"Amazon’s power to brutalize workers and starve out local businesses is global,” said Yessenia Prodero, an immigrant rights organizer with Massachusetts Jobs With Justice, an Athena coalition member group. “We will only truly challenge that power if we build power globally. We have strategized with our international partners for years to tell a consistent story across continents, and we are seeing those efforts gain momentum. These actions are an important public escalation, and there will be a lot more to come.”
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“WORCESTER, Mass. - City residents and community activists called "Worcester Community United" stood in solidarity with the nurses striking at Saint Vincent hospital Saturday.”
Read More“We’re missing about 500 boxes of food every week – that’s just the basic milk, cheese, fruit," said Nelly Medina, lead organizer for the Parents Union of Massachusetts, or PUMA. "We have a population of people who have not rebounded from COVID, and they’re hungry and we don’t know how to feed them.”
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WHEN LINDA PIZZUTI HENRY and her husband, John W. Henry, bought The Boston Globe in 2013 for $70 million, she announced her intention to adapt the venerable institution to the changing media landscape.
“When I walked into the old Morrissey Boulevard building with John on our first day over seven years ago, past the hum of the presses and the welcoming smell of ink, I wasn’t sure exactly what my role would be,” Pizzuti Henry said. “But I knew that I was lucky to work here, and it was clear to me why this institution needed to not only survive the secular decline of trusted local journalism, but also needed to innovate and evolve and invest in a new way of doing things in order to thrive and effectively serve our mission.”
Read More“Many of us grumbled at some point during the pandemic about delayed unemployment checks or the nonsensical arithmetic behind the two recent stimulus bills. While these were valid concerns, it was shamefully rare to hear public complaints on behalf of undocumented immigrants who were excluded from pandemic relief entirely. While COVID-19 did not discriminate based on citizenship status, our elected officials did. As we receive our first and second doses of the vaccine this month, it is long past time to prioritize the community members the United States has left behind.”
Read More“A coalition of more than 20 human rights organizations released an open letter Wednesday morning calling for a total ban on private and corporate use of facial recognition, an invasive technology that the groups characterized as discriminatory and "too dangerous to exist."
While campaigners have typically focused on the civil liberties threats posed by government and law enforcement use of facial recognition, the rights groups' new letter demands that businesses be barred from using the technology as well, warning that proliferation of face surveillance in the private sector would have serious privacy consequences for workers and consumers.”
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“SPRINGFIELD — In a possible death blow to what some have called a “zombie” project, state environmental regulators have revoked approval for a proposed 35-megawatt biomass energy plant in East Springfield.
The state Department of Environmental Protection, in a letter to Palmer Renewable Energy Friday, cited delays in starting construction at the 1000 Page Blvd. site, as well as “environmental justice” concerns, as the reason for revoking approval.”
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