SoS From Australia ~ Worldwide Solidarity Dec 4th
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. ~Edmund Burke~
This post was started two weeks ago to document the Medical Freedom event in November 20th but in the meantime things have gotten desperate in Australia.
Saturday people of the world will show solidarity with our mates down under by protesting at Australian Embassies and Consulates around the globe.
NYC ~ 140 E. 42nd Street between Lexington & Third Ave ~ 4pm
Here’s the Aussie message of thanks to everyone who will stand with Australians. It’s great to talk about solidarity but actions are what matter.
There’s also a great collection of COVID confinement camps, mandates and protest issues in Australia by 21st Century Wire https://21stcenturywire.com/tag/australia/
Saturday November 20th NYC Medical Freedom Rally ~ Adventures In My World
The day began with a very meish adventure. Post It Notes and index cards do all my scheduling and tracking in the way most folks use digital calendars. Practically all that’s needed is an address, a time to be there and closest subway stop.
I’d already been to a few Columbus Circle events so it felt like a no brainer to exit at 57th & Seventh then grab a few nice location shots in the two blocks along Central Park on the way to the corner. It’s fun to observe native species in their own habitat.
Thank goodness for landmarks because my sense of direction is terrible but hunting for Atlas with his globe is a lesser challenge. Once it was in sight there was a bit of confusion and panic.
There were a pair of billboard trucks with Fauci and vaccine data beside NYPD crowd gates, but not a protester in sight. Crowds with signs aren’t hard to see.
At Central Park West it was possible to see the back of the stage and barricades stretching seven blocks, all the way to 65th street and the only event entrance.
NYPD had every cross street seriously blocked between CPW and Broadway. It was an unavoidable hike past Lincoln Center, sadly hopping a gate was not an option.
After walking ten blocks I finally got to the stage, one block from where I started. The stage looks like an old shipping container that has seen its share of action. More than one of the speakers noted that this was the very platform Nelson Mandela stood on for one of his speeches in New York City but I can’t figure out where or when.
There were a lot of speakers and the crowd grew as it went along with the headline grabbers Naomi Wolf and Mark Crispin Miller before the march kicked off.
My search to identify the Mandela stage event uncovered a Substack that has a fab summary of the speeches and link to video of the marchers heading crosstown. Still shots can rarely convey passing crowd size the way video does. Hat tip and thanks to Let’s Be Clear by Joomi for documenting so nicely and making an effort to interview the Proud Boys in the crowd.
It reminds me of an NRA gala event and disruption protest planned many years ago, at considerable expense and challenging logistics. What happened instead was confronting our own bias and our stereotypes were shattered.
We planned to face off with the Ollie North warmongers. Instead we were mingling with people so genuine, grounded, lovely and welcoming. They were so reasonable in their views that we secreted our banners and sound gear out the same way we snuck it in. We chalked it up to a lesson in humility and flawed MSM stereotypes.
The crowd had the full spectrum of creative expression that’s far broader and more provocative here than most places as a baseline. The sticker clad woman referenced in joomi’s post as having questionable effectiveness with a serious message is classic. For as long as T&A drive viral metrics, it can’t hurt.
For me it’s an awesome street shot and quintessential expression of NYC style. The framing couldn’t have been staged better. The pair of photographers is inset behind her up-stretched arm and focused on the soccer mom plus black clothes and red L<3VE poster and flaggy bits.. it’s all the magic of candid where luck prevails!
Whatever floats your boat as long as it’s peaceful has always worked for me. The more diversity we see, the more chance of speaking to everyone and if all of us thought alike we would all be wearing the same clothes styles.
If we have 64 types of toothpaste and a bazillion styles of sneakers, we should accept at least that many personal preferences about what goes into our bodies as on them.
Imagine the revolt if all Nike’s were banned from public places, only Converse allowed. That’s as scientific a segregation system as making the vaccinated a protected class. Media have helped redefine immunization which has been robust, long lasting protection against disease and recognizes the process induces natural immunity with a inactive virus.
The Late Show wins Hall of Shame for a its Vax-Scene PR series for Big PhARMA and a compilation is below. It ought to be a crime as an assault on popular music. Pfizer has a whole new crop of billionaire executives who can afford to buy ad time like chump change. Late night comedy pandering to the drug lords of ad revenue has made Colbert into the the former parody character.
Do we really need more vaccine PR beyond every news segment, every day for almost two years now? Here in NYC area we have TV ads to get vaccinated every commercial break there are signs in subways and streets, shame on MSM and Steven Colbert. Once upon a time FCC prohibited drug marketing without side effects notices.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210623074706/
There was a comment thread on Substack where a user objected to drawing analogies between Nazi passports and vaccine passports. In my view they’re inseperable and more than a few others find freedoms redefined as rights to any select class of citizens a threat to the freedoms for all of us. Look at Australia.
Vaccines we all grew up with mimic what happens when a body is naturally infected with a virus. Both the disease and shots were expected to last for many decades if not a lifetime. Ninety days protection the COVID jabs deliver is less than you get with a Walmart appliance.
There were probably a couple thousand protesters with groups broken into separate gated sections by block. The food vendors were a block uptown from the stage group and buying a croissant almost got me stranded in an uptown pen at the back of the procession and my tired legs need every bit of advantage starting ahead of the route.
There had to be about 200 NYPD securing the rally area, blocking traffic, directing marchers with motorcycle units ahead and behind the parade. Who knows how many undercover in the crowd, there always are, but it has a very different energy when NYPD has a positive attitude toward the protests.
If anyone at Occupy Wall Street had asked me if I could imagine the day when NYPD would be more vested in protecting my human rights than the “social justice liberals“ who were leading the protests of political corruption and corporate greed, it would have seemed impossible to believe.
Yet here we are where fear of a different threat turns fundamental values into hollow slogans. Kudos to Gateway Pundit that’s a rare standout reporting the push back to global mandates but what a travesty in a city that hosts more major media than anywhere in the world that none of the legacy news do more than serve profiteers.
It was a long day and very cold and the march went from Central Park West to Foley Square. By the time we got to Lexington and 40th Street the sun had set and my pictures were getting dark so I left the crowd and hopped a train at Grand Central and headed home. Full albums are at Flickr and all pics are free to download and share.
There will be many more pictures tomorrow. Come join us! :~)
Thanks Pamela - wish I'd been there - your pics and narration are the best substitute I can imagine. Your curation made my day. I especially like the part where you wrote: "If anyone at Occupy Wall Street had asked me if ...."
I'm presently almost 100% occupied digging in the research-trenches; looking into obscure papers that make significant connections between Ivermectin, the Farnesoid X Receptor, Liver Damage and Autoimmune.
I see that activity as having a cross-over potential for vaccinated friends; one that could be of great value to them and their particular situations (autoimmune). And that's not to mention the vaccine-damage they may have yet to deal with; but damage of which I don't need to address when I lay-out the silver-platter of studies that make the broader case for Ivermectin. The FXR connection takes it beyond the anti-viral aspect. Appealing to their survival instincts, even if they've lost them in terms of the covid-fog, makes sense to me.
Liver-rescue may be Ivermectin's primary-mode of action for all I know, even given its reported binding of the spike-protein. It does not appear to be the case that this fact of Ivermectin being an agonist of the FXR is on anyone's radar thus far. I'm hoping to push that evidence where it needs to be. It seems to me that in the process of getting people off-the-fence, we'll also be "catching-them" as they fall; remedy in hand perhaps.
All that said: I sure miss the street side of it all. Keep up the good work Pamela. I'm a fan already and look forward to reading and seeing more great photography. It's quite an art to both create and curate a museum at the scale you do.
Just thought I might add that Kim Dotcom, targeted by the NZ & US Governments, is promoting vaccines.