“ at st. peter’s cathedral / there is stained glass, there’s a steeple / that is reaching / up towards the heavens / such ambition never failing / to amaze me // it’s either quite a master plan / or just chemicals that help us understand / that when our hearts stop tickin’ / this is the end / and there’s nothing past this… ”
—

- st. peter’s cathedral

{i’m a sucker for dcfc, as always…} life is sweet / in the belly of the beast…

(Source: soundcloud.com)

posted : Monday, November 21st, 2011

tags : playlist 2011 autumn

“ I was there to take down the names of people who were arrested… As I’m standing there, some African-American woman goes up to a police officer and says, ‘I need to get in. My daughter’s there. I want to know if she’s OK.’ And he said, ‘Move on, lady.’ And they kept pushing with their sticks, pushing back. And she was crying. And all of a sudden, out of nowhere, he throws her to the ground and starts hitting her in the head,” says Smith. “I walk over, and I say, ‘Look, cuff her if she’s done something, but you don’t need to do that.’ And he said, ‘Lady, do you want to get arrested?’ And I said, ‘Do you see my hat? I’m here as a legal observer.’ He said, ‘You want to get arrested?’ And he pushed me up against the wall. ”
— Retired New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith, working as a legal observer after the raids on Zucotti Park this Tuesday, via Paramilitary Policing of Occupy Wall Street: Excessive Use of Force amidst the New Military Urbanism  (via flowerfistandbestialwail)

(Source: seriouslyamerica)

posted : Monday, November 21st, 2011

tags : reblog

reblogged from : dodecadist

cognitivedissonance:

Police pen up and mace female “Occupy Wall Street” protesters

In a disturbing scene from today’s “Occupy Wall Street” protests, a group of peaceful female protesters were rounded up in an orange-colored mesh pen by police and subsequently sprayed with mace without any provocation.

In spite of multiple reported incidents of possible police violence, major media outlets seem to be content to let the protests go by completely unreported, following the same “who-cares” attitude they have taken toward recent revelations that the NYPD has violated the Constitutional rights of American citizens by spying on them as possible terrorists and enemies of the state despite a complete absence of evidence of any crimes.

This is absolutely disturbing. Penning people up to mace them is police brutality. Period. What will it take to get the mainstream media to pay attention? If you follow the #OccupyWallStreet, you’ll find out that at least 80 were arrested today. AP and Wall Street Journal mentioned the arrests briefly today. 

posted : Sunday, September 25th, 2011

tags : occupy_wall_street police_brutality first_amendment protest nypd new_york_city peaceful_protest unlawful unlawful_arrest reblog

reblogged from : Cognitive Dissonance

threecorners:

neko case - i’m an animal

i do my best but i’m made of mistakes (…and heaven will smell like the airport)

posted : Thursday, July 28th, 2011

tags : reblog

reblogged from : threecorners

one of the reasons i'm moving out of new york »

posted : Monday, December 20th, 2010

tags : newyork econned 2010