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Healey’s economic plan emphasizes the importance of retaining college graduates to work in the Bay State. The plethora of colleges and universities in Massachusetts presents the state with an unparalleled opportunity to develop a highly skilled labor force and attract businesses. Currently, however, higher taxes, insufficient housing, and an overall higher cost of living squander this opportunity by chasing recent graduates away. Indeed, Massachusetts was the only state in the Union to experience negative population growth in 2004, as the cost of living skyrocketed...
...Museum celebrating the Mexican Day of the Dead became the scene of protests denouncing the Mexican government last night. About 30 protesters—carrying black crosses and Spanish-language placards—rallied outside the show, calling attention to deaths in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where labor unions, leftist activists, and Indian groups have taken over the capital to demand the governor’s resignation. The protesters targeted the show at Harvard’s Peabody Museum because one of the event’s sponsors was the Consulate of Mexico in Boston. The consul general...
...Director-General Pascal Lamy with cries of “the world is not for sale” and “you glorify feudalism” when he spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday about the WTO and accountability. Demonstrators, including representatives from the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM) and the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice (HIPJ), also protested outside the IOP using various percussive instruments, while displaying signs calling for the abolition of the WTO. One Boston-area demonstrator held up a sign that read “WTO loves Malthus...
...Dead in Oaxaca, everything is in limbo. Mexican tradition has the souls of the dead returning to visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...duty and aggravated assault, the equivalent of a felony in the U.S. civilian justice system. The prosecution demanded prison time, but a military judge instead imposed a fine and reduction in rank. Though Cardona was not put behind bars, he was also required to serve 90 days of hard labor at Ft. Bragg...