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January 9, 2021 By MARC LEVY

APPOINTED SOMERVILLE OFFICIAL SPURS OUTRAGE WITH TWEETS FROM DC MOB SCENE

Mayor Curtatone says “We’re taking it seriously and doing our due diligence”

Filed Under: Reporting, Somerville News Garden, Somerville Wire Tagged With: attack, Capitol, Congress, DC, House of Representatives, insurrection, MAGA, Massachusetts, mob, official, President Donald Trump, protest, rally, Riot, senate, Somerville, United States, US, Washington

June 23, 2020 By JANE REGAN

PROTESTERS DECRY NONPROFIT LAYOFFS; FOUNDERS RESPOND TO CLAIMS OF UNION-BUSTING, RACISM

“I don’t think we’re a racist organization. I just think the power structure, the culture, is made up of people who don’t look like me.”

Filed Under: Pandemic Democracy Project, Reports Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, College Bound, coronavirus, COVID, Dorchester, news, news to us, protest, unions

April 10, 2020 By SHIRA LAUCHAROEN

GROCERY STORE WORKERS FACE FEARS, CORONAVIRUS, AND UNION-BUSTING

grocery store protest

“I’m constantly having the recommended six feet violated. All of my coworkers and I, we are absolutely drained by the end of the day, because we are constantly trying to protect ourselves and reinforce that space.”

Filed Under: Pandemic Democracy Project, Reports Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID, crisis, employees, essential, essential workers, grocery workers, news, news to us, paid sick leave, protest, Shaws, slider, Socialist Alternative, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, workers

December 5, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

FAIR HOUSING WHACKED: TUFTS STUDENTS FIGHT ADMIN PROPOSAL TO ESTABLISH “CLASSIST” DORM SYSTEM

Tufts students march against tiered housing policy. Photo by Amira Al-Subaey, Tufts class of 2019.

  More than 200 Tufts University students, faculty, and allies from surrounding communities held a march and demonstration last week to protest a new campus housing policy, according to the Boston Herald. Over the summer, the Tufts administration announced that its annual lottery system for on-campus housing during each academic year would be heavily modified […]

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Column, development, dorm, gentrification, government, higher education, housing, Jason Pramas, news, politics, pricing, private, protest, public, Real Estate, Student, tufts

October 31, 2018 By JASON PRAMAS

AFTER PITTSBURGH

It would have been appropriate for Bostonians from all walks of life to call an even larger rally this week than last year’s to take up an old slogan, “Never Again,” in memory of the honored dead of Pittsburgh.

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, Columns Tagged With: Apparent Horizon, Boston, Column, education, fascist, hard right, hate, How-to, Jason Pramas, Jewish, killing, left, mobilization, nazi, Never Again, organizing, Pittsburgh, politics, primer, protest, shooting, Tree of Life Synagogue, white supremacist

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