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...unanimously approved by the Cambridge City Council yesterday. Burmese students from Harvard and two other colleges joined four Cambridge residents at last night’s weekly meeting to urge the Council to pass the resolution. The bill, H. 2729, was first introduced by State Rep. Byron D. Rushing (D-Boston) in January. It would also support shareholder resolutions calling on corporations to promote democracy in Myanmar. “As a leader in human rights and democracy, Massachusetts has an obligation to support the people of Burma,” a senior using the pseudonym Shanti Maug told...
Almost 100 demonstrators came to show support for a House bill that would force the state’s pension system to divest from companies with operations in Myanmar, formerly Burma. The bill, introduced by State Representative Byron Rushing ’64 (D-Boston), is presently being debated by state legislators...
...Square, State Rep. Byron D. Rushing ’64, D-Boston, spoke about House Bill 2729, which he introduced recently. Known as the Massachusetts Burma Bill, the legislation would allow the Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management Board to urge companies to stop doing business in Myanmar and to suspend state pension fund investments in companies that are doing business in the country until a democratically elected government comes to power...
...religious influence. “As a Christian, it was good to hear the faith of Martin Luther King come up,” Papke said. “But it could have come up more.” State Representative Byron Rushing ’64, D-Boston, the keynote speaker, encouraged the audience to take inspiration and action . “Get someone in America to call you a dangerous Negro,” Rushing challenged the audience after stating that officials in U.S. government feared King and referred to him as such...
Some might have said that Mass. State Rep. Byron Rushing (D-Boston) was crazy to run for House Speaker against incumbent Thomas M. Finneran (D-Mattapan). His foe was, after all, the same political boss who has taken a thoroughly dictatorial approach to his rule of the Massachusetts House over the last six years—the same speaker who has made sure those who so much as vote against legislation he supports are banished to obscure committees and cramped offices...