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Skaggs to Take Mobile Homeless Homes to the Street Again

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Joey Skaggs will join the May Day Unity Rally at Union Square in NYC, Tuesday, May 1st at 4:00 p.m. with his Mobile Homeless Home and a pack of pissed-off muppets. Come visit and hold signs!


Photos from Skaggs’ Monday, April 23, 2012, action in front of Goldman Sachs in New York:

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Muppets Protest at Goldman Sachs

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From Joey Skaggs:


Some early photos from yesterday’s demonstration at Goldman Sachs in New York to protest greed and corruption in the financial sector.


photo: Deborah Thomas

Event Summary:

A police van filled with officers parked across the street from our staging area and waited for us to depart. As we did, officers on foot walked with us, but across the street. When construction caused us to change our route, I approached an officer and asked the best way to go. From that point on, they functioned as a police escort. When we hit West Street, which is a highway with heavy traffic, the police van, with lights flashing, stopped the traffic for us. We entered the bicycle lane and it was a clear shot down to the Goldman Sachs office at 200 West Street. The police van, with flashing lights, accompanied us the entire way. They were amazingly coordinated, without every having talked with us. (more…)