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Seen here: Spirit-possessed trees and sod lead the Reverend, Choir and Community Improvement District to the threshold of Danny Meyer's Union Square Cafe for some PARKLAND RECLAMATION. Park-a-lujah! Mr. Meyer's trying to shoe-horn an upscale restaurant into the Union Square Pavilion but we're PUSHING BACK the privatizers!

Thanks to everyone who came out. See you every Wednesday, 5pm on the North Side of Union Square Park! More updates at www.unionsquarenotforsale.org

Photo by Gothamdigitology


Photo by Pablo57

Thanks to the Coney Island lovers who came to the June 24 Scoping Meeting and cheered, cajoled, whooped, testified and sang to SAVE CONEY ISLAND! Bring back the Community's Plan!

If you couldn't attend the meeting submit your comments in writing, via postal or electronic mail to:

New York City Economic Development Corporation
Attention: Rachel Belsky, Vice-President
110 William Street
New York, New York 10038

rbelsky(at)nycedc.com

Ongoing developments will be posted here and at ConeyIsland.com

Up above the famous freak museum in Coney Island. It's Mermaid Parade day &mdash and Savitri and I are exhausted after our day-long role as King Neptune and Queen Mermaid of a 100,000 person swoon in Coney. 10:00 PM now, the miles of laughing families swept up on the Wonder Wheel and naked swimmers down in the surf with the Hungry March Band and the pounding sexual after-glow of the fantastic day-long parade...the night goes on all around the "Sideshow By The Seashore," home stage for Serpentina, Donny Vomit, the Black Scorpion... We're in the upstairs office, tended to by Francisco, and Shopi from Iceland (doing Savitri's hair &mdash which came to look like a bit of boreal forest) and Barbara Lee, Goddessa the Mad Bitch of the Sea.

Savitri's hunger strike has begun. Last night at the Mermaid Ball we asked a thousand people to "answer the call" &mdash come to Lincoln High School near the end of the Coney Island subway line, 2800 Ocean Boulevard, this Tuesday at 6 PM &mdash a meeting that could Save Coney Island from the advance of shopping and 30 story high hotels...The Devil!

Photo by Tony Savino

Our church leaders Savitri D and Reverend Billy are the Mermaid Queen and King Neptune of this year's Mermaid Parade - June 21.

In the role of Queen Mermaid, Savitri insists that "the mermaid will refuse to go back to the sea until Coney Island is saved." She will fast for three days in her finny queenly costume in the window at the Coney Island Side-show, that emporium of freaks, urging citizens to attend the scoping meeting that will decide the FATE of FUN at Coney Island:

Tuesday, June 24 6:00 PM
Lincoln High School, 2800 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY

The Queen has agreed to talk with the world via MermaidCam, check revbilly.com/mermaid for when that goes live Sunday morning!

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The BODY is a Free Speech Zone!

Meet us every Wednesday at 5:00pm on the North Side of Union Square. See Savitri and the Rev at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade Saturday, June 21st, and speak up for the Freaks at the Coney Island scoping meeting on June 24th at 6pm (Lincoln High School).

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

Building the Mystic Circle of The First Amendment.

Photos by Brother John Quilty! Come out Thursday, June 5th at 5pm to the northwest corner of Union Square and rally with time-traveling Union Square rabble-rousers, hula hooping First Amendment defenders, and our own dear Church to tell Union Square Partnership that we love our Park and we're keeping it PUBLIC!