Description: Hotel workers union Local 26 is not being permitted to protest against Boston Marathon sponsor and Back Bay Hilton owner, John Hancock, during the race. Start of the Boston Marathon. Interview with union leader Domenic Bozzotto. Hearing on the protesting. Several union protests. Footage from a John Hancock Boston Marathon commercial.
Description: Father Peter Conley, Boston Archdiocesan spokesman, defends Pilot's editorial opposing gay rights bill. He explains Church's stance against homosexuality. Anti-Catholic protesters. Altar boys.
Description: Gays father on State House steps to protest new policy virtually prohibiting placement of foster children in their custody, in favor of traditional family settings.
Description: Reaction to and explanation of self-immolation of Haitian man on State House steps as act of martyrdom in protest of repressive conditions in Haiti and US support of its military government.
Description: Soviet émigrée (to Israel) Dorina Paritsky comes to Boston to rally political support for her refusenik parents, repeatedly denied exit visas for unknown reason.