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Waste Fest at Tompkins Square Park

Dear Blogger, you hear the coolest stories about Tompkins Square Park t shirts while vending banned #tompkinssquarepark t – shirts at the 5th Annual Waste Fest at Shows in Tompkins Square Park at The Shadow. Too many innumerable cool stories to mention in New York City. 

And you find yourself vending banned Tompkins Square Park t – shirts for when someone doesn’t like the logo on your Tompkins Square Park t – shirt.

And the description for that Urban Waste Facebook event invite reads like:

Wasteland Productions and Waste Management Presents Our 5th Annual WASTEXFEST featuring Blackout Shoppers, Complete Fucker, Angry Corpses NJHC, YDI, Urban Waste, and this year’s headliner FANG. Food will once again be made by Lady Waste Rachel Jean-Abriss Gitten, with donations going to Sweetbriar Nature Center. This will be a fun year at Tompkins Square Park.

And then I found myself listening to Fang Official‘s live at Tompkins Square Park in New York City at Waste Fest 5 cover song of The Jim Carroll Band “People Who Died” video, whose lyrics still seem to be stuck in my head, while vending.

And this Waste Fest 5 concert happend to be on the same day as that Punk Island 2025 concert at Randall’s Island Park in New York City.

And if I am correct, you can still find Andreas Troeger‘s OUR F#CKING PARK: Rebellion, Noise, and Punk Rock in Tompkins Square Park book on one of Chris’s merchandise tables at these Shows in Tompkins Square Park concerts. It is a book of beautiful raw portraits of the artists keeping the music alive—real faces, real noise, shot between 2019 and 2024 in Tompkins Square Park.

And Lower East Side Food Not Bombs was there serving the coolest food for free also. Their Instagram page says they are serving free vegan meals every Sunday at 4:30pm inside the SW corner of Tompkins Square Park (E 7th st & Ave A) DM us if you’d like to get involved!

And if I heard correctly, Chris said on the mic after the concert ended that the Annual Tompkins Square Park Riot Reunion Concert is August something. 

To all the people who died, the lyrics from the song “People Who Died” by the Jim Carroll Band is about the lives and deaths of people in the East Village, specifically around Tompkins Square Park.

And the world still seems to be going to hell in a hand basket as I read about those Los Angeles riots that seem to be the only thing in the headline news amongst other headlines from hell here on planet earth on this day. 

The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. 

Have a great Tompkins Square Park concert day and more. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.  

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Trump 2024

And if anyone has been following the United States 2024 Elections this past year, you would know that the elections have been in the news a lot lately.

And I have been consumed with following the elections, so much that I have been attempting to vend that #trump2024 election sale jewelry at rallies and events in the New York City area.

And Robert has been having USA Pride Month events in Times Square, one of which King Jesus AOK News describes as ‘Freedom Fighters & Members Of @guardians.of.divinity Were Told To Remove American Flags Off Times Square By NYPD. Both Sides Met At A Mutual Middle.”

And another America Pride Month event #5 that Robert describes as “Howdy Texas, cowboy ROB 😁 here in NYC, wishing GINA ladyg4liberty a HAPPY, HEALTHY, and BLESSED BIRTHDAY 7/25/24 ill be out on the trail 😁 Friday for AMERICA PRIDE MONTH event #5, and Saturday at a PRO AMERICA / PRO TRUMP RALLY, both in times square by the flag, 43rd and Broadway, Friday 5:30 PM and Saturday 7 pm, Saturday bring your TRUMP gear, GINA I will be celebrating your birthday all weekend with the FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF NYC, CHEERS TO YOU GINA'” was an event that Scootercaster of FREEDOMNEWS.TV described as ‘#HappeningNow “Let’s fight, motherf***er, we’re at WAR” – Trump Supporter screams at protesters attending the rally against Project 2025 in Times Square.'”.  

And this STOP THE COUP 2025 #StopProject2025 rally whose flyer says, “Join Activists, Entertainers Taking a Stand Against the Rise of Christo – Fascism”, took place at the giant electronic American flag at Times Square, Broadway at 43rd Street under the US Armed Forces Recruiting Station in New York City also.

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And then there’s Trump Tower, where Trump supporters spoke out in front of the  building following the attempted assassination of former President Trump at a campaign rally in Butler Pennsylvania, and then there were Trump supporters who gathered on this day when I attempted to vend that #Trump2024 maga jewelry at Trump Tower to visitors and passerby’s as Dion’s Trump hats flew off the shelf on this day. 

And this attempted assassination of Former President Donald Trump was an inside job straight out of the deep state globalists JFK assassination handbook, orchestrated by the Secret Service to be covered up as an unsolved mystery. And I hate to say it that in this case Alex Jones was right.

And that Trump Tower visit was also on the day when your FJB sign and jewelry is no longer valid after Biden drops out of the presidential race and goes into hiding for a few days, and it was also a few days before a massive global cyberattack, the largest cyber outage in history, where basically anything that requires electricity doesn’t work.

And then there was a mission to Washington D.C. in an attempt to vend those Black Lives Matter necklaces, magnets, key chains and pins at an event where Pro Palestian protesters marched towards the US Capitol and Union Station and burned an American flag during Israeli PM Netanyahu’s address to Congress and helicopters circled the capital in Washington D.C after protesters burned a flag and were arrested during #ArrestNetanyahu speech.

And I am still watching for the sounds of World War III and listening for the sounds of the sixth trumpet, Ezekiel 38, Gog and Magog war. We are still living in crazy times.  FJB, Let’s Go Brandon.

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Images from a Trump campaign rally in the South Bronx

And in between reading the headline news of the day, which sometimes reads like a horror story, and in the midst of The Loisaida Festival, the 29th Annual Lower East Side Festival of the Arts and a hardcore punk rock concert in Tompkins Square Park that’s taking place this Memorial Day weekend in the Lower East Side or East Village for real estate marketing purposes in the New York City area, I somehow found myself attempting to vend an Election Sale of that Trump jewelry at another Trump campaign rally at Crotona Park in the South Bronx the other day as part of those 2024 United States elections where all the colors everywhere seem to be red maga. And in between getting shut down by the New York City Parks Department every time I tried to set up, I guess I could say thank you D’Anna AndreáMadeline BrameDion PowellRobert WhiteMan Kisses Flag and others for buying one of those #trump2024 necklaces, magnets, key chains and/or pins, and Rocky Granata for buying 30 pieces of #trump jewelry for that Trump Store.

And this same thing happened during the Wildsood Beach Trump campaign rally in New Jersey the other day where they, I guess the New Jersey Parks Department were not allowing vendors to vend on the Wildwood Beach boardwalk during the Trump rally.

And there was an estimated 30,000 people who attended this rally in the South Bronx, and some of the scenes from that video that finds itself posted above are of a Trump impersonator who caused chaos as he walked through the crowd, OfficialDVS7.0 and his maga music band performed their ‘I Stand for Trump” song and other vendors were being shut down by the parks department and were told that they could vend across the street from the park.

#blacklivesmaga

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The Tompkins Square Park concert that didn’t happen

A Tompkins Square Park concert

 

And in the midst of battling big tech social media censorship somewhere in between Facebook and Instagram limiting the amount of political posts that can be seen and tik tok censoring posts that do not follow their narrative, I somehow still find myself being able to blagh on this google blogger somehow after all these years.

And so this post happens to be about a BlacknBlue Productions Tompkins Square Park concert that didn’t happen in that alphabet city of New York, a benefit concert for Jesse Malin at Tompkins Square Park, April 27th with Gogol Bordello, Madball, Murphy’s Law, The Capturers and more that was cancelled for some reason having to do with the Parks Department and moved to Irving Plaza April 26th with Facebook posts and flyers that read something like as follows:

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With a Facebook post by Jesse Malin that says “I’ve been forever grateful  for the New York hardcore community that me and many of my friends grew up in. It’s a scene that is always looked out for each other in hard times but this goes above and beyond. I am so touched by this, it means so much. THANK YOU BlacknBlue Productions Gogol Bordello Murphy’s Law James Drescher The Capturers War Orphan and Tompkins Square Park Sweet Relief Musicians Fund“.

And so what am I supposed to do with all those Tompkins Square Park t shirts that I was planning to vend at this event that got cancelled? Well I found myself on the southwest corner of that Tompkins Square Park park on Avenue A and East 7th street attempting to vend those t shirts on the day of the concert that didn’t happen as in those photos and videos that find themselves posted above.

And in case you may have missed this concert that didn’t happen at Tompkins Square Park, there are others shows coming up in Tompkins Square Park that I have come across on Facebook that hopefully will not get cancelled such as:

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Memorial Gig For Al Hammerbrain 

Memorial Gig For Al Hammerbrain — Saturday, May 11th, 2-6pm @ Tompkins Square Park featuring Jennifer Blowdryer, Art Gray Trio does Crunt, Spike Polite & Sewage, RBNX and Skum City 

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Urban Waste WastexFest 4, June 9th, 2024

“We know some of you have been asking us so here it is Wasteland Productions and Waste Management presents June 9th “WastexFest 4” @ganggreenband @urbanwastenyhc @reaganyouthofficial Rockin Bob(members of Jerry’s Kids,The Fu’s) @twomanadvantage @pointblanknyhc As usual Donations will go too @sweetbriarnaturecenter and Food will be served by @bitchxswitch own Lady Waste @racheljeanthegypsyqueen” 

and

” Wasteland Productions and Waste Management present “WastexFest 4”

Gang Green

Urban Waste

Reagan Youth

Rockin Bob (Members of Jerry’s Kids, The FU’S)

Two Man Advantage

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As per usual donations will go to the sweet briar animal nature center in Long Island New York and food will be served by none other than lady Waste Rachel Jean-Abriss Gitten


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The Shows in Tompkins Square Park Rock against Racism concert at Washington Square Park by the Garibaldi statue May 5th featuring Rebelmatic, Butterbrain, Lake Lanier and Paragnosis was rained out and postponed until August 11th.

And..

36th Annual Tompkins Square Riot Reunion, August 3, 2024 at Tompkins Square Park.

And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State.

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Damn… It ain’t 2012 yet!

Dear blog,

Today is a Chinese Luna New Year as I edit this blog post.

“In China, 2024 is the “year of the dragon”.  Also the symbol of the CCP, the beast system that is powered by the dragon. Also one of the central figures in the book of Revelations during the great tribulation.”

I have written, or have reposted this passage below before sometime in years past on this blagh. It’s just that every time I search “No Police State Girl” on Facebook it comes up as having posted it on Facebook before sometime in years past.

And even though the plannedemic, and waiting for the sixth trumpet to sound for the Gog and Magog war and the migrant invasion in the western world is the news of the day, this passage still seems to be relevant in an attempt to maintain web 2.0 user generated content for this blagh and my other blog whenever bloggers block possible.

Damn… It ain’t 2012 yet!
 
They tried to sell me out the day I was born… injecting me with disease thru vaccination…
 
Yet I survive.
 
They tried to mentally beat me into submission, telling me that asking questions was a bad behavior… prescribing Ritalin, holding back grades…
 
Yet I am stronger through the education of life after conquering their system
 
They tried to suppress my individuality, condemn my sexuality, sell my self-image to me as a damaged fallacy…
 
Yet I love me more the more I get to know.
 
They tried to bar me from my brothers… teaching us to kill each other not only with guns and violence- but indifference and resentment, hatred and lust.
 
Yet, I love them more than ever with every atrocity and victory- because I understand.
 
They tried to blame my people for our current state, knowing that the corruption of this system is the real issue…
 
Yet, I still admire the resilience of a spirit in the smile of Harlem, Tuskegee, Atlanta, Africa that just won’t die…
 
They tried to teach me to fear and hate white people…
 
They tried to mask the Latino community as inferior…
 
They tried to de-sexualize Asians…
 
They tried to paint Indians as nerdy and un-cool…
 
They tried to paint Middle Easterns as terrorist…
 
They tried to de-humanize African’s as impoverished ignoramuses
 
They tried to say that African American’s were no good.
 
Yet when I look at the various array of beautiful friends and lovers that I embrace from ALL of these cultures, none of these stigmas reign true.
 
They tried to kill is with Polio, then poison us with cancer thru its vaccine
 
They killed over 150 black men with Syphilis, experimenting its affects 40 years after a “cure” was found
 
They are taking new born babies not even 12 hours old and administering “vaccine” shots to them with drugs that the FDA has tried to ban from animal vaccines…coincidentally autism in new borns is skyrocketing.
 
They are producing a new influenza virus every year, then selling shots to us
 
They are releasing air borne germs thru pollution
 
They are poisoning our foods with hormones
 
They are lacing our vitamins with drugs
 
They are taking our troops and using them as human guinea pigs- shooting them up with inoculations of drugs with unknown side affects; holding them up in VA hospitals using them as human experiments for their sick, graduated 6th grade science project agendas…
 
They injected gay men in NYC and San Francisco as well as black people in Africa with a Hepatitis B “vaccine” in the late 70’s that killed the same monkeys that they tested it on who supposedly started the spread of “AIDS” in NYC, San Francisco, and Africa in the mid 80’s.
 
There is nothing new under the sun
 
History only repeats itself
 
There is no issue without resolve… There is no disease without cure as sure as there is gravity.
 
There is man made law…
 
There is chemical war fare
 
This AIDS is a lie
 
This HIV is a lie
 
There is no virus… there is propaganda and fear.
 
There are people too emotional to look at logic with common sense and see the truth.
 
There are people willing themselves to die because they BELIVE they are going to die, thus giving up on life.
 
There is masonry and illuminati, and all types of other crazy shit.
 
There are gangsters… the real ones wearing lab coats and goggles, three piece business suits swearing “Justice For All” while standing on certain peoples shoulders… Piggy back riding injustice all the way to the bank…
 
Swearing “Justice For All” on The Bible, promoting perjury while condemning dishonesty when that is what this whole system is built on.
 
The greed of man is amazing… The lust for these worldly possessions profuse.
 
Don’t they know that none of it means anything?
 
There are misunderstandings
 
There is mind manipulation.
 
There is evil… so much of it that I sometimes feel overwhelmed.
 
Yet, I do not despair…
 
Not when I see you smile.
 
Not when I see you laugh.
 
Not when I see you loving each other.
 
Not when I see you sharing.
 
I will not despair…
 
Because any force dumb enough to think it can con the God in us is a fool so supreme that the joke is already on them.
 
The wicked is laughable… They have no power.
 
Don’t they know we are unbreakable?
 
Don’t they know that we will not be used for their agenda?
 
Don’t they know that it is time to get it together?
 
When there is Haiti and Chile, 911, and Katrina- not even within a full decade span of each other?
 
It has arrived…
 
It is already unraveling… and the information is too easy to access.
 
They monitor text and facebook messages, listen to our cell phone calls… They know your ip address, look out for key words, trace everything you google, have copies of all of your emails… Mapquest registers your whereabouts, hopstop traces your steps… Bank account and credit transactions from online ordered services logged and reported… not to mention that we already post our inner most thoughts and feelings all over social networking sites.
 
Your whole life is LITERALLY in the palm of your hand via Blackberry and Iphone from which you obtained off of your social security number… Hope you don’t lose it…
 
There is no more mystery… no privacy.
 
Yet it means nothing because we’re all talking about the same things.
 
Yet it means nothing because it’s still relative… viral technology works both ways. We can be monitored, yet…
 
Internet fucked up your crooked music and entertainment industry
 
Your television is becoming obsolete, your movies are hawked for free…
 
Your agendas are being ignored… independence is being born due to the lack of control that can be implemented…
 
We can’t all be controlled… and we are no longer oppressed by LACK OF EDUCATION
 
Networks share information… and people are making love without shame or fear, experimenting with the highs of life on their own will, people are eating better, people are not ashamed to be weird, gay, artistic, confused…
 
People okay with not being okay…
 
Not looking for the answers in…
 
You.
 
We don’t need your cures.
 
People are okay with being… PEOPLE.
 
Don’t they know it has arrived?
 
When we ALL know that our votes don’t count…
 
When we all know that there is no iron fist, there are no records…
 
Just fear in the injustice of man…
 
Don’t they know that it isn’t real?
 
Do you know that it isn’t real?
 
The only real thing is love.
 
Do what you want and love as hard as you can, and please READ AND EDUCATE YOURSELVES… this life is too short and the world as we know it is ending.
 
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A Fly – O – Art & Carla Holiday Market!

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It is Christmas as I type this blog post, the day of Christ or Jesus Christ’s day of birth, a few days until a new year according to that Gregorian calendar. A 123123 years end has rolled around here on planet earth and Israel is still at war as Jesus is in rubble and Christmas is Cancelled in Bethlehem, Jesus birthplace , there are “Free Gaza” protests happening on a seemingly daily basis in the New York City area and I am wondering if it is still a Dark Winter 2023.

And so this Fly – O – Art & Carla Holiday Market! in that city of New York, that finds itself posted in those photos and videos above, has also been a Morus Holiday Market that I have found myself vending at in years past, also turned into a Fly E bike story for Fly Orr who found herself posting on her Instagram page a few days before the holiday market:
 
 
Broken wrist. Got run over today. I mean yesterday by an E bike that took me down and then took off. Spent about seven hours in the ER before they finally put a cast on me. I am smiling because I am happy to be home finally but the pain is pretty bad. I can definitely say though that getting hit by an E bike is less painful than getting run over by an SUV so. .. There’s that. Six weeks they say. Ugh… I am doing my big annual holiday art sale on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Carla at the museum of reclaimed urban space. I have new Zine hot off the press. And some other cool stuff. But I left too much to the last minute, so it’s going to be, hard to get it all finished. Please come by the Art sale and say hi or just hang out or buy a new Zine or some cool holiday cards etc. I would really love to see my peoples.
 
And if I could rant and rave, I would reply to that e bike story that “These DoorDash, Grubhub and delivery for speed apps suck. I wish someone would get rid of these ebikes and scooters. They are a menace to society, outpacing cars for pedestrian injuries. I am scared to walk down the street because of them. These ebikes are not regulated and should require licenses and insurance for them, and that’s not even including the lithium battery fires they are causing.’
 
 
And so the Facebook event invite for this event reads something like:
 
Join us. Fly – O – Art & Carla Holiday Market! Holiday ( & Any Day). Hand – stamped & signed greeting cards….Zines, Pins, Books, T-Shirts, Jewelry, CDs, etc… + Fly-O-Art Prints… & some free stuff!!
 
AND

Lotsa MoRUS Merch!
 
Friday. Dec 22. Sat. Dec 23. & Sun. Dec. 24. 1-6pm at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – MORUS
 
 

And thank you Frank Morales, for taking those “Manhattan” and “Money”  boxes out of my closet that’s been sitting there for years, and thank you Fly’s friend for buying that “Death Tarot Card” box that’s been sitting in the closet for years. And thank you Katie and Elana for buying one of those Tompkins Square Park and Washington Square Park t shirts. Your Survival Without Rent film is really cool.

And then there is a Facebook photo from Frank Gonzalez that I came across in facebookland that reads:
 
Please join us for the first annual New Year’s Eve Brunch at the Loisaida CommUnity Office. Special thanks to Kareem Holmes Big City Tourism Loisaida Realty lescommunityconcerns19 & LES Small Biz Alliance #LESsba #NewYearsBrunch #CommUnity
 
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We understand the holidays and New Year’s can be hard for most people. If you like a free meal and some good company. Please feel free to join us for the first annual New Year’s Eve Brunch at the Loisaida CommUnity Office. Special thanks to our sponsors @bigcitytourism @bigcityreem1 @loisaidarealty @lescc19 & @les.sba #TY #LESsba #NewYears #Brunch #LES #CommUnity
 
Every picture tells a story. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. We are still living in crazy times. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind.
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Dark Winter 2023

So in reading the headline news of the day somewhere in between that planne demic virus that started in 2020 and now that Gog and Magog war, Psalm 83 war ,  Ezekiel 38 war, 6th trumpet warIsrael Palestine holy war, World War three, I think it’s safe to say that a dark winter is approaching,  the four horses of the apocalypse are upon us, peace will be taken from the earth and all hell is about to break loose on the road to Armageddon and the second coming of Jesus Christ, as the book of Revelations from that book of the bible is unfolding right before our very eyes in the last days and the end times here on planet earth and we are living in crazy times, if you believe.

And I am waiting for and even witnessing the final seven years on the road to the battle of  Armageddon, the end of suffering and death according to this Gregorian calendar on earth.

I am waiting for, and even witnessing the Revelation 12 sign that appeared in the sky in 2017, the sign of the dragon, and for the internet to even go dark.

And I am waiting for and even witnessing the great tribulation, the covenant, the raptures, the resurrections, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet and for the antichrist to stand in the holy place and declare himself god halfway through Daniels’s 70’th week and implement the mark of the beast during his reign of the beast, all for the second coming of Jesus Christ, the redeemer, if you believe. 

And I am waiting for end time prophecies to unfold and even witnessing the annual eclipses, the solar eclipses, the lunar eclipses, the blood moons, the comets, the asteroids, the wildfires, the hurricanes, the earthquakes, the migration of people, the 5th seal martyrdom , the holy days of the feast of tabernacles, feast of trumpets, feast of first fruits and the day of atonement, the seals being opened, the bowls, the judgments, the trumpets angels to blow their trumpets..

And I am waiting for that 5th trumpet to sound, for the devil, Satan, the fallen star to be cast from heaven to earth and for the bottomless pit to open with the arrival of Abaddon from the abyss to release the fallen four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates to release the winds of judgment and chaos and kill a third of mankind before the day of the Lord.

And I am waiting for alien invasions and for the New World Order and Babylon the Great Harlot system, also known as the Statue of Liberty possibly, to fall, to be burned and destroyed by fire, smoke, brimstone and sulfur in one hour by the beast that she sits upon.

And I am waiting to receive an immortal body for the millennium reign of Christ for a thousand years.

And I am waiting for Jesus to cleanse the earth, for the marriage supper of the lamb and judgement day to see if I am written in the book of life and if I will go to heaven or hell and the lake of fire.

And it is happening now, in this generation, if you believe.

And why did Palestine choose the exact colors of the four horses of the apocalypse for it’s flag?

The ten kings are here. Israel is surrounded by armies, a coalition of nations and is in travail and having birth pains for the child to be born. We are the fig tree generation and this generation shall not pass til all things be fulfilled.

And in between waiting for the end of the world, I found myself attempting to vend those #blacklivesmatter #S#!tJustGotReal #NotMyPresident #occupywallstreet #nopolicestate #yoga #music #morus #TheShadow #squat #tompkinssquarepark #washingtonsquarepark #unionsquarepark #eastvillage #lowereastside #brooklyn & #iloveny necklaces, magnets, key chains & pins for $2 each & Tompkins Square Park t shirts for $10 each @  Chris Flash’s Tompkins Square Book And Arts Fair at Psycho Parkula 2023 @ Shows in Tompkins Square Park in the Lower East Side now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes in that city of New York. And the Facebook post description for that event read something like:

OCTOBER 28 TOMPKINS SQUARE BOOK AND ARTS FAIR!!!!
Come and get works of art, hand-made crafts, zines, books, clothing, records, videos, and more, including FREE stuff, all offered by members of your community on the Lower East Side.

This will be happening at the same time as Mike Lewi’s psychobilly Halloween show, from 2pm – 6pm, in our beloved Tompkins Square Park.

[Those interested in participating in selling, trading or giving stuff away (there are NO fees!) can either email us at: …… or just come on down. Bring a table!]

And this Halloween event has since come to pass as I type this blagh post. Have a great Halloween, the devils holiday, end of the world religious rant day and more.

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All Tomorrow’s Gardens

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. 

And so in between posting a bunch of migrant mango vendor videos and attempting to vend those Black Lives Matter, Not My President, Occupy Wall Street, No Police State, Sh*tJustGotReal Tompkins Square Park, Union Square Park, Washington Square Park, Frida Kahlo, Yoga, Music, Brooklyn, East Village, Lower East Side and I Love New York necklaces, magnets, key chains and pins for $2 each and Tompkins Square Park t shirts for $10 each at the 35th Annual Tompkins Square Riot Reunion at Tompkins Square Park when your Tompkins Square Park t shirts sell out because the singer from Xtinguish The Code wears one on stage, I found myself dropping off a “Save Charas” photo for All Tomorrow’s Gardens.

And I had a great time at All Tomorrow’s Gardens exhibition opening and closing party this past weekend in that city of New York and neighborhood of the Lower East Side now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes.  And according to George’s Facebook page, this event was:

 
A Celebration of NYC Community Gardens
Presented by EV Gallery
621 East 11th St. NYC
August 4-13, 2023
 
Curated by
George Hirose & Kerri Lindström
 
Opening Reception: August 4, 6-9pm
 
Special Performances:
6:45pm Adam Ende / Jawbone PuppetTheater “The Turnip
7pm Rude Mechanical Orchestra
 
With Sidewalk Tape Art Installation
by Kuki Gomez
 
Featuring work by
Vera Alexandrov Nora Balaban
Lois Bender Melinda Billings
Elisa Blynn Leilah Cohen
Carla Cubit Lane Diko
Eileen Doster Joan Dworkin
Carmen Einfinger Adam Ende
Kyle Ericksen Kuki Gomez
Ken Hiratsuka Ryoko Hirose
George Hirose Je’Jae
Aresh Javadi MJ King
Michael Koster Elizabeth Kresch
Sally Lelong DD Maucher
Joan Elizabeth Meyer Esther Mizrahi
Bill Morrison Laurie Olinder
Rochelle Pashkin Gilda Pervin
JenniferPodIsDead Rolando Politi
Daniel Polnau. Carolyn Ratcliffe
Reynolds Daniel Root
Bonnie Rosenstock Lee Ruelle
Nick Savides Annie Shaver-Crandell
Marie Suchan Gretchen Van Dyk
Margie and Jenny Wardlaw – CashmerePunk
Lili White Sally Young
Felicia Young Donna Zimmerman
 
and
 
Closing Party 5:00 pm – Creation of a community “Living Willow” portal/sculpture led by Aresh & the soulful sounds of Shona mbira music played by MAPUTI -Nora Balaban & Susan Rapalee – mbira, vocals& Scott Latzky – cajon, percussion.
 
These gardens grew out of burnt out and abandoned lots after years of neglect, quite often due to the purposeful destruction of properties by unethical landlords. In marginalized areas of the city, people banded together to reclaim unused land for the betterment of their communities. They created beautiful and safe spaces for children to play and learn about nature, and for neighbors to plant, grow a garden, and gather together. Every year there are hundreds of events, educational workshops, and food distribution initiatives in the many gardens that dot our urban landscape.
Community gardens by nature are activist spaces and the fight continues to protect and preserve these spaces that are constantly under threat by urban development. This show is an artistic exploration and expression to celebrate what is possible through solidarity, commitment and love.
ALL TOMORROW’S GARDENS is co sponsored by LUNGS, Art Loisaida Foundation, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – MORUS and More Gardens….
 
Have a great All Tomorrow’s Gardens day and more here on planet earth.
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MORUS at The 36th Annual Loisaida Festival

We had a great time listening to Batala New York pass by in a parade while tabling at Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – MORUS during The 36th Annual Loisaida Festival this past Memorial Day weekend. Viva Loisaida!

And those are the words I find myself typing on this blog the day after that Memorial Day weekend of events that has since come to pass in that City of New York.

And if I were to copy and paste that 36th Annual Loisaida Festival Facebook event invite and the participants of this Loisaida Festival event, it would read something like as follows:

“For the 36th Annual Loisaida Festival, we’re taking it back to our streets! Join us for a day of community on Sunday, May 28th on Avenue C!

We are gearing up to celebrate the The 36th Annual Loisaida Festival, every year on the Sunday before Memorial Day, Loisaida, Inc. celebrates our Latino and Hispanic culture, heritage, food, music and art by turning the Avenue C – Loisaida Avenue corridor into a one-of-a-kind block party spanning across 14th Street to 5th Street inside the historic district known as the East Village/Alphabet City/Loisaida neighborhood.

Main Stage

DāSo+ DJ Drestar, Batalá New York, Dorill Initiative Teens, Eljuri Power Rock Trio.

Kinto Zonó Plena & Bomba, VIVA Loisaida! Awardees Recognition, Lower East Salsa, NaboriNyah

Theatre Lab at La Plaza Cultural

Line-Up & Schedule

12:00 pm – The Island School (short play)
1:00 pm – Brentwood High School Bilingual Theater – (short play)
1:45 pm – Westbury School Bilingual Theater – (short play)
2:00 pm – DJ Sunny Cheeba (music)
2:30 pm – Alejandra Rosa (poetry, performance)
3:00 pm – Adriana Devers (poetry, dance, stories)
3:30 pm – Teatro Yerbabruja (short play)
4:00 pm – Teófilo Torres con Pateco (performance)
4:30 pm – Jota Erre (music)

Street Level

5th Street – 12th Street

Conjunto, Los Fascinantes, Casa Adela Rumba with Jip Jop Jibarito, PRIDA Artisan Block, Charlie Rosario Exhibition, Bouncy Houses, Bio Bus, Pony Rides, Thrive Collective * Community Mural Painting in honor of Jean Michel Basquiat, LES Sports +, PSA – 4, Kids vs Cops, Basketball Game, Loisaida Inc. & Listening Lab Activation”

And then there’s MORUS, that Lower East Side radical history museum that finds itself in that city of New York, whose Facebook event invite reads something like as follows:

“Come celebrate the The 36th Annual Loisaida Festival. Join us for a day of community on Sunday, May 28th, 11:30 am – 5 pm, an all day festival of food, music artists, activists and vendors on Avenue C. MORUS will be tabling outside our space between 9th and 10th Street.’

And if I were to copy and paste their May/June mailing list , their upcoming events are:

DESIGN WITHOUT AUTHORITY

Pop-up design exhibit at the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space

155 Ave C, NYC

May 19 through June 11

Opening: Friday May 19, 6-9pm
Viewing Hours: Fri-Sun, 2-6pm

“Design Without Authority” speaks to autonomous action, and building without authority in architecture and design. The project borrows lessons from an ad hoc approach often seen in the urban environment, where an abundance of improvised decisions, broken rules, unauthorized additions and constructions participate in the realization of the built environment. Can tacit architectural knowledge become ubiquitous, entering everyday life?

http://www.abcnorio.org/ 

Featuring Work by Catherine Grau + Nathan Kensinger, Fly, George Bliss, John Szot, Kotti & Co, LOT-EK, Marwan Kaabour, Mohamed Nahleh, Nina Cooke John, Nof Nathansohn, Ross Martin and Xavier Delory.Curated By Renan Teuman.& ABC No Rio In Exile


Screening: Saturday May 27 at 7:00Pm
DEVASTATING SOUNDWORKS Presents
SQUAT or ROT

HONEY BEE WORKSHOP

Sunday, May 21…………12:00pm

Green Oasis Community Garden, 8th St between Avenues C and D
Come learn the basics of beekeeping for city honey bees and their importance to the urban environment. From pollination to good tasting honey, learn from bee expert Dan Rothschild of City Bees and Peas.

https://www.citybeesandpeas.com/

POP-UP FREE SAILING SCHOOL

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space. 155 Ave C

Thursday May 25th…………6pm-9pm

La Plaza Community Garden

One of the cleanest forms of transportation is the wind. Come learn how to sail and let the world be your new home! Once you complete your free sailing classes you will have the opportunity to sail you own boat on the East River.

THE 36TH ANNUAL LOUSAIDA FESTIVAL

May 28…………11:30am-5pm

Come celebrate Latino and Hispanic culture, heritage, food, music, and art by turning the Avenur C – Loisaida Avenue corridor into a one-of-a-kind block party spanning across 14th Street to 5th Street inside the historic district known as the East Village/Alphabet City/Loisaida neighborhood. Mesuem of Reclaimed Urban Space with be tabling outside our space between 9th and 10th Street.

FULL MOON CELEBRATION

Saturday, June 3…………8:00pm

Wednesday, July 5…………8:00pm
La Plaza Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C  NYC

Celebrate the light of the full moon in La Plaza. Pause and be guided into unconscious bliss under the healing light of the moon with a meditation. Then reconnect sonically with ourselves and the planet. Get up and move with the moon in a moon circle of healing, sounds and higher consciousness. Release your limitations and step into nature.

COMMUNITY GARDEN VOLUNTEER DAYS

Help local communities as we help cultivate these beautiful community gardens

PROSPECT PARK MOON AND MAGIC HOUR RIDE

Last Saturday of the Month

May 27…………7:15pm. 

June 24…………7:15pm. 

Grand Army Plaza Entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn

Meets at 7:15pm at Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park, Brooklyn, across the street from the arch where the Saturday Greenmarket takes place. Discover Prospect Park at night with a peaceful ride that visits the park’s little-known treasures. Bicycle lights are recommended.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT SKATE NYC

Meet every Wednesday at the south side of Union Square, 8pm, April through October. Weekly social skate through the streets of NYC, since 1996. 

THURSDAY NIGHT SOCIAL BIKE RIDE

Every Thursday 7pm meet at Columbus Circle entrance of Central Park.

Hosted by Social Cycling NYC.

CRITICAL MASS – MANHATTAN

Last Friday of the Month

May 26…………7pm

June 30…………7pm

Union Square Park-North

This Critical Mass bike ride will be a celebration of future renewable energy and non-polluting transportation. Critical Mass meets the last Friday of every month in over 200 cities around the world. NYC’s Critical Mass and group bike rides increased bike riding and created the sustainable, safe infrastructure that we now enjoy today in NYC.

8-Ball Zine Collective Outdoor Zine Fair

St. Marks Place between 1st and Avenue A

Saturday, June 24th…………..12pm

MoRUS and Time’s Up! will be tabling and leading a free radical outdoor walking tour starting at 2pm, meeting at our table.

NEW TIME’S UP LOCATION

626 E 14th St between B & C Manhattan.

FIX YOUR OWN BIKE WORKSHOP

Sundays at 4:00pm-8:00pm & Wednesdays at 4:30pm-8:00pm. New indoor space will open after Easter.

Come check out the new TIME’S UP space: 626 E 14th St between B & C Manhattan

Open shop – you use our tools and stands to work on your bike. Experienced mechanics will be present to answer questions but you do the work. Bike workshops are free but we strongly encourage you to make a donation or become a Time’s Up member to help support our efforts. If you have a big project in mind please be considerate of the time and plan ahead.

OUTDOOR BIKE REPAIR CLASS

La Plaza Community Garden. 9th St & Ave C, East Village

Come and learn how to fix your bike and do simple maintenance and tune-ups. This is a class, not a workshop, so you do not have to bring your bike. If you want to repair your bike you should be attending the indoor bike repair workshop which is every Wednesday and Sunday. 

First and Third Saturday of the Month.”

And in the midst of reading headline news of the day, some stories do not end as you expect and the only thing constant is change. Have a great Loisaida, Lower East Side Festival, Memorial Day weekend and more.

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Rage Against The Police State

In trying to combine the police state of New York City, where I think there’s one polizei for every fifteen people, with that Rage Against The War Machine anti -war rally event that happened in Washington D.C. this past weekend, I have decided to call the title of this blagh post “Rage Against The Police State”.

And I know that Libertarian Party, People’s  Party Rage Against The War Machine event happened in Washington D.C. this past weekend because this short compilation of speakers video from the Rage Against the War Machine anti – war rally in Washington D.C. with speakers Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Gerald Celente, Dennis Kucinich, Tulsi Gabbard and Ron Paul and this video that East Ghost Reports or NJEG Media made says so. And according to that Rage Against The War Machine website, Cynthia McKinney, Scott Horton, ChrisHedges, Kim Iversen, Daniel McAdams, Garland Nixon, Jackson Hinkle, Anya Parampil, Ann Wright, David Swanson, Tara Reade, Diane Sare, DanMcKnight, Jill Stein, Craig “Pasta” Jardula, Wyatt Reed, and Dan Cohen were speakers also.

‘Join us at the Lincoln Memorial on February 19 to rally against US funding for the Ukraine war.’….. That gog and magog war.

And then there was that World Wide Rally For Freedom NEW YORK NEW YORK CITY TOGETHER, WE ARE FREE. 18TH OF FEBRUARY, 2023. PFIZER WORLD HEADQUARTERS. 235 EAST 42ND STREET. 12PM. #WewillALLbethere event that came to pass also where people gathered outside Pfizer’s Headquarters in New York City to protest against medical tyranny and where Kozi-19 koziswellness sang his  “I’m unvaccinated I ain’t showing you my papers!” song.

And then if I can continue to rage against the police state of this past week in that city of New York, there is this “Seen while attempting to vend Black Lives Matter jewelry at Washington Square Park. NYC Parks Department police tell me to remove my price sign then proceed to hand out tickets and shut down every other vendor at Washington Square Park video that I posted on my twitter page. No wonder Leeroy Press has been posting all of those Viral News NY videos of people getting arrested at police state Washington Square Park in New York City this past summer.

And that’s not even counting the subway fare beating scenarios I witnessed by the New York City Transit MTA of someone getting subway summonses or getting arrested seemingly every time I pass by that 14th Street and 8th Avenue subway station trying to get to the park. Dear New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, could you please make the subway and transit fare free and stop giving out tickets and arresting everyone who don’t pay their fare? I don’t think hardly anyone pays their fare anymore for the subway, at least that’s what Decolonize This Place thinks.

And what, if anything, do these events in the past week in that New York City area have to do with a police state. We are living in crazy times. Have a great Revelations, gog and magog, great reset, new world order, apocalypse, antichrist, mark of the beast system day.

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