As you all know one night Lincoln Anderson completely lost his mind and sent me way too many emails that were crazy and harassing. I filed an aggravated harassment complaint. After doing so late one night he posted comments under his name on my YouTubes yet again. One focus of this angry, abusive flurry was his support of Bob Airhood's topless photo of Marlene who is African American, mostly homeless, poverty level and now in jail. Anderson felt her street name "Hotdog" was as valid as "Jim Mosaic Man" or "Biker Bill" but their names add cache while hers does not. Lincoln Anderson and Bob Airhood are white men and they can get drunk and take off their shirts in their home confident no one will photograph them but Marlene has no such luxury. There are no photos of Anderson or Airhood topless and Marlene looks better than these over weight obese white men that come across as racists and misogynists. Because I spoke up I was been systematically harassed as well as stalked by Arihood from some where behind me photographing me without my knowledge with an intent to be hateful and some think because they posted under anonymous names they are anonymous and gee do you think there is a connection here and the theme hate. Community members agreed the photo post was plain wrong. There have also been comments approved by Arihood putting her down for her lack of her intelligence. She speaks two languages fluently. She has alcohol problems and she herself has told me she needs rehab. In the book The Blind Side, Michael Oher as a child was written off as stupid and worthless but clearly that wasn't the case. His mother had addictions and he had no parenting so he checked out. The story is how he was able to check back in with support and love he is now a starter in the NFL and a multi-millionaire.
Marlene is poor, black and in jail. I said to a community member if she wasn't, she would be in rehab. The response is jail is a poor person's rehab.
Anderson was also harassing me re: exposing NYU's and that pathetic little rags alliance with NYU, the ultimate community crusher of the East Village. When I first demanded NYU and all the mega dorms give us community outreach resource centers at a rally in Tompkins it was interesting The Villager completely erased me and Anderson sent me an email from the reporter. Who does she think she is? Is she running for office? Yes, the East Village is run by a few. The East Village is run by developers that demand to be call activists and are painted as saints and is mostly dorm fodder. The East Village is run by a bar czar who was community board chair and now I am told attempts to run the board from the audience. Bars are a big business and he owns perhaps the most bars. The East Village is run. The horrible tsunami of community crushing development under Bloomberg has robbed the city of it's soul. Developers like Mike Red Square Rosen opened the door to this kind of development with The Red Square with Lenin on it and Rosen lives a top the symbol of gentrification that once was a welfare building. Who thought that Bob Arihood would join Anderson in hate crimes posted on his blog.
Please watch this playlist but start with the YouTube at the bottom of the list about The Villager turned away the press. The Villager ended up endorsing Christine Quinn who is a mini-Mike Bloomberg that supporters community crushing development and has been exposed by Benjamin Lesser of The New York Daily News for even taking what appears to be campaign donations from developers she has sponsored. The Villager turned away NY1 and the theory is they did not want anyone in their video taping the debate except The Villager. The Villager and NYU wanted as much control as possible over who got in to make sure Quinn who is in bed with real estate magnates--developers got as much advantage as possible. . http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=41EB928960389EE7
I am proud I stood up for one of the poorest African American members of the East Village who has been mostly homeless and made her home mostly in the vicinity of Tompkins Square Park and I will think of her tomorrow. She is in jail. If she was white and middle class she would not be in jail but in rehab.
I am suppose to interview a victim and survivior of mass eviction who greatly admires Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tomorrow. Look at what Cooper Union is currently up to by the Black Cube which is another grand zone busting evil real estate deal that will further rob the East Village of it's soul and cause even more displacement but hey these college kids, not anti-establishment support this for their free education. Peter Cooper wanted to help the poor and empower them, not displace them and further oppress them. NYU, Cooper Union, The New School, SVA and NY Law which has no campus here unless you consider Wall Street the East Village which Mike Bloomberg and mega millionaire socialite city planner do. These institutions of higher ed are about higher greed with real estate busting through zoning on old NY's infrastructure. What happens when the student population no longer booms? They will claim hardship and get the city of New York to allow even more real estate to be rented and leased as Cooper Union already has done with other prime real estate. The president of Cooper Union admits Cooper Union is a real estate magnate and already they have convinced the city and their students they endure hardship that forces them to become even great and more crushing real estate magnates. Only in NYC do you get such twisted thinking of a Lincoln Anderson supporting topless photos of a poverty level 56 year old African American woman to Cooper Union convincing the City and college kids they are suffering such great hardship they have supersize yet again. The sky piercing mirrored building that looks have empty by the black cube was not enough and who wants to by a condo on land leased property? Now Cooper Union has to tear down their little yellow science building by Cooper Union can only continue to pay for college kids free education by zone busting and increasing their real estate investments. Even Giuliani's city planner I am told said, "No, this is a shell game."
Well, Monday is about celebrating a man that spoke up and he radically changed this country. We clearly have a long way to go and need more people speaking up and out but for now it seems greed and stupidity rule. Greed and stupidity brought down Wall Street and next is NYC.
From The New York Post
24th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
When :
01/18/2010 10:30am - 01/18/2010
Where :
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
30 Lafayette Ave. Fort Greene, NY
