Author Archives: Brooklyn Culture Jammers
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. […]
“I am Agent Strawberry of the Biotic Baking Brigade…”
Agent Strawberry of the Biotic Baking Brigade. I am swift. I am Deadly. To the evil conspirators at war with the natural living forces on this planet, I am —Their worst niqhtmare! With my special tuber tazer and my invincible Tart Classique, I am unstoppable. I will stop the forces of ANTI-Nature in their Gucci-footprinted […]
Update on the Cleveland 5
There was a hearing for the Cleveland 5 defendants on July 25, and supporters in the courtroom were shocked to hear that one of the defendants, Anthony Hayne, had entered a guilty plea and offer of testimony in exchange for his cooperation in turning state’s evidence. Mr. Hayne had some prior convictions in 2000, but […]
Greenham Common and the first Occupy (preview)
I’m writing a long post on the history of Greenham Common. Long story short–the protesters at Greenham camped out for some ten years in front of a US b52 airbase that was keeping first-strike weapons on high alert. But that protest eventually got the airbase shut down. And in recent months, as a memorial was […]
James Eagan Holmes and My Black Bloc story
Like most of us ‘Muhricans, I’ve been transfixed by the events in Aurora, Colorado. James Eagan Holmes was arraigned this morning for the crime of turning a movie theater into a shooting gallery. The memes floating about this AM about this story are many. Apparently one can arm oneself with 6,500 rounds of ammunition online, […]
Kathleen Stansell and A GOOD DAY 2 PIE dance piece
This is a really amazing dance piece Kathleen put together based on my play. Agent Strawberry of the Biotic Baking Brigade takes on the evil Monsanto corporation for attacking the world’s food supply. I wrote some introductory lines as a jumping-off. Presented at the Muse space in Williamsburg Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 