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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
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MADISON LUCCHESI

Emerson Students, Staff, And Faculty Face Restrictive New Policies Born From Gaza Protests

The Emerson College administration put rules in place in response to last year’s campus unrest that some community members say violate their First Amendment rights

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MADISON LUCCHESI January 23, 2025
Collage by Jason Pramas. Description: Pen in fist, symbol of the free press, over a map of the US colored in orange--the color associated with incoming President Donald Trump.
JASON PRAMAS

Editorial: Trump Will Make Independent Journalism Even Harder to Produce

But with your support, BINJ can push through the next four years intact and stronger than ever

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JASON PRAMAS November 14, 2024
Protestors defend Northeastern University pro-Palestinian encampment. Photo courtesy of Axelle Yanakakis-Carroll and the You Are Here team at WERS 88.9. Republished with permission.
MADISON LUCCHESI

‘UNSAFE’ AND ‘HOPEFUL’

Northeastern students divided after encampment and commencement arrests

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MADISON LUCCHESI May 17, 2024
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

THAT ‘FREE SPEECH’ THING

Photo by Kori Feener Mayor Walsh and various police agencies were no friends of civil liberties at Boston’s monster protests against the ultra right August 22, 2017 BY JASON PRAMAS @JASONPRAMAS Despite the “mission accomplished” happy talk in most of the news media, Saturday’s 40,000-strong Boston protests against extremism — and the tiny ultra-right rally that

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JASON PRAMAS August 22, 2017
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