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

[sharpie at riseup.net]

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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