Autumn in the city

A tall building. A road. A car. A tree or three, showing their colors. This is Queens. 

I am deep. And need some sleep, in case it isn't obvious. As bloggish as it gets today.

You can kill bodies but you can't kill the struggle

Yesterday in Times Square.
Marsha Goldberg, me, LeiLani Dowell.

Thanks to Greg Butterfield for these last two photos.

We'll be back on the streets later this afternoon, on Second Avenue in front of the Israeli mission. I'll head up after work in hopes of catching the tail end of the demonstration.

Here's a good statement from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network.

The Israeli forces towed the ships to shore and have now imprisoned all 700-some passengers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, those they didn't murder, that is. The prisoners include Swedish novelist Henning Mankell. (There, that's my literary tie-in.)

Finally, this news from our long-struggling sisters and brothers from Ireland: they are proceeding to Gaza with their boat the Rachel Corrie.

Long live Palestine!

Bail Out the People protest pix

Despite an absolutely drenching downpour, lots of people turned out for today's protest against the government handouts to the banks. I spent my lunch hour there but had to come back to work before the march to AIG began. I did take a few pix with my cell phone so here they are.

The washed-out look is because, well, we were all getting washed out. And the placards are all sheathed in plastic, which explains any blurriness there. The politics, though, were sharp, as was the anger in the air. Many workers from the financial district, happening upon the demonstration during their lunch hours, joined in.

UPDATE: The sun is finally peeking out now, an hour or so after I came back to work, so it's shining on the marchers at AIG.

& ONE MORE UPDATE: Police arrested four members of the youth group FIST--Fight Imperialism, Stand Together--who were taking part in the demonstration. Here is a petition demanding that the four be immediately released and all charges dropped. It points out who the real criminals are.

I've been remiss

A happy couple
Originally uploaded by Shelley E

All the talk about Prop 8 and same-sex marriage reminds me that I never posted the link to photos from the party we had last month for the 20th anniversary of my own same-sex not-allowed-to-be-a-marriage. Click on the photo for the Flickr pix.