The Mermaid Parade
Coney Island, Brooklyn
For this year’s Mermaid Parade, we decided to build a giant sea monster out of bubble wrap and an antique pram. We are all the sea monster, we are all being eaten by the sea monster, and we must destroy the sea monster… which we did, before running down the beach to play an encore set knee-deep in cold ocean water. Props to Team Awesome for defending the percussion section against the monster’s tentacles and general wobbliness. Thanks to water bottles full of whiskey, we were all a little wobbly…
lots of photos on flickr… by dogseat and doris
3rd Annual Trans Day of Action
Covenant House, 460 West 41st Street & 10th Avenue
The RMO joins the TransJustice Initiative of the Audre Lorde Project (The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Center for Community Organizing) to observe June 22, 2007 as the 3rd Annual Trans Day of Action for Social & Economic Justice in New York City. On this day, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) People of Color and their allies will take to the streets of New York City to demand justice and work together towards dismantling the transphobia, racism, classism, sexism, ageism, homophobia and xenophobia that permeates throughout our movements for social justice.
To mark the occasion, the TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project has issued the points of unity, which hold together the purpose of this important march. This eight-point statement calls for:
1. Equal access to opportunities of employment and education for TGNC people.
2. Full legalization of all immigrants, including TGNC.
3. Solidarity with all prisoners and especially the TGNC community.
4. Access to respectful and safe living spaces for TGNC people.
5. Respectful and dignified treatment of all people receiving public assistance
entitlements, including members of TGNC.
6. The right to the freedom of gender expression and identity for all children
and youth, under the jurisdiction of the Administration of Children Services
(ACS) and Private Foster Care Agencies.
7. The immediate removal of all U.S. troops from all countries under occupation
and demand an end of use of U.S. dollars to cultivate and sponsor wars
against people in the U.S. and abroad.
8. Justice for the many TGNC people who have been beaten, assaulted, raped, and
murdered.
Rally for Peace Staten Island
Saturday June 20Against the Iraq War? Take a Stand! and have some fun too.
Join Peace Action of Staten Island in showing Staten Island’s elected officials that we are disgusted with an illegal, immoral war to control Iraq’s oil production. Staten Islanders want the U.S. to get out of Iraq, want the troops home and want social services, education, and veterans’ benefits to get full funding.
12noon-1:30pm
Tappen Park, Stapleton, Staten Island
Bay St. and Water St.
with:
the Rude Mechanical Orchestra
Reverend Billy
Iraq Veterans Against the War (www.ivaw.org)
Filthy Rich for Fossella
clowns & face painting, and more!
Clowns Without Borders Fun-Raiser
Clowns Without Borders is an international non-profit (founded in Spain in 1993) offering relief through joy and laughter to children in areas of crisis around the world – specifically, war zones, and places suffering from natural disasters, disease epidemics, and extreme poverty.
The RMO played this show to support Team Awesome’s own Selena and her efforts to organise CWB’s expedition to New Orleans to clown around with survivors of Hurricane Katrina. Though the band was met with some opposition at the venue, we took to the streets in a red-nosed (the clown kind) busking effort to help get our clown friends on the road.
To hear kids talking about the current situation in New Orleans: www.stillweatheringthestorm
Roving Garden Party to Save Children’s Magical Garden
Tompkins Square Park
One Park Ecology, Two Parts Mardi Gras!
Rambunctious fun for all!
Come dance down the streets to celebrate community, our public space, and the gardens! We’ll visit some gardens, throw some seeds, unleash some surprises, partake in a ritual, stand up against some slimy developers, and end with an after-party/ rally at Children’s Magical Garden.
We all need places to play, to dream, to connect with each other and the world. For NYC, community gardens are some of those places. So are the streets. Unfortunately, the public commons are under attack. Let’s revel in the places that are still untamed with people who are still untamed.
Bring drums and instruments! Bring the kids! Dress as the garden creature of your dreams!
Special Guests:
Rude Mechanical Orchestra
The Stop Shopping Choir
Bike Lane Liberation Clowns
Jugglers, Puppets & Tap Dancers
More Gardens! Coalition
You & Your Crew
Supporters of Children’s Magical Garden http://www.kidsmagicgarden.net
The parade will finish with a rally and press conference at Children’s Magical Garden, corner of Norfolk & Stanton Street in the Lower East Side.
For more information on the struggle to save the garden see
http://www.thevillager.com
Queens Pride Parade
Jackson Heights, Queens
Pride Begins with Queens!
The Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee cordially invites you to our 15th annual Pride Parade
and Festival on Sunday, June 3, 2007. Our theme this year is “United for Equality – which is also the international theme for 2007. Please come and show support for equal rights for everyone!
Festival:
11am
37th Road from 73-77th Streets.
Parade:
NOON
37th Avenue and 89th Street, Jackson Heights
The Queens Lesbian and Gay Pride Committee is proud to announce our 2007 Grand Marshals. Leading this year’s parade is NYC Council Member John Liu, a great friend to the LGBT communities of Queens and an advocate for marriage equality, NYS Democratic Committee Vice Chairperson Emily Giske and Andy Humm, a longtime LGBT rights advocate, television host, reporter and leader of the LGBT communities, nationally.
