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Boston Tuft's Nurses On Strike for Higher Pay and Better Patient Care |
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by T, |
 13 July 2017
The Massachusetts Nurses Association has announced a strike after negotiations with Tufts Medical Center fell apart. The nurses felt betrayed as they walked off the job in hopes of securing better pay and more staff.
Some nurses felt like the hospital’s administration forced them to this point. The negotiations between the hospital administration and the MNA ultimately failed. |
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13 Jul 2017
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Filed under: News / Labor |
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The LGBTQ Movement is an Intersectional Fail - by Andy Thayer |
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by Andy Thayer, |
In recent years “intersectionality” has been the biggest buzz word in progressive circles, liberally sprinkled in activist conferences and social media. Yet few movements have been as long on intersectional talk, and little on action, as the LGBTQ movement.
Few events point up this fail more clearly than the impending release from prison this Wednesday of Transgender heroine Chelsea Manning. She is by far the single most important, impactful anti-war activist and whistle-blower that the LGBTQ movement has ever produced. |
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Boston Common - Leftist Confront Alt Right Trump Supporters (13 May 2017) |
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by T, |
 Boston Common 11:00 am, 13 May 2017
The Antifa demonstrators were assembled at a monument on a hill, the highest point in Boston Common. Leftist were on the monument hill waving red flags and black flags and carrying signs. The hill faced the bandstand were the Alt Right was rallying. The crowd was about 200 people with maybe 40 Black Block activists out front halfway down the hill. The police had a line of about ten cops on the walkway at the bottom of the hill. The police faced the Antifa crowd. |
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13 May 2017
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Filed under: News / Organizing |
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