Dispatch from New York: Whose Streets?

[seemslikeadream]

“It’s like they’re trying to hijack our pain,” says Mike de Seve. The 41-year-old Brooklyn Heights resident is neither a scary anarchist nor a member of any leftwing group. In fact, he’s best known for being the animation director for Beavis and Butthead, and has directed features for Disney. But he’s now feverishly at work trying to build 1000 flag-draped coffins to call attention to the US soldiers who have died in Iraq (currently 968).

“We want to give the media something real to shoot," says De Seve. "The Bush Administration has classified all images of the incoming dead -- they’re not allowed to be seen. So we want to really put it out there: What are the real costs of war?”

De Seve is not alone in his newfound fervor. Beyond the pro-choice march across the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday, the mass march organized by United for Peace and Justice on Sunday, the large protests called by immigrant rights, AIDS and antipoverty campaigners on Monday, the big union rally on Wednesday, and a black-led march in Harlem on Thursday, there are dozens of independent initiatives in the works by ordinary citizens who say they are outraged at the thought of a Bush coronation here.

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http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3071

[roguevalley]

1. God bless all these patriots.

[Catt03]

2. According to the NYT story, a lot of 9/11 families

are still voting for Bush.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/29/politics/campaign/29poll.html?hp

[Cha]

5. And a lot of them aren't! The wonder is that anyone wtih two

neurons to rub together is voting for bush.

[mrbassman03]

8. The ones who are though...

The local news here in Seattle did an interview of a Bush supporter who was punched by a Kerry supporter recently: "Well, I support Bush because he is our president... and that's why I'm voting for him". This guy was taunting the Kerry supporter, getting into his face and giving him crap, and the news tries to make him the good guy because he took a punch.

[Cha]

3. I feel 1/100 of these People's pain in New York City...

and mine is really intense ..I can only imagine what they feel about their City being invaded by these hypocritical, lying, murdering fascists!

[aquart]

6. We're a tourist town. And we have the UN.

This is a sanctuary city. People who can't live anywhere else, but have a trust fund, can live here.

If there's a group or nationality or political or religious preference not represented in NYC, I'd like to extend an invitation now. Come. And open a restaurant with takeout and delivery.

True freedom lies in nobody having the majority, so we're forced to work together to get anything done.

And I will give directions to any poor lost soul who asks me.

[Dancing_Dave]

4. Now that's some really great journalism!

There is real DEPTH in her observations of what's happening in New York! :toast:

[mbperrin]

7. Here's where the rubber meets the road, really!

Thanks in advance to all those who are working so hard to oust these interlopers and to raise the consciousness of the American public.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!