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- The Advocate touts Cicilline's gov hopes
- Carcieri: Station fire victim-payment delay is short
- Guardsmen to deploy a little earlier because of snow
- R.I. high court splits decision in 'rice war' suit
- Real stimulus requires blue collar jobs
- The Onion says it best
- DOT to open new Route 403 ramps to N. Kingstown
- Blago Benched!
- RI gets a bouquet on tourism
- Update: ACLU objects to breath tests at Barrington dances
- Delestre won't seek new trial in child killing
The phenomenon of manifestos, and the phenomenon of change, is a social-historical accident. The conditions in this town and the historical conditions around the country in the mid-’80s created a lot of alternative spaces, and we started networking with each other. We were in contact with the Knitting Factory in New York, which started a little bit after AS220 did, the Worcester Artist Group, the Middle East in Cambridge, and Populist Pudding in Connecticut. These alternative spaces were creeping up all around the country and there was such a need for something like AS220, that if it wasn’t me then it might have been someone else. The idea of social-historical accident, which I got from a brief conversation I had with Bobby Seals about the Black Panthers, resonates with me about our own history, and the types of advances that have happened historically when the conditions were right.
