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 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 [...]
Posted May 29th, 2008 by surplus
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 [...]
Posted August 20th, 2007 by surplus
August 20, 2007 by Sarah Ferguson in the Village Voice
Protesters were waiting for Ulises Ruiz, the governor of Oaxaca, to make an appearance, except he never did.
Photos by Sarah Ferguson
Posted July 31st, 2007 by surplus
http://www.indiewire.com/biz/2007/07/with_deadine_ap.html
by Agnes Varnum (July 30, 2007)