Occupy City Hall
Times like this, I wish I was a reporter and not just a humble blogger who was working near downtown and decided to walk over and check out the Occupation of City Hall. City Councilman Luis Aponte introduced a resolution in support of allowing the Occupiers to stay in Burnside Park indefinitely and exercise their [...]
Our House
This is what Democracy looks like– From the Occupy Providence Facebook page Thursday, November 17 · 6:00am – 8:00am OCCUPY CITY HALL 6pm General Assembly :: 7pm City Council Meeting 25 Dorrance St., Providence On Thursday, join Occupy Providence to show that City Hall belongs to the 99%. We will meet in the lobby at [...]
Class Warfare
The poor lost. I have five minutes before I have to get to work. Thinking about how the NYT gave Katie Roiphe space to conflate Herman Cain’s sexual harassment trouble with harmless flirtation– and why can’t those office drones take a compliment? I’ve also seen interviews with some of Cain’s past executives and business associates, [...]
HOPE
There is a show a the Roger Williams Park Museum called ‘Curiosities’. Specimens from the natural history collection are arranged in installations by local artists– rabbit in a cabinet, owls behind lenses, walls of transparent bricks sheltering birds. The museum itself is a work of public art on a scale that we don’t aspire to [...]
I’m Getting Too Old for This
Katie Roiphe is a writer who made her reputation fresh out of college as a maverick with ‘The Morning After’, a book that argued that date-rape was a largely imagined problem. This put her on a fast track to success and won her praise from critics who saw her book as a repudiation of her [...]
Blossom S. Kirschenbaum
Blossom passed on November 5, just saw it on Facebook. She was a writer, scholar, translator from Italian, New York girl, single mother, fierce critic and kind friend. She had been sick, did not want to talk about it, walked everywhere and whenever I saw her had attitude. She was active in SWAP– ‘Stop Wasting [...]
Cost Per Vote
Thought for the day before I head off to work– I once read an analysis of an election where the losing candidate invested his personal fortune and major money in the campaign. Dividing that number by number of votes he got gave the ‘cost per vote’ figure. His opponent spent less and got more votes [...]
Synchronicity
From City Hall the Mayor and City Council can look out the windows at the tents in Burnside Park. Last week Mayor Taveras signed this executive order to popular acclaim… Mayor Angel Taveras today signed an executive order that closes the corporate tax loophole that allows foreclosing banks to hold onto the owner occupied homestead [...]
Occupy Providence 101
INTRODUCTION TO OCCUPY PROVIDENCE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10 11-12 and 12-1PM SATURDAY 1-3 A ONE HOUR CLASS ON OCCUPY PROVIDENCE TOUR OF THE PARK– KITCHEN, HEALING ARTS TENT, WELCOME AND COMFORT TENT, SECURITY AND SUPPORT (24 HOUR VOLUNTEER STAFF), OUTREACH/MEDIA/INFO TENT NO SIGN UP NEEDED, FIND DAVE AT THE KITCHEN [...]
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