We're going to chalk up the park at the Tompkins Square Park nonbandshell at 2 pm and then take our chalk and our Community Wheel of Fortune to the corner of Avenue A and 11th Street, the site of the threatened 7-Eleven, and chalk up the street and talk to the passers-by who don't yet know what's coming to their neighborhood. Join us for some good old anti-corporate-anti-suburbanization-and-anti-Pringle-ization-of-our-souls-and-our-streets fun!
Meanwhile, here's video journalism piece CUNY TV produced on the No 7-Eleven group... it starts at the 12:45 mark...
I attended last week's event. In fairness to them, I liked the Wheel of Fortune. It's too bad the idea of advancing real community control is reduced to a sideshow act. My thoughts on last week's gathering are here.
ReplyDeleteRestaurants employ much more labor than a 7-Eleven, and that's most likely what would replace a 7-Eleven on A or on St. Mark's. To defend giant corporations on labor grounds is short-sighted at best. Defending the corporatocracy at all is short-sighted. Didn't we just go through too big to fail, too big to jail? Anyway, if boosting personal blog readership is the opportunity du box, here's the new NO 7-Eleven website
ReplyDeletehttp://no7eleven.wordpress.com/
Resist giant corporate control of our streets!
I'm happy to see peaceful protesters using creativity and humor to get their message out there. I had no idea so many 7-11s were planned until I bumped into the group in the park last week.
ReplyDelete@shmnyc
ReplyDeleteThat's the nature of protest these days. Protest marches are now "art parades".
shmnyc, we get it. You don't like no 711. We get it in your pissy comments. We get it in your looooooooooooooong winded blog posts. For someone as smart as you'd like us all to think you are, you should know better than to promote the idea no 711's only effort is a comic routine in the park. Get a job. At a 7 11.
ReplyDelete"When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor."
ReplyDelete- John Lennon
"That's the nature of protest these days. Protest marches are now "art parades""
ReplyDeleteYour answer is what, violence? Oh wait you don't have an answer. You're just a snarky anonymous commenter. As you were.
I'm looking forward to helping chalk up a storm with the No 7-ers. Post your best slogan below and I/we will do our best to scrawl it across 11th street and Ave A.
ReplyDelete@ 1:25 PM As you were; ignorant, presumptive, (and probably pretty self-indulgent), Certainly with no knowledge of history.
ReplyDeleterob, What I'm doing is refuting false claims that N7E makes regarding 7-Eleven and bodegas. And restaurants are probably worse. Restaurant servers experience 3x the poverty rate of the rest of the US workforce; restaurant jobs are 7 of the 10 lowest-paying jobs in the country. If you're going to point to this as desirable, you should know what you're saying.
ReplyDeleteThe group has chants, but for chalk, this is off the top of my head
ReplyDeleteNew York to 7-11: we've got a Big Gulp for you.
Please, heaven,
NO 7-Eleven
Up your slurpee.
7-11, the best little corporate whorehouse from Texas
The Big Gulp from the Pig Bulk
7-11, New York is too big for you to swallow.
East side, west side, all around the town
We're gonna kick your ass!
Lets keep the good work
ReplyDeleteno energy and time to lose with those who are loosing so much of their time!
NO 7-eleven in the Village!
shmnyc -- Your answer is 7-Eleven and corporatocracy? You know better than that. 'NO 7-Eleven' is not a labor panacea, but neither is 7-Eleven or giant coporate control from afar. I don't understand why we aren't working together, shmnyc -- on all of these issues.
ReplyDeleteSlurpees!
ReplyDeleteBig Gulps!
Hot dogs made of wood!
Keep 7-Eleven
Out of the 'hood!
7-Eleven
ReplyDeleteThey're so greedy
They take our money
And give us diabetes
The Lone Star State
ReplyDeleteSays we're underserved
Maragaret Chabris
Has a lot of nerve!
@Rob - Will Bob Holman be participating? I find his involvement in this effort ironic because as a Board member and Treasurer of HOWL he accepts a fair amount of corporate sponsorship to pay for the festival. In fact the HOWL festival is mostly sponsored by real estate developers, such as Tower Brokerage, Icon Realty and Birnbaum and Birnbaum. These Real Estate Developers are the ones who have set the stage for chains like 7-11 to move into the community, by driving up commercial rents and driving out ong-time working-class residents. Just something to consider.
ReplyDeleteActually restaurant cooks on average earn 36% more than 7-Eleven clerks. It's the fast food cooks (McDonalds) who earn less that a 711 clerk. Restaurant cooks earn 50% more than a McDonalds cook. So corporate clones bite the dust again. I feel a new skit coming on: the New York actor-waiter applying to work at 711. I'll bring a script to the park (-:
ReplyDeleteWhat to do
ReplyDeleteWith hot dogs made of wood?
Use them as dildos
If I could!
Oh 7-Eleven
ReplyDeleteHome of the thousand ounce soda
Keep drinking those
And you'll look like Yoda
Companiea who pay less than livable wagea are not job creators, they are exploiters and should be shamed.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said: You're just a snarky anonymous commenter.
ReplyDeleteOh the irony.
I think I posted something in the wrong thread. It's definitely the first time that ever happened to me.
ReplyDelete7-11 you're NO GOOD,
ReplyDeleteWe don't need you in OUR 'hood
Solidarity & Resistance
Donuts, cookies, pizza and chips
ReplyDelete7-Eleven goes to your hips!
Our bodegas
ReplyDeleteDon't sell for cheap
Keep 7-Eleven
Off our streets!
Diabetes!
ReplyDeleteThere's an app for that!
Eating at 7-11
Will make you fat!
7-Eleven
ReplyDeleteWants world domination!
We won't stand for
Your corporate penetration!