Another trip to Harlem, and another awesome experience. We got to 125th just as Church was letting out, and there were many churchgoers hanging out on the street talking. Not one negative response this day. Harlem is down for the truth! We had lots of interesting conversations. At one point a small march for the Jena 6, and police brutality passed us. It was a pleasure to see people out in their community expressing concern for national issues. Later we met “Prince Harlem”, a local character who told us that we needed to focus more on public health, something we have been considering. We’ll be back soon.

We went down to Union Square again this week because TimeOutNY was sponsoring a back to school event. Loud pop music, and nothing but commercial tabling. More disturbing than the event by far was the “Guacamole Day” “protesters.” Young people of color marching in a circle with “picket” signs about guacamole, and chanting “Free Guacamole!” A police officer on the scene told one of us that they had a permit from the city, and that included the use of illegal PVC pipes. This corporate mockery of public dissent is about as ugly a PR campaign as we’ve seen in a while. So we moved on to Astor Place.

The images and video of this event speak for themselves. Both are accessible from our home page. . . .

We got back to Astor Place again to promote the General Strike. Once again this place offered us a lot of conversation. In fact this may have been our most talkative outing. Traffic was higher than usual, and so we handed out a lot of flyers. There were a lot of truthers walking around as there were two 9/11 truth events going on right nearby. We stopped by each later to get a feel for things.

Another sunny day in front of the Met. This spot continues to be a great place to have conversations. This time one of the security guards told us we had to move. We told him we didn’t. That sent him off to find a supervisor who must have told him we were right. Its really interesting to see the look on people’s faces who are in positions of authority when you directly defy their orders. We highly recommend it, assuming you know your rights.