"What are you doing?"
"Putting the mural back up!"
NERDS RULE
This is just awesome.
April 5, 2011
April 3, 2011
Tiny little beards
"‘Worst case is some women may have little beards’" - Paul LePage on why the ban on using Biphenol A, in baby bottle plastic, should be lifted.
Actually, BPA will give you fucktons of cancer. But whatever. That's still no reason to avoid poisoning our kids, right?
Actually, BPA will give you fucktons of cancer. But whatever. That's still no reason to avoid poisoning our kids, right?
April 2, 2011
Vermont: We're doing Single Payer!
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April 1, 2011
Laibach: Divided States of America
So Laibach is a band from a nation that no longer exists: Yugoslavia
They are part of the Neue Slowenische Kunst or NSK artistic movement, which uses a retrospective avant-garde aesthetic, borrowing from and combining conflicting ideologies to create an aesthetic both authentic feeling, and nonsensical.
They toured the USA just after the 2004 election, and while here, they documented the political, social, and psychological climate here.
It's interesting to watch this now, hearing people's critiques of Bush at the time, the critiques of the wars at the time, etc.
I can't shake the feeling that I'm actually watching a documentary on the fall of the Soviet Empire. But there it is, it's us. It's our empire that's crumbling now.
What becomes really apparent for me, is how the duopoly of two corporate, pro-war political parties, have deeply divided our nation politically into two opposing camps that fight essentially for the same team.
Until we get beyond this illusion that we have two different political parties that serve different masters, we're going to keep driving America into the same corporatocratic ditch every two years.
Below is their documentary: Divided States of America, in which a friend of mine makes a cameo.
I personally feel that this film's message culminates in section 6 with a reading by NSK luminary Peter Mlakar.
They are part of the Neue Slowenische Kunst or NSK artistic movement, which uses a retrospective avant-garde aesthetic, borrowing from and combining conflicting ideologies to create an aesthetic both authentic feeling, and nonsensical.
They toured the USA just after the 2004 election, and while here, they documented the political, social, and psychological climate here.
It's interesting to watch this now, hearing people's critiques of Bush at the time, the critiques of the wars at the time, etc.
I can't shake the feeling that I'm actually watching a documentary on the fall of the Soviet Empire. But there it is, it's us. It's our empire that's crumbling now.
What becomes really apparent for me, is how the duopoly of two corporate, pro-war political parties, have deeply divided our nation politically into two opposing camps that fight essentially for the same team.
Until we get beyond this illusion that we have two different political parties that serve different masters, we're going to keep driving America into the same corporatocratic ditch every two years.
Below is their documentary: Divided States of America, in which a friend of mine makes a cameo.
I personally feel that this film's message culminates in section 6 with a reading by NSK luminary Peter Mlakar.
March 31, 2011
Brought To You By SOCIALISM (tm)
I have another homework assignment!
So As I've said repeatedly in the past, Socialism has a really bad "brand image" problem.
Let's do what we can to fix that brand-image problem. Take the following graphic, designed to be printed on your standard 8.5x11 sheet of paper, and place it up on various socialist institutions in your neighborhood.
Here's a link where you can download the image. Just right click and "save as."
Socialist institutions that could use a carefully and thoughtfully placed graphic such as this include:
Public Schools
Public Transportation
Lamp Posts
Post Office
Library
Sidewalks
National Parks
State Parks
Municipal Parks
Town Hall/City Hall
Road Signs
Fire Departments
Police Departments
Military Recruiting Stations
Public Spaces
Public Monuments
Public Water facilities
Courts
Local Roads
Interstate highway system
Department of Health and Human Services
All the above are socialist institutions! People love these things, and yet hate socialism!?
Here's a handy tutorial on how to make wheatpaste:
WARNING: Vandalism is illegal
Mr Rodgers vs The Daily Corporate Mindfuck
Watch this video all the way through. It gets better and better and better as it goes on. It's a slow burn.
Little known fact, I received a letter of congratulations from Fred Rodgers after I earned the rank of Eagle Scout. That letter was way more valuable to be than any of the ones I got from Senators or Congressmen.
March 30, 2011
Responses to my Homework Assignment
Here's my homework assignment:
And here are some answers so far, by viewers:
From zigzigerblat:
From Libertarian Alex Merced
More to come! Hopefully somebody will sit down with a finance professor at some point?
And here are some answers so far, by viewers:
From zigzigerblat:
From Libertarian Alex Merced
More to come! Hopefully somebody will sit down with a finance professor at some point?
March 29, 2011
I'M GOING TO NETROOTS NATION 2011!!
So, this morning, I found in my inbox an email saying essentially that although I didn't get into the top three, they were impressed with my application, and chose to award me a scholarship to Netroots Nation 2011.
But a large reason my application was so good, was that I had a lot of ringing endorsements from wonderful people that I respect. I'm thinking of you in particular. Yeah, you, the person reading this right now.
My application managed to get something like 290 votes, putting it in something like 10th place. That was 290 people who decided that it was a good idea to send me. It's readily apparent that *I* wasn't the one who won this. It was YOU.
YOU won this scholarship. If it wasn't for your support, your endorsements, and your willingness to spread the word, my application would have sank right to the bottom and been ignored.
So Congratulations!
I promise, while at Netroots Nation '11, to share everything about online organizing that I learn, and to document as much of the experience as I can so that it's like YOU were there too. Because really, YOU won.
Thank you!
Onwards!
The Punk Patriot
But a large reason my application was so good, was that I had a lot of ringing endorsements from wonderful people that I respect. I'm thinking of you in particular. Yeah, you, the person reading this right now.
My application managed to get something like 290 votes, putting it in something like 10th place. That was 290 people who decided that it was a good idea to send me. It's readily apparent that *I* wasn't the one who won this. It was YOU.
YOU won this scholarship. If it wasn't for your support, your endorsements, and your willingness to spread the word, my application would have sank right to the bottom and been ignored.
So Congratulations!
I promise, while at Netroots Nation '11, to share everything about online organizing that I learn, and to document as much of the experience as I can so that it's like YOU were there too. Because really, YOU won.
Thank you!
Onwards!
The Punk Patriot
March 28, 2011
Help send The Punk Patriot to Minneapolis for Netroots Nation 2011!!!
I'm gonna float this post at the top for a while
SO:
I'm applying for a scholarship to attend the DFA Netroots Nation 2011 conference in Minneapolis, MN.
If you aren't familiar with it, Netroots Nation is a huge activism training workshop held every year by Democracy For America, and they train specifically for online activism, fundraising, campaigning, etc.
My hope is to be able to learn skills, or learn of tools, or how to better use tools I'm already using, so that I can be a better organizer, fundraiser, and all around activist.
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/1128-the-punk-patriot
The more people that vote for my scholarship, the more likely I am to get it. It's a tough competition, but already through the help of friends, family, and others, I've already made it into the top 20. I believe I have to make it into the top 3 to be considered, which is why your help is so important.
If you would be so kind as to visit the link below, vote, and after that, please spread the word!
http://www.democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/1128-the-punk-patriot
Thank you very much!
The Punk Patriot
March 26, 2011
Documentary: The History of American Corporatocacy
How every populist movement in the USA's history has been co-opted and perverted by Wall Street.
... And how we can prevent it from happening again.
Sub-headed “Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist democracy”, this film explores the historical role of the Democratic Party as the “graveyard of social movements”, the massive influence of corporate finance in elections, the absurd disparities of wealth in the United States, the continuity and escalation of neocon policies under Obama, the insufficiency of mere voting as a path to reform, and differing conceptions of democracy itself.
"Lifting the Veil is the long overdue film that powerfully, definitively, and finally exposes the deadly 21st century hypocrisy of U.S. internal and external policies, even as it imbues the viewer with a sense of urgency and an actualized hope to bring about real systemic change while there is yet time for humanity and this planet. See this film!"
-Larry Pinkney
Editorial Board Member & Columnist
The Black Commentator
Original Source: http://blip.tv/file/4911311
Original interview footage derives from Noam Chomsky, Michael Parenti, Michael Albert, John Stauber (PR Watch), Sharon Smith (Historian), William I. Robinson (Editor, Critical Globalization Studies), Morris Berman (Author, Dark Ages America), and famed black panther Larry Pinkney.
Non-original interviews/lectures include Michael Hudson, Paul Craig Roberts, Ted Rall, Richard Wolff, Glen Ford, Lewis Black, Glenn Greenwald, George Carlin, Gerald Cliente, Chris Hedges, John Pilger, Bernie Sanders, Sheldon Wollin and Martin Luther King.
“Lifting the Veil is a major contribution to political documentary. ; It teaches everyone from the uninitiated to the most sophisticated the true nature of the American government... It covers the issues clearly and succinctly, from the opening narrative through to its stirring conclusion.”
-Ralph Poynter
lynne stewart defense committee
new abolitionist movement
"The best political film I've seen to date. A must watch if you want to understand who and what Obama is about, as well as this hypocrisy they call democracy."
Kiilu Nyasha Independent Journalist and former member of the Black Panther Party
"Noble is brilliantly pioneering the new film-making -- incisive analysis, compelling sound and footage, fearless and independent reporting, and the aggregation of the best information out there into powerful, educational and free online feature films – all on a shoestring budget. His films educate and inform while building the movements needed for real change at the grassroots. Noble's films are dedicated to democracy; they fan the flames of non-violent, people-powered revolution." -John Stauber, Founder, PR Watch
Punk Patriot video Remix
By OilWellian.
This is twenty times better than what I'd done on my own. BRAVO!
March 25, 2011
Today is the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
We are racing to the bottom.
History is repeating itself.
Unless we put our foot down, we will go backwards beyond slavery.
Rachel Maddow on Gov LePage's #muralgate
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I really like what the author of the Progressive Review, Sam Smith, has to say on all this:
"The Art Department of the Coastal Packet has come up with a suggestion of how to deal with the LePage Mural Massacre. Simply copy the mural photographs and display them everywhere you can: in windows, on walls, on your car, in letters to the governor. With a little effort we can make this the most famous mural in America. And let's not be too hard on the governor. After all, without his assistance, many of us wouldn't have known the murals were even displayed at the Labor Department. Now they can become really famous."
Here's the DailyShow's take:
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I'm Just A Girl covers Libya
Quite good. I love how she DJs pop culture to build coherent narrative.
March 24, 2011
Lewis Black on Donald Trump's 2012 run for president
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| Back in Black - Trump 2012 | ||||
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Thank you Lewis Black for expressing the frustration and anger I feel everyday these days in a nonviolent and funny way.
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