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JASON PRAMAS

Editor’s Note: On Local News Day, Sign Up For the BINJ.News Newsletter!

Today is Local News Day, a new holiday of sorts being celebrated for the first time this year. Its aim is to help make the general public more aware of all the mostly small news outlets that are trying to keep local and regional journalism in the public interest going

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JASON PRAMAS April 9, 2026
JASON PRAMAS

Take It From A Cold War Kid: The US/Israel War On Iran Risks Becoming A Global Conflagration

As I sat down to write this dispatch, like anyone else following world happenings in an even cursory manner I found myself overwhelmed by the urge to continue absorbing minute-by-minute coverage of the monstrous US and Israel war on Iran. As I have been doing nearly every waking hour since

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JASON PRAMAS March 27, 2026
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

Editorial: Public Grantmaking Can Help Mass Indy News Outlets Survive

BINJ would like to work with fellow journalists and allied organizations to convince our state legislature to give it a shot

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JASON PRAMAS July 24, 2025
"No Billionaires" collage
JASON PRAMAS

Time For ‘No Billionaires’ Rallies

The nationwide “No Kings” actions were a nice start—but we need to shut down the oligarchy we have, not the monarchy we don’t if we expect to make the US a democracy

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JASON PRAMAS June 19, 2025
Democracy activists protest the arrest of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk by ICE at a protest in Somerville's Nathan Tufts Park, March 26, 2025. Photo by Gabriel Martins. Copyright 2025 Gabriel Martins.
GABRIEL MARTINS

Challenging Fear And Trepidation, Democracy Activists Rally In Somerville Following Student ICE Arrest

“Justice is something that people ignore until it happens in the neighborhood. … No one thought this would happen in a school in Massachusetts.”

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GABRIEL MARTINS March 27, 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.
JASON PRAMAS

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

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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.
JASON PRAMAS

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

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JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025
text-based image: stay calm and think
JASON PRAMAS

Editor’s Note: Stay Calm And Think

Before the Massachusetts left can take action on the Trump administration’s concerning agenda, getting accurate information is critical

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JASON PRAMAS February 6, 2025
JASON PRAMAS

Editorial: What Journalism Is Not

Fox News “embedding” with ICE agents in Boston was an affront to our nation’s core democratic values

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JASON PRAMAS January 23, 2025
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