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CURRENT STREET EDITION

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Written by TADHG LARABEE, POLINA WHITEHOUSE, AND MARIE UNGAR Posted November 6, 2020 Filed Under: Analysis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics

Voters hurt prisoners and some workers, helped other workers, and legalized drugs and gambling

Filed Under: Analysis, Election, News, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Politics Tagged With: cannabis, drug, gambler, gambling, labor, legalization, Marijuana, prison, prisoner, referendum, voters, voting, worker

VAMPIRE PROPERTY: CAPITAL AND THE LIVING DEAD 

Written by GARY ZABEL Posted May 25, 2020 Filed Under: Essay, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

“The thing that you represent face to face with me has no heart in its breast.”– Marx

“There is no life in this body.” – Dracula 

Filed Under: Essay, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: capital, capitalism, Gary Zabel, Karl Marx, labor, philosophy, profit, socialism, think piece, vampire, worker

WORKER SAFETY GROUP GIVES GOV. BAKER’S REOPENING PLAN FAILING GRADES

Written by MASSCOSH Posted May 19, 2020 Filed Under: COVID, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

Baker gets an F

We are in the midst of an unprecedented worker health and safety crisis and need a plan for reopening the economy that truly protects workers and the public. The plan released by Governor Baker does not accomplish this vital task, and thus the Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health gives it failing grades.

Filed Under: COVID, News to Us, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID-19, fail, Gov Charlie Baker, grade, Health, Massachusetts, MassCOSH, reopening, safety, slider, worker

RECLOSE AMERICA: DON’T FOLLOW FASCISTS IN THE SERVICE OF WALL ST TO YOUR GRAVES

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 29, 2020 Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

image with President Trump surrounded by quotes about right-wing protests to end coronavirus stay at home orders

Do back politicians calling for immediate national living wage checks and Medicare for All

Filed Under: Analysis, Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: America, Apparent Horizon, Bernie Sanders, Column, coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, DigBoston, fascist, hard right, Health, Jason Pramas, Koch, labor, Medicare for All, middle class, nazi, news analysis, pandemic, Paycheck Security Act, Protest, public health, Reopen America, right wing, slider, stay at home, United States, Wall St, white supremacist, worker, working class

HARVARD AND MIT MUST HELP THEIR WORKERS AND AREA HOMELESS NOW

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted April 22, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS

Institutions with more wealth than many nations have no excuse for inaction during a pandemic

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, COVID, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Cambridge, Column, contractor, coronavirus, COVID-19, criticism, Democracy, economy, employee, endowment, Harvard University, higher education, Homeless, Jason Pramas, L. Rafael Reif, labor, Larry Bacow, layoff, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, news analysis, pandemic, power, public, Shelter, slider, student, wealth, worker

THERE IS NOTHING ‘VOLUNTARY’ ABOUT WORKING BAD JOBS

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 28, 2020 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

A brief defense of AOC’s critique of billionaires

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Apparent Horizon, Ben Shapiro, Bernie Sanders, Boston Herald, co-operative, Column, contingent work, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, Elections, Jason Pramas, jobs, labor, Mondragon, policy, Politics, propaganda, social democracy, socialism, worker

CRISIS AVERTED

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted February 14, 2018 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

MBTA workers protest privatization. Image courtesy INVEST NOW.

 

MBTA bus mechanics beat back privatization… at a cost

 

Unionized bus mechanics represented by the International Association of Machinists Local 264 won an important victory last week when they agreed to a four-year contract with the MBTA—effectively ending a two-year effort by the transportation authority’s ...  read more

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Carmen's Union, Charlie Baker, Column, contract, District 15, economy, Fiscal and Management Control Board, IAM, International Association of Machinists, Jason Pramas, labor, Local 264, Massachusetts, MBTA, news, Politics, privatization, Protest, transportation, union, worker

NOT JUST AN EDUCATION, A COMMUNITY

Written by JUAN PABLO BLANCO Posted December 6, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed

UMASS student testimony

 

Student testimony to the Nov 29, 2017 UMass Board of Trustees meeting

 

Madelin Walker

Good morning President Meehan, Chairman Manning, and members of the board. I’d like to thank you for letting me speak to you today on behalf of UMass Boston. My name is Maddi Walker and I’m a sophomore at UMB. I have a history of service ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Op-Ed Tagged With: austerity, board of trustees, budget, cut, labor, layoff, Op-Ed, student, testimony, UMASS-Boston, union, worker

EVERY DAY IS LABOR DAY

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted September 5, 2017 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized

 

DigBoston commits to expanding coverage of workers and unions

 

For the past many years, I’ve written an annual Labor Day editorial for whatever publication I’m running at the time. And it’s always a relentlessly depressing exercise. Because there just hasn’t been much good news for working people in decades.

 

Since the 1970s, corporate ...  read more

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Uncategorized Tagged With: coverage, DigBoston, editorial, Jason Pramas, Journalism, labor, news, policy, worker, working class

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