Tompkins Square Park t shirts at a Riot Reunion Concert

 

 

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And do I even remember how to sign into this blog being that it was eight months ago since I last posted anything on this blagh.

And a host of headline news of the day of that Iran/Israel gog and magog war, ICE and the police state, data centers bringing in the beast system and the new world order, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, tornadoes and other natural and man made haarp disasters, that alien invasion that never happened and other current events have since come to pass since I last rambled anything here. And sometimes reading the news makes me wonder if the end of the world and the apocalypse is going to take place as planet earth seems as if it's going to hell in a hand basket.

And so another year of one of those many spring and summer events that take place in that neighborhood of Loisaida, the Lower East Side or the East Village for real estate marketing purposes has rolled around. 

And this is the story of another attempt to vend those banned Tompkins Square Park t shirts at, well during, another one of those Shows in Tompkins Square Park concerts with a Facebook event invite that reads something like:

The New York City Parks Department has banned these Tompkins Square Park t - shirts because of the logo on them.

 

And I am planning to vend banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts for $10 each at, well during, the 38th Annual Tompkins Square Park Riot Reunion concert Sunday, August 2nd, 3 -7pm. 

 

And this concert was part of a two day show with ABC No Rio August 1st with a bunch of punk rock bands. to commemorate the 1988 Tompkins Square uprising.

And there are always the coolest stories about those Tompkins Square Park t shirts from people who have bought those shirts. And if I could interpret some of those stories of people who have bought those shirts from those photo that find themselves posted above, it would be the story of  technologyartist . Andreas, who has that really cool Tompkins Square Park photo book and has more than a few Tompkins Square Park t shirs by now and it would be the story of chililovesobituary who is the drummer in that band Disassociate who played later that day, and the story of copper_and_wool_films who actually has a Tompkins Square Park t shirt with him that was washed so many times that the black shirt was faded grey and the threads of the shirt were starting to wear out, but the stencil was still holding up. And Ilhan from that really cool club nublu on Avenue C in the East Village bought one of those Tompkins Square Park t shirts also. And then there was Mathias, someone on the squatter scene in the nineties who helped John the Communist make those banners of those Tompkins Square Park protests and Squatter May Days from long ago. And John's banners remain. And though he didn't buy one of those Tompkins Square Park t shirts on this day, there was Ellis Roberts who was at the riot reunion concert with a memorial for John the Communist who passed away a few months ago with his statement on Facebook saying something like:

We will set up a small memorial for John The Communist Potak at the Tompkins Square Riot Reunion Concerts on Saturday and Sunday. 

 

John was a controversial figure in the neighborhood but in my estimation he made the movement more radical and as one of the originators of the Tompkins Square Gatherings (Squatter May Day 1986) he should be remembered as the struggle continues.

 

And there is Chino Garcia from that neighborhood of Loisaida who has since passed away a few weeks ago, who's abandoned community cultural building from the nineties, CHARAS, still sits there. Save Charas!

And a host of people have passed away since I last posted on this blog also. 

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever and the only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind. And what if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State.

An end of a Year 2025

 

 

 

Dear internet, it's a few days after that holiday of Christ and the end of a Gregorian calendar year 2025 has rolled around and the beginning of a new year 2026 here on planet earth has arrived that I am able to sign into this blog and post another blagh post in the age of big tech algorithms and social media censorship where I have found a couple of my social media pages banned, suspended or shut down in the name of community guidelines or modern day book burning as both the UK and Australia are both now under a massive censorship regime. And sometimes I wonder if I should call this blagh pro police state instead of no police state for it to last a little longer. 

And so there was a Tompkins Square Park t - shirt Holiday Sale that I attempted to vend those banned Tompkins Square Park t - shirts at in Tompkins Square Park during SantaCon, that day when thousands of Santas descend on New York City that was a week before that annual MORUS Holiday Market of Fly and Carla handmade items where I attempted to vend black lives matter jewelry at in this holy day season in New York City.

And thank you Jeff Stark, Nonsense NYC and Eden for helping to get a few people to these events. 

And that comet 3I/ATLAS alien invasion that I have been blaghing about for the past few months never happened as it passed by planet earth during it's closest approach December 19th on its way to Jupiter.

 

 

And it's been another year of more people passing away here on planet earth. So many that I found myself posting this passage on Facebook a few weeks ago:

dear facebook, i turn on facebook once a day to see that once a day someone I know of from my generation has died, or their parents have passed away. facebook has replaced myspace for online obituaries. i hate it that death is a part of life. and death has replaced birth for being the first post i see at the top of my facebook feed. this has been the worst year ever for deaths. one generation passes and another one comes but the earth abideth forever.

And if you have been on the Lower East Side or East Village it is called for real estate marketing purposes, squatter scene in the late 80's or early 90's, you may have heard of or came across John "The Communist" Potak, a squatter revolutionary and one of those 13th Street squatters who plastered his posters everywhere on light poles and beyond in that East Village neighborhood and went to countless demonstrations and marches with his class war on the poor spray painted on a sheet banners during those Tompkins Square Park police riots, homeless encampments and Squatter May Day concerts against police state repression, gentrification and war.

The if you need a home, take one, squatter community, is saddened to hear that John the Communist passed away December 16th. He was a prolific propagandist  And his banners remain. The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect.

Auld Lang Syne 2025

A Union Square Holiday Market in New York City

 

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And so it seems like that holiday of Christmas has rolled around again here on planet earth according to that Gregorian calendar on the wall. And with this holiday season comes those holiday markets and that Union Square Holiday Market in New York City that I found myself attempting to vend those Tompkins Square Park, Union Square Park and Washington Square Park t - shirts for $10 each at, well next to the holiday market, in vendors row, instead of those Black Lives Matter necklaces, magnets, key chains and pins that I sometimes find myself attempting to vend there.

And in all blogger honesty, it was a day of an attempt to vend those t - shirts for $10 each while hiding out and waiting for the New York City Parks Department green park ranger cops to leave cause "you can't sell clothing here", in the middle of winter where you sell three whole t-shirts in three hours.

And this year of 2025, Urban Space has pop up markets in New York City Holiday Markets of Herald Square, Columbus Circle, Holiday Shops at Bryant Park Winter Village, Macy's Holiday Square and Union Square which has 185 vendors featuring unique gifts created by local craftspeople, artists, and entrepreneurs where a single booth can cost $20,000.00, that's right! Twenty thousand dollars for one month.

And we are still living in crazy times as I type this blagh post and I am still waiting to see if that comet 3I/ATLAS is an alien invasion or not and other headline news of the day.

The only thing constant is change and some stories do not end as you expect. Have a great winter holiday and more.

No Kings Protests and a Trump For King Rally

 

 

Hey again bloggers or whoever could be reading this blagh. And there were nationwide No Kings anti Trump protests this past weekend on October 18th in that country of America as a result of the 2024 United States presidential election. And America is now a country divided between red and blue and left and right and good and evil that seems to be on the brink of a civil war and world war three. And then there are those 3I/ATLAS aliens, not the immigrants, that NASA has gone silent about, in the midst of a government shutdown that has 42 million people wondering if they are going to get their food stamps next month of November.

And so I went to Dion Cini's Trump For King rally attempting to vend that 2024 jewelry that's still left over from 2024 and this is what I saw. I saw Dion Powell, the other Dion, taking a lot of cool photos at this rally at Trump Tower in New York City, so many that I find myself posting his photos above. And I could use a lot of good vendor lines from him.

And it became a day of when the only thing that people want to buy are MAGA hats day. That's right! No bottle caps! But MAGA hats! And everyone went out to eat afterwards.

And I am not exactly sure how to end this blagh post except to say that the internet is down and there is a global outage as I type this blagh post and we are living in crazy times. And what, if anything, does this have to do with a No Police State. Have a great No Kings, Trump For King, no internet day and more.