MAY
14, 2004 --
The LPR proposal
for the anti-Bush demonstration planned by United for Peace and
Justice (UFPJ) in Manhattan, August 29 (UFPJ says it is an "anti-war
social justice demonstration").
In a May 11 "Action
Alert," UFPJ called on people from all over the country to
phone and fax Mayor Bloomberg (The Finemeister at this website)
and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe to get them to reverse their
decision to keep Central Park's Great Lawn (roughly between 81st
and 85th Streets in Manhattan) closed to the anti-Republican protest
UFPJ plans to hold August 29, the day before the convention opens
in Madison Square Garden. The UFPJ announcement noted that The
New York Times has critiqued City Hall's decision barring a UFPJ
protest on the Great Lawn.
LPR wonders if
Republicans will issue a statement supporting a UFPJ protest in
reasonable proximity to the convention. LPR suggests a march beginning
on Central Park's west drive at 72nd Street (with West 72nd the
staging area, between Broadway and Central Park) and going down
the drive and around to the east drive and up to the North Meadow
(at about 100th Street).
Apparently an
offer of a park in Queens is unacceptable to UFPJ. LPR thinks Van
Cortlandt Park would be cool, in the Bronx on Broadway above 242nd
Street, where the opening rounds of last |