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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

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING KEY TO PASSING JOURNALISM COMMISSION LAW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 7, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Laura Kiesel and Jordan Frias testify at the second journalism commission hearing, July 10, 2019. Photo courtesy of Sarah Betancourt.

Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Cambridge Day, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Free Press, grassroots, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, journalist, law, legislature, lobbying, Massachusetts, policy, Politics, Rep. Ed Coppinger, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Robert DeLeo, Sen. Brendan Crighton, Society of Professional Journalists

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

CALL YOUR MA STATE SENATOR TODAY TO HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 4, 2020 Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update

"Boston -Massachusetts State House" by ajay_suresh is licensed under CC BY 2.0

[W]e’re asking all journalists, journalism educators, journalism students, media reform activists, and DigBoston readers who agree that the state journalism commission should be created to call your Mass state senator today and ask him/her to tell Sens. Eric Lesser (D - Longmeadow), Michael Rodrigues (D - Somerset), and Patrick O'Connor (D - Weymouth), who are on the conference committee, to keep the journalism commission in the final economic development bill.

Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Faraone, community, Democracy, DigBoston, editorial, engagement, grassroots, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, legislation, local news, local newspaper, news media, newspaper, organizing, Rep. Ed Coppinger, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, Sen. Brendan Crighton, slider

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 26, 2020 Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update

Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth. 

Filed Under: Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Update Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Faraone, community, Democracy, DigBoston, editorial, engagement, grassroots, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, legislation, local news, local newspaper, news media, newspaper, organizing, slider

SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN HOLDS FIRST PUBLIC EVENT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 6, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

Lynne Doncaster addresses crowd at Somerville News Garden event. Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian.

 

Seeks more participation from Somerville residents

 

It has been nine months since DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism partnered with the  ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, community, Democracy, DigBoston, editorial, engagement, grassroots, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, news, organizing, SOMERVILLE, Somerville Media Center, Somerville News Garden

HOW TO FIND A DECENT PROGRESSIVE ACTIVIST GROUP

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 6, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

What issues are most important to you? Do you want to take on a big fight like getting Trump and his rogue’s gallery of white nationalists out of power?

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Direct action, Donald Trump, grassroots, Jason Pramas, organizing, progressive, Women's March

GUEST OP-ED: LOUD MAJORITY

Written by DIG STAFF Posted January 16, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Fighting for civil rights before, during, and after Inauguration Day

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, DC, Democrats, Donald Trump, Drug War, Elizabeth Warren, grassroots, Inauguration, January 20, January 21, neoliberalism, New York, POTUS, protests, Republicans, Washington DC, Women's March

TEMPORARY RADICALS? DISAFFECTED DEMS NEED TO STAY IN THE STREETS AFTER THE GOP MENACE IS BEATEN BACK

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 27, 2016 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

As long as the new Republican administration remains somewhere within the bounds of traditional American politics, there is a lot of room for the full panoply of transformative social movements to maneuver.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, DC, Democrats, Donald Trump, Drug War, Elizabeth Warren, grassroots, neoliberalism, New York, POTUS, protests, Republicans

MASSROOTS: THE RELATIVELY SHORT BUT NONETHELESS INSPIRATIONAL HISTORY OF BOSTON FOR BERNIE

Written by PATRICK COCHRAN Posted July 27, 2016 Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction, Specials

'This was before the first 10,000-person rally, this was before the first 5,000-person rally, this was before the first rally.'

Filed Under: FEATURES, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction, Specials Tagged With: #mapoli, Activism, Bernie Sanders, Boston 4 Bernie, Boston For Bernie, Democrats, DNC, Feel The Bern, grassroots, Hillary Clinton, history, Keene, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Philadelphia, socialism

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