We made a huge splash at this year’s HONK! parade, once again doubling the number of our supporters. Youth members handed out hundreds of fish stickers to child spectators along the way. Hundreds of petition signatures were collected from Somervillians and Cantabridgians. And we handed out 1000 flyers!
photos by Jimmy Johnson
1000 Flyers handed out to spectators
457 Stickers handed out to children
256 Petition Signatures
77 Environmental Activists from Somerville, Cambridge, Arlington, Belmont, Medford, and Watertown
77 Save the Alewife Brook t-shirts
50 GHOST FISH signs
18 Closed Streets
15 Youth Activists, handing out stickers to children
4 Strollers & 1 Walker
3 Yucky Poop signs
2 Miles of Marching
1 Mermaid in Mourning
photos by Ann McDonald
Thanks to Sarah at Puppeteers Cooperative and to everyone marched, carried signs, handed out flyers and stickers, chanted, and to everyone who came out to support us at the HONK! Parade, from Davis Square to Harvard Square.
Alida Castillo, Amber Fisher, Ann McDonald, Bartholomew Singer, Beckett Hardesty, Beryl Minkle, Bhaskar Brownstein, Brian McBride, Brian McKinnon, Brook Edwards, Chandran Seshagiri, Chandreyee Das, Charles Teague, Damien McClain, Danny Gromfin, David Stoff, Elaine Crowder, Elise Hopper, Emma Imamovic, Eppa Rixey, Eric Grunebaum, Gary Von Colln, Gwen Speeth, Haakon Chevalier, Jacob De Remer, Jamie Trent, Jimmy Johnson, Joel Snider, John, John Boutin, Julia Denham, Kelly Cartagena Rusch, Kent Lydecker,Kevin Buckley, Krista Snell, Kristin Anderson, Lani Hardesty, Larry Hardesty, Libby Saw, Liliana Gheorghiu, Lina Haddad, Linea Rowe, Lisa Birk, Macky Buck, Maeve Whitty, Magdalena De Remer, Marcus (Smitty’s artist friend), Mark Jewell, Matt Potenza,Matthew De Remer, Michael Hardesty, Michael Rome, Mick Potenza, Mirian Barrientos, Nayu Shrestha, Nick Carr, Pooja Usgaonkar, Sam Pierce, Sandy Durmaskin, Sarah Jensen, Smriti Shrestha, Susan Denham, Sylvie Fisher, Tara Kovalik, Uma Gage, Victoria De Remer, Victoria Gethers, plus everyone who showed up on the spot, and did not sign up in advance.
I even saw some of our HONK walkers from the Friends of Alewife Reservation Honk days such as Eric and Larry, and at that time we were trying to save the Silver Maple Forest with stilts walker as butterfly, Maya Apfelbaum. Hopefully between EPA standards and Cambridge and MWRA commitments, the Brook PLUS Little River that feeds the Alewife brook WILL BE SAVED from deadly contaminants !!.. Ellen, former head of FAR