Clayton Patterson : We Need Protection From Mayor Bloomberg

Clayton Patterson describes how Mayor Michael Bloomberg is destroying New York for working-class and poor people. Mr. Patterson discusses quality of life issues, such as rent hikes, over-development, mass evictions, landlord abuses, freedom of artistic expression, parking tickets, NYU expansion, and criticisms of mainstream media. He acknowledges the importance of bloggers, such as Suzannah B. Troy, who resist, or call for a change in, the policies of the Bloomberg administration. The net effect is a powerful citizen's complaint against Mayor Bloomberg.

Mr. Patterson is an artist, photographer, videographer, and folk historian. He has focused his work almost exclusively on the Lower East Side in Manhattan. According to wikipedia, on August 6 and 7, 1988, Mr. Patterson videotaped over 3 hours of footage, documenting how police engaged in a riot with youths in Tompkins Square Park. People had gathered in the park in protest over the newly enforced 1am curfew. When the riot broke out, Mr. Patterson began taping the violence. His footage became instrumental in exposing police brutality in New York City that was often reported but never videotaped.

In 2008, Mr. Patterson was the subject of the documentary film, "Captured."

In respect of this YouTube video, all video and some pictures Copyright 2010 by Louis Flores. Some photographs, graphics, and a photograph of the oil painting by Suzannah B. Troy are used under fair use doctrine. All respective rights reserved.

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