Saturday, February 15th, 2003
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I’m back from the rally, I marched from Union Square to 69th and First and then all the way back down to the Lower East Side. The entire East Side above 42nd Street up to about 72nd Street was occupied by the protesters. This was all great, but I am so pissed all my 120 digital photos came out overexposed to the point of being almost pure white. I’m hoping it came about from some setting in the menu that I might have triggered accidentally. I don’t know, it seems to be working fine right now. Cripes!
Here’s the only photo I have with any image on it at all, and it is almost useless. It’s the "Slumber Party." They were some kids in pajamas carrying pillows who had a well organized routines, songs and slogans. Here they are having a sleep-in on the sidewalk.
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The updated Gammablablog forecast for the peace rally now at 51st Street and First Avenue, within possible sight of the UN…. cloudy, cold and windy for the afternoon. Sounds less invigorating than it did. Still, go multi-layered, gloves and scarves are a must… I don’t know what excuse is being given for pushing the rally even farther from the UN, but it doesn’t matter where we gather.
Can’t March? Find the music and dance in place. We have from 51st street up as far as we can fill, legally and in the permit. Bring an FM radio, tune it to WBAI 99.5 for rally coverage. Can’t find any music? …Sing.
Have a mobile phone camera? Send your rally pictures to the BBC, from your mobile phone, dial (44) 7970 885089
Feeder Marches update.
Map of feeder sites.
Legal Support Info
National Lawyer’s Guild guide
First Aid
Know Your Rights: Demonstrating in New York City – Information from the New York Civil Liberties Union about your legal rights.
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Filed under: Upper East Side- , Demonstrations, Peace - by gamma
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Friday, February 14th, 2003
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| Houston and Elizabeth Streets in the early Eighties. I need to scan more of my street art photos from that time. |
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Friday, February 14th, 2003
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The Gammablablog forecast for the peace rally at 49th Street and First Avenue, within sight of the UN…. dusting of snow tonight, sunny, cold and windy for the afternoon. Sounds invigorating to me. But go multi-layered, gloves and scarves are a must..
Can’t March? Find the music and dance in place. We have from 49th street up as far as we can fill, legally in the permit. Bring an FM radio, tune it to 99.5 for rally coverage on WBAI. Can’t find any music? …Sing.
Have a mobile phone camera? Send your rally pictures to the BBC, from your mobile phone, dial (44) 7970 885089
Danielle Chynoweth a city council member from Urbana, Illinois talks about a scary trip to an Orange Alert DC with 30 of the councilmembers of the 93 cities, counties, and states (Maine and Hawaii!) who have passed anti-war resolutions. They went to the capital to lobby. Some are now here in NYC for tomorrow’s rally.
Cities for Peace. I can’t read the legend but I suspect the red dots are the cities these council folks came from.
Melbourne Australia – Friday 14 February 2003 at 6 pm – Massive crowd, at first anti-war demonstration of this weekend – Photo Anthony Hogan.
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Feeder Marches update.
Map of feeder sites.
Legal Support Info
National Lawyer’s Guild guide
First Aid
Know Your Rights: Demonstrating in New York City – Information from the New York Civil Liberties Union about your legal rights.
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Filed under: Uncategorized- , Demonstrations, Protest, Weather - by gamma
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Thursday, February 13th, 2003
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| I need to research on this tower of junk inside the gates of the Sixth and B garden. I think the story is that this is one man’s obsession, from back when this garden was a vacant lot, and that the garden grew around it. This is a vertical panorama composed of four photos. |
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Thursday, February 13th, 2003
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| This is one of my favorite street paintings from the early Eighties. It appeared overnight in a parking lot, that I remember as being at Mott and Houston Streets. I returned the next day to try to get better photos of it, but alas it was gone. That dirty tarred wall on the east side of the lot, had previously only shown ugly mindless tagging and was left unmolested by any maintenance paint for years. You can detect remnants of what it looked like behind this painting. But of course the owners painted over this amazing artistic outburst almost as soon as it appeared. It may be a jam of two artists, basing that purely on what seems like two distinct styles of brush. I’d welcome any information that anyone has on this piece. Click to see full image. |
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Filed under: Soho, Street Art- , Murals, Paint, Word on the Street - by gamma
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Thursday, February 13th, 2003
I suspect that these faces, found all over East Side sidewalks, were done with paint squirted out of a ketchup bottle. I love the spontaeous elegant lines of the drawings. There are a couple that have beautiful Picassoesque bodies to them, I am still trying to figure out how to photograph them without a tall ladder. CyberSam
ducks his head in solidarity.
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Filed under: East Village, Street Art- , Sidewalk Art - by gamma
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Wednesday, February 12th, 2003
Wednesday, February 12th, 2003
Filed under: Uncategorized- , Media - by gamma
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