Archive for Culture Jamming
We Do Campaign In South Carolina
Posted by: | CommentsThough all of the Republican Presidential candidates were invited to the Reconciliation Prayer Service held in Greenville, SC today, none attended. Three same-sex couples sought marriage licenses at the Greenville County Probate Court, and all three were denied pursuant to the laws of the state. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, leader of the Campaign for Southern Equality, told participants today, “Your love is holy. Your love is true. We are here today to stand up to laws that are unjust and to call for full equality for all LGBT people.”
On Wednesday, two more couples will seek marriage licenses. Then Thursday a Charleston couples will do the same in that city. Watch for some surprises along the way.
David Forbes at Mountain Xpress wrote an excellent story about CSE and the We Do campaign.
And here’s one of the excellent videos released as part of the We Do campaign.
Monkey Do
Posted by: | CommentsThe Freeway Blogger strikes again, distracting drivers with his dangerous roadside graffiti.
The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized
Posted by: | CommentsUPDATED and UPDATED AGAIN BELOW
Saturday.
From Howie Klein at Down With Tyranny!:
This is just a heads up– I’m allowed to give a heads-up– about some important action for American patriots this weekend targeting, peacefully, of course, banksters– related to the march on the homes of NYC plutocrats. You can count on some details here at DWT later this week… gotta wait for the 99% to give the final finger wiggle, but think “OccupyTheBoardRoom.” And remember, we’re an unprecedented coalition of labor, community, and netroots groups coming together to voice our legitimate anger at the 1%. And, oh, boy, are we gonna have some fun with the plutocrats!
Twitter #OTBR #OWS
UPDATE:
Wonder what #OccupyTheBoardRoom is all about? Go to this website Saturday, October 15: http://www.occupytheboardroom.org/
UPDATE 2:
The Occupy The Boardroom link above is live, active and will send you an email with instructions for tomorrow. The Occupy The Boardroom Facebook page is active as well. Sign up to do your part.
#OccupyWallStreet Hears From You Saturday
Posted by: | CommentsCNN: “Facebook calls for a global “Occupy” protest on October 15 similar to the Wall Street protests Demonstrations in more than 25 countries from Ireland to Italy, Hong Kong to Chile.”
More Saturday.
Dogs and Cats Living Together
Posted by: | CommentsAt the privately run group blog known as “Scrutiny Hooligans”, a controversy has erupted, spilling over into a Congressional campaign, Asheville City politics, a political community, the local twittersphere, and the lives of the bloggers.
The brouhaha began when the Administrator of the site, deemed “sovereign” by the other front-page writers, including City Councilman Gordon Smith, chose to disallow a frequent commenter, community activist Barry Summers, from posting to the site. The administrator, who chooses to remain anonymous, took this action after Mr. Summers made frequent attacks on one particular writer, Michael Muller, former campaign manager for Carl Mumpower and Bill Russell, after Muller’s comments about Joe Minicozzi and Mayor Terry Bellamy.
Congressional candidate Cecil Bothwell leapt into the fray to admonish the site’s Administrator and everyone else involved. The Administrator retorted with some harsh words for Mr. Bothwell, who is also an Asheville City Council member. The hullaballoo has exploded into a full-on display of Blogdrama.
The Administrator, according to Smith, has, “released the reins”, leaving the site adrift on the waters of the Asheville blogosphere. The site has always operated without editorial control, but this is the first time it has been absent an administrator.
Scrutiny Hooligans has operated for over seven years and has become the Asheville home for off-color political commentary regarding area goings-on. Frequent commenters’ reactions have ranged from outrage to confusion to mild annoyance to apathy.
We will have to await the next chapter in this cyberruckus to determine whether it will have lasting political impacts on the Asheville blogosphere, inter-Council relations, congressional politics, and the well-being of the Scrutiny Hooligans community.
Scrutiny Hooligans invite everyone with an opinion to fire away.
Chad Nesbitt Calls For Support
Posted by: | Comments“Former Buncombe County Republican Party chair Chad Nesbitt announced today on WWNC radio’s “The Matt Mittan Show” that he’s planning an Aug. 28 rally in downtown Asheville to protest the Aug. 21 GoTopless rally. He said the rally will be held at 2 p.m. in Pack Square Park and invited the public to attend.”
UPDATE:
You are not going to believe this.
Mumpower and Nesbitt have a website for their Sunday event. The website and event are titled, “Sanity in the Public Square”. The website is adorned with an image of Uncle Sam being shot in the face by liberalism and Islam. To the left of this picture is the telling turn of phrase, “aberrant exhibitionist ideology”.
Colbert Super PAC: Exposing How It’s Done
Posted by: | CommentsWhen comedian Stephen Colbert petitioned the Federal Election Commission for permission to form Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (a.k.a., the Colbert Super PAC), people laughed to see Colbert use the campaign finance system to lampoon that very system. “This is 100 percent legal and at least 10 percent ethical,” he said upon receiving FEC approval.
The Citizens United decision by the U.S. Supreme Court now allows “independent-expenditure only committees” like Colbert’s to spend unlimited amounts of money to support or attack candidates. But with the debut of Colbert’s first television ads ahead of Iowa’s Ames straw poll, it is clear that Colbert’s target list is broader than candidates and campaign finance.
Right Wing Radio Duck
Posted by: | CommentsThis is being posted for the benefit of the three or four people left on The Internet who didn’t catch this on Boing Boing over the weekend. Be sure to watch this brilliant piece of creative video editing (and testament to the power and necessity of Fair Use) soon, before a bunch of men dressed in suits in Big High Buildings owned by Disney and News Corporation take notice…
A Saturday Fable
Posted by: | CommentsThis Suess-ish rhyme from driftglass isn’t Yertle the Turtle, but it’s still a hoot.
Now, the Bush-Belly Sneetches were backers of Bush...
Something Completely Different
Posted by: | CommentsFrom the X-files:
0ne of many ads from a mock New Age magazine (unpublished) assembled back when Asheville was still “America’s New Age Mecca.” A kind of This Is Spinal Tap meets New Age marketing, this was this inside back cover.
