Last week Bloomberg Business published a ranking of the most innovative states in America, and Massachusetts made the top of the list! Their methodology included things like spending on R & D, the number of high-tech companies in the … [Read more...]
1,500 Take to Boston Streets to Call out Corporate & 1% Tax Dodgers
Upwards of 1,500 Massachusetts taxpayers took to the streets of Boston’s Financial District Tuesday, Tax Day, to demand major corporations and the wealthiest 1% pay their fair share to fund our communities. The massive demonstration came as … [Read more...]
Flash Mob Confronts GE Tax Dodging with “General Electric Slide”
What happens when a flash mob of dozens of shareholders and concerned citizens confronts General Electric's notorious tax dodging practices? The "General Electric Slide" of course! The lunch hour flash mob descended on GE's Boston … [Read more...]
Bonzo Goes To Bitburg, 2011
Schenectady, New York, was -- and is -- a GE town, rising and falling at the whim of its largest employer like some Depression-era cartoon of fat-cat captitalist evil. For many years, what was good for GE was good for Schenectady -- until … [Read more...]