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December 28, 2009
Bar builds guillotine out of beer cans to protest Atlantic Yards
NY Daily News
by Mike McLaughlin and Erin Durkin
Aux barricades!
It's an open revolt at one Brooklyn watering hole that faces the wrecking ball to make way for the controversial Atlantic Yards project.
Staff and regulars at Freddy's Bar & Backroom built a 9-foot guillotine out of beer cans - and then executed an effigy that represented the state's power of eminent domain.
"You cannot take property from one person and just give it to someone else," said Donald O'Finn, manager of the bar on Dean St. in Prospect Heights.
"So far we have worked within the law, but ...the law has become so corrupt by money and greed that we cannot obey it," he said. "We are declaring revolt."
Posted by eric at December 28, 2009 11:14 AM