Liu, Yvonne (yl28172@imcnam.sbi.com)
Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:22:34 -0400
Kevin, it was excellent.
I was down near the teepee (or tripod)
holding onto one of the poles for dear life.
It kept on swaying with the wind.
Bernardo kept on screaming to the ppl,
"Just chill, if the cops come, just be liquid..."
Of course, he was one of the 13 that were arrested.
One b boy just broke down in tears,
"Why are they doing this? This is so beautiful,
ppl just dancing in the streets.
Why are they doing this?"
The crowd was scooted over to near
Washington Sq. Park,
where the screaming at the pigs commenced.
Later, groups and crowds meandered over
to the 9th Precinct, on 5th St.
between 1st and 2nd,
where supposedly the 13 were kept.
We were misinformed.
Later, we marched down to the 6th Precinct
(nearby Delancey St.)
accompanied by a police motorcade on mopeds.
Screaming:
"2 4 6 8,
F*ck the police state."
"Hey Hey Ho Ho
Giuliani has got to go."
"No Peace,
No Justice."
And of course,
"Who's streets?
Our streets."
We waited until 8:30 pm
and most of our friends were released.
Three were kept over nite
(two were young females)
b/c they had to be carried off,
aka they "resisted arrest."
RECLAIM THE STREETS
is an international street party protest movement
that began in London 1995 and has since
traveled around the world - to Amsterdam,
Sidney, Tokyo, Prague, Helsinki, San Francisco,
and now, New York.
On May 16th of this year,
28 street parties in 19 countries
took place simultaneously.
Last year, over 20,000 ppl
took over London's Trafalgar Sq.
For more information about RTS
or to join the mailing/calling list,
call the hotline 212 539 6746.
You can also reply-email to me,
as I have a listing of different
local, community and national organizations.
!NAMASTE!
Yvonne.
______________________________________________________
I became politicized by de contemplative life. What it is, Mama!
Meditashun be whut brought me t'political radicalizashun.
I came t'de revolushun by way uh de Gospels.
It wuz not by eyeballin' Marx but Christ.
It kin be said dat da damn Gospels made me some Marxist.
-- Ernesto Cardenal (1976)
Jive-N-Ated by the likes of WWW.JiveOn.Com.
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> From: k kiernan[SMTP:mrfliz@interport.net]
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 1998 3:56 PM
> To: Yvonne Liu <yl28172@imcnam.sbi.com>, yvonneliu@yahoo.com, Yvonne's
> Other Address; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu; nyc-raves@hyperreal.org
> Subject: RECLAIM THE STREETS of NYC
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liu, Yvonne <yl28172@imcnam.sbi.com>
> To: 'acid-jazz@ucsd.edu' <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>; 'nyc-raves@hyperreal.org'
> <nyc-raves@hyperreal.org>
> Date: Friday, October 02, 1998 5:06 PM
> Subject: NYC: GROOVE COLLECTIVE @ SOB's / RECLAIM THE STREETS of NYC
>
>
> wow--it's really happening, right now. i'm in my office at broadway and
> astor, and damn if they haven't shut down broadway! they've raised this
> three-poled teepee like thing and there's a guy up top, and it's blocking
> the street. i count about 200 people dancing and milling around, music's
> playing, goans are going, and the cops are starting to mass up (around 20
> of
> them right now).
>
> i love new york.
>
> uh, the head cop has a bullhorn, somethin's gonna happen...."you will be
> arrested...." now there's 15 cops on scooters formed in a wedge who lined
> up
> in front of the teepee, they just arrested a guy, "whose streets? OUR
> STREETS" 3:20-3:40 police clear the sidewalks....3:50 cops turn the sound
> off.....3:51 teepee guy climbs down, is arrested 15 seconds later....3:52
> teepee comes down, cops start to clear street 3:56 the street is clear,
> the
> crowd has walked down waverly to washington square park.......i can't see
> anything anymore.....
>
>
> kevink
>
> np crowd noise
>
> >
> >RECLAIM THE STREETS of NYC
> >
> >Free form dance performance protest street party,
> >featuring:
> >
> > fire breathing
> > street theater
> > live pirate radio broadcast
> > DJs spinning Goa Trance
> > (MATTHEW MAGIC (Tsunami/Project Beyond, NYC))
> > swarms overtaking city turf to break the Guiliani squeeze.
> >
> > RECLAIM THE STREETS has been happening around the world--in
> >Amsterdam, London, Israel, Prague, and now New York. The time is now.
> >The Mayor's homogenizing (and boring!) "Quality of Life" campaign is
> >fast privatizing scarce public space, squeezing the pockets of diverse
> >communities and stealing our freedom to express. It is time to take to
> >the streets. Get our ooom pah boom back.
> >
> >Info Line: (212) 539-6746
> >Sunday, October 4th, 2 pm SHARP at the Astor Place cube
> >Bring a portable radio and your favorite furniture
> >
> >
> >*this party will include a mobile sound system as well as several bands
> >of hand drummer and circus type performers- it is NOT a permit event*
> >
> >______________________________________________________
> >
> >I became politicized by de contemplative life. What it is, Mama!
> >Meditashun be whut brought me t'political radicalizashun.
> >I came t'de revolushun by way uh de Gospels.
> >It wuz not by eyeballin' Marx but Christ.
> >It kin be said dat da damn Gospels made me some Marxist.
> >
> > -- Ernesto Cardenal (1976)
> > Jive-N-Ated by the likes of WWW.JiveOn.Com.
> >
>
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