NYers Check In: How is your city on the Eve of the RNC?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

Does it look like Beirut yet?

[David Dunham]

1. No. It's quiet now.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Any evidence of machine guns and road blocks?

[Cassandra]

3. Take a look for yourself

http://nyctmc.org/xmanhattan.asp#

Traffic webcams

[Stephanie]

9. Go to Yahoo News and search the photos for "new york"

If you want to see machine guns

[Kathy in Cambridge]

11. I hear Yahoo deleted most of the protest pictures

I fear a media blackout.

[Stephanie]

13. What are you talking about?

The protests haven't started yet.

Big women's march tomorrow - www.ppny.org

[Kathy in Cambridge]

14. The cyclist protest yesterday-that's what I'm talking about

the Naked protest.

Other smaller ones.

[Stephanie]

20. The cyclists happened just about two hours ago

They are still arresting them as I type this.

There were lots of pix of the naked protest, which involved a total of maybe ten people.

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. There's only one of the naked protest

left there now. I saw them all yesterday and most of them have been removed.

[Stephanie]

24. Wow

They usually leave pix up for weeks.

[Stephanie]

12. Here, I posted pix earlier:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x679159

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x673637

[Kathy in Cambridge]

16. Sorry, I was out and missed them.

[ClintonTyree]

4. No mice?

Or weathermen? No one posing as aides directing unsuspecting little old Resluglicans to the deepest, darkest bowels of the city?

If you guys in New York can't decently disrupt a convention we won't let you have any more, understand? ;-)

[TrustingDog]

5. I am totally with you in spirit. be safe, be wise, be unBushy.

[Kanary]

6. Is that what you're wanting?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

7. No, not at all

it's just what my friend in NY fear

[Kanary]

10. I'm afraid your friend is right.

This is building up to one big nightmare.

Dems love to shoot themselves in the foot.

Kanary, who was afraid that Gore Vidal was right.....

[WilliamPitt]

15. You think it'll be 'Dems' who screw things up in NYC?

It'll be ANSWER, anarchists or agent provacateurs...if it happens.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

17. Yup, exactly. And the Dems will get lumped with them.

[jonnyblitz]

25. and people like me with tattoos and piercings..

according to many (cough) "progressives" here at DU...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

26. I don't think they'll care whether you have tattoos or not

anyone who protests will be arrested. I am actually scared that there are agents that have infiltrated protest groups who will start trouble more than any violence from anarchists.

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[Stephanie]

21. Hmmmmm

There's a thought.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

28. There's a lot of paranoia around here tonight

everyone's very edgy and oversensitive. What gives?

[Kathy in Cambridge]

29. Actually I'm the trolling freeper

ask anyone who knows me! :eyes:

[DerekG]

31. What did Vidal say?

This is the second time I've read this allusion.

[Stephanie]

8. I went downstairs to watch Critical Mass ride by

I was supposed to go with them! My friends were there. It was very, very cool. It took probably 20 minutes for all the bikes to pass by. They ruled the streets. Everyone was calm and peaceful - just riding down 7th Avenue. Just awesome. Now I see on the news that many got arrested in the EV.

The helicopters are disturbing me though. They are flying low and continuously. I don't like it one bit.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

18. I heard Critical Mass was cool

we had low flying planes during the DNC here too-it was a little weird, much like afer 9-11.

I really hope everything goes smoothly and there's no violence.

[DoYouEverWonder]

23. Maybe each day we can have a thread

where the folks in NYC can check in, just to give live reports.

I'm sure we will miss a lot if we have to depend on the media.

[a kennedy]

27. I'm sure we won't be seeing much of anything.....

and really, how is that going to look??? Massive crowds of protesters, civil tho they may be.....the "networks" won't be showing any rebellious actions. No, if we don't get it here, we won't be hearing ANYTHING about the demonstrations.

[TrustingDog]

30. kinda like the massive protest when Gorge got Kinged.?