CLAMOR MAGAZINE IS CLOSING ITS DOORS

As blogged by Josh Breitbart and Let's Get Awesome, Clamor Mag, is closing its doors. Sad to see such a solid magazine go.

SEINFELD GAVE KRAMER A HEADSTART

This is a clip from Danny Hoch's "Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop" film where he talks about his experience with Seinfeld asking him to play a Latino "poolboy" character.

GET YOUR SINS WASHED AWAY

CANSEI DE SER SEXY - LOVEFOXXX IS A CUTIE

Saw this on youtube right after watching the kramer racist rant and the 4000 even more racist comments.

ART IS BACK!

the spring st. side of the candle building the elizabeth side. ART IS BACK!! also, friends. we did a slideshow of miss rockaway pictures at the chicken hut recently. here's seelie: and finley & wendell

THIS IS ME.

so sleepy all the time.

TODAY IN TROY, NY

Uncle Zapata

UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU TO STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA (Troy, NY) November 20, 2006 Who: Concerned People's of Troy and the Tio Zapata Brigada Where: The Uncle Sam Monument, River and Front Street, Troy, NY What: Uncle Sam, a false icon of freedom and democracy was an excellent monument to makeover in an attempt to raise awareness about the peoples rebellion in Oaxaca, Mexico. In solidarity with the peoples of Mexico and on the anniversary of the Mexican Revolution, N20, Uncle Sam choose to honor a real hero of freedom, Emiliano Zapata, by dressing up in his iconic garb. HE WANTS YOU to take action in support of the people's popular movement in Oaxaca and mount pressure to end the State supported violence against the people. (The following "Why" was taken from the press release of Friends of Brad Will and New School students, including members of Direct Action Networking Collective.) Why: On November 20th, allies of the EZLN will shut down Mexico in a general strike in protest of repression and recent murders in Oaxaca. For the past six months, the people of Oaxaca have staged an encampment and led a social movement to oust their governor, Ulises Ruiz and have faced arrests, attacks, and killings by paramilitary groups connected to the PRI government of Oaxaca. After the murders on October 27th (including that of New York journalist, Brad Will) federal police moved into Oaxaca and attacked the people's encampment and the University. Oaxaca students, teachers, and APPO are resisting the police attacks, and on Monday, students and activists are demanding the removal of police forces, the removal of the illegitimate governor Ulises Ruiz, and the recognition of APPO's (People's Popular Assembly of Oaxaca) right to form their own direct democracy. FOR MORE INFO ON THE SITUATION: http://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/la-otra-campana/545/ http://www.oaxacarevolt.org http://www.asambleapopulardeoaxaca.com http://mexico.indymedia.org/oaxaca

By Tio Zapata Brigada tio.zapata@gmail.com

MONDAY DEMONSTRATION AT THE MEXICAN CONSULATE: STAND WITH OAXACA

photo taken by Barucha Calamity Peller Demonstration at the Mexican Consulate at 1pm. INFO HERE.

HOLY SHIT - BOENG BIBLE EMPLOYEES FELLOWSHIP

god and guns. damn.

HAHAHAHA. FRAT BOYS IN BORAT MOVIE SUE.

HILARIOUS! The idiot racist and sexist frat boys sue Borat!

AH THE LOVE OF HOT PANTS & ERICA FREAS

erica freas and the helm of miss rockaway. new york will miss you so much, erica.

BIKESPACE- ONLINE COMMUNITY FOR CYCLISTS

So this is a new online community called bikespace that the yellow bike project passed along some info to. It's still a beta version but is pretty easy to use and has some cool stuff like tagging. We'll see how it fares. I hope it does well!

SATURDAY MEMORIAL, SUNDAY OAXACA ENCUENTRO

Oaxaca Encuentro As part of the memorial and convergence, there will be a day-long Oaxaca encuentro. To learn more about the struggle that journalist Brad Will was killed documenting in Oaxaca, come to this day of engaging workshops and movies at night. 2p: Introduction 2:15p: The Common Enemy and the Machete: Neoliberalism and Resistance in Oaxaca, with El Pinche Simón and friends. 4:30p: Horizontal Solidarity with Oaxaca, with Zapagringo and friends 7:30p: Building Indigenous Women's Autonomy in Zapatista Communities, special presentation from the Mexico Solidarity Network 9:00p: Movies until midnight. Films documenting Brad Will's Memorial in Oaxaca; successful popular resistance to government attacks on the teacher's encampment and an autonomous university in Oaxaca City; women taking over television and radio stations in Oaxaca; and more. St. Mark's Church 131 East 10th Street, at 2nd Avenue, Manhattan 2p-midnight; $free zapagringo@gmail.com

JAPANTHER SAVES THIS HOUSE TONIGHT

image c/o untitledname.com **please repost** Benefit gig for 47 East 3rd Street fight against mass eviction FRIDAY 10th NOVEMBER, 8pm PENNYRIMBAUD and LOUISE ELLIOTT JAPANTHER plus Screening of CRASS film: YES SIR, I WILL at TONIC 107 Norfolk Street Admission: $10 www.tonicnyc.com There will be a raffle for two Crass litho prints signed by the artist to help raise funds for legal defense fees. Any donations appreciated. Donate to benefit at www.paypal.com <> Use account: 47e3st@gmail.com For more information on benefit go to: www.47e3.org <> Or by check to: "47 East 3rd St. Tenants' Assoc." & Mail to: c/o David Pultz, 47 East 3rd St., #2, New York, NY 10003 PRESS RELEASE November 2006 NY State Supreme Court Sides With Tenants in Landmark NYC Mass Eviction Case-Landlords Appeal to Appellate Court The New York State Supreme Court has ruled against the family of a Columbia University dean attempting to evict every resident of a 15-unit rent-stabilized Manhattan tenement-to supposedly turn the entire tenement into a mansion for the dean's daughter. Kathryn B. Yatrakis is dean of academic affairs at Columbia College where she, ironically, teaches an Urban Studies course on economic and social problems in cities. Her husband, Peter Yatrakis, runs New York City real estate company Granite International Management, which manages more than two dozen City apartment buildings owned or co-owned by the family. The Yatrakises share their landmark five-story Cobble Hill brownstone home with their daughter and son-in-law, Catherine and Alistair Economakis. Alistair Economakis is the son of a Greek shipping magnate. Both Catherine and her husband are full-time operatives of Granite Management. By law, a landlord in need of a place to live may be permitted to refuse to renew a tenant's lease and acquire the apartment for the landlord's personal use. The mass eviction underway at 47 East 3rd Street-claiming an entire tenement for personal use-is unprecedented in New York City history. Catherine and Alistair Economakis claim there's not enough room for them and their baby at their family's brownstone and that they are evicting all the residents of 47 East 3rd Street to transform the 105-year-old six-story tenement into their private mansion. Their plans for the building include five bedrooms, six bathrooms, a gym with shower, a library, a suite for their nanny and a two-story living room with an overhanging walkway. The Economakis/Yatrakis family acquired 47 East 3rd Street in 2002 on the cheap by taking advantage of a City tax lien on the building. They then navigated the building through a bankruptcy proceeding, and then sold the building-for zero dollars-from a family-controlled company to themselves as individual owners. Only individual owners can use "owner occupancy" to evict tenants. Tenants at 47 East 3rd Street challenged their evictions in State Supreme Court, leading to Justice Faviola A. Soto's March 6, 2006, ruling-a permanent injunction against evicting all the tenants unless the landlords first get approval from DHCR (Division of Housing and Community Renewal). DHCR is the State agency with the authority to grant permission for the removal of a rent-stabilized building from the rental market. Tenants believe DHCR would be unlikely to approve the landlords' mass eviction scheme. The landlords had argued that DHCR approval is unnecessary for their plan, and rather than seek such approval they have filed to appeal the ruling. The case is expected to go to the State's highest court; the final ruling will be a landmark decision on tenant rights. The building's tenants have already collectively spent over $170,000 in legal fees and are fundraising for their legal defense fund. Congressman Jerrold Nadler comments, "The owner-occupancy provision was never intended to enable landlords to pursue such ruthless mass evictions. I commend and support the tireless efforts of the residents of 47 East 3rd Street to save their homes. This is not just their fight: a victory for them will be a victory for thousands of other rent regulated residents throughout the City who are also at risk of losing their homes." CONTACT: 47 East 3rd Street Tenants' Association 212-330-8783 47e3st@gmail.com Save The Tenement, Fight The Mansion! By contributing to the legal defense fund, you won't be just helping tenants defend their homes against mass eviction, you will allow them to fight on in the courts, where by winning this groundbreaking test case we will set a legal precedent protecting tenants Citywide! For more info: www.47e3.org <> Online: www.paypal.com <> to account 47e3st@gmail.com mailto: 47e3rdstreet@gmail.com By mail: checks to 47 East 3rd Street Tenants Association, c/o David Pultz, 47 East 3rd Street, #2, New York, NY 100003 Media Coverage Links: The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/realestate/26cov.html NY Daily News:http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/285916p-244678c.html The Villager: http://www.thevillager.com/villager_115/turningtenementsinto.html http://www.thevillager.com/villager_76/tenantssaylandlords.html

I'M LEARNING PHOTOSHOP

just learning photoshop. it's great. especially because i can do THIS: and also todd recently had my bike kill pics (i swear i'll post 'em sometime soon) so i asked for him to please send them my way with my newfound awesome photoshop & isight camera skillz:

LET'S GET AWESOME COMES TO LIFE

let's get awesome, le blog of my dearest beloved todd is online. check it out.

SO I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS NON-STOP FOR DAYS

WTF--MOVIE CALLED "LET'S GO TO PRISON"

Um, their flier is about how hilarious rape in prison is. How is this shit funny to people?

DEMS TAKE BOTH HOUSES, RUMSFELD RESIGNS!

Aside from the painful loss in Michigan of Affirmative Action, the South Dakota Abortion ban was voted down, the dems took both house causing Bush to announce Rumsfeld's resignation. Hopefully Webb has won Virginia and there won't be a recount.

PRO-CHOICE VICTORIES, AFFIRMATIVE ACTION LOSSES

South Dakota rejects abortion ban! More on huffpo! Bad news in Michigan. Prop 2--banning affirmative action--has passed. Read all about the myths that voters believed who passed this terrible bill.

THE NATION ON OAXACA

here

VOTE TUESDAY!

Check out Planned Parenthood NYC's Online Voter Guide. This is great. Also, get your polling location here