August 26, 2004
Protesting With Banners And In The Buff
This morning, a protest group, Operation Sybil, had members rappel down the side of the Plaza Hotel and display a huge anti-Bush banner. Gothamist received some photos that the intrepid Lucie Eber took before the protesters were arrested. Hopefully more details will emerge on how this was orchestrated, because we're curious if they needed to reserve rooms or just walked into the hotel and made their way to the roof. It's just really stunning.
NY1 had a story about people making unwelcome banners for arriving delegates that will be on their roofs (for passing airplanes) or hang from their windows, or placing other anti-Bush/GOP symbols in their windows. And outside Madison Square Garden, protesters from ACT UP stood naked on Eighth Avenue for 15 minutes, holding up traffic; they were later handcuffed. Photos of female (kinda NSFW) and male protesters show that the words "Drop The Debt" are written on their bodies. ACT UP made sure there was a clothed member who could talk to media; Robert Dabney said, "This protest is to tell the naked truth to President Bush and the Republican Party. Our protestors are demanding number one that the president support full debt cancellation for the poorest nations in the world.”
More protest picks from city rag.
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This is good stuff. The best thing is that banner hanging like this, because it is almost pure message and not a spectacle of street-borne disorder, conveys the strength of the statement. It is not subject to the hackneyed criticisms of the coming RNC protests: that they are going to be mob scenes. I am furious at the way Bush has handled his office, and this banner sums up a major reason why.
you could say that the truth was pointing to a desired location of protest and bush to msg...
or that the truth was coming from mass. to the north and bush from the south in dc.
Great pictures! Of the Banner, that is...
;)
Last night, up to my eyeballs and in a coma with all the serious news about the presidential race
on television that I've been overloading myself with, I didn't snap out of it for a few seconds when a commercial came on for "Father of the Pride". Thanks to the "Siegfried" character skipping a rope while singing a hysterically funny song I have come to my senses about what's really important. Humor!!! SO HAHAHAHAHA about that banner!! Good for them! And I'm not even voting for Kerry!!!!
A turtle was walking down an alley in New York when he was mugged by a gang of snails. A police detective came to investigate and asked the turtle if he could explain what happened. The turtle looked at the detective with a confused look on his face and replied "I don't know, it all happened so fast."
Q: How many Republicans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None, they only screw the poor
Wow! Great! Pow!
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