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Video: Cyclists Toss Pies To Protest Police Brutality, Banking
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 21, 2012
Modified Mar 21, 2012
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John Del Signore
Published Mar 21, 2012
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Last week Time's Up! had their annual Ides (Pies) of March Ride, in which the environmental activist group uses clownish theatrics to protest issues such as police brutality and blocked bike lanes. This year the ride was renamed the "OCCU-Pies of March" ride, and had a special emphasis on Manhattan's banks, with cyclist-activists riding bike-powered police cars and limos to local financial institutions. Here's video of the extremely goofy street theater, which culminated in a pie fight at Astor Place:
Changing the world, one awkwardly earnest video at a time!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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