Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
California Roiled by high gas prices
From the Huffington Post, news that California governor Jerry Brown has tried to provide a break to California drivers by letting them go to winter-blend gas a few weeks early. Summer-blend gas is less polluting, but is in extremely short supply after a refinery fire and other problems reduced supply. Sunday’s price ($4.655), like Saturday’s, was […]
Peak Oil! Spectra, Dumpster Diving and seven year old predictions!!
In yesterday’s post I made some arguments about the resource arguments for veganism and changing the ways that we produce and use food. In the course of producing yesterday’s post on Dumpster Diving, I had revisited a number of different websites and documentaries to find support for the arguments for the practice of taking people’s wasted food. […]
The Dumpster Divers!!
So I’m minding my own business walking home from an evening meeting in Park Slope and who should I meet by accident than my bud Kathleen Stansell. For those of you following her on WBCR these days, you’ll know that Kathleen has been leaning toward a different flavor of activism–food activism as exemplified in the […]
Anger Rising–Spain, Greece embrace S29; Rome, Amsterdam, Berlin in solidarity
Those of you who saw my blog post on the 27th know that I wrote about big street demonstrations in Madrid on the 25th. Well, you’d be hard-pressed to know it, but all weekend there were big street protests against ‘austerity’ in the Euro Zone. Here was the call to action in Spain. On […]
Podcast coming–Barclays Center protests and Spain oh my…
Reminder that tonight I will be on WBCR around 7:30 to talk about Occupy and latest events. It’s available live here. Or you can wait for the podcast, which is here. In the meantime, speaking of sports money and politics, did you know that Madison Square Gardens pays no property tax? This is thanks to […]
Where is the Bull Connor moment for Occupy?
I’ve spent the past few days reviewing the stories and protest video from September 17, the first anniversary of the Occupy Movement. I should start by saying that the organizers did some amazing work, putting together a week of activities and teach-ins, and organizing a big, complicated protest for Monday morning. In effect, the financial […]
Mitt Romney’s unguarded moment–a play in gestation
I don’t need to explain this, right? Willard Mitt Romney has been caught on video disparaging roughly half the voting population as being dependent on government assistance and not paying taxes (what they mean is not paying INCOME TAXES–poor people pay FICA on every dime, they pay sales taxes, if they own a car the […]
The Gansevoort Pipeline, Mayor Bloomberg, and the future of Fracking in NY State
Okay, here’s a delightful story about Occupy and a giant gas pipeline under construction in the West Village–a story that also involves fracking and the Marcellus Shale range and Mayor Bloomberg. It’s hard to follow at times, and it’s not at all clear who the actors are and whose script the government is following. The subject […]
I’m on radio!
For a couple months now, I’ve been working with Phil Rosenberg at Brooklyn College radio on his show Sex and Politics. Since September 6, I’ve been doing a regular segment on the Occupy movement. But before that, we had radio versions of my plays A GOOD DAY 2 PIE and HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 