Extreme colour-coding: the people selling coffee are probably black; the people buying, probably white. The people cleaning the street: black. The people wearing suits on Wall Street: white. The farmers in the Union Square market: white. The supermarket check-out employees: black. Maybe Hispanic. The woman sitting against a lamp-post with a cardboard sign reading ‘Tired [...]
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‘Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives out free healthcare: you’re thinking of Jesus’ – some more impressions of New York
Posted in America, bankers, Brooklyn, cycling, Liberty Plaza, monogamy, New York, NYC, Occupy Wall Street, occupywallst, occupywallstreet, protest on September 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Brooklyn reliquary, & some New York City diary updates
Posted in America, Brooklyn, New York, NYC, reliquary on September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m approaching the close of my first month in New York City. As everyone here has a dozen things to do on a daily basis, being in the ‘overload’ stage is a lonely experience. I mean to do those dozen things, but I am in a bit of a slough of despond – the first [...]
the subway, the storm, Obama, Zizek, and a call-out for Pete.
Posted in Brooklyn, megacities, Zizek on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On the L-train, I met a man called Daryl who was playing ‘Come Together’ really well with his battered guitar. I sang along without knowing the lyrics, and my new friend Shalin, a strange urban-o-rural postmodern creature, swung about like a monkey on the steel bars of the train to express his enthusiasm. Daryl addressed [...]
Hello New York City
Posted in Brooklyn, NYC on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
New York, I want to slash you like Mary Richardson slashed Velásquez’s Venus. Can Wall Street be occupied? Can the Stock Exchange be squatted? What you do is bedazzle all utopians with a deluge of the already-happening and already-happened. How many plays, meetings, book-circles, dance-forms, community enterprises and art-works have already come to pass? That [...]
Sophie’s Twitter Feed
- Those speculating were huddled by the auctioneer's desk trying to haggle over crisis-stricken families' houses amid the beautiful din #o4o ~ 2 weeks ago
- Waiting now for nine arrestees at today's o4o sing-along-auction-blockade to be released at (cont) http://t.co/6gl6SUiL ~ 2 weeks ago
- #o4o action in Brooklyn Supreme Court kicked off just now, to resist banks' foreclosing on people's (cont) http://t.co/80aPmWLO ~ 2 weeks ago
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