BOSTON/Government Center - Over 25 people congregated on a rainswept City Hall Plaza Monday at a rally called by the Massachusetts Mobilization for Climate Justice. The action aimed at pressuring politicians to push for more far-reaching policies to deal with the negative effects of climate change. Organizers also commemorated the 10th anniversary of the mass protests by labor and environmental groups against the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle - which were widely-credited with effectively shutting down the proceedings and forcing a public reevaluation of corporate-driven global political and economic agendas.

BOSTON/Government Center - A large conference room at the 100 Cambridge St. headquarters of the Mass. Department of Energy Resources was packed by over 125 people on Tuesday - most of whom were members of several of the labor and community organizations that make up the Green Justice Coalition, a new grassroots formation aiming to ensure that the rising "green economy" in the Bay State will create quality jobs in disadvantaged communities.

GJC organizers said that they had brought dozens of activists out on only 8 days notice to comment before the latest meeting of the Energy Efficiency Advisory Council - the deliberative body brought into being with the passage of the Green Communities Act by the state legislature last year, and tasked with "designing and approving the Commonwealth’s utility- and municipal aggregator-operated energy efficiency programs" according to Council documents.

Local organizations working on labor, environmental, and community issues plan to announce the formation of a new coalition this morning in Roxbury. The ambitious agenda of the "Green Justice Coalition" includes efforts to address both the climate and economic crises; especially in lower income neighborhoods and communities of color.

BOSTON/Faneuil Hall - An array of environmental and community organizations held a 100-person rally at Faneuil Hall on Tuesday to announce a new campaign for to renovate every home in the Commonwealth to reduce to be more heat efficient in the winter months and more energy efficient year round - providing 10,000 new "green collar jobs in the process.

BOSTON/Kenmore Square - Several environmental activists from Rising Tide Boston handed out samples of "green coal" - actual pieces of coal painted green - to lunchtime passers-by outside the Bank of America branch at Boston University today to protest the bank's investment in coal power. The activists said the painted rocks symbolized the Bank of America PR strategy of "greenwashing" its coal investments in the media, while continuing its support for the coal industry.

BOSTON/Beacon Hill - A crowd of about a hundred ex-hippie environmentalists, fresh-faced optimistic lobbyists, state congressmen in ties and business suits, and concerned citizens from five to 75 crowded the State House steps yesterday in support of the Global Warming Solutions Act.

BOSTON/Jamaica Plain - About 1000 people attended the Green Roots Festival to benefit Bikes Not Bombs last Sunday in the park opposite the Stony Brook T stop.

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BOSTON - Four protesters bound themselves with chains, wire mesh fencing, and a bicycle lock this morning, in order to block the front entrance of the Bank of America branch in Boston’s Copley Squar