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    Participatory evolution

    by Robert C. Koehler, Tribune Content Agency Aug 22, 2019 4 minutes

    The big black pickup truck plunged into the protesters blocking the parking lot and I cringed, viscerally, as though I could feel it myself -- this merciless crush of steel against flesh.

    I was recovering from a bicycle injury when I watched the event on the news last week, as members of the Never Again movement stood their ground to shut down the Wyatt Detention Facility, in Central Falls, Rhode Island. I had fallen a few days earlier; my face hit the sidewalk. I was far too close to my own trauma not to feel a horrified empathy as I watched the .

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