Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
Down the conspiracy rabbit-hole with Snowden (Update)
So… the continuing story of Edward Snowden’s flight from prosecution is on everybody’s front page today. Did he leave Russia? Is Cuba his final destination, or will he head to Ecuador? Is Iceland really trying to negotiate a response to the US should their Pirate Party friends decide Snowden deserves sanctuary? In other words, the […]
POSTPONED->Julian Assange will make a speech this Saturday from the Ecuadorian Embassy – c’mon over!
Julian Assange speech marking the one-year anniversary of his sanctuary in the Ecuadoran Embassy–postponed due to security concerns for Assange.
The Snowden Sh*tstorm
The politics surrounding the Edward Snowden case continue to get, well, weird. Last night, Christopher Hayes admitted that he found himself on the same side of the Snowden issue as Texas Congressman (and one-man punchline) Louie Gohmert. Gohmert also found himself in a strange place–he was on the side of the ACLU at a news […]
FIGMENT EVENT TOMORROW! (unless it rains like crazy)
Wow. So I was kinda/sorta invited to crash the Figment event tomorrow at Governor’s Island in New York. I’m doing a long version of my one-man show HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB. If you’ve seen me on YouTube, this will have new detail on another activity that will bring the […]
DOJ grabs phone records, Obama supporters act shocked
So now it turns out that the US issued a Top Secret Court Order and seized virtually every Verizon customers’ phone records over a three month period (which may mean they renew the order every three months). There was plenty of lefty and liberal outrage back in the George W Bush administration when warrantless wiretapping was […]
Thanking Bradley Manning
An interesting post from Kathy Kelly, part of Afghan Peace Volunteers, a group that lives among the people of Kabul and sees their daily lives under the occupation. Their perception of Bradley Manning is rather different than ours.
Occupy Turns out at Zuccotti on Saturday
I got some great pictures at the protest last Saturday for Occupy Wall Street. There were several thousand people at Zuccotti /Liberty Plaza for the festivities (the media, even the left friendly media, stated ‘hundreds’. Off by a zero). While many were Turkish, many were old veterans of the Occupy Movement. People’s Puppets was on […]
#OpGrandMarshallMANNING
Originally posted on #Op Manning:
Greeting citizens of the world. We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that the hero, Bradley Manning, has become the subject of a great controversy. This may not come as a surprise, his actions have been marked by controversy since he took a courageous leap of faith…
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 