Youth produced piece on CORI reform, featuring Sonja Cherry and Aaron Tanaka of the Boston Workers’ Alliance, Sean Pelzer of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods and State Senator Harriette Chandler.

www.presspasstv.org

Press Pass TV youth coverage of June 30th CORI Reform Press Conference at the State House.

Video by Students for CORI Reform. Visit www.CORIspondence.org

Thought Piece by BWA Staff, Aaron Tanaka in PeaceWork Magazine
Seeking Work and Dignity King’s “Second Phase”

“America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.” (Dr. King, 1967)

BWA Interview WMBR
“What’s Left” Radio - 9.19.07 *click here to link to audio

BWA’s Maggie Brown and Aaron Tanaka are interviewed on WMBR’s “What’s Left” radio. Maggie and Aaron discuss the recent State House hearing (9.18.07) on the CORI Reform bill “Public Safety Act of 2007″ (H.1416).

http://www.archive.org/details/BostonWorkersAllianceBWAInterviewWMBR_What_sLeft_9.19.07

Ending the Cycle of Violence: Reforming Discriminatory Criminal Record Laws

From Issue 381 - December 2007-January 2008

The Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system is a collection of computerized data in Massachusetts that records millions of individuals’ encounters with the criminal justice system, and is used by employers, government aid agencies, and landowners to discriminate against those who have had minor or major entanglements with the law.

Boston - Bay State Banner
September 27, 2007 — Vol. 43, No. 7
CORI foes continue their fight for Mass. legal reforms

http://www.baystatebanner.com/issues/2007/09/27/news/local09270714.htm

Yawu Miller

More than 600 activists from across Massachusetts rallied at the State House last week, urging lawmakers to reform the state’s Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system.

*BWA News Vol 1 - June 2, 2007 (click here to download)*

Check out the Boston Workers Alliance’s first Newsletter, produced by the Media Committee. “BWA News” has pictures from the April 19th, March for Jobs & CORI Reform, an interview with a CORI Friendly Employer, our regular “CORI Story,” and the colum “Ask Chuck.”