MASSWIRE ARCHIVE
This is the archive of all articles from BINJ’s MassWire news service prior to September 2023. Check out the new MassWire page at masswire.news.
A QUESTION OF STRATEGY: WILL WOMEN’S MARCH LEADERS HELP BUILD A DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT OR JUST PUT THE DEMS BACK IN POWER?
Photo by Scott Murry January 24, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The Boston Women’s March for America was a tremendous ...
HARD DRUG TRUTHS: END MANDATORY MINIMUM DRUG SENTENCES
January 10, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The opioid crisis is dire enough without adding insult to injury. With almost ...
UNITED WE STAND: AN ADMONITION FOR 2017
January 4, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS As another calendar year begins, it is my custom to prognosticate about what ...
GUEST OP-ED: STATEMENT OF TAIWAN DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS ON THE TRUMP PHONE CALL
Students’ mass protest in Taiwan to end occupation of legislature | Artemas Liu December 22, 2016 by Chen Wei-Ting, Lin ...
DAKOTA DISPATCH
Mass residents participate in humility at Standing Rock WORDS AND PHOTOS BY KORI FEENER DAY 1 (Friday, Dec 3, 2016) Vehicles ...
TRASH TO TABLE
Everything you didn’t want to know about cannibal swine and trash feeding, from Mass to the UK BY EVAN C. ANDERSON AND KATIE CAMPISI ...
HOMELESS FOR THE HOLIDAYS: SAVAGE CUTS AND CRAPPY JOBS ARE WHAT GOT US HERE
December 6, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS For many people, the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas is the only time ...
TEMPORARY RADICALS? DISAFFECTED DEMS NEED TO STAY IN THE STREETS AFTER THE GOP MENACE IS BEATEN BACK
November 27, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS There is little agreement on the broad American left. But the ascension of ...
50 YEARS OF YEAST AND LOVE
An oral history of Haley House AS TOLD TO THE BOSTON INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT JOURNALISM If hungry people had to count ...
WHY NATIVISM REMAINS THE POLITICS OF THE SCOUNDREL
November 17, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS In early November, I wrote the following commentary for the third episode of ...
PIN THE SALE ON THE DONKEY
How BINJ kicked off the cold months with a reader engagement carnival Three months ago, the team at the BINJ ...
CAUGHT WITH OUR GANTRIES DOWN
Everything you think you know about the new Mass tolls is wrong Surprise! The new all-electronic tolling system (AETS) that went live ...
DEMOCRATIZE AMERICA: THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE NATION AND THE PLANET DOESN’T STOP ON ELECTION DAY
November 8, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS This is not a dream. For your whole life, you’ve seen images on ...
UMASS CAMBRIDGE: MAKING HARVARD UNIVERSITY PUBLIC WILL SOLVE ITS WORKERS’ PROBLEMS—AND THE COMMONWEALTH’S HIGHER ED CRISIS
October 24, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Three weeks into their strike, Harvard University dining hall workers are in a ...
FIGHT WHERE YOU STAND: ORGANIZING FOR DEMOCRACY ON THE JOB CAN SPARK A MOVEMENT FOR DEMOCRACY NATIONWIDE
IWW Demonstration. New York (1914) October 13, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS In a month featuring a couple of significant ...
RETURN TO DEWEY SQUARE
In 2011, thousands of New Englanders occupied an obscure slice of Boston and became leaders in a national movement against ...
PLAY TO WIN: UK LABOUR PARTY LEADER SHOWS THE AMERICAN LEFT HOW TO MOVE BEYOND SYMBOLIC POLITICS
September 29, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Last week—as is the case many weeks every fall and spring in Boston—notices ...
AUTONOMOUS PROFITEERING: CORPORATE NETWORKS ENLIST BOSTON TO HELP THEM SELL SELF-DRIVING CARS … AND ELIMINATE JOBS
September 18, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS When seemingly random things happen in city government, they’re always worth a second ...
A MAVERICK APPROACH TO LIQUOR LICENSING
An East Boston update to ‘The Thirsty Games’ This article is part of ongoing coverage by the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism and its partner ...
STREET FIGHT: STUDENTS DISSATISFIED WITH POLITICS AS USUAL WILL FIND PLENTY OF GRASSROOTS ACTION IN BOSTON
September 6, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Are you a student? New to Boston? Want to fight for social justice, ...
DISSENTING OPINION: SMITH COLLEGE SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL WORK STUDENT PROTESTERS RESPOND TO CRITICAL BOSTON GLOBE EDITORIAL
August, 29, 2016 BY SMITH COLLEGE SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS Introductory Note by Jason Pramas, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism: For ...
ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Photos by Jason Pramas Haiti, dance, and healing with Jean Appolon “It’s been 25 years and I feel like I never ...
CABLE JEOPARDY
August 22, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Now that broadband internet is a public utility, both cable companies and telephone ...
A WORSE FATE THAN GLOBAL WARMING
August 9, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The return of the nuclear arms race requires the revival of the disarmament ...
THE THIRSTY GAMES CONTINUE
After failed attempt by Boston to gain control over licenses, liquor laws still stuck in last century Earlier this year, DigBoston and the ...
PARTY POOPERS: BLUE AND RED STALWARTS SHOULD STOP ATTACKING MINOR PARTY SUPPORTERS
July 30, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Blue and Red stalwarts should stop attacking minor party supporters for remaining independent—and ...
MEDICINE FOR A MENDICANT MEDIA: Government support can revive American journalism
July 25, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS [Note: This is the full version of this article. A shorter version ran ...
