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Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Worker Leader and Time 100 Honoree, Will Speak at the Boston Care Congress on June 16th

June 3, 2012 By jbrelsfo

Ai-Jen Poo, a gifted community organizer recently honored by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world, will speak at the Greater Boston Care Congress on June 16th. The Congress will launch the Massachusetts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: budget, communities, disab, disability, domestic, domestic workers, economy, elder-care, health-care, health-care-in-massachusetts, home-care, immigrant, immigration, labor, labor-unions, long-term-care, love, massachusetts, medical, medicare, national, personal care, politics, random, seniors, social-justice, social-security, taxes, unemployment, workers, workers-rights, working-families

Bob Massie to speak 1/26/11 at the Concord Democratic Town Committee

January 23, 2011 By AmberPaw

Massie earned a doctorate in business policy and corporate strategy from Harvard Business School in 1989.  From 1989 to 1996 he taught at Harvard Divinity School where he ran the Project on Business, Values and the Economy. In 1993, as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bob-massie, ceres, concord-democratic-town-committee, global-reporting-initiative, robert-kinloch-massie, social-justice

Alliance to Develop Justice Secures Commitments from Elected Officials for Social Justice

October 13, 2010 By adpposts

The Real Story The headlines are familiar: The economy is fragile, Economists meeting in Denver share gloom as they consider next step, unemployment is high: one in 10 Americans is unemployed - not counting the people whose unemployment … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: adp, alliance-to-develop-power, annual-convention, banks, economy, financial-reform, gov.-deval-patrick, green-economy, immigration, sen.-scott-brown, small-businesses, social-justice, sustainable-community, workers-center/casa-obrera

Musical Stratosphere & Social Justice

April 1, 2010 By scotland-willis

Musical Stratosphere & Social Justice By Scotland Willis Music notes 2 Yesterday I enjoyed a collage of musical excellence through the gene of creativity. Last night that gene was a combination of seven musicians balanced like the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: boston, random, scotland-willis, social-justice

Bad News On Mass Jobs

March 9, 2010 By sue-kennedy

The Crittenden Women's Union released their new MassFESS budgets/calculations. This is very readable economic analysis. http://www.liveworkthrive.org/... This includes the Hot Jobs report where they list jobs which pay people enough to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: economy, jobs, social-justice

Fiscal crisis could be–and should be–a real health reform opportunity

October 16, 2008 By annem

Van Faasen's the same guy that MA Health Care For All gave their "Lifetime Leadership" award to a year or so ago! Perhaps the AG can get Bill to give the state some of those $19Mil dollars that were collected as health insurance premium … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care, health-care-reform, ma-politics, massachusetts, social-justice

The differences between Chang-Diaz and Wilkerson go beyind lawbreaking, ethics, and accountibility

September 25, 2008 By annem

Why did Sen. Wilkerson chose to support the ill-conceived BU bio lab sited in Roxbury despite overwhelming opposition from constituents in her district and advocacy groups such as ACE in Roxbury, Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow, a multitude … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: health-care-reform, ma-politics, massachusetts, social-justice

Tufts University Janitors and Their Current Struggle

May 19, 2008 By kevin-dillon

Cross-posted from SomervilleVoices.org. Hi, my name is Kevin and I'm a full-time student at Tufts University, where I started a student group, the Jumbo Janitor Alliance. The group focuses on bringing Tufts janitors more into the Tufts … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: labor, social-justice, tufts, workers-rights

leveling the playing Field for Mass. Blind

December 1, 2007 By cosmos-cat

To address these issues, Perkins has partnered with seven other agencies to develop a plan to make improvements in service, with the goal of increasing self-sufficiency, independence, economic growth and training for individuals who are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: blind, budget-priorities, massachusetts, social-justice

The value of Wal-Mart in America today. Just sayin’.

October 18, 2007 By mbair

First, by way of thanks. I would like to thank everyone on the Newbury Democratic Town Committee for organizing and then actually pulling off a stellar and important event like this right in my own backyard. I was even let in, as a member … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: change-to-win, charles-fishman, chris-kofinis, health-care, john-tierney, massachusetts, mike-dukakis, minimum-wage, newbury-democratic-town-committe, robert-greenwald, sam-walton, social-justice, the-wal-mart-effect, wake-up-wal-mart, wal-mart, wal-mart-movie, wal-mart-watch

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