April 23rd Ride

New blog coming soon! Kristin and I will be combining forces and creating a radical history, geography, art page. Will post link here when it is up and running.

Some observations and objects found found our bike ride this weekend.

Picnic tables in Heckscher state park,‎ Great River, NY, awaiting memorial day.

Fallen tree found on River Rd.

closer

Falling

Falling objects still isolated.

Assemblage of assemblages

Usually I photograph my assemblages in "natural" setting, outside, on the street, in nature preserve, on a mailbox, on a desk, or bureau, etc. They are always in the context of another space. This is my attempt to isolate them from physical space but with each other.

June 25 2009-Trans March Union Square

I really need to catch up on this blog. These pictures are from a Trans March the family participated in, from June 2009. Much delayed but still timely.

A short rally at Union Square, then marched across 14th st.

The Rude Mechanical Orchestra helped make the march radical and festive.

Stopped for another short rally on 14th St..then continued to Sheridan Square

Independent Workers Movement ~April 18

I love my neighborhood, I can always depend on it to provide someway for me to avoid labor studies readings. Today there was an Independent Workers Movement rally and march. The demands of the marchers were some of my favorite issues:

• End the theft of our salaries by employers
• End the racist raids against immigrants
• Citizenship or legalization for all
• Stop Police harassment of: day laborers, all street vendors and of youth
• For the unity of families and for our children
• End homophobia

We marched from Broadway and 69th St to Junction and Roosevelt, with a short rally at 83rd and Roosevelt, and a longer rally at Junction and Roosevelt.

Some of the groups participating were:

Queens Day Laborers; Philippine Forum; Bayan NYC; Sisa Pakari Labor Center ; Queens Street Vendors Union; People’s Organization for Progress NYC Chapter; International Socialist Organization; Million Worker March Movement; LGBT Equality Coalition of Queens; Latino Students of NYU; May 1st Coalition; Pakistan-USA Freedom Forum