{"id":2306,"date":"2007-05-09T10:08:38","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/the_last_thing_this_country_needs_right_now_is_millions_of_disaffected_citizens_rising_up_to_rename_streets.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T13:05:02","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T18:05:02","slug":"the_last_thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/the_last_thing.html","title":{"rendered":"The Last Thing This Country Needs Right Now Is Millions Of Disaffected Citizens Rising Up To Rename Streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank <em>god<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/54068\">the &#8220;struggle&#8221;<\/a> involves a <em>street renaming<\/em> and not, you know, <em>actual<\/em> social change:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Pastors and activists are descending on City Hall today, vowing to raise to new heights a fight to rename a Brooklyn street after a radical black activist, Sonny Carson.<\/p>\n<p>City Council Member Charles Barron of Brooklyn, a former Black Panther, is leading the charge, lobbing threatening remarks at Speaker Christine Quinn, saying yesterday that she and others blocking the renaming are &#8220;at fault for anything that goes on during this struggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are really going to take this to another level,&#8221; Mr. Barron said yesterday. Ms. Quinn &#8220;has to bear responsibility for anything that happens at City Hall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A committee hearing last month on the proposal to rename a portion of Gates Avenue as Sonny Abubadika Carson Avenue devolved into a shoving match between City Hall guards and Carson supporters. Today&#8217;s rally and planned remarks during the council&#8217;s session is the first time since the tussle that the street renaming question will return to City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Ms. Quinn, Maria Alvarado, said in a statement, &#8220;The Speaker has every confidence that New Yorkers who come to City Hall to express their views will conduct themselves in an appropriate manner.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank god the &#8220;struggle&#8221; involves a street renaming and not, you know, actual social change: Pastors and activists are descending on City Hall today, vowing to raise to new heights a fight to rename a Brooklyn street after a radical black activist, Sonny Carson. City Council Member Charles Barron of Brooklyn, a former Black Panther, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}