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The Bizarro Baloney Show tours SF Bay Area & West Coast (audio/mpeg 7.9MB)
Cartoonist Dan Piraro tours a multitude of cities to benefit PETA and Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:35pm PDT
Judas: this is what really happened
After being reviled for more than 2,000 years as the embodiment of treachery, Judas Iscariot's side of the story was finally published yesterday. Thanks to a newly discovered gospel in Judas's name, we now know what his excuse was: Jesus made me do it.
The Gospel of Judas, a fragile clutch of a leather-bound papyrus thought to have been inscribed in about AD300, was unveiled yesterday in Washington by the National Geographic Society, and it represents a radical makeover for one of the wors...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 5:06pm PDT
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at Santa Cruz GDI (4/7)
Implacable rabble-rouser Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to an asylum and inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse Mildred Ratched. A blistering attack on American society, that is at once exceptionally emotional and eternally uplifting....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:57am PDT
BROWN BERETS PRESENT YOUTH & POWER 2006: w/ IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
Revolutionary hip-hop and activism!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 5:40pm PDT
Fatwa against statues triggers uproar in Egypt
Art- the innocent victim of religious fundementalism...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 10:11am PDT
Paris What would you do? (audio/mpeg 11.1MB)
This is a clip from Paris' Sonic Jihad about the Police arising from 9/11. This will be linked to an article entitle "Hollywood Strikes Back" regarding media artists responses to the not-so-creeping fascism at weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com...
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 9:27am PDT
Australian Film Presents Unique View from Iraq
On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq this week, this astonishing Australian/Iraqi documentary, In The Shadow Of The Palms, the latest work by acclaimed independent Australian documentary filmmaker, Wayne Coles-Janess, won the Golden Reel for Best Documentary at its US premiere at the Tiburon Film Festival.
This is the only documentary filmed on the streets of Baghdad before, during and immediately after ‘liberation’ and it tells a fascinating tale of the lives of ordinary Iraqis...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:35pm PST
Battle for a wholesome generation?
Here is another take on what happened in San Francisco two weekends ago. As a parent and activist, I found myself agreeing with much of what this author had to say....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 2:29pm PST
Forced Injections Allowed by In Bush Regime Era, Beware...Fedeeral and State Injections
The USA governments have been allowing forcible injections in large numbers since 2001 against innocent people, per a change in the laws protecting us. Chapter 36 laws in the Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico allow forced injections since 2001. The federal government forcibly injected me in 2001 in Los Angeles. We must strike against them in force and mass with no mercy. We should remove those who pass those laws and put films of them being removed on the web. Nuremberg NOW>...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:44am PST
Download Song Commemorating Rachel Corrie
British folk singer Billy Bragg has released a FREE mp3 song dedicated to American hero/peace activist, Rachel Corrie... here's what Bragg said about his song: "Rachel Corrie went to Gaza to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians, whose voice is seldom heard in her country, the US. That she herself should be silenced - first by an Israeli bulldozer, next by a New York theatre canceling a play created from her words - is a testimony to the power of her message. This song was wri...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 9:43am PST
New: Hear Billy Bragg sing of the lonesome death of Rachel Corrie; plus Bushrat flees
Take out the handkerchief....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 7:31am PST
just sad
it appears that victims of hate crimes and violent home invasions and families coping with the loss of a child killed by a drunk driver make for good television....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 2:06am PST
Spain: Bomb threats and funding cuts follow theatre show
Responses to a theatre show by comedian Leo Bassi indicate the escalation of right-wing clerical reaction in Spanish politics. The cutting of government subsidies to a theatre festival that staged the show is the latest in a sequence of attacks that has seen theatres picketed and attempts made to bomb auditoriums....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 9:34pm PST
Nader -- Bush's Divorce from Reality
author: Ralph Nader
CounterPunch
March 25 / 26, 2006
Impeachment or Resignation: Pick Your Poison...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 10:01pm PST
"A Grin Without A Cat" at Othercinema.com
Screening of Chris Marker's "A Grin Without A Cat"
THis Saturday ((3.25.06)) at the ATA...
Posted: Thu, Mar 23, 2006 7:43pm PST
The Radiohead star's verdict on Downing St meeting:' It was poison... a nasty business'
If any one doubted that the days of Tony Blair's Cool Britannia were over, the Radiohead lead singer, Thom Yorke, yesterday scratched deep into the Prime Minister's celebrity-friendly veneer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 7:12pm PST
Philippine Hackers Target National Police, Demanding the Release of the Sagada 11!
Hacktivists in the Philippines have started an electronic civil disobedience campaign against the national police, demanding the release of the Sagada 11, eleven punk food not bombs activists falsely accused of being members of the NLP....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:35pm PST
Culture Jamming. Artists' Television Access Film and Video Festival Call for Entries
Submission Categories:
1. General: Shorts (running less than 30 minutes) in all genres and formats.
2. Special category: “Culture Jamming” - Including films with subversive meanings, media hacking, information warfare, terror-art and guerrilla semiotics, public activism opposed to commercialism and corporate imagery that plays with the branded images and icons of consumer culture to make consumers aware of surrounding problems and diverse cultural experiences that warrant their attent...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:24am PST