Occupy Providence Day 8
Just a walk-through today. The fountain was turned off and the debris I saw yesterday in the basin has been cleaned up. Burnside Park is even cleaner, it’s about 10am and quiet. I have a bag of first-aid supplies, but the medical tables are unstaffed. Perhaps the first-aiders are meeting in one of the tents. [...]
Occupy Providence Day 7– Health and Education
It’s about 9:30 and at the bottom of the bus tunnel is a parade of about 30 occupiers starting up Waterman Street. Sign says, ‘bail out students, not the banks’. They are on their way to occupy Brown. In Burnside Park the tents are still up but no crowds. The media tent is unstaffed, a [...]
Ending the War in Iraq?
Dear Readers, Kmareka welcomes our new Mideast expert, Kevin De Jesus,PhD, who sends us this post on the consequences of war and the long road for survivors, both in the US and Iraq. Thank you, Kevin, for looking beyond our war-weariness to confront the reality our veterans and their families face… Ending the War in [...]
The Silent Passing of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
The following is from Kmareka’s West Coast correspondent, Elaine Hirsch. Elaine Hirsch is kind of a jack-of-all-interests, from education and history to medicine and videogames. This makes it difficult to choose just one life path, so she is currently working as a writer for various education-related sites and writing about all these things instead. Currently, [...]
High Stakes Gambling, Anyone?
I would be okay with state retirees making over a certain amount being forced to give up their COLA’s, at least until the economy picks up, but when you look at these numbers for people at the lower end, you can see why state workers are scared. The state is about the roll the dice [...]
Occupy Providence Day 6– Not Going Away
Green Drinks is a monthly gathering that meets at local businesses and organizations that host an open house. It’s a chance to see some cool places from the inside. Since the AIDS benefit, ArtBeat, organized studio tours as a fundraising event I’ve appreciated a chance to see Providence this way. We stop at Burnside Park [...]
Occupy Providence Day 5– Rain, Religion and the Clam
The unusually clement weather is beginning to break, a mild rain soaks the ground, the tents, the signs. One says, ‘As I am, so you can be Homeless’. This is a fear now gnawing at the edges of the middle class, but high rents and low wages have swelled the population of this park long [...]
A New WPA
As expected, Republicans voted down President Obama’s Jobs Bill. What next? New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg is calling for a new WPA. “The President’s plan — and, by the way, we wouldn’t have minded if it passed, I voted for it — has a lot of good things… but it doesn’t have the immediacy factor [...]
Doing Well by Doing Good
This bit of good news points the way to saving money and lives… The risk-adjusted rate of heart failure hospitalization fell from 2,845 to 2,007 per 100,000 person-years from 1998 to 2008 in a fee-for-service Medicare claims analysis by Dr. Jersey Chen of Yale University and colleagues. That decline — the first ever documented in [...]
Statement From Occupy Wall Street
Declaration of the Occupation of New York City As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies. As [...]
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