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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

EZMERAI AHMADI: A PERSONAL UPDATE ON AFGHANISTAN

Written by TRACY BINDEL Posted September 1, 2021 Filed Under: Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Photos

The coffins of Ezmerai Ahmadi and his family at their funeral. Photo by an Afghani present at the funeral.

An American mourns the life of a close friend taken by one of the final US drone strikes of a senseless 20-year war

Filed Under: Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Photos Tagged With: afghanistan, America, attack, blessing, death, drone, eulogy, Family, friend, Innocent, Kabul, memorial, military, Peace, revolution, Taliban, US, victim, war

ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, CASSANDRA

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 26, 2021 Filed Under: COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Still from the film Homo Sapiens (2016). Image courtesy of Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion GmbH.

Human unwillingness to surmount the pandemic means it’s unlikely we will stop global warming

Filed Under: COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, carbon emissions, civilization, Climate Change, Column, coronavirus, COVID, Delta, Democracy, Environment, fate, Film, global warming, Health, heat dome, Homo Sapiens, humanity, International Energy Agency, Jason Pramas, mask, Massachusetts, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, pandemic, Politics, usa, vaccine

ONE AUTHOR’S BOSTON DIVE INTO AMERICA’S FIRST TRIAL

Written by RICH TENORIO Posted May 19, 2021 Filed Under: Books

“From everything I’ve seen, it was the first … trial of the century.”

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: America, Book, Boston, law trial

CONNECTING THE DOTS: FROM THE INDIAN FARMERS’ UPRISING TO THE EFFECT NEOLIBERALISM HAS HAD GLOBALLY

Written by SONIKA GILL Posted March 5, 2021 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics

Himachal-Pradesh-6-by-CIAT-International-Center-for-Tropical-Agriculture-is-licensed-with-CC-BY-SA-2.0

Is their struggle a global concern?

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Politics Tagged With: America, Democracy, farmer, globalization, India!, MSP, neoliberalism, Protest, union, uprising, usa

GOING ONLINE: NO REPLACEMENT FOR INTERACTION IN REAL TIME

Written by MITA KATARIA Posted May 30, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, COVID, FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Roxie Zwicker. Photo courtesy of New England Curiosities.

New England Cultural Organizations Struggle to Survive in an Age of Social Distancing

Filed Under: A+E, COVID, FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, arts, Boston, coronavirus, COVID-19, culture, feature, Massachusetts, new england, New Hampshire, news, online, pandemic, Portsmouth, slider, streaming, usa, Video, Zoom

DEATH THREAT AGAINST MASS POLITICIAN IS A BAD SIGN

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 20, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

flowers in gun white on black

Should violence replace political debate, democracy could end

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, death threat, Debate, Democracy, dialogue, extremism, extremist, guns, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, Rep. Mike Connolly, slider, United States, violence

RECLOSE AMERICA: DON’T FOLLOW FASCISTS IN THE SERVICE OF WALL ST TO YOUR GRAVES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 29, 2020 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

image with President Trump surrounded by quotes about right-wing protests to end coronavirus stay at home orders

Do back politicians calling for immediate national living wage checks and Medicare for All

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Bernie Sanders, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, DigBoston, fascist, hard right, Health, Jason Pramas, Koch, labor, Medicare for All, middle class, nazi, news analysis, pandemic, Paycheck Security Act, Protest, public health, Reopen America, right wing, slider, stay at home, United States, Wall St, white supremacist, worker, working class

INTERVIEW: CHASE WHITESIDE

Written by JAKE MULLIGAN Posted February 10, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, Film

Chase Whiteside is an American nonfiction filmmaker who recently co-directed, co-produced and co-edited his feature debut, América (2018), in collaboration with fellow director/producer/editor ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Film Tagged With: America, Chase Whiteside, The DocYard

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