A Person Unknown
It’s strange to see the leaves still green or just turning and snow on the ground. Gloomy too. That suits my mood– don’t have to keep a smiley face on Halloween. In honor of Samhain, an excerpt from story I wrote for Newport Review… The central character was my roommate for a time, until she [...]
Statement from Mayor Taveras on Occupy Providence
This statement clarifies that the Mayor is not planning to go forward with any kind of police action to remove the Occupy movement from Burnside Park. Here is the statement in full: All citizens have a right to have their voices heard, and I, like the Occupy movement, am concerned about the causes and impacts [...]
This is What Unregulated Capitalism Looks Like
The Feds have ruined the lucrative business of an enterprising man who persuaded ‘hurting’ people to sell their organs to rich buyers. “One of the reasons it’s so expensive is because you have to shmear all the time,” [organ trafficker] Rosenbaum said on the transcripts, referring to money paid under the table to everyone involved [...]
Occupy Providence to Be Evicted Sunday Evening, October 30, 2011
A notice has been given to Occupy Providence members and has been posted around Burnside Park: they have 72 hours to vacate or they will be evicted. Given that so many other groups have expressed solidarity with the Occupy movement, it is unclear how this is going to play out. My hope is that it [...]
Provocateurs Already
No surprise. Check this out and keep the faith with a drug-free, alcohol-free and violence-free occupation. If someone seems provocative, they may be there to provoke, and cameras are everywhere. The Occupation has power, and there are plenty trying to harness it for their own ends or cash in, but we’ve been there before and [...]
Today’s Movie
Citizen’s United, the cartoon version. Click here to see.
Thomas Dorr’s Rebellion
Justin Elliot at Salon asks historian Michael Kazin, Where Does Occupy Go From Here? Many a protest campaign begins this way. The sit-ins at Woolworth lunch counters beginning in February 1960 had an end — desegregation of public facilities — but they weren’t quite sure of where it was going after that. They just thought, [...]
Philip Allen Hodge 1930-2011
Two days before my Dad died a guy called up looking for him to do some freelance jewelry design. “Phil’s sick? I’m so sorry to hear that. He was the best.” He grew up in Claremont, New Hampshire, in the Depression, the middle of three brothers. Their mother had gone to school to become a [...]
Occupy Providence on Sunday Afternoon
We finally made it to Occupy Providence today, to provide some pictures and a report from the heart of the movement. Ninjanurse has been doing us proud with daily posts all week, despite lots of other forces in her life that would normally take over and render a person incapable of blogging. But Nancy, like [...]
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