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Banned Tompkins Square Park T – Shirts at a Show in Tompkins Square Park

And in the midst of waiting to see if the aliens are coming and wondering if there is going to be an alien invasion with that comet 3iatlas headed toward earth, ice invasions, an impending civil war, World War III, the rollout of a national guard police state and other headlines news of the day here on planet earth, I somehow found myself making another one of those Banned Tompkins Square park t – shirts at Tompkins Square Park Facebook event invites that read something like

The New York City Parks Department has banned these Tompkins Square Park t – shirts because of the logo on them.

And I am planning to vend banned Tompkins Square Park t – shirts for $10 each at, well during, the next Shows in Tompkins Square Park concert, Monster Metal Mayhem, September 27th, 2 -6pm at Tompkins Square Park, New York City.

And it became a day of when people tell you that they have been looking for this shirt forever. Heard while vending banned Tompkins Square Park t – shirts @ Monster Metal Mayhem @ Shows in Tompkins Square Park, with music by Sea Monster and other bands.

And…..

There was also a 14th Annual LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival on this day in that city of New York and neighborhood of the Lower East Side or East Village for real estate marketing purposes. And according to their website there were over 50 events in 30 gardens! With their festival schedule reading something like…..

LUNGS CSA is in La Plaza this week, check out the produce, give Veggie a home!!, LaPlaza 6pm Opening night 6:30 Felice Rosner and FAITH NYC, 7:30 Sylvain LaRoux’s Source, Carmen’s Garden Knit/crochet and Sketch/Paint workshops noon-3pm Elizabeth St Garden 10:30 am – Free Yoga w/ Chelsea Forbes El Sol Brillante 12-4pm INSECT CREATURE CREATION LAB by BOTANICART.NYC Using natural materials provided by the garden, such as paper, glue, leaves, twigs, dried berries, seed pods, and flowers, guests will design and build their own imaginative insect creatures. Casita Garden 11am-2pm Volunteer Workday, wear your work clothes DeColores Songwriters Circle noon- 7pm El Jardin del Paraiso Pollinator workshop 10am-2pm FAMILY DAY 2:30-5:30 pm Puppeteer and Storyteller Vít Hořejš, Artistic Director, Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre Sayma Karim, Rocco George, Show Up Kids with Peter Michael Marino Kenkeleba Children’s Magical Garden Arts for Art presents free jazz 2-5pm Rob Brown trio, Amirtha Kidambie & Cooper Moore, Miriam Parker-Dance, Alfredo Colon Trio 11 BC Serenity Garden 2 P.M. Sylvain Leroux Qromatica Trio with Sylvain Leroux: fulaflute, flute, alto sax, Dan Kurfirst: drums and percussion, Hilliard Greene: contrabass 4 P.M. Mbira workshop with Jennifer Kyker Siempre Verde 2pm Poetry Verde Verses | OPEN MIC | Theme: Gaia 2 PM: Sign up at 2p to share 8 minutes of poetry (rain date 9/21) La Plaza Pinc Louds 4-6pm 6B Garden MAKE ART IN THE GARDEN 1-6PM Music Under the Stars with JOFF WILSON 7PM Green Oasis Music 6pm Mathieu Eveillard 7pm Kid Java Campos Garden Elizabeth St Garden 10:30 am – Free Tai Chi w/ Tai Chi Solutions 5:30 pm – LiveMusic ART around LOISAIDA 1-5pm Live painting and exhibit I wanna work, wanna paint on the fence all day Paint your masterpiece on the Garden Fences of LaPlaza and Pancho’s Garden. Ave C & 9th St. Bring your own paint and brushes, we supply the canvas La Plaza 2:30-4:30 The Renaissance Street Singers Come hear a wonderful FREE concert at Campos Community Garden! September 21, at 3 pm featuring contemporary and classic song repertory performed by: Clara Lisle, Andres Penalver, and Victoria Falcon Sam & Sadie’s Garden 6BC Botanical Garden 4pm The Beyond Flute Group 11 BC Serenity Garden 4 P.M. MICHAEL EATON JAZZ GROUP Michael Eaton – saxophones, Dan Wick – keyboard, electronics 6B Garden 2-4pm INTERNATIONAL GIRLS ENSEMBLE CHORAL PERFORMANCE 4PM Maputi with Jennifer Kyker, Nora Balaban, and Susan Rapalee: mbira and vocals; Rima Fand: violin and vocals; Sylvain Leroux: fulaflute and vocals; Nari Zechman: percussion and vocals; Stuart Zechman: hosho

And a host of other performances and events that took place, too innumerable for me to copy and paste, at the LUNGS — Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens event September 19-28th, 2025 in New York City.

And did you know that New York City’s Lower East Side has the most community gardens of any neighborhood in America?

And what, if anything, does this blagh post have to do with a No Police State. The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. Have a great concert, harvest arts festival day and more.

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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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Shows in Tompkins Square Park

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh It’s been a while since I last posted anything on this blagh. And so in between watching the world seemingly go to hell in a hand basket these past few days, weeks or months, I found myself attempting to vend those Tompkins Square Park t – shirts and Black Lives Matter jewelry at Tompkins Square Park in that city of New York this past weekend. And according to that Facebook event invite that I created for Chris Flash‘s next show in Tompkins Square Park, it read something like:

Mark this one on your calendar

Chris’s next Shows in Tompkins Square Park concerts in New York City are on

• April 26
• May 10
• May 24
• June 8

And there are more to be announced!!!!

And I am planning to vend Tompkins Square Park t – shirts for $10 each.

And check out Andrea Troeger’s OUR F#CKING PARK: Rebellion, Noise, and Punk Rock in Tompkins Square Park book! A new photo 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.

This amazing book will be for sale at the SHADOW table at the shows in Tompkins Square Park.

And according to that Shows in Tompkins Square Park Facebook page:

There are more, but these are the next four shows we are doing in Washington Square Park and in Tompkins Square Park:

In Washington Square Park:

• May 4: The Return of ROCK AGAINST RACISM, featuring:

Mark Dillon + the Roots Revival, Frida Kill, ADIXION, REBELMATIC and RICANSTRUCTION

In Tompkins Square Park:

• May 10: Old School Punk, featuring: Jones Crushers, The Idolizers, NIHILSTICS, Coffin Daggers and The UNDEAD

• May 24: Drew Stone’s NYHC show, featuring: Sonic Bomb, End of Hope, Butterbrain, NON-RESIDENTS and REBELMATIC

• June 8: WASTE FEST FIVE show, featuring: Complete Fucker, Blackout Shoppers, DYI, Angry Corpses, FANG and, of course, URBAN WASTE

All shows are from 2pm – 6pm

The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State. Have a great music and more day.

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The Tompkins Square Park concert that didn’t happen

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:

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:

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

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

Point Blank

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“

And…..

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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A Fly – O – Art & Carla Holiday Market!

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:

fly_peops

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 The Village Sun says Not right: Hit by e-bike, artist must now draw left-handed.

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

https://www.morusnyc.org

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

and

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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East Village Zine Fair 2023

The 8 Ball Community, Printed Matter St Marks, East Village Zine Fair happened indoors at PS 122 Community Center this past weekend after being postponed from a rain date outdoors on St Marks Place in that city of New York in that neighborhood of the Lower East Side, now called the East Village for real estate marketing purposes maybe.

And I had a great time vending #blacklivesmatter #nopolicestate #occupywallstreet #sh*tjustgotreal #washingtonsquarepark #unionsquarepark #morus #theshadow #yoga #music #brooklyn #eastvillage #lowereastside & #iloveny necklaces, magnets, key chains & pins $2 each & Tompkins Square Park t shirts for $10 each outside on the sidewalk next to Chris Flash of Shows in Tompkins Square Park, The Shadow Newspaper and indoors with Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – MORUS at East Village Zine Fair at 8Ball Community Printed Matter Zine Fair/ St. Marks this past weekend.

And with over 70 exhibitors at this zine fair, if I were to copy and paste part of Printed Matter’s website description of this event, (because hey, it’s less writing sometimes….) it would read something like:

“Printed Matter / St Marks and 8-Ball Community are excited to welcome you to the third annual East Village Zine Fair, a celebration of NYC’s zine-makers, independent publishers, and the East Village’s history of DIY culture past and present.

Though originally planned for June 24, due to rainy weather the EVZF will now take place Saturday, July 8th AND Sunday, July 9th at Performance Space New York, 150 First Ave.

Saturday, July 8th 11AM – 7PM (11AM – 1PM are mask mandatory hours, register here*)

Sunday, July 9th 11AM – 5PM

For our new venue, we cannot imagine a better alternative than Performance Space New York, a fellow arts non-profit in the heart of the East Village. We are so grateful for their support and generosity in hosting the EVZF this year 📚🎱

*Saturday will begin with two mask-mandatory hours and a reduced visitor capacity to ensure that those who are immunocompromised and/or disabled have a chance to browse the Fair. To ensure entry during this time, register via the link above or through tinyurl.com/EVZFMASK.

For the rest of the Fair masks will be available and highly encouraged.

We’re so excited to welcome everyone to the fair, and since we are not outside on St Marks Pl this year, we Are working with a much more limited visitor capacity. As such, we encourage you to arrive early and be prepared for potential wait times to enter the fair. Once inside, we are asking that guests try to keep their visit limited to 2 hours so that as many people as possible get to experience the EVZF.

Questions? Email evzf@printedmatter.org.

The EVZF and its programs are free and open to the public. Details about fundraising editions, musical performance and more are forthcoming!Stay up to date via Instagram Printed Matter, 8-Ball Community) and by subscribing to Printed Matter’s mailing list “

We are still living in crazy times. Have a great New York City festival day and more.

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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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Celebrating 10 Years of MoRUS

MORUS , is now 10 years old special thanks to all the volunteers and all the volunteer run reclaimed spaces that we’ve used and promoted to bring about more community and urban sustainability.

JOIN US TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS OF MORUS!

For ten years, the Museum Of Reclaimed Urban Space has worked to preserve the history of grassroots activism. Since the museum’s foundation by volunteers from Time’s Up environmental organization with the generous donation of their archives, we have continued to thrive and grow. In addition to hosting workshops, collaborating with schools and colleges, and working with other museums, MORUS has inspired a younger generation to create a new revolution of reclaiming their history and recreating their public urban space in a more sustainable, community-oriented way. Join us to celebrate 10 years of direct action with a party at Nublu on September 11, 2022 from 5-9pm.

Film festival Thursday, Sept 8 LaPlaza garden 7pm

Film festival Friday Sept 9 Green oasis garden 7 pm

Anarchist book fair Saturday, Sept 10 la Plaza garden 11:30am

Anarchist film Festival Saturday 10 Tompkins Square,Park 7pm

MORUS 10 year party Sept 11 @5 NUBLU Pinc Louds

Save the date for our 10th Annual Film Festival! Join us to watch films such as Your House is Mine, Takeover, Still We Ride, and 1971 in some of the East Village’s beautiful community gardens

16th Annual Anarchist Bookfair

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair brings hundreds of anarchists, anarchy supporters and curious visitors together in New York City (on Lenape land). The book fair and related events offer a space for the anarchist community, bringing together anarchx-feminists, activists, scholars, workers, immigrants, queers, trans, artists and multi- racial individuals. It also offers an opportunity for the curious to learn about anarchism tradition, philosophy, praxis and the anti-capitalist struggle.

Each year, the NYC Anarchist Book Fair hosts over 60 exhibitor

16th Annual Emma Goldman Film Festival (9/10) (7:30pm until late)

Tompkins Sq. Park and La Plaza Community Garden

Saturday, September 10…………11am

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

An awesome exhibit of anarchist cultural materials plus festivities, from films, books, and zines to art, performances, and bikes.

Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – MORUS

September 11…………5-9pm

nublu Nightclub – 151 Ave C, NY, NY 10009

Join us to celebrate 10 years of direct action at Nublu nightclub. Music from DJ Dany Johnson, former resident DJ at Club 57, and the band Pinc Louds.

And those above event descriptions are just a few of the words that I have come across on morus’s Facebook page for their 10th Anniversary party that Bill, a co founder of morus, who is also the founder of Time’s Up! , and volunteers, seem to single handedly put on,

And in between battling murphy’s law and not being able to actually make it to any of these above events, and reading world news of the day , this blog post is yet another attempt to maintain web 2.0 user generated content whenever blaghers block possible.

And so I dropped off a few #tompkinssquarepark t-shirts @ Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space – MORUS . Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space! Film Festival, Anarchist Book Fair, Anarchist Film Festival and morusnyc 10 Year Anniversary Party @ nublu Sept 8th – Sept 11th, #morus #nyc #newyorkcity #alphabetcity #lowereadtside #eastvillage

Have a great MORUS is now 10 years old in New York City day and more. Squat the world.

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A BNB Hardcore Concert That Began Or Ended It All At Tompkins Square Park

There was a hardcore concert at Tompkins Square Park this past weekend, which I thought was actually a punk rock concert or a heavy metal concert or both. And I know that there was a Black N’ Blue Productions hardcore concert at Tompkins Square Park this past weekend because this Facebook event invite says so, and all of these news articles that have since appeared as a result of that concert say so also. And it was a really big concert, so big that the crowd of concert goers , some wearing masks and some not wearing masks has since become a big to free your face or not to free your face debate.

And in between attempting to vend those Black Lives Matter I Can’t Breathe, Not My President, S#!t Just Got Real, Occupy Wall Street, No Police State, Tompkins Square Park, Union Square Park, Washington Square Park, Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space, The Shadow, Frida Kahlo, Yoga, Brooklyn and I Love New York necklaces, magnets, key chains and pins and Black Lives Matter hats and tote bags at this concert, it was seen that there were many other vendors at this concert, which almost seemed like a festival also.

Someone was handing out Defund The NYPD flyers on Avenue A in front of the park, the Hare Krishnas and Chilis on Wheels were serving food, East River Park Action. band merchandise tables and The Shadow had tables there also and there was even a yard sale going on during this really big concert.

And surely that was Clayton Patterson who was at this concert who finds himself in one of those photos posted above. And thanks @angieisallright for helping me to vend that Black Lives Matter jewelry at that table and chair from morus for one quick second.

And with future Shows in Tompkins Square Park possibly in jeopardy as a result of this really big concert, the concert schedule reads as follows:

“HEY KIDS! Put these TSP show dates for 2021 on your calendar:

> April 24: BLACK + BLUE PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS: MAD BALL – Murphy’s Law – Bloodclot – The Capturers. Donations will be accepted with a portion of the proceeds to go to New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation

> May 8: A7 BACK TO THE NYHC ROOTS Record Release show: Antidote NYHC – Kings Never Die – The Last Stand – Crazy Eddie – The Car Bomb Parade – Reaching Out

> May 22: WASTE FEST 2: Brought to you by the fine folks of Urban Waste

> June 13: Sewage, Hammerbrain, Sea Monster and The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, with surprise guests!

> June 26: F-Bomb: Brought to you by Mike SOS

> July 10: F-Bomb: Brought to you by Mike SOS

> August 7 + 8: TSP RIOT REUNION > September 11: F-bomb: Brought to you by Mike SOS

> September 25: Something special brought to you by Black + Blue Productions

> October 9: F-Bomb: Brought to you by Mike SOS

> October 30: TSP HALLOWEEN show

And, as seen on Reddit:

Finally a solution.

Apparently punk rock stops the spread of Covid.

No masked needed while rocking out.

Everyone looks happy. That is nice

And as I type this blog post a few days later, there are now articles that read, Permits pulled for upcoming Tompkins Square Park shows following Madball show.

And There is a World Wide Demonstration 2.0 May 15 2021. We will do it again! Side by side – for Freedom & Human rights!

We are living in crazy times. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State. Have a great punk rock hardcore concert day and more. #blacklivesmatter

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Vending and busking at Washington Square Park NYC

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It’s been a while since I signed into this blog in an attempt to maintain web 2.0 user generated content for this blog and my other blagh whenever blagheers block possible, And during what seems like an end of the world panicdemic or at least an end of the world as we know it panicdemic going on at the moment, I thought to post a few photos and videos seen in my attempt to vend black lives matter necklaces, magnets, key chains and pins for $2 each and Black Lives Matter tote bags somewhere in between Union Square Park and Washington Square Park in the New York City area the past few months or so.

And it was seen while vending Black Lives Matter jewelry at Union Square Park during the Union Square Greenmarket, or Union square Farmers Market, Underground Horns were busking near that Union Square subway entrance on this day.

And then it was seen again that Underground Horns were busking again at Union Square Park during that Union Square Farmers Market near that Gandhi statue. and there was also an anti vaccine rally there on this day.

And there was a World Wide Rally For Freedom, World Wide Demonstration & Stop Asian Hate March on one of these attempt to vend in the park days also. And that World wide rally for freedom- March 20 2021 event invite read something like:

World Wide Rally For Freedom

World Wide Demonstration March 20, 2021 We stand together as one big family on March 20, 2021 ❤️ For freedom & human rights ❗️ #wewillALLbethere T.me/worldwidedemonstration #worldwidedemonstration #freiebuergerkassel #wwd #wewillALLbethere #wirwerdenALLEdasein“.

And according to their Facebook page, there is another World Wide Demonstration 2.0 May 15th, with text that reads like:

World Wide Demonstration 2.0

We will do it again!
Side by side – for Freedom & Human rights!

You will find all the details of the protests soon on our Website, on Telegram, Instagram or Facebook!

And lo and behold, I came across underground horns busking in that park yet again, and this time it was at Washington Square Park. And so I took A walk around Washington Square Park with Underground Horns brass band on this day.

And there was also a Justice For Jamarion Robinson memorial and rally on this day at Washington Square Park and there was also a Times Square Takeover to stop asian hate in Times Square this past weekend , which I guess brings me to this current date of today in the photos and videos that find themselves posted above.

underground horns is a 6 piece brass band playing afro funk bhangra new orleans latin grooves and beyond. Bring your dancing shoes if you happen to run across them. #blacklivesmatter

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