Protest against Christine Quinn happening now outside the Andrew Kreps Gallery in Chelsea. The Gallery owners are hosting a fundraiser for Speaker Quinn on the same day when Democratic candidate for mayor Tom Allon published a critical editorial in The Daily News about Speaker Quinn’s fundraising ethics.
In this cartoon, an imaginary interview reviews the “Pharaoh Bloomberg” incident : when City Council Speaker Christine Quinn walked away from a press conference.
Protest happening now outside the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Columbus Circle. For the third consecutive year, activists from various groups and coalitions gathered to protest against City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s record of corruption and lies.
Members of Demand a Hospital and Healthcare for the 99%, an official working group of Occupy Wall Street, staged a picket, an OWS-style “speak-out,” and a “DIE IN” to draw attention to “A COMMUNITY WITHOUT A HOSPITAL” at the former St. Vincent’s Hospital’s O’Toole Building at 30 Seventh Avenue (between 12th and 13th Streets) on May Day from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Community groups cite the closure of St. Vincent’s Hospital as a public health crisis. The closing of the hospital has left more than a million residents, guests, and tourists on Manhattan’s Lower West Side without either a full service hospital or a Level 1 Trauma Center. Doctors, nurses, and patients will picket and stage a die-in to symbolize those who will die without access to necessary healthcare in the U.S.
While New York City, New York State, and the Medicaid Redesign Team make budget cuts to healthcare and close more and more hospitals, activists question why real estate developers and healthcare corporations can make large profits. In the face of public healthcare budget cuts and irresponsible and dangerous hospital closings, activists are organizing around the idea that a truly universal, single-payer healthcare system is the only viable option that will provide healthcare for all.
Candlelight vigil happening outside the closed St. Vincent’s Hospital to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. Survivors were treated at St. Vincent’s, which the Rudin Family is now converting into a billion-dollar luxury condo and townhouse complex.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks Representative Jerrold Nadler’s call for a federal probe into the NYPD’s conduct in clearing the Occupy Wall Sreet demonstrators from Zuccotti Park is “ridiculous.”
Happening in 30 minutes : press conference about the Sham City Council hearing last Tuesday, where hundreds of people were locked out of the St. Vincent’s Hospital-Rudin luxury condo conversion deal.
Protest against New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn happening now outside Elmo Restaurant in Chelsea. Only 2 days ago, Speaker Quinn locked out approximately 200 residents from an important hearing about the future of St. Vincent’s Hospital. A senior citizen collapsed outside in the cold. Residents of the Lower West Side of Manhattan are angry at the blatant quid pro quo between Speaker Quinn and the Rudin Family, who donated $30,000 to Speaker Quinn’s political campaign. The Rudin Family expects profits in excess of several hundred million dollars from the luxury condo conversion plan of St. Vincent’s.
Activists set up alongside the St. Patrick’s For All Parade in Woodside and Sunnyside, Queens. Activists showed up there to protest New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. Speaker Quinn is expected to join New York City’s LGBT inclusive St. Patrick’s Parade, even though she allocates taxpayer funds to the homophobic Fifth Avenue St. Patrick’s Day parade.
Came across a protest on my way to yoga.
Gays against Christine Quinn, Lesbian politician
