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April 25, 2007
And So the Demolition Begins
Daily Intelligencer
Last August New York Magazine reporter Chris Smith characterized Atlantic Yards protesters as "shrill" and "sometimes vitriolic, unsympathetic, irrational" (link).
This week, Smith's more snarky counterpart at Daily Intelligencer gets on protesters' cases for being none of the above.
It's hard to shake a guilty feeling that, crude as the tactic is, Ratner may be succeeding. There's something pre-deflated about a protest sign reading, as one did yesterday, "These Demolitions Are Premature." Premature?! How about "illegal"? "Criminal"? We know they're not, technically. But you're a protest sign; you can say these things!
NoLandGrab: What does a protest movement have to do to get some respect in this town?
How about this for the next sign? "WE'RE NOT DEAD YET!!!"
Posted by lumi at April 25, 2007 7:38 AM