The March starts today at 2 in Washington Square Park.
If you're looking for a local group to meet up with, supporters of Good Ole Lower East Side (GOLES) are gathering on Astor Place (near where the cube was) at 1:30 p.m. to convene with the Millions March.
And the route:
BEGIN at Wash Square Park then march north on 5th Ave.
Head west on 14th St. to 6th Ave.,
Turn north on 6th to 32nd St.,
Turn east on 32nd to Broadway,
Head south on Broadway until Worth/Lafayette St. turns,
END at 1PP - NYPD Headquarters
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Meanwhile, Congress just passed laws allowing Govt total access to all citizens private communications AND makes taxpayers responsible for banks bad derivative investments. What part of 'we live under a transformed fascism' don't people get? They kill us with impunity on the streets. they steal our money without recourse.
How many of these marchers voted for Cuomo, Obama, Di Blasio etc? Or do they just march and not vote? Is this just an excuse to destroy the property of people who aren't responsible for the actions they are protesting? Do any of these marchers know who their Congressperson is? Do they have any long term plan to change things?
1:02pm,
Has the destruction of property in NYC been rampant? Did I miss those reports? Or is this just more NYP-style fear-mongering?
1:02pm,
The most important thing is that you've found a way to feel superior to EVERYONE involved.
I actually kind of agree with Anon 1:02 not in that this isn't a just cause worth fighting for no matter what, but what exactly are these protests aiming to accomplish? There's not really a dire need to increase public awareness of the issue - EVERYYYONE EVERYWHERE already knows what's going on and how problematic this is. I applaud these organized protesters for putting in the effort, but I just don't think a protest is going to be tactically effective. To implement change, policies need to be rewritten, and I don't know that walking long distances in large groups is the way to convince lawmakers to do the right thing.
As I sit here listening to the police helicopters overhead the cynic in me can't but wonder how much overtime and extra pay the police are getting to protect the city from those who wish to protest the police. We are in effect paying them $$$$ to listen to us complain. I'm pretty sure the only effect all this will have on the police is their attitude of "protest all you want but I am going to bill you for it."
Seems like the Racists and the EV White Power dumbasses with their heads up their asses are coming out of the EV woodwork here to expose their White Privilige attitudes and their Racism.
Yes, John, those civil rights demonstrators on March 7, 1965, “Bloody Sunday”, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge at Selma, Alabama, they were also churning up that police O/T as well. The nerve and gall of them. Yet not a peep from your referenced posters reading this police expense and the police “look the other way“ rampant violation of at least misdemeanor law of this crowd of white privilege.
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When the cops at labor day caribbean parade ignore the drinking and drug use and violence I guess its ok. Puerto rican parade revelers speed around.drunk and its ok. But.santacon is not. Whatever.
Yo 6:25pm:
This is an East Village blog as the name, EV Grieve, denotes.
It's not a Brooklyn or Spanish Harlem one.
Do you not get that?
I support the protest in general but Martin Luther King was marching to get the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed. What laws do these protestors want to see enacted or repealed?
The true colors of 6:25 pm are showing, singling-out those parades but not include St. Patrick's in those. Great to be protected by being in Taylor Swift's demographic with a nice condo with windows and curtains and having the money to go out almost every night to give the illusion that you're special and by not the one who'd participate in PR or Caribbean parade. Enjoy your brunch possibly with Moe.
9:29 am,
What laws does the Santacon want to see enacted or repealed?
Oh, wait, Santacon has succeeded in repealing the disorderly conduct, and broken windows law and policy and enact that only #WhiteLivesMatter.
Calling for the death of police officers isn't protesting peacefully.
There are very clear demands:
THE INDICTMENT OF DANIEL PANTALEO
THE CREATION OF AN INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE TO HANDLE CASES OF POLICE MISCONDUCT AND USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE
RELEASE OF THE NAMES OF OFFICERS INVOLVED IN FATAL SHOOTINGS WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THE INCIDENT
STATEWIDE POLICY TO NOT HIRE POLICE WHO HAVE BEEN FIRED WITH CAUSE OR DEEMED UNFIT FOR DUTY IN ONE JURISDICTION BY ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT IN THE STATE
Call the action detials here: http://www.millionsmarchnyc.org/#!demands/cjg9
If you actually care about what is driving the protesters and why such a large group of your neighbors mobilized.
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