Normal Siegel Campaign Benefit
Time’s Up space, SoHo, NYC
Norman Siegel is the former director of the NYCLU and longtime civil rights lawyer. He has defended the rights of protestors many times over the years, including RNC and Critical Mass arrestees. He’s currently defending Time’s Up from a lawsuit filed by the city against the group in an effort to squash Critical Mass yet again. He’s currently running for Public Advocate, and the RMO supported him by kicking out the jams at this benefit held in the Time’s Up space.
St. Patrick’s Day for All Parade
Sunnydale/Woodside, Queens
For years, the city’s “official” St. Patrick’s Day Parade has excluded gay and lesbian Irish groups and prevented them from marching. So, the industrious folks of the St. Patrick’s Parade & Irish Fair Committee in Queens started their own parade and invited queer groups to participate. The RMO looked spiffy and appropriately green in our new winter marching uniforms (click here to see) and marched behind an anti-imperialism group. This may be the only event when the Mayor and the Rude Mechanical Orchestra are present at the same time, and no one got arrested.
