Neither more nor less

Yesterday ,July 15 , 2011 , Ray took the oath for U.S. citizenship .Last night Ray stood proudly beside a picture of him at the ceremony . Ray noted ,"it took a long time' . Congratulations new American citizen Ray!

Angels looked on , the ones on 3rd street that is  . Bicyclists were annoyed with blocked bike lanes . Traffic stopped in the streets .

Perhaps as many as 300 friends of Ray Deter marched , danced , paraded from 41 first avenue to 6th street between avenue B and C to  traditional New Orleans funeral tunes played by a jazz band Monday night.
http://evgrieve.com/2011/07/at-second-line-march-tonight-for-dbas.html

Saturday evening friends of Monica Shay gathered for a memorial near the entrance to Tompkins Square Park . As the evening progressed several of the elder East Village activist/revolutionaries took banners to the street stopping , among other vehicles , a city bus.

For a short time the event in the middle of avenue A was every bit a traditional East Village protest with all the proselytising rhetoric and theatrics . Rather than running wild in the streets though , the revolutionary corp took a less challenging walk through Tompkins Square Park to the iconic East Village symbol of capitalist oppression , the Cristadora .

Some what late in the progress of the protest  police did arrive on avenue B where the protesters were blocking the entrance of the Cristadora .The protesters slowly dispersed with some returning to the center of T.S.P. to continue the memorial .No one was arrested.