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March 27, 2012
Protesters march in opposition of Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project
NY Daily News Sports ITeam Blog
by Michael O'Keeffe
A few dozen protesters marched from the Occupy Town Square rally in Fort Green Park to the Nets’ Barclays Center on Sunday to make the connection between Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project and the crony capitalism that sparked the Occupy movement.
The protesters brought The Illuminator, a van equipped with a projector that allowed them to display images on the exterior walls of the still-under-construction arena. Ratner’s mug – “the face of kleptocracy,” according to the protesters – looks a little like the great and powerful Oz splashed on the arena wall.
The most striking thing in the video from Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley, the team behind the powerful “Battle for Brooklyn” documentary, is the number of police officers who gathered en masse in response to a peaceful march.
Posted by eric at March 27, 2012 11:54 AM