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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

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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

HOW TO SEND HUMANITARIAN AID TO UKRAINE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 1, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Humanitarian Aid in Donetsk, 2015. UNICEF Ukraine from Kyiv, Ukraine, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Please share this information widely

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, charity, children, Column, crisis, Democracy, Food, Health, humanitarian aid, international, Jason Pramas, refugee, Ukraine, Water

THE OTTAWA FREEDOM CONVOY OCCUPATION: A LOCAL ANARCHIST PERSPECTIVE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 24, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, International, Interviews, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Protestors at the Ottawa Freedom Convoy Occupation. Photo by Ana Krach, Ottawa Graphics via Pixabay. Standard Pixabay License. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

Interview with the Punch Up Collective

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, International, Interviews, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: anarchism, anarchist, Apparent Horizon, blockade, Canada, Column, convoy, Democracy, Democratic Party, Emergencies Act, far-right, fascism, Freedom Convoy, hard right, insurrection, international, Interview, Jan 6, Jason Pramas, left wing, Liberal Party, military, occupation, Ottawa, Police, Politics, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Protest, Punch Up Collective, racism, racist, right wing, truck, trucker, United States, usa, white supremacy

HOPING FOR A ‘HOT SPRING’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 21, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

"Hoping for a Hot Spring." Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

If we want to live in a democracy, we all have to take to the streets … and stay there

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: abortion, anti-racism, Apparent Horizon, Attorney General Maura Healey, Boston, Column, contingent work, coronavirus, COVID19, debt, Democracy, Democratic Party, DoorDash, evangelical, gig work, Healthcare, Instacart, Jason Pramas, loan, Lyft, Massachusetts, Medicare for All, middle class, military, Peace, Politics, President Joe Biden, Protest, public health, racism, Republican Party, Russia, student, Uber, Ukraine, United States, voting rights, war, Women, worker, working class

SOME SUBVERSIVE IDEOLOGIES NOT MENTIONED IN NH’S ORWELLIAN ‘TEACHER LOYALTY’ BILL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 7, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

"Head 3," CC-BY Son of Groucho. Photo of a statue in honor of assassinated Turkish investigative journalist Uğur Mumcu.

(Jackboots and torture and slaughter, oh my!)

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, children, Column, communism, Democracy, education, fascism, fascist, free speech, free thought, freedom, government, Jason Pramas, legislature, Libertarian, liberty, Marxism, nazism, New Hampshire, parents, public, racism, racist, Republican, socialism, student, teacher, white supremacy

SUPPORT THE BOSTON HASSLE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 24, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston Hassle fundraising image

Help our colleagues continue to produce great arts journalism

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, arts, Boston, Boston Hassle, Column, community, Democracy, donate, fundraising, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, reporting, solidarity

BINJ HOLIDAY FUNDRAISER A SUCCESS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 13, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

BINJ 2021 Holiday Fundraiser a Success!

Raised over $40,000 thanks to our many supporters–and the work of our staff, board, journalists, and volunteers

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Column, crowdfund, Democracy, fundraiser, givetobinj.org, INN, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, member drive, Miami Foundation, NewsMatch, Somerville Live Wire, Somerville Media Center, Somerville Wire

IN 2022, GIVE SCIENTISTS SOME LOVE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 27, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"Biotechnology Research" by Idaho National Laboratory is licensed under CC BY 2.0

We can criticize the institutions that employ them without dismissing their vital work

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, biotech, Boston, Column, coronavirus, corporation, COVID-19, Democracy, holiday, holidays, humanity, J&J, Jason Pramas, Johnson & Johnson, love, Massachusetts, medcine, Moderna, new year, Omicron, pandemic, Pfizer, pharma, pharmaceutifcal, research, SARS-CoV-2, science, scientist, usa, vaccine

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