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Demand “DeBlasio Must Go”
Sept 13, 2020 New Yorkers demanded “DeBlasio Must Go” as they marched to Gracie Mansion (the mayor’s residence).
The police forced them to share the entrance to the park
with some unexpected, and VERY WHITE, BLM Commies.
The BLM protestors whined that the patriots encroached on their protest. (Though they did unite briefly chanting “DeBlasio Must Go”)
As America grows weary of Democrats cities allowing the rioting, looting and destruction, it is encouraging to read that America is FIGHTING back. Perhaps that is why the white privileged BLM protestors encountered this day WHINED that the patriots should not be there. – FUN)
FLICKR Slide Show
“Uniting New Yorkers Rally! Hosted by several NY neighborhood groups including from UWS, Queens and various other neighborhood and NY groups. Join fellow FED UP New Yorkers against nonsensical DeBlasio policies that are causing violent crime to rise, jeopardizing the safety of citizens and crushing livelihoods in a time of crisis. It’s time to tell DeBlasio: HE MUST GO!”
VIDEO Part 1
.“SKYROCKETING VIOLENT CRIME IS NOT OKAY: It’s no wonder shootings, robberies and mayhem are on the rise, when violent criminals get desk tickets and victims get screwed. Amend Bail Reform NOW. Enforce law and order NOW.”
VIDEO Part 2
“BANKRUPTING NYC RESTAURANTS IS NOT OKAY: It’s no wonder NYC’s economy is dying when politicians shutter businesses and loot city budgets to reward their cronies. Bus boys, waiters, restaurant owners have a right to work. Restore indoor dining NOW.“
Video Part 3
“STEALING BILLIONS IS NOT OKAY: It’s no wonder there’s no $$ for garbage clean up, EMT’s or public safety, when $500MILLION is spent on luxury hotels for convicts, addicts and sex offenders and $1BILLION is missing from THRIVEnyc. Audit the MAYOR NOW.” [#DEBLASIOmustGO#FireBDBnyc]
De Blasio Must GO!
[Where indicated, Pictures and Videos Property of Pamela Hall]
NYC Progressives SAY NO: Rally Against Cuomo’s Cuts
Tuesday, September 08, 2020 • 5:00 PM
Governor Cuomo’s NYC Office• 633 Third Avenue, New York
They claim the reasons children-of-color (in particular black children) are not getting a FAIR education is all about racism. “Greed. Billionaires and privileged WHITE people.” They asked many times, “Is that Fair? Is that Equity?“
Flickr Slide Show: Outside Gov. Cuomo’s NYC office. “Governor Cuomo is not a champion for our communities, specifically black, brown, and low-income communities. We cannot stand back and watch Cuomo rob our communities of the funds and resources they desperately need …”
“Recently, the New York State budget office informed school districts statewide that it was temporarily withholding 20 percent of the State’s payments. Statewide, New York’s schools are missing out on $5 billion in state aid. For New York State to intentionally hold back 20 percent of state funding for public education at any time is unconscionable; to do so now, weeks before schools are set to reopen amidst a pandemic is a direct attack on the safety of students, educators, and our communities.”
Part 2 Video: A 16 years old student addressed the crowd outside Gov. Cuomo’s NYC office.
“Governor Cuomo is not a champion for our communities, specifically black, brown, and low-income communities. We cannot stand back and watch Cuomo rob our communities of the funds and resources they desperately need amidst a global pandemic and growing inequities. If Cuomo successfully withholds the 20% of state aid in this moment, we will be reeling from the impacts of this decision for years.”
“Let’s show the governor that NYC says NO to any cut to our education budgets! We need more, not less!”
Demands: 1)The release of the 20% state aid that is being withheld by the Governor currently. 2)To demand that the state utilize the rainy day funds to fill any gaps in the state budget and to stop any potential cuts to the education budget. 3)To demand that the state legislature pass S7378 to tax the rich and generate the revenue needed to fully fund our schools.
“Together, we will win!“
[Where indicated Pictures and Videos Property of Pamela Hall]
“Refuse Fascism, is a spin-off of chairman Bob Avakian’s Revolutionary Communist Party. They are a domestic Maoist group endorsing Joe Biden: “We are kicking off 60 days of non-violent struggle to oust this genocide racist Donald Trump & bring his fascist program to a halt.“
VIDEO: Part 1. Emma Kaplan, one of the organizers of the New York chapter of Refuse Fascism leads the commie pledge
The Communists of Refuse Fascism gathered in Union Square to proclaim that NYC was “filled with the unity, diversity and spirit needed to go ALL OUT in the next 60 days to bring this fascist program of Trump/Pence to a halt!”
They also claimed that “Trump has hate, bigotry, & violent thugs” but “WE have the hearts of the people!”
They claim that “Together THEY can make history.” (But, is this the history our Republic wants?)
VIDEO: Part 2 –Sabel is the main speaker
” We must make a LIVING DECLARATION to the world that we are uniting, we are organizing, we are determined, we are preparing to struggle with all we’ve got, starting now and not stopping until the Trump/Pence regime is driven from power and its fascist program brought to a halt.”
Abolition of capitalism, and the establishment of state economy
Atheism vigorously promoted State-ruled economy
Means of production, private capital and wealth expropriated for the state without compensation
Only public education fostering communism
Supreme Court expanded to 15 members
Inheritance limited by the state
Banking and financial systems state-owned and run
Trump/Pence Must Go NOW—#OutNow @RefuseFascism
“A fierce struggle for the future is underway. Will a fascist regime consolidate power through an election they are stealing & sabotaging? Or will we rise, many acting together, to stop a great horror? There is no neutral.”
“We recognize that the Trump/Pence Regime is illegitimate because it is fascist, that fascism must be stopped before it is too late, and that this means that the masses of people in their millions must be led to rise up and drive it from power.”
The propaganda our college-aged and high school student are drowning in, is there any hope they can ever learn to love their country? [NY Post]
[Pictures and videos where indicated property of Pamela Hall]
Sept 4, 2020 Foley Square NYC.
FUND OUR SCHOOLS!!
OUR BLACK AND BROWN STUDENTS MATTER!!
The reason for this warning, there were two new hard core groups that were gathering at 6 pm. (The African Black Panther Party; United Panther Movement) They proceeded to riot (led by rich WHITE 20 yrs olds) causing $100,000 damage as they rioted in the street going up town from Foley.
This Safe Schools Rally was not a riot. Just the usual Democrat/Socialists ranting on and on about greedy RICH white folk.
Flickr Slide Show : The teachers UNIONS were threatening Governor Cuomo with a NO Show for work on Tuesday Sept 8th, 2020. Their complaints and concerns focused on black and brown students. Not the privileged white students.
.Videos Part 1 – Chants. Always starting with chants. (If we don’t get it shut it down)@SingSolidarity led the crowd “Marching off to Freedom Land”
Part 2 –Jabari Brisport newly elected Democrat SOCIALIST to NY State Senate.
“I am proud of my union and I want us to sit in our power. Demand that there is a nurse in every school; that every school has a decent ventilation system… those are bare minimum demands for the health crisis we’re living in” @JabariBrisport
Part 3 “Only When it’s SAFE“. Chanting is de rigueur. “People want to know WHO we are.” “We Want Safe Schools” (etc)
PERHAPS it’s time to get rid of Critical Race Theory. Then maybe ALL students will MATTER.
“Take that leftist Critical Race Theory garbage out of our schools too. They are teaching children to hate each other based on race. All that “white privileged” nonsense is not only false it’s POISON. People are literally being brainwashed to hate white people.. it’s EVIL
Critical race theory is the greatest threat to western civilization and it’s made its way into the US federal government, the military, and the justice system.” Ian Miles Cheong @stillgray [Melissa Tate@TheRightMelissa]
Along with their obvious racism, it was made clear they are threatening to “shut it down” if we don’t get Safe Schools.
“NYC teachers, still waiting for ventilation reports, get ready to head back to classrooms
On Friday, a spokesperson for City Hall said that deadline (Sept 4) would not be met, potentially setting up teachers to return to their campuses (in every one of the city’s 56,000 class rooms) with little information about whether the air is safe.
It remains unclear how either the city or the unions are determining ventilation is safe before staff and students return to buildings, which has not helped to build trust.” [Chalk Beat]
Guess we will see – soon- if they will follow through on that threat since students are set to report to class on Sept 21.
[Where indicated, pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]
August 29, 2020. “Moscow on the Hudson” The Upper West side of Manhattan where UWS libs ELECTED Mayor “Red Bill”DeBlasio: TWICE. But now, after 6 months of a forced lock down that has fueled the homeless population, many of these progressive libs have become disenchanted. NIMBY is their battle cry.
The situation morphed into YIMBY Libs vs NIMBY Libs.
(However, the NIMBYS were not on the side of the angels.)
“The Upper West Side has been abuzz for weeks about the relocation of a number of homeless men to various hotels in the neighborhood. Many of the men are sex offenders and drug addicts. They aren’t receiving the more intensive services they need and the neighborhood has seen a steep decline in safety.
The newly formed group Upper West Siders for a Compassionate, Safe and Equitable Community, which wrote welcome messages in chalk outside the Lucerne. […] also started an online petition at Change.org […] imploring neighbors worried about their personal safety — patrolling the streets to discourage midday open drug use and flashing — to stop being so mean.
“If we want to build a truly just society, we must be willing to stand up for those values in our own neighborhood,” concludes the petition from the YIMBYs.”
The problems of homelessness GROWS and the lock down, the tyranny of despots has destroyed NYC businesses causing rampant employment and feeding the ranks of the homeless.
Democrat/Socialists are destroying our cities. And on the 29th of August I took a look at the dogooder leftists who think chalk drawings will somehow heal hopelessness of homelessness.
First: On my way to the Lucerne Hotel, I noticed a Banksy picture:
Reading up on the artist, I found that Banksy has a connection to homeless out reach. [NY Post Banksy] [NY Post Banksy]
“Bansky graffiti on the Louise Michel, a migrant search and rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean and financed by the British street artist. Seen at sea on August 17, 2020.”
[via REUTERS]
“Art and anarchy have joined together aboard this vessel in the name of rescuing refugees. British street artist Banksy is financing a pink-painted former French customs yacht, sailing beneath a German flag, to help save migrants stranded between north Africa and Europe, the Guardian reported.”
Once at the Lucerne Hotel (on W. 79th st.) I saw the impact these UWS Liberals – the YIMBYs – were having. Chalk was on the sidewalk. Everywhere. The messages ” ALL are welcomed” repeated in many ways.
The local residents demanded the drug/criminal element not be housed in a residential neighborhood, but today they were silent. The YIMBY’s controlled the media blitz.
SLIDESHOW
But, it’s not just the UWS that has an issue with homelessness. 6 months later, there are more and more homeless and druggies on the streets of midtown as well. Some wander all day with their possessions, some sleep all day. Some just hang out.
Empty hotels have become their homes.
But social life, no matter where you are, is outdoors in a NY minute.
Side thought: Who would want to rent a room after these criminals, druggies and mentally ill have been running through the halls.
SLIDESHOW
APRIL/MAY 2020 Beginning March 12, 2020 when the government closed NYC. Locked it Down. Businesses, restaurants, theatres, bars.All were forced to shutter by government fiat. Previously, Mayor deBlasio had a homeless issue anyway . But, now it exploded. At the end of this album, I threw in a couple of archived oldies … of “deBozos” NYC.
SLIDESHOW
May 2020. Approaching Memorial Day weekend, businesses wanted to get back on some type of footing with alcohol to go; still the restrictions, the lock down restrictions continued. Economic ruin for many. As people try to recover, gathering on the sidewalks outside these struggling business to drink and socialize, the homeless stare back at you.
SLIDESHOW
JUNE 2020. What was supposed to be 15 days to” flatten the curve”, dragged on.The streets grew more and more disgusting. Often many possessions accompany the homeless. (Sleep seems to be an important need) A place to stop and rest. The familiar charging of a cell phone (while resting). And twice, I stumbled upon the moving of worldly goods by two sad homeless women.
This was not a game….
SLIDESHOW
JULY 2020. A popular corner for sleeping: an abandoned restaurant. Open or closed , the homeless set up shop. 42nd is a very messy home base. Moving west on 42nd, another cell phone charging while RESTING. Found a familiar homeless fellow pulling his “I’m so weak” ruse in the middle of Restaurant Row on 46th st. (he’s usually on a sidewalk) People try to help him with food and comfort.All he wants is money. Homeless Hotel on 44 st. And then there’s the theatres, offering a place to SLEEP for the homeless and drugged out. A moment of curiosity, a white woman – with her BLM/gay pride wheel chair SAILING – very fast- up 8th ave. (Only in NY)
SLIDESHOW
AUGUST 2020. Homeless in midtown. Are they deep in an alcohol-slumber. Or drugs? The police are out and about, so perhaps the druggies have
moved away, leaving just the sadly alcoholic homeless. Or the brazenly happy – like this fellow.
De Blasio refuses to open the city. After the 15 day ruse morphed into 6 months and counting, businesses are moving out. Broadway. The hotels. Restaurants. All need tourism. But a capricious government leaves them sitting empty. No business. No tourists. NYC is dying. (So too the American spirit.)
The Dems are determined to destroy our republic. But, it ain’t over til it’s over. Pray our country finds the strength to fight back.
August 5, 2020 – Patriots welcomed Bob (DeNiro’s) Tribeca Grill back to the streets of lower Manhattan – MAGA style – with a Trump 2020 Rally (outside his restaurant) Surely NOT what Bob was expecting.
The Naked Cowboy joined the celebration with the patriots.
Fun was had by all at this good-time event.
Even the Tribeca Grill Staff seemed entertained.
Videos (Part 1) Patriots and “naked” cowboy welcomed Bob DeNiro’s Tribeca Grill reopening with a Trump 2020 rally.
Videos (Part 2) A number of Tribeca passersby seemed a bit grumpy. Others, in the cars passing by, honked in appreciation for our President.
Google Robert DeNiro … the famously respected actor … on President Trump and you will read (or hear) some ridiculous opinions on why he HATES President Trump.
My video that follows is an excerpt of Robert DeNIro from Michael Moore’s protest/rally on pre-inauguration night, January 19, 2017.
“They gathered to “Protect Shared Values” on the Night Before Trump’s Inauguration.” (Their intent) to send a message to President-elect Trump and Congress that New York City will protect the rights of residents and will continue to make real progress on important issues such as health-care, climate change, social justice and immigrant rights.”
More from Mr. DeNiro:
(Nov 2019) “The actor has predicted the president might start a war to get a third term. ” [The Guardian]
(May 13, 2020) “... calling Trump a ‘lunatic’ who doesn’t care about his supporters” [Washington Post]
(June 10, 2020) “De Niro Ridicules Trump’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic” [Video Link]
The Hollywood elite, though talented, such gifts do NOT make them bright.
[Pictures and Videos where indicated by Pamela Hall]
“Black Sx Workers in NYC are dying and at increased risk for police violence under the criminalization of sx work by the NYPD. Sx workers are excluded from financial relief bills, and face discrimination in accessing housing and other jobs. Further discrimination of sx work on digital platforms during the Covid19 pandemic eliminates another necessary source of income to survive. Black sx workers in NYC demand the decriminalization of sx work,the decarceration of sx workers the defunding of NYPD Vice unit and the repeal of the Walking While Trans Ban.
Black sx workers demand an end to all legislation that considers sx workers as “unintended consequences” or “collateral damage”, such as the EARN IT Act which just passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. We demand justice through our direct action targeting city, state, and federal policymakers. Black Sx Worker Lives Matter!
Historically Black Sx Workers have built culture in the areas of music, fashion, beauty, sxuality, technology, LGBTQIA rights and women’s rights. As Black Sx Workers we demand the acknowledgment and support for the advancements of our rights and contribution to the culture we navigate everyday. Sx Workers are Thot leaders and futurist and it is time for the community to show up for the most marginalized who lead the world’s liberation. We are not free until we are all free-SX NOIR.”
Flickr slide show Part 1 of 2 The MC announced they were taking over Times Square. (they didn’t really) But they did have a large crowd of sex workers and friends listening to speakers before they marched downtown. There were the usual complaints about the police treating them badly. Two representatives from Queens spoke. And it seems, according to the protestors, black sex workers suffer racism. Whatever, this was a very white crowd.
Flickr Slide show (Part 2) The Sex Workers announced they were taking over Times Square. However, not all were participating in the Sex Workers March. There were Free,Free Hong Kong/China protestors. A few Muslim tourists. Vagrants. Models. And what seemed to be a young lady filming her quinceañera video. Just another day in Times Square.
[Where indicated, pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]
Their poster-girl sure looks like Marxist, Angela Davis.
Video “March for Black WomXn” Part 1 –July 26, 2020. As everyone gathered in Duffy Square, a Times Square Alliance officer closed off the Red Steps (a usual occurrence to control protests)
The MEN of the Black WomXn March argued with the officer. (are these feminists too dainty to take up the fight?)
The MEN demanded the protest be allowed in front of the steps (by default, the statue of Fr. Duffy) The guard did NOT relent.
The black women OCCUPIED the location in front of the steps, anyway. The “ladies” of BLM did as they pleased.
Video “March For Black WomXn” Part 2 – Excerpts of some of the speakers (one claims Black WomXn are at the “back of the line”) and makes a bogus claim that everyone standing in Times Square , “Is standing on STOLEN land.“
Video “March For Black WomXn” Part 3 – A few more short excerpts from the “The March for Black WomXn” speakers and their BLM Marxist agitprop.
One speaker upbraids black men for not supporting Black WomXn.
Another was a self-proclaimed, black queer woman and a Democrat Socialist. “We are going to take care of those most in need and those most oppressed.”
Kristin for Harlem said “We must ABOLISH the NYPD!“
Slide Show –March for Black WomXn – Duffy Sq – Part 1
Before they marched, the Black WomXn of the BLM Marxist movement gathered in Duffy Sq; joined by plenty of WHITE faces also hating on America.
Re the “intersectional” claims:”Traditional feminist ideas and anti-racist policies exclude black women because they face overlapping discrimination unique to them.”
Slide show – March for Black WomXn Duffy Sq -Part 2 A Times Square Alliance officer closed off the Red Steps and the MEN of the Black WomXn March argued with this officer.
The Black Lives Matter Marxist movement has many groups under its umbrella, such as the March of the Black Women that serve mainly as recruitment tools. Their purpose: protest and riot. They should be exposed as anarchists.
Since, “BLM has been around for over 5 years, and has raised close to a BILLION dollars,” How many lives have they made better? ”
Have they: -Sent black kids to college? -cleaned up a community? -Betteed our schools? -Fed the hungry?
Nope, they protest and riot. (That’s all) As their movement to destroy our country continues to grows larger.
[Where indicated pictures and videos property of Pamela Hall]
July 25, 2020. As cities burn across America, Portland in particular, the Mayor of New York City, “Red Bill” deBlasio, claims his city’s crime rate is down, all while “Defunding the Police”. (AP/Noah Berger)
Meanwhile, Mayor deBlasio’s graffiti ‘murals’, promoting the Marxist Black Lives Matter insurgents, were snuck in across the city; one in each of the five boroughs. The most important of these “murals” can be found ON Fifth avenue at Trump Tower.
On Thursday, July 9, 2020,the BLM graffiti mural was painted on Fifth Avenue, with great fanfare. [NBC News]
Kept under wraps, there was little time for protestors to gather at the Trump Tower debut.
“WNBC first reported the new start date for the Trump Tower “mural” Wednesday night.” [NY Daily News]
I saw their ‘handiwork’ later that day. [Slide Show BLM Trump Tower]
Reaction from the President to de Blasios’s folly:
“Maybe our GREAT Police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street,” Trump went on. “Spend this money fighting crime instead!”
De Blasio pushed back later that morning, tweeting, “The fact that you see it as denigrating your street is the definition of racism.”
“Black people BUILT 5th Ave and so much of this nation,” the mayor added. “Your “luxury” came from THEIR labor, for which they have never been justly compensated. We are honoring them.” [NY Post]
And then, the Battle of the Graffiti Murals began. On Monday, July 13, outside Trump Tower, the resistance dumped red paint on the BLM graffiti mural.
Police said the assailant who vandalized the massive message Monday walked up Fifth Avenue at 12:13 p.m. wearing a black shirt and a black hat, dumped the paint, then ran down 56th Street, police said.
The blotch of paint, dumped between “Black” and “Lives,” was smeared over much of the mural by passing traffic. [NY Post]
Next, on Friday, July 17th, Juliet Germonatta (a self described trans gender- with a checkered history, unfortunately) struck again: this time with BLUE paint.
Of course, each time, the mayor made sure the Red and Blue paints were erased quickly, taxpayers billed. [Yahoo ]
There was a lull on the paint attacks, so, on Saturday, July 11, I dropped by Fifth Avenue (during a light rain) [VIDEO ]
Some reactions to the constant paint assaults:
“Maybe our GREAT police, who have been neutralized and scorned by a mayor who hates & disrespects them, won’t let this symbol of hate be affixed to New York’s greatest street,” Trump went on. “Spend this money fighting crime instead!”
De Blasio pushed back later that morning, tweeting, “The fact that you see it as denigrating your street is the definition of racism.”
“Black people BUILT 5th Ave and so much of this nation,” the mayor added. “Your “luxury” came from THEIR labor, for which they have never been justly compensated. We are honoring them.” [NY Post]
Earlier on Saturday, I took a look at the courthouse BLM graffiti mural. It seems to be a big secret, this 3 blocks long mural, only a block from the now defunct Occupy City Hall “Shanty Town”.
July 11 – Slide show for mural
This graffiti mural stretched across three Manhattan city blocks.
“A giant 600 foot, three-block long Black Lives Matter mural that stretches northwards from the Manhattan Municipal Building to the New York Supreme Court House at Foley Square.” [photo MdeAS]
There is a MAP of the locations for all five of the “Graffiti Murals”.
THEN, after a brief silence, the resistance returned to Trump Tower Two women of color threw BLACK paint on the BLM graffiti on Saturday, July 18 . (Exciting. FUN)
An officer from the New York Police Department (NYPD) attempts to detain a protester smearing paint on the Black Lives Matter mural outside of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., July 18, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
That leaves just two remaining graffiti murals. Since the locations will be on heightened alert, will these brave women be able to pull off the next assaults?
++ FYI: BLM statement from the Marxists:
“Many see the slogan Black Lives Matter as a plea to secure the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all Americans, especially historically wronged African Americans.The group’s radical Marxist agenda would supplant the basic building block of society — the family — with the state and destroy the economic system that has lifted more people from poverty than any other. Black lives, and all lives, would be harmed. Theirs is a blueprint for misery, not justice. It must be rejected. We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear-family-structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another.” [NY Post]
Visit the Black Lives Matter website, and the first frame you get is a large crowd with fists raised and the slogan “Now We Transform.” Read the list of demands, and you get a sense of how deep a transformation of this country they seek.
[Where indicated, pictures in slide shows and video property of Pamela Hall]
The Socialists (and Communists) were in Washington Square demanding “DEFUND the NYPD“! [Face Book] Flickr Slide Show
“By June 30th, 2020 the City Council will decide on the budget for the 2021 fiscal year. During a public health crisis that’s disproportionately killing Black and brown people, Mayor de Blasio’s proposed budget cuts funding for education and healthcare but keeps it for police and jails.”
“In light of ongoing police violence against our most vulnerable communities, we demand that the City Council cut the NYPD police force and the NYPD budget in half and re-invest in community and social needs. Power concedes nothing without a demand and it is crucial to back our demands with mass actions.”
“We are reaching out to partners in the community, in the labor movement, and on the left, who are interested in building such an action to pressure our representatives to Defund the NYPD.”
“Our hope is that this call can bring together NYC Black organizations, families of victims of police brutality, socialists, unions, social justice organizations and more to organize, build and participate in this demonstration as a show of what we want and need for our city.”
“Let’s join together to defund the NYPD, re-invest in communities, get cops out of unions and schools, defund the Vice Squad, close Rikers, Free the Three, disarm and demilitarize the police and hold them financially liable for their misconduct, pass an ECRB, end collaboration with ICE and DHS agencies, decriminalize drugs and sex work, fight for the rights of protestors, and tax the rich and Wall Street.”
++ And then there was the VANDALISM of the statues on the arch. They were vandalized over night with red paint. [NY Post]
I saw the statues next day, after the initial clean-up, with red paint splatter still to be seen, close up.
“Dead bodies” were also drawn around the fountain.
Damage to the statues is long term. Apparently the process to remove the graffiti is not simple.
“Fact is that statue will never be completely clean again. How do I know this? Well, because I spoke with the conservator yesterday. They will return three or four more times to try to remove as much as possible, but it can never all be removed. The power washers —adjusted to their lowest, least damaging setting— cannot reach into those pores even with the aid of the graffiti cleaning chemicals they were employing. Why couldn’t they use more aggressive settings? Because it might have further damaged this very delicate, Stanford White masterpiece.”(Susan Fensten]
re the vandalism:
“A woman on a Citi-Bike acted as lookout as the two men threw the paint bombs at the statues about 3:20 a.m. Monday, officials said. Cops released surveillance images of the two masked vandals in the hopes someone recognizes them.” [NY Daily News] [NY Daily News] [NY Daily News]
Interesting, the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi [one of the leaders of Italian unification] was untouched.
The mayor has told us numerous times that if you aren’t part of the blm movement then your life doesn’t matter. He has bankrupted the city. Our educational system is a shambles. He has defunded and demoralized the NYPD. Crime has skyrocketed. Children are being shot and murdered weekly. Today over 6 people were shot in Brooklyn, while the Mayor made sure the defaced street by Trump Tower was defaced again with blm being painted even brighter. It’s time to to say ENOUGH in front of NY City Hall. A group of NYC residents are organizing a Resign Now DeBlasio protest. He can’t be impeached or removed from office permently unless he is convicted of a crime. Resignation is the only way we will get rid of Mayor Disaster. In order for this action and following actions to be effective, we must have a huge turnout. We do it for rallies and celebrations. We must make time to protest or suffer the consequences. It is NOT a partisan issue. It is a NYC resident issue. It’s time to take back our city!
Reading up on the artist, I found that Banksy has a connection to homeless out reach. [
[via REUTERS]
(William Farrington)
Meanwhile, Mayor deBlasio’s graffiti ‘murals’, promoting the Marxist Black Lives Matter insurgents, were snuck in across the city; one in each of the five boroughs.
The most important of these “murals” can be found ON Fifth avenue at Trump Tower.
THEN, after a brief silence, the resistance returned to Trump Tower Two women of color threw BLACK paint on the BLM graffiti on Saturday, July 18 . (
“We are reaching out to partners in the community, in the labor movement, and on the left, who are interested in building such an action to pressure our representatives to Defund the NYPD.”
