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July 26, 2020 By JASON PRAMAS

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth. 

Filed Under: Engagement Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, Chris Faraone, community, democracy, DigBoston, editorial, engagement, grassroots, Jason Pramas, journalism, journalism commission, legislation, local news, local newspaper, news media, newspaper, organizing

June 24, 2020 By NOAH SCHAFFER

SILENCE STILL EQUALS DEATH: ACT UP FOUNDERS REFLECT ON AIDS ACTIVISM, TALK COVID AND CURRENT PROTESTS

“Anyone who thinks the Black Lives Matter movement is not doing a very good job should pay attention to the astonishing movement in public opinion. Sometimes you have to scream real loud or use a bad word.”

Filed Under: Oral Histories, Pandemic Democracy Project Tagged With: Act Up, Activism, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Boston Pride, coronavirus, COVID, history, LGBTQ, news, news to us, Pandemic Democracy Project, protests

March 4, 2020 By JEAN TROUNSTINE

CHANGING PERCEPTION, CHANGING THE LAW

What Mass lawmakers can learn from the battle to end death by incarceration across the country

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Activism, BINJ, Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism, California, corrections, criminal justice, criminal justice reform, doc, Jean Trounstine, LWOP, Massachusetts, New York, parole, prison, RAPP, Solutions Journalism Network, THE SENTENCING PROJECT, Upcoming Events, Vermont

February 19, 2020 By GEORGE HASSETT

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF HAKIM JAMAL

Hakim Jamal was a Boston original—an engaging author and activist who identified as a recovering alcoholic and addict. He founded the group that created Kwanzaa. His controversial romances with movie stars and models inspired movies decades later.

Filed Under: Features, Throwback Tagged With: Activism, Black History, Black Panthers, Boston, Boston History, Dead Level, Detroit Red, Hakim Jamal, heroin, Louis X, Malcolm Little, Malcolm X, Michael X, Roxbury, throwback, throwbacks

February 11, 2020 By ERIN NOLAN

NUCLEAR DECISIONS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES DON’T ALL AGREE ON

“Right now, we just don’t know what to do with nuclear waste. It lasts 100,000 years … It’s shockingly toxic. We’re going to have to figure out what to do with that waste for sure. I mean, 100,000 years.”

Filed Under: Environment, Manchester Divided, Reports Tagged With: 2020 Election, Activism, ADA, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang, AOC, bernie sanders, campaign finance, candidates, cannabis, Cape Cod, caregiving, Citizens Agenda, Citizens United, criminal justice, death penalty, Deval Patrick, disability rights, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Elizabeth Warren, engagement, firearms, gig economy, Granite State Organizing Project, Granny D, gun control, gun rights, guns, immigration, income inequality, Iowa, Joe Biden, law enforcement, Life Without Parole, local media, Londonderry, LWOP, MAGA, manchester divided, merch, Michael Bloomberg, Michael Moore, money in politics, New Hampshire, New Hampshire Interfaith Action Fund, New Hampshire Rebellion, nuclear energy, Ocasio-Cortez, Pete Buttigieg, Pilgrim Power Plant, police brutality, politics, primaries, primary, rally, ranked choice voting, ranked-choice, religion, religious left, SCOTUS, Seabrook, Shaskeen Pub, Socialism, Strokes, taxes, Tom Steyer, town halls, voter rights

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