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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 