World AIDS Day 2011
Our generation has seen the global eradication of one devastating disease, Smallpox, and the emergence of another, Human Immunodeficiency Virus. HIV has been uniquely merciless in its reaping of the young and the healthy in their prime, in its mutations and transformations into a thousand awful ways to die. It was almost two decades into [...]
Urban Legends and Knowing What to Do in a Crisis
Your Kmareka correspondent is one of the few with the courage to say it out loud. I hate Christmas. I would gladly skip the whole thing for adults. Children should not be cheated out of their presents and Christmas joy of course, but let’s buy them some toys and the rest of us have cocktail [...]
Good Sunset This Eve
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. More good poems here.
Buy Nothing Day
And now, a public service announcement from friend, Phil– 15th Annual BUY NOTHING DAY WINTER COAT EXCHANGE If you have a coat to give, please drop it off. If you need a coat, please pick one up. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25 10-2PM State House lawn (directly across from Providence Place mall) rain/snow site: Cathedral of St. [...]
Occupy Providence Day 38, 11/22/11
November 22, 1963, is for those of us old enough to remember a dividing line– the day our country was robbed by the bullet of a leader we had won by the ballot. Ask, ‘where were you?’ and you’ll hear a story. I was in third grade the day President Kennedy was shot, and my [...]
There’s 49 Other States
From Think Progress, a year ago this guy would have gotten a ticket, not tossed in the slammer… Alabama’s economy is suffering because of HB 56, the state’s draconian immigration law, as workers flee out of fear. State Sen. Scott Beason (R), who sponsored the anti-immigrant bill in the Alabama legislature, once called it a [...]
Harassment in the Workplace
Just a random post on the one week anniversary of Katie Roiphe’s NYT essay on sexual harassment. Thank you, Katie, I got more hits refuting you than on any single thing I’ve ever written. Send me more. I want to take a stand in defense of good humor and fun at work. It’s great to [...]
Occupy Wall Street’s Volunteer Medical Aid
Elaine Hirsch, Kmareka’s West Coast correspondent, sends a post about some of the professionals who volunteer their skills at Occupy Wall Street. Here in Providence the need is clear, and Occupiers with first aid skills have responded and in cooperation with Public Safety have helped people in need get to the Emergency Room. Health security [...]
We’re Number One! We’re Number One!
Here in Rhode Island, the littlest state in the nation, we don’t get to say we’re number one very often. But here’s our chance: right now it appears that we’re number one in the country for screwing the public sector worker out of long-term financial security. From the Associated Press: Despite jeers and the threat [...]
The Whole World is Watching
This video is posted on the Occupy Providence Facebook page, that can be reached here. Much of the recent protests is like a trip back in time to the spirit of the 60′s when direct action and organized protest changed the national debate. But 40 years on there is one huge difference. Information is liberated, [...]
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