Tompkins Square Remembers
A crowd dances as the band Casa de Chihuahua plays bluegrass music at an Aug. 2 concert that commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Tompkins Square Park riots. On Aug. 6, 1988, police seeking to enforce a curfew against an encampment of homeless people living in the park launched an indiscriminate attack against the surrounding neighborhood as they battled through the night with an ad-hoc coalition of activists, punks, Yippies and squatters opposed to the gentrification that was already starting to change the neighborhood. An annual concert is held in early August to mark the anniversary of the riot and to protest continued police brutality in the neighborhood.
i have known professor ali since he was a teenager. his telling remark is that the rotc student (i was one once) saw through him and didn’t see him as a person. it’s too easy for anyone to do that regardless of the amount of melanin in our skin. while we need to be on guard for terrorism we need to look for the terrorism in our own hearts.
i have known professor ali since he was a teenager. his telling remark is that the rotc student (i was one once) saw through him and didn’t see him as a person. it’s too easy for anyone to do that regardless of the amount of melanin in our skin. while we need to be on guard for terrorism we need to look for the terrorism in our own hearts.