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EDITORIAL: DIGBOSTON SUSPENDING PRINT EDITION, GOING DIGITAL-ONLY (AGAIN)

Written by CHRIS FARAONE, JOHN LOFTUS, AND JASON PRAMAS Posted April 19, 2022 Filed Under: COVID, Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

DigBoston box among the boxes of defunct newspapers in Union Square, Somerville, Mass. Photo by Jason Pramas. Copyright 2022 Jason Pramas.

But with your support we can bounce back fast!

Filed Under: COVID, Editorial, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: business, Chris Faraone, coronavirus, COVID-19, crisis, criticism, DigBoston, digital-only, donation, economy, editorial, EIDL, fundraising, government, help, investment, Jason Pramas, John Loftus, Journalism, loan, media, news, newspaper, pandemic, PPP, print, small business, solidarity, support

SUPPORT THE BOSTON HASSLE

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

Boston Hassle fundraising image

Help our colleagues continue to produce great arts journalism

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, arts, Boston, Boston Hassle, Column, community, Democracy, donate, fundraising, Jason Pramas, Journalism, Massachusetts, reporting, solidarity

IN SOME COMMUNITIES, THE SOCIAL BARRIERS TO ACCEPTING AID ARE REAL

Written by JYOTI SINHA Posted June 17, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

"Food Donation-2-19-2012" by Tonyx035 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

By accepting aid from the food drive, people feel their class status is visible and for some men, their masculinity is exposed and denigrated. People are more vulnerable to feeling ashamed and disgraced as they may be incapable of taking care of their family during the pandemic. In the face of shame, one may feel trapped, powerless and isolated.

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: Boston, classism, food drive, masculinity, Massachusetts, mutual aid, psychology, slider, solidarity, South Asian, South Asian Workers' Center, support group, well being, Wellness

EDITORIAL: WE STAND FOR DEMOCRACY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted June 4, 2020 Filed Under: Democracy in Crisis, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS

Lars Prip's Vietnam War Flag. Courtesy No Drones Wisconsin, nodroneswisconsin.blogspot.com/2012/11/no-drones-lars-explains-upside-down.html.

DigBoston newspaper will resist any attempt to impose martial law on the US

Filed Under: Democracy in Crisis, Editorial, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Democracy, DigBoston, editorial, Jason Pramas, Journalism, news martial law, Protest, racial justice, Resist, slider, solidarity

SOMERVILLE: THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS… AND NEW FRIENDS

Written by BILL SHELTON Posted April 5, 2020 Filed Under: COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Somerville power lines. Photo by Aaron Knox.

Plague Journal 1: It is at once a detailed narration of human dynamics within a quarantined and imperiled population, and a metaphor for the moral choices presented by human existence. For Camus, the plague is the human condition in which random death can be visited on any of us at any time, without reason, and regardless of our virtues.

Filed Under: COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, kindness, Massachusetts, mutual aid, slider, solidarity, SOMERVILLE

INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES ARE AN ESSENTIAL PART OF BOSTON

Written by ANNIE SANDOLI Posted April 2, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

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Help them fight COVID-19

Filed Under: COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: bookstore, coronavirus, COVID-19, Massachusetts, mutual aid, Op-Ed, opinion, Raven Used Books, slider, small business, solidarity

HOW DO YOU COUNTER A VIOLENT RACIST BENT ON DESTROYING INTERCOMMUNAL SOLIDARITY? WITH MORE INTERCOMMUNAL SOLIDARITY.

Written by CLAIRE SADAR Posted November 25, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

For their part, members of Pittsburgh’s Jewish community were surprised that a group had come all the way from Boston just to support them during this difficult weekend.

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: anti-Semitism, Boston, Central Reform Temple, hate crimes, Pittsburgh, solidarity, synagogue, Tree of Life, violence

A GOOD SEASON TO BE A GOOD HUMAN BEING

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 21, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

 

And keep it up through the hard times to come

 

It’s Thanksgiving this week. More correctly the National Day of Mourning. A holiday fraught with contradiction, as I’ve written repeatedly in the past. And what is one to make of it? Originally an opportunity for the descendants of the European colonists who seized Massachusetts—the country it eventually sat within, and the continent that surrounds it—from Native American nations through a combination of deadly diseases, grand theft, and genocidal violence to celebrate their good fortune. Now one of a number of nearly indistinguishable chances throughout the calendar year for (most, not all) people to take a day off from work, eat too much food (often prepared courtesy of women’s unpaid labor), drink too much alcohol, watch sports on TV, and maybe catch up with friends and extended family in the margins somewhere.

 

Once a harvest festival inaugurated by a Christian theocracy, it has morphed into a secular affair. Though its nationalist overtones remain strong. Nevertheless, it kicks off a period of the year—however commercialized—where people are encouraged to think about other people. To talk to each other, and to give each other gifts.

 

So, Turkey Day is as messed up as the warmongering capitalist republic it celebrates. But it does bring out some good behavior in Americans that I believe should be encouraged. An attitude that continues through to another secularized Christian holiday, Christmas, and beyond to a hopeful and libidinous New Year’s Eve.

 

Which is why it’s a fine time of year to make a few suggestions of things readers can do to make the world a better place. Whether you’re religious or not, and regardless of your politics… or lack thereof.

 

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I’m talking on an individual level here. One on one. You’re walking down the street. You see a homeless person. You see a hand being held out in supplication. So, give that person some money. Some food. Some coffee. Whatever they need in the moment. Look that person in the eye. Talk to that person. That fellow human being in need in front of you. A person you may have passed by a dozen times without raising your gaze from the sidewalk. Maybe ask a question or two. Think about the circumstances that resulted in that person ending up on the street. Then reflect upon how you might help build a society that will not allow anyone to lose their home to begin with.

 

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Now help a bunch of people. For a couple hours a week or a couple hours a month. Donate your time, labor, and experience. Give a workshop at a local school on something you’re passionate about. Work in a homeless shelter. Build a community garden. Visit with folks in a nursing home. After a fashion, mull over how much can be done outside a system of market transactions. Look for ways to network volunteer efforts together into a front for social betterment.

 

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Finding a nonprofit organization that really does the good work it says it does can be tricky. So, ask around. Check the news media for background. Go to the website of any organization that looks decent and read some of the group’s materials. Your basic litmus test should be whether the charity in question spends most of the money it raises in the service of its chosen community of interest. Groups that do that are generally worthy of your support. Donate annually… or, and I say this as someone who runs a nonprofit alongside a commercial newspaper, donate monthly. Keep it up as long as you can. And if you can afford it, give to many solid organizations. Set a percentage of your income to devote to good works and give that sum consistently. Note the power of giving, and think about how to expand the gift economy to become the dominant mode of exchange.

 

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Too late a plan for this year, but in the years to come try converting your Thanksgiving from just party time into a time to both party and help others. Tell your friends and family that you’re going to spend part of the day helping people in need in your community, and invite them to come along. Over time, this could become a tradition. And the more personal networks that do it, the more the idea will catch on. Not that such a service day is a new notion. But it is something that could stand to be spread nationwide. Perhaps supplanting the current majority view of the holiday at some point. Inspiring many people to make such activities part of daily life—and ultimately baking them into our culture.

 

In closing, I make these suggestions for what I consider to be obvious moral reasons. But also for reasons as political as anything I’ve ever written. Because we’re entering what may well be the most difficult period that the human race has ever faced. And if our species is going to survive and thrive in the decades to come, it will be thanks to simple human solidarity. Based on the kind of actions I suggest above at base.

 

And if humanity is going to stop genocides like the one that was committed against Native Americans—and far too many other groups of people since—from ever happening again, such solidarity is not optional. It is essential.

 

Apparent Horizon—winner of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s 2018 Best Political Column award

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Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, charity, Column, giving, humanity, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, National Day of Mourning, Politics, service, solidarity, thanksgiving

AMERICAN BANDSTAND: A CALL ‘TO BETTER BALANCE FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WITH SECURITY NEEDS’

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 28, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Among the many to weigh in on these issues, the New England First Amendment Coalition (NEFAC) has released a compelling statement... It’s on the money, and so informative and forward-looking that we thought it was our duty to excerpt it here...

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Media Farm, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alt right, antifa, Ayanna Pressley, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston City Hall, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Common, C-Ville, Charlie Baker, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Fight Supremacy! Boston Counter-Protest & Resistance Rally, First Amendment, Klan rally, MAGA, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, Monica Cannon, nazis, NEFAC, New England First Amendment Coalition, racists, Reggie Lewis Center, Rod Webber, Roxbury, solidarity, Stand for Solidarity, Unite the Right, violence, Violence in Boston

WE CAME, WE SAW, WE COVERED (A #FIGHTSUPREMACY COMPOSITE RETROSPECT)

Written by DIG STAFF Posted August 23, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS

Between the protesters, the counterprotesters, the media, the cops, and a handful of trolls, countless stories unfolded in Boston last weekend. These are several we encountered…

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: alt right, antifa, Ayanna Pressley, Black Lives Matter, Boston, Boston City Hall, Boston City Hall Plaza, Boston Common, C-Ville, Charlie Baker, Charlottesville, Donald Trump, Fight Supremacy! Boston Counter-Protest & Resistance Rally, Klan rally, MAGA, Marty Walsh, Massachusetts, Monica Cannon, nazis, racists, Reggie Lewis Center, Rod Webber, Roxbury, solidarity, Stand for Solidarity, Unite the Right, violence, Violence in Boston

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