Former GSG editor-in-chief Shawn Wallace is scanning old issues for your viewing pleasure. The first one is up, more to follow soon. Update: I’ve created a Google Group as a place to put more scans and post your comments. Link
Last Friday, South Kingstown High School officials terrified students and parents by announcing a “code blue” lockdown. With teachers and students kept in the dark about the true nature of the lockdown, text messages and cell phone calls flew through the ether as people wondered whether an act of violence was in progress. It didn’t help that students were forced to huddle in a corner of the room while shades were drawn, doors were locked, and lights were turned off.
As it turns out, it was a combined homeland security drill/drug sweep (those two seem to go together like milk and cookies these days). The students were kept in a state of fear and uncertainty for 45 minutes while the police searched for their bounty.
Their catch? One joint.
The price? Terrified children who will be less trustful the next time they are told to do something to protect their own safety.
David
Brussat: “But, curiously, in recent decades, second- and
third-generation crudscape has increasingly nodded, however slightly,
toward the past.”
(free registration—the anti-blog—required)
Narragansett
Times: “Can a cop carry a gun, and shoot to kill for his own or
another’s protection, and still espouse the philosophy of non-violence
and peace taught by King and carried on by Dr. Bernard LaFayette, head
of Center for Non-violence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode
Island?”
Providence
Journal (free registration required): “To whoops of approval and
applause from a crowd of political activists, the City Council last
night voted unanimously to adopt a resolution condemning the antiterror
law called the USA Patriot Act.”
South County
Independent: “Campus Cinema will close its doors after tonight’s movie screenings…”
I put this up a while ago, but forgot to blog it. Here’s a little background: there’s a group in
Peace Dale (of which I’m a member) who is pushing for an AS220-ish arts center in the Palisades mill complex. I
shot some video of the initial
meeting (8MB).