Saving people from art that might require thinking
James and I were very proud to have Susan C. Dessel's work in the show we curated in 2006...
Posted Monday May 12, 2008 at 12:44 PM | Full Post
Inappropriate segues at the New York Times
I was reading this otherwise pretty good article on a young activist in today's City Section of the New York...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2008 at 6:08 PM | Full Post
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shuts down art show of Wafaa Bilal
I got an email about this over the weekend. Check out B. Blagojević's post on the ArtCal Zine and NEWSgrist...
Posted Monday March 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM | Full Post
The state of American electoral politics -- not so healthy
Here are the first paragraphs of an Alexander Cockburn column, titled How the Democrats Blew It in Only...
Posted Friday August 17, 2007 at 11:28 AM | Full Post
All hail the genius that is David Rees
David Rees, the creator of Get Your War On, demolishes Michael Ignatieff's painfully self-serving essay on "getting Iraq wrong" in...
Posted Tuesday August 7, 2007 at 7:13 PM | Full Post
More fun Blair news
Related to my previous post, here are a couple of news items of note. President Bush has spoken to UK...
Posted Wednesday June 20, 2007 at 3:18 PM | Full Post
The Trial of Tony Blair
Robert Lindsay as Tony Blair BBC America presented this film on Sunday, but James and I just watched it...
Posted Wednesday June 20, 2007 at 12:21 AM | Full Post
Iraq Veterans Against the War - NYC Memorial Day
Operation First Casualty, Memorial Day 2007. Photo by Lovella Calica. (From the Brooklyn Rail) I can't believe I...
Posted Monday June 18, 2007 at 2:23 PM | Full Post
Things are going swimmingly, aren't they?
Timeline removed from Iraq funding bill U.S. Navy Sends Carriers Near Iran Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran...
Posted Wednesday May 23, 2007 at 12:01 PM | Full Post
Anti-war demo inside Hart Senate Office Building
Thanks to Joy Garnett for alerting me to this action two days ago at the Hart Senate Office Building....
Posted Saturday April 28, 2007 at 3:02 PM | Full Post
What happens to journalists who are too truthful
We haven't watched the Bill Moyers show about the run-up to the Iraq War yet, but here is an amazing...
Posted Saturday April 28, 2007 at 12:07 AM | Full Post
Bomb, bomb Iran?
What a scary country this is. This is what happened at a McCain campaign stop yesterday. Another man — wondering...
Posted Thursday April 19, 2007 at 12:17 PM | Full Post
Banana Republic
I'm a few days late on this. Is it just me, or does having President Bush make a major speech...
Posted Sunday April 1, 2007 at 2:34 PM | Full Post
iRack
From MADtv, which I didn't see last week as our Time Warner Cable Tivo-lite device died. Thanks to Noah...
Posted Saturday March 17, 2007 at 2:01 PM | Full Post
Hillary Clinton is a very bad person
An AP story from Saturday on Hillary Clinton's campaign trip to New Hampshire includes these gems (emphasis mine): Clinton acknowledged...
Posted Sunday February 11, 2007 at 1:16 PM | Full Post
Why James and I weren't jumping up and down after the last election
A lot of friends seemed surprised that we weren't more excited after the last election, when the Democrats took back...
Posted Tuesday February 6, 2007 at 12:06 AM | Full Post
Michael Rakowitz at Lombard-Freid Projects
Michael Rakowitz Headless Male Figure (Kh. IV 112) (Recovered, Missing, Stolen Series), 2007 middle eastern packaging and newspapers, glue...
Posted Monday January 22, 2007 at 11:51 AM | Full Post
On Saddam Hussein
Did you know that the sentence for Saddam Hussein was announced before our election, but the text of the verdict...
Posted Monday November 6, 2006 at 12:27 PM | Full Post
My 9/11 post
From Robert Scheer's column published on May 22, 2001: Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige...
Posted Monday September 11, 2006 at 12:20 AM | Full Post
Hillary Clinton loves cluster bombs
Have you noticed that Tasini button over on the right of this page? Here is a reminder of why it's...
Posted Friday September 8, 2006 at 2:26 PM | Full Post
The U.S. is planning to charge Americans for evacuation?
Check out this LA Times article: Thousands of Americans whose vacations and business trips to Lebanon have degenerated with sickening...
Posted Tuesday July 18, 2006 at 5:06 PM | Full Post
Like a "Keystone Stasi"
I just read an op ed in Newsday by Ray Lemoine. Ray LeMoine is co-author, with Jeff Neumann and Donovan...
Posted Monday June 19, 2006 at 11:51 AM | Full Post
Working with Republicans is suicidal for New York
I often see arguments that New York needs to work with the GOP, since they control all three branches of...
Posted Thursday June 1, 2006 at 12:21 PM | Full Post
Jean Rohe's graduation speech
Jean Rohe was the speaker at the New School graduation before John McCain. Many of the students were understandably...
Posted Saturday May 20, 2006 at 8:04 PM | Full Post
Village Independent Democrats endorse Hilary's primary rival
The Villager has an article on the endorsement of Jonathan Tasini, who is running against Hilary Clinton for the...
Posted Friday May 19, 2006 at 12:12 PM | Full Post
Is Washington in danger of a Confederate invasion again?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided Supreme Court declined on Monday to decide whether President George W. Bush has the power...
Posted Monday April 3, 2006 at 11:05 AM | Full Post
Sophie Scholl at Film Forum
Memorial at Geschwister Scholl Platz We saw Sophie Scholl at Film Forum yesterday. It's a very powerful film...
Posted Wednesday March 15, 2006 at 8:40 PM | Full Post
In March We Remember
I know everyone is distracted by the Whitney Biennial and the art fairs, but it has now been three years...
Posted Tuesday March 7, 2006 at 1:37 PM | Full Post
The best thing I've read on the cartoon controversy
This is the English translation of a column that originally appeared in die tageszeitung, a leftist cooperatively-owned newspaper founded in...
Posted Wednesday February 8, 2006 at 1:02 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On
There are some new ones, if you haven't checked out Get Your War On recently. Click on the numbers...
Posted Monday January 23, 2006 at 3:42 PM | Full Post
Harrel Fletcher, "The American War"
January Blog has a post on a new project by Harrel Fletcher, in which he documents the War Remnants...
Posted Saturday November 26, 2005 at 11:33 PM | Full Post
If you're going to DC on the 24th
If you're going to the peace rally in DC on the 24th, Florent has organized some buses....
Posted Sunday September 18, 2005 at 8:05 PM | Full Post
More on Banksy in the West Bank
Window on the West Bank ... Some of the work by graffiti artist Banksy, painted during a visit to...
Posted Friday August 5, 2005 at 3:22 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On #43
Click on the image for the rest....
Posted Tuesday December 21, 2004 at 12:45 AM | Full Post
Apparently they managed to find someone more stupid than Ridge
[Image captured from CNN homepage]...
Posted Thursday December 2, 2004 at 7:26 PM | Full Post
Looking less like a democracy every day
From MyDD. LOS ANGELES, November 9, 2004 - At 7:50 PM two armored tanks showed up at an anti-war...
Posted Thursday November 11, 2004 at 10:42 AM | Full Post
From the artist who brought us iPod/iRaq
Copper Greene latest: Don't remember the iRaq posters? Go here. [via Wooster Collective]...
Posted Friday October 29, 2004 at 9:00 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On
New one! Click on the image for the whole thing....
Posted Tuesday October 26, 2004 at 11:23 AM | Full Post
Dior Not War
We marched with the GLAMericans for Peace in the February 15, 2003 anti-war march. One of the slogans we chanted...
Posted Thursday October 7, 2004 at 10:36 AM | Full Post
More Iraqis killed by U.S. than by terror
I mentioned earlier that Donald Rumsfeld said "At some point the Iraqis will get tired of getting killed." The Detroit...
Posted Sunday September 26, 2004 at 12:05 PM | Full Post
Mourning the Warrior, and Questioning the War
A few days ago, I wrote about Sue Niederer, the mother of a young soldier killed in Iraq, who interrupted...
Posted Wednesday September 22, 2004 at 9:43 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On 41
Number 41 is out....
Posted Tuesday September 21, 2004 at 11:51 AM | Full Post
"They'll get tired of getting killed"
Jon Stewart showed clips of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on The Daily Show a few days ago to illustrate the...
Posted Saturday September 18, 2004 at 2:10 PM | Full Post
Dead GI's mother interrupts Laura Bush speech in NJ
Via Newsday/AP, from suburban New Jersey: A woman wearing a T-shirt with the words "President Bush You Killed My Son"...
Posted Thursday September 16, 2004 at 11:08 PM | Full Post
Good August 29 photos from the GLAMericans
We love the GLAMericans, and marched with them in one of the anti-war demos in early 2003. Here is...
Posted Saturday September 4, 2004 at 3:16 PM | Full Post
War, what is it good for?
As I read about the conventions and the presidential campaign, I was struck by something. We have reached the point...
Posted Friday September 3, 2004 at 1:32 PM | Full Post
New Get Your War On
Click on the image for the rest....
Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 9:46 AM | Full Post
Not Godwin's Law
Wietold Riedel is well aware of the history of the part of the world where he was born. Read tonight's...
Posted Thursday September 2, 2004 at 12:21 AM | Full Post
A beautiful protest from Fernando Suarez del Solar
I can't find a better description of this, so I'm stretching fair use a bit to give you the whole...
Posted Wednesday September 1, 2004 at 8:21 PM | Full Post
Greg Allen visits the Hiroshima memorial
... and encounters the Pakistani ambassador....
Posted Saturday August 7, 2004 at 2:47 PM | Full Post
Leader of Iraq, summary executions, etc.
Yes, you thought I was talking about Saddam Hussein. I'm talking about Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq....
Posted Friday July 16, 2004 at 8:33 PM | Full Post
Rick Santorum's priorities
Senator Rick Santorum on the anti-gay marriage amendment: "I would argue that the future of our country hangs in the...
Posted Wednesday July 14, 2004 at 6:34 PM | Full Post
Nice way to celebrate the 4th
Apparently it has become illegal to wear an anti-Bush t-shirt in a public place if he is nearby. Story via...
Posted Monday July 5, 2004 at 1:15 PM | Full Post
Brilliant guide to Baghdad and Iraq right now
If you only read one in-depth article on Baghdad and Iraq, this is the one. Christian Parenti, who has been...
Posted Saturday July 3, 2004 at 1:23 PM | Full Post
2 days early edition of Get Your War On
That was quick. There is a new, and timely, Get Your War On up now....
Posted Monday June 28, 2004 at 2:53 PM | Full Post
USA! USA!
Terrorism incidents may be at the highest point in 20 years. The State Department is scrambling to revise its annual...
Posted Wednesday June 9, 2004 at 3:30 PM | Full Post
costofwar.com
Good site. costofwar.com keeps track of the dollar cost of the Iraq war so far, and compares it to other...
Posted Sunday June 6, 2004 at 9:56 PM | Full Post
A very timely Get Your War On
More....
Posted Thursday May 27, 2004 at 11:14 AM | Full Post
Why the Democrats are wrong about Iraq
Go read Steve Gilliard's post on the subject....
Posted Sunday April 25, 2004 at 8:20 PM | Full Post
Get Fuzzy
Even the comics I read for fun are getting political....
Posted Thursday April 22, 2004 at 5:11 PM | Full Post
A police state won't protect us
Bush went to Buffalo yesterday to promote the Patriot Act. He chose it because it was the location of the...
Posted Wednesday April 21, 2004 at 12:04 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On 34
Go here for the rest....
Posted Saturday April 17, 2004 at 1:01 PM | Full Post
"Not skiing"
After two days of firefights, a marine packed the personal effects of 12 fallen comrades at the combat outpost...
Posted Friday April 9, 2004 at 12:11 PM | Full Post
Don't Ask, Don't Tell
If gays in the military are such a bad thing, why does the number of dismissals fall when we're at...
Posted Thursday March 25, 2004 at 12:29 AM | Full Post
The NY Times is a loathsome newspaper
I was struck by the huge range of ages, ethnicities, and types of people in the demonstration today. This is...
Posted Sunday March 21, 2004 at 1:50 AM | Full Post
Not fit to print
Right now, the NY Times home page has no mention of the anti-war demonstration here in NYC (we just got...
Posted Saturday March 20, 2004 at 4:00 PM | Full Post
Begin the impeachment hearings
Of course, that won't happen while the GOP is in charge of Congress. War and terrorism threats are useful tools...
Posted Friday March 19, 2004 at 11:59 AM | Full Post
Are we devoting all possible resources to fighting terrorism?
A quote from a Time article, via Pandagon: Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security...
Posted Tuesday March 16, 2004 at 3:32 PM | Full Post
Spain's response to terrorism
After 9/11, we attended demonstrations to say that we wanted justice for the awful attacks of that day, but we...
Posted Monday March 15, 2004 at 12:25 AM | Full Post
Column on Haiti
This column from Mark Weisbrot provides some interesting background on the situation in Haiti. A sample: The latest coup is...
Posted Wednesday March 3, 2004 at 6:33 PM | Full Post
Backing down?
Via Talk Left, I learn that the government seems to be backing down a bit on the whole peace activism...
Posted Wednesday February 11, 2004 at 12:39 AM | Full Post
In a totalitarian state, dissent = terrorism
If this isn't police state behavior, I don't know what is. Lifted from Kos, go there for more info. The...
Posted Sunday February 8, 2004 at 6:45 PM | Full Post
AWOL Bush
Salon has a goood article by Eric Boehlert on where the evidence stands on Bush's "disappearance" from the Texas National...
Posted Sunday February 8, 2004 at 12:05 AM | Full Post
Judge Silberman and the WMD panel
As an antidote to the "liberal media" like the New York Times that just refer to the panel's co-chair, David...
Posted Saturday February 7, 2004 at 6:27 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On #31
Posted Friday January 23, 2004 at 11:34 PM | Full Post
War is good!
Via the BBC: General Peter Schoomaker said in an interview with AP news agency that the wars had allowed the...
Posted Thursday January 22, 2004 at 7:28 PM | Full Post
Cheetohs
Cheetohs of Mass Destruction...
Posted Thursday January 22, 2004 at 12:13 AM | Full Post
Why does Army War College hate America?
Given the usual approach of the Bush regime to anyone who questions it, that could be their expected response to...
Posted Monday January 12, 2004 at 5:49 PM | Full Post
9/11 Chair: Attack Was Preventable
Spread the word. I'm concerned that Thomas Kean, the Bush-chosen head of the 9/11 commission, can say these things and...
Posted Thursday December 18, 2003 at 10:39 AM | Full Post
On Saddam Hussein's capture
I will be interested to see how this affects the resistance to the US occupation of Iraq. Some will probably...
Posted Sunday December 14, 2003 at 10:38 AM | Full Post
Yuck
I agree with what she said: To the Editor: You quote a United States lieutenant colonel in Iraq as saying,...
Posted Wednesday December 10, 2003 at 3:38 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On #28
The new one is out. Here is a sample: Eschaton provides some context....
Posted Wednesday December 10, 2003 at 11:02 AM | Full Post
Iraq
I have a comment on an older post from an Iraqi woman who speaks English and is hoping to find...
Posted Monday December 8, 2003 at 12:20 PM | Full Post
We're at war, dammit!
Let's just call it the Bush junta. Arguing before an appeals court that the government should be able to hold...
Posted Wednesday November 26, 2003 at 1:40 PM | Full Post
Cowards
Is this what a democracy looks like? I have to rely on Jon Stewart's Daily Show or an op-ed in...
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2003 at 5:32 PM | Full Post
David Brooks: Mistakes will be made
David Brooks has got to go. In yesterday's New York Times, he wrote that Americans need to be prepared for...
Posted Wednesday November 5, 2003 at 11:50 AM | Full Post
2/15 Book
That's my image that made it into a new book on the global demonstrations against war in Iraq called...
Posted Tuesday November 4, 2003 at 9:57 PM | Full Post
Get Your War On
New ones are on the web site. A sample:...
Posted Saturday November 1, 2003 at 2:10 AM | Full Post
Freedom
Two U.S. Army soldiers, of Charlie company, 1-22 Infantry regiment, 4th Infantry Division, look inside the pockets of an...
Posted Wednesday October 29, 2003 at 11:56 AM | Full Post
A nice summary for Rumsfeld
Marie Coco has a nice summary in today's Newsday of answers for Rumsfeld's memo -- all from Senator Bob Graham's...
Posted Tuesday October 28, 2003 at 1:47 PM | Full Post
Holy war, anyone?
Via CNN: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are defending a new...
Posted Friday October 17, 2003 at 12:54 AM | Full Post
Fair and Balanced
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a story about the media and the stupid Americans who think Iraq was involved in 9/11....
Posted Friday October 3, 2003 at 3:38 PM | Full Post
Vive La France
I can't quite explain why this bothers me so much, but the latest column by the idiot known as Thomas...
Posted Friday September 19, 2003 at 12:25 AM | Full Post
All of the September 11s
An initial disclaimer: I know this post is a bit of a mess, but I can't figure out how to...
Posted Thursday September 11, 2003 at 7:02 PM | Full Post
Chocolate Makers
Last night President Flight Suit said we're going to ask the rest of the world for money and bodies to...
Posted Monday September 8, 2003 at 11:01 AM | Full Post
New World Order
I think now is a good time to revisit the first paragraph of an op-ed by Richard Perle in The...
Posted Friday September 5, 2003 at 11:12 AM | Full Post
Money for schools, not bombs
Apparently the Bush regime feels the opposite approach makes sense. From an op-ed piece by Donald Hepburg in yesterday's NY...
Posted Friday September 5, 2003 at 10:58 AM | Full Post
He is still an idiot
I'm very proud that searching Google for "Thomas Friedman idiot" brings up one of my posts near the top. Courtesy...
Posted Sunday August 31, 2003 at 1:44 PM | Full Post
Why are they so stupid?
I don't understand this administration. They have plenty of money to spend on speechwriters and marketers, and we still get...
Posted Thursday August 28, 2003 at 12:45 AM | Full Post
Silipups's take on Israel/Palestine
I can't recommend The current situation -- my take on it from silipups highly enough. It is a brilliant summary...
Posted Monday August 25, 2003 at 6:33 PM | Full Post
Another U.N. loss in Baghdad
Rick Hooper died as he lived — trying to bring peace in the Middle East. (Photo by Robert Zash)...
Posted Monday August 25, 2003 at 2:47 PM | Full Post
On Israel/Palestine, violence, and ethnic cleansing
Go right now and read Anees's post titled For newcomers to this blog. I agree 100% with what he has...
Posted Friday August 22, 2003 at 9:48 PM | Full Post
More on U.S. Killing Journalists
I posted something a couple of days ago in which I said I was very disappointed to see so little...
Posted Thursday August 21, 2003 at 4:41 PM | Full Post
Sergio Vieira De Mello, Mazen Dana
My cable modem finally came back at 3pm yesterday, so I've been working frantically to try to catch up with...
Posted Tuesday August 19, 2003 at 9:47 PM | Full Post
Welcome back
The lovely and talented Anees is back -- with a bang -- from his blog break: silipups: Suckers!...
Posted Thursday August 14, 2003 at 11:55 AM | Full Post
Only Cheney's company can do the work?
I.F. Stone once said the Washinton Post was exciting to read "because you never know on what page you would...
Posted Saturday August 9, 2003 at 1:54 AM | Full Post
We're kidnapping women in Iraq
Via Eschaton I see there is a Washington Post article that says we are now taking hostages in Iraq as...
Posted Monday July 28, 2003 at 11:08 AM | Full Post
Followup to "The Men of Ward 57"
After seeing my post The men of ward 57, a friend who was a "Donut Dolly" visiting soldiers in the...
Posted Tuesday July 22, 2003 at 12:51 PM | Full Post
Reuters didn't get the memo
Wow -- look at this headline: Jessica Lynch Due Home After Media Hype on Heroism PALESTINE, W.Va. (Reuters) - Jessica...
Posted Tuesday July 22, 2003 at 10:49 AM | Full Post
The men of ward 57
Even though he will begin married life in a wheelchair after the loss of both his feet, First Lt....
Posted Sunday July 20, 2003 at 3:00 PM | Full Post
Jingoism in the defense of...
The Washington Post reports that the White House was so unhappy about an ABC News story about bad morale in...
Posted Saturday July 19, 2003 at 12:50 AM | Full Post
Imperialism is not about our moral superiority
... or about helping the Iraqis in any meaningful way. I was struck by the photo when I saw it,...
Posted Wednesday June 25, 2003 at 11:26 AM | Full Post
Napalm in the morning
No commentary from me needed, I think: 'Apocalypse Now' Music Fires Up U.S. Troops for Raid U.S. troops psyched up...
Posted Saturday June 21, 2003 at 1:42 PM | Full Post
Salam Pax
The Baghdad Blogger, Salam Pax, who also happens to be gay, now has a fortnightly column in the Guardian. There...
Posted Friday June 6, 2003 at 12:12 AM | Full Post
Let's see if this makes the U.S. Media
From The Guardian, via Ruminate This. The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's...
Posted Thursday June 5, 2003 at 12:26 AM | Full Post
Hillary is a double agent
I think Hillary Clinton is a secret double agent for the Republicans. It's the only explanation that makes sense....
Posted Thursday June 5, 2003 at 12:04 AM | Full Post
Miscellaneous links
I haven't posted much lately, so here are a few items of note: After 18 years, the U.S. has decided...
Posted Wednesday June 4, 2003 at 9:51 PM | Full Post
If we had an independent media...
I had dinner with a friend a few nights ago who shocked me by saying the U.S. had the most...
Posted Friday May 30, 2003 at 9:36 AM | Full Post
Fascism? No problem, as long as I can smoke
I keep seeing bloggers and other people complaining about how the smoking ban is the worst thing that has happened...
Posted Sunday May 18, 2003 at 12:44 PM | Full Post
Private Jessica Lynch rescue was staged
The dramatic rescue of Private Jessica Lynch was just that -- a staged drama. We're not likely to see this...
Posted Friday May 16, 2003 at 1:08 PM | Full Post
Anything for the troops
Doesn't anyone care what it feels like to people in Manhattan when a commercial jet flies low over lower Manhattan?...
Posted Thursday May 15, 2003 at 1:29 PM | Full Post
Maybe because we need the dirty bomb threat?
As James has said -- see here for example -- our regime needs the threat of war and terrorism to...
Posted Wednesday May 14, 2003 at 11:37 AM | Full Post
"We are at war, we are at war and this is for your safety"
Our Constitution and the Fourth Amendment don't really mean anything if Congress can pass laws abrogating it and the courts...
Posted Wednesday April 30, 2003 at 2:28 PM | Full Post
"over our shoulders barbarian-style"
I just came across this story from last week: Marines Feast on Saddam's Wild Gazelles TIKRIT, Iraq -- Supper time...
Posted Saturday April 26, 2003 at 1:14 AM | Full Post
Great theater project
Worth Street Theater, the closest theater to Ground Zero, presents Voices of Peace & Dissent from Ground Zero. Beginning Monday,...
Posted Monday April 14, 2003 at 11:31 PM | Full Post
Barbarians
By that I mean us, not the Iraqi people. The Bush administration can spend $400-500 billion per year on weaponry,...
Posted Sunday April 13, 2003 at 2:58 PM | Full Post
What country am I in?
Did they suspend the Constitution for NYC while I wasn't looking? AP Story: NEW YORK -- Police detectives have questioned...
Posted Friday April 11, 2003 at 12:34 AM | Full Post
Are you now, or have you ever been, someone who questions this regime?
'Hitler' Exec Producer Fired Over Remarks LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - The executive producer of a CBS miniseries about Adolf Hitler's...
Posted Thursday April 10, 2003 at 7:00 PM | Full Post
A little perspective please
The American press acts like there were hundreds of thousands of Iraqis celebrating as the statue of Saddam Hussein was...
Posted Thursday April 10, 2003 at 12:56 PM | Full Post
Report from Karen Moulding
Karen Moulding, fabulous activist lawyer and GLAMerican, gave me permission to post this report from yesterday's demo, where the police...
Posted Wednesday April 9, 2003 at 12:17 AM | Full Post
Australian PM embarrassed as anti-war protest halts Iraq-bound warship
Greenpeace activist Mikey Rosato holds a 'No War' banner as he dangles from the bow of the guided missile...
Posted Tuesday April 8, 2003 at 7:14 PM | Full Post
Speaking Ill of the Dead
After reading all of the puff pieces on the death of Michael Kelly, David E gives us a welcome antidote,...
Posted Tuesday April 8, 2003 at 1:24 PM | Full Post
The police state
Police Attack California Anti-War Protesters OAKLAND, Calif. - Police open fired Monday morning with non-lethal bullets at an anti-war protest...
Posted Monday April 7, 2003 at 4:21 PM | Full Post
Bridge to Baghdad
I wrote about this project in late February right before it happened: "a live satellite conversation between students in Iraq...
Posted Sunday April 6, 2003 at 3:38 PM | Full Post
Hell in a handbasket
I'm not sure I recognize this country anymore. I think we've slipped down the rabbit hole and only a few...
Posted Sunday April 6, 2003 at 12:15 AM | Full Post
The Art of War
The latest Village Voice has a good essay by Barbara Pollack on the history of protest art. One of my...
Posted Saturday April 5, 2003 at 9:02 PM | Full Post
Not-for-profit
I was at a meeting of queer anti-war activists last night, and we were talking about how some groups seem...
Posted Thursday April 3, 2003 at 12:34 PM | Full Post
We know what culture is, right?
Via The Guardian and Common Dreams: A few miles from the bridge to the south lie the ruins of the...
Posted Tuesday April 1, 2003 at 1:43 PM | Full Post
Cultural Sensitivity
You're either with us or against us. Like it or not, Canadian baseball fans will be hearing God Bless America...
Posted Sunday March 30, 2003 at 2:00 PM | Full Post
No more war posts for a bit
OK. I need to take a break on war stuff for a bit. Here are links to my favorite news...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2003 at 8:55 PM | Full Post
Report from Bill Dobbs
The AP has a story quoting Bill Dobbs from United for Peace and Justice about what happpened at the end...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2003 at 1:49 PM | Full Post
Reichstag / WTC
I didn't see this one, but as agitprop (and painting) it's pretty good. Photo courtesy of Tom Moody. Go read...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2003 at 12:37 PM | Full Post
Riot Gear
I got an email from Jesse of pith.org fame -- go read his beautifully written post from early this morning...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2003 at 11:43 AM | Full Post
Call me paranoid
There are currently ten stories on the NY1 home page. Nine of them have video. One does not: the one...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2003 at 11:18 AM | Full Post
Get Your War On
Hey -- do the Iraqis own their own oil fields yet? They're all gonna be rich over there now, right?...
Posted Sunday March 23, 2003 at 1:55 AM | Full Post
Fascism: see NYC/NYPD
Jimmie Breslin is right. Maybe it is time for some NYPD layoffs. ... A young woman began banging her paint...
Posted Saturday March 22, 2003 at 6:35 PM | Full Post
March 22, 2003 Anti-War March
I got back a little while ago from the big march from Times Square to Washington Square Park. It took...
Posted Saturday March 22, 2003 at 6:20 PM | Full Post
Fascism
From Britannica Concise: fascism: Philosophy of government that stresses the primacy and glory of the state, unquestioning obedience to its...
Posted Friday March 21, 2003 at 4:14 PM | Full Post
Anti-war protest March 21, 2003
The heavy rain made it depressing and wet, and the NYPD were pretty incompetent. They spent most of their time...
Posted Friday March 21, 2003 at 12:34 AM | Full Post
Israel attacks Rachel Corrie's funeral
From The Guardian: Israeli forces fired teargas and stun grenades yesterday in an attempt to break up a memorial service...
Posted Thursday March 20, 2003 at 3:02 PM | Full Post
3,000 students demonstrate in Vienna
more...
Posted Thursday March 20, 2003 at 1:18 PM | Full Post
It has started
I will be at the demo at Times Square tomorrow at 5pm. Call or email me if you want to...
Posted Thursday March 20, 2003 at 12:14 AM | Full Post
Is satire possible anymore?
At yesterday's meeting we talked about using satire for anti-war purposes. I'm not sure that's possible when a Supreme Court...
Posted Wednesday March 19, 2003 at 1:21 PM | Full Post
BYOQS [bring your own queer sign]
James and I spent a couple of hours with some smart queer activists talking about anti-war activism that doesn't involve...
Posted Wednesday March 19, 2003 at 12:21 PM | Full Post
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