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Matt Stroud is a Pittsburgh-based freelance writer. He's written for City Paper about porn star Stoya, subterranean Philadelphia, juvenile life sentences and anarchist newspaper The Defenestrator. He writes regularly at True/Slant (where this piece first appeared) and will be filing daily reports from the G20 Summit this week.
How far can activism go during a week of overexposure? What issues will garner attention? What issues will be forgotten?
It's typical journalistic discussion (What's worth editing? What's worth keeping?), but this week, as the City of Pittsburgh — and local police — attempt to toe that apparently delicate line between "keeping the peace" and "brutalizing people for no reason whatsoever," it's very pertinent. In honor/horror of G20, a ton of valid ideas and opinions are being dispersed en masse. And, from the street, it's going to be very difficult distinguishing one idea from another, particularly when most organizers take identical approaches to disseminating opinions.
For example: I work downtown and heard about a 2 p.m. rally yesterday commencing at Grant and Liberty. A friend and I dropped by to check it out. The protest's leaders called for $50 billion to be distributed internationally from the US to people with AIDS. And as we walked (marched?), another group assembled across the street to protest a housing issue. Nearby, they were protesting healthcare reform. And undoubtedly there were others. These rallies were noted in Pittsburgh's oldest and most widely-read newspaper (where I freelance from time to time), but in a way that only served to further confuse who's marching with whom and what ideas they're hoping to get across.
The amount of space Pittsburgh's mainstream media is willing to devote to protested issues during G20 is limited, so they end up doing what they do in the aforementioned story: which is mash together pleas for healthcare reform, medicinal funding for AIDS patients, cries against so-called "clean coal" and "mountaintop removal," as well as the travel schedules of people busing in from Philadelphia. And they do this in 500 words. As a colleague said during the march yesterday: "You end up praying for broken windows." In other words, the only way to get an an issue noticed is by fueling — or being fueled by — a clash.
Exhibit A is the Seeds of Peace fiasco I noted yesterday. Today it's getting even more coverage. Problem is, Seeds of Peace doesn't even highlight a specific issue; they're just here to hand out free food to activists and people who want it. So we're left discussing — over and over again — how fucked up the security situation is, how clueless the police appear to be, and how vehement the City appears to be against dissenters.
Which maybe is the point: Cut off the dissenters' free food supply (so they'll be forced to participate in the capitalist market), distract the conversation (so nothing substantial gets discussed), and then head over to Primanti's for a sammich and a Ahrn City Beer.
Hopefully the rest of the week won't pan out so predictably.
More from the front as things heat up (or fizzle away).
* For more on protests and dissent, check out G20 Bed and Breakfast, Mobile Broadcast News, and Pittsburgh IndyMedia.
Related
- On the eve of the G-20 summit, a native son finds a city moving toward the future but longing for its past (WSJ)
- Conservatives chime in on global money ills in G-20 precursor (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- For G-20 Summit, Old Issues Give Way to New (WaPo)
- "Healthcare, housing, jobs, food, clean water are basic human rights," says Cindy Sheehan in downtown Pittsburgh yesterday. "Not just rich, white, Christian Americans." (G20 B&B)
With President Ahmadinejad set to speak before the UN General Assembly today at 5 p.m., scores of Iranian ex-pats will take to the streets of New York City with a rally, starting around 4 p.m., that will continue throughout his speech.
Among them will be local university students Ali and Kayhan, who took part as well in a demonstration at Rittenhouse Square in June, to protest against the Iranian election results.
Conceding that he has no hope of having the recent election overturned, with nearly two months having passed since Ahmadinejad took the oath of office, Ali says the "overall goal is [to] keep pressure on the government, with the first goal being to have the political prisoners released." While they certainly want to reinforce the message in the West that they donât consider him a legitimate president, "it's more to do with addressing the human rights violations, the rapes in prisons, the shutdown of newspapers, the murders during the protests, and those that followed within the prisons."
Kayhan adds that people within Iran have transformed post-soccer match celebrations into anti-government rallies. In terms of his countrymen back home, he says, "Many of the people, we feel it is a majority, feel he is illegitimate and that he has committed many misconducts. Psychologically it affects us since we can't take part in protests in Iran. Through this protest we are able to take part, to make sure people do not forget."
The two are somewhat worried that their own message might get lost amid the many protesters focusing on the Iranian president's denials of the holocaust and promise to wipe Israel off the map.
Emphasizing that they support these protests as well, Kayhan simply adds that "we have our own agenda to talk about as a people."
Kayhan is organizing a panel discussion through UPennâs Middle Eastern Center for mid to late October in the hopes of continuing the dialogue on the Iranian elections. This coming Tuesday, Sept. 29, UPenn hosts New York Times journalist and Iranian correspondent Roger Cohen.
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Residents living in the neighborhood surrounding Manayunkâs Dobson James School are welcoming some temporary neighbors. Early this week, flocks of chimney swift birds started roosting in the chimney of the elementary school, as well as other chimneys in the area.
Rich McIlhenny, a local realtor, took his children to Manayunk to see the chimney swifts at the school Thursday evening. McIlhenny, who filmed the birds, said that they appeared around 7 in the evening in great numbers, all swarming around the top of Dobson James School until they dove head-first into the chimney.
"It was like something out of a science fiction movie,â he said. "My kids were screaming because they looked look bats, so I explained to them that they were birds getting ready to roost.â
Another Philadelphian, Steve Hebden, saw the spectacle Friday night with his daughter. He described the birds diving into the chimney as a "steady stream that just goes on and on.â
"It took 20 minutes for them to dive in the chimney,â Hebden said. "They shot right down and folded their wings in a way that made it look like they were collapsing.â
McIlhenny heard about this occurrence from a guest speaker at the Friends of Wissahickon, a non-profit nature-interest organization in Philadelphia. He said the chimney swifts fly south to Peru each year, making Philadelphia a regular en-route pit stop.
Chimney swifts were once known as American swifts because they nested and roosted in hollow trees. As early American pioneers deforested their homes, the birds were forced to adapt by roosting in chimneys.
In addition to building nests and roosting in chimneys, swifts sometimes seek refuge in stone wells and abandoned buildings.
When the flock comes here in Philadelphia, they typically make their rest stop at other schools in the are besides Manayunk: the John Story Jenks School in the Chestnut Hill area of the city and the Shawmount School, said Director of Environmental Education at Fairmount Park, Debbie Carr.
"Theyâre only roosting at the Dobson School this year and weâre not sure why,â said Carr. "Itâs possible that they could be down in their numbers.â
Carr said that if the chimney swift population is experiencing a decline in numbers, it could be attributed to a variety of factors, such as trouble rearing, some birds not making back during the migration back north or not enough sustenance, insects, in our region.
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This was near 23rd and Catharine. Address all reward checks to The Clog.
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"Racial animus" and "racially-coded comments" were behind the decision of administrators at a Montgomery County swimming pool to revoke permission for 56 children from a Northeast Philadelphia day camp to use the facility, according to a just-released report by investigators with Pennsylvania's Human Relations Committee.
German politicians from immigrant backgrounds received letters that outlined a five-point plan for "moving foreigners gradually back to their home countries" from Germany's far-right National Democratic Party. The letters were signed by a non-existent "commissioner for the repatriation of foreigners," but the right-wing leader Joerg Haehnel defended the letters as permissible under Germany's democracy.
Deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya was trapped inside the Brazilian embassy in Honduras along with 70 friends and relatives. Crowds of Hondurans cheered outside to celebrate his return until Interim President Roberto Micheletti sent baton-and-tear-gas-wielding soldiers to clear them away.
After being denied permission to camp in Central Park while visiting the United Nations, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi instead settled on the Bedford, NY, estate of Donald Trump, where he has plenty of room for a tent containing four satellite dishes and lavish Persian decor.
Promising to "share with you candidly a view right from Main Street, Main Street U.S.A.," former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin addressed an annual conference of investors in Hong Kong in what was billed as a wide-ranging talk about governance, economics and U.S. and Asian affairs.
Police were looking for the "very sick" person who body-wrapped a cat in duct tape and left her abandoned in a North Philadelphia yard. The adult female cat, nicknamed "Sticky" by workers who removed the tape at the Philadelphia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, is now in stable condition.
My comments: 1.Racist kids equal sweaty, smelly kids. 2.Gadhafi camping in central park would have been hilarious, luckily for him the Don has digs for days. 3.Ummm,since when is Sarah Palin an expert on economics or Asian American relations (Oh wait you can see Russia from Alaska, thats right.) also Sarah where exactly is Main Street,Main Street USA? Can I google map that? 4. Sticky? Really? Thanks for saving the cat, but thats just messed up.
I saw this note getting passed around on Twitter earlier: "MontCo Animal Shelter is closing today. Having free adoption from 12-4p! Sadly, all remaining animals will be euthanized."
Turns out, though, that this was all a misunderstanding — the Montgomery County animal shelter in question is located in TEXAS, not Pennsylvania, but somehow this news got twisted around and applied to our home state. I called both Last Chance Ranch Animal Rescue in Quakertown and the Montgomery County SPCA in Conshohocken, and both confirmed that they will not be closing their doors.
We're very glad all this is not true — but it's still as good an opportunity as any to get more info on pet adoption. Please check out both shelters' Web sites for more.
[...] by Montgomery County Animal Shelters – New Jersey , Pennsylvania, Tennessee | Zoey’s Story on September 23rd, 2009 at 1:40 pm. wait, but does that mean the one in texas is closed?? by angel on September 26th, 2009 at 3:08 pm …More [...]
Montgumery, Texas.... http://www.click2houston.com/news/20982678/detail.html
oh, too funny. i thought it was the MARYLAND montco
i thought it was in virginia!!! sigh. miscommunication.
[...] Philadelphia City Paper Article re: non-closings in PA [...]
wait, but does that mean the one in texas is closed??
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This is not a promotional shot of the new Mickey and Mallory a la Natural Born Killers II: Peyote Buttons. Or a goofy sequel to Whatâs Eating Gilbert Grape? Or even a slacker version of Cape Fear. This is Juliette Lewis having a pow wow with Jackass Bam Margera before her show at his club, West Chesterâs The Note, last night. My good friend Scott Weiner snapped the shot. The place didnât sell out sadly — Lewis is always a sweat inducing heart racing thrill — yet everyone was all smiles anyhoo.
Always be on the look-out for your less-than-usual celeb sightings at Icepack online.
That is an awesome shot!!
Dear Juliette Lewis, First, sweet gear. Secondly I think that you are actually talented, with that said please stop hanging out with people who have used MTV as a tool to annoy an entire country. Can we please just let Bam Margera get fat and old in West Chester and finally forget that at some point we may have thought that he was cool?
Rory you are a jackass for sure!
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They weren't finished as of last night, but they sure do look nice. If you're thinking that the bike lane looks kind of narrow, keep in mind that those two parallel stripes are NOT the lane. They'll be filled in with diagonal lines which will serve as the buffer between the car lane on the left and the bike lane on the right. If you're thinking that that's one huge bike lane, you're right.
The lanes are a major victory for sustainable alternatives in the city. However, we should urge the streets dept to patch portions west of broad - the quality of spruce and pine in some stretches CANNOT wait for the spring repaving. Seriously. Everyone get out and bike! Use the lanes! p.s. I think the religious parking around Rittenhouse is legal. Not sure what the solution is, except for the motorists to take it easy when things are reduced to one lane for both bikes and cars.
The lanes are a major victory for sustainable alternatives in the city. However, we should urge the streets dept to patch portions west of broad - the quality of spruce and pine in some stretches CANNOT wait for the spring repaving. Seriously. Everyone get out and bike! Use the lanes! p.s. I think the religious parking around Rittenhouse is legal. Not sure what the solution is, except for the motorists to take it easy when things are reduced to one lane for both bikes and cars.
I have been riding in the bikes lanes as much as I can. It has been awesome to ride to work and not have to worry about getting squeezed out by some hugh SUV going 50!! The only issue I have are delivery trucks and people parking for church/temple. Do they not think that the lines apply to them?? I hope everyone gets out there and rides on these as much as possible. It would be amazing for these to be made permanent and for there to be a physical barrier in place!
I think the comments of both @Satten and @Jamey are insightful. Unfortunately, I doubt drivers can be trusted/expected to take into account a lane of cyclists crossing intersections in the opposite direction to which they, themselves, are driving. Furthermore, as someone who has been run over by a van driver who clearly wasn't looking directly in front of the vehicle he was driving, I wouldn't trust the "buffer zone" between lanes to offer much protection without a physical barrier. I would prefer a tall curb, but, if the city is serious about these bike lanes, it should, at lease, install flexible barriers between cyclist and car traffic.
This is awesome, but they're going to need a lot of driver education to make it work. Won't be cool when people start using it as the new double parking lane (or the running lane like I saw on Sunday a couple times)
I couldn't disagree more. Taking two main streets of center city and making them one lane each was and remains a terrible idea, especially with the amount of double-parking that takes place on each street. Traffic on the city's narrow streets was already bad; now it will be unbearable. The city just made right turns into a dangerous game that is an accident waiting to happen. If they wanted a street to have a bike lane, the already one-laned Sansom Street was (and is) the perfect solution. Eliminate the street parking and make a two-way bike lane alongside the car traffic. This bastard of a street is closer to the center of the city and features mostly parking garages anyway so traffic is already light and slow-moving. It's not a major vein like Pine and Spruce are. The city's short-sighted plan is nothing a little paint on the roads couldn't fix in a day or two.
Satten: I hear your concerns, but these are the concerns with Sansom as I see them: -It does not run all the way from river to river (which was the point of this) -It does not always run in a straight line. For instance, the 700 block of Sansom is offset from the 600 and 800 blocks by a significant enough distance to make it problematic. Given the direction of traffic on 7th and 8th, I think traffic signals would need to be installed as well. -Most importantly, Sansom would only provide a west-bound lane. There'd still need to be an east-bound street for a counterpart lane since you can't have bikes riding in both directions in the same lane. -All those cars making that tight turn onto the street or into the garages — and invariably into and across the bike lane — would be, I think, treacherous.
It's hardly a short-sighted plan. Studies show that those to streets have an excess of taffic capacity even during rush hour, over 2000 cars per hour. There is extra room on those roads. Double parking is an issue but as it's an illegal activity I'm not sure why anyone should give credence as it to be a reason why a bike lane should not be installed. Spruce and Pine are not narrow streets and if it gives reason for bikers to get of the actual narrow streets, those streets become less of a hassle for drivers. I ride south on 19th street and there's no room for cars to pass. Not that I'm slowing cars down as I move fater than them, but if there were a bike lane on a south headed street I'd be there instead and the cars could have the road to themselves. There are more than enough places for cars to drive. Give the bikes some room, also.
I was really excited about these lanes, but oh my god they are two of the worst paved streets in Philly, Pine & Spruce. I avoid riding on these streets at all costs. Once you bike & fall once, you never want to relive that again. PAVE THE STREETS DAMNIT!
Excellent work. The lanes look great.
@gabonghi: The streets are scheduled to be repaved at the end of the pilot program (spring, I believe), and if the lanes are deemed successful — i.e. if they're used and they don't snarl traffic — they'll be painted on permanently when the streets are repaved.
Sans a physical barrier--railing, concrete divider, razor wire, mine field--the lanes are essentially useless.
I agree with @Dave Park: there NEEDS to be driver education about this! People really don't understand what is going on and are parking in the bike line and just merging into it as they please. Granted, they haven't finished the diagonal lines in the divider, so it's hard to judge, but the really ought to put signs up, every few blocks at the least, to show people that pine and spruce are SHARED roadways. All in all, a great move by the city, though. I hope Center City starts catching up with University City as far as cyclist integration goes!
@gabonghi: I have only been able to ride a little ways on Pine St. so far since the paint started going down. It seems, (and someone correct me if I'm wrong), that they are in fact patching up some of the more treacherous areas of the bike lane! I agree, these are two of the most scary streets to bike on simply because of how bad the pavement is, but I want these bike lanes permanent so I will use them regardless. As Brian points out, there is a plan in place to pave these streets after the winter-- hopefully the lanes stay.
Overheard on Spruce Bike Lane- Driver A:"You are in the bike lane!" Driver B:"This is what I do every day". 100 yards down Driver B cuts off Driver A to get around Double-parked UPS Truck.
who cares... if this is the biggest problem philadelphia has, yay for us!!!
I've ridden both lanes river to river, and they are magnificent.
And remember kids: bikes lanes are one way! And they're for bikes! These aren't bike/jogging lanes. They're not open for biking in either direction. They're for bikes going in the same direction of traffic. I'm sick of dealing with all the idiots in this city that don't realize that.
Sansom is also not an option because some blocks are predominantly access to parking garages (where pedestrians narrowly avoid being hit by exiting drivers who don't look) and access to large building. The rueful future of Sansom is widely believed to be that of an access alley.
@hiki"if there were a bike lane on a south headed street Iâd be there instead and the cars could have the road to themselves." This is the problem with bike lanes. All roads are open to bikes, even if they do not have bike lanes. Unfortunately, the very existence of bike lanes make many people think bikes cannot or should not appear on roads without lanes. Cars do not get roads to themselves.
Rode both streets today and agree that paving is needed, but all in all a great improvement for biking in Philly!
Would have been a better idea to actually pave the streets smooth before painting them. I drive on Pine street all the time, and it's rarely ever been a 2 lane road. (What with all the double parking in front of several restaurants, shops, pizza places (you know who you are). And also because what is now the bike lane was a lane even cars avoided because they suck so bad. Now you have bikers riding in that lane? great! Good luck trying to avoid cars, other bikers who are all now on these crappy bike lanes while trying not to pop tires and falling into all the holes
MB, Unfortunately the very existence of roads means drivers think they own them. Yes, bikes and cars are supposed to share the road. There are drivers, not all, who feel bikes do not belong in the road and encounters those while biking can be a jarring experience. The idea of bike lanes is to provide a safer environment for bikers to ride. Just because they exist does not mean bikers will only ride on them, but where they exist means bikers will feel safer doing so.
If this pilot goes well there will be a physical divider where the diagonal lines are. PS. I was riding on Spruce Street on Saturday and there were cars parked in the bike lane the whole block between 18-19 going to the synagogue. Nearly died, because the cars behind me were trying to pass on the narrow bit of road that was left.
I would like to thank the city of philadelphia for providing the new high speed lanes. Outside of running several idiots on bikes off the road, this made my commute home quick (70 on Spruce!!!) and easy. BTW? does any one need a titanium bike frame? it's lodged in the grill of my Dodge RAM 2500
The bikers on the Center City District staff have worked up a few suggestions/thoughts on the new lanes- http://centercityphila.org/about/BikeLanes.php
I am SO SO SO happy about the bike lanes. Those are the roads I take to and from school every day, and I feel so much safer now. Thank you thank you thank you!!!
i love the new lanes! i bike daily in center city and it is amazing feeling to not be worried if someone going 50 is going to drive up behind you and get mad & swerve around you. thank you to everyone involved in getting these lanes in!!
Spruce/Pine Bike Lanes Photo Of The Day- Mayor Nutter confronts a van driver to get out of bike lane: http://bit.ly/eRJPi. Read about the ribbon cutting ceremony at http://blog.bicyclecoalition.org
A huge thank you to the city for enacting these bicycle lanes, and all the people who support them. I am a person who lives and works in the city, and I commute by bicycle across town daily. These lanes are fantastic, and even if the police don't bother to enforce safety laws for bicycles and pedestrians, at least there is a bit of a buffer. YAY!!!!! I could not be happier about the change in my daily life!
Hey bob - my 9mm can travel over 800 mph. Wanna race?
@looking4bob - while bob's half-witted comment about running bikers off the road with his Dodge Ram demonstrates his myopic disrespect for city living, raising the spectre of retaliation (especially with a 9mm) only plays into this image of the 'kill or be killed' wild west. Those of us who live shoulder to shoulder with each other in the city know how important (and fun) it is to co-exist peacefully and respectfully--regardless of whether or not we agree on an issue. Let's keep the Dodge Ram and the 9mm out of the discussion, shall we?
Ride on the new lanes! The pavement is a pain - but this is our one big chance to make philly bike friendly - so suck it up!
So the pavement is bumpy, really really bumpy. But I definitely agree with tshirts, if the city sees them being used, they will make them permanent when the roads are re-paved in the spring. I rode home on pine yesterday and it was so great! I only saw one car using the bike lane as his personal express lane, and other cars were honking at him to get out. Two people that had to turn right actually stopped and waited for me to pass. This morning the ride up spruce was not as great. Even with the right (car) lane completely empty, all cars on a 3 block stretch decided to drive exclusively in the bike lane and from broad to 16th was nothing but delivery trucks. It still beats no bike lanes and hopefully people will get used to the new lay of the land. Having signed the bicycle coalition pledge, I actually stopped (and stayed stopped) at every red light. It took all my self control not to roll through, but whatever, I'm not in any rush to get to work anyhow. Thanks Nutter butter!
I meant "left (car) lane"
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Julia Harte with your morning fix.
Described by the president of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance as "the fight for our lives," patrons of the arts protested a 6 percent sales tax on tickets to concerts, live theater, performing arts, zoos and museums, and assured Gov. Rendell that he'd hear from them in fax-machine-clogging numbers.
Musicians were warring over whether or not to crack down on illegal file-sharers in the wake of news that forty billion music files, or 95 percent of all digital music, was downloaded illegally in 2008.
The head of the Federal Communications Commission endorsed a plan to uphold "net neutrality" -- the state in which no Internet content provider can manipulate how quickly or easily a user sees their web site. The commission, he said, "must be a smart cop on the beat, preserving a free and open Internet."
Wealthy Americans with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and other offshore sites were given an extra 22 days to reveal their accounts and thus escape the stiffer penalties that will be incurred if their accounts are discovered by IRS investigators after the end of the amnesty period.
Scientists found that an increased inability to manage money, including new difficulties understanding a bank statement, balancing a cheque book, paying bills, preparing bills and counting coins and currency, can be signs of impending dementia in persons already afflicted with mild cognitive impairment.
The Philadelphia School District was deciding which district programs to reduce or cut in the wake of the state budget deal reached last week, which gives schools $160 million less than originally agreed.
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