Matthew Simon Ryan Cavalletto
@mcavalletto
Progressive techie. New York City sidewalk gardener. SCAdian herald. Married to Piglet, father of Alex.
I like trains. (Sunnyside yards, viewed from a westbound 7 train.)
I wrote up the simple technique I've been using to create bird's eye views of places where we're staging protests, to help organizers visualize the area during the planning process, and to communicate that plan to the volunteers who will help carry out the action. wewillwin.nyc/creating-bir...
Two hundred people showed up to Foley Square this evening for a rally with The People's Forum in memory of Lorenzo, Joan, and other victims of Trump's racist immigration policies.
Folks from @riseandresist.bsky.social showed up today to share our feelings about Trump's cruel secret police goons.
More than a hundred people gathered with @riseandresist.bsky.social on the library steps to fly the American flag upside down as a signal of national distress, and to call on our elected representatives to end our national nightmare by acting to impeach, convict, and remove Donald Trump from office.
Some clever culture hacker has been busy correcting ads on the NYC subway.
My parents helped organize the first protests against the Israel Day parade around 1978, along with a committee of Palestinians and anti-zionist Jews. (And yes, my handwriting has always been awful.)
The inimitable @karinschall.bsky.social brought her message to the middle of Fifth Avenue, engaging with everyone from tourists to bus drivers.
Passersby cheered and thanked protestors (and came over to take selfies), while drivers honked in support of the "Impeach, Convict, Remove" banner at @riseandresist.bsky.social's rally outside Trump Tower today.
A crowd of people gathered outside Trump Tower this afternoon to remind our neighbors (and elected representatives) of the path out of our current catastrophe: impeach, convict, remove. Thanks to @riseandresist.bsky.social for organizing this action!
Ghemo, a new Georgian restaurant on our block of W106th near Amsterdam, is opening for the first time this evening… looks like it should be a pleasant addition to the neighborhood! (CC @westsiderag.bsky.social)
In a few weeks, ICE will lose their parking spaces on pier 40, and they're looking for commercial spaces to house their abduction fleet, so New Yorkers are getting out the message — any facility that takes money from these goons is setting themselves up for years of conflict with their neighbors.
Around seventy-five people gathered outside a parking garage on Seventh and Morton to call attention to its recent use by ICE, which has started parking vans here that are used to abduct our fellow New Yorkers.
Today we distributed over three thousand whistles (along with flyers, buttons, and stickers) to New Yorkers who will hand them out in their local neighborhoods, starting conversations about ICE, community defense, and standing up for each other.
Around 150 people showed up for today's ICE Readiness Workshop with @handsoffnyc.bsky.social here on the Upper West Side to review the political situation, hear live from someone in Minneapolis, learn how to recognize ICE, and discuss how we can respond to protect our neighborhood.
Protestors in Trump Tower reading the names of those killed by ICE.
Please join me on Sunday here in NYC for a march against Trump’s wars abroad and here at home.
A hundred people turned out in Harlem tonight, on less than a day’s notice, to mourn the death of Renee Good and the others killed by Homeland thugs, and to steel our resolve to bring this horror to an end.
Screengrab from 16 seconds into the Minneapolis video, as the shooter fires for the final time, from alongside of the vehicle, with his arms extended, shooting through the fleeing driver's rolled-down side window, directly into her upper body, with no agents on the road ahead of her — unjustifiable.
A thousand people turned out tonight to rally and march outside of ICE headquarters here in NYC, just a few hours after we learned about the shooting of Renee Good, a community-watch member in Minneapolis.
Spent today distributing whistles and ICE flyers in my neighborhood, reaching somewhere between one and two hundred people over five hours before I ran out of flyers. Having a visually-interesting table helps draw people in, so we use colored paper and offer a choice of multiple types of whistles.
I stopped to admire this as we marched up Eighth Avenue today and wondered if it might be your work...
Some signs from inside the church I visited Saturday, most of which I spent outside as "doorman" / marshal as vulnerable families came and went from a combination posada holiday party and support services event.
Winter has definitely set in here on the Upper West Side.
The UK plans to commission a new generation of killer underwater robots, paid for and commanded by the military, but owned and operated by private contractors… seems dystopian, right?
Getting the message out about the weaintbuyingit.com campaign — asking people to avoid shopping at Amazon, Target, and Home Depot over this holiday weekend in response to their collaboration with America's burgeoning fascist regime.
There's a catchy new whistle-awareness video out from @thenyic.bsky.social:
Hundreds of people turned out in Flushing today for a rally against the proposed casino project.
Over a hundred people turned out in NYC City Hall Park tonight for a veterans' day event against militarism organized by About Face aboutfaceveterans.org
We combined our usual halloween candy distribution with some political tabling, giving out mini chocolates, baby potatoes, community-defense whistles, "ICE OUT" stickers, and political zines... something for everyone!