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AUTONOMOUS SOURCES: BOSTON’S YOUTH ORGANIZERS RETHINK VOLUNTEERING, POLITICAL ACTIVITY

Written by CATHERINE HURLEY Posted July 1, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

“We feel that her policies represent us, but we’re ready to speak our mind if we feel that she needs to change.”

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: michelle wu, organizing, Politics, volunteer, Youth

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

SOLIDARITY BUILDING, COVID-19, AND FRONTLINE WORKERS

Written by JYOTI SINHA Posted July 12, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

The mission of building solidarity within the South Asian community is akin to other movements such as Black Lives Matter. How can we learn from them in order to connect our own community? For many South Asians committed to fighting state violence against Black people, it is clear that our work in being allies relies on undoing anti-Black ideologies within our own communities.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, Massachusetts, Op-Ed, opinion, organizing, slider, South Asian, working class

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

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

UNWILLING CONVERTS: SOMERVILLE’S LARGEST CONDO GRAB IN HISTORY YIELDS RELATIVE TENANT WIN IN TENSE MARKET

Written by ROB KATZ Posted March 28, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

“We have to recognize, you know, people enter the building renting because the circumstances mean that renting is what works for them ... I think we have to have protections and safeguards to allow those individuals to continue getting the benefits they’re entitled to.”

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: building, condos, Curtatone, development, displacement, gentrification, Housing, organizing, SOMERVILLE, tenants, zoning

BLOOD SUCKERS: CALL CENTER WORKERS BATTLE ABUSIVE CUSTOMERS, MANAGERS, BEDBUGS

Written by EOIN HIGGINS Posted November 28, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

This time, it was an infestation in the company’s third- and fourth-floor call centers at 294 Washington St in Downtown Crossing. The bed bugs issue, which has reportedly been a problem since April and continues to plague the company’s Boston offices, was the tipping point for SimpliSafe workers.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: bedbugs, conservative radio, conservative television, harassment, labor, organizing, SimpliSafe, unions, workers

UNIVERSALIZING RESISTANCE

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 5, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Books

A Q+A with BC sociology professor Charles Derber on his new book

 

Why did you decide to publish a book on “universalizing resistance” at this particular moment in history?

Because our survival is at stake. Universalizing resistance is a path toward dismantling the militarized capitalism before it wipes us all out. Climate ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Books Tagged With: Book, Boston College, Charles Derber, Jason Pramas, justice, left wing, organizing, Politics, resistance, review, social movement, sociology

GUEST COLUMN: ‘THIS LABOR DAY I’M GOING ON STRIKE…’

Written by CHRISTINA BARNES Posted August 31, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

'I work two jobs not by choice but because I don’t receive enough hours at either job to cover my basic needs to support my family. With each paycheck that I earn I have to stretch.'

Filed Under: COLUMNS, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Fast Food, Fight For 15, labor day, McDonald's, minimum wage, organizing, union, unions

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