videos

Jump to videos under the following subjects;

• queer (jump)
• bike culture and safety (jump)
• reproductive rights (jump)
• reclaim the streets (jump)
• health care (jump)
• stop shopping (jump)
• community gardens (jump) 
• labor (jump)
  
• serious play strategy documentary (jump)
• interviews with Ben (jump)
  

queer

Parade Without a Permit, Radical Homosexual Agenda March 6/19/09
Video by Mark Tribe
The Radical Homosexual Agenda (RHA) march on June 19, 2009 in their "Parade Without a Permit" in New York City.

Drag March NYC 7/27/ 2008
Video by Bradcupp
It's just a Drag March Pride weekend.

 

bike culture and safety

Times Up! Pies of March Brooklyn Ride 2011
3/19/2011

Doggie Pedal Parade, Adopt don’t shop.
5/22/2011

BBQ in the Generation X garden on East 4th Street between Avenue B and C to help organize around the impending threat to community gardens in NYC.
7/31/2011

Token of Love Manhattan Bridge / Giving Love and Chocolate instead of tickets
1/31/2011

Bike Clowns, Bring Brooklyn BP Markowitz a Gift Bicycle and do some Caroling
12/16/10

Time's Up! Bedford Bike Lane "Funeral Process & Vigil
On Sunday, 12/14/2009, a group of 15 cyclists braved the freezing rain
to join Times Up! on a peaceful bike ride to decry the elimination of the
Bedford Avenue bike lane from a busy Brooklyn thoroughfare.

Clowns Liberate Bike Lanes on 11/09/2007
Video by Elizabeth Press
Time's Up! Bicycle Clown Brigade set out to playfully educate car drivers who were illegally parked in bike lanes.

Time's Up! Bicycle Clowns

Time's Up! Bureau Of Organized Bikelane Safety Ride.
3/20/10

David Bowie Ride
See also this video of the Bowie Ride.

NYC bicycle lane liberation ride during Novemeber 2005
Video from Times Up
Bike Lane Clown Brigade frees the bike lanes. The Clown Brigade tickets motor vehicles in the bike lanes. This is what NYPD should be doing: enforcing laws that protect bicyclists,and in particular, ticketing motorists who violate Section 4-08(e), whichexplicitly prohibits stopping, standing and parking within, or otherwise obstructing, bike lanes. All in good fun. Keep city streets safe for everyone!

Time's Up! Bike Lane Liberation Ride 2008

Sheldon Silver's Plan for Traffic Congestion on 7/13/2007
Video by Barbaross1
On July 13, 2007, the Time's Up! Bicycle Clown Brigade had a special guest: Assembly Speaker "Sheldon Silver".

Fourth of July Dance Ride
7/4/09

Snow Fun- Valentines Day Ride 2010

Time's Up! Bike Lane Liberation Ride on February 2008
Video by Barbaross1

Bike Lane Clowns
Video by Teamspider
Where are the bike lanes? Are they safe? Do they make any sense?

Times Up! Pie's of March Bicycle Clown Brigade Bike Ride & Pie Fight 2009
Video from Time's Up!

 

reproductive rights

Pro-choice rally at the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Brookly on 11/18/2008
Video by Franklanguage
Saturday morning November 17, 2008, we (the Church Ladies for Choice) attended an annual rally at this clinic (which includes abortions among its services to women.)

We were supported by the excellent Rude Mechanical Orchestra (RMO,) who are featured in this clip.

 

reclaim the streets

New York - Reclaim the Streets
Video by watchscratch

Reverend Billy / Critical Mass + Reclaim The Streets
Video by jmdyer
Reverend Billy's sermon before the 1999 Critical Mass in NYC, which ended in a street party.

Save Union Square. This Rally is a testament to the actions and history that make this park so important to save.
4/24/11

 

health care

Your Ass Isn't Covered, 4/6/2009
Video by healthcarenow4all
For more information on how to join the movement to support HR 676, please visit PHIMG.org or healthcare-now.org

Sit-in targeting Senator Charles Schumer.
Health professionals, patients demand expansion of Medicare
Chanting 55 is not enough,

Stop Shopping

Black Friday, Haul, with Rev Billy Way

community gardens

Public Hearing for Community Gardens, NYC
August 10, 2010

Times Up Garden Ride Hoedown 2010
To celebrate Spring and to defend New York's beloved and once
again endangered community gardens. Our bike ride visited Dias
y Flores Community Garden, The Creative Little Garden Le Petit
Versailles Garden, El Jardin Del Paraiso, and 6BC Botanical Garden.

Long Version – with full version of ‘This Garden if Your Garden’

Paul Revere "Save the Garden's" Dance Ride
The Developers are coming! The Developers are coming!"
Due to the urgency of the community garden crisis, we are now using this ride to get the word out that we are in danger of losing our gardens.
It's still gonna be a dance ride but with a twist
and a horse.

labor

serious play strategy documentary

Radical Ridicule:
By L.M. Bogad.
Serious Play and the Republican National Convention
This 40 minutes documentary examines the protests against the Republican National Convention. The city, state, and the President’s lawyers attempted to deny the right to peaceable assembly for the protesters. How do groups like Billionaires for Bush, the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, and 1000 Coffins respond?

interviews

Ben Interviewed by Savitri D of the Rev. Billy Hour of Power Interview
on the Ten Best Activist Moments of the 2000’s

Audio Interview:
Ben got arrested at a protest of John Bolton, US American Embassador to the United Nations under George Bush. Soon afterwards, he was interviewd by The Occasional Fag.
Listen here to the interview.

Audio Interview:
ART OF SURPRISE MONTH FINALE WITH OUR LOCAL THEATRICAL ACTIVISTS hosted by Brennan Cavanaugh on Apr 26, 2011.


Tonight we bid fond farwell to our April.  Real interviews with Reverend Billy and Savitri D from the Church of Earthalujah; Benjamin Heim Shepard (formerly) of Act Up and Absurd Response; Monica Hunken of  Bicycle Clown Brigade and Time’s Up!; and Clark Stoeckley of Army Of Fun and his Wikileaks truck; all just a handful of our favorite local theatrical activists.  All are asked, what goes into a good surprise?
 

Listen here to the interview.
Read the transcript here.