BOSTON/Dorchester - Massuniting, a grassroots coalition of community groups and concerned neighbors, and a recent addition to a growing list of Boston area social justice organizations collaborating across various political, economic, and environmental issues, is facilitating a public speak-out in Dorchester on Wednesday July 20.

The community gathering, sponsored by the four month old organization, comes as Congress and the Obama administration debate massive budget cuts - possibly never before seen in American history - that will have repercussions throughout the city and state.

BOSTON/Dorchester - Standing before a home on Potosi Street in Dorchester, flanked by State officials and representatives of the electrical and gas utility companies that serve Boston, Mayor Thomas Menino yesterday announced that a city sponsored effort to increase commercial and residential energy efficiency would start accepting applications from homeowners and landlords.

BOSTON/Roxbury Crossing - Despite the inclement weather and passing rain showers, more than fifty people gathered near the Roxbury Crossing T-station to call for a 25% reduction in military spending and to fund jobs instead.

Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner spoke at the rally, as well as representatives from other groups such as the Chinese Progressive Association.

BOSTON/City Hall - With federal stimulus funding for youth summer jobs off the table in the wake of a failed U.S. Senate vote earlier this month, over 200 Boston teenagers attended a rally for youth jobs on Tuesday called by City Councilor Felix Arroyo and several community organizations - including Teen Empowerment, Hyde Square Task Force, Project RIGHT, Project HIP-HOP, Maverick Landing, Reflect and Strengthen, and Medicine Wheel. Arroyo, chair of the City Council's Committee on Labor, Youth Affairs and Human Rights, invited the young people to the rally and the committee hearing that followed to drum up public support for finding money to fund the estimated 2000 youth summer jobs that are on the chopping block.

Members of the Communications Workers of America (CWA) are stepping up a campaign against the proposed sale of telephone lines in 14 states by telecom industry giant Verizon to the much smaller, mostl

After a short campaign, eighty-one AT&T Mobility phone store workers in eleven Vermont stores have formed a new union with CWA Local 1400.

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.

News video on the April 4, 2008 Town Meeting on Black Male Joblessness at the University of Massachusetts Boston in Dorchester, MA, USA - commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr.