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May 12, 2013 - 1:56pm
Bangladesh Workers Solidarity Network pickets the Gap in Harvard Square, Cambridge, May 4, 2013. Demonstrators called for the Gap to require the subcontinental factories where its garments are made to implement higher workplace building standards. This, in the wake of Dhaka's April 24 Rana Plaza collapse with a death toll of more than 1,000.
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April 24, 2013 - 6:01pm
City of Cambridge and Cambridge Black Pastors Alliance hold vigil at City Hall in observance of Boston Marathon bombing victims.
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April 24, 2013 - 10:41am
Neighbors assemble at Mt. Auburn Hospital after reports that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev brought there. 4/19/13
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April 5, 2013 - 12:21pm
Workers v. Le Meridien Hotel
Le Meridien Hotel workers continued their push for job security, better benefits, and the right to unionize yesterday with a City Hall rally and march to the Central Square hotel. Unite Here Local 26 Hospitality Workers Union, Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement and other supporters joined in.
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Harvard divested in 2012 from the Norwalk, CT parent company HEI. MIT, which formerly owned the hotel and still owns the land, has demurred.
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The City Council declared a City of Cambridge boycott of the hotel in 2012.
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“In March 2012, over 70% of the workers at the non-union HEI Le Meridien Cambridge hotel raised concerns about their workloads, salaries, healthcare and quality of guest services with hotel management,” states the approved October 2012 resolution by City Councillor Kenneth Reeves and Vice Mayor Denise Simmons. “Since then, management has shifted a greater portion of healthcare costs onto its workers.”
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The resolution noted that the Council normally holds festivities at Le Meridien-MIT but ordered “that the City Council instruct the City Manager and all City departments to boycott the services provided by HEI Le Meridien…and that [the City...
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March 8, 2013 - 3:23pm
.Cambridge Eco-Log. A journalist considers local weather and ecology as a microcosm of our global climate.
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The weather is weird.
How weird is it?
Dearth of snow, record snow, 100-degree summer days. Everyone’s worrying about the weather. Isn’t the weather supposed to be weird—in the sense of abnormal—in Cambridge, in New England? “Don’t like the weather in New England,” Mark Twain asked. “Wait a few minutes.” “There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration—and regret....In the spring I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.”
Twain’s New England weather report:
Probable nor’-east to sou’-west winds, varying to the southard and westard and eastard and points between; high and low barometer, sweeping around from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail, and drought, succeeded or preceded by earthquakes, with thunder and lightning. But it is possible that the programme may be wholly changed in the meantime.
Science concurs. A report on Massachusetts’ climate by the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) explains:
[C]ontrasting air masses and the relatively frequent passage of storm...
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January 22, 2013 - 5:05pm
A Walk in the Dark presents the first episode of Exquisite Corpses's "The Crimson Bowtie," produced by Christian Herold, and created--exquisite corpse improvisational style--by Cantabridgians Ellen Wilbur, Karl Shoaf, and Andrew Held, and Arlingtonian Nicholas Herold.
This is the fruit of a terrific CCTV podcast class with Jordan Tynes. It is a murder mystery; this episode is 13 minutes.
Project Website:A Walk in the Dark
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November 1, 2012 - 9:47pm
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June 2, 2012 - 11:40am
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My music video from the CCTV class taught this spring by Aviv Rubenstien.
Includes CCTV stalwart Erik Brown. Thanks to Erik, Stephen Marx, Nader Shaar, Shirin Mozzafari, and the other brilliant, generous, and talented folk at CCTV. Thanks especially to Nicole Belanger, NeighborMedia.org and CCTV for giving me the opportunity to do this. Shot in West Cambridge.
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May 31, 2012 - 6:09pm
West Cambridge hits the streets for its annual Memorial Day Parade. As seen from Lowell and Mt. Auburn Streets with Mt. Auburn Hospital in the background.
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March 31, 2012 - 5:16pm
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Encounter regional fashion and food bloggers in a conference milieu. Shoe fashion show begins at the 7:20 mark. For more information about participants, go to the BlogBetterBoston.com website. Music by Boom Boom Beckett: Attenti al Ladro (http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/103120).
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