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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

JASON PRAMAS January 8, 2026

Massive File From J6 Insurrection Trials Goes Live On Internet Archive

SAN FRANCISCO – The Internet Archive marked the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol as one might expect: launching an upload of publicly accessible materials from the trials of 1,575 defendants who took part in the attempted overthrow of America’s government to keep President Donald

MARC LEVY January 8, 2026

Will Musk’s New Party Create An Opening For A National Left Party?

Hard to say if the “America Party” is really getting off the ground or not, but I’d like to publish left-wing activists’ thoughts on that question

JASON PRAMAS July 10, 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.

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

JASON PRAMAS March 6, 2025

Propaganda By Democrats Is Still Propaganda

The Massachusetts left cannot build a new grassroots movement for democracy based on blue falsehoods and misdirections

JASON PRAMAS February 20, 2025

Image of a young person facing a waterfall-like representation of a digital future

AI: Blessing and Curse

A look at why you should care and what, if anything can be done to tip the scales one way or another

STEVE PROVIZER December 12, 2024

THE DOCKWORKERS’ FIGHT IS EVERYONE’S FIGHT

If union members can’t stop automation from taking their jobs, what chance do the rest of us have?

JASON PRAMAS October 3, 2024

Somerville City Councilor-at-Large Willie Burnley, Jr. Courtesy photo.

OPINION: MY PRIDE IS A RIOT AGAINST WHITE SUPREMACY

“As a Black and queer person, I know that when a person’s very existence is criminalized it inevitably results in fear, hate crimes, and death.” The rain poured down on me and a cadre of queer and trans youth in front of the bricked facade of Somerville’s City Hall. The

WILLIE BURNLEY JR June 7, 2022

BINJ WINS AWARDS FOR POLITICAL COLUMN AND FIRST AMENDMENT JOURNALISM

We also had the honor of giving out a prize of our own, the “BINJ Award,” which we sponsored to acknowledge the “Best Nonprofit Collaboration.”

BINJ ONLINE July 21, 2019

‘DON’T MOURN, ORGANIZE!’

Why Janus might actually be good for the American labor movement

JASON PRAMAS July 3, 2018