Bushville moved to Central Park for the day in order to talk
about what is happening to homeless people in New York City
in preperation for the Republican National Convention. While
the general public has focused on the question of a permit
in regards to Central Park another important issue that has
been made to disappear from the media is the fact that poor
people are being swept from Central Park, other parks and
streets in New York City and across the country.
Much of the morning was spent flyering in the park and collecting
Faces of the Fallen Documentation from those that joined us.
Ensuring that our message was clear we hung our banner from
the bridge and places signs citing poverty statistices around
the area.
For the next few hours we passed our flyers to those passing
by and continued to register people to vote.
We
met one woman who came to this country after her husband was
killed in Honduras for speaking out against the goverment. She
will be joining us on August 30th.
As
the rain began to pour down we put together makeshift rain suits
and continued to talk to New Yorkers about our Mobile Bushville
At
around 8:30 at night Cheri, Galen, Sara, and Katherine, four
members of the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign
were arrested while practicing their first amendment rights
in a public park, they then went to jail and were handcuffed
until 1am in the morning to a metal pole.
Republican
National Convention Protesters Released From Jail Read
Press Release
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Marcha Por Nuestras Vidas 
