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YOU FIRST: A RESPONSE TO BPD’S APPARENT THREAT TO STUDENT PROTESTERS

Written by HEIDY SALAMA Posted October 6, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS

"The BPD threat in play is, frankly, nothing less than an insidious and blatant attempt to scare and silence young activists."

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Boston colleges, Boston Police Department, free speech

A CIVIL DISCUSSION IN AN UNCIVILIZED WORLD

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted December 15, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

McDowell wondered if the guys had a right to speak like that on a train “where people didn’t choose to be in that space for that sort of speech.”

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: Cambridge, CCTV, First Amendment, free speech, Irene Monroe, Trump

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.

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

‘I CAN’T HANG THEM WITHOUT THEIR WORDS’

Written by SARAH BETANCOURT Posted November 20, 2017 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

BPD arbitrarily blocks press access throughout controversial demonstration

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: ACLU, Boston Common, Boston free speech rally, BPD, Commissioner William Evans, Fight Supremacy, First Amendment, free speech, Marty Walsh, Parkman Bandstand, protests, Society of Professional Journalists

THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 22, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

 

Photo by Kori Feener

 

Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right

 

Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: Boston Police Department, BPD Commissioner Evans, civil liberties, Democracy, free speech, government, left wing, Mass State Police, mayor Marty Walsh, police brutality, Protest, right wing, riot cops, shitposter, social justice, ultra right

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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