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Activists want T bid derailed
Boston Herald ^
| October 18, 2014
| Chris Cassidy
Posted on 10/18/2014 6:15:43 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Human rights and labor activists are voicing outrage that the Patrick administration could soon award a staggering $1.3 billion subway contract to a rail enterprise owned by the repressive Communist Chinese government, saying the deal would be a terrible disgrace.
If the left-leaning Massachusetts blue staters love to boycott things that break the wrong way on issues of rights, why does China get a pass on all of that? said Tom Cushman, a human rights activist and professor at Wellesley College.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: china; patrick; publictransportation; trains
To: ConservativeStatement
“Activists demand to be cut in on bribes”
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posted on
10/18/2014 6:23:54 AM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
To: ConservativeStatement
If the left-leaning Massachusetts blue staters love to boycott things that break the wrong way on issues of rights, why does China get a pass on all of that?
Kind of a dumb question.
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posted on
10/18/2014 6:30:21 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Good time to push back on Chinese for what they are doing in Hong Kong.
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posted on
10/18/2014 6:32:43 AM PDT
by
gusopol3
To: BenLurkin
If this were an entity that was known to be hostile toward transgendered people or gay people or who violated the rights of minorities, people would be up in arms.."Massachusetts standards.
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posted on
10/18/2014 6:46:20 AM PDT
by
ex91B10
(We've tried the Soap Box,the Ballot Box and the Jury Box; ONE BOX LEFT!)
To: ex91B10
To: ConservativeStatement
New Jersey's license plates sport the slogan “Garden State”.New Hampshire's sport the state motto,"Live Free Or Die" (the focus of a SCOTUS case about 40 years ago).Our’s say “The Spirit Of America” when they should read “The Spirit Of Communist China”.
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posted on
10/18/2014 8:03:00 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Islamopobia:The Irrational Fear Of Being Beheaded)
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