World War 4 Report [4] editor Bill Weinberg will be leading a weekly walking tour highlighting struggles for urban space on New York's Lower East Side over the past generation—including the squats, community centers, community gardens and Tompkins Square Park [6]. In addition to Tompkins Square, a focal point of popular resistance [7] in the neighborhood since the 1850s, the tour takes in La Plaza Cultural [8] and other community gardens, site of the evicted Charas [9]/El Bohio [10] community center, the former Christadora Settlement House [11], the historic Saint Brigid's Church [12] (recently saved from destruction [13] by a community acitivst campaign [14]), the Lower East Side Ecology Center [15], and the former site of the Esperanza Garden [16], destroyed by city bulldozers [17] in 2000. The one-hour tour leaves from the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS [18]) in C-Squat [19], 155 Ave. C between 9th and 10th Streets, every Sunday at 3 PM.
There is a requested donation of $20 to help the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space survive.
