Nicely done!

David in Atlanta ""crude reductionist version of marxism""
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Submitted by David in Atlanta on 29 August, 2007 - 18:05.

I just found this video of the SWU group in the Cony Island Mermaid Parade. Very cool! I've seen attempts at radical and labor particpation in community festivals that looked completely dour and out of place, this is bang on the money!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJTsZ9UWu1s

Catch 22
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29 August, 2007 - 20:10

....or downright scary. Too bad everything associated with coney will be gone within a year. Bloody condo developers.

David in Atlanta ""crude reductionist version of marxism""
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2 September, 2007 - 15:22

a century of working class culture wiped out for a buck. thats a tragedy!

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2 September, 2007 - 16:46

They're keeping the cyclone and moving it. But astroland and everything with it will be condos in a year or so.

Stripey "Intersectionalist workers of the world"
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8 September, 2007 - 01:04

Wow that is cool!

/me wants black star pasties

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
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8 September, 2007 - 01:25

what's cool about it? it's a pile of hippy wank.

weeler "temp banned"
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8 September, 2007 - 09:47

I can't believe I watched that entire video. What's the mermaid stuff about?

There's a dingey pub beside my bus-stop in town that had a 'Topless barmaid' sign in the window for weeks, then one day it changed to 'Topless mermaid' which I found kinda funny.

Feighnt "the definition of "nobody important""
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9 September, 2007 - 07:28
revol68 wrote:
what's cool about it? it's a pile of hippy wank.

yeah, they should've been dressed like urban ninjas and thrown some molotovs, the wankers!

revol68 ""Identity is a dream pathetic in its absurdity. You dream of being yourself when you've nothing better to do""
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9 September, 2007 - 07:33
Feighnt wrote:
revol68 wrote:
what's cool about it? it's a pile of hippy wank.

yeah, they should've been dressed like urban ninjas and thrown some molotovs, the wankers!

well as spectacles go it's a damn sight cooler.

Feighnt "the definition of "nobody important""
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9 September, 2007 - 07:44
revol68 wrote:
Feighnt wrote:
revol68 wrote:
what's cool about it? it's a pile of hippy wank.

yeah, they should've been dressed like urban ninjas and thrown some molotovs, the wankers!

well as spectacles go it's a damn sight cooler.

laugh out loud i think something's wrong with your spectacles, get to the optometrist!

David in Atlanta ""crude reductionist version of marxism""
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9 September, 2007 - 13:36
guydebordisdead wrote:
I can't believe I watched that entire video. What's the mermaid stuff about?

Coney Island is a largely working class beachfront neighborhood in New York, over the last century or so it's been home to a variety of amusement parks and arcades. The parade is sponsored by a community arts organization, "dedicated to preserving the dignity of American Popular Culture", although anything less dignifed than "American Popular Culture", as defined by beachfront amusement parks is hard to fathom.

I forgot to mention that Mermaid Ave. is a street in the neighborhood and of course a mermaid is the starbucks logo.