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Manhattan Libertarian Party October Meeting
Monday, October 10, 2005
! Note change to Monday !
Preston Peet
Author, Editor and moderator of DrugWar.com
Personal Effects of the War on (some) Drugs in NYC
Preston Peet is a colorful Lower East Side writer, editor, musician, actor, and
DJ. Preston is a regular contributor to High Timesmagazine and
website, the editor of the totally antiprohibition website DrugWar.com and moderator
of the DrugWar.com email list, a columnist for New York City's premier punk
rock newspaper, The New York Waste, and has published in a variety of
publications both in print and on-line, including "Media Bypass"; "Criminal
Justice 03/04"; "09/11 8:48AM-Documenting America's Greatest Disaster"; and
"Alternet." Besides publishing over 60 articles at the popular
Disinformation website, mostly on some aspect of the War on Some Drugs and
Users , he has articles in The Disinformation Company's
anthologies, "You Are Being Lied To," "Everything You Know Is Wrong," and
the upcoming "Everything You Know About Sex is Wrong." He lives in Manhattan
with Vanessa (his other half) and nine rescued cats, and can speak from personal experience about the good bad and ugly of drug use and its prohibition .
"It's time to end the War on Some Drugs and Users."
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Ukrainian East Village Restaurant
140 Second Avenue
( between 9th Street and St. Mark's ) |
Business : 6:30 p.m
Program : 7:30 pm |
To inform, to provide exchange of ideas, and to provoke thought .
Activities : Playing Poker @ Police Plaza
Channels 1, 2, 4, 5, and 9, The Post, The Daily News, The Sun, and
Downtown Express sent thousands of dollars worth of talent to cover our No Poker, No Peace Penny Poker Tournament protest at 1 Police Plaza , then , in their coverage , only Downtown Express even once used the word LIBERTARIAN , much less identifed our candidates for City office whom they spoke with .
 "I happened to watch Fox's coverage. The cops dealt with our protest by lying outright. They stated that the money seized is "evidence of illegal gambling activity" (a dubious claim) and the clubs were raking pots (totally untrue). Isn't it fascinating that liberal politicians
who'd suffer an attack of the vapors if a cop accepted a free apple from a grocer have nothing to say about the theft of $100K.
Probably I'm wrong. There's nothing fascinating about business as usual."
-- Ron Wieck , poker player .
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