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El Salvador Solidarity Activists and Community Organizations Dispute Department of Justice Order

8 May 2008 - 3:59pm | cispes
by Lisa Fuller (Advocate)

BOSTON - Last January the U.S.-based El Salvador solidarity group - the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) - received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice, citing the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) of 1938 and questioning the organization’s relationship with the leftist Salvadoran political party known as the Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation, or FMLN.

20 Year Old Man Shot And Killed In Busy, Bright Jamaica Plain Park

22 April 2008 - 2:41am | RadioView
by Dave Goodman / Boston Community Reporters Project (Independent)

A lot was going on in Boston yesterday. The weather was spectacular, the Red Sox finished a four game sweep of the Texas Rangers and once again Kenyan Robert Cheruiyot won the Marathon.

And again, gunfire erupted and a young person was mortally wounded.

On Monday, scores of neighbors, commuters, and school age kids on vacation, were walking and playing along the Southeast Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain, near the Stony Brook Orange Line station.

Walk for Hunger and Raytheon's Mass Murder

7 April 2008 - 6:34pm | danthebagelman
by Dan the Bagel Man (Independent)

The walk for Hunger is coming up and it is a gift to the anti war movement! with all major media outlets covering the walk it is our turn to take it to our turn. we have the opportunity to let thousands and millions all over the work know about the
violent ways of Raytheon. there is plenty of time to get folks to turn out for a major sunday protest against the war.

Nader Should Ride Off Into the Sunset on a Humvee

6 April 2008 - 1:03am | sfallen
by Susan F. Allen (Reposter)

Nader Should Ride Off Into the Sunset on a Humvee

Ralph Nader’s running for President again, stumping like he’s running a grassroots campaign, while riding high on the coattails of big business.

Where’s Nader been? He didn’t make a peep when failed construction on the Humvees dropped the ball on the troops in Iraq, nor did he say a word when the World Trade Towers crumbled like tin foil on 9/11.

What’s Nader done to address rampant pharmaceutical fraud, the AT&T surveillance scandal, and the Sub-prime crisis?

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