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GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL
Image by Kent Buckley January 18, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The saga of GE’s flight from Connecticut began with ...
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STOP THE ICE RAIDS: FIGHT FOR THE ‘RIGHT TO THE WORLD’
Image by Kent Buckley January 13, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Over 100,000 undocumented immigrants from Central America have entered ...
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SILENCE IS COMPLICITY: GREATER BOSTON’S WHITE COMMUNITIES NEED TO SUPPORT #BLACKLIVESMATTER
January 5, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The #BlackLivesMatter movement is hitting the streets again in a renewed wave of ...
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THE BARBARISM OF CHARTERISM
New year, new theater in the war over corporate ed reform Boston City Councilor Tito Jackson was smiling. Not the ...
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ONE QUESTION FOR 2016
Image by Tak Toyoshima December 29, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS As the new year approaches, it’s the tradition for ...
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DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH (THE YEAR IN KRAMPUS)
Image by Tak Toyoshima December 21, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Popular culture always tells us a lot about the ...
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GO BIG OR GO HOME: TOWARDS A MASS CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT
Image by Kent Buckley December 16, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS On Saturday, one important global process ended and another ...
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BEYOND REMITTANCE
Boston’s Haitian and Haitian-American activists fight for justice across borders and generations Rodline Louijeune still tears up when she talks ...
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GROUNDED MONKEYS: MILLIONAIRES UNLIKELY TO FLEE COMMONWEALTH IF RAISE UP MASS WINS TAX ON 1 PERCENT
Image by Kent Buckley December 8, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Boston Business Journal’s Craig Douglas made an interesting criticism ...
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BARGAINING AGAINST OURSELVES: MEANS TESTING MBTA FARES WILL DECREASE PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR MASS TRANSIT
Image by Kent Buckley November 30, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS As the latest round of the ongoing neoliberal campaign ...
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BETWEEN THE BALLOT BOX AND BOGOTA
Part I in ‘A Higher Allegiance: The Rise of a Transnational Identity in Boston’s Immigrant Communities,’ a BINJ series (Click ...
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REMEMBRANCE AND PROTEST: THANKSGIVING THEN & NOW
November 23, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The following passage is excerpted from a piece I wrote in 2005. It ...
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LEFT BEHIND: THE PARIS ATTACKS AND THE NEED TO FUND A MASS INDEPENDENT AMERICAN NEWS MEDIA
Image by Kent Buckley November 17, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Shortly after the Paris attacks on Friday, I flipped ...
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MASS BAIL REFORM NOW
November 9, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Lots of innocent people are spending time in jail in Massachusetts. And unsurprisingly ...
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BOSTON ARTISTS UNITE
Kenmore image by Henry Han via Wikimedia Commons November 2, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS If you work in one ...
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SHUT PILGRIM NOW … AND SAVE MASS FROM NUCLEAR DISASTER
Image by Kent Buckley October 26, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS About 50 people—most from the South Shore and Cape ...
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SANDERS SHRUGGED
Image by Kent Buckley October 20, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS One of the marks of what scholars call hegemonic ...
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INTRODUCING #BINJBADBOSS
October 14, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Do you have a bad boss? I don’t just mean a boss ...
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THE LAND BOSTON FORGOT
The (r)evolution of Barry’s Corner and the search for Annie Soricelli North Allston, known to many as Lower Allston, is ...
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UMASS BOSTON WILL ALSO BE USELESS UNDERWATER
Image by Kent Buckley October 5, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS This week’s column is a codicil to last week’s ...
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A NORTH-SOUTH RAIL LINK WON’T DO ANY GOOD UNDERWATER
Image via ELM Action Fund October 2, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS When I heard that two former Massachusetts governors — Michael ...
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Why “Apparent Horizon”: This column explained
September 19, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS APPARENT HORIZON: Your Gateway to a Better Universe is the full title of my new ...
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LABOUR HATERS: The Boston Globe’s Worrisome Rightward Lurch
September 17, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS There was a time when the Boston Globe was led by what Americans like to ...
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LABOR BLUES
Boston Fight for 15 March, April 2015 — Photo © 2015 Jason Pramas September 10, 2015 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS A number of contradictions ...
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LICENSE TO CONNIVE
Boston still tracks vehicles, lies about it, and leaves sensitive resident data exposed online Prior to two weeks ago, when this ...
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DEDHAM AND GOLIATH
The war against Big Energy is raging on the southern edge of Boston — and it’s being fought by a peculiar troupe ...
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