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State Wire: Group Works To Build Peace Out Of Despair In Boston

Written by KATHRYN CARLEY Posted November 23, 2022 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"When your loved one was murdered back then, you're just left empty-handed. You didn't know what to do."

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Boston, news, Peace, violence

MA GROUP URGES STEPS TO CURB GUN VIOLENCE

Written by LILY BOHLKE Posted June 5, 2021 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

"Way more now than 100 people are getting killed every day by gun violence in the United States."

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Activism, gun safety, Massachusetts, news, news to us, violence

HOW TO DEFEAT THE HARD RIGHT

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 12, 2021 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, Democracy in Crisis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Hard right wingers casually tour the Capitol during last week's attack. Via C-SPAN.

Some thoughts on the Capitol attack and building a more democratic nation

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, Democracy in Crisis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: antifa, Apparent Horizon, attack, Boston, Capitol, Column, conspiracy, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Democrat, Election, epidemic, fascism, fascist, grassroots, hard right, human rights, Jason Pramas, MAGA, Massachusetts, militia, movement, nazi, Politics, popular, President Donald Trump, President-Elect Joe Biden, QAnon, racism, racist, Republican, right wing, Sen. Josh Hawley, Sen. Ted Cruz, strategy, tactics, Vice President Mike Pence, violence

VIDEO: #BLACKLIVESMATTER BOSTON MARCHES TO #SAYHERNAME

Written by GINO CANELLA Posted July 6, 2020 Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS

Image by Gino Canella

In addition to celebrating Black women, BLM Boston was also gathering to demand the city of Boston redirect the $40.1 million that is budgeted for policing into schools and resources that will benefit the community.

Filed Under: News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Boston, march, Massachusetts, Police, Protest, racism, Say Her Name, slider, Video, violence, Women

MARKET ORIENTATION, TV NEWS, AND THE AMPLIFICATION OF VIOLENCE

Written by GINO CANELLA Posted June 18, 2020 Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Chart of Standing Rock media frames

In 2017, we examined CNN and Democracy Now!’s coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests at Standing Rock, North Dakota, to understand how the market orientation of two news organizations influenced the production and distribution of their protest coverage.

Filed Under: NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: analysis, CNN, criticism, Democracy Now, media, news, opinion, think piece, violence

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

DEATH THREAT AGAINST MASS POLITICIAN IS A BAD SIGN

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted May 20, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

flowers in gun white on black

Should violence replace political debate, democracy could end

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COVID, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, death threat, Debate, Democracy, dialogue, extremism, extremist, guns, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, Rep. Mike Connolly, slider, United States, violence

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

RIGHTS, CAMERAS, EXTRACTIONS

Written by SETH KERSHNER Posted March 14, 2019 Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction

Hampshire County has the most violent small jail in the state, and one of the least transparent

Filed Under: FEATURES, News, NEWS+OPINIONS, Non-fiction Tagged With: BINJ, Commonwealth, CORI, county jails, Hampshire County, Hampshire County jail, jail, Massachusetts, northampton, prison, sheriff, The Shoestring, violence

MLK’S ASSASSINATION REMINDS NATION OF UNADDRESSED GUN VIOLENCE

Written by IRENE MONROE Posted April 3, 2018 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

“By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim, by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing, by allowing all these developments, we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes."

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: DC, guns, history, March for our Lives, Martin Luther King, MLK, Parkland, shootings, throwback, violence

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