They either suppress memory or deny knowing... all of us probably have fed into such cruelty... all of us resist remembering such. On Mar 18, 2013, at 12:41 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:
> You're welcome. After reading the essay and comparing it to what happened in > Clark Park, I hope that people remember the extreme efforts that the leaders > of the Fiends of Clark Park and UCD made to keep all "planning" meetings > invitation only, year after year! > > FOCP and UCD would not allow any transparency for any of their redesign > plans, telling us to give them money and "put our money where our mouths > are." And they mercilessly attacked my character for insisting upon open > inclusive meetings and even defied their own membership regarding > notification of meetings and agendas in the UC Review. Of course, if they > had told the truth about their "vision" for privatizing Clark Park, neighbors > would have rejected it outright. But they insisted that we go to their > deceptive dog and pony shows, and either thank them or shout out our "wish > lists" in 1 minute bursts like good consumers. All of that was a bullshit > smokescreen to cloak their true privatization agenda. > > The mistake people made was remaining silent about exclusivity and secrecy! > Whenever antidemocratic processes are demanded for decisions appropriate for > all citizens, you can be certain it includes the unacceptable. The ends > justifies the means in the name of efficiency is asserted, and viscious > attacks are waged against dissenters to the secrecy, just as i experienced. > Too many consumers were tickled pink by the call for my suicide and use of > the death ray that they stayed silent whne the processes before them should > have been completely rejected! > > (With Aaron Swartz dead and plans to kill or permanently silence Bradley > Manning and Julian Assange, the antics of the barking cheese gang might not > seem so funny or harmless to all of the good people any longer. They also > may understand the role of censorship with the pretense of "civility" > somewhat differently than they did when Penn sponsored UCNeighbors while > their operatives tried to make this public list intolerable.) > > http://newdemocracyworld.org/old/space.htm > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Conrad > Sent: Mar 17, 2013 10:07 PM > To: Glenn moyer > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [UC] Privatizing the public realm, link > > Like it Glenn! Thanks!! > > > On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Glenn moyer wrote: > >> Here is a very short excellent essay by a landscape architect in Boston, >> Privatizing the Public Realm. I hope some middle class consumers still have >> the ability to read an entire page. >> >> Our city hall plaza belongs to the center city district, the parkway is a >> venue for exclusive Budweiser festivals, and Clark Park will now be Tony >> West's beer garden. It's hard to know if more than a couple of people out >> there have started to connect the dots between school closures, the AVI >> corporate windfall, the gentrifications, the police state, and the >> privatization of all public spaces; with the shift to corporate >> totalitarianism. ( The introduction of university sponsored censorship, >> several years ago, has had the planned chilling effect on this list and >> political speech in the neighborhood. ) >> >> If the bewildered local gentry ever starts to wake up to the real world, >> they will need to understand how their abandonment of principles was studied >> by elite business universities, like the Wharton University, and signaled >> middle class readiness for corporate enslavement! Our upscale village >> paradise was a very important pilot study! >> >> I've blown the whistle on this privatization process since the late 1990s, >> but most of the neighbors were busy laughing at my tin foil hat and the >> incessant ad hominem attacks from our "community leaders." >> >> I hope some locals can wake up and understand the reality of the world they >> thought they wanted. >> > >
