Housing is a Human Right

Checking out this installation at this Fort Greene Laundromat (located at 81 Lafayette Avenue) sponsored by @laundromatproj on this rainy Tuesday evening in the Shire.

Some details noted below:

Housing is a Human Right launches with an exhibition of stories in a Laundromat in Fort Greene, Brooklyn Oct 27 – Nov 2.

Listening performance Oct 27th 7pm – 8:30pm

Tensions Flare at Vigil for Teen Beating Victim #derrionalbert

At one point between 15 and 20 people were banging on the doors of the high school, trying to get inside. Police barred them from entering the building. Meanwhile, students watched from classroom windows.

I’m behind on a news and twitter cycle about @derrionalbert by at least a couple of days. As I searched through the trending topic (#derrionalbert) I read the above callout quote.

I don’t have the stomach to watch the video. It may because it’s somewhere between weakness and desensitization. I can’t watch any human suffering, yet I fear that we all see it too much to really to feel anything. I hope that’s not true.

But now? Who are these kids? Have we been raising our kids to beat each other savagely like this? Where’s our moral center? How have we as a community failed to teach and affirm life to this generation?

What hurts me as much as the death of this kid, this honor student, and beyond the bloodlust of the mob, is the police. The spectacle, the gladiator style savagery, and seeming appearance that the police did nothing to intervene to stop the slaughter of the innocent, standing like sentinels inside the fortress.

My god, my god. What have we done?

Affirm Life.

You Got The Look…

Hello World.

Welcome to The Bellewether State’s new home in fabulous webby 2.0 WordPress.

I hope you like the new look. I’m still looking for suggestions for themes, but for now, the simple elegance of Redoable Lite is going to hold this down.

It’s been a little more than a year of me blogging. My earlier posts have safely migrated to WordPress for your viewing pleasure.

Change is good.