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Just in case folks had not heard, the independent journalist Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) will be attending Q&As in Newport this weekend for a film called STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! which is a documentary about her and about Democracy Now!

Newport | Jane Pickens Center | Playing Saturday, 6/27 - Tuesday, 6/30 only

⁠Q&A on 6/27 at 7:30pm, moderated by John Pantalone (Editor & Writer, Newport This Week) 
• ⁠Q&A on 6/28 at 2:00pm, moderated by Bernardo H. Motta (Associate Professor of Journalism, Roger Williams University)

I saw this doc at a film festival and it's phenomenal – incredibly inspiring.

Just in case folks had not heard, the independent journalist Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) will be attending Q&As in Providence this weekend for a movie called STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE!

Providence | Avon Cinema | Opens Friday, June 26

• ⁠Q&A on 6/26 at 7pm, moderated by Daniel Denvir (author, organizer, and host of "The Dig" Podcast)
• ⁠Q&A on 6/27 @ 3:20p, moderated by Eric Halvarson (reporter, "The Providence Eye")

I saw this doc at a film festival and it's phenomenal – incredibly inspiring.

Just in case folks had not heard, the independent journalist Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) will be attending Q&As in Providence and Newport this weekend.

Providence | Avon Cinema | Opens Friday, June 26

• Q&A on 6/26 at 7pm, moderated by Daniel Denvir (author, organizer, and host of "The Dig" Podcast)
• Q&A on 6/27 @ 3:20p, moderated by Eric Halvarson (reporter, "The Providence Eye")

Newport | Jane Pickens Center | Playing Saturday, 6/27 - Tuesday, 6/30 only

• Q&A on 6/27 at 7:30pm, moderated by John Pantalone (Editor & Writer, Newport This Week) 
• Q&A on 6/28 at 2:00pm, moderated by Bernardo H. Motta (Associate Professor of Journalism, Roger Williams University)

I saw this doc at a film festival and it's phenomenal – incredibly inspiring.

Please bear with me. I am reeling.

My 77 year old mom is admittedly very difficult to live with. She definitely has some narcissism or perhaps some light borderline personality going on. She's insufferably controlling. She can be manipulative. Of vital importance however... she not a liar.

My dad is very passive, enabler type, quiet and very conflict averse. Neither are the nurturer/caretaker type.

I live halfway across the country from these people and I am essentially an only child insomuch as my (local) brother is a deeply irresponsible recovering (?) addict who may or may not have a place to live who still relies on them for transportation and life expenses at the age of 42.

My mom was just released from the hospital two days ago following a weeklong stay after a big and complicated surgery – jaw reconstruction including taking bone and blood vessels from her ankle. She is eating through a feeding tube. She can't walk to the bathroom alone or handle her own feeds. She's totally dependent on him.

She called me yesterday to say he was dropping the ball on managing the details of her care – she had sent him to the store with a long list of things and he left without most, and got the wrong ones for the rest. He also almost put medicine in her feeding tube that he insisted was safe to do, but then when she called the nurse's line, they said under no circumstances could she do that. She dropped a little "i told you so" vibe on him and he reacted with a lot of anger and resentment – not uncommon for him at all.

Today, he again tried to put some medicine in her tube that he said was okay. She didn't push back because she "didn't want to get screamed at." It was not okay – it clogged the tube. When she gave him the business, he did something he had never done before. He hit her. On purpose. In the back of the head. Hard enough that it still hurt when she called me from the ER, where she went so they could fix her tube.

She said he had half-heartedly apologized on the drive to the ER, and then resumed conversation although it had never happened, which is very much in line with his (lack of) ability to handle nuanced conversations with emotional intelligence.

My dad's situation is this... he is 79 and has a pretty bad essential tremor. They have really never gotten along but there has never been physical violence. He was diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment a few years ago which I guess may be escalating? I suppose?

Fuck.

I don't really know why I am posting. I would be very grateful for any advice or commiserating. This is the first time I've had to really face the fact that they're not OK and will need my intervention.

This will not be easy for me emotionally but most importantly logistically – I am a very stretched thin business owner who has multiple international trips coming up, for work and for non-work, and I also have two little kids including a neurodivergent seven year old going through some really big tough challenges now.

I am also not a nurturer type. Thank god, my husband is.

I do have the ability to pay for some help for them, if it comes to that. Which I expect it will.

Sorry for the ramble.

https://mkefilm.org/films/69934cea3a3dabe7048014e7

There is a documentary about press freedom called STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! and she is doing a Q&A at Oriental Theatre on Sunday at noon.

Can someone help me understand why the Pie for the People menu is back at this (presumably) ghost kitchen associated with the Lekker address on Washington?

We ordered our old fave Bowie and it was like stepping into a blissful time machine.

What is happening right now???