Posted August 17th, 2009 by surplus
Not An Alternative recently teamed up with Picture The Homeless, Reclaim NYC and others to stage an intervention on the urban landscape. The collaboration involved the production and deployment of a homeless tent city in a vacant bank-owned lot in East Harlem.
As a diversion, we dressed up as a film production crew shooting a music [...]
Posted July 24th, 2009 by surplus
Posted July 19th, 2009 by surplus
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 [...]
Posted September 23rd, 2008 by surplus
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 [...]
Posted June 6th, 2008 by surplus
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 [...]