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Ann Pettifor: Does Greece Have a Tea Party? | Best Breaking News

April 26th, 2010

In other words, decisions about taxation, and how tax revenues should be spent. Back in 1765 Bostonians such as James Otis and Samuel Adams regarded “taxation without representation as a form of tyranny”. … While there have been protests and riots, it is not clear that Greece has the equivalent of a Boston Tea Party . Or, like Bostonians that Greeks will join with the Irish, the Portuguese and Spanish – whose autonomy is similarly threatened – to fight for independence. …

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Boston Tea Party December 16th, 1773 « The Family Party

December 16th, 2009

How much tea got dumped in the Boston Tea Party ? On this date in 1773, Bostonians emptied the holds of three tea-bearing British ships into Boston Harbor to protest the British tax on tea imported to the colonies. …

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The roar of the crowd (The Boston Phoenix)

September 29th, 2009

‘Opening Night at Symphony,’ Russell Sherman, the Discovery Ensemble, Boston Musica Viva, and the Bostonians I wasn’t there, but the opening-night dissatisfaction with the Met’s new Tosca was widely reported. BRAVOS AND A BOUQUET: Retiring BSO principal harpist Ann Hobson Pilot deserved both. Has the New Incivility reached the Metropolitan Opera, or have American opera lovers simply acquired …

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