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January 10, 2010

Jan. 10 Eminent Domain Revolt: Freddy's Toasts George Will, Asks British Pubs to Boycott Barclays

Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn

C'mon Out!
...From our Comrades at Freddy's Bar & Backroom
YOU are invited: Freddy's Bar Toast to George Will - And Barclays Bank Boycott Launch

Freddy's is picking up the tab for a toast to George Will. Sunday, January 10 at 2pm.

Toast to George Will
and DRINKERS UNITE!
Bars and Pubs Boycott of Barclays Bank - our Response to the ESDC's threat of Physical Force on behalf of Barclays and their business partners.

When: Sunday, January 10, 2pm.
Where: Freddy’s Bar & Backroom
485 Dean Street (corner of 6th Ave), Brooklyn, NY

George Will's scathing column about government corruption in the Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Eminent Domain Theft Case hit all the points: Using the the state to steal for politically connected developers; Paying consultant AKRF to find blight that only a paid consultant could find; And treating locals the way the British did in 1776. The staff and patrons of Freddy's Bar would like to thank George Will for calling out the thieves in over 450 publications, including the Washington Post. His article will be read preceding the toast.

The Fightin' Freddy's will use this event to reply to a threat by the ESDC, published in the Daily News last week, to use physical force against patrons who elect to chain themselves to the bar on eviction day to prevent the bar being taken for the Barclays Center stadium for the Nets basketball team. On Monday morning we are going on the Fox News Network to request that the drinkers of Great Britain consider joining our Boycott of Barclays Bank. Barclays Bank, Bruce Ratner, and ACORN are using the ESDC to do their dirty work, and so we are taking the fight to the source.

So come to the bar at 2pm on Sunday and we'll start our assault on Barclays Bank in style!

Freddys has launched a new website http://sites.google.com/site/drinkersunite/ to promote the Boycott.

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Posted by steve at January 10, 2010 11:16 AM