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Inertia

an urban manifestation

The streets of New York City are never calm, but during the final days of August in 2004, there was an unrest of such proportions that, at times, traffic was stalled by masses of people who took to the street without obtaining permits to march. On August 30th, one day before the widely anticipated events of "A31" which would result in 1200 arrests throughout the city, a march beginning at the United Nations and ending at Madison Square Garden was inexplicably sanctioned by the police, even though it was one of the largest acts of civil disobedience that had ever occurred in the city. My camera was placed on a stone wall as they passed.

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