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‘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

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

HOW TO DEFEAT THE HARD RIGHT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 12, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, Democracy in Crisis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Hard right wingers casually tour the Capitol during last week's attack. Via C-SPAN.

Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, Democracy in Crisis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: antifa, Apparent Horizon, attack, Boston, Capitol, Column, conspiracy, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Democrat, Election, epidemic, fascism, fascist, grassroots, hard right, human rights, Jason Pramas, MAGA, Massachusetts, militia, movement, nazi, Politics, popular, President Donald Trump, President-Elect Joe Biden, QAnon, racism, racist, Republican, right wing, Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ted Cruz, strategy, tactics, Vice President Mike Pence, 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

TOO MANY COPS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 3, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

BPD officers at 2017 counterprotest against the ultra right. Photo by Dan McCarthy. Modified by Jason Pramas.

Some thoughts about last Saturday’s counterprotest

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: anarchist, antifa, antifascist, Apparent Horizon, Black Lives Matter, Boston, BPD, BPPA, Column, cops, counterprotest, criticism, Democracy, fascist, First Amendment, free speech, Jason Pramas, justice, left wing, liberty, mayor Marty Walsh, nazi, Occupy, parade, Police, Protest, ultra right, white supremacist

AFTER PITTSBURGH: HOW WE DEFEAT THE HARD RIGHT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted October 31, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

In August 2017, over 40,000 Bostonians marched on Boston Common to tell a small gaggle of nearly incoherent hard-right louts that they were not welcome in our city. Especially in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that resulted in the ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, education, fascist, hard right, hate, how-to, Jason Pramas, Jewish, killing, left, mobilization, nazi, Never Again, organizing, Pittsburgh, Politics, primer, Protest, shooting, Tree of Life Synagogue, white supremacist

HERALD READERS RESPOND TO ANTIFA COVERAGE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 21, 2018 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Antifascist Action symbol circa 1932. designed by Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists members Max Keilson and Max Gebhard.

 

Spoiler alert: anti-nazis are somehow nazis

 

On Saturday, a few hundred left-wing activists showed up to protest a tiny ultra-right wing protest ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: analysis, antifa, article, Boston, Boston Herald, communism, communist, counterprotest, Democracy, DigBoston, fascism, fascist, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, media, nazi, nazism, Politics, Protest, socialism, socialist, usa

A NOTE OF APPRECIATION TO OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES…

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 28, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

“The New York Times” by aldwinumali is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0,

 

The timing couldn’t have been better. No sooner did this publication release last week’s editorial announcing our “unnaming” policy ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: criticism, DigBoston, editorial, ethics, fascist, Jason Pramas, Journalism, nazi, New York Times, policy, ultra right, unnaming, white supremacy

ANNOUNCING THE DIGBOSTON  ‘UNNAMING’ POLICY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 21, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

Doing our part to shut down the ultra right

 

As journalists, my DigBoston colleagues and I have a responsibility to do our best to cover news of the day fairly and accurately. And that’s based on our abiding belief in ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, ethics, fascist, freedom, human rights, Jason Pramas, Journalism, nazi, news, policy, press, reactionary, rights, social justice, ultra right, unnaming, white supremacy

LIVE FEED – BOSTON PROTESTS THE EXTREME RIGHT 8.19.17

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 19, 2017 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

Boston Protests the Extreme Right 8.19.17


Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, counterprotest, fascist, free speech, hate, live feed, march, nazi, news, Protest, right, right wing

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