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JASON PRAMAS

BOSTON DSA FACTION SHOULD DROP ITS CHARGES AGAINST REP. MIKE CONNOLLY

An apology would also be in order As the saying goes, “we all make mistakes.” And I think the faction of the Boston Democratic Socialists of America that has filed written charges against Rep. Mike Connolly to demand his expulsion from that chartered local of a national political organization to

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JASON PRAMAS July 7, 2023
Boston University student anti-apartheid protestors in 1986. Photo of 2010 scan of a page from the April 30, 1986 edition of the Daily Free Press by Jason Pramas. Original Daily Free Press photo by Paul Callard.
JASON PRAMAS

BU’s John Silber Did Not Support Free Speech on His Campus

And I know that because his Boston University administration expelled me for participating in nonviolent student anti-apartheid protests in 1986 Recently, CommonWealth Magazine published an opinion piece by Rachel Silber Devlin, the daughter of former Boston University Chancellor John Silber, who published a book about her father last year and

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JASON PRAMAS March 14, 2023
"Pie" by Eric Ferdinand is licensed under CC-BY 2.0
JASON PRAMAS

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE: MAJOR FUNDERS NEED TO GIVE EQUALLY TO ALL NONPROFIT NEWS OUTLETS

Because the current practice of “every outlet for itself” is absolutely failing to rebuild local news in the US The original mandate of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism was to produce longform investigative reporting and syndicate it to independent community news outlets around Massachusetts that cannot afford to produce

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JASON PRAMAS July 29, 2022
"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
Screenshot of the original ad version of this opinion article in the Somerville Times. Courtesy of Joe Lynch.
JOE LYNCH

OPINION: ON SOMERVILLE’S NOVEMBER 2ND BALLOT, ABOLISH THE SOMERVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT – YES OR NO?

“[T]he repeated message from the Democratic Socialists of America-Boston candidates for office in Somerville is clear: the outright abolition of the Somerville Police Department.”

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JOE LYNCH October 22, 2021

TERROR AT 50 FEET

  Acrimony over Seaport gondola plan speaks to need for expanded MBTA service   March 13, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Much ink has been spilled in the Boston press over a plan by luxury developer Millennium Partners and its subsidiary Cargo Ventures to spend $100 million to build

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JASON PRAMAS March 13, 2018

SEA LEVEL RISE IS JUST ONE OF BOSTON’S WORRIES

As Earth approaches several catastrophic global warming “tipping points”   January 24, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   Before writing more columns examining Boston city government’s emerging plans to cope with the effects of global warming, I think a quick review of what area residents are likely to face in

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JASON PRAMAS January 24, 2018

THE SEAPORT FLOOD IS JUST THE BEGINNING

  Unless Boston builds proper defenses against global warming-driven sea level rise   January 17, 2018 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   So, Boston’s Seaport District flooded early this month during a bad snowstorm in the midst of several days of arctic temperatures. And nobody could be less surprised than me.

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JASON PRAMAS January 17, 2018

ON MAKERSPACES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

  Making can be cool, but conscious making is cooler   December 19, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   For many of us living in and around Boston in recent years, it has become common to see lots of communications from makerspaces around holiday time. Which is totally understandable. Such

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JASON PRAMAS December 19, 2017

GENERAL ELECTRIC FAIL

  Conglomerate’s woes throw Boston HQ deal contradictions into bold relief   November 15, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS   What a surprise. General Electric is tanking, and the scheme to bring the multinational’s headquarters to Boston is looking worse by the day. And whom shall the public blame if

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JASON PRAMAS November 15, 2017
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