The Recession, Working People and our Future
Time to Organize and Fight Back!
Wednesday, June 18th, 6PM
Jackson Mann Community Center
Free and Open to the Public
More Info: 774-454-9060 boston@socialistalternative.org
Discuss how to fight against:
- Price gouging, from gas to food
- University encroachment and Harvard tax exemption
- Home foreclosures and credit crunch
- Unemployment and under-paid jobs
- Massive debt and insecurity from higher education
Sunday, May 4
UMASS Boston - Snowden Auditorium, Wheatley Building
Free and Open to the Public
More Info: 774-454-9060 boston@socialistalternative.org
Please RSVP for childcare
10pm Coffee and Bagels
10:30pm Forum on the U.S. Economy: The Housing Crisis Hits Home
12pm First Round of Workshops:
- Martin Luther King Jr's Assassination and Black Liberation
- The History of May Day: International Workers Day
- Is Socialism Against Human Nature?
- BU Biolab - Sickening our Communities
1pm Lunch, $5 suggested donation
3pm DEBATE: Should We Vote for Democrats in 2008?
4:30pm Second Round of Workshops:
- Youth, Veterans and Resistance to War
- WomenÕs Rights and Socialism
- Re-building the Labor Movement
- Immigrant Rights: Building the Struggle
- "The Arts, Revolution and Leon Trotsky" hosted by Dr. Abbott Ikeler, Professor of Communications at Emerson College
5:30pm Rally: 40 Years Since the May 1968 Revolt
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Matt Geary has been a resident in Dorchester for three years. He currently lives in the Upham's Corner section of Dorchester, and he is a student at UMass-Boston. Matt was at the forefront of the campaign against the recent January 2007 MBTA fare increases. He organized pickets outside of the MBTA Board, and he put together educational meetings about the drawbacks of the fare increases and the need for better transportation service. Matt has been a member of Boston Socialist Alternative for three years. He has been organizing with Socialist Alternative against budget cuts, against the war in Iraq, against "politics as usual" and for workers democracy.
Matt has fought for workers and youth before he was elected, and he will continue to do so in City Council, pledging to take no more than the wage of an average worker. City Councilors make a whopping $87,500. Matt will donate over $40,000 of that salary to the labor movement and social justice causes. As a City Councilor, Matt will continue to campaign for working people by calling constant public hearings on the key issues. He will also organize to veto any city budget that doesn't meet the needs of ordinary working people.
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New Bedford Raid: An Attack on All Workers
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Over the last few years the Michael Bianco factory in New Bedford, Massachusetts has been producing bullet proof vests, backpacks and other textiles for sale to the U.S. military. For Michael Bianco Inc. (and for a lot of other more powerful companies in the United States), the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have meant big profits. And like any number of U.S. employers, this company has been cashing in by employing low-wage, undocumented workers.
This was the story until the morning of Tuesday March 6th, when over 300 armed agents from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch of the Department of Homeland Security and supporting agencies stormed the factory in a military style raid and roundup. The federal agents surrounded the factory, checked all of the workers’ documents and arrested around two-thirds of the roughly 500 workers....
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Deval Patrick: Friend of Working People?
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Working people in Massachusetts are applauding the departure of former Governor Mitt Romney. After four years of declining living standards,
cuts to social services, attacks on public employees, and attacks on immigrants and LGBT persons, we’re glad to see the back of Mitt.
But what about Deval Patrick? Will he be the “governor of the people” that he claims to be? Will he change “politics as usual”?
In reality, Deval Patrick offers nothing fundamentally different than his corporate-friendly predecessor...
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Workers at Children's Museum Fight Back and Win
On December 2, 2006, seventeen part-time workers at Boston’s Children’s Museum (BCM) were laid-off.
Management’s excuse: temporary renovations were scheduled to start on December 31. Rather than sit down and shut up,
the workers organized and fought for job security and decent compensation. They won back every job and then some.
In August, the part-timers were promised they would be able to keep working during the three month renovation
that would temporarily shut down the museum. Then, with less than a month before the shut down, they were told that despite
Management’s promise of work during renovations and despite all of their experience, their jobs were being completely terminated.
On top of this, if they wanted to work for the museum when it re-opened, they would have to reapply for their old jobs...
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