The Mermaid Parade

Coney Island, Brooklyn

For this year’s Mermaid Parade, we decided to build a giant sea monster out of bubble wrap and an antique pram. We are all the sea monster, we are all being eaten by the sea monster, and we must destroy the sea monster… which we did, before running down the beach to play an encore set knee-deep in cold ocean water. Props to Team Awesome for defending the percussion section against the monster’s tentacles and general wobbliness. Thanks to water bottles full of whiskey, we were all a little wobbly…

lots of photos on flickr… by dogseat and doris

www.coneyisland.com

3rd Annual Trans Day of Action

Covenant House, 460 West 41st Street & 10th Avenue

The RMO joins the TransJustice Initiative of the Audre Lorde Project (The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color Center for Community Organizing) to observe June 22, 2007 as the 3rd Annual Trans Day of Action for Social & Economic Justice in New York City. On this day, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming (TGNC) People of Color and their allies will take to the streets of New York City to demand justice and work together towards dismantling the transphobia, racism, classism, sexism, ageism, homophobia and xenophobia that permeates throughout our movements for social justice.

To mark the occasion, the TransJustice of the Audre Lorde Project has issued the points of unity, which hold together the purpose of this important march. This eight-point statement calls for:

1. Equal access to opportunities of employment and education for TGNC people.
2. Full legalization of all immigrants, including TGNC.
3. Solidarity with all prisoners and especially the TGNC community.
4. Access to respectful and safe living spaces for TGNC people.
5. Respectful and dignified treatment of all people receiving public assistance
entitlements, including members of TGNC.
6. The right to the freedom of gender expression and identity for all children
and youth, under the jurisdiction of the Administration of Children Services
(ACS) and Private Foster Care Agencies.
7. The immediate removal of all U.S. troops from all countries under occupation
and demand an end of use of U.S. dollars to cultivate and sponsor wars
against people in the U.S. and abroad.
8. Justice for the many TGNC people who have been beaten, assaulted, raped, and
murdered.

www.alp.org

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  The Sylvia Rivera Law Project Collective is thrilled to celebrate our 7th Annual Small Works for Big Change Benefit Art Event
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  Music by DJ Shomi Noise
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