Tuesday
Dec062011
COURAGE & REPRESSION
Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 11:24AM Grindcore Violinist protests 1st amendment violations at Lincoln Center
On December 3, 2011, I was again removed from the city-owned plaza of Lincoln Center for holding a sign, two days after a general assembly including Philip Glass, Lou Reed, and Laurie Anderson came to celebrate Glass's opera about nonviolence, "Satyagraha" only to find the plaza entirely barricaded and inaccessible.
As is the case in most "public-private" situations, the private security wanted more. They wanted me off the city sidewalk which was not their jurisdiction. Thanks to one real NYPD officer who chose not to order me off the sidewalk (the old, "blocking the wide-open sidewalk" trick), I was able to finish my set and address the crowd.
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