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Peace Outlet |
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by Sophie Yon-Gharbi, Sophie.Gharbi (nospam) gmail.com |
 Ted Ackley, from Rhode Island, came by himself and simply said: “I have a four year-old daughter and I want things to get better, not worse. I want peace on earth.” He then proceeded to hand out pieces of paper with an electric outlet on it… because everyone deserves a peace outlet. |
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29 Oct 2007
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Filed under: News / International |
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Anti-War Student Walkout-Boston Friday 10-26-07--VIDEO |
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by Michael Borkson, nosanctions (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Friday, Oct. 26, 2007 was called as a national day to walkout of work and school to protest the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. About 100 activists including many high school and college students gathered on Boston Common to hear anti-war speeches. People then marched through downtown Boston; past the military recruiting office on Tremont St.,to Boston City Hall, and then to the State House and Fox news office. |
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28 Oct 2007
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Filed under: News / War and Militarism |
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October 27: National Day of Action Against the Iraq War |
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by UJP and Anti-war National Coalition, |
 On Saturday, October 27th, people from all walks of life will gather in Boston for a massive New England regional demonstration, part of a nationally coordinated day of protest against the war in Iraq called by United for Peace and Justice. Regional demonstrations will be held in 11 cities around the country.
The New England event will start with a rally at the Boston Common bandstand starting at Noon, followed by a march to Copley Plaza from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. |
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24 Oct 2007
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Filed under: News / War and Militarism |
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Vandana Shiva: Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed |
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by BIMC Editors, boston.indymedia (nospam) gmail.com |
 Environmental activist and scholar, Vandana Shiva, spoke in Boston about her most recent book "Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed." Invited by the Center for New Words and South End Press, she talked about globalization, WTO policies, food sovereignty and the rights of people to protect ecological diversity and land, as well as positive examples on how to foster environmental social change.
LISTEN TO THE AUDIO:
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16 Oct 2007
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Filed under: News / Education : Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor |
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Protestors Gather to Declare: Protest Is Not TERRORISM! |
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by Nancy Ryan, boscispes (nospam) speakeasy.net |
 On Saturday afternoon, October 6, 2007, under a brilliant sky, fifty activists converged on the plaza in Maverick Square in East Boston, Massachusetts to sound the alarm about events in El Salvador. Led by CISPES and joined by the Cambridge-El Salvador Sister City Project and Centro Presente, the rally was called to bring attention to the arrests of 13 people in Suchitoto for simply speaking out against the government’s water privatization policy. Speakers throughout the afternoon outlined the new anti-terror law under which the thirteen were charged with acts of terror and face up to 50 years in jail for being at or near a lawful protest. |
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11 Oct 2007
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Filed under: News / Globalization : Human Rights : International : Labor : Organizing : Politics : War and Militarism |
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NIH Report on BU Bioterror Lab Biased, Independent Study Needed |
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by Sofia Jarrin-Thomas, sofiajt (nospam) yahoo.com |
 Risk assessments of the construction site for Boston University’s biodefense laboratory are subject to partisan politics, arbitrary to the project’s funding and should be strictly reviewed. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), as the main funding organization, has high stakes in the success of the biolab and is now playing the largest role in determining the safety of building the lab in a high-density population area of Boston. |
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09 Oct 2007
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Filed under: News / War and Militarism |
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Reviewing Naomi Klein's "The Shock Doctrine" |
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by Stephen Lendman, lendmanstephen (nospam) sbcglobal.net |
 Naomi Klein is an award-winning Canadian journalist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. She writes a regular column for The Nation magazine and London Guardian that's syndicated internationally by the New York Times Syndicate that gives people worldwide access to her work but not its own readers at home.
In 2004, she and her husband and co-producer Avi Lewis released their first feature documentary - "The Take." It covered the explosion of activism in the wake of Argentina's 2001 economic crisis. People responded with neighborhood assemblies, barter clubs, mass movements of the unemployed and workers taking over bankrupt companies and reopening them under their own management. |
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Hundreds Testify for Reform to the Criminal Records System in Massachusetts |
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by Boston Workers Alliance, |
 On Tuesday, September 18th, over 600 people descended on the State House in support of the Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI)reform proposal, The Public Safety Act of 2007 (House Bill 1416).
AUDIO REPORT: Listen to an interview with Aaron and Maggie from the Boston Workers Alliance on "What's Left", WMBR 88.1 FM. Click on "Read the full article" for more. |
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26 Sep 2007
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Filed under: News / Human Rights : Labor : Organizing : Race |
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