Tag Archives: ACT UP

When sh*t blows up

February 9, 2016 · by · in Black Lives Matter, campaign 2016, economics, History, Protests, unemployment · Leave a comment

Don’t be mislead by the title. I’m not talking about terror bombings or explosives conspiracies. I’m talking about emotion and metaphor. There are times when sh*t blows up metaphorically, when people can no longer escape images that reveal a profound disconnect between their perceived reality and the lives of people on the other side of […]

Where is Occupy Wall Street on Extended Unemployment?

January 23, 2014 · by · in Occupy the Empire Tour, OWS, Protests, unemployment · Leave a comment

My ire was stirred a week or so ago by an article in Huff Post about the end of long-term unemployment benefits. For those of you joining late, the Congress left town in December for the Holiday recess without renewing extended unemployment benefits, which expired on December 28. The article itself was pretty straightforward. They interviewed a […]

Medea Benjamin crashes the party

May 24, 2013 · by · in History, peace protesters, Protests · Leave a comment

So if you were out of touch (no google, no tweets) Thursday, you probably didn’t hear about Medea Benjamin of Code Pink crashing Obama’s friendly little press conference about the drone strike policy and also the detainees at Guantanamo. As she was ‘escorted’ from the room, Medea reportedly said this: “Can you tell the Muslim […]

Occupy Wall Street, Robert Rafsky, and ACT UP

October 2, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

Very few people reading this page remember a man named Robert Rafsky, whose 15 minutes of fame passed before many of today’s activists were out of diapers. One of the activists in the early days of ACT UP, he became momentarily famous in 1992 for getting in Bill Clinton’s face during the New York Primary and […]