March 21, 2008 has some significance in our time. Hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals will protest in very decentralized ways. Some are honking and/or texting for impeachment; others are preparing to vigil to mark the 4,000th official US casualty, which will likely happen within days or possibly hours of this writing; others are participating in the 7th Iraq Moratorium by taking self-directed action for peace; some will contact Congressional Representatives urging them to join Schakowski and Sanchez in supporting the right for union organizing in Iraq by overturning Saddam's law kept on the books by the US occupation; more might do something online--creating a web, protest traffic jam--like taking the Voters Pledge for Peace or watching David Swanson in a Stop Wars t-shirt explain how our representatives could flip off the war switch, or hearing testimony from last weekends IVAW Winter Soldier Hearings, or they might visit a site like this. I know I haven't even scratched the surface of what people are doing right now to express their discontent.
This site is dedicated to emerging gestures that embody our time and relay its flawed flavor. Erickson's Munchian Screaming Hawkeye BJ reflects current existential angst simmering at the collision point between our affinity for a mythology about how '60's revolutionary tactics appeared to usher in peace and equality in the wake of a turbulent decade smashing into a future that appears crumbling beneath us. This, broadsided by the power-elite's unquenchable thirst to exploit, creates a spectacular moment of disquiet, malaise and frustration seen in much art today.
Yet, this is just another day. People continue to get active and learn to make resistance part of a daily diet. Despite attempts to muffle voices of decent under the boisterous yelping of a media-military-government-complex, we will be heard by those who listen for us. We are Hortons and we are whos--to borrow a re-emergent theme spawned during the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings--we need to listen to one another and take actions to protect each other.
This is a still from the Seuss inspired Russian animated short I Can Hear You (Ya Vas Slyshu), written and directed by Alexei Karaev.
This site is dedicated to emerging gestures that embody our time and relay its flawed flavor. Erickson's Munchian Screaming Hawkeye BJ reflects current existential angst simmering at the collision point between our affinity for a mythology about how '60's revolutionary tactics appeared to usher in peace and equality in the wake of a turbulent decade smashing into a future that appears crumbling beneath us. This, broadsided by the power-elite's unquenchable thirst to exploit, creates a spectacular moment of disquiet, malaise and frustration seen in much art today.
Yet, this is just another day. People continue to get active and learn to make resistance part of a daily diet. Despite attempts to muffle voices of decent under the boisterous yelping of a media-military-government-complex, we will be heard by those who listen for us. We are Hortons and we are whos--to borrow a re-emergent theme spawned during the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings--we need to listen to one another and take actions to protect each other.
This is a still from the Seuss inspired Russian animated short I Can Hear You (Ya Vas Slyshu), written and directed by Alexei Karaev.
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