Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation
HOW TO DEFEAT THE HARD RIGHT
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RECLOSE AMERICA: DON’T FOLLOW FASCISTS IN THE SERVICE OF WALL ST TO YOUR GRAVES
Do back politicians calling for immediate national living wage checks and Medicare for All
TOO MANY COPS
Some thoughts about last Saturday’s counterprotest
AFTER PITTSBURGH: HOW WE DEFEAT THE HARD RIGHT
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 ...
HERALD READERS RESPOND TO ANTIFA COVERAGE
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 ...
A NOTE OF APPRECIATION TO OUR GOOD FRIENDS AT THE NEW YORK TIMES…
The timing couldn’t have been better. No sooner did this publication release last week’s editorial announcing our “unnaming” policy ...
ANNOUNCING THE DIGBOSTON ‘UNNAMING’ POLICY
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 ...
LIVE FEED – BOSTON PROTESTS THE EXTREME RIGHT 8.19.17
A PROTEST BY ANY OTHER NAME…
The best way to defeat the ultra right is to stop playing their game
Street protest is a vital part of any genuinely democratic political system. But how and when people choose to demonstrate (or counterdemonstrate) determines the tactic’s relative success or failure. So in a situation like this week’s, when the ultra ...
