Rainbow in Central Park

The worldwide community of socialists, overt, closet, and latent—the Hive, as I like to call it for short—has invested heavily in the peace movement, and the June 12 nuclear freeze rally in New York, coming so soon after major demonstrations in Europe, was bound to be a major event. The Hive had to go for broke.

An enormous amount of planning went into the June 12 rally. Several avenues in Manhattan were barricaded off and supplied with extra police, at a cost of more than $1.25 million, not to mention the losses to merchants. The city freely imposed these costs on taxpayer and merchant alike. After all, who could object? Who wants to die in a nuclear holocaust? Mayor Ed Koch went along with the pretense that the occasion was as uncontroversial as that.

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The worldwide community of socialists, overt, closet, and latent—the Hive, as I like to call it for short—has invested heavily in the peace movement, and the June 12 nuclear freeze rally in New York, coming so soon after major demonstrations in Europe, was bound to be a major event. The Hive had to go for broke.

An enormous amount of planning went into the June 12 rally. Several avenues in Manhattan were barricaded off and supplied with extra police, at a cost of more than $1.25 million, not to mention the losses to merchants. The city freely imposed these costs on taxpayer and merchant alike. After all, who could object? Who wants to die in a nuclear holocaust? Mayor Ed Koch went along with the pretense that the occasion was as uncontroversial as that.