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BACKGROUND, RESIDENCE AT ISSUE IN SOMERVILLE RACE FOR OPEN HOUSE SEAT

Written by ZACK HUFFMAN Posted June 24, 2020 Filed Under: Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Candidates Erika Uyterhoeven and Catia Sharp.

Katie Wallace is a veteran local campaign organizer who met with each of the candidates shortly after they entered the race. After making the rounds, Wallace said, “I felt confused about some of the things that Erika said that did not make sense to me. I felt that she was not being transparent.”

Filed Under: Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Catia Sharp, controversy, democratic socialist, Election, Erika Uyterhoeven, left, Massachusetts, news, Politics, progressive, slider, SOMERVILLE, State House

THE RIGHT QUESTION FOR THE BROAD LEFT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted July 2, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

On July 5, start asking the Democrats, “What policies will help working families?”

 

The patriotic season is upon us. With it comes the arrival of the 2020 presidential race—far too early, in my estimation. Which in turn tends to generate conservative political ripples all the way down to the local level in the service of “winning” ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, anarchist, Apparent Horizon, Boston, capitalism, City Councilor Michelle Wu, Column, communist, corporations, Democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, Environment, Gov Charlie Baker, Green Party, Jason Pramas, July 4, July 5, left, left wing, Massachusetts, Politics, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ayanna Pressley, Rep. Mike Connolly, Republican Party, Republicans, right, right wing, socialist, usa

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

A PROTEST BY ANY OTHER NAME…

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted August 15, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

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 ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, Apparent Horizon, Boston, commentary, criticism, fascism, fascist, left, Massachusetts, nazi, Politics, Protest, public, right, socialist, strategy

LIFE ON THE LEFT BANK: CAMBRIDGE CITIZENS FOR SMOKERS’ RIGHTS

Written by PETER PAUL PAYACK Posted January 4, 2015 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: bank, Cambridge, citizens, left, Life, peter paul payak, rights, smokers

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