Above, Andy Folk dispels rumors and summarizes the events of the second New School occupation. Also last night, a march to New School president Bob Kerrey’s house was met with more force from police.
Today, the anarchist book fair was held and a cat themed dance party called “CATastrophe” was announced in Union Square. Participants were told to show up in their best cat costumes, which many did. The party moved into the subway, where a dance party and Bob Marley sing along took place (thanks Bob Marley cover guy on the L platform.) The cat party exited the subway system at First Avenue where they began smashing storefront windows, spraypainting anarchist slogans on walls and throwing trashcans into the street.
The procession moved in unpredictable patterns around midtown Manhattan for about two hours, encountering sporadic skirmishes with waiting police. Property damage was met with pepper spray and physical assault, and eventually the party moved back to Union Square where it fizzled out. Photos are below with cat party graphic censors because I am not a snitch. Whos streets? Well it’s unclear, but things certainly do look good for the children of Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem.
and holy shit, Hamburger Eyes gave me a fucking shout out on their blog today!
UPDATE: I should also mention that this article is linked to on New School in Exile and ¡Amor Y Resistencia!, a blog about anarchist politics.
awesome. glad andy is getting to stand up and talk about this. and he does it real good.
that party looks awesome. the whack show at surreal estate was real great too though.
[...] The New School (Re)occupation rhetoric takes on a really interesting situationisty turn; at the Catastrophe last night I even heard some Debord-ish yells in French. As with the night before that, everyone [...]
These are not the children of Guy Debord.
Dragging public trashcans into the streets and flipping off on-duty police officers are the acts of adolescents.
is that cop macing a camcorder? police brutality knows no bounds!
ps. solidarity march for the camcorder tonight at 69pm
Wow, did you scare the little children eating their happy meals? Good job.
Where’d you get the spray paint, Pussycat?
My children make me proud.
Dragging trashcans into the streets and flipping off on-duty police officers are the acts of adolescents who know how to have a good time!
And you’re an ageist prick.
These are not my children.
…Sigh.
[...] 13, 2009 by wdunleavy HELLO to the 1000+ people who came here to read about CATastrophe. Your favorite photos of police beating up young people can be found one post below this [...]
Is this radical politics? Annoying working class people?
Yeah real radical politics is buying big macs, going to bars on Avenue A, and supporting the workers of the NYPD in their struggle to pacify the uppity minority.
Who said anything about politics anyway. Up the cats, and adolescents!!!! Fuck the haters!!!
[...] feel more and more like I am 18 again. Except there wasn’t really any thing really resembling anarchy in the streets of NYC then and I am also not playing Crass at The Hole with Frank (hilarious [...]
omg how dare people do stuff without permission from the political directives bureau!
up the cats!
With all these images of uprising all gathered on one blog, it could almost appear that the revolution is imminent.
we learned it from you, buddy
this was needed meow more than ever
NEW CATASTROPHE VIDEO RELEASED!!!
[...] 7, 2009 by wdunleavy Someone made a new video, featuring my photos from CATastrophe, which sums up the events preceding [...]
[...] have been a little depressing for me this winter. It’s not that I don’t have lots of fun. But I’ve been poor and unemployed, and frankly rather plagued with [...]
[...] The half-anarchist half-hipster crowd couldn’t help but appear reminiscent of a certain catastrophic scenario in recent memory. Around 1:30 AM police showed up outside the 210 Cook street building and [...]
[...] types. The half-anarchist half-hipster crowd couldn’t help but appear reminiscent of a certain catastrophic scenario in recent memory. Around 1:30 AM police showed up outside the 210 Cook street building and [...]
[...] Oh, and you may have been around for the New School Occupations, the first of which inspired the embarrassing NYU cafeteria standoff. It will be interesting to see what happens to all this student activism now that school’s out. Will naive first-year New York transplants become embittered or stay angry and continue to ‘fuck shit up?’ [...]