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

[Pete Stidman]

That's why we are developing a new website.  

-Pete


--- sharpie at riseup.net wrote:

> 
> hey, sorry for the slow response. but yeah, i think
> that's what i mean. I
> find it inconceivable however that you can't input a
> "hyper-link" into the
> text of an article that will work...
> 
> i guess if you and the tech folks say this is true
> it must be true, but to
> me, well, it just seems stupid.
> 
> i can't really imagine why we would want a system
> that hamstrings our
> ability to create a coherent collection of news on a
> single topic and
> instead forces us to publish separate articles on
> nearly the same
> topic....
> 
> peace
> sharpie
> 
> > You mean where we link to multiple articles from
> one feature in the
> > center column? I'd love to, but the current system
> doesn't allow us to
> > do that. I've asked the tech team to try to fix
> that in the new system.
> > -- Matt
> >
> > On Jun 16, 2005, at 8:49 PM, sharpie at riseup.net
> wrote:
> >
> >> right, which is the other reason i was wondering
> why we didn't make
> >> this
> >> into some kind of two-part "uber-article" as
> often happens at other
> >> inymedia centers, particularly during
> convergences(which this wasn't,
> >> but
> >> the similarity stands)
> >>
> >> anyway, my housemate gave me some photos before
> he left town for
> >> philly. i
> >> will see if i have anything good there. i thought
> he posted them, but i
> >> think he may have forgotten.
> >>
> >> peace
> >> sharpie
> >>
> >>> 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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