Labor Day Rally For Healthcare-video/photos

by Michael Borkson (Independent), Sep-08-09

Boston Common-Sept. 7, 2009
About one thousand concerned citizens gathered on Boston Common today to voice their demand for universal health care for all.

Public Meeting: Activists and Academics Renew Call for Moratorium on Level 4 "Bio-Lab" Research

by Dave Goodman / Boston Community Reporters Project (Staff), Oct-10-08

BOSTON/Government Center - A dozen community activists, scientists, lawyers, and health professionals joined several members of the Boston City Council today, to call for a city-wide moratorium on research involving some of the world's most dangerous diseases. The effect of such a ban would be to stop plans by Boston University to construct and operate a Level 4 Biohazards facility within the walls of its National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory being built on Albany Street in Boston.