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REVISITING FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted February 19, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, Op-Ed

If Spicer was telling the truth last year, and the Trump administration wants to highlight Douglass’s invaluable contribution to American history, they should start with his historic 1852 speech.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, Op-Ed Tagged With: black history month, Boston, Charlottesville, Frederick Douglass, Trump

THE REAL RESISTANCE: FINDING THE HEROES IN THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST FASCISM

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted November 21, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Democracy in Crisis, NEWS+OPINIONS

Like American Nazis, the Golden Dawn fascists claim they are being prosecuted for their ideas—“free speech,” as Richard Spencer and his racist comrades have put it.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Democracy in Crisis, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alt right, American Nazis, Baynard Woods, Charlottesville, Democracy in Crisis, Golden Dawn, Heather Heyer, neo-Nazi

HERE’S THAT HISTORY LESSON JOHN KELLY NEEDS

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted November 9, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Kelly’s remark is also a false equivalence.  And in the most odious way, because it minimizes the moral turpitude of the Confederacy’s dogged and “by any means necessary” drive to make chattel slavery endure as a central pillar to their Southern way of life.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Charlottesville, Civil War, Donald Trump, Emancipation Proclamation, John Kelly

SPECIAL FEATURE: WHAT RHYMES WITH ORANGE?

Written by DIG STAFF Posted October 29, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

The most seething presidential protest songs in all the land that you should hear but probably haven’t

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: and DJ Shotgun, and TLow, Boston, Charlottesville, Dooley, J. Blacco, Keith Morris, Lingua Franca, Lonely Horse, Lor Roger, Lost Firstborne, Mal Jones, Michael Bone, OG Swaggerdick, protest songs, STL GLD, The Perceptionists, Thunderfist, Trombone Shorty and Dumpstaphunk, Trump, Trump protest songs, Trump songs, Virginia

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted October 16, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Now that we know that Yiannopoulos actually sent “his” Breitbart stories (which were actually often not written by him) to Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, who works at the Daily Stormer, the bridge phenomenon comes off a bit differently.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer, Breitbart, Charlottesville, Daily Stormer, Donald Trump, Hylton, Michael Peroutka, Nenkler, Yiannopoulos

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: WHERE THE HECK IS KEKISTAN?

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted September 25, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

How have Pepe-posting meme warriors responded to real violence?

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: 2016, alt right, Baynard Woods, Boys Club, Charlottesville, Dale Beran, Democracy in Crisis, Donald Trump, Great Meme War, hackers, Kekistan, Matt Furie, meme, Pepe the Frog, Richard Spencer, trolls

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: ‘THEY WORK FOR ME’

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted September 25, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Check out what this US Park Police officer said about militia members at a far-right rally in DC

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Charlottesville, DC, Democracy in Crisis, Donald Trump, far-right, militia, Mother of All Rallies, Washington DC

AMERICAN BANDSTAND: A CALL ‘TO BETTER BALANCE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WITH SECURITY NEEDS’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 28, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Among the many to weigh in on these issues, the New England First Amendment Coalition (NEFAC) has released a compelling statement... It’s on the money, and so informative and forward-looking that we thought it was our duty to excerpt it here...

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alt right, antifa, Ayanna Pressley, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston City Hall, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Common, C-Ville, Charlie Baker, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Fight Supremacy! Boston Counter-Protest & Resistance Rally, First Amendment, Klan rally, MAGA, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, Monica Cannon, nazis, NEFAC, New England First Amendment Coalition, racists, Reggie Lewis Center, Rod Webber, Roxbury, solidarity, Stand for Solidarity, Unite the Right, violence, Violence in Boston

DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: THE CENTER CANNOT HOLD

Written by BAYNARD WOODS Posted August 28, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

The line connecting Yeats to Didion to us: The center cannot hold. The election should have shown us that clearly. The majority lost and we elected an authoritarian entirely uninterested in compromise.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alt right, antifa, Baynard Woods, Black Lives Matter, C-Ville, Charlottesville, Democracy in Crisis, Donald Trump, Klan rally, MAGA, nazis, racists, Unite the Right, violence

HOW THE MEDIA FOLLOWED TRUMP IN COVERING #FIGHTSUPREMACY

Written by CHRIS FARAONE Posted August 25, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm

Commercial media needed to pin a medal on somebody, and that person wasn’t going to come from any of the many groups that peaceably managed tens of thousands of people.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm Tagged With: alt right, antifa, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston Common, C-Ville, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, John Medlar, Klan rally, MAGA, Massachusetts, nazis, northampton, racists, rally, Unite the Right, violence

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