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BosKos Meetup - This Weekend
We've got a tentative meetup scheduled for this coming weekend, with a tentative venue. Since a bunch of time has passed since we last connected and last discussed/reaffirmed plans, let's review:The...
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MA-Sen: Ed Markey (D) Meets Pope Francis To Make Common Cause On Environment
I like this: http://thehill.com/... Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said Thursday that Pope Francis agrees with him that climate change is a “moral issue.”“The Pope and all people of faith understand that...
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BosKos Meetup: Cancelled today
attribution: GreyHawk Hey folks, my week's gone into overdrive. There are some issues I have to address IRL, so I'm not able to take the time to follow up. Other Boston Kossacks can hop in here, hammer...
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MA-Gov: Charles Baker's (R) Chris Christie (R. NJ) Problem Isn't Going Away
Charles Baker (R. MA) with his good pal, Chris Christie (R. NJ) back in 2010 Gubernatorial candidate Charles Baker's (R. MA) old friend, RGA Chairman Chris Christie (R. NJ), keeps on being a headache...
View ArticleNorth American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) BBQ today
This is just a quick post about a Boston-area event taking place at the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB) - a barbeque at their location, from noon to 6 pm at 105 S. Huntington Ave.,...
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Bearing Witness To The Climate Crisis — Welcome To Our Festival Of Song And...
The Climate Message Video Festival is now underway!Step right up and hear some of the most beautiful music you've ever encountered — and a clarion call for the urgency of action against global warming!
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Boston Kossacks - A little help here...
attribution: GreyHawk Summer has arrived, and with that the associated shifts in time & availability that accompany the change of seasons: some areas of home & work shift into high gear, others...
View ArticleDrunken Bloggin'
What do the following folks have in common, aside from their known association with online blogs and involvment in progressive activism?Sharoneymem from...
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Foundations cast in stone and spirit: NAICOB
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View Article♥Giant Donuts♥ And As Always, More♥
Netroots Nation A Political Convention for American Progressive Political Activists, originally organized by Readers and Writers of Daily Kos. WikipediaNN 2014 Thursday July 17, 9 AM To Sunday July 20,...
View ArticleProgressive Pursuits: For Markos, Daily Kos, Nolan, Raven, Netroots Nation & AZ
The news broke, and was reiterated by the recent FP post by Markos - NN has announced Phoenix, AZ, as the location for NN15. And Markos has stated that Daily Kos will not be going to, nor supporting,...
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"We're still here" - for now: NAICOB Fundraiser
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View ArticleClimate Change and Geotherapy: Two Conferences, Two Workshops, and Another...
I’ve been going to public lectures on climate change at Harvard, MIT, and other places since at least 1980. Lately I’ve been thinking that I have yet to hear an ecologist talk about the subject. I’ve...
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Clerks, Truckers, and Executives STRIKE on BEHALF of Ousted CEO!
It's been called a David vs. Goliath story, a "Tale of Two Arthurs" and even the "ultimate Greek tragedy," but the characters in this drama are not Biblical or literary figures. They're grocery store...
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NAICOB Regeneration Crowdfunding Challenge: "Two for Tuesday"
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
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Where Worlds Collide: Hearth & Home, Culture and Soul
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Community Fundraiser - Help NAICOB
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
View ArticleGov. Patrick Signs New Gun Legislation
FINALLY!! I've been waiting for this! I only wonder why it took so long?The legislation allows police chiefs to ask courts to deny firearms identification cards needed to buy guns to individuals they...
View ArticleFormer White House press secretary Jim Brady dies
at Yahoo NewsWASHINGTON (AP) — James Brady, the affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and undertook a...
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There are only s̶i̶x̶̶(̶6̶)̶ FIVE days left!
Note: This diary is in support of an ongoing crowdfunding effort by the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB). The funding will play a crucial role in helping regenerate the building they've...
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Next BosKos & NE Kossack Meetup - Sat 27 Sept 2014
BosKos meetups - they're kinda special. We've met at the the border, where we dined on TexMex, and we met on the waterfront, where we confronted barking crabs during a blizzard. We've even been...
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"Maximum Woo" - Unclear on the concept (A Woo Tale)
Well, Max got a job. You may be familiar with him - he's the Husky who entered our lives about a year after we lost Malamute Jack. He's a very gentle, easy-going young adult who had been to two...
View ArticleKosAbility Upcoming Schedule + MedicalJournal Links on Depression, Anxiety,...
We meet Sundays 7pm eastkost time/4pm leftkost, 3 or so hrs to fit a part of everyone's afternoon/evening. We also pub & republish diaries over the week:kosmail to one of our active...
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BosKos @ Applebee's - 27 September 2014
It's that time again - time for pedestrians to stay off the streets and sidewalks. Time for low-flying aircraft to take the long way 'round. Time for alien invaders, foreign & domestic terrorists,...
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Echoes and Repurcussions
It was less than a decade ago that a Republican Congressman aptly described the abdication of responsibility by Congress as a 'deep shallow', and in the years since we have seen the exponential...
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Walker Administration/WI DOJ appealing 120 Sing Along tickets that were...
I haven't offered an update on the Solidarity Sing Along in a while, but it is still going strong. The sing along is a noon-hour singing protest that has occurred at the Wisconsin State Capitol every...
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"Thanks for the Memories" - Dementia, Family, and the Holidays
Reprinted with permission. Originally posted on LinkedIn by JA Bourke.Foreword by GreyHawkIt's that time of year - a time of remembrance, and of family. And, gift giving. From the piece reprinted below...
View ArticleCDC Recommendation: Do Not Buy Pre-Packaged Caramel Apples
Just a quick heads-up: You know those pre-packaged caramel apples you see at some stores during the holiday season? You might want to take a pass on those.Prepackaged Caramel Apples Lead to 5 Deaths...
View ArticleA Gift of Wonder
I'm not the world's best gift-giver. Depending on who, and why, I may be among the worst - or perhaps the most average. But when it comes to kids, I think I do OK: I generally feel that I hit the mark...
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BBC, America (No, not ~that~ BBC...)
And now for something completely different...The BBC (British Beer Company) has established several foothold locations across Massachusetts, and secured a two-prong incursion into New Hampshire - but...
View ArticleBoston & New England Kossacks: Vote for next meetup date [POLL]
Just a quick poll to get input from Kossacks in and around MA as to when the next long-overdue BosKos meetup should be.We're going to try the Applebees in Quincy once more time - and the starting time...
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Boston & New England Kossacks: Vote for next meetup date [2nd, Extended POLL]
attribution: GreyHawk Three days ago, I posted a short diary with a poll asking folks in BosKos & New England Kossacks to chime in to pick a date that worked for them. We got one vote for the first...
View ArticleBuckle Up, Boston - More Snow Coming (The Yetis are ecstatic.)
Fair warning: This is a hit and run(-ish) diary.Just shared the following on Twitter, and something akin to it on FB:Buckle up #Boston, more #snow coming. At least the #BostonYeti is feeling the love....
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Bernadette Devlin McAliskey: an Irish heroine
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey Another Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York City has come and gone and still the parade organizers refuse to open it up for more than one LGBT group to march with Irish...
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How did you begin to unlearn racism?
Overpass Light Brigade, "Unlearn Racism" When the Overpass Light Brigade brought the message of "Unlearn Racism" to Milwaukee, they held up lights on a subject that we are confronted with daily, but...
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BosKos & NE Kossacks Meetup July 25 and 26
Just a reminder & re-posting of the diary from Tuesday - please share it with anyone who might be in or migrating to/through the area. It'll be great to see folks. - GH Calling all Boston and New...
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BosKos Meetup This Weekend!
attribution: GreyHawk All Kossacks welcome. Although organized under the banner of Boston Kossacks ("BosKos"), this is for New England Kossacks, Massachusetts Kosmopolitans, and any other Kossack under...
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BosKos - Today (and Yesterday!) UPDATED
This is NOT the follow-up diary to yesterday's BosKos - it's the reminder diary that TODAY is ALSO a BosKos meetup! Yesterday's meetup was very successful: HawkWife and I had the privilege of meeting...
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BosKos Meetup Follow-up - "They live"
Yes, we live. We're alive! The BosKos crew had a successful weekend meetup event this past July 25 & 26. While we didn't manage to draw in our entire crowd, we had our best showing yet - total of...
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Kansas Surrenders! MBOPRA #BlackLivesMatter #LetOurPoorPeopleLive. STDDs,...
Fifty weeks! Fifty weeks since we decided that chronicling injustice cannot be enough. Fifty weeks since we decided that in addition to protests, and popular appeal, and voting we also needed to use...
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BosKos - End of August Meetup
Good morning, folks! We're planning to have an End of Summer meetup that will be the last weekend of August. We're going to meet "in town" (-ish), which (for Boston) can mean anywhere from Kendall...
View ArticleBosKos: Planning
I meant to post something over a week ago, and time/work/life got busy. My bad.The majority of Boston Kossacks had already realized that we hadn't nailed down a venue, so the meetup originally...
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Bicycling While Black Triggers Call to Police in Marblehead, MA
Hanging out on a Saturday night, waiting for Top Comments to publish, so I take a few minutes to scroll through Facebook, and what comes across my feed but this posted image: I live less than fifteen...
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Woozling Woobles - "Maximum Woo" and Oakley, too
Just a quick Woozle pic to share. I'm still trying to work with collaborators to assemble and publish a collection of "Woo Tales" - stories of our dogs (and some cats) over the past 20-odd years. Most...
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Boston Kossacks: August Meetup?
This curious bird surprised the 10 11 Weather Team the other day.OK, folks — it’s been a while. We need to have a meetup — I’ve already forgotten what everyone looks like. Even myself.1The last meetup...
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BosKos Meetup - Open to all Kossacks
The next meetup is now on the calendar.If you’re planning to attend, let us know which day — the initial plan was for Saturday, but to ensure that our fellow area Kossacks who can’t make it still have...
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BosKos - "LiveBlog" (kind of)
BosKos Meetup Status —“Live” Blog — Saturday 13 Aug 2016In attendance for today’s meetup: CwV, HawkWife, JeffInQC, GreyHawkChatting and noshing...good times....this “Live” blog will continue tomorrow,...
View ArticleConnect i kos!
Well, sometimes you just have to step up.Hi kossacks of Southern New England!Specifically Connecticut (but not exclusively).I have been looking for a Connecticut Kos Group to do meetups and events with...
View ArticleHistorical and Monumental Inspiration
I saw an image of the President seated on a stairway and it immediately called to mind an image of the Lincoln Memorial, so I thought I’d create the image and share it folks who might also find it...
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Boston Counter-Protests Fight Supremacy!
Please add any other cities & counter-protests in the comments where the #AltReich are appearing on the 19th.Folks concerned about that #AltReich rally in #Boston this coming weekend should be...
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