Category Protests
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 […]
Greenham Common: The first Occupy?
In honor of Women’s History Month, I thought I’d give you some women’s history from a few decades back. It was 1983 and the world was closer to nuclear confrontation between the US and the Soviets than it had been since the Cuban Missile Crisis. More than a few of my writer friends have become […]
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.
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, […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 