JASON PRAMAS, Author at BINJ

BPS STUDENTS TAKE TO THE STREETS, MAYOR WALSH FEELING THE HEAT

Photos by Chris Faraone March 10, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS With their schools facing up to a $50 million deficit next year, over 2,000 Boston Public School students from all over the city marched on the Massachusetts State House and Boston City Hall this week to demand that BPS

JASON PRAMAS March 10, 2016

GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL, PART 4

February 29, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS In May 2012, three former GE executives were imprisoned after being convicted on multiple charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and defraud the United States. Dominick Carollo, Steven Goldberg and Peter Grimm had all worked for GE Capital—the financial division that operated

JASON PRAMAS February 29, 2016

AUSTERITY BUDGET: BAKER HITS STUDENTS, HOMELESS, POOR, EVERYBODY BUT THE RICH WITH FY17 BUDGET PROPOSAL

February 25, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS If you’re a working person, and you want to understand the annual Massachusetts state budget process, the best resource to consult is the Mass Budget and Policy Center (MBPC). It issues timely reports detailing every major budget proposal and wrapping up each final

JASON PRAMAS February 25, 2016

GE BOSTON DEAL: THE MISSING MANUAL, PART 3

Image by Kent Buckley February 15, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Returning to our ongoing look at General Electric’s recent and inconvenient history of violating the public trust, in part 2 of this “missing manual” the corporation got out of the subprime housing loan market just in time to avoid

JASON PRAMAS February 15, 2016

MANCHESTER DIVIDED: SEIU ‘FIGHTS FOR $15’ IN NH WHILE ITS CANDIDATE FIGHTS FOR $12

Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian February 8, 2016 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS The “protest pit” outside the Republican Presidential Debate at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire on Saturday evening was a fenced-in area in a field about a quarter mile down the road from the main entrance to the

JASON PRAMAS February 8, 2016

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

JASON PRAMAS February 1, 2016

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

JASON PRAMAS January 28, 2016

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

JASON PRAMAS January 18, 2016

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 the US since 2014—seeking to escape what the mainstream media like to vaguely call “violence and political instability.” And they have been living in abject terror since the Obama administration’s

JASON PRAMAS January 13, 2016

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 protests for racial justice around Boston and America. Not that it has ever really stopped since Trayvon Martin was gunned down in 2012—as fresh injustices against Black people continue week

JASON PRAMAS January 5, 2016