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ART AS ACTIVISM: A CONVERSATION WITH NELSON MAKAMO

Written by SHIRA LAUCHAROEN Posted December 4, 2021 Filed Under: A+E

"Art is one of the things that doesn’t choose the audience: the audience chooses it."

Filed Under: A+E Tagged With: Activism, African studies, Art, discussion, Harvard University

HARVARD AND MIT MUST HELP THEIR WORKERS AND AREA HOMELESS NOW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 22, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Cambridge, Column, contractor, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, economy, employee, endowment, Harvard University, higher education, Homeless, Jason Pramas, L. Rafael Reif, labor, Larry Bacow, layoff, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, news analysis, pandemic, power, public, Shelter, slider, student, wealth, worker

CAMBRIDGE PLAN TO WAREHOUSE HOMELESS COULD SPARK COVID OUTBREAK

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 10, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

A Dorm on Harvard Yard. Photo by greger.ravik.

City Council, Gov. Baker have the power to force universities—Harvard, MIT, and Lesley—and hotels to provide better alternatives

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Cambridge, Cambridge MA, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, epidemic, Harvard University, Health, Homeless, Housing, Jason Pramas, Lesley University, Massachusetts, MIT, policy, Politics, public health, Shelter, slider, suffolk university

DEESCALATING THE HARVARD CRIMSON BOYCOTT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 13, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Screenshot collage by Jason Pramas

 

 

Alternatives for feuding student immigrant advocates and journalists

 

As someone who has been both a journalist and a left-wing political activist for a long time, I suppose it’s inevitable that I would feel the need to weigh in on a debate currently raging between Harvard immigrant advocates and the independent Harvard ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Act on a Dream, activist, Apparent Horizon, boston university, Boycott, bu exposure, Column, Daily Free Press, Democracy, DigBoston, First Amendment, Harvard University, ice, immigrant, Jason Pramas, Journalism, student newspaper, the Crimson

PROPOSED STATE JOURNALISM COMMISSION NEEDS BROADER MEMBERSHIP

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted March 20, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Sandstorm State House collage by Jason Pramas

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: bad jobs, boston university, capitalism, Column, commission, contingent work, Democracy, economy, emerson college, Framingham State University, Harvard University, Jason Pramas, Journalism, journalism commission, labor, Massachusetts, neoliberal, news, news desert, NewsGuild-Communication Workers of America, newspaper, Nieman Foundation, Northeastern University, Politics, Rep. Jim Hawkins, Rep. Lori Ehrlich, SAG-AFTRA, Sen. Brendan Crighton, Shorenstein Center, socialism, state government, UMass Amherst

NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted November 29, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

 

Nine Moments for Now at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art

 

Outside, in a street-level window, set a bit back from the entrance, are five Karmimadeebora McMillan pieces, all collages and paint on wood. Four of the five pieces are part of McMillan’s Ms Merri Mack series. These reworked echoes of racist lawn ornaments, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: african american, Art, Cambridge, Carrie Mae Weems, Cooper Gallery, Dell Hamilton, exhibition, Harvard University

VOTE NO! HARVARD CLERICAL UNION REP CRITICIZES UNION’S CONTRACT PROPOSAL

Written by GEOFF CARENS Posted November 27, 2018 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Image via HUCTW Instagram account

 

Harvard University is one of the largest employers ...  read more

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: contract, criticism, Harvard University, higher ed, HUCTW, labor, Op-Ed, opinion, union

ALLSTON CALLING: WITH GREAT CHANGE COMES GREAT PROS AND CONS

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted June 3, 2016 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

It's cool Boston Calling will take over Harvard's backyard in 2017, but should you be excited about it?

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2016, 2017, Allston, Boston, boston calling, Dig, DigBoston, Harvard University, Memorial Day Weekend, Music, Music Festival, Natalie Portman, Notes From the Scene

YOU CALL THIS ARCHAEOLOGY?: HARVARD PROFESSOR SCHOOLS INDIANA JONES

Written by KRISTOFER JENSON Posted November 20, 2014 Filed Under: Film

“There’s definitely this ambivalence [among archaeologists] toward the character specifically, but it’s mediated a little bit by the fact that most archaeologists—at least who are in their younger-than-fifties or maybe even younger than their sixties—experienced Indiana Jones at an early age, probably before they were professional archaeologists.”

Filed Under: Film Tagged With: archaeology, Belloq, Brattle, Dig Boston, DigBoston, Dr. Rowan Flad, films, Harvard University, Indiana Jones, Raiders, Raiders of the Lost Ark

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