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Jesse Jackson, Jr. Fights for Constitutional Right to Vote |
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by CE Campbell, campbell_c_e (nospam) hotmail.com |
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Last night, the National Voting Rights Institute and Lesley University hosted Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. to speak to the issue of a constitutional right to vote for all US citizens. Speaking to a packed audience at the Marran Theater, Congressman Jackson made it abundantly clear that there is no specific guarantee providing the right to vote under the US Constitution, and so he has filed House Joint Resolution 28 to remedy this. |
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27 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / Politics |
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The Emerson Student Strike |
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by Jake, trenchesfullofpoets (nospam) riseup.net |
 Last Wednesday and Thursday, Emerson students went on strike in support of our faculty union, struggling to keep their union contracts and shared governance. The professors have had a union for thirty years, but now as the administration takes steps to move the college towards becoming more of a corporation and less of a place of education, the administration is trying to bust the union. On Wednesday and Thursday, a large portion of the Emerson student body boycotted class. We had a march and rally of about 300 on Wednssday, and slightly more on Thursday. From what I've been able to figure most of the student population went on strike, but there's really no way of knowing exactly how many did, as a lot of teachers didn't mark boycotting students absent. |
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22 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / Education : Labor |
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Popular rebellion in Ecuador- dispatch from the streets |
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by John Dennehy, j.a.dennehy (nospam) gmail.com |
 CUENCA, ECUADOR – By a unanimous vote Ecuador's lawmakers removed President Lucio Gutierrez from office Wednesday and replaced him with Vice President Alfredo Palacio, following days of intensifying street protests.
While the focus of media attention has been on the capital city of Quito, the southern city of Cuenca has been in open rebellion against its former president for the past week. The discontent had been simmering for some time but in the weeks and days before the ouster of Gutierrez it reached a boiling point. Daily, students manned street blockades and fought pitched battles with police over control of the streets while across town the main park overflowed every night with a diverse array of people who had come to protest the president and government. |
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20 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / International |
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New privacy tool tolls the birth of cypherspace |
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by Jon, JonBoston (nospam) gmail.com |
 Information is power. Pervasive access to the internet in libraries, schools, homes, and cafés has put a great deal of power into the hands of the people. Governments are just beginning to react to this and are reacting much as they did to the invention of the printing press, with a heavy and intrusive hand. In recent cases the government has shown a pattern of intimidating those who would provide access to this new high-tech soap box. A new anonymity program, TOR, provides some help for both users and service providers. |
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23 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / Technology |
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World Bank PR Bloodsuckers |
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by Just1pin, bdapinfo (nospam) gmail.com |
 On April 15 and 16, 2005 three members of the Boston Direct Action Project masqueraded as World Bank public relations representatives, with black suits, vampire fangs, and large black umbrellas. They hit the streets of Washington, DC during the mobilization against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to show “the true face of the World Bank.” |
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19 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / Globalization |
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Grad students and allies in Northeast fight back |
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by Bryan G. Pfeifer, bgp (nospam) iacboston.org |
 Graduate student-workers and their allies at three of the biggest universities in the Northeast are engaging in massive, spirited work actions this week.
On Monday, April 18 the Graduate Student Employees United-UAW 2110 (www.2110uaw.org/gseu) at Columbia University and the Graduate Employees and Students Organization-UNITE-HERE at Yale (www.yaleunions.org/geso) began a joint week-long strike for recognition. On April 20 at Columbia a 4 p.m. "Rally for Justice" at 116th and Broadway is scheduled. |
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19 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / Education : Labor |
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Massive Day of Protest at Boston College in Support of Gay Rights |
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by Rev. Oscar Lucion, referendum (nospam) bcglbt.org |
 On Friday, April 15, 2005 over 1,000 students, professors and administrators gathered in support of ending discrimination against members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, and Transgender (GLBT) community at Boston College. As student organizers called for a university strike, hundreds of students opted not to attend classes, with dozens of professors expressing their solidarity by canceling their sections.
The official notice of non-discrimination for Boston College does not offer any legal protection from discrimination for members of the GLBT community. In fact the clause is written in a manner to deliberately invoke an exemption from Massachusetts anti-discrimination laws. For over a decade students and faculty have worked to get “sexual orientation” included in the statement, but their requests have repeatedly been rejected by the University. |
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15 Apr 2005
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Filed under: News / Education : GLBT/Queer |
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Your Risk, Their Gain: Wall Street CEOs Lobby for Social Security Privatization |
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by Scott Klinger, sklinger (nospam) responsiblewealth.org |
Would you be upset if someone spent millions of dollars to put your future retirement funds into a casino, while taking no risks with their own future?
Say hello to the Wall Street CEOs whose companies are aggressively lobbying for Social Security privatization. Because of their bloated compensation packages, these CEOs pay Social Security taxes only a few days a year. |
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