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October 11, 2005
Sausage, Onion and an M-16 to Go Please...
Counterpunch.com
The Brooklyn Greens leafleted Chuck E. Cheese to protest the screening of military videos to their 4-11 year old clientele.
One minute Ratner is promising "publicly accessible private property," the next minute Ratner security goons threaten to call the cops on peaceful protesters (including four children) standing on "privately accessible public property" (a.k.a. city-owned sidewalks). Here's an excerpt from an eyewittness account:
As we were running out of flyers, a mall security guard came outside and instructed us to move out of the area, claiming that the City sidewalk on which we were standing was actually private property owned by billionaire Bruce Ratner's Atlanic Terminal. We of course refused to move and the security guard called for the police -- 20 minutes later the police hadn't shown up, and we packed up our signs and said our goodbyes.
NoLandGrab: If the Greens get arrested, they could hire civil-rights lawyer and brother of Bruce, Michael Ratner, to represent them.
Posted by lumi at October 11, 2005 10:26 PM