Mic Check–We’re Still Here
Occupy Providence met in Burnside Park tonight for General Assembly. About thirty people of all ages, backgrounds and conditions attended. The weather had shifted back into unnatural warmth, but still. Getting thirty people to gather in January in the middle of Downtown, right after work and with no parking–that’s impressive. I should know, because I [...]
Occupy Phase II
I stopped by Burnside Park yesterday with some coffee and took away some Occu-debris. Then I went to First UU, like Paul Revere (sort of). Get on downtown and join the cleanup! Amazing what they did, working till 1:30am. The tents are down, materials in neat stacks. The ground is raked, the fountain clean. All [...]
URGENT, URGENT, URGENT!
Today, Sunday 29 January, volunteers are needed at Burnside Park to pack up the tents and leave the space clean. If you have a truck, even better. Parking is awful. Bring your love energy. Providence has created the best Occupation nationwide– let’s show the world that we are ready for the next step– taking the [...]
Book Sale in East Greenwich for St. Cecilia Choir
There will be a book sale on February 3rd from 9 am to 3 pm at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Greenwich. Proceeds from the sale will go to support the St. Cecilia’s children’s choir, of which my daughter is a proud member. While the rest of the world is obsessing over what snacks [...]
Curried Pea Hand-Pies
Reblogged from food to glow: Recently, on a particularly dreary day, I found myself flicking wistfully through the travel section of a broadsheet newspaper. As I sat on the sofa, slumped in my none-too-glam trackie bottoms and fleece-lined Crocs I tortured myself with page after page of unobtainable ‘bourgeois’ – which I believe is Russian [...]
Amputations Bad–Public Health Good
If you spend a lot of your working time nagging people to keep their blood sugar under control and to take good care of their feet you will appreciate this. From the Centers for Disease Control… CDC report finds large decline in lower-limb amputations among U.S. adults with diagnosed diabetes The rate of leg and [...]
Some Historical Context on the Prayer Banner Controversy
My overall analysis is that the real problem we have right now in Rhode Island is not that the Cranston Schools had a banner hanging in an auditorium that had a prayer on it. The real problem is that our economy is sagging big time, and we need to figure out how to turn that [...]
In-Between Two Worlds: From Print to Digital
Reblogged from Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab: This is a version of the presentation I made at the January 22, 2012 “One Book, One State” event which was sponsored by the Rhode Island’s Center for the Book. More than 200 people gathered in a historic church just outside of Providence to hear Geraldine [...]
Political Pollution: How Bad Air is Slowly Changing China
Reblogged from Ecocentric: China confirmed this week that the number of its citizens living in cities has surpassed the rural population for the first time in its history. That massive urbanization — 690.79 million people are now city-dwellers according to the National Bureau of Statistics — has brought huge benefits, chief among them lifting hundreds [...]
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