Apparent Horizon Archives

Collage with gold dollar sign dripping blood over a green background.

10 Exhibit Ideas For The Museum Of American Finance

On May Day, “the other workers’ holiday,” some public-spirited programming suggestions for the incoming Boston attraction

JASON PRAMAS May 1, 2025

A recent rally in support of Rümeysa Öztürk at Somerville City Hall.

Can Nonviolent Activists Thwart ICE Snatch Squads?

Rallies in support of recently detained immigrants like Rümeysa Öztürk are important, but might it be possible to prevent federal agents from arresting immigrants in similar situations in the first place?

JASON PRAMAS April 3, 2025

Large crowd outside of Skinner and Eddy employment office. The shipyard workers struck two weeks before the Seattle General Strike on Feb. 6, 1919.

General Strikes Are Now Mainstream In Massachusetts

Big ups for Rep. McGovern and Jon Keller discussing what was once undiscussable in Bay State media, but a few historical corrections are in order

JASON PRAMAS March 20, 2025

African American and white Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party supporters demonstrating outside the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; some hold signs with portraits of slain civil rights workers James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.

The Minimum Program: A Strategy For Political Mobilization

We can rebuild the Mass. (and US) left by fighting for democracy, human rights, environmental restoration, peace, and bread-and-butter economic guarantees for working people

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025