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Here an article about the incidents at the brooklyn bridge and how NYT change their story about people taking the bridge.

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Brooklyn Bridge mass arrest
On October 1, 2011, protesters set out to march across Brooklyn Bridge. The New York Times reported that more than 700 arrests were made. 10 buses were used to carry protesters off the bridge.[56] Spokesman for the New York Police Department, Paul Browne, vouched that protesters were given "multiple warnings" to stay on the sidewalk and not block the street, and were arrested when they refused. According to RT, the group walked on the Brooklyn Bridge, when on the bridge, the police showed up, locked both sides of the bridge, moved toward trapped protesters, arrested them (about 700) and journalists as well on the ground of traffic disturbance. An RT journalist expressed concern over the hundreds of arrests upon the expanding movement.
On October 2, The Guardian and others reported the controversy and emerging videos showing the police, after letting the protesters walk on the bridge pedestrian walk way and prevent them walk on the main road, they eventually let the protesters walk to the bridge's main road to then arrest them on traffic disruption charges:
Protesters started marching up the pedestrian walk way over the bridge while others tried to take the traffic lane. For a few minutes officers held the line and then they turned around and led the way up the traffic lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. From what I saw no police told any of the protesters to leave until they created a barricade in front of the march about halfway through the bridge. They then pulled vans and buses up to the back of the group and started arresting everyone.
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Video leaves no doubt that, whatever the NYPD told the first group of protesters, cops were at the head of the march as it moved onto the roadway — whether this was deliberate or not, it constitutes entrapment, meaning the police leading people into the commission of crimes in order to arrest them, which is illegal.
By October 2 all but 20 of the arrestees had been released with citations for disorderly conduct and a criminal court summons.[

subte = tetris

Estamos en BA x 1 mes y ayer me tomé el subte por primera vez desde que llegamos y al instante, cuando quería entrar después que la gente toda apretada salía del vagón, cuando todos nos ubicabamos como podíamos pero con cierta lógica tapando espacios y corriéndonos para que pase el que baja en la próxima estación, en ese mismo momento recordé que viajar en subte en buenos aires es como jugar a un gran tetris humano.

virtual space and togetherness

we have two vignettes which portray how virtual/real spaces and here/now togetherness are being experienced in our time-space.
por ejemplo, tenemos las fotos de la cena de navidad con nuestros amigos tomando vino y comiendo una picada mientras venia la cena, y con ME que estaba en Quebec acompaniandonos por skype, ella estaba igual de presente con nosotros. (ver fotos).
and then we have this ad made by oreo coockies, in which a father and son are sharing their most favorite ritual, in a interconnected (virtual? affective? real?) space-time.
ambos ejemplos muestran lo que Massey (2005) llama the "coming together of trajectories”

muto de blublu... lo mejor que vi en los ultimos tiempos

preparense para volarse la capocheta.
esto es algo gigante.
miren el video y opinen.
vayan tambien a su pagina.

pd: vean sobre todo en la parte que pinta encima de "tarifazo de cristina"... buenisimo!
pd2: gracias a soledad por el dato

The new short film by Blu
an ambiguous animation painted on public walls.
Made in Buenos Aires and in Baden (fantoche)

blublu.org/
blublu.org/sito/video/muto.htm

music by Andrea Martignoni
produced by Mercurio Film
assistant: Sibe

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

trip to the reserva ecologica

i've just arrived from a little trip to our beutiful reserva ecologica. it's our stanley park here in buenos aires. i've made a half round of it with my old english bike and came back home. i was hearing big noise by the movilizations against and pro government in the plaza de los congresos.
but what made me feel terrible was the construction of huge buildings next to the reserva. all puerto madero is becoming full of those buildings and i really feel bad about it. how can we let this happen? fucking real estate and gentrification process!

Introduction to Shared Space (1 of 2)

Ahora que parece que se va a organizar de una vez un sistema único y nacional que se encargue del proceso total de la seguridad vial, que controlará la emisión de una única licencia de conducir y dará puntos o sacará licencias de acuerdo al comportamiento del conductor. Ahora que parece que esto va a pasar. Ahora que parece que nos importa los miles y miles de muertos que cargamos por año. Creo que es bueno ver otras cosas. Como este movimiento que se llama shared space que surgió en europea y que es un movimiento filosófico relacionado con la arena pública y el uso cultural del espacio y de las interacciones sociales en el sistema vial. Creo que en algún lugar le puede servir tanto a Ana con su idea de ver el movimiento, la marginalidad y el espacio y a mí para ver como nos comunicamos y confiamos usando reglas fijas iguales para todos o protocolos mas flexibles que decodifican al otro en sus particularidades en lugar de imponerse para todos igual.

Shared space: is a term used to describe an approach to the design, management and maintenance of public spaces which reduces the adverse effects of conventional traffic engineering. The shared space approach is based on the observation that individuals' behaviour in traffic is more positively affected by the built environment of the public space than it is by conventional traffic control devices (signals, signs, road markings, etc.) and regulations.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_space

foto sacada de la bbc: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/breakfast/4221643.stm