I wasn't going to go to Zuccotti Park today--there are limits, after all. Then I viewed a video of a remarkable press conference held at noon today by the OWS librarians and several attorneys (Norman Siegel and Gideon Oliver, who is president of the NYC chapter of … [Read more...]

It's been a long day so I'll make this a short post. It was nasty and cold and wet and sparsely peopled at Zuccotti Park around 5 p.m., and as I stood facing Broadway I had the funny experience of being the unofficial greeter for a whole slew of people who stopped … [Read more...]

At dusk on Sunday, I was standing inside the barricades facing Broadway and reading from Olga Cabral's Voice Over: Selected Poems (West End Press, 1993). Olga was a lovely woman of gentle demeanor, born in 1909, whom I met a few times in the 1980's and '90's. I … [Read more...]

All over the country, the tanks have rolled. Are rolling. It comes as no surprise, but is still a matter of outrage: at Occupy sites all over the "land of the free," bullying, vicious, indeed sadistic police forcing has occurred--is ongoing--against completely … [Read more...]

Pressed for time, I've been thinking about the virtues of Twitter. Why not describe the Foley Square rally and Brooklyn Bridge walk as an imaginary Twitter feed (minus all the cute abbreviations)?4:20 p.m. Arrival at Foley Square, greeted by tall banners of … [Read more...]