Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
S17 weekend–one year anniversary of Occupy!
This weekend is the one year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street taking over Zuccotti Park and renaming it Liberty Park. A lot has happened over the past year, and the Occupy movement has in many ways changed the narrative about America’s relationship with the top income earners (the 1%). I’m not going to try to […]
Update–disarming grandmothers found guilty
A Magistrate in England has found peace activists Helen John and Sylvia Boyes guilty of protest crimes under Section 128 of the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act. This is in response to their arrest at Menwith Hill, a huge electronic surveillance facility in England set up by the United States. They were unable to […]
9/11 and the New York Times today
Today being 9/11, I note that the New York Times has fired a last broadside across the bow of George W Bush. On the Op Ed page, Kurt Eichenwald, who has written extensively about the ‘war on terror’, claims to have read a number of Presidential Daily Briefings from the days leading up to 9/11 and concludes that Bush and […]
Eleventh Anniversary of 9/11
Eleven years ago, September 11 was also a Tuesday and a big day for me. I showed up for my first day of work at an IT support job with offices on Wall Street. An amazing blue sky greeted me as I got on the train that day. My office was right across the street […]
A Republican Plan for recovery rejected by the GOP
I haven’t gone rogue here. This is a plan that’s been around for a couple of years now. It bears no resemblance to the plan purportedly being advanced by Romney/Ryan. There are plenty of tax cuts for the wealthy in the plan being advanced by Willard Mitt, but there are no matching sticks for the […]
Crap Republicans (apparently) believe
Okay, I started thinking about putting this up a few days ago after experiencing convention burnout. This list probably seems patently unfair to Republicans, and (to be fair) not all Republicans believe everything on this list. And Democrats believe some rather astounding things as well. And there’s a larger issue of what Americans believe that […]
The Tubby Balding Radical’s Guide to Diet, Exercise and revolution, YO! (forward)
So.. this is the title of the book my character Jerry is (ostensibly) writing in my play HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB. I’ve sort of been playing with this idea for several years now. As usual, it started with the personal: my weight had ballooned in the years after 9/11, […]
Sister Anne Montgomery Presente
This is in prayer for Sister Anne Montgomery, who passed earlier this week. I had met Sister Anne numerous times when I was working on my plays about the Plowshares movement. She was a tiny, frail woman who had the heart of a lion. And her friends in the Plowshares movement lionized her. Anne Montgomery […]
“on the grid”: a play about exploitation and world finance
This is one of my ‘orphan’ plays, a monologue about the WTO. I thought about it a great deal after a recent debate on Facebook regarding colonialism and Africa. There’s apparently a significant number of people who believe that colonization of the developing world in the preceding half-century (which by definition has to include what […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 