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Massachusetts Solidarity Rally for Wisconsin Unions (video)

By Anonymous - 2/23/11 - 2:54 am

The crowd chanted "They say cut back, We say fight back" before the speakers came to the podium.

Congressman Ed Markey addressed the crowd to remind them what caused the financial crisis (and it wasn't public public sector workers.) Next, Congressman Mike Capuano announced, "I am a cheesehead" to communicate his solidarity with the working people of Wisconsin fighting for the right to bargain collectively for wages, benefits and work conditions. Mike foretold of similar attacks on worker rights by Republicans soon to come in Indiana, Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. He said it was a fight for the middle class.

Joe Biden and Dems stump in Quincy

By dwyer - 10/30/10 - 9:39 pm

QUINCY — The race for the 10th Congressional District of Massachusetts is a close one in an election that many view as pivotal. Norfolk District Attorney William Keating is running to succeed retiring fellow Democrat Rep. William Delahunt. Hoping to tip the scales in Keating’s favor, Vice President Biden appeared today at a rally in Quincy alongside fellow prominent party members including John Kerry and Vicki Kennedy.

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Health reform rally on the Boston Common

By Anonymous - 9/7/09 - 3:17 pm

[float=right] IMAGE(http://i279.photobucket.com/albums/kk143/nfsagan/HCR-BC-1B.jpg) [/float]Health Care For All, HFCA, organized a Labor Day rally and march in support of health care reform, which started with speeches at the gazebo on the Boston Common and ended after a march and more live music at Copley Square.

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Ed Markey doesn't jump to conclusions, huh?

By adamg - 10/29/06 - 11:08 pm

Deb Geisler explains why she's glad her congressman is John Tierney instead of Ed Markey: Unlike Markey, Tierney didn't get the FBI to seize some guy's computer (at 2 in the morning) for pointing out a security flaw in the way some airlines print out their tickets - a flaw that noted radical Charles Schumer had pointed out a few months ago.

Markey kinda, sorta apologizes for sic'ing the FBI on the guy.

Blame Ed Markey for the demise of WILD-FM

By adamg - 8/24/06 - 8:03 am

Lisa Williams links to more comments on the end of the station and says it wouldn't have been possible without the Telecom Act of 1996, which our own Ed Markey helped write:

Report from the wiretapping forum

By adamg - 1/5/06 - 2:18 pm

Colleen files a report from Wednesday's session, called by U.S. Rep. Ed Markey, on the administration's wiretapping policies.