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Picture The Homeless Tent City (Part 1) - Not An Alternative (VS, 2009, 09:00 min.)
"At first glance on Thursday morning, it looked as if a fashion photo shoot was in progress on East 115th Street in East Harlem. (…) As the model walked back and forth, trailed by a camera, two people holding a large green screen were shielding others who sliced through an eight-foot-tall, chain-link fence that separated the lot from the sidewalk. Then, at about 10:30 a.m., about 20 people entered the lot (…). They constructed simple tents out of bright blue tarps. They assembled a wooden gazebo with a roof and a sign that read “A place to call home!”. Soon, they were joined by others." - NY Times
The purported fashion shoot described here was actually a ploy, intended to provide cover for one of a series of occupations across New York City organized by Not An Alternative and allies working in collaboration with Picture The Homeless. The actions were part of a campaign to bring attention the contradiction and failure of Mayor Bloomberg's five-year plan to end homelessness by making visible the thousands of city and bank owned properties sitting vacant in New York City.
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