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Armed teen shot to death

By John M. Guilfoil Globe Staff / April 4, 2010 A teenager was shot to death in Dorchester last night after exchanging gunfire with police who were investigating gang activity. Members of the Youth Violence Strike Force were near 11 Navillus Terrace investigating a recent spate of gun violence in the area, said Boston Police Superintendent Daniel Linskey. Several people have been shot and injured or killed on Dorchester streets in the past week. Officers approached a man at about 9:30 p.m., and he drew a firearm and began shooting at officers, Linskey said. “The officers returned fire,” Linskey said at a press briefing last night. The suspect’s name was not released. Linskey said he was 18 or 19 years old and was “involved with individuals involved with gang violence.” The suspect died at the scene, Linskey said, but his body was still there late last night. Police are investigating whether the man was shot by police or by own weapon, Linskey said. He would not say how many officers fired or how many shots were fired. Several bystanders near the press conference wailed “my son” and “my brother.” Eddy Chrispin, a Boston Police spokesman, said no officers were struck. The Suffolk District Attorney’s office is investigating. http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/04/armed_teen_shot_to_death/

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Bang for Change – Version 1.2

Today we went live with a sereis of small changes to bangforchange.com – a conscious music video blog project we’re doing for BRWN BFLO and Big Dan from the Bay. Tweeks we messed with included color changes, some edits to content and pages – customizing the blogger “pages” navigation we set up and setting up a better contact form. Stay tuned for more as more content and info is gathered for us to work with.

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Biggie Stickers

R.I.P. Notorious BIG – Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997). Please enjoy these tribute stickers responsibly – they are the latest in our series of stickers featuring hip-hop artists. Sticker 1 Sticker 2 4Up Sheet (Prints on 8.5 x 11) Stay tuned for more stickers from the music set and our other series featuring revolutionaries, scholars, political prisoners, social justice topics, artists, activists, historical figures… you get the idea

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Site Changes

Political Pirates 4.1

After a lot of back and forth we decided to go ahead and launch politicalpirates.com version 4.1 – a cleaned up, slimmed down revamp of what we had up there. The old site suffered from cool, flashy yet useless elements on the intro and home page, unneeded ads and internal links in the top, a sidebar that in some browsers made the entire body content shift out of proper alignment (an issue previously resolved) and too many pages with not enough content. This revamp not only addressed these problems but updated several key parts of the website and reorganized information to be more easily found, with less clicks from the user. It also worked to incorporate the blog and twitter schemes. We are still in the process of fixing and cleaning things up but here are some things to look for: Twitter and Blog feeds on the homepage, new work in the galleries which have been remade with the new Pirobox V1.2 behind it, a new contact form with customized captcha security image using a font matching the site graphics, a better structure where most of the information is broken into tabs on the 5 main pages. As usual this site serves as a testing ground for new ideas, new tricks, new layouts and is constantly going to be edited, updated, changed and tweaked. Be on the lookout for modifications to the gallery system, new pieces in the portfolio, a reprogrammed version of the project request form and much much more!

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