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THE OTTAWA FREEDOM CONVOY OCCUPATION: A LOCAL ANARCHIST PERSPECTIVE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 24, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, International, Interviews, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Protestors at the Ottawa Freedom Convoy Occupation. Photo by Ana Krach, Ottawa Graphics via Pixabay. Standard Pixabay License. Free for commercial use. No attribution required.

Interview with the Punch Up Collective

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, International, Interviews, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: anarchism, anarchist, Apparent Horizon, blockade, Canada, Column, convoy, Democracy, Democratic Party, Emergencies Act, far-right, fascism, Freedom Convoy, hard right, insurrection, international, Interview, Jan 6, Jason Pramas, left wing, Liberal Party, military, occupation, Ottawa, Police, Politics, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Protest, Punch Up Collective, racism, racist, right wing, truck, trucker, United States, usa, white supremacy

HOPING FOR A ‘HOT SPRING’

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 21, 2022 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

"Hoping for a Hot Spring." Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

If we want to live in a democracy, we all have to take to the streets … and stay there

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: abortion, anti-racism, Apparent Horizon, Attorney General Maura Healey, Boston, Column, contingent work, coronavirus, COVID19, debt, Democracy, Democratic Party, DoorDash, evangelical, gig work, Healthcare, Instacart, Jason Pramas, loan, Lyft, Massachusetts, Medicare for All, middle class, military, Peace, Politics, President Joe Biden, Protest, public health, racism, Republican Party, Russia, student, Uber, Ukraine, United States, voting rights, war, Women, worker, working class

EZMERAI AHMADI: A PERSONAL UPDATE ON AFGHANISTAN

Written by TRACY BINDEL Posted September 1, 2021 Filed Under: Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Photos

The coffins of Ezmerai Ahmadi and his family at their funeral. Photo by an Afghani present at the funeral.

An American mourns the life of a close friend taken by one of the final US drone strikes of a senseless 20-year war

Filed Under: Letters, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed, Photos Tagged With: afghanistan, America, attack, blessing, death, drone, eulogy, Family, friend, Innocent, Kabul, memorial, military, Peace, revolution, Taliban, US, victim, war

ELECTIONS DON’T SOLVE EVERYTHING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 2, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

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Push the US govt. to sign the nuclear weapons ban treaty. No matter which party wins this week.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, ban, Column, Democracy, Honduras, ICANW, international, International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, Jamaica, Jason Pramas, military, Nauru, news, nuclear weapon, nuke, policy, Politics, treaty, Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, UN, united nations, usa

MIT’S COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER HAS HIS OWN CIVILIAN DEATH TOLL

Written by SAUL TANNENBAUM Posted June 1, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

UT Chancellor William McRaven at LBJ Library CIA President's Daily Brief Release Event. LBJ Library photo by Gabriel Cristóver Pérez. Public Domain.

It was MIT’s Commencement Day Friday May 24, a bit of a surreal event for a campus that’s largely been evacuated due the COVID-19 pandemic. By all accounts, this virtual event was a tour de force, with technical gimmicks and congratulations sent from space. But it was also held in the shadow of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the ensuing protests.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: afghanistan, Black Lives Matter, civilian, commencement, George Floyd, military, MIT, opinion, Police, Rafael Reif, slider, violence, William McRaven

AS LONG AS POTUS ATTACKS TRANS TROOPS, AMERICA’S REAL WAR IS WITH ITSELF

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted January 29, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

If Trump had his way, he would militarily eradicate transgender people from existence.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: DADT, LGBTQ, military, transgender rights, Trump

MEMORIAL DAY NOTES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 31, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

Poor People's Campaign Memorial Day 2018 protest on Boston Common. Courtesy of the Poor People's Campaign.

 

Peace actions, Harvest Co-op needs help

 

So I’m writing on a holiday weekend that began with my joining DigBoston and Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism colleague Chris Faraone in having some fairly nasty ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coop, economy, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, military, news, nuclear weapons, Peace, Politics, Protest

ON MAKERSPACES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 19, 2017 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

Making can be cool, but conscious making is cooler

 

For many of us living in and around Boston in recent years, it has become common to see lots of communications from makerspaces around holiday time. Which is totally understandable. Such creative centers produce neat things year-round, so it’s only natural ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Art, Boston, Column, criticism, DARPA, drones, economy, holiday, Jason Pramas, maker, makerspace, making, Massachusetts, military, news, Peace, Pentagon, Politics, science, technology, war

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