A shorter version of the video by Silver Persinger, edited by Kontra. Highlights the large amount of resistance to the idea of closing the park that was in the audience. Good if you are short on time- but if you’ve got the time please check out the longer video too!
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New Remix of Monroe Forum Video
Posted: November 8, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: charles samuels, embrace richmond, Food Not Bombs, homeward richmond, Monroe, Monroe Park, Richmond, Wingnut
Monroe Park Plans Removed from Website
Posted: November 8, 2010 in Food Not BombsTags: 2nd district, adele mcclure, Alice Massie, apparently homeless, brian ohlinger, bruce tyler, chric hilbert, city council, cynthis newbille, dave clinger, doug conner, dwight jones, elinor kuhn, ellen robertson, embrace richmond, fan, Food Not Bombs, gentrification, homeless, homeward richmond, james c. hill\, janice nuckolls, john peters, kathy graziano, marty jewell, Monroe Park, monroe park advisory council, monroe park conservancy, patricia daniels, reva trammell, richmond city council, todd woodson, turk sties
The Monroe Park Advisory Council removed from its website the document of their plans to renovate Monroe Park. This was a publicly available document up until sometime recently when they apparently decided to no longer make it available. Fortunately, at the Wingnut, we had saved a copy of this document. We have now uploaded it onto archive.org to make is publicly accessible again.
http://www.archive.org/details/MonroeParkRenovationPlans2008
You can’t view it on archive.org, but if you right click the PDF link, you can select, ‘Save Link As’ to download the renovation plans to your computer. If you can’t download because you are on a public access computer, you can come by the Wingnut Anarchist Collective to view the file on our computer. We have open hours on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4-10 and you can call 804 303 5449 to arrange to stop by some other time.
Make sure you check out page 61 on the bottom left side where it has the desired ratio of homeless and homeless appearing people to everyone else- 75-100:1. Read about the plans for private security for the park.
Please download, print, and share this document with others so you can understand their plans for renovation, and also see first hand some of the troubling aspects. When confronted, MPAC pretty much refused to take accuontability for the plan that they developed. MPAC has also done things to deliberately become more secretive- removing their email contacts for MPAC members from their website, lying about no longer having meetings, and apparently removing the content from the link to the plan o their website. (more…)
Videos from Last Night’s Monroe Park Meeting
Posted: November 5, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Alice Massie, anarchist collective, anarchy, charles samuels, Food Not Bombs, gentrification, homeless, homeward richmond, Mo Karn, Mo Karnage, Monroe Park, monroe park closing, Monroe Park Renovations, public parks, Richmond, richmond city council, Richmond Food Not Bombs, silver persinger, Virginia, Wingnut, wingnut anarchist colelctive
Silver Persinger recorded the lengthy meeting at the Carillon last night, where Charles Samuels (2nd District City Councilman) tried to get groups who ‘serve the homeless’ to figure out what they should do when Monroe Park is closed for renovations. It was not a forum, nor really a big group discussion. However, there were about 25 or so folks associated with Food Not Bombs who came to promote the idea that the park need not and ought not be closed entirely during renovations. The meeting did not go the way Samuels or Homeward likely desired. Instead many people spoke out questioning why the park was going to be closed in its entirety, and suggested that moving services would not make up for destroying the community of people- homeless and not- who use Monroe Park on a regular basis.
Check out the videos to see how it all went down!
This first link is to the 1st half of the meeting. Which includes Charles Samuels, Homeward, and others speaking. They did not allow any questions or feedback from anyone attending the meeting, even when it was very clear that people had questions and concerns. This video also includes a Wingnut, Mo Karn, interuptting the bureaucratic flow of things to point out that the meeting is entirely based on the false premise that the park must be completely closed. You can find that around 24:40.
http://player.vimeo.com/video/16523974
This 2nd section of the video shows how many of the groups in the room decided that the solution to the problems with closing all of Monroe Park was simply not to close the entire park!
