Tag Archives: occupy wall street
DOJ grabs phone records, Obama supporters act shocked
So now it turns out that the US issued a Top Secret Court Order and seized virtually every Verizon customers’ phone records over a three month period (which may mean they renew the order every three months). There was plenty of lefty and liberal outrage back in the George W Bush administration when warrantless wiretapping was […]
Occupy Turns out at Zuccotti on Saturday
I got some great pictures at the protest last Saturday for Occupy Wall Street. There were several thousand people at Zuccotti /Liberty Plaza for the festivities (the media, even the left friendly media, stated ‘hundreds’. Off by a zero). While many were Turkish, many were old veterans of the Occupy Movement. People’s Puppets was on […]
Happy May Day!
May Day has arrived. If you’re in New York and you want to know what’s going on, there are worse places to look for information than here. I realize Huffington Post posted a eulogy for the Occupy Movement yesterday, and the movement obviously doesn’t have the energy it did a year ago at this time. […]
Don’t know much about a Cornucopia of Conspiracy Theories
In my play HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB, the character known as Jerry takes on the issue of the people who deride him as a conspiracy theorist–and those who use the phrase ‘conspiracy theorist’ as a pejorative term: “People call me a conspiracy theorist for saying that Obama signed the […]
A great show on Sex and Politics!
We had a helluva time tonight on Sex and Politics–hope you were listening, but if you weren’t, here are the highlights! We spoke to Rachel Schragis of People’s Puppets of Occupy Wall Street. Lots of big events planned for May first, and a history of the colorful giant puppets you see at demonstrations. Their work […]
Tonight on Sex and Politics!
Tonight on WBCR’s Sex and Politics, I will be speaking to some of the planners for OCCUPY WALL STREET‘s May Day events–they’re asking people to take the day off (call in sick!) and come to one of their many events (protests, speak-outs, performances). Lots of interesting events going on, and there’s still time to get […]
Thursday on WBCR: Pipelines and fracking oh my!
This Thursday night you will find me behind the microphone on WBCR‘s Sex and Politics. The show starts at 8 PM and you can pick it up on your internets machine by going into the mywbcr site. I’ll be interviewing a representative of Sane Energy Project, which opposes the development, transport and export of shale gas. they have […]
My interview with Sister Megan Rice of the Transform Now Plowshares: UPDATE
UPDATE 5/17/2013: the Sex and Politics podbean site is not putting up the sound file for this interview. The podcast for this interview can be found on iTunes here. If you listen to Sex and Politics, the radio show I’m on (and if you don’t, by golly you SHOULD), you would have caught my interview […]
Occupy Sandy Relief–the growing story
The big story around here has been Hurricane Sandy. You might have heard of it. And the story that’s being picked up is that Occupy Wall Street Begat Occupy Sandy Relief. Sandy was a big disaster. If Katrina put 1.8 million people in a place with flooded basements and no running water or electricity, Sandy […]
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 