Local resources

•  State prison plans: mental therapy or torture?
•  ‘Progressive’ City Council abuses vulnerable persons—and free speech
•  Voters sue to put health amendment on ballot
•  ‘Madam Clerk, please call the police’
•  Looking backward and forward at political power and Boston's elite law firms
•  Rumors of my re-election have been greatly exaggerated
•  State didn't seek Federal money for independent living
•  Antiwar activist arrested in Worcester as McGovern looks on
•  Mass. Labor Notes — December 2006
•  Are you a “girly man?”
•  Suit filed for Boston teacher who opposed JROTC funding
•  Thirty years after ban, corporations pressed on lead cleanup
•  Dentist association: beware of fluoride in baby formula
•  State conservation agency poisons Charles River, City conservation agency approves
•  Snafu by cops halts trial of activist arrested in Lexington
•  The Council of Cambridge (2),
•  Who owns the sidewalks?
•  Absentee landlord in trouble for loving humankind
•  KillerCoke campaign: Question Patrick, not leaflet
•  Somerville pro-Palestine group announces ballot campaign on City Hall steps
•  Patrick took millions to defend corporate crimes
•  Somerville condo conversion ordinance: will Mayor Joe fight, or give up?
•  Porter Sq. Plaza Complaint Filed
•  The U.S. government’s reefer madness
•  Cambridge City Council, 9/11—Liturgy trumps deliberation in "the greatest city"
•  I’ve been told that you’re paid to ask tricky questions and slander folks... Is that true?
•  The organic milk wars: it's not just the price
•  Volunteer petition drive puts Green-Rainbow slate on ballot
•  A short history lesson on the privilege of voting
•  High school students must “opt out” of harassment by those military recruiters
•  Solidarity event raised funds for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel
•  Mass. Labor Notes — September 2006
•  Lafayette Eight, 29 months later—case dismissed!
•  Only one disability here
•  Rebuilding the U.S. Labor Movement
•  Pennsylvania election rigged: court bumps Green candidate
•  Small farmers confront Big Brother
•  Grace Ross wins gubernatorial election!
•  Feds allow nanomaterials in sunscreens
•  Two years probation in Somerville 5 case
•  Torture in the Sanctuary City
•  "Non-profit" MIT takes a quick $320 million in Tech Square real estate deal
•  War and peace Cambridge style
•  Ross defies exclusion, wins applause at environment forum
•  Letter from Palestine
•  Call to support Mass. Dissection Choice Bill
•  Letter from the Diaspora
•  Beware of the dog protectors
•  Somerville 5 jury returns mixed verdict
•  Lafayette 8 motion to dismiss to be heard Sept. 6
•  Somerville jail expansion discussed
•  Gov candidate Grace Ross excluded—old boys' Mass. debate was a flop
•  Charges dismissed for Army Day protesters
•  Benefit to resist the green scare, Friday June 9
•  Somerville residents plan drive for Palestine sister city
•  Save Central Square
•  Who needs the city council?
•  Organic Consumers call National Week of Action at Starbucks June 19th-25th
•  Mixed verdict appealed by Anderson, Belfon; Sept. trial for remaining Somerville 5 defendants
•  State’s political leaders back wider Mideast war
•  Grace Ross statement on Lebanon, Gaza
•  What causes overcrowding in jails and prisons?
•  “Non-profit” MIT takes a quick $320 million out of latest Tech Square real estate deal
•  An American in Palestine, unless you are a Palestinian American !
•  Our Treasure on the Estuary
•  “Fusion” is Question 2 on November ballot
•  Thug media claim “frenzy of violence” at peaceful Hub rally
•  How the government medicalizes social problems
•  Absentee landlord in trouble for loving humankind
•  From Lebanon
•  Broadhurst: Revoke State zoning overrides for power station sites
•  Mass. Labor Notes — August 2006
•  A party on the run ... from Its own members! Democrats running scared, again
•  The U.S. government’s reefer madness
•  Con-fusion: vote reform aims to limit choices
•  Harvard’s neighbors want to know—what lies under Mahoney’s site?
•  Boston area Zionists organizing for war against Sudan
•  State stalls again; Lafayette 8 back to Square 1
•  Looking at another side of Jarrett Barrios
•  State sees opportunity in impending Storrow shutdown
•  Defending equal marriage rights
•  City Hall blocks Somerville divestment petition
•  Questions on divestment — and a proposal
•  How the west is won: What I saw last month in Palestine
•  Recruiting American Jews for Israel
•  Davis Square “terrorist” exonerated
•  School committee candidate Luc Schuster on the Cambridge schools and his campaign
•  Three of ‘Somerville Five’ still suspended
•  The property tax bomb—-again
•  Meetings about taxes prove… taxing
•  ‘Denise Simmons is the only sitting conuncillor worth considering’
•  Local Community to Walk for Haiti
•  Marijuana in Massachusetts— backward laws, and the highest prices in the US
•  Conviction of six animal rights activists: a blow to free speech and compassionate activism
•  Green-Rainbow Party in Worcester, nominates candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor, Secretary, Treasurer, Auditor
•  Supporters plan Boston fundraiser as cops press charges vs. Somerville 5
•  Anthony Galluccio—politics and real estate
•  Will we be silenced any longer? No!
•  Civic engagement, not blind patriotism
•  Green-Rainbow Treasurer candidate will run again
•  Social control without due process— cops take lessons from the drug industry
•  Magazine Beach—is this restoration, or development?
•  Palestine solidarity movement holds fifth annual Divestment Conference
•  Tasty Diner Returns to Harvard Square
•  Somerville Divestment Project
•  Drug lobbyists train cops in “tolerance for the mentally ill”
•  Mayor Reeves and the politics of real estate
•  Boston mosque construction opposed by David Project
•  When will the City level with us?
•  Lafayette 8 trial delayed again
•  The City signed our neighborhood rights away to Harvard
•  War does not forget women
•  Jarrett Barrios: rising star of the progressive Democrats
•  “Environmental illness” spreading in U.S.
•  Media promotes idea that mental illness causes crime
•  Somerville immigrants, allies respond to legislative threats
•  Animal rights advocates face federal prison
•  April 9 walk for Haiti hospitals
•  Curtatone plays politics with ArtBeat to slow divestment drive
•  The sound of Taps blended with protest chants
•  Recruiting children to kill children
•  Animal Defense League takes on corporations, 'fraudulent science'
•  We deserve a working democracy
•  Reflections on the Carolina Johnson campaign
•  Failed policy? Boston debates drug war
•  The Loyal Opposition: the March 19 US antiwar protests
•  Abolish the Dept. of Mental Health
•  Somerville police: 20-year-old HQ needs replacement
•  The dramatic gay marriage debate on Beacon Hill
•  "marriage was nothing to emulate"
•  Samson's back—and he's being tailed....
•  The influence of the drug companies
•  Charles River white geese being starved out
•  Idle hands are the devil's helpmate
•  My encounter with "the only democracy in the Middle East"
•  Here's a take on the Green-Toomey primary that'll piss off everyone
•  Massachusetts Health Reform Bill: A False Promise of Universal Coverage
•  Somerville's Diesel Cafe—protect and defend
•  Vietnam vet: no cheers for John Kerry
•  Are some persons more equal than others?
•  Note to Dems: dealing with 'spoilers' as simple as I.R.V.
•  Is the Motor Voter law more trouble than it's worth?
•  Against the DNC occupation of Boston
•  City Hall blocks Somerville divestment petition
•  Three of ‘Somerville Five’ still suspended
•  Questions on divestment — and a proposal
•  How the west is won: What I saw last month in Palestine
•  Recruiting American Jews for Israel
•  Davis Square “terrorist” exonerated
•  School committee candidate Luc Schuster on the Cambridge schools and his campaign
•  ‘Denise Simmons is the only sitting conuncillor worth considering’
•  Grace tries to sweep 500 tons of asbestos under the rug
•  Meetings about taxes prove… taxing
•  The property tax bomb—-again
•  Israel bonds in Fidelity Mutual Funds
•  Joachim Martillo used to do business in Israel. Now he supports Divestment
•  Grace Ross and Wendy Van Horne in campaign kick-off
•  Schuster: prepare kids for the long term
•  Follow the money— politicians and the deals that shape our neighborhoods
•  Partial list of real estate donors over the past five years to Councilor Decker’s campaign funds
•  Just 41 senators could stop the war
•  Poor table manners: Chronicle burps in mayor’s face
•  How blue-green are your algae - er, candidates?
•  The Gap
•  Greyhound Protection Act— 100,000 more signatures needed by November 20
•  Can an animal be patented?
•  HAZMAT Spill at Harvard
•   Police in Somerville clashed with Teamsters to shield scofflaw Russell
•  Palestine group defies a Zionist effort to shut down April conference
•  City: Please don’t make us fix sidewalks
•  Green-Rainbow to Governor: Steal this health care plan
•  Patrick moving to sell courthouse in East Cambridge
•  Texas jury sides with medical pot user
•  State of War: Kerry is Senate’s top war profiteer
•  Will Harvard signs bring City fines?
•  Warning: hot liquids may turn plastic bottles into hazards
•  House approves buffer zones law for abortion clinics
•  $1.5 million sought for field of poisons
•  Group that sought to cut funds for Israel fades in Somerville
•  Palestine committee to host major conference in Boston
•  At 55 Magazine Street, tenants are under pressure
•  Surprise win for Fowler-Finn
•  Public housing: Future shock
•  After twenty years, Eviction Free Zone closes the office
•  Elaine Brown confronts the Green Party of the U.S.
•  Nader primary vote challenged
•  Are blue collar jobs passé in the new Somerville?
•  State board rules against City, for seniors, disabled
•  Holiday greetings from the cops
•  State lets Northpoint evade wetlands law; Patrick puts developers' lawyer in charge of permits
•  Petition Novartis to drop patent case against India
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