HOMELESS TENT CITY!
One Hundred Homeless and Allies
Grilling Food, Playing Music, Taking Back The Land
115TH AND MADISON AVENUE
COME SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!
Bring food, hang out, share company…
At 11am EST, July 23 Picture The Homeless and allies installed a tent city
in a vacant bank-owned lot at 115th and Madison Ave. 100 people are in the
lot, enjoying corn, beans, bread, fruit, and music by the Welfare Poets.
Police are on the scene, but everything’s calm. We have a casita, a stage,
barbeque grills, banners, signs, cardboard shovels and pick-axes, and tent
structures!
As the foreclosure crisis festers, Bloomberg and the banks fail us. Across
the street from the tent city is public housing, where families are doubled
and tripled up. Over-crowded apartments, the shelter industrial complex, or
sleep on the streets – we need better options.
From Miami to Sacramento to now here in NYC homeless people aren’t waiting
around. Come show your support! 115th and Madison, we’ll be here as long as
we can.
Carlos (Rico)
A Place To Call Home!/ El Lugar A Donde Estar En Casa!
NYC Encampment 2009
Everyone deserves a place to be, and sing, and love....
THEY SAY GENTRIFY, WE SAY OCCUPY!
Vacant Lots. Vacant Homes. House the Homeless. House the Poor!
Terrenos Desocupados. Casas Desocupadas. Alojen Los Sintechos. Alojen Los Pobres!
Support the NYC Tent City!
Unlock the Heart of the City
Sharing is SURVIVAL
I d love to get in touch with the organizers, the same day they took direct action Nickelsville took direct action and moved on T107 ( Seattle Port Authority’s park).
The website is http://WWW.NICKELSVILLESEATTLE.ORG
I hope it works out for the New York crew.