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News in Brief: April 14, 2014

19 April 2014 - 7:40am | jadams
by Jonathan Adams

Boston Jobs Coalition – Downtown Crossing

The Boston Jobs Coalition continued protests at the construction site of a new building at the historic Filene’s Basement in Downtown Boston on Monday last week. As previously reported by Open Media Boston, the coalition is critical of hiring practices for people of color and women at the site. They claim that the developer, Millennium Partners, has broken city hiring laws, and hasn’t contributed mandatory affordable housing payments. 

Budget4All – Boylston St.

Activist Coalition Rallies to End Sequester Pain Caused by Budget Cuts

18 May 2013 - 4:45am | Tate Williams
by Tate Williams

BOSTON - Congressional gridlock and federal budget cuts all too often come across as a maddening string of abstract numbers, amid repeated news of failure to reach an agreement.

But for the people who rely on the affected programs—the disabled, seniors, the unemployed, the working poor—the across-the-board cuts implemented by the so-called sequester has been anything but abstract. It’s lost work, fewer days of childcare, even the threat of homelessness.

Valentine's Day Anti-Sequestration Rally Hits Hub; Groups Fear Massive Social Spending Cuts

16 February 2013 - 9:51pm | Andrew Jeromski
by Andrew Jeromski

BOSTON/Government Center—With $1 trillion in potential budget cuts that would devastate social programs and adversely effect economic recovery looming on March 1st, a group of Boston community activists and residents took to the JFK Federal Building to present freshman Senators William “Mo” Cowan (D-Mass.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) with giant Valentine’s Day cards on Thursday imploring them to do what they can to head off the heavy-handed “sequestration” cuts that become law on March 1st, while protecting medicare, medicaid and vital social programs, cutting defense spending and endin

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