Someone got arrested about an hour ago in Union Square park. I'm not sure exactly what happened, but someone allegedly did something to a member of the media and got arrested. The way to the park was blocked and I had to get in elsewhere.

After trying to get a damn wai fi signal that I could get and not being able to I went down to the southern end of the park, where there was a rally of about five or six hundred people. Most of them were regular people who had nothing better to do and wanted to relive the sixties. Nothing wrong with that, then there were the hawkers, most of whom were communists.

Now I know what you're gonna say. "C'mon! These people aren't Communists. Stop calling them that!"

Well, they actually are. The Worker's World party, who were handing out newspapers, were a faction of the Socialist Worker's Party who split back in the 1950s in order to support the Soviet Invasion of Hungary. Then there's the Communist Revolutionary Front, you can't say they're not communists can you? Then there's the people selling copies of the "Revolutionary Worker," Who are part of the Revolutionary Communist party. They were also giving out flyers for "Revolution" a film of a lecture by Bov Avakian, who considers himself America's very own Chairman Mao. The group keeps body and soul together by the fact that their Revolution bookshop has done good business for years and years.

Then there's a couple of people giving out copies of the Daily World, put out by...you guessed it!!!...
The Communist party USA. The same people who gave us Gus Hall and William Z. Foster. You can't say THEY'RE not communists can you...

Well then there's the various Trot groups and to the right of them there's the various pseudo-anarchist groups just selling souvenirs. Many of the people in the crowd were just Democrats and Republicans with a few dozen police looking very menacing on motorbikes.

However most of the people here are just locals and passersby who want to look at that show called history. There are women selling tee shirts that have pictures of Wonder Woman and the slogan: Reign in the Cowboys" and Lictensteineque pictures of a woman thinking "I forgot to vote, now Bush is reelected for four years."

A dance troupe tries to excorsize the Republicans through music. The draw in quite a crowd. So far there is no parade. It's all very cute....


So we're back on the far west side, where the progressive bloggers are now getting ready to observe the pregame show on a projected screen TV. The place is packed to the gills...at least the wai fi works...tonight they're going to have the governator speak. That should be a hoot...I hope I'm still awake for that...