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BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 14, 2023 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston University student anti-apartheid protestors in 1986. Photo of 2010 scan of a page from the April 30, 1986 edition of the Daily Free Press by Jason Pramas. Original Daily Free Press photo by Paul Callard.

And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986

Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and is giving a talk about him at BU today.

Her article paints a picture ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: anti-apartheid movement, apartheid, Apparent Horizon, boston university, college, Column, Constitution, criticism, Divestment, free speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, Jason Pramas, John Silber, justice, Protest, Rachel Silber Devlin, south africa, student

The Globe Still Needs to Apologize for Cheerleading the GE Boston Deal

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 23, 2022 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave ... ." Effects by Jason Pramas on a selection from a photo by Chris Faraone. Copyright 2022 Chris Faraone and Jason Pramas.

As the one-time corporate behemoth slinks away from the chaos it created in the Bay State (yet again)

While my DigBoston and BINJ colleagues and I do occasionally skewer the Boston Globe ...  read more

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston, Boston Globe, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Brian McGrory, Column, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, flack, GE Boston Deal, General Electric, Globe, Jason Pramas, Jon Chesto, Journalism, marketing, Massachusetts, newspaper, PR, propaganda, Shirley Leung

For the Latest Pandemic Info, Check Out the ‘People’s CDC’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 23, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"No, the pandemic is not over." Collage by Jason Pramas, CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0.--using "Joe Biden" by Gage Skidmore, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

Grassroots network of researchers and frontline medical workers publicizes hard data on the ongoing coronavirus crisis; encourages political activism for science-based public health policy

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, America, Apparent Horizon, Column, coronavirus, COVID, Democracy, grassroots, Health, Jason Pramas, mask, medicine, pandemic, People's CDC, public health, research, science, United States, vaccination, vaccine

Biden’s Student Loan Debt Cancellation Is a Real Victory for Working Families

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 25, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Image by Jason Pramas

Now we need to debunk Republican propaganda claiming the opposite and move on to win real higher-education reform

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: America, analysis, Apparent Horizon, Column, corporation, debt cancellation, Democracy, Democrat, federal, government, higher education, Jason Pramas, President Joe Biden, public, reform, Republican, strategy, student loan, taxes, US, usa, working class, working families

Share and Share Alike: Major Funders Need to Give Equally to All Nonprofit News Outlets

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 29, 2022 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“Pie” by Eric Ferdinand is licensed under CC-BY 2.0

Because the current practice of “every outlet for itself” is absolutely failing to rebuild local news in the US

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, corporation, criticism, Democracy, foundation, funding, giving, government, Jason Pramas, Journalism, news, nonprofit, strategy

ALERT: Mass. Legislature Needs to Extend Tax Rebate to the Working Poor

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 12, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Collage by Jason Pramas. CC-BY-SA 2022 Jason Pramas. Image "MASS state house" by christopdesoto is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

The proposed $38,000 income floor for $250 checks is unfair during the ongoing economic crisis, contact your legislators today to demand they vote to eliminate it

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, Democracy, fairness, government, Jason Pramas, legislature, Massachusetts, rebate, Rep. Mike Connolly, Rep. Ronald Mariano, Rep. Tami Gouveia, Sen. Karen Spilka, tax, working families, working poor

‘Cloudy With a Chance of Fascists’: Boston needs a hard right alert system

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 8, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Collage by Jason Pramas, CC-BY 2.0. "Alarm Clock 2" image by Alan Cleaver is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. "File:Map of Boston and Cambridge.png" image by OpenStreetMap contributors is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

And people ready to nonviolently counterdemonstrate at a moment’s notice

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: alarm, alert, analysis, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, counterdemonstrate, counterdemonstration, criticism, Democracy, early warning, fascism, fascist, hard right, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Protest, ultra right, US, usa

Why This Pit Kid Is Not Going to ‘Pit-A-Palooza’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 23, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

I just can’t attend an event run by people that have helped kill everything that made Cambridge special

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: analysis, Apparent Horizon, Art, Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Column, criticism, culture, Democracy, Denise Jillson, East Cambridge Courthouse, Harvard Square Business Association, Homeless, Housing, Jason Pramas, Marc McGovern, Massachusetts, pit kid, Pit-A-Palooza, rent control, unhoused, Youth

Lack of Debate Most Disturbing Aspect of Mass Congressional Delegation’s Ukraine Vote

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 8, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

United States House of Representatives chamber at the United States Capitol in Washington, DC. 27 February 2017. Photo by United States House of Representatives. Public Domain.

Bay State reps and senators support providing $40 billion in mostly military aid on the quiet, risking nuclear war alongside accelerating economic crises at home and abroad

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: $40 billion, aid, analysis, Apparent Horizon, Column, Congress, criticism, delegation, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, humanitarian, intelligence, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, military, Pres. Joe Biden, Rep Stephen Lynch, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Bill Keating, Rep. Jake Auchincloss, Rep. Jim McGovern, Rep. Katherine Clark, Rep. Richard Neal, Rep. Seth Moulton, Russia, Sen. Ed Markey, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Ukraine, vote, weapons

MEDIA CONSOLIDATION ACCELERATES IN SOMERVILLE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 22, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Prototype "Medville Transnal" front page. Collage by Jason Pramas.

Gannett merges its Somerville Journal and Medford Transcript newspapers as BINJ’s Somerville News Garden project and the Somerville Media Center launch a new municipal foundation to fund local journalism

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, consolidation, Democracy, editorial, Gannett, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Medford Transcript, media, multinational, news, newspaper, Somerville Journal, Somerville News Garden, Somerville Wire

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