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Photos/ Video-Veterans For Peace March At End Of Boston Veterans Day Parade

Veterans For Peace were forced again this year to march well behind Boston's official Veterans Day Parade. Boston-Nov. 11, 2009: Veterans For Peace were forced again this year to march well behind Boston's official Veterans Day Parade. About 100 ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  12 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Smedley Butler

Photos/Video Oct. 1 Labor March For Jobs

Boston, Mass. Oct. 1, 2009: About a thousand labor/ union activists rallied and marched through downtown Boston. their demands-stop corporate greed, save our jobs. Oct. 1, 2009 was the one year anniversary of the Wall Street economic ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  2 Oct 2009
Related Topics: AFL-CIO

Labor Day Healthcare Rally

About three hundred concerned citizens gathered on the Boston Commons today to voice their demand for universal health care for all. Speakers included: health care workers, patients, Mass. Attorney General Martha Coakley, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  8 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Martha Coakley,  Thomas Menino

Cambridge Stands Against Racial Profiling-Protest In Support of Prof. Gates

From the event's flyer: The Cambridge Police Department and their racist allies have worked overtime to slander and vilify Prof. Gates. But his only crime was in fact to resist the racist arrogance of the Cambridge Police and not acquiesce to their ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  30 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Harvard University

Cindy Sheehan Speaks in Arlington, MA

Arlington, MA: 6-29-09: From the event leaflet--- After the death of her son, Casey, Cindy Sheehan heard then President George W. Bush tell the nation that those killed in Iraq died for a “noble cause.” Cindy had a simple and direct question for ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  30 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Cindy Sheehan,  George W. Bush

Torture Accountability Action Day in Harvard Square

In response to an ACLU lawsuit, the Pentagon had been court-ordered to release photos of detainee abuse in US facilities from 2001-2006. These photos, including many from Bagram, Afghanistan, where the detention facilities have been doubled to hold 60 ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  26 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Harvard University,  Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  American Civil Liberties Union,  The Pentagon

Boston Anti-War Memorial Day Event

Boston, Mass. May 25, 2009--Boston Veterans For Peace and Military Families Speakout held their second annual anti-war Memorial Day observance in Waterfront Park on May 25, 2009. Speakers spoke about the devastation of the Iraq/Afghan wars and the ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  26 May 2009

Boston May Day March

May 1, 2009 Boston: Boston observed the workers' holiday May Day today. A 400 person march for immigrants' and workers' rights wound its way through the immigrant and working class communities of East Boston, Chelsea, and Everett. ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  2 May 2009

Boston Activists Protest Wall Street Bailout In NYC

NYC-April 4, 2009: About 1000 activists marched on the 41st anniversary of Martin Luther King's assassination, to protest the US government's trillion dollar bailout of the banks and CEOs. This was part of 2 days , April 3-4 , of protests in NYC, ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  6 Apr 2009

Boston Vigil-6th Anniversary of Iraq War

Boston, Mass--About 75 people gathered on the Boston Common on March 21 to mark the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War. The names of those killed in the war, both US troops and Iraqis, were read aloud. Sponsoring organizations included the Unitarian ...

From MICHAEL BORKSON, Boston Indymedia,  27 Mar 2009

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