Author: Mike

Update on “Darfur trial”

On November 6, 2007, three of the seven defendants convicted for civil disobedience in 2005 against the Darfur genocide went to Washington, DC, for oral arguments in an appeal of their case.

Yesterday, I talked to two of them, Ken Hannaford-Ricardi and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy, about how it went. The men are members of the Saints Francis & Therese Catholic Worker community in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Ken Hannaford-Ricardi and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy
Ken Hannaford-Ricardi and Scott Schaeffer-Duffy

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Newspapers down 2.6%; T&G down 5%

From the Boston Globe:

Nationwide, average daily paid newspaper circulation declined 2.6 percent in the six months that ended Sept. 30, compared with the previous year . . . .

Daily paid circulation at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette fell 5.3 percent.

If this sounds familiar, you may be thinking of this story from May: Newspapers down 2%; T&G down 11%. At least the local loss is slowing. The T&G covered the general story, but didn’t mention their own stats.

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Worcester election items
I’m really impressed at the job Scott Zoback did liveblogging the election for Worcester Magazine. Much more about the internet & the election on this Friday’s podcast.

Here’s a chart of the results, which I originally posted at Worcester Activist.

Your Pettys and Rushtons rocketed up since the prelims; not so for your Colemans, Perottos, Rosses, and Irishes.

The T&G screws up again

Good grief: “A chart in today’s Telegram & Gazette had incorrect totals for Ms. Ross, Mr. Irish and Mr. Coleman.”

They also screwed up in the prelims.
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508 #7: disco entertainment and other sleaze

508 is a show about Worcester.

This week, Mike is joined by Bruce Russell and Brendan Melican.

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The criminal complaint against Sarah Loy was dropped; gay marriage opponents exchange e-mails with Richard Nangle and the T&G; Brendan thinks that the illegal disclosure of City Council candidate Michael Germain’s financial records won’t hurt his campaign; Worcester Magazine thinks that candidate Grace Ross has “weathered the storm of her Green Party’s international posturing”; the candidates’ junk mail has often been junk; we interview Michael Boover at last week’s anti-war rally in Boston; a new Snow Ghost show premieres tonight; and finally, we talk to Kevin Ksen about Worcester’s “disco entertainment license.”

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Candidate/zombie Rick Rushton: I want your vote . . . and . . . brainsssssss . . .

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Loy charges dropped

Shari Worthington, the woman behind the complaint:

Bottom line, the ruling in the Commonwealth vs Cirignano trial proves Sarah Loy had no right to disrupt the “Let the People Vote” rally on December 16, 2006. Therefore, there is no reason to pursue the criminal complaint against her.

Know Thy Neighbor:

KnowThyNeighbor received a telephone call from former Catholic Citizenship Director Larry Cirignano, last evening to tell me that late Friday afternoon, Shari Worthington officially pulled the papers ending her criminal complaint which accused Sarah Loy of “Disturbing a Lawful Assembly.” By Cirignano’s account, Worthington did this as an act of good grace on her way to bringing her teenage daughter to Children’s Hospital for a serious back problem.

508 #6: Beer, guns, and Wal-Mart

508 is a show about Worcester.

This week, Mike is joined by Bruce Russell and Brendan Melican.

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The mayoral forum at the Dive Bar went great, though many were dissatisfied with the candidates’ answers. Brendan recaps his blog post about the rhetoric Worcester State College officials are using to argue that their security should be armed. Opposition to a Worcester Wal-Mart has ended; Wal-Mart itself is slowing down the spread of SuperCenters. Sarah Loy returns to court Monday for a hearing regarding a criminal complaint against her. Bruce plugs his cable access show, and Mike and Brendan praise the Dive Bar.

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Mayoral forum at the Dive Bar
Having a mayoral candidate forum at the Dive Bar was an inspired idea. I don’t have much to say that others haven’t said, but I do have some photos.

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Bruce, Steve Lanava of the T&G, candidate Bill Coleman.

Left Ahead
I talked about the Cirignano trial on this week’s Left Ahead podcast. I was pretty sick, and not especially pithy, so listen at your own risk.

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Fr Bernie Gilgun’s homily, October 19, 2007

This is a recording of a homily by Father Bernie Gilgun, from his weekly Mass at the Mustard Seed in Worcester, Massachusetts. He begins with an anecdote about Dorothy Day, then discusses the North American Martyrs.

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Reading for October 19, 2007.