{"id":2283,"date":"2007-08-17T06:59:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T11:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2007-08-24T21:08:42","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T02:08:42","slug":"attack-on-iww-solidarity-march-in-providence-ri-support-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Attack on IWW Solidarity March in Providence, RI-Support Needed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/182909452-m.jpg?resize=400%2C268\" height=\"268\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/182909452-m.jpg\">click to enlarge<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanmcintosh.smugmug.com\/\">photo by Jonathan McIntosh<\/a><br \/>\n<em>from his gallery<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanmcintosh.smugmug.com\/gallery\/3293537\">Police Attack Wobblies March in North Providence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanmcintosh.smugmug.com\/gallery\/3293537\/1\/182909452\/Medium\">AUG\/11\/07<\/a> &#8211; Providence RI, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) march on Jackies Galaxy, a local restaurant chain supplied by HWH\/Dragonland in NYC, a supplier notorious for slave labor conditions and a lack of basic labor rights. A few blocks before finishing the march North Providence police brutally tackled two of the marches after they moved to the sidewalk too slowly, both were arrested and one suffered a badly broken leg in the attack. More info here: [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iww.org\/en\/node\/3563\" target=\"_blank\">Attack on IWW Solidarity March in Providence, RI-Support Needed!<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police defend actions in protest<br \/>\nBy Richard C. Dujardin, projo.com, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/ri\/northprovidence\/content\/protest_probe_08-15-07_L16OBI5.34bfbd4.html\">15 August 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NORTH PROVIDENCE &#8211; As the police stepped up their probe into whether officers used excessive force against a 22-year-old demonstrator whose leg was twisted and broken during Saturday&#8217;s protest against an Asian restaurant on Mineral Spring Avenue, Deputy Police Chief Paul Marino and Mayor Charles Lombardi both reiterated yesterday they don&#8217;t believe local officers did anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Svoboda, of 139 Wood St. in Providence and originally from Lincoln, Neb., was in surgery yesterday for the second attempt to save her leg. Meanwhile, outside Rhode Island Hospital, fellow demonstrators from the Providence branch of the International Workers of the World gathered to express their support for their fallen colleague.<\/p>\n<p>There are conflicting stories about how Svoboda &#8211; who has an aunt and uncle who were FBI agents &#8211; was injured.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.projo.com\/ri\/northprovidence\/content\/protest_probe_08-15-07_L16OBI5.34bfbd4.html\">Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>click to enlarge | photo by Jonathan McIntosh from his gallery, Police Attack Wobblies March in North Providence AUG\/11\/07 &#8211; Providence RI, Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) march on Jackies Galaxy, a local restaurant chain supplied by HWH\/Dragonland in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}