Allen (Reposter)

Advise Congress The Treasury’s Summary Of Regulatory Proposal Constitutes Treason

by Susan Allen March 30, 2008

Headlined on 3/31/08:http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_susan_al_080331_advise_congress_...

Dear Representative Frank,

The U.S. has written laws so that people might know their rights and secure justice in the courts.

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