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Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Artists feel inspired to create murals for the former Charas/El Bohio Community Center
The, premeditated, 1988 Tompkins Square Park Riot served various cornered interests’ illusions. Illuminated in that debilitating Park Event remaining a drama transparently illustrating Modern America’s Political, Psychobabble, Delusions.
Parallel to today’s American Southwest Front. The United States’ Mexico Border is an emblematic billboard for Evacuation Mentalities. Demeaning our Southwestern Hemisphere’s Migrants as having no rights in their unnecessariness in being hereCenter of not solving circulating money within coercive, private and government, sectors. Creating nightmarish manipulations. Hiding from the responsibility for Mexicans being short of the opportunities to even fully house themselves behind their own border. A world, scapegoat-captivated into a drug war fueling a belief morality overrides everything.
Contributing to an overabundance of Bad Drugs done through every socially networked imbalance possible. Ron and Nancy Reagan’s figure-heading the hooking of the country on cocaine. When Columbia could have been providing the world’s best marijuana all along. But Ronnie chased and the opportunities followed burrowing ourselves in the hopeless belief scalawags were defending justice when it was only their sincere belief in their worths being above everyone else. Elitists, pure and simple, run the world in the ground Capitalist. Socialist. Whatever game’s the town.
Authorities demanding obedience to a collective rule, is why this country was founded to stop that from having a specifically damaging effect. Crime clearly has legally evolved aspects. In magic marker, folks, bottom line. Whitey perpetrated, goofing off, playing off, imagining ruling the moon too.
In the case of The 1988 Tompkins Square Riot, everyone’s a blemished pawn. Peaceful Protestors manage protests peacefully. Police and protestors both, obviously infiltrated by unrest. For landlords, yearly rising tax rates buttress their ideally crawling under or on top of neighborhoods’ economic calculations. Known on Real Estate’s Battlefield Chart as the wedge-word gentrification. That neither side has political wiggle-room from at the convenient will of Government and Real Estate’s combined power. And State’s pragmatic attention to a top down economy exaggerating their own bottom line. If people were good with money the poor could pay to feed themselves.
So as Mayor Adams was quoted, weeks back, on morning CBS Radio. New York has the “best hotel industry in the world.” Devastated, as everywhere else was, by a shocked middle class losing their home/retirement investments. Why Rent-To-Own isn’t considered a national Housing Industry standard is on someone(s).
American-Issue Migrants, even at the south of our border’s home, are perpetually used, and stand as a self- housed border defiant entity. Their use as a strategy of pawning off blame is well documented. New York City’s Tompkins Square Park Riot was confusingly concealed within a riot of faceless participants. No matter the charges, or everyone’s martyrdoms. Notice OCCUPY Wall Street did not allow their being duped into Aggression’s Tactic that would would have meant the demeaning of everything the casual demonstration stood and stands for.
Right, the Tompkins Square Park Riot is explained by focusing on the poor, wretched, homeless itching to fight? And why such a representation of a professional militaristic Police Force? Even before King Rudy ruled only he and his Henchmen knew, impossibly, everything?
A lethargic pattern of ignoring community responsibility became a polished park. A destroyed amphitheater that contained so much more real history than anything anyone decides to ever destroy in New York City ever again. Even that pathetic charade to debilitate a neighborhood another generation around Madison Square Garden, is still nowhere near the embellished meaning in destroying a public free speech opportunity podium in Tompkins Square Park. The Tompkins Square Park Riot Bandshell should be returned to its proper place in Tompkins Square Park.
I remember the encampment made around the Tompkins Square Park benches. Leveraged, but always under siege to a (Peace) police (Officer) force enforcing poverty’s menagerie vision that it is something they’d not gotten across as a border all on their own. Where charity’s something the poor are seen as not affording at their own cost. Because money lost touch with just enough? Not only The Financial Question. But managing money is the answer for everyone.
An Open Letter to NYC Mayor Eric Adams
RE: The CHARAS Cultural and Community Center and Public Vocational School
Dear Mayor Adams:
Regarding the decades-long stalemate over the reclamation of the CHARAS cultural and community center (formerly PS 64), you once said: “This nonsense has to stop, and once I am elected Mayor we will issue a building permit and move this project forward.” Now, following the property’s foreclosure, and pressure from the East Village community, you have indeed ordered substantial work onsite. But we wonder: Why now? To what end? And for whom?
As you are aware, built in 1905 and recently designated a landmark, Public School 64 functioned until 1977 when it was shuttered for health reasons (asbestos, lead). Soon after, NYC leased the building to the CHARAS community arts and cultural organization until the late 90s when former Mayor Giuliani auctioned it, evicting the community center. It now appears that the building is back in the hands of the city. Meanwhile, a private auction of the building has been set for March 22, 2023! That’s right! A private auction of a “community use” space! We are opposed to selling our beloved community center which for decades was a place of positivity and enrichment in our community. We demand that it be made anew!
To that end, we address the following proposal to you regarding the building’s future: We ask that as Mayor you reclaim the site through your powers of eminent domain as a “hybrid” public vocational school and cultural and community center to provide a wide range of training opportunities including; computer coding, construction trades, ESL and literacy, nursing, pre-law, public school teacher training, training in the arts, in aviation, and programs for differently abled and neurodivergent individuals, as well as programs for migrants recently arrived in our city.
Utilizing the buildings’ ample 135,000 square foot space, the Community also envisions CHARAS once again serving the neighborhood as a cultural and community center, comprised of various “walk-in” social services (employment, food, housing and health), along with after-school and evening programs such as theater and film, tutoring, GED classes, harm reduction services, rehearsal space, dance classes, artists’ work space, children’s theater, and activists meeting space, with a portion of the ground floor housing the Armando Perez Community Auditorium.
After decades of determined opposition to the destruction of our community center, it is clear that our Lower East Side community wants CHARAS to once again become a beacon of light and hope after sitting so long in disrepair. We can make it a green space, a state of the art facility using renewable energy (solar and wind power), a green roof for urban farming, carbon capturing technology, and composting and recycling programs. The top two floors of the building can serve as a school for ecology, preparing our youth for careers in sustainability and tackling climate change.
Mayor Adams, we hope you are as inspired with this vision as we are! We call on you to reclaim the building through your powers of eminent domain and then transfer it to the NYC Department of Education (DOE). The New York City School Construction Authority
(SCA) can “green” renovate and upgrade the building. The SCA, charged with keeping NYC public schools safe, attractive, and environmentally sound, maintains hundreds of historic school buildings, and designs, constructs and renovates capital projects in over 1,400 public school buildings, (half of which were constructed before 1949) and is therefore the ideal means by which to reclaim CHARAS.
Your appointee, (interests purposely conflicted?) David Banks, NYC DOE Chancellor, is Chair of SCA’s Board of Trustees . The DOE currently offers Career and Technical Education connecting students to a wide range of career pathways. Furthermore, Public Art for Public Schools, the country’s only public art education program, maintains nearly 2000 existing artworks in the NYC DOE’s collection and provides schools with art to enhance the learning environment and inspire students. How great it would be to offer vocational training in the arts as part of its mission, and to facilitate the participation of East Village neighborhood artists in the project!
The CHARAS Community and Cultural Center and Public Vocational School is a visionary project. But we also believe that it is a realistic means of reclaiming the site as a “city-wide” center of social and educational activity consistent with your recently announced “Apprenticeship Accelerator” initiative. And it’s a vision consistent with the legacy of the former CHARAS, supporting our sisters and brothers striving for a better future, offering hope to the under-served in our community in need of attainable, accessible and affordable vocational training.
Thank you Mayor Adams for considering our proposal.
The Guardian Angels' founder and leader, Curtis Sliwa, has admitted that six of his group's early crime-fighting exploits were actually faked and former and present associates contend that even more of the group's activities were publicity stunts. Derogatory _sshole.
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35 YEARS OF WORLD WAR 3 – AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
It’s been thirty-five years of World War 3.
As momentous as it sounds, no one could have known in 1979 that this self-published periodical based in New York City would become the longest-running anthology of political comics in the world–at least, that we’ve been able to find. Doonesbury
A Revived CHARAS revives all of New York City's Village Hope
Bernard Stollman, the founder of ESP-Disk, in 2009.
The CIA, Tuli Kupferberg and Me
CIA Man, written by the late, great Tuli Kupferberg, is one of the Fugs‘ oldest songs. I first heard it live at the Harry Smith Memorial Concert in DC produced by the Smithsonian Institution about ten years ago (I think that’s the version I’ve linked to here.) To my delight, I recently discovered that “CIA Man” plays at the end of the Coen Brothers’ movie Burn After Reading. It’s worth it to see the movie just to hear the song. FANS PAY RESPECTS
Ed Sanders' History Class
CHARAS , MORUS and others held a rally at City Hall last week to ask the City to give the building back to the community. There is some video on You Tube of this. Apparently , the city ignored them and they got no press coverage so I assume the auction is still on. This leaves the protest , not rally , at the actual auction at the Hilton as the last hope to stop the sale so everyone , including the muralists featured here should go and I suggest bring chalk to add messages to potential buyers on the sidewalks around the Hilton. There is one final option and while I don't want anyone to say that I advocated it but it is each individuals choice and that is to re-squat CHARAS and stop the turnover that way !