Another shitty law in NYC

Two tasks for the day...

1. Watch this clip.

2. Send an email to Julianne Cho [sample follows].

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Dear Ms. Chow -

I now longer live in NYC. But when I did, from 2002-2004, I worked on over a dozen short independent films.

These films provided cast and crew with an incredible amount of experience.

They provided some laughs to the 20 people who probably watched them.

They gave exposure to some artists and other documentary subjects.

They provided local restaurants and cafes with income from all the coffee and donuts we needed to fuel us to get them done.

Hell - they even gave an off-duty member of the NYPD a break in his first ever on-camera performance.

But they never, I repeat never, hurt anyone. Not one soul. Zip. Zero. Ziltch.

This new law is a horrible idea.

The spirit of New York City is the spirit of independence.

If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

And if you can't, in the greatest city on earth, where are you supposed to be able to make it?

Some of the most captivating images of NYC have been created by independent filmmakers.

Don't silence them.

To do so in the name of security is to let those bastards who attacked NYC on 9/11 win.

Please - for the love of some kid from Toronto or Toledo or Tudor City with a story to tell, all of the students who need to complete thesis projects, and all the hipster chicks with non-traditional narratives that no-one will ever finance and only 14 people will ever watch, please, please PLEASE....

Don't allow this law to go forward!

Please - in the name of free-speech.

Please don't let it happen!!!!!

Sincerely,

Michael