TODAY'S SCHEDULE: Delegates play golf at Van Cortlandt Park ... Greene Dragons protest group arrives at 2 p.m. in Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry "to liberate New York from the Bush loyalists" ... Critical Mass Ride at 7 p.m. at Union Square hosted by Time's Up where bike riders come together to ride the streets of NYC ...
Schedule of protests at RNC convention
Thousands of protesters are expected to descend on New York City for the Republican National Convention, which is set for Aug. 30 through Sept. 2. Here is a tentative schedule of many of the expected protests:
August 27, 2004
The Greene Dragons, named after the bar where Paul Revere and Sam Adams thought up the Boston Tea Party, arrive in Manhattan on the Staten Island Ferry "to liberate New York from the Bush loyalists."
Critical Mass Ride at 7 p.m. at Union Square hosted by Time's Up. An international event, where bike riders come together to ride the ordinarily car-clogged streets of New York City.
The National Immigrant Solidarity Network is holding an Immigrant Worker Solidarity Day of Action from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. throughout the City to call attention for the need for more immigrant rights and an end to attacks against them.
The Anti-Convention to begin at 7 p.m. at the Warsaw in Greenpoint. Live Music Research is holding two evenings of music and RNC protesting. The group which professes to promote social awareness and responsibility through live music will donate all proceeds to Not in Our Name.
August 28, 2004
Planned Parenthood in conjunction with Not In Our Name will host the March for Woman's Lives NYC from Cadman Plaza across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall Park for a demonstration. It is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. in Brooklyn.
The Green Party Office Committee in Manhattan will host a 'Green World is Possible' festival from 11 a.m. -6 p.m. in Washington Sq. Park, Greenwich Village.
Christian Defense Coalition will hold an evening Pro-Life prayer vigil on Seventh Avenue across from Madison Square Garden.
Middle East Peace Coalition will demonstrate on the southeast triangle of Union Square at a yet to be determined time.
Not in Our Name in conjunction with United for Peace and Justice and RNCNot Welcome.org hold a Million in the Streets protest before the official start of the RNC. There is no set location for this protest and organizers expect demonstrations to "spontaneously erupt" in all neighborhoods of the five boroughs and surrounding communities.
Ring Out will hold a protest at Ground Zero at 5:30 p.m. where participants will use bells to symbolically ring out the Republicans.
Books Not Bombs Youth Convergence Groups of student and youth organizations from around the country are to converge on the City for a series of spontaneous protests and demonstrations.
Free For All Wet anti-Bush T-shirt Contest Billed as an all day protest event to be held on Sheep Meadow Pasture in Central Park.
August 29, 2004
United for Peace and Justice will hold a march that will begin around 10 a.m. between 14th and 23rd streets. Marchers will head north on Seventh Avenue past Madison Square Garden, where the GOP will meet, before turning west on 34th Street for the walk down the West Side Highway.
Greene Dragon will travel from Fresh Kills across New York Harbor on the Staten Island Ferry in the morning, staging a liberation of Manhattan from the Republicans and eventually joining with the UFPJ march.
Return the Light to America Walk: A Suffolk Progressive Vision sponsored walk from Orient and Montauk Points beginning on August 20 and ending at the Brooklyn Bridge where participants will join the UFPJ march.
Code Pink Women for Peace will rally in the Eleanor Roosevelt Corner of Riverside Park at 11 a.m..
Billionaire's for Bush hosts the Million Billionaire March at a Manhattan location and time that has yet to be announced.
Christian Defense Coalition demonstration, Church Street between Liberty and Vesey Streets
Bush Bash in Brooklyn at Cafe 111 a day of music, comedy, spoken word and political thoughts beginning at 3 p.m.
August 30, 2004
The Hip Hop Action Network, Still We Rise the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign will hold the March For Our Lives: Stop the War at Home. The SWR will begin with a rally at Union Square at noon they will be joined by PPEHRC who will first come together at the United Nations. Both groups will then continue through midtown Manhattan and meet up with the HHAN at a site near Madison Square Garden.
The Buddhist Peace Fellowship will hold a sitting meditation for peace all day in Bryant Park.
The Christian Defense Coalition will hold an evening prayer vigil at Ground Zero to call for an end to abortion in the United States.
Disabled American Veterans rally, 10 a.m., Eighth Avenue and 31st Street
August 31, 2004
The Shout Heard Around the World, at 11 a.m. a wide-ranging group of protestors will gather across the City to shout NO to the re-nomination of President Bush as the Republican candidate for president.
The A31 Coalition plans gatherings at barricades and spontaneous free-speech zones as well as no-permit direct actions:
9:30 a.m. At Bank of America financial roundtable, Tavern on the Green
All day. Actions at offices of corporations with Republican ties or those involved with the Iraq war, including:
-- Carlyle Group, Fifth Avenue at 58th Street
-- The RAND Corp., 342 Madison Avenue
-- Chevron, 230 Park Ave. 49th to 50th streets
-- General Motors, 767 Fifth Ave., 58th to 59th streets; and a showroom, 599 Lexington Ave. 52nd to 53rd streets
-- Global Crossing, 435 W. 50th St., Ninth to 10th avenues.
-- Hummer of Manhattan, 55th Street and 11th Avenue.
The War Resisters League plans to gather at Ground Zero and at 4 p.m. march in a funeral procession to Madison Square Garden for a 7 p.m. "die-in."
New York Metro Area Postal Unions demonstration, 2 p.m., Eighth Avenue at 31st Street
NARAL Pro-Choice America will demonstrate for reproductive rights in the North Plaza of Union Square Park, at a yet-to-be-released time.
People for the American Way will read the U.S. Constitution from the Central Park Band Shell.
September 1, 2004
The Line, a coalition of individuals from local arts and labor organizations will stand along Broadway from Wall Street to West 31st holding mock pink slips beginning at 4 p.m..
The Code Red Protest for Women's Rights hosted by the NYC chapter of the National Organization of Women and other local groups such as Not In Our Name. It is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. at the East Meadow of Central Park. A permit has not yet been granted by the City.
Activist Ellen Reudenheim will host an anti-gun violence display all day in Union Square Park.
DEMO: A Demonstration in Words poetry reading on the RNC, President Bush and the war in Iraq will take place at St. Mark's Church at 8 p.m.
September 2, 2004
Boston-to-New York Stonewalk arrives in New York City. Hosted by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, participants pulled a 1,400 pound granite slab from Boston to New York.
Not In Our Name is slated to hold an evening rally at a yet to be announced location.
One Peoples Project to hold a party in the evening at Tompkins Square Park.
Compiled by Elizabeth Foley, NYNewsday.com