If you are in the NYC area, mark your calendars for a Solidarity with Denmark rally.
This Friday, March 3rd.
12:00 PM TO 1:00 PM.
Outside the Danish consulate at One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,
885 Second Avenue (at 47th St), New York
I've been in touch with the consul-general himself, and he has graciously welcomed us. I promised the event would be as civilized and dignified as this noble cause demands, and in order to obviate a city permit, please note that NO electronically amplified sound equipment or bullhorns may be used. But signs and placards - the cleverer the better - are of course highly encouraged. Relevant cheeses, plastic toy building blocks and Shakespeare allusions also . . . . .Pix and video from the D.C. rally last Friday.
"You cannot speak of reason to the Dane and lose your voice ..."
There was another great Hamlet quote on one of the signs at a recent rally: "If thou art privy to thy country's fate, which, happily, foreknowing may avoid, O speak!"
Good on ya. Sorry I'm not in the neighbourhood, give them my best.
Thank you for your support.
Denmark is a small country but a great friend of the USA. To see that freedom still has a voice in America is comforting to know.
Jyllens-Posten, the Danish paper that dared to publish the Mohammed cartoons, publishes this bold Manifesto. It's now rocking (maybe even thundering) through the blogosphere (NOT lamestream media) endorsed by many, including once fatwa-ed Salman Rushdie. ( Of course, gringoVision endorses the Manifesto.) Excellent report and update from Alexandra at Allthingsbeautiful 'The Manifesto Against the New Islamic Totalitarianism.'.. Speaking of relief from Lamestream U.S. Media, Winds of Change reports NYC rally for the Danes, Mar. 03......BUY DANISH. (from trackback)
"Relevant cheeses". That has to be the most statistically-unlikely sequence of words I'll see today. :)
To borrow from Uncle Joe Katzman: GOUDA ON YOU! In a good way, I mean...
I attended for about the first 40 minutes. I'm not at all practiced at estimating crowd sizes, but I'd guess somewhere between 100 and 150 people were there. We started on the steps in front of the building where the consulate is located, but after about 15 minutes the police moved us across the street to the Dag Hammarskjold Plaza because we were blocking the sidewalk and slightly interfering with traffic. I was a little disappointed at how white the the collection of people was. Not boisterous, nor dismal.