worship the glitch
This is Eric Mortensen's blog. He works @ Blip and lives in Brooklyn.
I spent a few hours down there tonight.
The crowd is diverse, not as predominately young as I perceived from afar. They’re well organized, they have places set up for medics, food, media, etc. The General Assembly hosts a wide variety of speakers, of all ages, gender, race and socio-economic background. The crowd listens intently to the GA speaker, on the people’s mic, and they do call-and-response so those further back in the crowd can hear the person who has been given the soapbox. This was a real honor to watch.
The folks down there are a lot more nuanced than how they’ve been portrayed. They’re not unsympathetic to the people who have to make a living working for some of the corporations that led to the financial crisis, in fact there are some who spoke at General Assembly tonight who work for or had worked for similar corporations. They’re pragmatic, they’re not anarchists. The whole process is surprisingly organized and democractic. They’re working towards coming up with realistic action items. These people aren’t waiting for someone to save them, they’re working towards how they can save themselves.
Thanks Soup. This is good stuff.
(via takethecityandrun)
New York State Senator Senator Savino speaks on Marriage Equality
Skip ahead to 4:50.
Soho yesterday
Soho before last night’s storm
Mr. Cuomo declared that he would remove the concrete barriers that have surrounded the Capitol building since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks; within minutes of his speech, workers began loading the barriers onto a flatbed truck.
He also opened a historic hallway outside the governor’s office that Gov. George E. Pataki had closed off to the public.
“To get into this Capitol is like running an obstacle course, and it shouldn’t be,” Mr. Cuomo said. “People refer to the Capitol as a fort or as a bunker, and it is anything but. This is a beautiful monument to democracy, this building. This is the people’s meeting place, and they should be invited in. And today, my friends, we will reopen the Capitol, literally and figuratively.”
