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October 28, 2006
Drum Major for the Marchers of New York
NY Times proves you can't throw a rock without hitting someone protesting Atlantic Yards. Who's throwing those damn rocks anyway? Owwwww....Just glad no one threw this one...
To Todd Eaton, the gregarious 44-year-old who is behind NYProtest, a two-year-old daily listing of progressive street demonstrations and gatherings in the metropolitan area. The listing appears on Riseup.net, a site that offers “mail, lists and hosting to those working on liberatory social change.”
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Around age 8, he attended his first protest, against the proposed widening of Atlantic Avenue. During his years at New York University, he participated in the No Nukes movement, and since then, he said, he has taken part in more than 100 street demonstrations, protesting everything from the militarization of space to the Atlantic Yards project.
Posted by amy at October 28, 2006 9:42 PM