rhythms and textures of New York City...urban ironies...protests, performances, readings and art openings ...interviews with filmmakers ... the video journal of a writer-filmmaker. See also: http://lizabearmakingbook.blogspot.com, http://communicationsupdate.blogspot.com
New York, February 23, 2012--Andrew Berman of the Greenwich Village Society for Historical Preservation urges CB 2 to vote an unconditional "No" at a rally on East Houston and Sullivan St before the meeting at St Anthony de Padua where over 100 local residents, NYU faculty, students and employees testifieed against the NYU magaplan for 2 superblocks. Tonight's 'no' vote is a culmination of 5 years of wrangling with the NYU administration over their proposal to add 2.5 million sq feet of office...
New York, February 11--With much audience participation--about a third raised their hands when asked if involved with OWS--Rebecca Solnit, David Graeber, James Miller and Marina Sitrin are among the 12 author/activist/panelists in a New School-style OWS think tank analysing topics such as strategic non-violence, police brutality, diversity of tactics, action agreements, self-restraint, Black bloc and the mass media coverage of isolated incidents such as the broken windows in Oakland at the exp...
New York, Jan 29--Doctors speak out for a single-payer, universal health care system for the 99% as part of Occupy The Square in Washington Square. This working group meets on Sundays at 4pm at 60 Wall Street Atrium. @meiham For events schedule see www.nycga.net
New York, September 24th--At around 10 am a notice was issued by suits from the alleged owners of Zuccotti Park aka Liberty Plaza, prohibiting use of camping gear and sleeping bags--possily an ominous prelude to the police crackdown on Occupy Wall Streeters during a march near Union Square, including the ue of orange netting and pepper spray. Tension built up during the evening with police reinforcements around the perimeter of the park, but at the time of this post (4:30pm Sunday) no evacuati...
New York, September 21--Daily life on Zuccotti Park (a private park) aka Liberty Plaza. The occupation, a protest against corporate greed the inequity of financial policis is occurring simultaneously in a number of cities world wide. General assemblies and twice-daily marches on Wall Street to coincide with the tolling of the New York Stock Exchange bell take place daily. Today, September 24, a march originating at Liberty Square takes place at noon. See also www.livestream.com/global.
New York, September 17--Protesters against corporate greed occupy Zuccotti Square because their original plans to occupy Wall Street were blocked by police. Throughout the day they conduct peaceful general assemblies in order to work towards a democratic movement. See www.livestream.com/globalrevolution for live coverage. This episode filmed by Liza Béar.
New York, June 16--an early morning celebration of James Joyce's Ulysses, one of the many events taking place around the city on Bloomsday.
New York, August 26--No, these shelves are not in Havana, Cuba, where lack of infrastructure and oil for transportation slows down the distribution of many food products/.This is the affluent East Village. Awaiting the much prophesied "monster" hurricane irene, New Yorkers rapidly clear the shelves at Whole Foods on East Houston and Chrystie Street. WF stayed open all night for the occasion and closed at 10am on Saturday for the rest of the week-end. Employees did not get paid for the enforced...
New York, March 29 2011--Excerpts from Gary Indiana's reading of "Bella is Bella", a new short story, at St Mark's Bookshop, 31 Third Avenue, New York. His latest book is Last Seen Entering the Biltmore: Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975–2010, Semiotext(e), 2010. Filmed by Liza Béar, squaringoff.blip.tv From Semiotext(e): Last Seen Entering the Biltmore Plays, Short Fiction, Poems 1975–2010 Gary Indiana Before publishing his celebrated first novel, Horse Crazy, in 1987, Gary Indiana wrote and d...
Union Square, New York, October 22, 2004--revised version photoshop titles instead of scroll and different end frames. Full description is with version one and also on the Union Docs website as this was shown there in January 2010 as part of "Argument of the Eye",
