Photos by Derek Kouyoumjian Crisis in the Creative Professions Roundup: A call for action and a collective sigh of relief Last fall, BINJ gathered over 40 writers, photographers, musicians, performance artists, community activists and freelancers of every stripe at the Community Church of Boston with a very specific goal in mind: tap the collected creative minds […]
GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL, PART 2
Image by Kent Buckley February 1, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Two weeks after the first installment of this Missing Manual, we now know that GE will receive up to another $100 million of Boston’s largesse in the form of reopening the Old Northern Avenue Bridge and $25 million in state money for work on […]
GE BOSTON DEAL: AN ACTIVIST HANDBOOK
Images (from 2012 protest against GE in Boston) by Chris Faraone January 28, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Say friend … is a multinational corporation with a terrible reputation, a limitless PR budget, and a penchant for backroom deals with fawning politicians bleeding your state for hundreds of millions of public dollars that would be […]
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 the June 2015 passage of a very much needed package of state tax increases aimed at raising an extra $1.1 billion over the next two years. By extending a temporary 20 percent surcharge on its […]
BEYOND REMITTANCE
Boston’s Haitian and Haitian-American activists fight for justice across borders and generations Rodline Louijeune still tears up when she talks about the earthquake that hit Haiti in January 2010. She had visited Port-au-Prince just a few months before to see her uncle. While she was born and raised in Boston, her parents grew up in […]