Apparent Horizon Archives

FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART II)

It should go without saying that in the days to come both Belden Electronics and the temp service they used to hire me, Manpower, refused to accept responsibility for my injury.

JASON PRAMAS October 3, 2018

THE MERRIMACK VALLEY DISASTER: IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT OLD PIPES

The magnitude of the disaster is just starting to sink in. About 8,500 homes were affected, and its occupants are being told that it will take months to replace the cast iron gas pipes under city streets and restore service.

JASON PRAMAS September 18, 2018

FROM INJURY TO ACTION: A LABOR DAY REMEMBRANCE (PART I)

I was first injured directly after leaving the last shift of a job in late March 1989. But it was not an actual job. It had neither security, nor benefits, nor decent wages. It was certainly labor, though.

JASON PRAMAS September 5, 2018

VOTING AS A SOCIALIST IS STILL HARD (IN THE MASSACHUSETTS OF 2018)

The received political wisdom is that the major parties have set up so many structural roadblocks over their many decades in power that it’s impossible for any of the smaller so-called third parties to achieve major party status. And from my experience that received wisdom has been correct. So far.

JASON PRAMAS August 28, 2018

SOME THOUGHTS ON TRANSPORTATION POLICY

It was vexing to watch Bird fans that clearly hadn’t even bothered to read the article in question—let alone my broad and deep back catalog—attack me as some kind of car-loving anti-environmental reactionary in the service of flogging their hipster transportation fetish du jour.

JASON PRAMAS August 16, 2018

POPULAR NOT POPULIST

Governor Baker continues to poll well with people he’s screwing

JASON PRAMAS July 31, 2018

FLIPPING US THE BIRD

Bird’s model looks to be entirely profit-driven and completely mean-spirited. No matter how much CEO Travis VanderZanden tries to equate the unasked-for and unwanted service to “freedom.”

JASON PRAMAS July 25, 2018

STOP BAKER’S ‘MORE SCHOOL COPS AND SURVEILLANCE’ PLAN

Why the Mass budget surplus is better spent on infrastructure needs

JASON PRAMAS July 17, 2018

‘DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!’

Why Janus might actually be good for the American labor movement

JASON PRAMAS July 3, 2018

GRAND SCHEME

Mass legislature helps, harms workers in “deal” with labor and business lobbies

JASON PRAMAS June 26, 2018