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MTA Rank and File for Palestine protests on Boston Common on October 6, 2024. Photo by Sue Doherty, used with permission.
JEN MEAGHER

MTA Board Votes Overwhelmingly To Divest From Weapons Manufacturers

“The bumper sticker on my car announces ‘I am a proud union member of the MTA.’ That has never been more true.”

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JEN MEAGHER August 14, 2025
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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
Laura Kiesel and Jordan Frias testify at the second journalism commission hearing, July 10, 2019. Photo courtesy of Sarah Betancourt.
JASON PRAMAS

GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING KEY TO PASSING JOURNALISM COMMISSION LAW

Journalists mounted unusual lobbying effort to help beleaguered local news outlets

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JASON PRAMAS February 7, 2021
Washington Street, Newspaper Row (in Boston a century ago)
JASON PRAMAS

HELP SAVE LOCAL NEWS! ASK YOUR MA STATE REP TO BACK AMENDMENT #40 TODAY!

[W]e’re asking all readers who are concerned about the collapse of local news media to contact your state representative and ask them to cosponsor Amendment #40 of H. 4879. The more cosponsors the amendment has, the more likely House Ways and Means will pass it. If that happens it has a good chance of making it through the full legislative process for this session. And becoming a law. Which would be a promising outcome for the future of local news in the Commonwealth. 

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JASON PRAMAS July 26, 2020
Lynne Doncaster speaking to Somerville News Garden event. Photo by Derek Kouyoumjian
JASON PRAMAS

SOMERVILLE NEWS GARDEN HOLDS FIRST PUBLIC EVENT

  Seeks more participation from Somerville residents It has been nine months since DigBoston and the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism partnered with the Somerville Media Center to organize an event asking Somervillians what kind of coverage was missing from their city’s remaining news media. The February 2019 Somerville Community

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JASON PRAMAS November 6, 2019
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