Month: December 2014
While the phallus is literally worshipped in Japan, representations of the vagina are considered taboo to the point of being criminally offensive. Dazed reports that Megumi Igarashi, the Japanese artist who was famously jailed for creating a kayak based on a 3D print of her vagina, has been re-arrested on the same charges of obsenity. […]
Spotted in Brooklyn: A little girl who wants to dance, and a bunch of strangers just as eager to join her. Frustrated by a Staten Island jury’s failure to indict an NYPD officer for the death of Eric Garner and filled with hope by the city’s mass protests, New Yorkers are feeling a lot of […]
Comedy team Glove and Boots have put together a comprehensive guide on how to avoid being an asshole on the subway. Using puppets they break it all down very simply for you, explaining to think of it as a big party in your friends studio apartment at 7am with 800 other people who all hate […]
Protests demanding justice for Eric Garner moved throughout the city for a second day with a reported 223 people being arrested as demonstrators shut down transportation networks and blocked roadways. ANIMAL captured footage of one of those arrests, at at 10:39 PM in Times Square. Marchers had blocked the intersection of 7th Avenue and 42nd Street. […]
The NYPD was prepared for heavier protests on Thursday night, and New Yorkers, frustrated by Wednesday’s failure to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, delivered. Gathering in Union and Foley Squares around 5:30 PM, thousands of people swarmed the city, eventually spilling into roadways and blocking traffic on essentially every major […]
According to sources speaking with the Daily News, the cop who shot Akai Gurley in an East New York stairwell decided to text his union rep instead of helping the dying man. After the rookie officer entered a darkened stairwell in the Louis H. Pink Houses with his gun drawn, the officers have said there […]
Leonardo, Downtown Brooklyn. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Tensions ran high between Eric Garner protesters and NYPD officers on Wednesday night near Rockefeller Center. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The NYPD braced itself for a second night of protests after more than a thousand people marched across the city on Wednesday night, outraged by a Staten Island jury’s failure to charge officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of unarmed black man Eric Garner. 83 people were arrested. While outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder […]
On Thursday morning, as thousands across America were still sleepy from protesting the non-indictment of officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner, another set of protestors prepared to march for liveable wage. In solidarity with fast food workers in 189 cities all over the country, nearly a hundred people gathered outside Manhattan’s City […]
