Pay Attention to the Struggle against Monsanto

Documentation of a protest in Greenwich Village by Liza Bear.

NYU Holds Graduation in the Re-Designed Park

Grace's partner, Bob Nichols had worked with the Greenwich Village Community for many years to create a Washington Square Park design that would accommodate the needs of the entire community, not just the big institution on one end of the park.
Here is Bob speaking about the park in a tape I made in Thetford.

Liza Bear, a NY artist and filmmaker who has followed the park's history and current "redesign" has posted this note and the following photos.

NYU faculty dodging the puddles. At the behest of NYU admin, not faculty or students, New York City Parks Dept spent $40 million to move Washington Sq fountain 23 feet to the east, relocate the two statues, amputate at least 32 trees, flatten the fountain plaza and generally wreck Robert Nichols' beautiful design developed with the community, so that NYU could hold its graduation ceremony in Washington Square.

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Here is a film by Liza Bear made in 2005 with an interview with Bob Nichols.

Peace Activists Target Lockeed Martin

Peace activists protesting outside Lockeed Martin in King of Prussia. (Credit: Steve Tawa)

By Steve Tawa

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa. (CBS) – Peace activists chose Good Friday to protest U.S. policies on defense spending, they say to “wage war.” They singled out Lockeed Martin, outside its facility in King of Prussia.

Brandywine Peace Community staff coordinator Robert Smith thinks U.S. policy should change to “money for need, not for greed and war.”

“We’re talking about the largest war profiteer in the United States,” he tells KYW Newsradio.

Through prayers for peace, songs and bell tolling, the group also produced wooden crosses with signs decrying Lockeed Martin’s business in drone technology.

(Credit: Steve Tawa)

In a non-violent protest, some of the demonstrators walked onto company property with those wooden props — modeled on the traditional Stations Of The Cross:

“We’re not here to be arrested,” Smith says. “What we’re here to do is to bring our message to Lockeed Martin, to say this place is a place of crucifixion, it has to stop.”

Smith says the defense budget is approaching a trillion dollars, of which he says Lockeed Martin receives an annual estimated income of $43-billion:

“We’re talking about the very engine behind the drone strikes, behind the wars.”

Jaraslawa Makes Pirogis