It must be summer. We’ve got a grill, boom box, dog, drill, and assembly line of art-builders on the sidewalk out front. Not An Alternative is back to props production, and this time we’re teaming up with Picture The Homeless to architect a tent city.
The homeless population continues to escalate at the same time [...]
This week the White House is trying to push through the biggest financial theft in world history with nary a stitch of debate. They’re asking for a blank check for over 1 trillion dollars to bail out George Bush’s Wall Street cronies who created this economic crisis in the first place.
If this passes, we can [...]
Protesters Rally Against Union Square ‘Privatization’
(originally posted at VillageVoice.com)
Nate Maton at 2:09 PM, June 6, 2008
Photos by Philippe Teston
Lucy Parsons, Emma Gordon, Dorothy Day, Norman Thomas, and even good old George Washington— or at least protesters dressed like them— were among several hundred people who assembled at Union Square yesterday to protest proposed [...]
originally posted at thevillager.com
Volume 77 / Number 52 - May 28 - June 3, 2008
Villager photos by Jefferson Siegel
Reverend Billy preached through his megaphone after popping inside the Union Square construction fence last week, above. Below, cutouts of “Union Square heroes” that Billy’s disciples held during the protest.
Performance preacher calls pavilion sacred space
By Jefferson Siegel
Last [...]
