Purple Heart bandaids given out at the RNC - Photo
“Stop the War on Heroism” - a clever slogan from a listener/caller to the Randi Rhodes show.
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Monthly Archives: August 2004
New Yorkers Say No to Bush
Monday, August 30th, 2004
Raging Grannies
Sunday, August 29th, 2004
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| These "raging grannies" typify what I saw. The crowd estimates range from 120,000 to 400,000. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was even higher. Whatever, there was a hell of a lot of people there. |
Swoon Division
Friday, August 27th, 2004
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| New Swoon print in Cortland Alley. Larger version. |
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| Detail of the print. I’m guessing that this is a portrait of the folks on Division Pl. in Williamsburg. The photo is not detailed enough to tell if it reads st. or pl. There is a Division Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown. |
Update, it’s Division Street, lower Manhattan. Swoon writes, “That piece on cortland alley is a kind of a tribute to all of new york city, i was down in the lower east side, chinatown area one day and a friend was explaining the density of tenement life at the turn of the century, and the crowded streets and the noise, in lot’s of vivid imagery, and then i went into this diner and it had a picture of a thronging street with that poem from the base of the statue of liberty which i had never paid a bit of attention to, those lines about your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. i felt like such a sap but i thought about those words all week that week as i walked around and looked at things. if you look at the top of the image i tried to make something temple-like and sheltering which these hourdes are pouring in or out of.
