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JASON PRAMAS

On Venezuela, On Minneapolis, Protest Matters … Keep It Up

Running a news weekly as I do, it’s always interesting to watch the narrative around developing stories that I might comment on as a journalist change quickly over days or even hours. Such is the case with two big national and international stories of great interest to Massachusetts residents this

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JASON PRAMAS January 8, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

INDYMASS: MARCH 29, 2024

A biweekly roundup of articles from the Massachusetts independent press

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JASON PRAMAS March 29, 2024
Margot Robbie, Dua Lipa, Ryan Gosling, Will Ferrell, Issa Rae, and Simu Liu in Barbie. Promotional image courtesy of Warner Bros.
COHAVIT GIL

‘BARBIE:’ A PLAYFUL, PINK, GENDER ALLEGORY

Surprise hit film hoists lurking contradictions into plain sight

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COHAVIT GIL August 11, 2023
"Stop Abortion Bans Now" by Fibonacci Blue. CC-BY 2.0. Original photo cropped for the Somerville Wire by Jason Pramas.
PAT JEHLEN

OPINION: R.I.P. ROE?

Freedom is a constant struggle When my family moved to Massachusetts, my mother couldn’t legally get birth control or even learn about it. By the time I was in college, the Supreme Court had ensured that married women could get birth control, though unmarried women couldn’t. By the time our daughter was born, the

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PAT JEHLEN May 4, 2022

A PROTEST BY ANY OTHER NAME…

  The best way to defeat the ultra right is to stop playing their game August 15, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Street protest is a vital part of any genuinely democratic political system. But how and when people choose to demonstrate (or counterdemonstrate) determines the tactic’s relative success or failure.

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JASON PRAMAS August 15, 2017
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