Trump is a force of hate, police pens, and other scenes from the President's fundraising visit.
Diane Greene Lent
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Monica Hunken, #shutdownchase
#defundclimatechange #divest #divestfromfossilfuels #stopthewilliamspipeline #NoKXL#StopDAPL @waterislife @Chase @RainforestActionNetwork
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The whole city was hopping with action.
While Trump was on his way to town climate activists were busy making trouble.
Monica Hunken explains:
Happening right now! Climate activists erected and scaled a large, steel tripod structure, blocking 47th St at Madison Ave, directly in front Chase Bank’s headquarters, protesting their egregious funding of fossil fuels. While Chase shareholders from across the US are meeting at the bank's annual general meeting on May 21st in Chicago, we're here to tell them we won't put up with business as usual. While more species are going extinct, wildfires ravage the west, cities are lost to sea level rise and more water is polluted from spilled pipelines, we call on CEO Jamie Dimon of Chase Bank, the world’s biggest funder of fossil fuels, to stand on the right side of history.”
At
City Hall, climate activists were holding
a press conference about the Williams Pipeline which activists had helped slow, for now.
And
I
was sitting at home trying to cope with a broken toe,
Stubbed
the night before during dinner.
Writing
and thinking and monitoring goings on.
Diane Greene Lent sent me an invite to an event Hosted by Rise
and Resist that my friend were going to later in the day.
Details
Join Rise and Resist! Trump is
visiting NYC May 16, 6PM, 71St.-Madison. Check this event for any changes
before event!
Another event on the Upper East Side.
I could make it just before my union
meeting.
On the way up, the streets
Full
security state apparatus on Madison and 71. I guess the pres is in town — in New York, New York.
At 72nd and Madison, I
Ran into Anne
Who talked with me about the thousands
of NYers out booing the president the last time he was in town. NY HATES U!
they screamed.
She led me past the phalanx of police, cordoning off the streets.
You can’t stand
here, I was told standing at 71st
and Madison on the sidewalk.
Why?
Security.
I took their picture.
You can’t do that.
Why?
Security.
Why does my right to peacefully access public space end
With the word security?
Or when the president comes to town.
Who led me to the demonstration at 5th and 71st
Street.
People were actually attending the fundraiser.
Collaborators, members of rise and resist screamed at the
tanned,
plastic surgeried
faces of the Trump supporters.
Democracy still counts here.
Sanitation trucks began to block off the streets.
In honor of the
president.
Who has done much to turn
our democracy into a reality tv show.
Some held impact Trump signs.
Ann held a sign declaring:
“Funding Trump Makes You
Complicit in a Crime.”
Standing at the picket
line, I ran into
Jonathan
Ned Katz.
Your eulogy for
Allan
Bérubé
Was wonderful,
I told him.
We chatted about books.
I commented
on his anthology, Gay American
History (1976),
That
inspired Bérubé.
His
book, the Invention of Heterosexuality inspired me:
“I had dinner with
my father last night, and made a classic Freudian slip,” wrote
“ I meant to say, “Please pass the
salt,” but it came out, “You prick, you ruined my childhood.”
You never know who you are going to
run into a
demo.
Many
of my friends were there, Diane, Kellen, Sean,
Zack, many.
Zack and I talked about his
book.
And I told LAK about
my book review
about her book/ essay about Rise and
Resist.
I gotta run.
You’re leaving
already.
I have a
union meeting at Wall Street.
I told everyone.
Walking out,
The
police were cordoning people off
from the action.
They
stood with their arms crossed.
I tried
to ride downtown, but everything going South
was closed off.
“But
I have meeting downtown,” I told a policeman.
“Everyone
has something to do. You’re gonna have
to wait for the president.”
“I hate
this guy,” noted one woman.
People
were zipping to and from away from the
police.
“Thousands
of cops, what a waste of resources.”
“This
is great,” noted another man as Trump passed.
“For
him its great. Much better than de
Blasio or Obama.”
“Boo!!!!”
people screamed.
“New York hates you!!!!”
“DeBlasio
is the second least qualified New York
running from president again,” noted a woman standing by me.
“Boo…!!!!” I screamed getting a look at the smug president passed by.
Finally the motorcade passed.
The narcissist
was gone.
But
the city was talking about him.
I
guess that’s all he wants.
It was like a reality TV show.
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