Monthly Archives: August 2012
Kathleen’s Maypole Dance!
This is from the Occupy May Day protest. Kathleen Stansell organized a marvelous Maypole dance in Union Square. And thanks to Bill King, who shot this video.
Plowshares News, anti-nuke protest in NYC
First, here’s an interview with Sister Megan Rice of the Transform Now Plowshares. Second: OWS Environmental Solidarity and allies will be holding a melt-in (similar to Earth Day melt-in at Grand Central) at 5:30 pm on Aug. 6th at General Electric Headquarters at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (49th Street near 6th Avenue). I will be performing a small piece of […]
We interrupt this blog… REVIEWS ARE IN!
Reviews of our performances at the Brooklyn Peace Fair earlier this year. We performed the plays A CLOWN, A HAMMER, A BOMB, AND GOD and A GOOD DAY 2 PIE. An excerpt (SPOILER ALERT): …playwright and performer Dan Kinch performing his one-person piece, “A Clown, a Hammer, a Bomb and God,” part of his Occupy the Empire tour. […]
The Transform Now Plowshares
Quoted from The Nuclear Resister, a journal that’s been tracking civil disobedience against nuclear weapons since 1980: Before dawn on July 28, 2012, Michael R. Walli (63), Megan Rice shcj (82), and Greg Boertje-Obed (57) carried out a disarmament action at the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear facility. Calling themselves Transform Now Plowshares, they hammered on […]
Commemorating the bombing of Hiroshima
This Monday August 6 will mark the 67th anniversary of the US bombing of Hiroshima Japan at the close of WWII. Colonel Paul Tibbets sat at the controls of a massive four-engine B29 Superfortress bomber dubbed the Enola Gay and gave the order for his bombardier Major Thomas Ferebee to line the city up in his sights. […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 