[Boston-editorial] new feature: Why We Were Arrested

[Matthew Williams]

I don't see any photos that immediately seem to fit, since they're all 
of later arrests. Any suggestions? (BTW, I have links to both the 
photos and the video in the body of my article.) -- Matt

On Jun 16, 2005, at 7:18 PM, sharpie at riseup.net wrote:

> can we link the video of arrests or any of the photos with this? it 
> looks
> pretty good, but its a lot of text...
>
> peace
> sharpie
>
>> This was originally posted as a comment to my article, but I thought 
>> it
>> was worth promoting to feature status, given that Joe seems to have 
>> put
>> a fair amount of work into it and it's a fairly thoughtful piece. --
>> Matt
>>
>> Why We Were Arrested
>> by Joseph Gerson, American Friends Service Committee, JGerson (nospam)
>> afsc.org
>>
>> Yesterday afternoon, as I tried to make my middle aged bones
>> accommodate the uncompromising metal cot in my jail cell on the men’s
>> block of the Cambridge police station, I found old New England and
>> national history floating through my mind. During the 1848 U.S.
>> invasion of Mexico, Emerson had asked Throreau, (who had refused to 
>> pay
>> war taxes), what he was doing in jail. And, as we learned in school,
>> Thoreau’s response was what was Emerson doing outside the bars.
>>
>> Many of my friends and colleagues from the American Friends Service
>> Committee, the Quaker-based peace, justice, reconciliation and
>> development organization, had joined a peaceful protest on the city’s
>> centuries old common. Two of us, a photographer friend, and four
>> younger activists ended up in the slammer.
>>
>> What happened? Last Thursday evening, a friend called with news that 
>> it
>> had just been announced that a Blackhawk helicopter, the Under
>> Secretary of the Army and a lot of other military hullabaloo would be
>> descending on Cambridge Common, ostensibly to celebrate the Army’s
>> 230th anniversary. Interestingly, the Army hadn’t bothered to show up
>> to celebrate the 200th or 225th anniversaries!) What the military,
>> desperate for recruits, had in mind was an extravaganza to reignite 
>> its
>> sagging recruitment efforts. Finding it nearly impossible to recruit
>> young men and women to kill and to die as occupiers in Iraq and
>> Afghanistan, the military was anxious to gin up its system. By coming
>> to Cambridge, after years of being unwanted here, the military wanted
>> to show that it was on the offensive. The piece de resistance would
>> come at night with the televised induction of new army recruits in
>> Fenway Park, the home of the World Champion Boston Red Sox. Had Leni
>> Riefenstahl risen from the dead to produce more military propaganda?
>>
>> Read the full article »
>> 16 Jun 2005 | Filed under: Commentary / Human Rights : International
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