PALE MALE   

thats one thing on my mind these days…  go there and support this fight against whats unNYC about this treatment of two birds.

also see this from  MUG

 WHY PALE MALE MATTERS?

‘What sort of city shall we be?’ isn’t a question that most New Yorkers
take time to answer in their course of their daily lives. It’s a
question that gets asked and answered at moments of disruption
(blackout? block party!) and deeply, urgently in moments of tragedy.

It’s a question a resident would only ask after they’ve made the
conversion from born-elsewhere to genuine New Yorker. And you truly
become a New Yorker when the city seems more to you than your workplace
and a collection of shops and restaurants, when you start caring about
the city itself, beyond your daily route, outside of your neighborhood,
about the city we were and the city we might become. You know you’re a
New Yorker when you know what kind of city we are. No one can tell you
this, it just becomes a fact of your life.

And it is in our public spaces that the city’s true character is
repeatedly tested and exposed, where thousands of daily kindnesses go
unremarked among the noise and crowds and irritations. Inevitably, it’s
a delicate balance. Press too hard against this public space, impose
too much order, and people revolt. Do you recall the time Mayor
Giuliani decided to enforce the jaywalking law? It was, in one sense,
as trivial as anything could be. But it mattered to New Yorkers because
it tampered with something essential. The disorder of jaywalking is
fundamental to our sense of self, to the free spirit that drew its free
spirits here. At the time, after barricades were erected, they were
duly and inevitably stormed. On the other hand, without enough order,
and care, and attention, the city withdraws, diminishes, as it did
after the Central Park jogger violence.

read the rest at the website — MUG

and if you have time this week go and show your support!