Welcome. Two things are true that I need you to know so that we can get cooking here. 1) Islamic fundamentalism has some serious problems with the way it handles women and personal freedom. 2) The United States created it. That’s not all we’re going to talk about, but for us to set sail we […]
Read more "Get Loud: A People’s Guide to Speaking in Actions"Almost everyone has had a job that they were good at; one where they put in time, paid their dues and then when promotion time came around they were passed over for someone who didn’t deserve it. In our eyes the person who gets picked over us has some irrelevant characteristic that only gets them […]
Read more "Real Progress"Can you imagine protesting the mafia? It seems like a ridiculous thing to do on a very basic level, especially considering the Sopranos type characters we typically associate with organized crime. Some very sharp questions immediately jump out of the context created here. What do we expect Tony Soprano to take away from our picket […]
Read more "Tony Soprano for President"It seems safe to say that the platinum selling pop icon is as dead as door nail. There’s not going to be another Beatles, another Bob Dylan or Arethra Franklin because the simple economic channels that opened that level of cultural importance to those people have snapped shut. Without records to sell, musicians don’t have […]
Read more "The Music Festival, the Protest and the Next Chapter of Democracy PT. 1"The protest is an exercise of power. And that’s the first thing that hits us when we show up at a protest; all the powers we’d never normally have. We change what the streets are used for, walking where people would normally drive. The rules about volume and how close to one another we can […]
Read more "The Music Festival, the Protest and the Next Chapter of Democracy PT. 2"“Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” is a phrase we’ve all had wagged at us at some point in our lives. We sit bloated with a plate of food in front of us, staring silently through an overfed glaze at some domestic authority who gets to say I told […]
Read more "Your eyes, Your Stomach and Your Government"
Princess Fantastic 